Posted on 05/19/2024 3:50:09 AM PDT by NetAddicted
The Biden campaign keeps trying to hit on Speaker Mike Johnson for a bill making it illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. It's already illegal, so what's he trying to prove? Sen. Mike Lee recently posted a lengthy thread on just how "shockingly easy" it is for noncitizens to vote. As we reported, a Mexican NGO called Resource Center Matamoras has been distributing flyers to illegal immigrants encouraging them to vote for President Joe Biden. "Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open," the flyer reads.
Christina Pushaw noticed the Washington Post shift from "it's not happening" to "it's happening, but it's rare."
Today in clown world news: The Washington Post has transitioned from "non-citizens can't vote in U.S. elections, conspiracy theorist" to "foreign nationals ARE voting in U.S. elections, that's great for Our Democracy™️, and Republican meanies are racist for trying to stop them!" pic.twitter.com/ccAEjcS6Mz
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 9, 2024
What does the Post mean by noncitizen voting is "rare"? How rare? Once is too many times. Not to mention that President Joe Biden recently slipped up and said the millions of illegal immigrants who've crossed the border during his administration are "model citizens."
Now the Associated Press is carrying water for the Biden campaign, noting that noncitizen voting, while already illegal, has become a centerpiece of Republican messaging. Maybe Republicans are concerned that millions of "model citizens" have been imported since the previous election.
Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging https://t.co/6gIGjIJSAu
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 18, 2024
Already illegal?
Tell the Democrats that.
— MatthewJshow (@MatthewJshow) May 18, 2024
Illegal is one thing, but a better question is whether there are things being done to prevent it from happening. Do some states, for example, require proof of citizenship to register to vote or do you just have to check a box claiming you are a citizen?
— LorieByrd (@LorieByrd) May 18, 2024
As Lee said, it's basically the honor system.
The issue isn't if it's legal or not, it's the fact that it is happening. Even one illegal vote means the election isn't legitimate.
— Jeff H (@politicswarblog) May 18, 2024
Illegal but not enforced is the same as legal. Think marijuana.
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) May 18, 2024
Murder is illegal. Fentanyl sales are illegal. But they still happen. Only a process to verify identity and citizenship will keep our elections honest.
— JazBInKC 🎸 (@jazbinkc2) May 18, 2024
Every time a driver's license is given a new illegal voter is registered.
This is how many states create voter registrations.
Automatic Voter Registration (https://t.co/EKO1hbctMJ)
— ⏳ Suspended in Time ⏳ (@SuspendedAnd1) May 18, 2024
We know that at least California and Minnesota will issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
They keep saying federal elections in the hopes that you’ll forget that Democrats allow illegal immigrants to vote in local elections https://t.co/W1k6VblxWq
— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) May 18, 2024
They have no idea how many non citizens vote. Most states have no requirement to prove citizenship to register and some require as little as a utility bill to show residency.
— mallen2024 (@mallen20243) May 18, 2024
Should be illegal in all elections. Federal, state, and local. And illegals shouldn’t be counted in redistricting too.
— n0kx (@n0kx_) May 18, 2024
So, we're now in the "We're-gonna-pretend-we're-not-doing-that-thing-we're-actually-doing-while-framing-our-accusers-as-conspiracy-theorists" phase of the operation.
Got it.
— Matt Paulus 🇺🇸 (@mdpaulus) May 18, 2024
Illegal border crossings happen every day too despite being against the law.
— John Adams (@JhnAdmz) May 18, 2024
Your logic sleight of hand is noted.
Murder is illegal so as we all know it never happens
Crossing the border without a visa or green card or USA passport is illegal so we all know it never happens.
— EnlightenedBaka (@EnlightenedBak2) May 18, 2024
If its not happening a bill to make sure it stays illegal and is better enforced shouldnt be controversial. And yet....
