Democrats Block Requiring States to Remove Foreign Nationals from Voter Rolls
House Democrats blocked a plan on Thursday that would have required states to remove foreign nationals from their voter rolls.

House Democrats blocked a plan on Thursday that would have required states to remove foreign nationals from their voter rolls.
Democrats on the New York City Council voted with a veto-proof majority to give nearly a million foreign nationals the right to vote in local elections on Thursday evening.
More Republicans in New York are vowing to fight a proposed plan by the New York City Council to give voting rights in local elections to nearly a million foreign nationals.
The New York Republican Party is vowing legal action against an “unconstitutional” plan by New York City Democrats to allow nearly a million non-citizens to vote in local elections, leaders said on Thursday.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) is asking state lawmakers to pass an elections law that would allow non-citizens across the state to vote in local municipality elections.
A majority of voters in Texas—including 40% of Latinos—believe that non-citizens vote in elections either “sometimes” or “frequently,” according to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune survey released on Wednesday.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revealed Monday evening that it had registered 1,500 non-eligible people, including non-U.S. citizens, to vote between April and September, despite assuring the public for years it had safeguards to prevent that from happening.
A former Republican California Congressman is seeking to qualify a statewide ballot initiative in 2020 that will bar non-citizens from voting in state and local elections.