Court Rules Arizona Can’t Demand Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 6:03 pm
The state of Arizona cannot require documents proving citizenship for new voter registration, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. The court ruled that a 2004 law created by Proposition 200 that made voters show a birth certificate, driver’s license or passport before registering to vote violated federal law. The National Voter Registration Act allows voters to register without documentation, but designates lying about citizenship as perjury. Election experts say non-citizen voting is infrequent enough that it has no effect on election results.
Non-citizens who attempt to vote can — and often do — face deportation, which opponents of the Arizona law argued is enough to deter fraud. “The penalties against non-citizens registering to vote are very serious and have served Arizonans — and all Americans — well for decades,” Linda Brown of the Arizona Advocacy Network, a plaintiff in the case, said in a press release. The court seemed to take this view by ruling the federal law does not allow states to require would-be voters to prove citizenship. But in other states, politicians are still proposing legislation that would crack down on voting by non-citizens.
Kris Kobach, who is running for Kansas secretary of state and helped draft Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law, has said he wants to require proof of citizenship at polling stations, claiming “the illegal registration of alien voters has become pervasive.” Kobach won support for this idea from likely governor Sam Brownback, who is currently serving as a Republican senator.
Colorado Republican state Rep. Ted Harvey told TWI he plans to introduce a bill requiring documentation for voter registration in the form of a birth certificate or passport.
In Arizona, challengers to the 2004 law said in a press release that the law had prevented citizens who did not have documentation of their citizenship from voting. “We are elated that the Ninth Circuit has properly applied federal election law and struck down the documentary proof of citizenship requirement,” said Jon Greenbaum of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who argued the case for appellants. “This will enable the many poor people in Arizona who lack driver’s licenses and birth certificates to register to vote.”
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Liberal Law:
If you are American, you are required to have documentation for everything.
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Comment posted October 27, 2010 @ 2:49 am
So what do you expect with the 9 th District court? There a bunch of ultra Liberal boot-licker's from the Clinton era. God help this country if the left crazies get a foothold into our young kids, like the Tides foundation and George Soros to turn this America in to an socialist extremist society. We are already having our free Speech eroded away, by this crank “politically Correct” mantra. Thank heavens for the Tea Party of which I am a member, which is propagating to bring integrity to the voting system. I hope Jan Brewer and State Senator Peirce follows through and appeals it, eventually reaching SCOTUS. What we need is a non-counterfeit pic ID so that illegal aliens cannot vote in any election, as they are stealing our most sacred right from citizens and naturalized citizens. It’s happened many times before with the ultra Liberal media hiding it away from the public eye. Just as they urinate on the truth and use rhetoric and downright lies to mislead the American population.
Than as for the insidious, 9th federal circuit court? It's in the Liberal stronghold of San Francisco, a well branded Sanctuary City. This is a State where illegal alien gang members executed a father and two children, with a AK47 and never even faced the death penalty, thanks to Liberal prosecutors in the city. Just Google-Yahoo or your favorite search engine and enter the keywords–Voter Fraud. It’s already begun in Houston, Texas where thousands of registrations have been rejected. Doesn't this all mirror–the ACORN CONSPIRACY. Then just today in Clarke County, Nevada voters became very suspicious of already check- marked Senator Harry Reid, when their intent was to vote for Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle? You can go back years using your browser news and check out the archives on–Voter Fraud. I repeat, the liberal editors when scorning my commentary, that there is no voter fraud.
Mark my words, by the end of this election, illegal aliens will be checking senator Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and even Jerry Brown? The new administration better take note on the public's fury of any Liberal impersonating a Dem delivering AMNESTY, to the 13 to 20 million illegal foreigners over here is–dead meat. They have been brain-washed to believe that this seventh AMNESTY isn't going to cost the taxpayers–ANYTHING. But ask Robert Rector, Chief analyst at the Heritage Foundation that taxes will go up, to pay the 2.6 TRILLION dollar bill. Slowly this federal government is growing and spreading and we can only hope that the Tea Party candidates will begin reduction in this monstrosity. At least the 9th circuit has determined that this economic-stressed State of Arizona has the judicial right to request eligible forms of ID.
That doesn't mean a utility bill, but a driver’s license or some other government picture ID that can be verified? During the 1986 Amnesty for the Guest workers and illegal entrants into America, a proffered a simple simple utility bill that was enough for the US government as proof of working here for a year. Illegal aliens were churning out apartment leases and selling them, to just about anybody. It was a huge fraud on the American public and a clever ruse by both political parties.
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Comment posted October 27, 2010 @ 11:11 pm
I say they make every one use a DL or something to redgister no matter what the court says.Airzona is a state and have there own laws that do not differ from the fed. But tell and show that an eligal law is not a law. Airzona make people use there DL, PP or BC to redgester. Every one should that way there is no voter fraud. I am sick and tired of some curt not useing commin cents. They may know how to spell and read a breff but they lack any moral fiber. They need to be run out on a rail. Tared and fathered and what ever eals they need to brought to the understanding. We the people of the USA are sick and Tired of them and there commie ways.
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No, it's thank you, Republicans, for making America a nation filled with anger and hate!!!!!! I will never again cast a single vote for the Republican Party of hate. They do not represent my country, and we should all be speaking up and out about it!!!!!!
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They lack any moral fiber, but know how to spell and read. Unlike you who obviously has a diet high in moral fiber, but has difficulty with the whole reading and spelling thing. Perhaps the two are mutually exclusive?
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Comment posted October 29, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
I find it amazing that the Federal Courts accepted this case when the US Constitution left the matter of determining who votes entirely up to the State! Of course the Fourteenth Amendment destroyed any concept of “States Rights” so really we are nothing more than provinces … Wake up people and accept your bondage, you are no freer than sheep. Sadly we surrendered for a loaf of bread …
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I say….. require the Department of Vital Statistics to provide financial affidavits to all who require proof of citizenship and if determined to meet the guidelines for poverty…provide those individuals with a certified copy of their birth certificates free of charge…Hello…problem solved. If the issue is truly protecting the rights of the underprivileged who cannot afford a DL or birth certificate, this would make sense to me.
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How about in California where so many illegals are voting that they are changing election result. The Democrats love their illegal voter base. They would loose every election if they didn’t cater to those who refuse to work, are here illegally, or hate America and what it stands for.
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