by Natalia Mittelstadt
Democrats insist that Republicans’ claims about non-citizens voting in US elections constitute election denial, even as states report that hundreds of non-citizens have been traced and removed from the voter rolls.
As House Republicans passed bills ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, Democrats argued that concerns about noncitizens voting were merely a GOP effort to undermine faith in the election ahead of the November presidential election.
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the act repeal Washington’s 2022 bill that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections. The final vote was 262-143. 52 of 213 Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the transition bill. 143 Democrats voted “no.”” and 18 who did not vote.
The House Administration Committee on Thursday also passed legislation requiring it proof of American citizenship register to vote in federal elections.
During Thursday’s committee hearing before the bills were voted on, Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., he mentioned the audition committee deliberated last week on bills banning non-citizens from voting, saying it “wastes this committee’s time” and “wastes taxpayer resources” by “spreading debunked lies to actively undermine America’s faith in our democracy.” “
On last week’s trialMorelle said Republicans are using the word “non-issue” to explain why former President Donald Trump will lose the 2024 presidential election.
“This hearing is intended to preemptively cover up Donald Trump’s lies.” Morelle said. “The hearing is not about law and order. It’s about laying the foundations for the next big lie. The point is to say that illegal voting is the cause of electoral defeat.”
Also at this hearing, Rep. Terri Sewell, R-Ala. firmly stated that non-US citizens do not vote in US elections. Sewell entered into evidence review article by Morelle published last Thursday in which he wrote: “independent sources have repeatedly debunked this mythby examining whether voting in federal elections by non-citizens is extremely sporadic and actually occurred it has never been shown to influence the outcome of any election“
However, J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), testified at the trial last week, saying: “The reality is that non-US citizens get on the US voter rolls and some of them vote. “The data shows that foreigners are most likely to gain traction through the auto voter registration process or third-party registration organizations.”
In an interview that will air Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) expressed his concerns about non-citizens voting in the election.
Paxton told the TV program “Only the News, No Noise”: “If the Biden administration gives undocumented people a Social Security number, they can get a driver’s license and they will usually be able to vote. And if you don’t have proof of citizenship, there are potentially millions of people in the right places and the Biden administration has moved where it wants them by registering them to vote. And that, I think, is the strategy that the Biden administration is relying on — a strategy that is more like the recent strategy of sending out mail-in ballots.”
During the proceedings of the House of Representatives Administrative Committee hearing Last week, committee chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said there were 500 non-citizens registered to vote in Washington.
According to a PILF report from May last year, Chicago Records show that since 2007, 394 foreigners have been removed from the city’s voter rolls, of which 20 of them cast 85 votes.
Also this month Virginia removed 1,481 voter registrations due to lack of US citizenship.
In April 2023 – PILF reported Maricopa County, Arizona records show that since 2015, 222 non-citizens have been removed from the county’s voter rolls, and nine of them cast 12 ballots in four federal elections.
According to February PILF reportas of 2021, 186 registrants were removed from the voter rolls in Pima County, Arizona due to lack of U.S. citizenship. Of those, seven cast ballots in two federal and local elections.
In 2017, Schmidt, a Republican who was then a Philadelphia city commissioner, he told a Pennsylvania Senate committee that there were more than 100,000 matches of voter registration data to state driver’s license numbers with Immigration and Naturalization Service indicators.
The matches don’t mean all of these people were registered to vote, but Schmidt did he argued: “We’re not talking about an insignificant number here. We are talking about potentially very significant numbers of thousands and tens of thousands.”
Pennsylvania Department of State announced in September 2017 Records show that since 1972, 1,160 non-citizens have requested to have their voter registrations canceled.
In Georgia, an audit by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) found that more than 1,600 non-citizens attempted to register to vote in 2022.
“[W]”I found that 1,634 people were never included on the voter lists, they had a waiting status because they could not prove their citizenship.” Raffensperger said “John Solomon reports“podcast then. “In Georgia, even trying to register if you are not a citizen of the country is a crime. And it carries a penalty of one to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.”
Ahead of the Georgia audit in behind schedule 2021, then-Texas Secretary of State John Scott (right) released the results of the first phase of his audit of state voter rollswhich showed that 11,737 potential non-U.S. citizens were registered to vote, with many of them located in counties around Texas’ two largest cities, Houston and Dallas.
Last week, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) directed all 88 counties to begin the process of removing non-Ohioans from the Ohio voter rolls after review by the Division of Public Integrity of its office and the Office of Data Analysis and Archives. The review analyzed data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) and discovered 137 non-U.S. registered voters who twice certified not to be a U.S. citizen.
According to PILF Report 2018over the last decade, 3,120 non-citizens were elected across the country from various voter lists in cities and districts.
Other PILF report noted that prior to the 2014 midterm elections in North Carolina, 1,454 people on the state’s voter rolls were found to be not naturalized U.S. citizens. Of these, 89 registered voters showed up at the polling stations, of which 24 were challenged and 11 of them were upheld.
While non-citizens are voting ban in federal, state and local majority elections in California, Maryland, Vermont and Washington, D.C. allow foreigners to vote in local elections.
New York City approved a law in 2021 that would allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, but it was twice struck down by the court. In March, the New York City Council filed a notice of appeal to the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, seeking to overturn the rulings of two lower courts.
Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Ohio have included language in their state constitutions that prohibits non-citizens from voting. Meanwhile, in Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Wisconsin, voters have the opportunity to vote this year on whether non-citizens should be barred from voting in state elections.
In Arizona, elections were splitin which residents who provide proof of U.S. citizenship can vote in all elections and others can only vote in federal elections, resulting in ballots being cast by voters who have not proven U.S. citizenship.
At least around here 5,800 federal ballots was to throw in the November 2020 Arizona presidential election.
In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that Arizona must accept U.S. voter registration forms due to federal requirements under the Act National Voter Registration Act 1993 (NVRA). Federal voter registration forms only require people filling them out to sign an affidavit declaring they are U.S. citizens.
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Natalia Mittelstadt graduated from Regent University with a bachelor’s degree in communication and administration.
