Russia collusion hoax peddler Marc Elias and his leftist lawfare group are pushing another federal lawsuit aimed at stripping election integrity protections that prevent noncitizens from voting.
The Elias Law Group’s complaint, filed on behalf of liberal “voter rights” organizations, claims the state’s new law requiring documented proof of U.S. citizenship before individuals may register to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles “threatens to disenfranchise thousands of eligible citizens.” The law does no such thing, and the lawsuit — filled with the Elias Law Group’s usual hyperbolic spin — may well suffer the same fate as a similar election law complaint the law firm filed in Wyoming.
Red Wine & Blue and the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans argue that the law, included in the legislature’s transportation funding bill, violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the U.S. Constitution.
“HB 54’s new proof-of-citizenship requirement imposes unnecessary obligations to register to vote in violation of the NVRA,” the lawsuit asserts. “HB 54 violates the U.S. Constitution because it is impermissibly vague, giving no guidance as to what constitutes sufficient proof of United States citizenship.”
It’s more of the same from Elias and “dark money” leftist groups attacking election-integrity measures in the name of “voter rights.”
“Both federal law and the Ohio Constitution prohibit noncitizens from voting. But now dark money groups represented by D.C. operatives are challenging a law that prevents noncitizens from registering to vote at the BMV,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said in a statement in response to the lawsuit.
“We will win this case – just like we’ve fought off the other baseless actions that such groups have brought against us,” LaRose added.
The secretary of state is right to feel confident.
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