Our research cannot answer whether the United States should move to legalize some electoral participation by non-citizens as many other countries do, and as some U.S. states did for more than 100 years, or find policies that more effectively restrict it.
To the professors who authored the posted article:
Here's a very logical two-step state policy that will more effectively restrict the "electoral participation by non-citizens", a policy which you would never have the courage to mention, certainly not in a WaPo article:
(1)Require all persons registering to vote for the first time to prove they are citizens via either (A) a birth certificate showing they were born in the US or on American soil or (B) (if not born in the US or on American soil) a certificate of naturalization. (Regrettably, this is currently the law in only a handful of states.)
(2)Arrest any non-citizen who even tries to vote and book him/her for the crime committed by so doing. Once word gets around that such arrests are really happening, non-citizens in general will be sure to stay as far away from polling places as possible. American citizenship should mean something - as the law in all states says it should.
We American citizens have had enough of this electoral cheating and fraud!!!
Eric Holder and Obama's large assembly of lawyers make sure that any attempt to prosecute voter fraud is sidelined.
With or without illegal aliens voting the main problem is that the integrity of the vote has been compromised due to ballot-stuffing.
We also need to make sure we do all we can so we don’t get a pro-amnesty presidential nominee, like Jeb Bush, et al.
EXCELLENT!
That would save $$$$ as it will eliminate the fanciful “need” to have ballots in Spanish as immigrants from all countries and all languages must have learned English for citizenship.
We American citizens have had enough of this electoral cheating and fraud!!!
AMEN
enough is quite enough
Most of what the dems do is propaganda. It works so well when fear and loss of hope is invoked. Actually, the dems do not need the illegals to win. All they have to do is tell you this is what they are going to do. Ever wonder why the races according to the polls or actual elections get so close near the end? The Republicans do this too. They have been doing voter fraud inch by inch for years. It’s up to the American people to stand up to this and not back down. A young kid which I have heard of and seen applied can robot vote. It’s time to look at our local and state governments. Yes, voter ID is clearly needed; but think about real security too as most countries that have ID cards are not free countries. Our country seems to be moving in this direction which is not good. We have to look at the people who are running and put into office at the local and state level as well as the Federal level. They are the beginning of what is wrong. It’s as far as they are concerned a one way trip to the gravy land. It’s obvious when they run people like Hillary, Obama, Wendy Davis, Mitch, Jeb Bush they could care less about the people or this country. I know it’s a real mess and didn’t happen over night. They all have a pretty sweet deal going thanks to other outside forces. It’s time to stand up and clean this mess up.