{"id":13861,"date":"2024-11-06T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2024-11-06T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T16:02:47","slug":"wisconsin-approves-constitution-change-to-prevent-noncitizen-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13861","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Approves Constitution Change to Prevent Noncitizen Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-approves-constitution-change-to-prevent-noncitizen-voting\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-approves-constitution-change-to-prevent-noncitizen-voting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MixCollage-06-Nov-2024-09-43-AM-1844.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"tammy baldwin\" title=\"tammy baldwin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin voters approved a state constitution change requiring someone to be a citizen to vote in elections.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot measure had 75% approval with more than 95% of the statewide voted tallied.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Wisconsin constitution states that &#8220;Every United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district&#8221; is a qualified voter; the ballot proposal would replace the phrase \u201cevery United States citizen\u201d with \u201conly a United States citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ballot measure comes as leaders across the state called for a process for the state to check its voter rolls for noncitizens and remove them, ensuring election integrity in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, election commissions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_c2b35422-7511-11ef-8702-5bfa0599eddd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cannot check their rolls<\/a> with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to ensure an estimated 90,000 individuals who are currently legally in the state, who can get a drivers license, do not register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Several voting groups across the state spoke out against the ballot measure, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.lwv.org\/wisconsin\/november-2024-constitutional-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League of Women Voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change from &#8216;every&#8217; to &#8216;only&#8217; is a downgrade to all of our voting rights,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;The language changes our constitutionally protected voting rights from a guarantee for all citizens to a limitation that could be used to erode our voting rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-approves-constitution-change-to-prevent-noncitizen-voting\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin voters approved a state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13864,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/13864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}