Posted on 04/07/2022 6:44:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey just signed into law House Bill 2492, which requires all people opting to vote only in federal elections in that state to provide proof of United States citizenship and state residency. HB 2492's amendments to Arizona's existing election law are brief, unremarkable, and reasonable, but they close a loophole in Arizona law that state lawmakers say is being exploited.
Prior to the law's passage, those voting in state elections were already required to provide proof of citizenship and residency, but voters casting ballots for federal elections only had no such requirement. This disparity created a worrisome trend, according to Kelli Ward, Arizona's Republican Party chairwoman. In an op-ed for Western Journal last week, Ward explained that only 21 of the voters who cast federal-only ballots in the 2014 election did not provide proof of citizenship. In 2018, 1,700 voters who cast federal-only ballots had no proof of citizenship on file. In 2020, nearly 12,000 people without documented proof of citizenship cast ballots in the federal election. Today, more than 13,000 people are registered to vote in Maricopa County -- the state's most populous county -- without providing any proof that they are United States citizens. These numbers matter. To put things in perspective, Joe Biden carried Arizona by only 10,457 votes in the 2020 presidential election.
Notwithstanding the predictable hue and cry by Democrats, HB 2492 does not deprive anyone of the right to cast a lawful vote. The law permits registration for those without driver's licenses and for the homeless. It provides processes by which anyone whose registration is rejected to cure any defects, including imposing a duty on the county recorder to notify anyone whose registration is challenged and to verify, if possible, the citizenship of any potential registrant who has not provided documentation. Right on cue, here comes attorney Marc Elias, consigliere to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. Elias is representing a group suing to block the enforcement of Arizona's election integrity laws. Elias has long experience with this, having led the party's efforts to change election procedures in multiple states leading up to the 2020 election.
But all is not well in Elias Election land. Some of the changes Elias obtained in 2020 -- like ballot harvesting and ballot drop boxes -- have since been struck down as being illegal or unconstitutional. Others are being challenged as creating the potential for fraud.
Lets hear it for Governor Abbott of TX.
Rolling Stone writers paint this story with a different brush. Basically they said that Abbott is trying to “make Texas white again”.
LOL!!!!!!!
Its up to these border guvs to give this disaster the national attention its gotta have.
“make Texas white again”
If he said he was trying to make Texas Mexican Again, would they sneer and complain?
Stupid game. Abbot should be arrested for facilitating the distribution of illegal aliens into the interior of the country.
They should be bussed back across the Mexican border.
I see, you’re not from TX and neither am I. What good would it do to ship them back to Mexico or the country they came from? They would just keep coming back. This way we would get our revenge. Think about it.
Provided you are able to think.
D.C. will be glad to have them delivered right to their doorstep, where they will promptly and easily be distributed around the country.
I don’t care if they will recross the rio grande over and over again, if they are deported. Make them do at least that!
Greg Abbot is involving himself in human trafficking.
If you can’t lick em, join em.
I’ll wait to see how many he sends to DC.
Yes!!!
Liberals have to be crude and obvious about importing votes.
They NO LONGER have an ideology that any sane and honest person can support
Is Biden et al transferring the illegals to states that “need” Dem votes??
The thing is, most Hispanics don’t want illegal immigration, that’s the dirty little secret the media won’t tell you.
Abbott is not doing jack. Abbott is all talk and no action. Screw Abbott, Ken Paxton is the man in Austin.
Kaslin argument is a bogus one. The problem is not Mexicans crossing into Texas. Mexicans will always be crossing into and out of Texas. Mexicans have been doing that for decades. The real problem is migrants that are not from northern Mexico. It takes a lot of money or a lot of energy for them to get here. So sending them back is very effective. Their friends and neighbors see them sent back and that discourages them (friends/neighbors) too. I slows everyone that they just wasted 10,000 bucks or 6 months of their time. And who wants to do that?
E verify would end the problem quickly.
A lot of businesses will give the democrat party huge amounts of money for the cheap labor more rigging money to play with.
BOTH parties have been importing a permanent Democrat majority for 30 years.
Trump was the only one who wanted to secure the border and stop it and BOTH parties cheated him out of office to prevent him from doing that.
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