Democrats should agree with this, and amend the bill to indicate that all citizens should have the right to vote (ideally with it being a federal felony to try to prevent them from doing so). Let them try to explain why they don’t want that part of it.
Love this idea, great way to sneak in Voting Rights Act that was pretty much DOA on week 1.
Anything that puts them on the backfoot and exposes the awful Republican policies in the light of day will work extremely well!
Great idea. Maybe also add extra provisions that would give extreme punishment to those cons that were caught trying to vote more than once, as well. Call out those specific examples when it’s being debated.
Anyone with a brain knows non-citizens can’t vote. This is just a way to push the narrative to their dumb base that “illegals” are voting.
Or the law will be conveniently structured in such a way that once again makes it more difficult for people who are minorities or live in urban centers to vote.
In federal electionst that is true. Some cities and states allow noncitizens to vote in local things.
Edit: An article. https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/16/noncitizens-allowed-to-vote-in-some-local-elections-spurring-backlash-from-gop/
Interestingly, noncitizens in MN cannot vote in state or local elections.
And all the illegal voting has been found to have come from Republicans.
That’s why they are so mad, They’ve been cheating and still lost.
Right up there with the recent Tennessee (?) legislation to outlaw chemtrails…
Next up on their agenda: legislating that water stays wet and that gravity doesn’t start repulsing objects
Make Gravity Pull Stuff Down Again
However, non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal elections in the United States, and it’s not a common occurrence.
No state currently allows non-citizens to cast a ballot in state-level elections either, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, though some municipalities may have their own rules for local races.
More republican, Security theater.
The real question is what other things this bill will have.
What non-citizens are voting right now?
The imaginary ones Fox News is always screaming about.
They should do one for zombies and sasquatch too.
Hold up. Bigfoots were American long before the white man came. They deserve their vote, especially in the swing states. They tend to vote Democrat.
They tend to vote Democrat.
Unfortunately their cousin Yetti is a libertarian…
And Wendigos are full on maga.
Yeah, in fact I’m really concerned about this, I think they should cover all of the fictional creatures, maybe also martians, better cover animals, too. Every species, list them out. I think Trump should personally oversee this, and fund the research. Just take it out of his campaign fund.
Come on, man
Everyone knows Sprites, pixies, and brownies are the root cause of voter fraud. Unless they stop those beings, it’s going to do nothing
And a bill for voting only once… oh, but then that might end up putting Republicans and their family in jail. 😢
It’s perfectly okay if they vote Republican though.
What a great idea. Solve a problem that doesn’t exist rather than all the shit crumbling around us. Heroes.
Also, given that’s a non-problem, they will, in fact, never solve it. Which is exactly what they want. A “problem” they can endlessly demagogue whip up grievances about.
JFC, fuck off.
I think a lot of people are missing the next step of the plan. First, they push a bill that specifically says it is illegal for non citizens to vote. Assume the bill passes, because why wouldn’t it? You already have to be a citizen to vote. It’s all political theater, after all, so there is no need to pick a fight.
Then red states come through with a fucked up interpretation of the law that says felons are no longer U.S. citizens. Now it is illegal for felons to ever vote again. The law would be challenged, appealed, and eventually make its way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, that is absolutely going to side with the “States right” to choose what happens to their felons.
Finally, they use selective enforcement of law combined with aggregate data from any number of sources to build felony cases specifically against political rivals. Then you have red states that can never go blue again.
This is all fascism 101.
It’s impossible to denaturalize a natural-born citizen. This is explicitly protected in the 14th amendment.
The only laws allowing for stripping a person’s citizenship applies to those who became a citizen. Most commonly, because that citizenship was obtained illegally or through fraud.
Other things that can trigger it include being a member of a terrorist group (“subversive”), failing to testify before congress, or a dishonorable discharge if your service included a path to citizenship.
So hypothetically if non citizens were voting, which is already illegal, how will making it more illegal, stop these hypocritical people? Like oh no I was breaking the law but now that there is a different law I don’t want to break that one.
Oh, so they want to make it…like, double-illegal or something? Can we pass extra laws to prevent murder–but, you know, more?
It’s now super-duper illegal. That’s a technical term.
It’s a way to push voter id and other voter suppression tactics.
It’s just life how whenever someone wants to censor media, it’s to protect the children.
Vote for me, I promise to make crime illegal.
They will put them on Double Secret Probation.
There actually are a lot of laws that allow prosecutors to stack charges.
