By Yunior Rivas
VoteRiders CEO and Executive Director discusses with Democracy Docket the unnecessary laws meant to “protect” us from nonexistent, noncitizen voting and ultimately result in the harming of eligible voters.
Article snippet:
Across the country, a wave of investigations launched by election officials, local prosecutors and Republican-led legislatures sought to uncover evidence of widespread noncitizen voting. They found — again — that noncitizen voting was nearly nonexistent, and the few cases that did emerge were isolated, unintentional or the result of administrative error — not organized voter fraud.
Yet despite the evidence — or lack thereof — the myth persists. GOP officials continue to cite these isolated cases as justification for restrictive laws like proof-of-citizenship requirements.
“We often hear lawmakers making the argument that these laws are justified regardless of scale or impact, and even admit they are driven by ‘intuition,’ not actual facts,” Lauren Kunis, Executive Director of VoteRiders, an organization that fights document-based disenfranchisement, told Democracy Docket. “But these lawmakers are ignoring the dire consequences of these laws on eligible citizens, who will disproportionately bear the brunt of these restrictions relative to the exceedingly rare and almost-always accidental cases of noncitizen voting.”
Read the full article on DemocracyDocket.com
July 26, 2025
