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The Senate vote comes just 11 days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration and "migrant crime."
In the final days of the 2024 election, Republicans are hammering home the lie that there is widespread voting by noncitizens. “Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants ...
It is illegal in federal elections for people not legally in the country to vote, under a law passed in 1996. Under this law, there are criminal penalties for violations.
While initial research showed that 22 states or territories, including colonies before the Declaration of Independence, have at some time given at least some voting rights to non-citizens in some or all elections, [14] [4] more recent and in-depth studies uncovered evidence of 40 states providing suffrage for non-citizens at some point before 1926. [3]
PolitiFact, "Fact-check: Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in this year's election?" Nov. 18, 2016 PolitiFact, "Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that millions of illegal votes cost him ...
[223] [224] Under Section 216 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, the 104th United States Congress designated non-citizen voting in federal elections as a felony by punishment of a fine or imprisonment. [225]
Minnesota grants driver’s licenses to residents regardless of immigration status, though officials have said there are sufficient safeguards against illegal voting as part of the process.
On December 30, 2024, Governor Tim Walz announced a special election to fill her vacant seat, concurrent with a special election for House District 40B. [2] District 60 is located in Minneapolis in Hennepin County, containing parts of Northeast, University, and Cedar-Riverside areas. [3]