Feds deny state bids to tighten voter registration

Administration Propaganda(AP) ^ | 2-9-14 | Roxana Hegeman

[TurboZamboni]

Feds deny requests from 3 states to require proof-of-citizenship on voter registration forms

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Election Assistance Commission found Friday that heightened proof-of-citizenship requirements likely would hinder eligible citizens from voting in federal elections, handing down a ruling that denied requests from Kansas, Arizona and Georgia to modify the registration form for their residents.

The decision came just hours before a court-imposed deadline in a lawsuit filed in federal court by Kansas and Arizona that seeks to force the commission to modify state-specific requirements for registering to vote in those states. Georgia, which has a similar voter registration law, is not part of the litigation but was included in the commission's decision.

Those states have enacted laws requiring new voters to provide a birth certificate, passport or other proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. People who register using the federal form only need to sign a statement, under penalty of perjury, that he or she is a U.S. citizen.

[Mr. K]

They should DO IT ANYWAY

How dare they try to prevent any action that cleans up election fraud!!!!!!!

The FED Government is now a CORRUPT CRIMINAL ENTERPROSE acting in its own best interest alone!

[Vaduz]

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Looks like the democrats own them fraud pays I guess.

[TurboZamboni]

Should voters have to prove citizenship to register?

http://news.msn.com/politics/should-voters-have-to-prove-citizenship-to-register

“Opponents argue that ‘Arizona should not be permitted to request evidence of citizenship when someone registers to vote, but should instead rely on the person’s sworn statement that he or she is a citizen,’ Arizona Attorney General Thomas C. Horne said in court papers.”

NOBODY would EVER lie, right?

[yldstrk]

The Feds can stuff it, they have enumerated powers and control over state elections is not one of them.

[bigbob]

Agree! Ignore the feds push it into the public eye.

[UCANSEE2]

ORIGINAL:

“The U.S. Election Assistance Commission found Friday that heightened proof-of-citizenship requirements likely would hinder eligible citizens from voting in federal elections, handing down a ruling that denied requests from Kansas, Arizona and Georgia to modify the registration form for their residents. “

EDITED FOR CORRECTNESS:

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission found Friday that heightened proof-of-citizenship requirements likely would hinder INELIGIBLE NON-citizens from voting in federal elections, handing down a ruling that denied requests from Kansas, Arizona and Georgia to modify the registration form for their residents.

[wny]

Web will some state’s AG get some balls? It’s a state election, the Feds have no constitutional authority store do this. Tell them to go ,pound sand.

[UCANSEE2]

but should instead rely on the person’s sworn statement that he or she is a citizen,’

Would that statement have to be written in Hispanic ?

[DaveA37]

IMO, go for it and be damned the gubmint. Its high time we too this country back.

[GOPJ]

If Republicans started doing voter fraud the little jerks would start caring - and their shills in the MSM would find their outrage.

Not that there’s a double standard or anything..

[coloradan]

Do background checks hinder eligible citizens from buying guns? Why should the right to vote be treated any differently from the right to obtain arms?

[Count of Monte Fisto]

They should DO IT ANYWAY

I agree but the States will never do that because the state polecats want corrupt elections too. They just want to look like they are trying to clean things up and they can point to the Feds for blocking them.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'd never heard of it till today.

[Gaffer]

You know, you could go around your county to every precinct and take old electric bills from the trash, etc. and demand to file a provisional ballot - I just moved here last night, I don’t an ID with me but here’s an old utility bill, blah, blah.....

What if thousands and thousands of conservatives did that?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here’s what the states should do: Not hold any federal elections within their states.

[yldstrk]

“Here’s what the states should do: Not hold any federal elections within their states.”

Great idea

[GILTN1stborn]

I like that idea. Or maybe require state id for statewide and local elections. It might help keep statewide elections less fraudulent and eventually voters below federal level would be legitimate. Might make it easier to single out the scum for groups like True the Vote also since the lists they check could be narrowed down to those that register at federal level only.

[cripplecreek]

Our secretary of state tried to require proof of citizenship and our GOPe governor opposed it.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

NEXT!! The Senate today passed the “Omnibus Freedom to Purchase Act of 2014” prohibiting the cashiers/clerks in retail and business establishments from demanding to see “State approved PHOTO ID’s” as a condition of paying bills by check.
The Senate majority leader said today, “There is NO justification in requiring a resident of the United States to suffer the humiliation of having to prove several times a day that he/she is actually who they are.”
Also passed as a rider to the new bill, is a banning of the also humiliating practice of cashiers using new technology to ascertain the legitimate status of U.S. Currency in denominations over $5.00. “Such an insulting act tell the ‘customer’ that they are NOT to be trusted,” said the majority leader.
Think this isn’t possible? Think again.