The only thing the Motor Voter Act ever did was to give fraudsters and cheaters a new technique by which to ply their sinister trade.
I'm surprised that they only didn't require elections officials to ask applicants if they are American citizens. I was under the incorrect impression that they forbade elections officials from asking such "demeaning" and "bigoted" questions. Well, as long as they are permitted to ask such questions, their supervisors - the state and county election boards - SHOULD REQUIRE THEM TO ASK NEW VOTER REGISTRANTS IF THEY ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS. And even further, elections officials SHOULD REQUIRE THAT NEW REGISTRANTS PRESESENT DOCUMENTATION OF CITIZENSHIP, EITHER A BIRTH CERTIFICATE IF BORN IN THE US OR ELSEWHERE IN AMERICAN TERRITORY (e.g., Puerto Rico) OR A NATURALIZATION DOCUMENT IF NOT. Nothing racist about that. Just enforcing the state law, on the books in every state of the union, that only American citizens may vote in American elections!
And while we're at trying to improve the integrity of the election process, let's repeal the entire Motor Voter Act! (BTW, it was passed by a 'Rat controlled Congress in 1993 (NOT 1992), the first bill signed into law by the then new President Bill Clinton.)
I have worked elections and we are 'allowed' to compare the address on the driver's license to that on the voter roll but we were instructed we were 'not' to use the photo as identification.
The Founding Fathers had no interest in having universal suffrage--not even universal white male suffrage. The movement in that direction, really did not kick in until the 1820s.
We need to reexamine the premise that people should only have to prove they exist in order to vote in every election--even where they do not even understand the functions of the offices they are voting to fill.
William Flax
In Wisconsin the citizenship question is reduced to a statement in a sea of fine print on the registration application where the applicant is supposed to color in a tiny dot if he/she is a citizen. Half the time the registrar misses whether that is colored in and just accepts the application. If the registrar catches it later, she colors it in.
Disgusting.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Voter fraud is a time-honored American tradition. Where would this great country be without the likes of Boss Tweed, Richard Daly, Big Bill Thompson, Lyndon Banes Johnson, John F. Kennedy and the brave men and women of Tammany Hall and ACORN?
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
I agree with all this, and still don’t think it has changed the outcomes of many elections, and few significant ones. The two biggest frauds in my lifetime were Cook Co. in 1960 and the “early call” of FL in 2000.