Posted on 12/15/2020 5:58:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Kansas that sought to revive a law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. A federal appeals court had declared the law unconstitutional.
Kansas had been the only state to require people to show a physical document such as a birth certificate or passport when applying to register to vote. The issue is distinct from state laws that call for people to produce driver licenses or other photo IDs to cast a vote in person.
The law was championed by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who led President Donald Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission. Kobach was a leading source for Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally may have voted in the 2016 election.
Roughly 30,000 people were prevented from registering to vote during the three years the law was in effect, and the state's own expert estimated that almost all of those were U.S. citizens who were eligible to vote.
Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project who argued the case, said the Supreme Court’s decision not to review the case will "finally close this chapter on Kris Kobach’s sorry legacy of voter suppression.”
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Spit.
“Roughly 30,000 people were prevented from registering to vote during the three years the law was in effect”.
I’m calling BS on this. Why were these people not able to register? If you really want to vote, you can find a way to get ID.
Gotta love those three supreme picks by Trump...
What a disgrace.
Unconstitutional to require proof of citizenship to vote?
Unbelievable how upside down this court is.
Turncoats.
Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project who argued the case,
Yahoo! says an ACLU communist hack is Kansas's own expert? The whole article is dripping with commie propaganca.
"Unsubstantiated"?
Hard to tell without a court opinion, but my guess is that it costs money to get a copy of a birth cert or passport. If the state provided those docs for free, then I’d bet there wouldn’t be a problem. Easy way out to avoid a Constitutional assessment of whether non-citizens have a right to vote or not.
Why tf have we allowed our country to become a place where ensuring the identity of voters as citizens is “racist”?
Notice that the ACLU has “standing” to challenge 2016 Kansas ID laws, but 18+ states DO NOT have standing for massive vote fraud in 2020 by PA, MI, WI, GA, and NV.
SCOTUS, a key institution of the District of Crime, is become an enemy of USA and our constitution.
Well, that was essentially the case until the 1965 Voting Rights Act that singled out specific states - in The South - and laid many additional requirements on them to placate the minority and promote the dem socialist party.
Exactly! The courts have become the problem
Okay then, defy the court.
Abolish the Supreme Court. It’s worthless.
And there are people on this site that argue against secession..
Since the “election” if you can call it that, I have determined that the only way to exist is to have a full and complete divorce from these sons a bitches in the “blue” states.
There seems to be a concerted effort by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of government at the Federal, State, and Local levels to hide information about people who are illegally registered to vote.
I suspect our government does not want the ‘common folks’ to know that millions of non-citizens have been voting for years.
Early into his Presidency Trump began the process of opening the eyes of America’s citizens about the ‘deep state’.
By advocating so, a target was put on Trump’s back to get rid of him by any means, legal or illegal.
Pray tell, if the ALCU was able to determine that most of them were citizens, why could those “citizens” not prove same in order to register? Smells like used food.
“””Kansas had been the only state to require people to show a physical document such as a birth certificate or passport when applying to register to vote. The issue is distinct from state laws that call for people to produce driver licenses or other photo IDs to cast a vote in person.”””
By the way, Florida approached the problem of non-citizens registering to vote in a different way.
In Florida when a person applies for a Driver’s License or renews an existing Driver’s License, the person has to provide ‘proof of citizenship’. That proof could be a birth certificate, naturalization papers, or a passport.
When the person receives their new license, the license has a hologram on the face indicating the person is a US Citizen. No hologram on non-citizen drivers license.
This process is not foolproof in preventing non-citizens from voting, but it does put a roadblock in their way.
Some ways a non-citizen gets around this roadblock are:
1. Vote absentee
2. Show a poll worker an ID other than a drivers license
Throughout the USA we have statutes saying that only citizens can vote. A law not enforced is not a law.
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