RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Article II, section 1 of the Hawaii State Constitution provides in pertinent part that every citizen of the United States ... shall be qualified to vote in any state or local election; and

WHEREAS, it is clear that under Hawaii law, a person must be a citizen of the United States before that person can qualify to vote in any state or local election; and

WHEREAS, this requirement of United States citizenship to qualify to vote is found in every state in the Union; and

WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has never held that aliens have a constitutional right to vote under the Equal Protection Clause; and

WHEREAS, the Chief Election Officer of the State has a statutory duty to administer the election laws of this State; and

WHEREAS, technological mechanisms exist to correlate voter registration affidavits affirming citizenship against immigration certifications; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, the Senate concurring, that the Legislature encourages the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to enforce voter fraud laws when committed by non-citizen resident aliens who vote; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature encourages the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to make available to proper authorities in each state, its full list of resident aliens so that such lists can be checked against the State's voter registration rolls; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chief Election Officer, the President of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, and the Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington D.C.