“It is vitally important that we as elected officials do what we can to protect the sanctity and integrity of our elections. This commonsense proposal has already been adopted in red states and blue states alike and will only improve voter confidence in our elections moving forward.”

— Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna)

(From the April 29, 2021 Wisconsin Examiner article, “New GOP voting measure: prohibit non-citizens from voting”)

The Wisconsin Constitution guarantees that every U.S. citizen 18 and over is a qualified elector, however nowhere does it specifically state that only U.S. citizens are qualified to vote in state or local elections.

That is a problem that needs to be addressed, according to Sen. Roger Roth (R-Appleton) and Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna), who are currently circulating a resolution seeking to amend the state constitution so it “provides clarity that a qualified elector is only a U.S. citizen for the purpose of all elections and ballot measures in Wisconsin.”

Read the entire article here.