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Federalist Radio Hour

There's Nothing Stopping Blue States From Letting Noncitizens Vote -- Yet

Federalist Radio Hour

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Avi Fortenberry, president of Americans for Citizen Voting, joins Federalist Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to weigh in on the citizenship voting debate and explain why using a constitutional amendment to prevent states from allowing non-citizens to vote is essential to election security. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:21.0

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

0:26.2

Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

0:29.5

As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.

0:34.6

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0:41.1

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Avie Fortinberry,

0:47.4

president of Americans for citizen voting, an election integrity organization dedicated to ensuring that only United States

0:56.6

citizens can legally vote in elections at all levels, not just in federal elections.

1:03.7

Abby, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

1:07.7

Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

1:10.3

Absolutely. You know, before we get

1:12.8

into the meat and potatoes of the Save America Act, previously the Save Act, and of course,

1:21.4

the laziness and the squishiness of Republicans in the Senate, because I don't know if the Save America Act has any chance with these folks at this point.

1:35.0

But I wanted to get into your story because, you know, all of what we're talking about here, this, these issues of election integrity,

1:47.3

involving citizens, only citizens voting in our elections. You come from a, you know,

1:55.8

from an immigration standpoint. A little perspective on that is that your backstory is you became a U.S. citizen.

2:06.9

And you did it the right way, just like so many millions of Americans have done over the years.

2:14.8

And therein lies the difference.

2:16.6

And I think you have a different perspective on this

2:19.3

than, you know, the, the members of Congress, quite frankly. Tell us a little bit about

2:26.2

how you, how you got into advocating for citizen-only voting and where you come from?

2:40.6

Well, I actually became involved in this because the organization had reached out to me.

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