Here Are States Where The Biden-Harris Admin Blocked Efforts To Ensure Only Citizens Vote In Elections

‘The Biden-Harris administration is engaging in obstruction and outright abuse of power to prevent us from removing noncitizens from our voter rolls,’ Ohio Secretary of State LaRose said.

American elections should be decided by Americans — which is why states across the country have taken steps to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. But the Biden-Harris administration is stymieing these efforts with roadblocks and lawfare.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sued the Biden-Harris administration on Thursday alleging the Department of Homeland Security refused to provide the state with access to records from the Systematic Alien Verification and Entitlements (SAVE) database. These “records are essential to verifying the citizenship status of all Ohio voters,” as noted in a press release from the secretary of state regarding the lawsuit.

“The Biden-Harris administration is engaging in obstruction and outright abuse of power to prevent us from removing noncitizens from our voter rolls,” LaRose said in a statement. “I take my duty seriously, so if they want a fight over the integrity of our elections, they’ve got it.”

The suit alleges the administration, “on at least four separate occasions, failed to provide Ohio access to federal citizenship verification records necessary to prevent noncitizens from voting,” according to the release.

“While the administration is blocking access to these records,” LaRose added, “the Department of Justice is suing or threatening to sue multiple states, including Ohio, who are trying to enforce their citizenship voting requirements.”

A similar suit was brought last week by Florida and the Florida Department of State (FDOS) against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The suit alleged the DHS denied a request to provide information necessary to verify the citizenship status of “a number of individuals” on the voter rolls “for whom FDOS had evidence of non-citizenship.” The DHS is mandated to supply such information under federal law, the plaintiffs contend.

“Because the federal government is refusing to comply with these obligations and frustrating Florida’s ability to maintain the integrity of its elections, Florida files this suit,” the lawsuit says.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday he is suing the Department of Homeland Security “and other members of the Biden-Harris Administration” for not complying with “federal law requiring them to assist States in verifying the citizenship status of potentially ineligible people registered to vote.”

The suit was filed weeks after Paxton sent a letter to DHS Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur M Jaddou “demanding” the federal government verify the “citizenship status of people who may be illegally registered to vote in Texas,” Paxton explained in a press release announcing the suit. Attached to the letter was a “list of approximately 450,000 voters whose citizenship status has never been checked because they registered without a State of Texas-issued driver’s license or identification card,” the release continued.

“The Biden-Harris Administration has refused to comply with federal law, presenting yet another obstacle for Texas to overcome in ensuring free and fair elections in our state,” Paxton said in a statement. “The law demands that they provide important information regarding the citizenship of nearly half a million potentially ineligible voters. Since the Biden-Harris Administration has chosen to ignore the law, I will see them in court.”

Earlier this month, the DOJ sued Virginia following efforts from Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the Virginia Department of Elections (ELECT) “to ensure only eligible U.S. citizens are on the state’s voter registration lists,” as The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood reported.

The suit followed an August executive order from Youngkin that directed “commonwealth agencies to undertake election security efforts ahead of the November election,” The Federalist previously reported. The suit filed earlier this month alleged that specific instructions in the order violated a provision of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that restricts states from using a program to “systematically” remove ineligible voters from the rolls within “90 days prior to the date” of federal elections.

On Friday, a Democrat-appointed federal judge ruled that the state must “reinstate” more than 1,500 allegedly “self-identified” noncitizens to the voter rolls less than two weeks before the November general election, as The Federalist reported.

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals—who self-identified themselves as noncitizens—back onto the voter rolls,” Youngkin said in a Friday statement, adding that most of the 1500-plus individuals “had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”

As Fleetwood noted earlier this month, the Biden-Harris Justice Department “has regularly been weaponized to target Republican-led election integrity efforts since Joe Biden became president.”

Alabama was similarly sued by the Biden-Harris DOJ in September after the state discovered more than 3,000 potential noncitizens on its voter rolls.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced in August he was instructing counties to “immediately inactivate and initiate steps necessary to remove all individuals who are not United States Citizens.” He acknowledged that some individuals who were issued noncitizen ID numbers may have since been naturalized, and that these now-citizens would be allowed to update their registration information and vote in the state’s elections following verification, according to a press release.

The federal government denied “repeated requests” to “assist Allen’s efforts” by declining to provide “a list of noncitizens currently residing in Alabama,” according to the release.

