“GOP lawmakers have signaled their intention to elevate the issue ahead of the November election, despite scant evidence that it has ever been a problem before.”

“While the bills echo a favorite claim from Republicans regarding election fraud, several years of research and data suggest that the problem they attempt to solve up to now has been so rare as to be insignificant.”

“In the broadest terms, a person can vote in federal, state and local elections if they are a U.S. citizen, meet the residency requirements of the state they reside in, are 18 years old on or before the day of the election and are registered to vote by the state’s voter registration deadline.

“Federal law also requires all voter registration forms to advise those signing up that they must swear they are a citizen under penalty of perjury. And in 1996, Congress passed a broad immigration law that explicitly banned noncitizen voting in federal elections, making it punishable by up to a year in prison.

“However, states and localities have latitude to set their own election requirements. And in some places, those lawmakers have adopted differing postures on issues like whether to allow convicted felons or minors to vote.”

More details and explanations: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-05-24/sorting-the-fiction-from-the-facts-about-noncitizen-voting