Nov. 5 (UPI) — Eight states will vote on Tuesday on ballot measures to amend their constitutions to prohibit the voting of noncitizens in state and municipal elections.
Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wisconsin have measures on the ballot for these amendments. Each was brought forth by their respective state legislatures, all with Republican majorities.
The language of the amendments varies slightly but the outcome, if passed, is the same. Counties and municipalities in those states could not allow noncitizens to vote in their elections.
It is currently legal for noncitizens to vote in some local elections in at least 17 cities across the United States, including San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., several cities in Maryland and Vermont and the District of Columbia. Noncitizen voting is not legal in any of the states that have measures on the ballot.
It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, such as the presidential election, anywhere in the United States.