The Republican National Lawyers Association Wisconsin State Chair Lane Ruhland was recently featured in Wisconsin's premier political news service, WisPolitics.com, with a guest column warning of the looming disaster noncitizen voting poses to America.
As the number of illegal aliens streaming across our southern border continues to rise, so, too, does the threat posed to our election security. While federal law has banned noncitizens from voting in federal elections since 1996, that is not the case for many state or local elections. In recent years, municipal and school board elections have been opened to noncitizens in Democrat-run cities in California, Maryland, and New York, as well as in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
Seventy-nine percent of Americans reject the idea of noncitizens voting in any American elections. No doubt many of them see it for what it is: the Democrats’ ultimate election scheme to fundamentally transform America.
According to the Census Bureau, almost 22 million noncitizens were living in the United States in 2022, with an estimated 70,000 illegal immigrants in Wisconsin. The population of noncitizens continues to climb under President Joe Biden’s open border policies with the number of illegal immigrants looking to have doubled since he came into office. If only one out of 100 of those noncitizens voted in a federal election, they would cast hundreds of thousands of votes. Considering the razor thin margin of many races, just a few precincts in a handful of battleground states such as Wisconsin could decide the makeup of Congress and who is elected president.