— Tim Mathis (@timmathiscomedy) May 18, 2024
WaPo and the AP have reported on it, the Biden-Harris HQ account keeps posting about it … if it's already illegal, it should sail right through without opposition. So why the resistance to codifying it?
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There is some evidence for such suspicion, at least in the 2020 election.
It has been reported in one of those solid red suburbs there is evidence of a number of visits to the Dominion voting machines by its tech employees or reps to do a number of "services" before, during and after the election.
Such visits might be warranted if the machines were troublesome or as unreliable as a flickering light bulb.
The kicker here is that the chain of custody records mandated by law for such visits, which also required presence of local authorities, that detailed such "services" was either not maintained, has been destroyed or is otherwise unavailable.
(This is per my best recollection and may not be precisely accurate.)
OK, I guess it’s about whether the person has to prove their eligibility to vote. AZ requires proof of eligibility but a judge ruled that the Motor Voter Act governs presidential and federal elections and doesn’t require any proof so states can’t require any proof of voter eligibility for federal elections. So AZ uses a form where people who don’t want to provide proof of citizenship to simply sign their names to a statement saying they are US citizens when they request a federal ballot.
It seems like the federal law has a loophole for people who think they are citizens to vote. Frog in a pot, what part of that federal law is it that you believe closes that loophole?
Thing is, even if there is a provision to punish those who vote after falsely swearing that they are US citizens, by then the damage is done, unless those votes are kept as provisional votes to be counted only AFTER citizenship is proven.
Did the judge rule that HAVA (Help America Vote Act) means that everybody who the federal law says has to be allowed to vote (even those who haven’t proven citizenship) also have to have their votes necessarily counted rather than cast as provisional votes?
Even if 2 million newcomers were given voting privileges I doubt they’d vote for Biden. They can see a fool coming and don’t want the government dream for life.
just who is registering the illegals to vote is the question
Who is registering them?
The democrats themselves in their canvassing drives, but also their allies, like the SEIU union, the NEA, etc.
Did the judge rule that...everybody who the federal law says has to be allowed to vote (even those who haven’t proven citizenship) also have to have their votes necessarily counted...?
Apparently. This Clinton-nominated judge is arguing the fed act presents the only test a registering voter has to pass. That test is the bare assertion under penalty of perjury as to being a citizen. At the moment, she may be correct.
In 2004, Arizona passed Prop 200, which required voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote or casting a ballot. It reached the USSC which held the NVRA preempts voter registration requirements beyond the bare assertion. It held in part that to allow states to impose additional requirements would allow them to reject voter registrations applicants who met the federal requirements to vote, which would defeat the purpose of the Act. (Alioto and Thomas dissented.)
The result seems to fly in the face of the long-standing view the Constitution grants the power to decide voter qualifications in federal elections to the states. Fortunately, Arizona is well aware of this 10+ year old USSC holding and this case is yet proceeding.
The Congress, however, would be entirely correct at the next Jan 6 Joint Session to conclude on the basis of current events (open borders + the active importation of immigrants) that ignoring the well-established rule by both state and federal governments prohibiting noncitizen voting for fed offices is contrary to common sense. Perhaps most importantly it dramatically increases the risk to national security.
Among other devices, noncitizen voting is just one, the Congress could ask each State to submit the means by which it tested each registrant's assertion.
The fix is in.
Then why did you bother to read this? Christina Pushaw’s tweet offered the very important info that WaPoop is now writing that illegals are voting in our elections. Geragasnaggit!
Illegal doesn’t matter...they are still doing it, with the blessings of dimocrats.
I reread the title, and, by George, you’re correct. Frigging American Pravda!
In the long run, many of those illegals will probably vote Democrat. Our children and grandchildren, will not live in the same America.
It’s illegal? Since when has that stopped democrats,and if GodForbid Biden gets re-elected guess what will be one of his objectives? Giving illegals the right to vote
The Border Patrol was supposed to protect our border until the Biden gang “re-imagined” it. Another “GOP talking point.”
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