Wisconsin Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment
Vote NO
The text of the ballot measure is pretty simple:
“Eligibility to Vote. Shall section 1 of article III of the
constitution, which deals with suffrage, be amended to provide that only a United States citizen age 18 or older who resides in an election district may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum?”
Organizations Opposed
League of Women Voters of Wisconsin
Souls to the Polls WI
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
The actual amendment has more gobbledygook:
The measure would amend Article III of the state constitution. The following underlined text would be added, and struck-through text would be deleted:
Section 1 (1) In this section:
(a) “Local office” means any elective office other than a state or national office.
(b) “National office” means the offices of president and vice president of the United States, U.S. senator, and representative in congress.
(c) “Referendum” means an election at which an advisory, validating, or ratifying question is submitted to the electorate.
(d) “State office” means the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, state superintendent of public instruction, justice of the supreme court, court of appeals judge, circuit court judge, state senator, state representative to the assembly, and district attorney.
Section 1 (2) Every Only a United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district in this state is a qualified elector of that district who may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum. [5]
Nick Ramos, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: “There are a multitude of checks and balances to ensure that noncitizens are unable to register to vote and cast a ballot and yet, voters now must choose to change our constitution once again to appease the lawmakers who refuse to look past the conspiracy theories and accept what their own experts have told them. Adding this language to our constitution is disrespectful and unnecessary. The current language describes eligible voters, and it should remain the law of the land.”
State Rep. Greta Neubauer (D-66): “Not only are these amendments an attempt to limit access to the ballot box based on misinformation spread by some in this body about the security of our elections. But they’re part of a broader effort by legislative Republicans to circumvent the traditional lawmaking process and enshrine the political agenda in our state’s most important document, the Wisconsin constitution.”