Biden’s Idea Of ‘Secure Elections’ Is Letting People Who Might Not Be Citizens Keep Voting

As congressional Democrats are preparing to fight legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, President Joe Biden came out against the bill on Monday, slamming the election security measure while also promising to “fight” for “secure elections.” The bill is up for a vote in the House on Wednesday.

Why would anyone who claims to want to “secure elections” oppose a bill that simply creates a mechanism to enforce existing prohibitions on alien voting? Given that Biden has let in almost as many illegal immigrants in less than four years as Ellis Island processed legally over 60 years, the bill protects against threats to our elections that Biden’s refusal to enforce America’s southern border has exacerbated.

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk suggested Sunday night that the only reason Democrats would oppose the bill is “because they want to cheat.”

The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which enables driver’s license applicants to register to vote through state motor vehicle agencies, required would-be voters to attest to their citizenship status when registering to vote, but did not require any proof of such citizenship. The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would amend the 1993 law by requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Democrats claim the legislation is useless because it’s already illegal for foreign nationals to vote — or register to vote — in federal elections. But the only thing standing between a noncitizen and voting in a federal election is a small square box that individuals must check affirming they’re telling the truth about their citizenship status.

Another issue with the 1993 law is that, as a spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services told The Federalist, the department, as well as the state’s Medicaid agency, “is mandated to provide voter registration information under Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act,” as my colleague M.D. Kittle reported. The information is sent “to everyone applying for the benefits, including foreign nationals.” One refugee “reported receiving voter registration forms at the Health and Human Services office,” Kittle reported, citing a story told by state Rep. Adam Morgan. The refugee “sent the documents back to the agency” which then “sent the foreign national more voter registration information.”

Democrats — or, as Musk described those who oppose the legislation, “traitors” — are “bringing out the big guns” to fight the legislation, Axios reported. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark told House Democrats to “VOTE NO” on the bill. Clark’s office reportedly said the legislation would “prevent Americans from registering to vote with their drivers’ license alone” and make a passport the “only acceptable standalone form of identification,” Axios reported.

Clark’s argument rests on the flawed assumption that driver’s licenses are a sufficient way to prevent ineligible individuals from registering to vote.

But many states offer driver’s licenses or privilege cards to legally present foreigners and even illegal aliens. What’s more, failing a driver’s license verification doesn’t stop a person from registering to vote.

Under the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA), states must verify certain “information of newly registered voters for Federal elections,” according to the Social Security Administration. States must verify the applicant’s driver’s license number with the state’s Motor Vehicle Administration database. But if an individual lacks a driver’s license number, he can use the last four digits of his Social Security Number, name, and date of birth. As with driver’s licenses, verifying a registrant’s SSN does not necessarily confirm his citizenship since foreign nationals can also obtain those.

What about individuals who can’t provide a driver’s license number or an SSN? In California, for example, those who do not have a driver’s license or Social Security number can simply register to vote with their gym membership, among other insecure documentation options. The Federalist also reviewed public records from North Carolina that appear to show thousands of additional voters who were added to the rolls since January despite their records indicating no SSN or driver’s license identification number being provided.

The SAVE Act would solve these issues by requiring individuals to provide documentary proof of citizenship while registering to vote instead of relying on weak election laws that let thousands of voters slip through the cracks.

Thank you for referencing that article Mr. Mojo.

"Democrats claim the legislation is useless because it’s already illegal for foreign nationals to vote — or register to vote — in federal elections."

Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to be aware of MAJOR constitutional problems (imo) with activist state and federal government officials that allow illegal aliens to vote.

From related threads ...

Desperate Democrats must be referring to the unconstitutional federal law (imo) that appears to make it illegal for illegal aliens to vote.

But the law contains a scandalous, smoking gun loophole (imo) that makes it easy for aliens to get away with voting imo.

"(3) the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States."

What's even worse is the compromised (imo) Supreme Court officially shrugged off this alien-supporting loophole.

"It’s not just that state officials — who are responsible for federal voter registration and elections in our country — don’t verify citizenship in this context; it’s that the Supreme Court has told them that they’re not allowed to do so. In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 570 U.S. 1 (2013), the Court held that the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA, also known as the “Motor Voter” law) prohibits states from requiring proof of citizenship when processing federal voter registration forms." -- Sen. Mike Lee, The Federalist (5.13.24)
"The high court struck down an Arizona law that required voters to show proof of citizenship in national elections. In the majority opinion (7-2), the late Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the state law conflicted with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which mandates states “accept and use” the standardized federal voter registration form for national elections. The NVRA form, developed by the federal Election Assistance Commission, does not require proof of citizenship. It only asks an applicant “aver, under penalty of perjury [emphasis added], that he is a citizen.”" —M.D. Kittle, The Federalist, 1.12.24

The Court's misguided decision (imo) concerning Arizona case noted, do institutionally indoctrinated Supreme Court justices possibly not know that the post-Civil War congressional record shows that lawmakers were concerned that renegade states who allowed illegal aliens to vote would be wrongly nullifying the Constitution's "Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause," which elite Democrats are now wrongly trying to do imo.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization [emphasis added], and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
" If the States can admit to the elective franchise those who are not citizens, thereby neutralizing the votes of citizens, not only the Federal power of naturalization becomes a nullity, but" * * * * "a minority of citizens by the aid of aliens may control the government of the States, and through the States the government of the Union [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See near middle of 1st column.)
" Whatever difference there may be as to what other rights appertain to a citizen, all must agree that he has the right to petition and also to claim the Protection of the Government. These belong to him as a member the body politic, and the possession of them is what separates citizens of the lowest condition from aliens and slaves. To suppose that a State can make an alien a citizen or confer on him the right of voting would involve the absurdity of giving him the direct and immediate control of the action of the General Government, from which he can claim no protection and to which he has no right to present a petition [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See bottom half of 1st column.)

In fact, Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), that amendment ratified shortly after the excerpts above appeared in the congressional record, is a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred.

Note the zero tolerance "hair triggers" in that section that should be a warning for any state thinking about rigging an election, triggers that Pence and the J6 Congress wrongly ignored imo when they voted to accept OBiden's electoral votes in 2020 despite allegations of vote-counting problems.

"is denied to any"
"or in any way abridged,"
"Section 2 of 14A: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election [all emphases added] for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5 of 14A: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

With Section 2 in mind, consider that if this were a better world, the feds would be reminding all states before an election that the feds will be darkening the doorway of any state to investigate allegations of possible violations of constitutional voting integrity protections.

So while post-Civil War lawmakers were concerned about renegade states who might try to nullify the "Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause" by allowing illegals to vote, all three branches of the corrupt federal government have arguably joined renegade states who are now allegedly trying to nullify that clause by using illegal aliens to rig elections imo.

Since Congress has repeatedly proven that it is an enemy of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" Congress in November. Patriots need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.

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