7/19/2020 7:07 AM
in reply to
Ronald Kirkman
Sorry Capt, they don't. Perhaps you're speaking of HR1, a bill the Democratically controlled House passes, which the internet has wrongly spread as a way for illegals to vote. Here's what the bill proposed:
Among the many things the bill would do, if it were ever to become law: make Election Day a federal holiday; require states to automatically register eligible voters; compel states to create independent commissions to oversee redistricting; implement campaign-finance and election-security changes; and require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release 10 years of tax returns.
On March 8, the same day the House cast its final vote on the bill, Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced a Motion to Recommit H.R. 1 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to add language condemning voting by “illegal immigrants.”
But “sense of Congress” provisions, such as the one offered by Crenshaw, have “no force of law,” as explained in a Congressional Research Service report.
“A ‘sense of’ resolution is not legally binding because it is not presented to the President for his signature,” the CRS report said. “Even if a ‘sense of’ provision is incorporated into a bill that becomes law, such provisions merely express the opinion of Congress or the relevant chamber. They have no formal effect on public policy and have no force of law.”
Federal law explicitly prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, and no state has allowed it since the 1920s.
The vast majority of House Democrats voted against Crenshaw’s motion, as did one Republican, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.