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Louisiana Amendment 1 seeks to prevent noncitizen voting
Fox News ^ | November 29, 2022 6:47pm EST | Jasmine Baehr

Posted on 11/29/2022 9:04:59 PM PST by Olog-hai

A joint resolution passed by both houses of Louisiana state government is up for vote in a December 10th statewide special election.

If it passes, Amendment 1 will codify in the Louisiana constitution that only American citizens can vote in any level of election statewide.

While noncitizens cannot vote in federal elections since 1996’s Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, election laws regarding noncitizens at state and local levels are left for those jurisdictions to decide.

Over the past 26 years, progressive states and localities have pushed at those boundaries laid in the IIRIA. Municipalities like Montpelier, Vermont have allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections like school board through a technicality in the Green Mountain State’s constitution. …

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: aliens; amendment1; electionfraud; louisiana; voterfraud

1 posted on 11/29/2022 9:04:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Gee, I wonder what the courts will say after the voters approve this measure? /s

I swear the DEMs just left the rest of the country waste time will voter-approved amendments and laws, then overturn them in the courts. The voters in California have voted down gay marriage twice, and yet ...

2 posted on 11/29/2022 9:16:33 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CatOwner

I wonder what solution you have in mind.

Political movements and/or otherwise require a leader to rally around. Otherwise, as the Bible says, people will be like sheep without a shepherd.


3 posted on 11/30/2022 12:14:07 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Not to worry.

I read, somewhere, that a ‘leader’ is just waiting in the wings: soon to arrive on the scene.


4 posted on 11/30/2022 3:59:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Chuck Norris?


5 posted on 11/30/2022 3:00:58 PM PST by GingisK
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