Posted on 02/13/2023 1:36:34 PM PST by Signalman
Democrats in the Rhode Island General Assembly have introduced legislation that, if passed, would grant localities the ability to give non-U.S. citizens the right to vote in municipal elections. The measure marks the latest attempt by leftists to give foreigners and, in this case, even illegal immigrants the opportunity to influence the U.S. electoral process.
Under the new bill (H 5461), cities and towns would be permitted to “allow all residents of the municipality to vote in municipal elections for municipal officeholders regardless of the immigration status of the residents.”
The measure also stipulates that the locality’s board of canvassers is required to coordinate with Rhode Island’s secretary of state and board of elections to “develop the forms and instructions to implement the provisions” of the new law, “as well as any rules and regulations necessary to ensure that any ballot for municipal officeholders only is kept separate and apart from ballots distributed to [citizen] voters … and counted separately for transmission to the board of elections.”
The legislation does not specify what constitutes proof of residency.
According to the Rhode Island Constitution, the only “persons entitled to vote” are U.S. citizens 18 and older who have lived in their town and the state for 30 days or more “preceding the time of voting as provided by law,” and are registered to vote at least 30 days before Election Day. Despite the specific requirements laid out in the document, Democrat Rep. Enrique Sanchez, one of the bill’s sponsors, doesn’t “think it would be necessary to amend the state’s constitution in order to allow non-citizens to vote,” as The Providence Journal reported.
He admitted there are “some neighborhoods” with such large immigrant populations that he claimed “these whole neighborhoods have less of a voice because many people can’t vote.” Under the lax policies of the Biden administration, fiscal year 2022 saw a staggering 2.4 million apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the country’s southern border — the most in history. Even Democrat-led locales like New York that love to posture themselves as “sanctuary cities” for illegal border-crossers are begging for relief from the deluge of arriving migrants, and the corresponding drain on limited public resources.
Sanchez further confirmed to the Journal that, if the bill becomes law and a town adopts an ordinance allowing noncitizen voting, it would mean not only illegal aliens but also individuals such as international students attending a Rhode Island university within said jurisdiction would be permitted to vote in that locality’s municipal elections.
The push by Sanchez and his allies to open up the state’s local election systems to illegal immigrants is hardly exclusive to Rhode Island. In blue states across the country, Democrat-controlled localities have passed or are considering resolutions permitting noncitizen voting in certain municipal elections, with San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, D.C. among the most notable.
There is only one town that could benefit from noncitizen voting.
Say it with me...
... Martha's Vineyard.
Couldn’t Congress pass a law striking down the Washington DC measure?
Hope abbott & desantis start bussin um in
The RI CONSTITUTION says only citizens can vote. How can a state law supersede the state’s supreme law?
I want all of China and India to have voting rights here.
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ARTICLE II
OF SUFFRAGE
Section 1. Persons entitled to vote.
"Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years or over who has had residence and home in this state for thirty days next preceding the time of voting, who has resided thirty days in the town or city from which such citizen desires to vote, and whose name shall be registered at least thirty days next preceding the time of voting as provided by law, shall have the right to vote for all offices to be elected and on all questions submitted to the electors, except that no person who has been lawfully adjudicated to be non compos mentis shall be permitted to vote. No person who is incarcerated in a correctional facility upon a felony conviction shall be permitted to vote until such person is discharged from the facility. Upon discharge, such person’s right to vote shall be restored. The general assembly may provide by law for shorter state and local residence requirements to vote for electors for president and vice president of the United States."
What’s the point of citizenship? Illegals broke the law the second they crossed the border, and they continue to break the law every second they are here. Yet, they seem to have more rights than I do; and I was borne here, I’m a veteran, and I’ve played by the rules me entire @#$%^&* life (I’m in my 70s).
They want aliens to vote? We should stop shooting them out the sky in that case.
Globalist dream come true.
When will a court anywhere rule on this farce of an issue?
It doesn't, but if no one will enforce the constitution, well....
That’s the obvious answer, isn’t it? They should just declare their constitution null and void and be done with it. Then they can have their Supreme Court decide what is legal and illegal on a daily basis.
Planning your life or any business might be a bit challenging, but that’s a small price to pay for justice.
Mr. Fleetwood would be wise to research more before publishing -- as I noted above, the NYC attempt was stopped in NY Courts, the House just stopped the DC movement last week, and SanFran was also estopped in the same time frame as NYC last year. SanFran still advertises non-citizen voting on their website but by law they cannot count the votes.
"San Francisco's effort to get noncitizen parents to the ballot box in mid-term elections in 2018 resulted in only 49 people signing up to vote." - wiki
Schadenfreude.
Don’t misread this. It doesn’t apply to federal elections of any kind. According to federal law:
18 USC 611: Voting by aliens
§611. Voting by aliens
(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless-
(1) the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2) aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3) voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for
In their state, they can do whatever they want for the state offices. But if any of the offices they are voting for pertain to federal representation, then the vote cannot be counted toward the federal part of the vote. The penalty for voting in a federal election as an illegal shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Wy69
Traitor roberts will likely say U.S. citizens don’t have ‘standing’ to challenge this.
Founding Fathers debated ways to help us in the future.
They knew someone after France and England would try to subvert us.
So....
Noncitizens vote, then okay a secretive noncitizen President who is elected to show his true colors of evil and herald a foreign takeover.
Obama to Kamala at dinner party: “Those old history tales are funny and quaint aren’t they?”
Note: Michigan Governor and later Biden cabinet moron Jennifer Granholm was born in British Columbia. There was talk of her being VP and then Prez so Dems started chatter on the captive media about ones like Arnold Schwarzenegger
so they could sneak Granholm in. Didn’t work. Yet.
I demand that Americans be allowed to vote in all Israeli elections.
I demand that Americans be allowed to vote in all Canadian elections.
I demand that Americans be allowed to vote in all Mexican elections.
I demand that Americans be allowed to vote in all Chinese elections.
I demand that Americans be allowed to vote in all European elections.
I demand that Americans be allowed to vote in any country’s elections if they take American taxpayers’ money.
Oh yes it does. They can’t vote legally in them, but it gives the left a pool of voters they can include in their election fraud — especially as it pertains to mail-in ballots…
Democrat Rep. Enrique Sanchez.
What are the odds that this cretins parents are illegal aliens themselves?
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