Posted on 05/24/2024 6:39:22 PM PDT by bitt
The House approved a bill Thursday that seeks to ban non-U.S. citizens from voting in local Washington elections, once again taking aim at the capital city through legislation.
The four-page measure, which passed 262-143, would forbid any noncitizens from voting in elections for municipal office or on ballot initiatives and referendums. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in any federal-level election.
The D.C. Council approved a measure in 2022 that added eligible noncitizen residents to the definition of a qualified elector for local elections. Seven D.C. voters filed a lawsuit against the city’s Board of Elections, but a federal court upheld the law in March, dismissing the suit after a judge determined the plaintiffs could not prove they were harmed by the policy.
Republicans this week hammered away at the local law, arguing that noncitizens should not be allowed to weigh in on leadership in the nation’s capital.
“The city council has decided they want noncitizens and foreign actors deciding who will serve as mayor and the local, attorney general here. As the body in charge of overseeing DC, Congress will not support such lawless behavior,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said during a press conference Wednesday.
Democrats, led by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.), have blasted the GOP-led bill, calling it “undemocratic” and “paternalistic.”
“D.C. residents, a majority of whom are Black and brown, are worthy and capable of self-government,” Norton added in remarks on the House floor. “I urge members to vote no.”
The now-defunct outlet DCist reported earlier this year that only 32 noncitizens had registered to vote in D.C. local elections.
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) called it “undemocratic and paternalistic.”
What could be more “undemocratic” than foreigners stealing our elections and disenfranchising honest CITIZENS?
Is it the water in D.C. that produces the stupidest people on the planet?
Peter Principle
Why ALLOWING ILLEGALS TO VOTE needs to be ‘A Thing’ is beyond my Pay Grade!
America is toast. Well, not ALL of it, but good chunks of it.
If you’re smart, you’ll move you and yours to the chunks that have a little sanity left to them.
For now. :(
One after another “never going to fly” insult to the intelligence. They really do think we are just stupid sheep...
Only American citizens voting in America?
It’ll never catch on.
undemocratic = Democratic democracy only
ONE HUNDRED FOURTY THREE MEMBERS of the USA HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES VOTED TO ALLOW NON-CITIZENS TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
That’s all. That’s it.
“once again taking aim at the capital city through legislation”
REPUBLICANS POUNCE
ONE HUNDRED FOURTY THREE MEMBERS of the USA HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES VOTED TO ALLOW NON-CITIZENS TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
That’s all. That’s it.
Incorrect, they voted against banning them from voting in local DC elections only. There is no ability to allow non citizens from voting. It is already illegal in all jurisdictions in America for non-citizens to vote in a presidential or congressional election.
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