“We’ve got an opportunity to empower the people of North Carolina to amend their own constitution and declare that citizens and only citizens of the state of North Carolina are allowed to vote in our elections.”

— North Carolina Senator Brad Overcash (R-43)

(From the June 28, 2024 Ballotpedia article, “North Carolina becomes seventh state to add citizenship requirement for voting amendment to Nov. ballot”)

Voters in North Carolina will decide on a ballot measure in November 2024 to prohibit non-citizen voting, joining similar measures in Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. These measures, placed by Republican-controlled state legislatures, aim to amend state constitutions to specify that only U.S. citizens can vote. Previously, such measures in North Dakota (2018), Colorado (2020), Alabama (2020), Florida (2020), Ohio (2022), and Louisiana (2022) were approved with over 62.9% of the vote.

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