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Podcast: On the Ballot
Episode: Bans on noncitizen voting coming to 8 more states?
Description: On this episode: Bans on noncitizen voting at the state level have become more frequent since 2018, and this year, there are a record number of ballot measures related to the issue.Â
Eight state legislatures referred constitutional amendments to the ballot to prohibit the state or local governments from allowing noncitizen voting – that’s in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
In 1996, Congress passed legislation making noncitizen voting in federal elections a crime – so it doesn’t matter which state we’re talking about here; when it comes to federal elections, there’s now...