These bills, if passed, will: 

• Abolish the requirement of verifying residency status every 2 years for noncitizens who wish to vote in city elections, thereby decreasing electoral integrity and security.

• Require noncitizen residents to schedule an appointment to register to vote, despite there being no such need for an appointment for citizens to register to vote. This provision poses a risk for the city to potentially face a costly civil rights infraction lawsuit under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause (14-EPC).

• Repeal the list of acceptable documents that reasonably demonstrate residency.

  • Presumably, this was removed from the original text to intentionally allow the City Clerk to hold the discretionary authority necessary to deny or approve a resident's right to vote. This provision would also create the opportunity for a costly civil rights infraction lawsuit.

• Abolish same-day voter registration, thereby decreasing and discouraging voter participation.

• Require noncitizens to record their personal information in a voter registry that is permanent and not regularly updated or maintained, thereby further compromising electoral integrity.

  • This creates a security and privacy risk for noncitizens if the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were to seize this data from the city (whether legally or not). 

    • Note: Under the Trump Administration, DHS and ICE have become infamously known to regularly violate the 4th and 5th Amendment rights of both natural-born citizens and immigrants, whether they're in DHS custody or not. The FBI recently seized 2020 election records from Fulton County, GA with a warrant based on unverified secondhand sources and fabricated data.

These are the reasons why we're telling the City Council to LEAVE THE LAW ALONE!