US Governor Finds Thousands of Noncitizen Registered Voters- Many Worry This Will Affect the 2024 Election

One governor, Glenn Youngkin from Virginia, has taken the past few months to ensure that every registered voter in the state is actually a citizen of the United States, and he has found far more noncitizen registered voters than he could have imagined. Many worry that this reality could affect the 2024 election in more ways than one.

According to the United States government, you can only vote in a federal election, i.e., the presidential election, if you are a US citizen. Noncitizens, such as those with temporary or permanent visas like green cards, can sometimes vote in local elections but never those at the federal level.

And many Americans, including lawmakers, say this error needs to be rectified before the November election. As Gov. Youngkin explained, “This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, it’s an American and Virginian issue.”

In response to his findings, the governor recently signed an executive order to improve election security protocols throughout the state. The order mandates a “documented chain of custody for paper ballots” and requires “those registering to vote to provide their full 9-digit Social Security number for registration.”

The mandate also established a “triple-check of election result accuracy,” meaning officials must check the results three separate times before verifying each and every vote.

Youngkin said, “This is a very transparent process,” and believes that all states should “scrub existing voter rolls and remove noncitizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote.”

Many argue that these so-called noncitizen voters would never be able to vote in a presidential election, even though they are registered to vote in local elections, because the system wouldn’t allow it. Therefore, this idea that thousands of immigrants are illegally voting in federal elections is nothing more than a scare tactic.

One side of the argument is that even if they thought they could get away with it, very few migrants would risk imprisonment and deportation simply to cast their one vote in a presidential election.

However, while some say that Democrats and their leaders aren’t worried because they don’t believe noncitizen voting is a real problem, others argue that they simply aren’t complaining because, statistically, migrants vote Blue.

And that’s because, when Donald Trump lost the election in 2020, he blamed voter fraud, specifically that millions of immigrants illegally voted to ensure Biden took the White House.

Therefore, if Trump loses again in 2024, and there is even a whiff of a rumor that noncitizens were able to cast their votes, it could and likely will mean violence in the streets of America.

However, while Trump’s support makes this issue seem like a Republican problem, it really is important for all parties that the country’s voting laws be upheld this November and during every election to come.