Former FEC Commissioner: Constitution May Actually Permit States to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote in Federal Elections, Congress Cannot Simply Override It

Former FEC Commissioner: Constitution May Actually Permit States to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote in Federal Elections, Congress Cannot Simply Override It

The debate over the Save America Act and its citizenship verification requirements for voter registration has focused almost entirely on preventing non-citizens from voting illegally. But Bradley Smith, chairman of the Institute for Free Speech, former Federal Election Commission member, and Blackmun-Nolte Professor of Law at Capital University, told Dan Proft on Chicago’s Morning Answer that a more fundamental and largely undiscussed constituti…