Voters in eight states, including Oklahoma, will decide in November whether to reserve voting for only U.S. citizens.

What?

For the life of me I can’t wrap my head around the fact that non-U.S. Citizens can take part in one of our elections.

The Citizen Only Voting Amendments come as a result of the growing trend of municipalities allowing citizens of foreign countries to vote in municipal and school board elections.

Again, scratching my head.

It’s reported that foreign citizen voting is legal in at least 19 cities across the country.

What are we talking about?

How can it be legal for someone from Israel, or Venezuela or Mexico to legally vote in an American election?

Sometimes you just can’t believe something is happening and non-citizen voting is at the top of my list.

Voting is a privilege and a duty of every American citizen.

Let me say that again, every American citizen.

Foreign citizen voting is legal in California, Illinois, Maryland, Vermont and Washington, DC.

New York City’s city council voted to legalize foreign citizen voting in 2021.

Here is the $64,000,000 question.

Why?

Currently, only 12 state constitutions reserve the right to vote for only U.S. citizens.

Six of these states have adopted Citizen Only Voting Amendments in the last several years.

Since 2018, voters in North Dakota, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and Louisiana have chosen to amend their state constitutions and require that voters be citizens of the United States.

It really shouldn’t be necessary but if it is then voters in Oklahoma should definitely vote for it.

To be honest, I really didn’t know this to be an issue until it was presented to me earlier this week.

Sometimes fact really is stranger than fiction.

That’s the case in this situation.