Senate Republicans launch crackdown on DC permitting illegal immigrants, noncitizens to vote in elections
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Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Katie Britt, introduce legislation to prohibit noncitizen voting in Washington D.C., elections after reports show 400 noncitizens participated in 2024
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Federal law supremacy prohibits state or local jurisdictions from allowing illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections, since a measure by then-Rep. C.W. Young, R-Fla., called the IIRAIRA passed in 1996. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
However, state and municipal leaders have the ability to allow illegal immigrants to vote in lower-tier elections, and Washington, D.C., is one of several that has. Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
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