Two states advanced proposals this week to amend their constitutions to require citizenship for voting.
The South Dakota Senate voted 33-2 on Tuesday for an amendment banning noncitizen voting.
Two days later, the Kansas House of Representatives voted 90-28 for a similar amendment to its state’s constitution.
The amendments would still have to be passed by the other chambers of the legislatures–which is likely since Republicans control the legislatures in these conservative-leaning states. After that, voters will decide. Each state requires a simple majority of the voters to pass a constitutional amendment. In other states, voters have approved amendments to ban noncitizen voting by 70% or more.
So far, 14 states have similar amendments to their state constitutions, eight of which were adopted in this past November election, according to Americans for…
