[olezip]

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled Arizona may require voters to show identification at the polls, a ruling likely to add fuel to the fiery debate about voting rights in a presidential election year.

Not only should the states and the federal government require voter ID, but there should be some literacy test. Voting is both a right and a privilege in the USA. Voters should understand who and what they are voting for. Voters should only vote once.

[freekitty]

When I vote in Houston, I show my voter registration and my driver’s license.

[kearnyirish2]

I think it became impossible to fight this when all of the other things that require a photo ID are listed (cashing a check, driving a car, boarding a plane, etc.).

[be-baw]

How does one prove one has citizenship? A birth certificate? I would be hard-pressed to find mine. Would probably have to go back to my home town court. I don’t know anyone who carries his birth certificate in his wallet.

[Whats-wrong-with-the-truth]

"But the court also ruled the state cannot demand that they show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections..."

How can any self-respecting court require an illegal alien wanting to vote the same rights and privileges the illegal alien in the White House enjoys? < /sarc >

[Safetgiver]

Wait a minute. This decision says if you show ID you can vote but you don’t have to show you are a US citizen to prove you are a US citizen? So I can come in with NO registration and a Mexican Armed forces ID card, I can vote but don’t have to prove I live here? Maybe I’m lost...but.

[QT3.14]

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured [Obamacare]...

But not everyone must prove they are a citizen."

 Ben Stein

[1010RD]

You can see why Constitutional Originalism is so needed. Though imperfect, it certainly is better than unteathered judicial activism.

So you need id to vote, but not citizenship to register to vote. Which witless judicial mind thought that up?

[DBeers]

But the court was not convinced by Arizona's arguments in favor of Proposition 200's proof of citizenship requirement.

"In sum, the NVRA and Proposition 200's registration provision ... do not operate harmoniously as a single procedural scheme for the registration of voters for federal elections," Ikuta wrote.

"Therefore, under Congress's expansive Elections Clause power, we must hold that the registration provision ... is pre-empted by the NVRA" when a when a voter seeks to register for a federal election.

Register to Vote | The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)

The National Mail Voter Registration Form can be used to register to vote, to update your registration information due to a change of name, make a change of address or to register with a political party. Note: After filling out this form, you must send it to a state or local election office for processing. See state-specific instructions included in the form for additional information.

The progressives slipped one in on us when they passed the NVRA. It seems simple enough to me how this can be corrected. Congress needs to change all NVRA forms to include a proof of citizenship requirement.

[brityank]

But the court also ruled the state cannot demand that they show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, a decision the state's attorney general said he would appeal.

According to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 it is a REQUIREMENT that the Voter be a Citizen:

Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

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The Court is wrong.

[aquila48]

“...the appeals court concluded the national Voting Rights Act superseded the law’s requirement that anyone registering to vote in a federal election show “satisfactory evidence” of U.S. citizenship.”

That’s rather odd. Doesn’t the constitution say that you have to be a citizen to vote? And doesn’t the constitution trump any other law passed by congress?