California considering using non-citizens as translators at voter polls

Just when I thought California couldn’t sink deeper into the progressive abyss, comes this. 

According to Breitbart via the  Sacramento Bee reported weeks ago that the California Legislature has passed a bill that would let non-citizens who are “lawful permanent residents who meet all the other requirements for being eligible to vote except for citizenship” work at the polls. The bill, apparently aimed at recruiting more Spanish-speaking poll workers, awaits signature from Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.

Democratic State Sen. Rob Bonta said there are “nearly 3 million citizens who are fully eligible to vote and not English proficient.”

"We have a shortage of multilingual poll workers in the state of California," Bonta said. "There has to be language access at the polls."

Republicans in the State Legislature tried fighting back, but the bill ultimately passed. "Let's keep in mind what poll workers can and cannot do," GOP Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen said. "Poll workers cannot go into a voting booth with a voter, cannot read the ballot to the voter, cannot help them understand what they are voting on."

"If somebody is not registered to vote and they aren't a citizen and they can't vote, then why would they even want to sit at the poll?" GOP Assemblywoman Diane Harkey added. "What could possibly entice them? Is this just another career path? I'm a bit confused."

Nonetheless, the Democrats were able to pass the bill through the legislature. Now the last hope--though a slim one--is that the state's Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown would veto the bill. 

California’s Election Integrity Project, a conservative group connected with the national True The Vote, has alleged this effort is directly connected with immigration reform efforts from the left on the state and national level. 

“In a state with no voter ID and only an ‘honor system’ preventing voter impersonation and non-citizen voting, California’s ‘no-borders’ activists are now promoting a bill that allows non-citizens to act as polling place officials,” the group wrote in a recent release.

The president of that group, Linda Paine, said in a statement provided to Breitbart News that “taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America in the formal naturalization process requires prospective citizens to swear allegiance to the United States of America and to support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America.”

“Non-citizens have not taken this oath, so should not be permitted to participate in the process used by US citizens to elect their government representatives and manage governmental affairs,” Paine said.

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I don’t believe for a second in state with a population of 38 million people that there’s a shortage of translators to work the polls.  That’s a sheer smokescreen to hide Democrats clandestine antics come Election Day. 

Gimmie a break!