“Our concern is if municipalities decide, ‘Well, for whatever reason, we want non-citizens to be able to vote,’ that will no longer be legal, and it’ll be codified in our Constitution,”

— Oklahoma State Senator Shane Jett

(from the November 6 Oklahoma Voice article “Oklahoma passes state question on non-citizen voting”)

Oklahomans passed a constitutional amendment to define eligible voters as “only citizens of the United States.”

The measure passed in Tuesday’s election with 81% support in a state where it already was a felony offense for non-citizens to vote. Previously, the state Constitution labeled eligible voters as “all citizens of the United States.”

Read the entire article here.