This Episode discuss the contentious issue of noncitizen voting in the United States, presenting both arguments against the practice and evidence of its limited local implementation. One source provides testimony arguing that federal laws make noncitizen voting illegal and deportable offenses, warning that current voter registration laws, like the Motor Voter Law, make it easy for noncitizens to register either accidentally or intentionally, which critics argue is a recipe for fraud given the large noncitizen population. In contrast, other sources document the historical allowance of noncitizen voting in the U.S. before 1926 and highlight the current patchwork of local ordinances in states like Maryland, Vermont, and California that permit noncitizens to vote in local or school b ...