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Raffensperger calls for ban on non-citizen voting
Capitol Beat News Service ^ | Jan 11, 2022 | Dave Williams

Posted on 01/11/2022 6:44:01 PM PST by Conservat1

ATLANTA – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called on Congress Tuesday to pass a constitutional amendment banning non-U.S. citizens from voting.

“American leaders should be elected by American citizens,” Raffensperger said during a news conference at the Georgia Capitol. “It’s as simple as that.”

Raffensperger spoke out Tuesday hours before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were due in Atlanta to drum up public support for Democrat-backed voting rights legislation stalled in the U.S. Senate.

The Republican secretary of state’s remarks also came a day after state Senate President Pro Tempore Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, introduced a state-level constitutional amendment to prohibit non-citizen voting. Miller is seeking the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.

Non-U.S. citizens already are banned from voting in Georgia under state law. While no states allow non-citizens to vote, New York City recently enacted an ordinance permitting non-citizens to vote there.

Raffensperger criticized Biden and congressional Democrats for pushing legislation he said would amount to a federal takeover of state and local elections.

He said the two bills being pushed by Democrats would virtually eliminate voter ID requirements, allow third parties not affiliated with election officials to distribute and collect absentee ballots and prohibit election agencies from purging voter rolls within six months of a federal election.

“Make no mistake: This is an attempt to weaken election integrity in the guise of voting rights,” he said.

Besides the constitutional change to prohibit non-citizens from voting, Raffensperger also proposed establishing voter ID requirements nationwide, banning third-party “ballot harvesting” and shortening the blackout period for maintaining voter rolls.

Democrats have criticized election overhaul laws passed in Georgia and other states since the 2020 elections as an effort by Republicans to use voter suppression to reverse their electoral losses.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
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1 posted on 01/11/2022 6:44:01 PM PST by Conservat1
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Captain Obvious alert.

But with Covidiots in charge, probably necessary.


2 posted on 01/11/2022 6:45:18 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: Conservat1

Pandering. Pure political pandering. This POS has never ever voiced such concerns before. Ever. He knows he’s in deep s___t and this is his pathetic attempt at damage control.


3 posted on 01/11/2022 6:47:39 PM PST by ocrp1982
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Can’t recall ever seeing an SoS primaried. This could be a first. He could make history by being removed.


4 posted on 01/11/2022 6:48:11 PM PST by Owen
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To: Conservat1

How brave!


5 posted on 01/11/2022 6:50:35 PM PST by OSHA
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To: Conservat1

Hard to believe it was ever legal 🤪


6 posted on 01/11/2022 6:50:48 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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Guess he’s got the dem numbers. Doesn’t need it. Yes I know he is a R No matter. He is an asst dem.


7 posted on 01/11/2022 6:51:44 PM PST by stanne
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To: Conservat1

Very suspicious, indeed. We Georgians know he helped steal the election for Biden. A farce, really, this.


8 posted on 01/11/2022 6:52:23 PM PST by hoe_cake
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To: Conservat1

Hmm ... Raffy making nicey-nice with the conservatives. Sounds like he thinks something not so nice might be headed for him.


9 posted on 01/11/2022 6:55:35 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Conservat1

A traitorous criminal frantically trying to backpedal on his atrocious criminality during the 2020 election. Hey Ratburger-—we ain’t buying your sudden halo-donning. Crawl back under your rock into the rot and ooze where you belong.


10 posted on 01/11/2022 6:55:51 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Conservat1
He doesn't want non-citizens to vote? That's a new one. I guess he went from being a spineless RINO straight to being a nazi!
11 posted on 01/11/2022 6:56:04 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called on Congress Tuesday to pass a constitutional amendment banning non-U.S. citizens from voting.

The fact that such a thing is even contemplated as being necessary is a clear indication of how far the country has fallen. I’d love to see it, but how absurd that we have to take such extreme action to clarify something that should be a given. Abject corruption combined with the pathetic stupidity of the leftist segment of the population has led to this. “Woke” political correctness has destroyed their ability to think logically.

12 posted on 01/11/2022 7:00:26 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Resign and say it!


13 posted on 01/11/2022 7:02:54 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called on Congress Tuesday to pass a constitutional amendment banning non-U.S. citizens from voting.

The fact that such a thing is even contemplated as being necessary is a clear indication of how far the country has fallen. I’d love to see it, but how absurd that we have to take such extreme action to clarify something that should be a given. Abject corruption combined with the pathetic stupidity of the leftist segment of the population has led to this. “Woke” political correctness has destroyed their ability to think logically.

Sort of like the "Defense of Marriage Act" proposed legislation in California. By the time you say you have to pass a law, it's already too late.

14 posted on 01/11/2022 7:05:33 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Conservat1

Democrats want foreign interference in our elections through non-citizens voting in US elections


15 posted on 01/11/2022 7:05:46 PM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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Now he says it........


16 posted on 01/11/2022 7:34:12 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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If this weasel wins his primary after showing us who he really was back in 2020, then the country is doomed.


17 posted on 01/11/2022 7:41:56 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: Conservat1

Calls for a ban on non-living citizens!


18 posted on 01/11/2022 8:17:02 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: noiseman

It’s as stupid as people saying we need to amend the Constitution to say that only those born here of US citizen parents with only ONE nationality are naturally Americans when Art. II Sec 1 already says that.


19 posted on 01/11/2022 8:19:29 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: realcleanguy

So do Bush League Republicans, that’s why they are importing a permanent Democrat majority for their friends across the aisle.

They want their New World Order and we are in the way.


20 posted on 01/11/2022 8:21:17 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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