On Friday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced an addition to the GOP platform: allegedly soon-to-be-released legislation that would crack down on the alleged problem of noncitizen voting.
Noncitizens are already prohibited by law from voting in all federal and state elections. One attempt to estimate how often the law is violated, in 2017, found that there had been only 30 suspected cases of noncitizen voting reported in the entire country during the previous year’s election. Registering to vote at the state and federal level requires attesting to one’s citizenship, after all. (Except in North Dakota, where you can vote without registering, but still have to furnish ID and affirm that you are a citizen.) Johnson says the yet-to-be-released bill would establish a national standard of........