Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says Democrats have tipped their hand to their desire to unleash noncitizen voting by opposing his state's citizenship verification in court and he is urging elections chiefs in other states to fight such lawsuits.
Georgia's citizenship verification system has prevented noncitizens from getting on state voter rolls, but the state had to defend it in court against a group founded by former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
According to the original complaint in the 2018 lawsuit, the groups claimed the state's citizenship verification process violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
Democrats are claiming that Republicans have said that non-citizens are voting in federal elections as a reason for losing the 2024 election.
Sewell introduced into evidence an opinion article by Morelle, in which he wrote, "Independent sources have repeatedly debunked this myth, verifying that non-citizens voting in federal elections is extraordinarily rare and has never been shown to impact the outcome of any election."
While non-citizens are prohibited from voting in federal, state, and most local elections, California, Maryland, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Wisconsin all have ballot measures for voters to decide this year whether non-citizens should be prohibited from voting in state elections.
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