Hundreds of non-citizens on state voter rolls, but Dems say GOP concerns are election denialism
Hundreds of non-citizens have been found on state voter rolls across the country, and three states and Washington, D.C., allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. Yet Democrats consistently rely on the smear of "denialism."
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Published: May 23, 2024 11:00pm
Updated: May 24, 2024 6:40am
Democrats insist Republicans’ claims about non-citizen voting in U.S. elections is election denialism, despite states reporting hundreds of non-citizens were found and removed from their voter rolls.
As House Republicans passed bills ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, Democrats claimed that concerns over non-citizens voting is merely a GOP effort to undermine faith in elections ahead of the November presidential election.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill repealing a 2022 Washington D.C. law that allows non-citizens to vote in local elections. The final vote was 262-143. There were 52 out of 213 Democrats who joined Republicans in supporting the bill for passage. There were 143 Democrats who voted "no" and 18 who did not vote.
The Committee on House Administration on Thursday also passed a bill that requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
During the committee’s hearing on Thursday ahead of the votes on the bills, Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., referenced a hearing the committee held the previous week on the bills against non-citizen voting, saying it was “wasting this committee’s time” and “a waste of the taxpayer resources” in order “to disseminate the disproven lies to actively undermine American faith in our democracy.”
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