Posted on 01/23/2022 6:03:28 AM PST by blam
The recent New York City law to allow at least 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections is unconstitutional and likely to be overturned in court, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s election law reform initiative and former member of the Federal Election Commission.
“It’s actually pretty clear that it violates the New York State Constitution—it has a provision that specifically says that you have to be a citizen to vote in all elections in the state of New York, and that includes local elections,” Spakovsky told The Epoch Times on Jan. 19.
“I also think it is bad from a policy point of view, because it basically cheapens and diminishes the concept of citizenship.
“It ought to be something that makes American citizens mad, particularly because of the potential number of aliens that’s involved.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams allowed the measure to become law on Jan. 9, which includes the provision that voting noncitizens must be in the city for 30 days or more and have authorization to work.
“I believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation,” Adams said in a statement. “I believe allowing the legislation to be enacted is by far the best choice, and look forward to bringing millions more into the democratic process.”
The following day, the Republican National Committee filed a suit in the New York Supreme Court along with City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borrelli, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), and other Republicans.
Poll workers help voters inside a polling location in Austin, Texas, Oct. 13, 2020. (Sergio Flores/Getty Images)
The law applies to legal aliens, but Spakovsky said New York City’s sanctuary policies that shield illegal aliens would open the floodgates.
“Does anybody really believe that the election department is going to investigate the lawful status of any alien who registers to vote?” he said.
“And so that means, of course, that lots and lots of illegal aliens will also get registered to vote.”
Although he doesn’t think any states will try to change their election laws to include voting rights for noncitizens, Spakovsky said there’s a push from the progressive left to change the concept or definition of “citizen.”
“The whole point of the open borders crowd is to do two things: one, extinguish the line between legal and illegal aliens in this country. And second, to frankly, get rid of the whole concept of citizenship,” he said.
New York City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a Democrat, told colleagues before the recent vote that many noncitizens struggle to become citizens but should still be able to vote in the meanwhile because they pay taxes and live and work in the city.
“They want to be citizens, they want to be able to vote for the president, but at least we have the opportunity to allow them to vote for the elected officials that are representing them in the city,” said Chin.
However, Spakovsky said paying tax doesn’t make someone a citizen.
“My response to that is that first of all, the vast majority of illegal aliens do not pay taxes. In fact, they get free rides from many jurisdictions,” he said.
“This is being pushed by the progressive left today because they believe that aliens will vote for them … and keep them in power.”
A Border Patrol agent organizes illegal immigrants who have gathered by the border fence after crossing from Mexico into the United States in Yuma, Arizona, on Dec. 10 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Spakovsky said the inability for the Trump administration to get a question placed on the 2020 Census about citizenship status was a major win for the progressive left to blur the lines between citizen and noncitizen.
“One of the main reasons they wanted that done is for apportionment purposes, they did not want congressional seats apportioned based on citizen population—if they did, places like California would lose congressional seats,” he said.
“That’s why California probably has four or five more congressional seats than they should have, because of the huge population of illegal aliens in the state.”
The Biden administration supports the creation of a citizenship pathway for millions of illegal immigrants in the United States. A decade-old estimate puts the number of illegal aliens at 11 million, and since then, millions more have crossed the southern border.
“This is being pushed by the progressive left today because they believe that aliens will vote for them … and keep them in power.”
I believe it too. So do most rational people.
As soon as the desiccated old fraud and his criminal enterprise are booted from power the American citizen is gonna have to cowboy up and forcefully return illegal aliens to their countries of origin or we are finished.
Might as well dump any age requirement, as well. Open it up to American Idol style phone-in voting. Call as many times as you like. Texting rates apply.
The desiccated old frog is a mere puppet. It will continue even once the next office filler is “elected”. This is the “New World Order”, global governance, being installed.
They know if they fail here their utopia is dead reasons why WE THE PEOPLE need to set things straight, don’t wait to be saved by any one person
Why hasn’t all this been brought to the SCOTUS? Non-citizens given the right to vote in local/state elections. ID to prove citizenship, the federal government facilitating human trafficking and so forth.
It is insane we have laws to curtail illegal entry into this country and the federals IGNORE the law, thus outside the law or better put...Outlaws.
If a country allows non citizens to vote, why wouldnt you as a country that wants to sway your influence send thousands of your people there to vote in leaders that send your country stuff.
Once non-citizens get the right to vote, there will be a push to let them vote absentee from overseas.
That has been the whole point of the illegal aliens inundation.
It has been the largest bipartisan policy project of the last 30 years.
BOTH parties want a permanent Democrat majority so they can steal the country from the citizens and subsume it to the UN in a New World Order.
GHW Bush knew we would not vote to give away our sovereignty and our country so they set about to import people who would.
First we have to replace ALL the Bush League Republicans who have been assisting the Democrats to keep the borders open and the laws unenforced.
Grahamnesty, Rubio, Tillis, Cornyn, Hoeven, etc.
It’s completely bipartisan.
It was no accident that before Trump broke through the Bush blockade we were only allowed to vote for amnesty candidates.
Yes first deal with problems that can currently be solved - create an actual alternative political party. That requires a mobilized based and some clear definitions.
ALL Bush League Republicans MUST be replaced, including the ones Trump is endorsing.
It opens up for other countries to directly influence or control our elections which is the very thing Democrats (Who want this to be legal) claimed Trump allowed with Russia (Which Russia hardly controlled the elections through facebook ads)
Sometimes you have to ask yourself, do Democrats really think about what they are proposing sometimes?
No politician is sacrosanct.
Yep. They think, scheme, and conspire the whole way.
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