Let's look at Facts and stop the insults and the speculations:
from AP NEWS
Can noncitizens vote in US elections?
By ALI SWENSON
October 19, 2022
FILE - People wait in line to vote at a polling place on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. Federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections. The 1996 law states that noncitizens who vote illegally will face a fine, imprisonment or both. Noncitizens who cast a ballot and get caught may also face deportation. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections, including races for president, vice president, Senate or House of Representatives.
The 1996 law states that noncitizens who vote illegally will face a fine, imprisonment or both. Noncitizens who cast a ballot and get caught may also face deportation.
When people in the U.S. register to vote, they confirm under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens. Several states also verify that registration against federal and state databases.
Some politicians and pundits have raised alarm that noncitizens could be voting illegally in high numbers. Studies show this isnāt happening, according to Ron Hayduk, a political science professor at San Francisco State University who studies noncitizen voting laws.
While there have been anecdotal reports of noncitizens registering and casting ballots, āthe incidence of such occurrences is infinitesimal,ā Hayduk said.
Research by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 looked at 42 jurisdictions in the 2016 election, and reported that of 23.5 million votes cast, election officials only found about 30 cases of potential noncitizen voting that they referred for prosecution or further investigation.
More recent investigations also havenāt shown proof of widespread noncitizen voting. A Georgia audit of its voter rolls conducted this year found fewer than 2,000 instances of noncitizens attempting to register to vote over the last 25 years, none of which succeeded. Millions of new Georgia voters registered during that time period.
Federal law doesnāt stop states or municipalities from granting noncitizens the right to vote in local races ā and a handful have, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont. New York City this year passed a law that would allow legally documented noncitizens and āDreamersā to vote for mayor and other elected officials, but a judge blocked the move in June.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-noncitizens-voting-question-d720a6d02e066700d86812dc717906e5also, from Pew Research:
Noncitizens Are Slowly Gaining Voting Rights
STATELINE ARTICLE July 1, 2021 By: Matt Vasilogambros
Two Vermont cities have joined the short but growing list of jurisdictions that allow residents who are not U.S. citizens to vote in local elections.
Last week, the Vermont legislature overrode vetoes by Republican Gov. Phil Scott, greenlighting voter-approved changes to the city charters of Montpelier and Winooski. Those cities now allow all residents over age 18 to vote in city elections, regardless of citizenship status. Noncitizen voting in federal elections remains illegal nationwide.
The movement to let all adults vote in local elections hasnāt had widespread success in modern times. Until lately, just San Francisco and nine Maryland cities have allowed noncitizens to vote in local or school board elections. While two towns in Massachusetts have passed resolutions in recent years calling for noncitizens to be allowed to vote locally, the state legislature has yet to approve those changes. But those cities may soon have company.
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., Illinois and New York City this year are considering legislation that would offer the vote to noncitizens for local elections, such as for city council or the school board. These proposals have ignited the fierce debates that often come with immigration and voting rights proposals. Some states, meanwhile, have gone in the opposite direction in recent years, explicitly banning noncitizens from voting.
In Vermont, legislative proponents pointed out that noncitizens are taxpayers, arguing they deserve a say in who represents them.
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When California and Illinois implemented laws in recent years that automatically register people to vote when they visit departments of motor vehicles, hundreds of noncitizens were accidentally registered to vote due to technical glitches. At least 16 noncitizens in Illinois cast a ballot because of the confusion.
Legal voting by noncitizens is not new in the United States, however.
From the founding of the country until 1926, 40 states at various points allowed noncitizens to vote in local, state and federal elections, said Ron Hayduk, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University, who has written about this issue. Noncitizens could not only vote, but also hold office.
But that right has been stripped at different points in American history. From the days of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to the rise of nativism after World War I, anti-immigrant sentiment led to the rolling back of these voting rights by legislatures in most states, he said.
Lawmakers in states from New York to California who are interested in bringing the franchise back to noncitizens have called Jessie Carpenter, the nonpartisan city clerk for Takoma Park, Maryland. The city has offered the right to vote to all residents, citizens or not, in local elections since 1993.
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