Fact-check: “What is the specific law that requires you to be a U.S. citizen to vote”
Verdict: Partly True (85% confidence)
There is no single law that does this job alone. For federal elections, the clearest specific federal statute is 18 U.S.C. § 611, which makes it a federal crime for a noncitizen to vote in any election held to choose federal officeholders. But the broader citizenship requirement — covering state and local elections — comes from a patchwork: all 50 state constitutions or statutes independently require U.S. citizenship to vote, the 14th and 15th Amendments (and successor voting amendments) presup…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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