this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
84 points (97.7% liked)
United States | News & Politics
1935 readers
278 users here now
Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.
Rules
Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.
Post anything related to the United States.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Important issue hi-light-
Wisconsin has a referendum called the citizenship voting requirement referendum, and if you live in Wisconsin, you should vote NO. (Edit: And if you can’t vote no, you should tell anyone you know from WI about it, because most people in wisconsin have never heard of it - I was a canvasser, I asked. Maybe 2% of my contacts were even aware of it out of hundreds.)
The whole purpose is to enshrine requirements in the Wisconsin constitution that are already required federally, like the requirement to be a citizen, or be over 18 to vote. The wording is that “only” us citizens can vote where presently “every” us citizen can vote. This is a distinction without a difference to most, but words have very specific meanings legally (a context voters don’t normally have and is thus an unfair standard to hold but that’s neither here nor there. I guess.)
That wordplay could easily be used to limit dual-citizen voting in the future, as well as currently pushing the false narrative that non-citizens are voting illegally.