While the Trump campaign, Republican National Committee, Republican governors, and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill work to keep illegal immigrants and non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections, the Left is fighting against their efforts and threatening to shut down the government over voter integrity legislation.
This from townhall.com.
The Hill reported:
A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged a stopgap of some kind, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), will be necessary to keep the government funded past Sept. 30.
But calls are growing among House conservatives to use that must-pass measure to force consideration of a partisan bill aimed at barring noncitizens from voting—laying the groundwork for a clash with the [Leftist]-led Senate, which would likely reject such a package.
America needs the SAVE Act to prevent noncitizens from voting.
The arguments against including the SAVE Act in the September spending bill are weak and crumble under examination.
I invite Senate GOP leadership to offer solutions, not excuses. https://t.co/s2z9oD7zSs
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) August 26, 2024
The question is, why?
Democrats want illegal aliens to illegally vote because Democrats can’t win elections without cheating or stealing. It’s that simple. https://t.co/8lzkUIR4wW
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 28, 2024
If you’re convinced that noncitizens don’t vote—against evidence showing that in many cases they have—then what’s the harm in passing the SAVE Act? https://t.co/yW0RIDh4gC
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) August 27, 2024
This fall, we’re going to pass the SAVE Act, protect election integrity, and dare Democrats to explain why they think foreigners should be able to vote in America. pic.twitter.com/tJs5BtLHnn
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) August 26, 2024
Meanwhile, in Virginia and Texas thousands of illegal immigrants and non-citizens have been removed from voter rolls.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin said his admin’s initiatives have removed close to 80,000 dead voters from the state’s voter rolls last year, removed voters who have moved out of state, and Youngkin has removed more than 6,000 non-citizens from Virginia’s voter rolls. https://t.co/GuNUVFIVIj
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 23, 2024
The SAVE Act passed the House in a mostly partisan vote earlier this summer, with five from the Left bucking their party to back the bill.
Advocates of pushing the SAVE Act say:
[T]he legislation would ensure only citizens can vote in federal elections, partly by making it mandatory for states to obtain proof of citizenship to register voters and also requiring states to purge noncitizens from voter rolls.
However, most on the Left have pushed back strongly against the measure. They have vowed to veto it when the House considered it last month, noting “it is already a crime for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.”
The Regime argued the bill would:
[M]ake it more difficult for eligible voters to register and increase the risk that eligible voters are purged from voter rolls.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), the sponsor of the bill, said:
We’re talking about a simple concept that only citizens should vote, in a world in which [the Left has] opened up our country to noncitizens.
