Two states are in trouble with the federal government, which is in trouble with them.
Florida is suing the feds because the Sunshine State needs the cooperation of the federal government to check the status of certain persons on its voter rolls.
Florida is bound by law to maintain accurate registration rolls. The federal government is bound by law to cooperate with requests from state and local governments for the information required to fully assess whether a person on the rolls has the right to vote and to be registered to vote.
But when Florida asked Citizenship and Immigration Services for just this kind of information, the USCIS balked.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department is suing Virginia to prevent that state from cleaning up its own voter rolls.
Virginia Governor Youngkin castigates the federal action as “an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine to remove noncitizens from voter rolls — a process that starts with someone declaring themselves a noncitizen and then registering to vote.”
Power Line plausibly suggests that what’s happening here is that the politicized, misnamed Justice Department regards the votes of noncitizens as most likely to be votes for Democratic candidates. So why not discard established law and established procedures if this would help tilt elections in favor of Democrats?
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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2 replies on “Feds Push Noncitizen Voting”
It’s a racket and both parties are in on it. Swamp Democrats want cheap votes and the Swamp GOP wants cheap labor. Expect mass amnesty within a few years.
We are run by a Communist regime, plain and simple fact.