WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the Republican election official who defied Donald Trump in 2021 echoed Trump’s fearmongering about noncitizen voting.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined other Republican officials in Washington to call for states to ban undocumented immigrants from casting ballots.
“I believe that no matter where you’re elected – for president, school board, county commissioner – that we should require only Americans vote in our elections,” Raffensperger said Wednesday at the National Press Club.
“With the open border policy that we’ve had in place for so many years now, voters are concerned about noncitizen voting,” he said.
Raffensperger spoke at an event hosted by Americans for Citizen Voting, a group that advocates for states to amend their constitutions to prevent noncitizens from voting in state and local elections. Such amendments will be on the ballot in eight states this November.
Noncitizens are already prohibited from…