It may take a while, but we'll get there.
Posted on 06/29/2015 2:28:26 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Monday’s big election law news came from the Supreme Court’s penultimate decision of the term upholding Arizona’s congressional districts.
But before handing down its last three decisions, the court made voting-rights advocates happy by deciding not to review a different election case.
“Arizona citizens can continue to participate in voter registration drives without worrying about not having proof of citizenship documents,” Shirley Sandelands, of the League of Women Voters of Arizona, said in a statement Monday.
The case, Kobach, et al. v. Election Assistance Commission, et al., was about whether Arizona and Kansas could require voters to prove their citizenship when registering to vote with the so-called “federal form.” Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach led the suit against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which was an appeal of a lower court decision.
Both Kansas and Arizona have state laws that require applicants to prove their citizenship when applying to vote with state forms (for state or federal elections). But the U.S. EAC denied the states’ requests to have their citizenship laws applied when would-be voters use the standardized federal form.
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Revolution? I doubt it.
SCOTUS gave big corporations everything they wanted this session: cheap illegal labor, gay marriage, obamacare, and shot down the EPA regs. RINO’s must be pumped. I am happy about the EPA decision though.
She ain’t no ways tirrred.
Nice knowing you America.
It was a good run.
Now, where to move.
Good, I'm tired of this petty bullsh!t. Time to draw lines in the sand.
FIXED!
>America as a free country may be dead<
May be?
Those of us who pray need to pray harder. People refuse to see what is right in their face. I keep thinking of the Jews getting in the train cars without so much as a scuffle, believing everything would “be ok.”
it wasn’t only white female voters who got us in this mess dude.
That is how I understand it.
Kansas residents can register to vote using a federal form without having to provide proof of citizenship under Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but they won’t be allowed to vote in state and local elections, the state’s top election official said.
The high court’s justices rejected an appeal from Republican officials in Kansas and Arizona who have sought force federal elections officials to change a national voter registration form so that it requires new voters in their states to submit a birth certificate, passport or other papers documenting U.S. citizenship. Last year, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the two states cannot demand that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission help them enforce their laws.
Most new Kansas voters use a state voter registration form requiring such documents. The federal form requires only that voters sign a sworn statement saying they are citizens.
“States allow people to use the federal form to register for state elections as a courtesy, but are not required to do so,” Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said. “So I would encourage people to continue to provide proof of citizenship. That is what the people of Kansas overwhelmingly wanted, that is what I ran on and that is what the Kansas Legislature overwhelmingly voted for. That remains the law in Kansas.”
Kobach has championed such laws as a way to prevent noncitizens from voting, particularly those living in the U.S. illegally. Critics say incidents of noncitizens registering to vote are extremely rare, and that such Republican-backed laws hurt voter registration efforts and disenfranchise voters from certain groups that tend to vote Democrat, including minorities and college students.
Okay fine, they can register with a Federal form and get their voter registration.
In Indiana you have to show a valid ID to sign in, the reason I know this is my mother works the polls and when I walked in to vote she very loudly and publicly dressed me down for not renewing my drivers license in time. She then threw me out of line and refused to let me vote.
My own mother who lives next door to me.
Registering to vote is one thing, but does this law also affect proof of address residence and a valid current ID also?
There are only 2 things I can hope for at this point—that the nation sees getting everything you want comes with serious consequence and wakes the eff up...
Or Christ makes his triumphant return and gets us out of this misery.
I’m ok with either.
“Let the voter fraud begin...”
...and let the Democrat-voter registration drive continue.
(Communist victory in 2016!) /s/
IMHO
Yeah, like they do now. They’ll just be more open about it.
It may take a while, but we'll get there.
I didn’t remember the cave girl. Well done!
But, too many of the states (their sheeple and elected representatives) are absolutely clueless as to why they should give a **** about states' rights.
As long as they're getting what they want, they couldn't care less.
Time for an Article V Convention of States to amend the U.S. Constitution on this, marriage and a few other things.
Note: Article V is not the same as a “Constitutional Convention”.
It USED to be sarcasm.
Correct. It was also feminist single mothers like Stanley Ann Dunham who raised a Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien. Say what you will but had it not been for females, Odungheap wouldn’t have been elected EITHER time.
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