House Speaker Mike Johnson has signaled possible legislation to prevent non-citizen voting, something former President Trump also expresses concern about. Congress passed a law making non-citizen voting in federal elections illegal back in 1996. As NBC's Jane Timm explains, non-citizen voting is very rare.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its secretary of state, arguing that an effort to remove voters from state rolls was taking place too close to the Nov. 5 general election in violation of federal law. While states are allowed to clean up their voter registrations ahead of an election, federal law says that must happen more than 90 days before an election. Alabama’s Secretary of State Wes Allen on Aug.
' Allen's office declined to comment on the lawsuit, citing the pending litigation, but the secretary of state said in a statement that it's his 'Constitutional duty to ensure that only Americans vote in our elections.' NBC News previously reported on concerns from voting rights advocates and attorneys who argue that measures which focus on preventing noncitizens from voting — an illegal and rare occurrence — mainly affect naturalized Americans. In the Aug.
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