The Justice Department sued the state and Secretary Allen in late September, alleging they violated the NVRA since the voter roll maintenance fell within the aforementioned 90-day period. A federal judge recently sided with the department, ordering the state to halt its effort to remove potential noncitizens from its voter rolls.

Earlier this year, Republicans sought to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would have amended the NVRA to require individuals to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Democrats opposed the bill, relentlessly claiming it was unnecessary because noncitizen voting is already illegal.

The SAVE Act was eventually shot down in the House, along with the government funding resolution to which it was attached. Fourteen Republicans ultimately joined the majority of House Democrats to vote against the bill in September.

Thank you for referencing that article george76.

"Here Are States Where The Biden-Harris Admin Blocked Efforts To Ensure Only Citizens Vote In Elections"

From related threads ...

Regarding non-citizens voting, desperate Democrats are actually wrongly demanding that the states nullify the Constitution's "Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause."

More specifically, the congressional record shows that post-Civil War lawmakers had expressed their concern that states who allow non-citizens to vote wrongly nullify that clause.

"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.)

Next, the Constitution's drafters gave the states, not the feds, the power to decide voter qualifications, evidenced by Article I, Section 2, Clause 1 (1.2.1).

"Article I, Section 2, Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature [emphasis added]."

Note that 1.2.1 gives state-qualified citizens the power to vote only for representatives, not senators or POTUS. But the states later gave ordinary citizen voters the power to vote for federal senators too.

And it remains that voters still don't have the express constitutional power to vote for POTUS any more than illegals do. The fact that we do vote for POTUS is deceptive smoke and mirrors by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties, probably intended to make us deplorables think that we are in control of the Oval Office.

After all, constitutional drafters established the Electoral College to make sure that the right person is in the wartime Oval Office.

At the other extreme, the Electoral College is MAJOR OVERKILL for making sure that the right person is in the peacetime Oval Office to make sure that your mail is delivered promptly, the US Mail Service being one of the very few MAJOR powers that the states have given to the feds to dictate peacetime domestic policy.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States." (non-FR)
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In other words, if a given federal social spending program is not reasonably related to the Mail Service, then you can bet that it is unconstitutional, based on stolen state powers, and win your bet probably most of the time.

And all that the corrupt political parties are trying to do, evidenced by all the mischief that Democrats are up to to keep the Oval Office, including allowing illegals to unconstitutionally vote, is to retain control of the state powers that the post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states imo.

Also, when Virginia Minor claimed that her citizenship automatically gave her the right to vote under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause, the Supreme Court clarified in Minor v. Happersett (Minor) that citizenship doesn't guarantee the right to vote, Minor living in the "wrong" state which gets us back to 1.2.1 above.

In fact, the justices had referenced 1.2.1 in the Minor case opinion.

"The members of the House of Representatives are to be chosen by the people of the States, and the electors in each State must have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature." —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

Again, what we're seeing now is that desperate elite Democrats and RINOs are trying to gift illegal immigrants the right to vote in order to try to stay in power, a slap in the face to all voting citizens, but especially to women who had to work hard for their right to vote, evidenced by the 19th Amendment, pioneered in part by Virginia Minor's work.

"19th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

The bottom line concerning feds not supporting Texas, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Alabama, any others, in removing noncitizen from their rolls is that the feds themselves are unconstitutionally interfering with a federal election imo, unthinkingly helping to nullify the Constitution's Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause as much as renegade states are imo.

Regarding corrupt states allowing illegals to vote, also note that 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.

Especially consider the zero tolerance "hair trigger" wording in that section that should be a warning for any state thinking about rigging an election, letting non-citizens vote just one example of doing so imo.

Excerpted from 14A:

"But when the right to vote at any election"
"is denied to any"
"or in any way abridged,"
"Section 2: 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: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

In fact, consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage Southern Democrats (my words) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, 2022 and possibly earlier elections!

"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives

Also, in addition to trying to tap the illegal votes of illegal aliens to try to stay in power, desperate elite Democrats recently unilaterally threw out 14+ million primary votes for Biden after his bad interview with Trump, giving Biden's votes to presidentially unqualified (imo) Harris, and need to be held responsible for violating Section 2 imo.

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, including policing elections for violations of the Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause.

But even with Section 2's zero tolerance wording, Pence and the J6 Congress still wrongly ignored allegations of vote-counting fraud imo.

Since Congress and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.

In fact, it's up to us Trump supporters to take the first MAJOR step in draining the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, 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, including getting compromised judges off of the bench.

Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.

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