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This November, a few months after being naturalized as a U.S. citizen, Eloy Tupayachi Salas voted in a U.S. presidential election for the first time.
“It has created a lot of confusion; there are people who aren’t sure if they can vote and people who aren’t Latinos who are listening to this narrative and believe that a lot of noncitizen immigrants are voting,” he toldIn addition to the amendment on the ballot in North Carolina, similar constitutional amendments were voted on in Wisconsin, South Carolina, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Oklahoma.
Torres said Democracy North Carolina brought it up to the state board of elections, who removed some but not all the signs.Lee County Republican Party Chair James “Jim” Womack founded a group called Election Integrity Team. In a virtual meeting on October 21, he told 1,800 volunteers to flag voters withMost of the recently passed amendments to change language around voter eligibility replaced the phrase “every citizen” with the phrase “only citizens.
When she pointed at how the word “naturalize” would disappear from the constitution, she says people were in disbelief, asking, “How can they do that to us?”Truthout.On the morning following the election, Tupayachi Salas said El Pueblo would keep fighting to defend the right of all citizens, whether by birth or naturalization, to vote without fear.
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