 The legislation would require noncitizens to be removed from voter registration rolls, requiring election officials to ask voter registration applicants for proof of citizenship and open them up to legal consequences if they do not. House Republicans previously held a vote in May to block noncitizen voting in local Washington, D.C. elections, on which 52 Democrats broke away from their leadership and voted yes. Bernie Bennett in Washington. More on these stories at townhall.com.