Emboldened both by President Donald Trump’s claim that millions of noncitizens voted in 2016 and by his creation of a panel to investigate the alleged fraud, lawmakers in several states want to require people registering to vote to provide proof of their citizenship – even though federal registration forms don’t require it.
This year at least four states – Kansas, Maryland, Texas and Virginia – considered proof of citizenship measures, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. That means residents must provide documentation such as a passport or birth certificate when registering to vote.
But that gets confusing. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may not require proof of citizenship for those who use the federal registration form, which states are required to accept. It didn’t bar them from requiring such documents for state elections, so states can set up a dual registration system—in which voters who lack proof of citizenship can register and vote in only federal elections.
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4 comments:
Citizenship is a requirement to vote. Period. A photo ID should be required at every polling place. If you want to vote, get a photo ID. It should be the law in every state.
Voting is a State run thing. There should be no such thing as a "federal election", only nationwide election made up of the totals of all of the United States, as provided for in our Constitution. No federal voter registration should exist; see Amendment #10.
About nine years too late - especially when the turd got in to college as a foreigner!
Half the Demon-crats could Not Vote then !!!
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