Thanks to the NewYorkTimes for providing our election integrity citizen volunteers with the publicity and credit they deserve for giving up their time and energy to making sure that elections follow the law, are transparent, and that outcomes are accurate.
Because the NYT can’t help but fib about it, we know we are doing something right.
Under federal law, noncitizens cannot register to vote, or vote, in federal elections. Period.
In a recent NYT article designed to denigrate these patriots, the “journalist” didn’t even wait to get into the body of the article before misrepresenting the problem.
The title of the article incorrectly refers to the concern as “immigrant voting.” Immigrant voting is not the problem. Immigrants vote all the time. Nearly one million new naturalized citizens earn the privilege of voting every year. The problem is noncitizens, who have no legal right to vote.
The NYT can make a feeble attempt to change the narrative, but it cannot change the facts. Or federal law. But as an election integrity movement, we are grateful to the Times for educating about this important issue for us. We could not afford the ad space they gave us for free.
On the record, along with our grassroots partners, we have two goals regarding noncitizen voting; one is to protect the lawful votes of U.S. citizens from being cancelled out by noncitizens.
The other is to protect noncitizens from committing a federal felony by voting. We believe that most noncitizens currently registering to vote do not even realize it is unlawful. Yet the law is clear – if you vote as a noncitizen, you are subject to fines, jail, deportation and permanent denial of your citizenship application.
Why is the NYT more worried about our trying to protect these noncitizens from making a dreadful mistake than they are the noncitizens themselves?
In a recent national survey, 86 percent of Americans agreed that only Americans should vote in American elections. In the vernacular of pollsters, anything over 80 percent in a poll is pretty much everyone – except, apparently. the NewYorkTimes.
