Republicans move to ban federal funds to states, cities that allow non-citizens to vote

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is leading a coalition of Republicans in Congress to sponsor legislation that would ban federal funding to states or localities that allow foreigners to vote in U.S. elections.

The new legislation, dubbed the Protecting Our Democracy by Preventing Foreign Citizens from Voting Act, was introduced after many liberal municipalities from San Francisco to New York have moved in 2021 to allow non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections "It's ridiculous that states are allowing foreign citizens to vote," Rubio said.

" The proposed federal law comes a few months after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger proposed an amendment to his state's constitution banning non-citizen voting in his state.

" Rubio's new bill would prohibit federal funds from going to any state or local government that allows foreign citizens to vote in any federal, state or local election and require all state or local government to certify they do not allow foreign citizens to vote when apply or federal funding.

The issue of non-citizen voting first came to a boil at the end of the 2018 Georgia governor's race, when Democrat Stacey Abrams suggested the "blue wave" of voters she hoped would put in her office included the "documented and undocumented," the latter a liberal preferred term for illegal aliens.

Within two years, several liberal communities have begun the process of allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections.

New York's City Council voted earlier this month to allow 800,000 non-citizens lawfully residing in the city to vote in municipal elections.

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