“The best defense we can mount against these attacks on democracy is to empower the people of North Carolina to amend their own constitution to state that only U.S. citizens shall vote in our elections.”

— Sen. Brad Overcash

(From the June 20, 2024 Carolina Journal article, “NC Senate moves forward three constitutional amendments on elections, income tax cap”)

A North Carolina Senate committee moved forward a bill on Thursday that would put three constitutional amendments on the November general election ballot.

The original version of Senate Bill 630 included a proposed amendment specifying that only US citizens may vote in elections. But the measure was amended during the committee meeting to include two additional amendments. One would build on the voter ID amendment passed in 2018 to require a voter ID for all forms of voting, not just in-person. The second would put a cap on the state income tax of 5% into the state constitution.

Read the original article here.