Illinois lawmakers are considering granting noncitizens the right to vote in school board elections if their children are in the school district. Registering to vote would come with a warning about possible risks under U.S. immigration law.
Noncitizens might gain the ability to vote in school board races under a bill being considered by Illinois state lawmakers, but only for those with kids in the school district.
The bill also would require a warning to noncitizens that federal officials could obtain information on their immigration status through voter registration records.
Senate Bill 1565 was filed Feb. 6 by state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago.
The bill language states: “elections conducted under the provisions are considered non-State elections and are not subject to the citizenship requirement in the Illinois Constitution.”
It also would require the Illinois State Board of Education to produce an affidavit for noncitizens to fill out before they are allowed to vote in a school board race. The bill states the affidavit must include a warning about the possibility the noncitizen’s information could be obtained by federal immigration authorities.
The Illinois Constitution is an example of a floor for voting rights, a law professor wrote in 2017. It explicitly gives every voting-age citizen the right to vote if they have lived in Illinois 30 days prior to an election.
Only those convicted of felonies who have yet to serve their time or those otherwise serving time in a correctional institution or jail are explicitly prohibited from voting under the Illinois Constitution.
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If we are going to go this far, then why don’t we give all of those people who have fled the state for freedom from the oppression of Illinois taxing bodies, but still choose to retain property that they are handsomely taxed on by the school, library, park and other districts, indeed paying for these noncitizens’ children’s education, the right to vote in municipal elections. Now that’s a bill I could get behind.
The Left continues its assault on the law-abiding middle class American and Constitution by diluting voting power and devaluing citizenship. Voting is our way of peacefully settling political differences. The more the Left undermines and subverts the electoral institution the more they push the nation towards civil war.
Or, when voting doesn’t go your way, attempting to overturn the results of an election by insurrection seems to be an option as well.
Hahaha…an “insurrection” with the only shot being fired coming from an affirmative action hire, incompetent Capitol Police Officer who previously had left his loaded weapon in a public bathroom and was not terminated as he should have been per policy, or even disciplined. He decided to kill a diminutive, unarmed women whose only “crime” was attempting to crawl through a window. And, the officer is celebrated as a hero. What a joke.
The 2020 election was indeed fraudulent through the unconstitutional changing of election law by judicial and executive fiat in key battleground states. Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly places the responsibility of election law squarely on State Legislatures, not executives or judges. The Democrats holding executive and judicial power in those key states used Covid as a guise to institute sweeping new unsecured and untested voting methods and collection processes which, of course, violated existing law and were favorable to Democrats. Those changes included: mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting, both of which violate chain-of-custody laws/rules/norms and leave open large possibility for election fraud and voter intimidation. When the voting counting stopped at 10:00 p.m. on election night, then resumed a couple of hours later with the large Republican lead disappearing in mass, there was a clear perception of impropriety to the American people. They were correct because the mail-in ballot and harvesting fix was in. Congratulations…in the Left’s ever ongoing drive to the bottom of depravity and destruction of the Republic, they have now managed to make the American electoral system just like all their favorite utterly corrupt, socialist/communist 3rd world s***hole counties. Very dangerous to peace.
I guess she could have complied with the lawful commands of the officer while in the act of breaking & entering, trespassing, and vandalism?
As for unconstitutional, how does one explain the down ballot races where the repubturds won? Or were those also fraudulent?
Please provide actual, verifiable, proof for any of the claims made in your comment above. Or is it just all talk and conspiracies, with no real evidence? If there is all of this rampant fraud, why can no one provide any actual evidence, and just rehash the same disproven conspiracy theories over and over and over again?
Benedict Arnold sounds a lot like Jimbo McG, a serial speaker at school board meetings despite being a grandpa & having no kids in the District. His bride is running for Barrington Area Library Board. He regularly trashes people on twitter, referred to Ashley Babbitt as a “terrorist piece of garbage” who “died a traitor”, referred to the Republican Party as “white trash”, and demanded that Catholics “keep (their) religious biases to Catholics” and not “force (their) biased anti-Christian confusion on the rest of us.” Real charmer.