(The Center Square) – Legislation prohibiting noncitizens from voting in local elections in Washington, D.C. passed the House Tuesday after 56 Democrats backed the Republican-led measure.
The bill repeals the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022 that allowed noncitizens, so long as they had resided in the nation’s capital for 30 days, to vote in local elections. Voting in federal elections as a noncitizen is a federal crime.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said the legislation establishes “common-sense protections” for local D.C. elections, which include the offices of mayor and attorney general, city council seats and ballot measures.
“The right to vote is a defining privilege of American citizenship,” Comer told lawmakers. “Diluting that right by extending it to noncitizens, whether here legally or illegally, undermines the voice of Washington, D.C. residents.”
Democrats who voted against the measure accused Republican lawmakers of overruling the will of D.C. residents to “score political points” by “demonizing immigrants.” They argued it is “highly unlikely” that foreign diplomats or undocumented immigrants would take advantage of the 2022 law.
However, Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., pointed out that D.C. already doesn’t require photo ID of voters, further “weaken[ing] election integrity” when coupled with the voting expansion. He accused Democrats of using the city as “a petri dish for liberalizing voting laws across the country.”
“In my opinion, it’s absolutely nuts that we protect our beer better than our ballot in our nation’s capital,” Steil added.
Lawmakers also passed the Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act, which restores D.C. law enforcement officers’ right to collectively bargain over disciplinary policy, as well as restores the statute of limitations for bringing disciplinary cases against D.C. police officers.
Four Republicans voted against the bill while 30 Democrats voted in favor and one voted present.
The majority of Republicans argued the bill would boost law enforcement morale and empower officers to do their jobs. The majority of Democrats argued the changes are unnecessary and will undo “vital reforms.”
“This is not about public safety,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., told lawmakers Tuesday. “It’s about taking away [the] home rule of Washington, D.C., and it’s about taking away, once again, the rights of the people of this city.”
The bills now move to the Senate for consideration.
“Democrats who voted against the measure accused Republican lawmakers of overruling the will of D.C. residents to “score political points” by “demonizing immigrants.” They argued it is “highly unlikely” that foreign diplomats or undocumented immigrants would take advantage of the 2022 law.”
Then exactly WHY did the treasonous Democrats pass the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022 that allowed noncitizens to vote??? 🙁 🙁 🙁
The dishonorable, treasonous, lying Democrat Party revolves around, and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor. This U.S. Democrat Party and their Democrat RINOs are our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
AND IT is a sad state of affairs, we even NEED LAWS like this to be pushed..
“The dishonorable, treasonous, lying Democrat Party revolves around, and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor.”
They call that “multi-tasking”. They have all of that going on, and still give the impression that they can’t walk and chew cud at the same time. The trick is to free up brain space by emptying your mind of any thoughts of your own. This allows one to process and follow through on Party directives, unburdened by what has been, what IS, or what is to come, for that matter.
One down, and 50 other ways the democrats use to steal elections to go. Can it go national? Only when the pain of their misgovernance becomes too great, even for the fools that continually vote them into power in a city populated by people where common sense is rare, not common.
I am not convinced that (“Only when the pain of their misgovernance becomes too great,”) that these deranged useful idiots will ever repent from their lying, destructive, immoral, demonic Democrat Party’s Satanic cult. I have stopped trying to carry on any conversation with these idiot Democrats, because they are consumed by their hateful insanity.
Like you i firmly believe way too many are SO UTTERLY Corrupt and insane, that they can NEVER EVER change.. Other than to get worse.