Friday, May 01, 2015

Obama Admin. Won’t Let States Ask for Proof of Citizenship … On Voter Registration Form!

Obama Admin. Won’t Let States Ask for Proof of Citizenship … On Voter Registration Form! | PJ Tatler:
Non-citizens are voting in American elections, and the federal government refuses to do anything to stop it.
Worse, the current administration seems to be doing everything they can to prevent the states from trying to stop it.
First, they sued states that asked people to present ID before voting. 
Now, the administration will not let states even ask people to establish they are citizens when they register to vote.
That’s the underlying plot in the latest major case in election law that has just been presented to the Supreme Court. Federal law says that states must accept and use a federal form for registering voters.
But the federal form doesn’t require any proof that the person submitting the form is a citizen.
The form just asks the registrant to check a box.
Meanwhile, federal law mandates that voter registration forms be made available and pushed everywhere from licensing branches to welfare offices.
...Some states have tried to prevent this problem from continuing.
Kansas and Arizona, while accepting and using the federal form, require registrants to provide some kind of proof of citizenship in order to register.
But when they asked the Election Assistance Commission to add these state law instructions to their version of the federal form, the EAC flatly refused.

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