Should Non-Citizens Vote in Elections?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday is an announced legislation to require proof of citizenship to vote. According to Fred Lucas, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) was standing next to former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last Friday when he announced legislation to protect the voting right of citizens. Lucas reported the following about the meeting.

Johnson said that polling showed 78% of Americans supported requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. He suggested he would put the bill straight to the full House for a vote, bypassing the committee process.

“When we put this bill on the floor, you’re going to see a recorded vote by Republicans and Democrats. You’ll see that Republicans stand for election integrity,” Johnson said. “We’ll be able to ask this very important question of the Democrats. They are going to have to go on record. Do you believe that Americans and Americans alone should be the ones who vote in American elections? We are about to find out.”

According to Lucas, 7.2 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States since Biden was inaugurated. That makes a lot of people who could make a difference in the results of our elections. Lucas noted that Trump addressed both issues when he spoke.

“We have a border that’s open. We have a lot of problems in our country. We have an election problem and that’s really what we’re here to talk about today,” Trump said. “I would like to demand that our border be closed because we have millions of people coming into our country, millions and millions of people at levels that nobody is reporting, nobody is going to talk about.”

Johnson indicated that the new legislation would require state to clean up their voter rolls to remove noncitizens from their databases, which come from the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. He also stated that the border crisis today results from many actions taken by Biden. In answer to constant questions about why, Johnson said the following.

“Because they want to turn these people into voters. Right now the administration is encouraging illegals to go to their local welfare office to sign up for benefits. Guess what? When you go to a welfare office, they also ask if you would like to register to vote. Many people, we think, are going to do that.”

Biden’s direction to every agency of the federal government, including social service offices, was meant to boost voter registration. That direction was made in early 2021, so several million illegal immigrants may already be registered to vote in American elections.

Lucas noted that the House is acting on other legislation to try to control the damage of having too many people in the nation illegally. The House is also working on legislation to require a question about citizenship on the Census form. This legislation would also stop the counting of noncitizens when making congressional maps.

Lucas wrote that he has written a book “The Myth of Voter Suppression” that “details how several watchdog groups found voter registration rolls filled with ineligible foreign citizens, dead people, and people who have long moved out of a state.” These unlawful voter names are still on the rolls “despite the National Voter Registration requirement to update voting lists.”