Stealing Our Voting Voice
Ensuring every vote cast is legitimate and lawful is critical to maintaining the public's trust in our electoral system. Our election process is now being influenced from “within” through the legislative process affecting state and/or local voting outcomes by non-citizens. However, our federal election laws havenot. In fact, the law states in 18 U.S. Code § 611 states it is unlawful for aliens voting in federal elections where candidates for President, Vice President, Member of the Senate, or Member of the House of Representatives are elected. Unless the election is held partly for some other purpose; and purpose of local ordinance; and voting is independent of the federal offices as an exception.
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) also known as the “motor-voter” sets forth certain voter registration requirements to make it easier and more uniform from state to state to register to vote. The process has been extended in recent years to include both non-governmental organizations and governmental registration agencies without regard to citizenship, including but not limited to Departments of Health Care Services, Social Services, Public Health, Motor Vehicle, Social Security, General Assistance/Relief Programs, and Developmental Services. Each of these agencies are distributing, assisting, and accepting completed voter registration cards regardless of citizenship. To place a perspective on numbers this equates to every non-citizen entering this country now on a state voter role.
This begs the question, how do you know when a person is ineligible to vote? The California Secretary of State (SoS) uses a self-declaring ‘checkbox’ on the registration form as confirmation of citizenship and eligibility to vote without validation. A non-citizen may have a “perceived assumption” they are citizens and hence eligible by virtue of a current residence and access to services within the country. These misguided individuals will disenfranchise legitimate voters in California unintentionally or with malice.
One would think most are “first time” voters and they must show a photo identification usually in the form of a driver license and a secondary form such as a utility bill to vote as proof of eligibility to vote on election day. Think again about the validity of the information provided. A California driver license can be acquired by any foreign citizens with a valid passport or foreign license from any country in conjunction with a Social Security number. No, Social Security numbers (SSN) do not require citizenship either. Fact is the requirements for SSN are three forms (I-551, I-94, I-766) and a stamp of permission to work provided by DHS. Neither the Department of Motor Vehicles nor the Social Security Administration retains citizenship of these individuals—only DHS. The “first time” voter is ready to vote on election day without question and the poll worker is not allowed to question citizenship. Sound secure?
Homeland Security is not using one obvious solution
There is a solution. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) I-385 form, the “Alien Booking Record” contains full name, birth date and country of citizenship as attributes of every non-citizen who was entered and registered for a court date with Custom Border Patrol. Congress provided each state access with 8 U.S. Code § 1373 and 8 U.S. Code § 1644 requiring DHS to respond to each state request for citizenship validation. California SoS however has refused to use this, relying upon the registration form self-declaration as a means of acceptance. One needs to ask why?
Congress introduced the Safeguard American Vote Eligibility (SAVE) Act on June 27, 2024 reporting that in the previous federal election 27% of non-citizens sampled voted in states with similar registration requirements as California. This is serious. If only 500,000 non-citizens were registered and 27% voted in California it would disenfranchise every American voter irrespective of political party in Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Tehama, Trinity, Glenn, and Colusa. The voting base of the nine counties was recorded by California Secretary of State Report of Registration on Feb. 10, 2021. Even worse yet, we know by Custom Border Patrol records more than 10 million have been processed since the last federal election. With 27% of 10 million you have more than a complete state of votes that are disenfranchised. Just giving you a feel of the magnitude Wikipedia estimates West Virginia having 1.7 million in population so this complete population has been disenfranchised.
Feel confident about our electoral process? You shouldn’t.
We know the SoS can remedy this foreign influence by removing the non-citizens through DHS requests and there is still time but the window is closing fast. The removal of these non-citizens must be completed prior to October 7 when ballots are mailed. Once a vote is cast there is no means to reverse the ballot count and our voting voices will be effectively silenced. We all deserve a fair election of the people, by the people, and for the people of this country in our upcoming federal election. Contact your legislative representative today; do not delay.