Voters in several states projected to approve constitutional amendments forbidding noncitizen voting

Voters successful astatine slightest 7 states Tuesday are projected to o.k. law amendments explicitly banning noncitizens from voting successful elections.

The measure, which was connected the ballot successful 8 states, was approved by voters successful Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. 

Idaho, wherever voters person besides appeared to o.k. the amendment, did not person capable votes counted connected Wednesday greeting to denote an authoritative decision.

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Voters successful 8 states decided connected explicitly banning noncitizens from voting successful elections. The alteration was approved successful 7 states, with 1 authorities inactive counting votes. (Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)

Noncitizens are prohibited from voting successful national elections nether a U.S. instrumentality enacted successful 1996, but Washington, D.C., and immoderate municipalities successful Maryland, Vermont and California let them to ballot successful section elections.

Similar amendments person been made to state constitutions successful North Dakota, Florida, Colorado, Alabama, Ohio and Louisiana implicit the past six years aft concerns that the connection surrounding elector eligibility wasn't circumstantial enough.

The wording successful those states was past changed from "every citizen" to "only a citizen" tin vote.

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A akin measurement successful Idaho banning noncitizens from voting besides appears to person been approved, but has not been officially called. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Despite it being amerciable for noncitizens to vote, assorted states person identified, and removed, ineligible radical connected elector rolls successful caller months.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was sued by the DOJ successful October aft the authorities removed 6,000 ineligible radical from its rolls aft their citizenship could not beryllium verified during a two-week grace period.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said successful August that much than 6,500 imaginable noncitizens had been removed from the state's elector rolls since 2021.

Similar amendments person been made to authorities constitutions successful North Dakota, Florida, Colorado, Alabama, Ohio and Louisiana implicit the past six years.

Also successful August, Ohio Secretary of State Frank La Rose said that helium referred 138 evident noncitizens for prosecution aft it was determined they had voted successful a caller election.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has said 3,251 radical antecedently identified arsenic noncitizens by the national authorities person been deactivated connected the state's elector registration rolls.

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In October, 73 lawmakers sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland stating that they were "deeply concerned" by reports of noncitizens registering to ballot and voting successful national elections, adding that the DOJ had not yet responded to lawmakers' archetypal enquiry successful July.

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The Associated Press and Fox News' Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.