Posted on 10/10/2024 8:31:17 AM PDT by george76
You would not expect this to be allowed in Texas, but the Texas Secretary of State's Elections officials have instructed local precincts to accept driver's licenses issued to noncitizens as valid IDs for voting.
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The whole point of voter ID is to prevent ineligible voters from casting ballots and having a policy that ignores the validity of the ID makes it worthless.
It's true that the Secretary of State requires officials to inform people that noncitizens are not allowed to vote and that there are potential penalties, but making something illegal is hardly an effective prevention tool. We have prisons full of people who commit crimes despite knowing the risks, and the real risks from illegally voting have historically been small to nonexistent.
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New citizens should follow the law and update their ID if they want to vote. This policy leaves a hole in the system as big as the gaps in the border wall.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a bill barring local governments in the state from establishing local laws requiring residents to present identification to vote.
Now ask yourself why anyone would want such a law…
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If it were the case that everybody wanted to quell concerns about ballot integrity, doing so would be simple: valid ID, paper ballots, shorter periods of voting, and hand counting. That is how most countries in the world do it, and their elections run much more smoothly and quickly than ours. France gets results within hours, and nobody wonders about the fairness of the process.
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Trump says the only reason Gavin Newsom signed a bill to ban voter ID from being required in California's elections is because Democrats want to CHEAT
Trump is totally correct. Election fraud is rampant in California. For example, over 1.2 million ineligible voters were on Los Angeles County's voter list, and it took Judicial Watch suing them last year to get them to remove those names.
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lots of people worry about fairness, yet any suggestions made to ensure ballot integrity are fought tooth and nail, and a smear campaign is run against them. It is as if the opponents of voter ID and paper ballots either don't care to reassure us--which harms democracy--or they want to make it simple to cheat, which undermines our democratic process.
It boggles the mind that anybody trusts our elections completely for many reasons. The incentive to cheat is enormous--controlling the laws, regulations, and trillions of dollars of spending is a mighty incentive to cheat. People have killed for much less, so the idea that nobody votes illegally or organizes efforts to do so is ridiculous.
If Democrats cared about reassuring voters the process is fair, they should join Republicans and Independents in creating a system that makes it difficult instead of designing a system that makes it incredibly easy.
They fight mightily to make the system insecure. Is it any wonder that lots of people question election results?
Who is the Texas Sec. of State.....Tony Blinken?
Texas????!!!!
What’s the point of voting now?
Jane Nelson. An alleged Republican.
And a former teacher who served two terms on the State Board of Education
An amazingly bad idea....
This is one of Gov. Abbott’s guys? REALLY? Shameful.
that is F’n BULL$H!T!! Unfortunately in Texas, a Mexican ID is accepted as legal ID.
Texas should have closed that hole a long time ago.
Texas AG Ken Paxton, secretary of state - Jane Nelson, clash over handling non-citizens on voter rolls..
Trump’s legal team needs to find a friendly Texas judge - FAST.
On the contrary, this is exactly what I would expect from Texas, land of Sheila Jackson Lee and Beto.
In pecking order, does AG or SOS trump one or the other? Are they equal on the Org Chart?
Paxton can sue Nelson; that’s what an ATTORNEY General does. Do it.
Fifteen or so years ago Soros decided to target SOS and AG on the state level because they were not high profile jobs but they have a great deal of power. This is the end result.
So to summarize, no, not one of Abbots guys. And in your own state, pay attention to those two offices.
Which azho came up with the non-citizen’s driver’s license idea? I came here from Arizona with an active license, and they made my life hell because they wouldn’t accept my Birth Certificate that was in my military file for 22 years. They took my Arizona license and acted like it was a POS. I had to pay 86 bucks for a new birth certificate from my birth state. Then they wanted to fight with me because my middle name I’ve been using since my Catholic confirmation was not recognized although I’ve been using it since my confirmation. Now I learned I could have just applied for a non-citizen driver’s license. What the ....
When did Texas start allowing non-citizens to vote? That’s illegal. Isn’t it?
Not a chance in hell.
I WILL NOT COMPLY.
I will NOT allow an Illegal Alien to vote in MY PRECINCT, if I KNOW he/she is one.
We don’t. They have already expunged thousands. More on the way.
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