Posted on 05/04/2024 9:30:48 AM PDT by CFW
Voters in South Carolina will have the opportunity to add an amendment to the state constitution that would allow only American citizens to vote in state elections.
The amendment is titled "The Citizens Only Voting Amendment" and it was passed by the South Carolina House of Representatives 105-0 earlier this week.
Last month, the Senate passed the legislation by a vote of 40-3. South Carolina voters will be able to vote on the amendment in November of this year.
“Today South Carolina took an important step forward in defending the value of citizenship,” Senator Josh Kimbrell said, according to Legal Newsline. “We will never allow a non-citizen to vote in any election in our state, but we will make it easy for legal, law-abiding citizens of the United States and of our state to vote in all our elections. Citizenship matters, and this vote proves that point.”
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It is just for the headlines.
The DoJ will just sue them, with our money, and everyone will just go “Ah shucks”.
Can non-citizens vote for this?
Sad that such an amendment is even necessary. Not that it would make much difference as such laws are often ignored.
I’ll bet Joe and his DOJ will sue them and claim it is unconstitutional to not let illegal aliens vote.
I think I heard Syria, Iran and Iraq welcome Jews who are citizens of Israel to vote in their elections. Oh, wait. Guess I was mistaken./SARC
Framers understood the risks of direct democracy. Left uses strategically placed abortion ballot issues to increase its turnout. Until we can reduce those process provided risks we must use them too. With well written strategically chosen initiatives and amendments, where allowed, to boost our own turnout. How about initiative to ban state expenditures to illegal aliens for any purposes beyond promptly (defined within) removing them from the state and emergency medical care (for conditions hazarding death with the same prompt period.) with better legalese designed to make it harder to stay or overturn. Big enough election win would inhibit elected state officials from fighting it. If written well enough private challenges would be harder and more expensive to attempt. Feds probably would still try, but you do the best you can and even their resources are eventually finite.
It really is amazing. The Founders weren’t explicit in saying that only citizens could vote because it was a given. No one could imagine that a noncitizen would legally be allowed to vote.
I wonder what’s next. Maybe there’ll be a push to allow animals to vote.
How racist!!
“I wonder what’s next. Maybe there’ll be a push to allow animals to vote.”
what’s next is a suspension of elections. There will be some event near the elections that pauses everything. Just like they’ve done in Ukraine.
The state level apportionment decisions of the 1960’s specifically mentioned citizens. It was unconstitutional to apportion either branch of the state legislature on the basis of anything other than population. They cited the 14th amendment which said “citizens.”
The US Census said otherwise...
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