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Congress is aiming to install new election integrity requirements in American voting law … before the 2026 vote.
Those plans include at least a bill to bar noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C., from voting in local elections, a bill to block noncitizens from helping administer elections and a constitutional amendment that would prevent noncitizens from voting at all.
It is Fox News that has documented the package of security plans being offered by the GOP majority in the House.
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the chief of the Republican Study Committee, has introduced the bills and other members have signed on as cosponsors.
Right now, it's already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. And no state, at this point, allows their votes legally.
But some areas do allow them to vote in local elections.
Pfluger told Fox, "Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, which is why protecting them from noncitizen influence is essential to our nation's sovereignty and will ensure America has a flourishing democracy for decades to come.
"These bills are three commonsense steps we can take to ensure noncitizens are not influencing our elections by voting in them or administering them. We must safeguard the integrity of our electoral system, and these bills will work to do just that."
House Republicans earlier adopted their Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act to require proof of citizenship for voter registration, a move that triggered complaints from Democrats that Republicans were trying to "spread doubt" about elections by citing something that already mostly was illegal.
The report said Democrats also objected to the GOP's moves toward election security just before the 2024 vote, so Republicans are launching their efforts now – in preparation for the voting two years from now.
