Mike Johnson and Donald Trump to promote bill to prevent non-citizens from voting

Oh, so they want to make it...like, double-illegal or something? Can we also pass extra laws to prevent murder--but, you know, more?

It’s now super-duper illegal. That’s a technical term.
Vote for me, I promise to make crime illegal.
There actually are a lot of laws that allow prosecutors to stack charges.
They will put them on Double Secret Probation.

What a great idea. Solve a problem that doesn't exist rather than all the shit crumbling around us. Heroes.

Also, given that's a non-problem, they will, in fact, never solve it. Which is exactly what they want. A "problem" they can endlessly demagogue whip up grievances about.

They should do one for zombies and sasquatch too.

And a bill for voting only once... oh, but then that might end up putting Republicans and their family in jail. 😢

Democrats should agree with this, and amend the bill to indicate that all citizens should have the right to vote (ideally with it being a felony to try to prevent them from doing so). Let Trump and Johnson explain why they don't want that part of it.

Great idea. Maybe also add extra provisions that would give extreme punishment to those cons that were caught trying to vote more than once, as well. Call out those specific examples when it's being debated.

Anyone with a brain knows non-citizens can't vote. This is just a way to push the narrative to their dumb base that "illegals" are voting.

That's why they are so mad, They've been cheating and still lost.

What non-citizens are voting right now?

The real question is what other things this bill will have.

the only place that i know of that lets non-citizens vote in NYC, and only for local elections.

their reasoning is that, if you live in NYC, you're paying taxes and, therefore, have the right to representation. you still have to register and show ID, using the city's NYC ID, which is issued for free (gasp!). (more info on NYC ID)

edit: my bad-- this law was ruled unconstitutional on appeal, after a long court battle, on 2/24/2024. boo

It is important to note that the law was determined to be unconstitutional to the NY State Constitution. This hasn't been tested if a state allowed non-citizens to vote.
Eh, I get it in theory but voting should be an incentive to naturalization.
- It still is. It was only limited to local elections.
  Besides, taxation without representation is unfair and was one of the bases for the American Revolution itself. Hard to argue against it.

However, non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal elections in the United States, and it's not a common occurrence.

No state currently allows non-citizens to cast a ballot in state-level elections either, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, though some municipalities may have their own rules for local races.

More republican, Security theater.

It's perfectly okay if they vote Republican though.

Right up there with the recent Tennessee (?) legislation to outlaw chemtrails…

Non-american here so wondering, can literally anyone in the US walk into a voting booth and cast a vote? If so... Why would you allow that? And why would you not want to prevent it?

Trump is trying to play off that the election process is flawed, so that he can claim victory no matter how badly he loses.
Citizens only for Federal and State elections. Some local elections allow non-citizens. Very few. Not something that needs Federal legislation.
As others pointed out, it’s political theater because that’s all they have.
Only citizens can vote. This is just a public relations stunt to promote Trump's fake narrative about voter fraud
I don't have to present any ID in order to vote. Since I am already on the voting rolls, all I do is show up at the poll, tell them who I am, and they find my name in the (now electronic) book. I sign it and then I can go vote.
Now, when I initially registered, I had to prove I was eligible. Most voter registration is done here in conjunction with getting your driver's license (or other non-driver state ID). Since you have to produce your birth certificate and/or naturalization papers, they can check your eligibility right there.
A lot of the misinformation from the Right stems from how closely the DMV is tied into voter registration. Non-citizens can drive, of course, and some states even give licenses to people here illegally. Republicans assume all these people get signed up to vote, also, but they do not. Only people who can prove their eligibility get registered.