Constitutional Amendment

The Ada County Democrats urge you to vote NO on the 2024 Constitutional Amendment on non-citizen voting. It is poorly written, adds no value to the existing constitution, may cause confusion, and will cause an unnecessary expense to reprint everywhere the constitution is already printed.

Representative Ilana Rubel states it clearly: The amendment is very sloppily drafted, and covers "any election held within the State of Idaho". It is not expressly limited to governmental elections, and could be read to exclude non-citizens from voting in completely private elections, like union representatives, corporate shareholder votes, student council, HOA boards etc. There is no rational reason to exclude non-citizens from private, non-governmental elections. Nor is there any need for this amendment, much less a pressing enough need to justify putting sloppy language in our Constitution. It is already illegal under state and federal law for non-citizens to vote in government elections, and when I asked, GOP legislators could not provide a single documented instance of a non-citizen voting in Idaho. Non-citizen voting is vanishingly rare generally. The right-leaning Heritage Foundation studied over a billion ballots cast nationwide from 2002 to 2022 and found fewer than 100 votes cast by non-citizens.