Voters across the country on Tuesday voted in favor of state laws banning non-citizens from voting in elections, multiple media reported.

Non-referendums are a concern among some critics, as many states allow them. participate Eight states on Tuesday announced constitutional bans on noncitizens from participating in their respective state and local elections in certain jurisdictions, including California, Vermont, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. The following measures were adopted. It is still in progress. (Related: ‘Open fascist’: MSNBC host furious at Ron DeSantis after Florida abortion amendment fails)

7 out of 8 — kentuckysouth carolina, oklahoma, missouri, iowaand northern swing states carolina and wisconsin According to the Associated Press and the New York Times, voters voted in favor of passing a variety of these bills, in each case by wide margins. Idaho has not yet begun counting votes on the state’s proposed measure.

“These amendments would prevent cities from legalizing voting for non-citizens and would prevent citizens from voting in elections, regardless of whether the state requires identification to vote. “It is not a law, and it does not deter people from voting unless they require identification. “It’s not a citizen,” Jack Tomczak, vice president of American Citizens’ Voting, told the Daily Caller. told the News Foundation.

As of this year, Colorado, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, Ohio and Alabama have already fixed The state constitution prohibits noncitizens from voting.

The laws surrounding non-referendums are a source of controversy between left and right. Many Republican states, including Alabama, Texas and Ohio, had moved to identify and remove tens of thousands of non-citizens from their voter rolls weeks or months before elections.

The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) sued these states for attempting to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls so close to the election. Some of those states are now suing the Biden-Harris administration in retaliation.

The issue of voter identification laws is also up for debate. The Biden-Harris administration and many Democrats in Congress have previously pushed for stronger proof of citizenship to vote, saying it would inadvertently remove voters from voting rolls or make it more difficult to register to vote. I have opposed the bill.

Some states, including California, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, do not require identification to vote in person unless the individual is voting for the first time in those states.

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