Posted on 05/15/2024 8:14:46 AM PDT by SJackson
With less than six months to go until Election Day, Americans have ample reason to be concerned that a wave of non-citizens casting ballots could undermine the integrity of our elections. Urgent federal action is needed to address this threat before it is too late.
Many in the corporate media and the political establishment have assured Americans that they need not worry because non-citizens voting, or even registering to vote in federal elections is already illegal – and indeed, this is the case. But this prohibition has been effectively neutralized by caveats and special carve-outs in dozens of states’ laws which create ample opportunity to violate federal election law.
One of the biggest glaring weak points in U.S. election law is the voter registration process itself. Under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, every state must use a common voter registration form which only asks applicants to check a box stating that they are an American citizen.
In other words, states must take someone’s word for it that they are eligible to vote in federal elections – effectively eliminating all structural barriers to non-citizens registering to vote.
Making matters worse, 14 states, including the swing states of Nevada and Pennsylvania, don’t even require any sort of identification to cast a ballot. This is also the case in populous states like California and New York, which in 2022 determined control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
To help guard against non-citizens voting, many states have wisely implemented Voter ID laws. But even these safeguards might not be enough.
For instance, in 28 states, including the swing states of Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina, a student ID counts as a valid form of identification for voting. But student IDs do not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens.
Moreover, at least 19 other states and the District of Columbia have passed bills allowing noncitizens to obtain driver’s licenses which also do not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens. According to Judicial Watch, roughly 80,000 illegal aliens in Minnesota alone became eligible to obtain driver’s licenses when Democrats there passed the “Driver’s Licenses for All” Act last year.
These problems have, of course, been made exponentially more severe by the more than seven million foreign nationals who have illegally poured across our southern border over the past four years. Even if only a very small fraction of these individuals illegally cast ballots this fall, it could prove decisive in states that have been won or lost by just a few thousand votes in recent elections.
Instead of addressing this problem, the Biden administration has actively made it worse. Under the provisions of a 2021 Biden Executive Order, the U.S. Marshals Service is now required to provide everyone in its custody information on how to register to vote. This apparently includes illegal aliens who are ineligible to vote under federal law.
Earlier this year, AMAC’s advocacy arm, AMAC Action, launched an ongoing grassroots campaign demanding Congress take action to ensure only eligible American citizens cast ballots in federal elections. Within the first 24 hours after that campaign went live, AMAC members sent 21,000 messages to members of Congress, a clear sign of how important this issue is to the American people.
One simple step Congress could take right now is to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a common-sense bill introduced this month which gives state officials important new tools to crack down on non-citizens voting.
Specifically, this bill would fix the shortcomings of the 1993 Voter Registration Act by requiring voters to provide documentary evidence – in person – that they are a U.S. citizen and an eligible voter.The SAVE Act would also require states to work to remove non-citizens from voter rolls and require the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security administration to provide states with no-cost access to their databases. Currently, federal agencies can provide this information to states, but are not obligated to do so.
Importantly, the bill would also empower citizens to initiate legal action against election officials who fail to enforce proof of citizenship requirements, creating an important new tool to ensure accountability.
While federal legislation is urgently needed, the American people must also take action at the local level to secure their elections and ensure existing laws are being followed. That’s one reason why AMAC is hosting a series of Bootcamp for Boomers events to empower citizens to get involved in local elections, advocate for legislative reforms, and mobilize their friends and neighbors to turn out in overwhelming numbers in November.
The American people deserve the confidence of knowing that their elections are secure. For too long, loopholes in state laws and unaccountability from elected officials have undermined the integrity of the American electoral system, and changes are overdue.
AMAC members and millions of other Americans have sent this message loud and clear to our representatives in Washington. It is time for them to listen.
Rebecca Weber is the CEO of the Association of Mature American Citizens.
What can congress do?
