My VIP for this week is Representative Gary Palmer (R-Alabama). I chose him because he saw the importance of passing a law to require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections in the United States. He recently introduced HR 8223 to make it a federal law. In a sane world, such a federal law would not be necessary.
Hans von Spakovsky, legal scholar at The Heritage Foundation, discussed a lawsuit filed by the Biden Justice Department against the State of Arizona over the state’s attempt to have only Americans citizens register for voting.
Mark Brnovich, the attorney general of
Arizona, calls it the “height of absurdity” that the Justice Department is
trying to stop his state from requiring individuals who want to vote in a
presidential election from providing proof that they are U.S. citizens, given
that the Biden administration “has incentivized and decriminalized people coming
into this country illegally.”
In a rational world, you wouldn’t think
such legislation would be necessary. After all, it’s a crime under federal law
for an alien to register and vote in federal elections.
Because every state requires an individual
to be a citizen to register and vote in state and federal elections, it’s a
felony for an alien to falsely claim to be a citizen in order to register to
vote or to actually vote (52 U.S.C. § 20511(2); 18 U.S.C. § 1015(f)). It’s also
a felony for an alien to falsely assert that he or she is a citizen (18 U.S.C.
§ 911).
It's also a federal misdemeanor violation
for an alien to vote, regardless of whether he or she falsely claimed to be a
citizen (18 U.S.C. § 611).
The problem is that in almost all states,
election officials are simply relying on individuals who are registering to
vote telling the truth when they assert they are U.S. citizens.
There’s plenty of evidence that this isn’t
working and that aliens are getting registered and voting, often without
detection by election officials.
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud
Database contains many cases of aliens convicted for illegally registering and
voting. Several years ago, the secretary of state of Pennsylvania was forced to
resign after the state had to admit it had been registering aliens for years
through its DM driver’s licensing system, and the Public Interest Legal
Foundation has issued many reports on the thousands of aliens found registered
in numerous states, such as Virginia, Michigan, and New Jersey.
There is evidence to show that
non-Americans are voting in American elections, but the Biden administration
does not care. Democrats hope that their party will benefit from the three
million migrants who have entered the United States illegally since January
2021. This is the reason Palmer introduced his bill.
Spakovsky described the bill as “a very
simple, two-page bill” titled the Citizen Ballot Protection Act. The purpose of
the bill is to amend “Section 6(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of
1993 to make it clear that states can ‘require that an applicant [to register
to vote] provide proof that the applicant is a citizen of the United States.”
The law should not be necessary according
to Spakovsky. However, it is necessary because some people interpret the
National Voter Registration Act “to say that states cannot require proof of
citizenship.”
Under the U.S. Constitution, states are
given the sole authority to determine the qualifications and eligibility of
individuals to vote in federal elections. It seems obvious that since
citizenship is a requirement, states should be able to establish procedures for
making that determination, as long as they do it in a racially neutral manner
that does not violate the Voting Rights Act.
Requiring proof of citizenship of everyone
registering to vote is not discriminatory and would seem to be fully within the
authority of states, but the Biden administration wants to prevent states from
doing that.
The plan of the Biden administration
is obvious. It has opened the borders to more than three million migrants
flooding into the United States illegally. Now, it wants to stop Arizona from
requiring proof of citizenship in order to vote in federal elections. The only
conclusion possible is that Democrats want non-citizens voting in our
elections. They must believe that this is the only way that they can remain in
power, and they are willing to sell out America by devaluing American
citizenship.
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