Congress Must Do More To Prevent Noncitizens From Voting

 Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to gather UOCAVA registrations and votes from people living in countries all over the world, regardless of whether they can prove their citizenship status or their eligibility to vote in a particular state.

Unfortunately, several Republican House members could not get past themselves (and, in some cases, their own personal issues) to realize the urgent need to support Johnson’s plan to pass the combined measure in the House and force Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to explain to the American people why he and his Democrat colleagues oppose keeping noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections.

For instance, in North Carolina UOCAVA voters must show some prior relationship to the state, and the law directs the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) to modify or create a declaration attesting to the voter’s eligibility to vote under UOCAVA.

Clearly, changes in federal and state laws are necessary to protect our elections from being overrun with ineligible votes cast by noncitizens who have made their way onto state voter rolls because of these problematic federal laws.

The third federal law that is being exploited by Democrats and their leftist allies is the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which was enacted to make it easier for active-duty military members and their families to vote, regardless of where in the world they were stationed.

The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) was construed by the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade ago to preclude states from requiring documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote using the federal voter registration form (which all but six states are required to “accept and use”).

In Pennsylvania, election officials have contended that there is no requirement to validate eligibility or identity before registering UOCAVA voters in their state, which directly contradicts both federal and state law.

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice is now suing Alabama and Virginia for removing noncitizens from the states’ voter rolls, citing (wrongly) the NVRA’s list maintenance provisions as prohibiting the removal of noncitizen registrations in the 90 days preceding an election.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/28/congress-must-do-more-to-prevent-noncitizens-from-voting/