The writer of the letter “The Constitution and noncitizen voting” (March 31, TribLive) provides a lengthy review of a set of constitutional amendments that tell us what we already know: Noncitizens can’t vote. He should have cut that part short and focused instead on the equally important fact that noncitizens attempting to vote is exceedingly rare, and the result of an election has never been influenced by noncitizen votes. This is a non-issue.
What the SAVE America Act he supports would do — in fact is intended to do — is to make it more difficult for some citizens to vote. We can’t say for sure who would be unable to produce a valid proof of citizenship this time around, but historically this type of voter suppression has affected poor and minority citizens the most. In my opinion, this is thus the intent of the SAVE Act and those who support it.
John Meyer
Cheverly, Md.