Posted on 03/12/2025 4:02:40 PM PDT by bitt
Democrats and the D.C. Board of Elections are pushing to allow noncitizens — including potential foreign spies — to vote in local elections.
The D.C. Board of Elections will head to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to fight to preserve a district law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. The lawsuit centers around the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which permits noncitizens eighteen or older who have lived in D.C. for at least 30 days prior to an election to vote for local officials and on ballot initiatives.
With an estimated 10,000 foreign spies operating in Washington D.C. and the U.S. capital also hosting diplomats from foreign and sometimes hostile governments like China, the security risks of such a law are obvious. FBI counterintelligence expert Brian Dugan previously warned that foreign adversaries pose an “unprecedented” threat and that spies often blend into everyday life, posing as students, professors or even neighbors.
Yet, Democrats are determined to extend voting rights to noncitizens residing in D.C., and potentially to agents operating on behalf of foreign governments.
In 2023, the Federation for American Immigration Reform filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Board of Elections on behalf of multiple D.C. residents. The complaint challenged the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act as unconstitutional and argued the law dilutes the votes of U.S. citizens.
“Noncitizens do not have a fundamental right to vote in the United States. Nor does any noncitizen,” the lawsuit states. “By necessary operation, the D.C. Noncitizen Voting Act dilutes the vote of every U.S. citizen voter in the District. Because it does so, the D.C. Noncitizen Voting Act is subject to review under both the equal protection and the substantive due process components of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the
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The Schumer Shutdown is coming.
If non-citizens vote, what is the advantage of having citizenship?
This can be shut down quite easily for DC; not one dime in federal subsidies from the taxpayers for any purpose until this is repealed.
Time to abolish home rule.
How many has Swallowell bedded down?
I keep wondering if the Chinese actually take over the US if those morons that have worked to destroy this Republic would be welcomed into the new Chinese Government or would the new government say “You betrayed your government but we will not allow you to do that to us so ...FIRE”
Too many, I’d say.
Should have never happened in the first place.
Yep, abolish home rule, disband all the DC lower courts including federal and send cases back to the states.
They won't try to make DC a state after this.
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