Posted on 02/13/2015 6:16:08 AM PST by cotton1706
During a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, Secretaries of State Kris Kobach from Kansas and Jon Husted of Ohio warned that a loophole in President Obama's executive action on illegal immigration could lead to millions of non-citizens obtaining the ability to vote in U.S. elections.
"I want to bring to your attention my concern that the President’s recent Immigration Accountability Executive Actions will make it more difficult for elections officials to determine if all voters meet the primary standard for voting – U.S. citizenship. I am not here to debate immigration policy or the President’s executive actions. However, I am here to emphatically say that we cannot follow both the federal law and the executive action and ensure the integrity of the elections process without further assistance from Congress and the Obama administration," Husted said in prepared testimony. "For an estimated four to five million non-citizens, the President’s executive actions provide access to Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses. These are the same documents that federal law requires the states to recognize as valid forms of identification for voter registration. Under federal law, anyone with a valid Social Security number or driver’s license number can register to vote, provided they attest that they are a U.S. citizen. However, there is no way for us to validate this citizenship statement, since under the executive actions previously undocumented non-citizens will have access to the same documents as U.S. citizens. The issue becomes especially complicated in states like Ohio where millions of dollars are spent on third - party voter registration drives where no election official would be present to make clear the eligibility requirements for voting."
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Obama (or whomever is pulling his strings) is rubbing his hands together saying, “I love it when a plan comes together”.
Only idiots and political hacks will characterize this impending mass-scale voter fraud as a “loophole”.
It was the intent of the amnesty movement all along, because they will almost assuredly vote DemonRAT.
This was the plan all along.
Should be arrested and deported for breaking the law.
And the longer this continues the bigger the mess. And us TRUE citizens down the road will be hauled in and be required to jump through new hoops, in order to restore a valid voting database.
The TSA wants everyone to have an internal passport - just like the Nazis used. Maybe this will be used for voting. Fake papers for illegals is already a lucrative business.
Barry’s Illegal Aliens. The ones Alexis de Toqueville warned Americans about.
The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.
Get Democrats and Leftists in power in perpetuity.
Julius Caesar would rather have been Chief among a Tribe Wearing Goat Skins and Scalping people for Giggles than a mere Citizen in one of the Advanced Civilizations of it's time.
Plutarch-Having received the government of Farther Spain after his prætorship, he came to a little town in passing the Alps; and his friends, by way of mirth, took occasion to say, “Can there here be any disputes for offices, any contentions for precedency, or such envy and ambition as we see among the great?” To which Cæsar answered, with great seriousness, “I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”
With that, I think I finally Understand Liberals/Progressives/Communists, they would burn this country to the ground so long as they could be Kings of the Ashes.
Getting illegal aliens to vote is part of the plan to keep Rats in office in perpetuity.
x_plus_one, (quoted above) has it right!
That's the Marxist's plan!
Actually I think it needs go a bit farther than just deportation to send a strong message. Perhaps a public hanging when convicted as to me this strikes at the very fabric of our republic.
Lord have mercy.
They’re evil enough for you to be dead bang right.
I am good with public hangings. We need to hang the ones that encouraged them to do so too.
Get with your Governors and Legislatures to STOP THIS!
Yes, I agree with that 100%.
And the real problem is, it's likely more than 50% of the Committee members think this is a positive development.
The original intent of letting them in was just that: vote democrat, and collect money from those evil people who built up the country through the sweat of their brow.
The GOP enacted Real ID(2005) when they controlled Congress and the presidency, which is an internal passport. They knew the public would revolt against a national ID(show me your papers), so they established the Real ID standards that all states would have to use on their drivers license.
At that time it was not controversial but by 2007, opposition had grown, so the feds had to back off and not push as hard.
But it has proceeded and a number of states now have Real ID compliant licenses. Some states have been granted extensions but will implement soon. Some states are still fighting it but behind the scene are preparing.
This year is the first year Real ID is needed in some federal buildings in DC. Supposedly, on Jan 1, 2016, Real ID will be required to board a plane.
If you look at the details, the GOP's attempts at using Voter IDs as a method of restricting voters, it has been effective in those states that have already implemented Real ID.
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