Advisory Board Co-Chairs Trey Grayson and John H. Merrill published an op-ed in Bloomberg Opinion arguing that, in relation to new efforts to ensure only eligible citizens are able to vote, “it’s possible to take voters’ concerns seriously at the state level — while maintaining the right of eligible US citizens to cast a legal ballot.”
They write:
Our experience has taught us that, thankfully, noncitizen voting is rare — it is already illegal in federal elections and is only authorized in a few local jurisdictions. But there is still much that can be done to ensure that it stays low. Those who are interested in getting the citizenship issue right can look to the states for promising pathways forward. What these efforts have in common is that they put the onus on state officials to ensure that rolls are free of noncitizens, rather than relying on people registering to vote to prove their citizenship. To date, there is no mechanism in place to easily allow states and local jurisdictions to confirm citizenship.
Read the piece here (paywall).