Nothing would get past the senate, let alone Biden’s fascist pen
Just make sure they are in democrat states and the voting won’t matter. The real problem is the increase of electoral votes in these states due to the population increases regardless of the voting.
Nevada SoS is a professional Mexican from Tucson named Francisco Aguilar.
Nevada will not go for Trump. Ceesco will see to that.
Saying that registration is illegal is a lie. Here in CaCaLand the DNC has for decades automatically registered illegals when they give them a photo-ID drivers license.
Some states might have made it rational to not do this, but not the biggies. That is how you get a one party state legislature. It is also, more importantly, how you set up the mechanism to harvest mailin ballots for hundreds of thousands — register as Democrats and put a known empty parking lot as the address. When an election comes ‘round just send someone over to where the ballots are printed out and pick up hundreds of those ballots. That is exactly how Newsome survived the recall — people were arrested (and immediately released) with hundreds of those ballots in their possession. This is how 2024 will go.
Trump could get this ball rolling by announcing that in the first few weeks of his next presidency he will sign an Executive Order disallowing all Transportation Funds to any State with one or more Non Citizens registered to vote.
We MUST take back both houses.
Here in Illinois the last time I renewed my license in person I was asked to register twice, first and last contact with the counterperson. The second time he apologized, mentioned he knows the hoops to go through to get veteran on my license, but that he's required to ask.
“Nothing would get past the senate, let alone Biden’s fascist pen”
That is so very true, so the states need to start thinking outside the box to thwart this.
For federal elections, the states are disallowed access to the Feds citizenship database.
How can a state legislature overcome that obvious access point that facilitates illegal voting?
I suggest requiring “Real ID” to vote. You know, where we were all made to go to our DMV and provide birth certificates, social security cards, or U.S. Passports just to obtain the ID-type that allows us to fly domestically.
Why not? No Real ID, no voter registration! State Legislatures need to enact this ASAP!!!
By God if we can’t get on an airplane without it, you can’t vote without it!
Laws already exist at the federal level to make non-citizen voting illegal. What is missing is the will to enforce those laws.
What is missing is the will to enforce those laws.
Just like every other law.....border enforcement?
“Hey, we solved that problem by passing a law!”
A law is only as good as the ability to use violence to enforce it.
I love these posts, “congress must do (whatever)”. They never do any of it. The people making these statements live in a cloistered fantasy land.
The GOP Elite do not want Trump to win in 2024.
The Democrats do not want Trump to win in 2024.
Thus, we can be assured nothing will be done to prevent illegals from voting in November 2024.
Do not be surprised when Biden gets 101 million votes in Nov.
BTTT
To put a sharper point on your point:
Title 18 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) under Section 611 makes it a crime for noncitizens to vote in any election for President, Vice President, presidential elector (and certain other federal offices).
The time to enforce that law is at the Special Session following each presidential election. The Congress is allowed to reject certificates from states who submit invalid certifications; certainly a violation of a federal statutes would qualify.
It is not a voter-by-voter analysis it could be argued a state's election was conducted in manner that clearly allowed multiple violations of the law.
Our representatives in Congress may hold our last remaining opportunity.
Unfortunately we’re not voting our way out of this.
Also doubtful is whether blue/purple states will do anything meaningful... the Wisconsin Supreme Court is packed with liberals, for example.
Way to go, Republicans. You guys sure are on the ball with all of this kinda stuff. /s
Too late...
Barn door wide open...
Horses, goats, and cows all gone...
20-years too late!
I LIVE IN NEVADA.
BEFORE COVID & MAIL IN BALLOTING-————
I DROVE TO THE POLLING LOCATION.
STOOD IN LINE
PRODUCED MY ID-—(TO A NEIGHBOR I RIDE HORSEBACK WITH)—
SIGNED THE BOOK & SIGNATURE WAS COMPARED
GIVEN BALLOT I FILLED OUT & PUT INTO BOX
OUR POLLING LOCATION WAS DEFINITELY CHECKING ID’s.
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