Posted on 07/07/2024 10:34:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Elon Musk heartily endorsed a bill proposed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that seeks to ensure that only American citizens can vote in federal elections. Musk said in a tweet that people who oppose the bill are “TRAITORS.”
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, originally pushed by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Tx., was announced at a press conference by Johnson in Mar-a-Lago, Florida earlier in the year, according to Fox Business.
Johnson circulated a memo among members of the House GOP conference in the days leading up to the Fourth of July recess. On Friday, he continued making the case for the bill on X, formerly Twitter, the social media platform owned by Musk.
"The SAVE Act will safeguard our elections by ensuring only American citizens vote in federal elections," Johnson said. He then followed up with a series of posts on X explaining the legislation.
He says that the bill requires state election officials to ask about citizenship before giving voter registration forms to applicants, and the applicants must provide proof of citizenship before being allowed to register to vote in federal elections. It also authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether removal proceedings are appropriate for noncitizens who have registered to vote in federal elections.
Musk retweeted Johnson’s posts and declared, "Those who oppose this are traitors. All Caps: TRAITORS," he said. "What is the penalty for traitors again?"
The penalty for people guilty of treason is death or to be imprisoned for no less than five years, adds Fox Business. There is also a fine of no less than $10,000 and to be barred from ever holding office in the U.S.
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I agree with Elon!
Remember when the prospect of non-citizen voting was a conspiracy theory?
Eff you money talkin right there.
So then if this bill doesn't get signed into law, and it won't, then noncitizens are good to go now?
Isn't that what Mike Johnson, Chip Roy and Elon Musk are saying?
It’s the only reason they are here. It was transparently obvious to anybody with two brain cells in a row from the beginning.
He’s not wrong.
It’s time such language started getting used. TRAITORS!!! is what they are.
The man is correct.
This country is supposedly free-more than most. That puts this country on auto pilot in many ways-that’s good.
The rest of the world has more at stake in our elections than we do. Get the picture?
You don’t have to be Elon Musk to know allowing noncitizens to vote in elections is a bad idea.
Show me any other country in the world that encourages this.
Remember 50 years ago when we were taught that it was impossible because it is not legal? Ditto for convicted felons?
The USA will be taken down by simply flooding the country with non-citizens. It won’t take that long. I’m glad I’m old.
The RATs will find some method to declare them American citizens officially.
Ok. I agree, but he’s still “king of the twit” and the nutjob whose fantasy it is to send astronauts - and colonists - on a suicide mission to Mars (barring a breakthrough in propulsion technology).
Democrats have been bragging about their “demographic takeover” for years and no spineless republican responded.
Too scared of the dreaded you racissss slur.
I forget in which city, but I read that illegals were being registered to vote as homeless people. The Democrats know they need to get as many ballots in as possible. They have already punished anyone with concerns about election integrity from the last election, so who will dare to question this year’s election?
Jesse Waters had a guest that claimed that any illegal alien caught voting would just have to say they did not know any better. Since they were allowed to stay they thought that meant they were a citizen. Case dismissed.
I would think this would pass in the House and have a chance in the Senate. If Biden vetoes the bill then use that as part of campaign ads against him or whoever is running.
“Isn’t it all ready illegal or unconstitutional for non citizens to vote?”
Yes, and we should just take their word on it that they won’t vote illegally.🙄 Democrats never cheat. It is against democracy.🙄
Because every effing reason under the sun just like here or anywhere.
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