Rob Roper: Allowing illegal votes is voter suppression

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robert Roper, the president of the Ethan Allen Institute. He lives in Stowe.
We can all agree that barring someone who is eligible to vote from doing so is a grave injustice. It robs a citizen in our representative republic of their voice in the process of governance. This is unacceptable.
However, allowing somebody to vote who is not a legally eligible voter has the exact same effect and is equally unjust. Allowing an ineligible voter to cast a ballot