Voting Rights for Non -citizens

Democrats Push Non-Citizen Voting

• Democrats are getting bolder in their attempts to undermine election integrity.
• They started by lying about voter ID in states like North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. Then the Biden Department of Justice started suing Republican states.
• Now, Democrats are going for it all: they want to let non-citizens vote in American elections. The left cares more about power than what it means to be an American citizen.
• In December, the New York City council adopted a resolution allowing about 900,000 non-citizens to vote in New York City elections.
  • This is much larger than the margin in last year’s New York Mayor Democrat primary, meaning these non-citizen votes could have swung the race to another candidate.
• On Monday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed suit against Mayor Eric Adams, the New York City Council, and the New York City Board of Elections after the city adopted their radical law allowing non-citizens to vote in city elections.
• For background:
  • This radical scheme passed by New York Democrats to allow foreign citizens to decide American elections is a blatant attack on election integrity and violates the state constitution which requires New York voters to be U.S. citizens.
  • The RNC is joined in the suit by the New York Republican Party and several concerned New York officeholders and voters, including city council members who voted against the legislation, naturalized citizens, and even Democrats.
  • In addition to violating the state constitution, the suit demonstrates how Democrats’ legislation violates New York election statute and the state’s Municipal Home Rule Law.
  • The suit also raises important concerns about how the law will be implemented and whether non-citizens will end up on the same voter registration list used for state-level and federal elections.
• The RNC also recently sued two cities in Vermont for allowing non-citizens to vote in municipal elections.
• Think it's just a New York problem? Think again. After all, Governor Roy Cooper did kick off his reelection campaign with a cocktail fundraiser in New York City.
  • In 2018, Cooper vetoed legislation to remove non-citizens from North Carolina voting rolls.
  • This veto came AFTER the U.S. Department of Justice concluded an investigation and charged 19 foreign nationals with illegally voting in our elections.
  • It was Cooper's only time supporting illegal voters; in November 2019 Governor Cooper vetoed legislation that would cross-check and remove illegal immigrants from North Carolina voting rolls.
  • If Democrats controlled the General Assembly, they would corrupt our elections with illegal voters.
• Americans do not support letting non-citizens vote in American elections.
  • 71% of Americans opposed San Francisco’s decision to let non-citizens vote in school board elections.
  • Voters in four states — Colorado,  Florida, North Dakota, and  Alabama — have overwhelmingly supported ballot measures banning non-citizens from voting.
• This is yet another example of Democrats being radically out of touch with the American people when it comes to elections.
• Democrats are struggling to pass their federal election takeover bills so they’re stacking the deck by de-valuing citizenship and leaving our elections wide open to foreign interference.
• Democrats are the party of foreign election interference; Republicans are the party of election integrity.

Thank you,

--NCGOP Communications Team