The only photo ID that proves US citizenship is a passport.
Do we really want everyone to be required to have a passport to vote!
If that's what it takes then, "Yes, I do!"
No. But very few countries in this world allow voting without valid photo ID proving citizenship. A drivers license SHOULD be enough proof, but that forces issuing states to only issue licenses to U.S. Citizens. I support that too.
"Do we really want everyone to be required to have a passport to vote!"
I think this will tie in with the RFID ID card they've been flogging. Hell, let's just skip the BS and get the chip.
ssIf they carry out the law already passed the drivers license will work.
Starting next year every one in California will have to go personally to DMV and prove citizenship to renew their license.
The dumbocrats are already screaming unfair to seniors and minorities!
Even seniors can get a birth certificate if their birth was never recorded by filing suit against the county and taking such as a family bible where it was recorded and witnesses to teatify as to authinticy.
My father had to do that in San Diego in order to get a passport.
When he was borb in 1902 the county of San Diego didn't register births.
I never went to court but the suit was a formality they required.
The bill provides funding for a photo ID that proves citizenship.
A driver's license with certified birth certificate should do. A "citizenship" card could easily be implemented. But, I see no issue with a passport either.
YES.
Nope, when the Real ID Act kicks in, a driver's liscense will have to meet a set of strict criteria in order to be accepted as valid ID for federal purposes. Sounds like bill could be one of them under this bill.
States that hand out DLS that don't meet the critieria would have to figure something else out. More incentive to comply.
"Do we really want everyone to be required to have a passport to vote!"
Why not... I am tired of all of the Sh$$ that goes on here in CA.
You may find this hard to believe, but there is a U.S. Supreme Court decision which states that a passport proves nothing whatsoever and cannot even be admitted as evidence in a trial. It is simply a request from our government to another government asking them to treat you nice while you are in their country.
Whatever it takes, is fine with me. If they don't want to go to the trouble to register and get a voter registration card, then so be it.
The REAL ID act would make driver's liscences such an ID, too, assuming a state would want their drivers liscences to be acceptable to board an aircraft. A lot of states hate the REAL ID act because it would prohibit illegals from getting liscences.
Do we really want everyone to be required to have a passport to vote!
There is an identity theft crisis going on.
- North Korea (if no other) is passing superb counterfeit US bills (and, apparently, even Chinese bills) - that is identity theft perpetrated on the US government.
- Illegals and dead people are having ballots cast for them - that's identity theft, in a way.
- News organizations take "polls" and claim to speak for the entire country. That is identity theft too.
If that's the only way to stop illegals from voting, then yes.