After Court Ruling, 2 States Plan 2-Tier Voting System
By FERNANDA SANTOS and JOHN ELIGON
Barred by the Supreme Court from requiring proof of citizenship for federal elections, Arizona and Kansas are planning to use a separate set of ballots for state and local races, which could decrease turnout.
PHOENIX — Barred by the Supreme Court from requiring proof of citizenship for federal elections, Arizona is complying — but setting up a separate registration system for local and state elections that will demand such proof.
The state this week joined Kansas in planning for such a two-tiered voting system, which could keep thousands of people from participating in state and local elections, including next year’s critical cycle, when top posts in both states will be on the ballot.
The states are using an opening left in June by the United States Supreme Court when it said that the power of Congress over federal elections was paramount but did not rule on proof of citizenship in state elections. Such proof was required under Arizona’s Proposition 200, which passed in 2004 and is one of the weapons in the border state’s arsenal of laws enacted in its battle against illegal immigration.
The two states are also jointly suing the federal Election Assistance Commission, arguing that it should change the federal voter registration form for their states to include state citizenship requirements. While the agency has previously denied such requests, the justices said the states could try again and seek judicial review of those decisions.
“If you require evidence of citizenship, it helps prevent people who are not citizens from voting, and I simply don’t see a problem with that,” said Tom Horne, the Arizona attorney general.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/u...m-for-balloting.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print
Who says Teabaggers don't have a better way to do things. They are always thinking about how to reduce the voters rolls and disenfranchise more voters who just might make that mistake of trying to vote for Democrats. In the olden days the good people of Kansas and Arizona would have just dressed up in bedsheets and run though certain neighborhoods burning down the houses of people who dared to vote for Democrats, or in those days Republicans, but now they can't do that so, since terror has been at least partially removed as a way to control behavior, they will have to stick with these kinds of obviously convoluted measures. You've got to give them credit though, these moronic bastards are nothing if not persistent and so obvious no one can miss what is going on here.
By FERNANDA SANTOS and JOHN ELIGON
Barred by the Supreme Court from requiring proof of citizenship for federal elections, Arizona and Kansas are planning to use a separate set of ballots for state and local races, which could decrease turnout.
PHOENIX — Barred by the Supreme Court from requiring proof of citizenship for federal elections, Arizona is complying — but setting up a separate registration system for local and state elections that will demand such proof.
The state this week joined Kansas in planning for such a two-tiered voting system, which could keep thousands of people from participating in state and local elections, including next year’s critical cycle, when top posts in both states will be on the ballot.
The states are using an opening left in June by the United States Supreme Court when it said that the power of Congress over federal elections was paramount but did not rule on proof of citizenship in state elections. Such proof was required under Arizona’s Proposition 200, which passed in 2004 and is one of the weapons in the border state’s arsenal of laws enacted in its battle against illegal immigration.
The two states are also jointly suing the federal Election Assistance Commission, arguing that it should change the federal voter registration form for their states to include state citizenship requirements. While the agency has previously denied such requests, the justices said the states could try again and seek judicial review of those decisions.
“If you require evidence of citizenship, it helps prevent people who are not citizens from voting, and I simply don’t see a problem with that,” said Tom Horne, the Arizona attorney general.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/u...m-for-balloting.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print
Who says Teabaggers don't have a better way to do things. They are always thinking about how to reduce the voters rolls and disenfranchise more voters who just might make that mistake of trying to vote for Democrats. In the olden days the good people of Kansas and Arizona would have just dressed up in bedsheets and run though certain neighborhoods burning down the houses of people who dared to vote for Democrats, or in those days Republicans, but now they can't do that so, since terror has been at least partially removed as a way to control behavior, they will have to stick with these kinds of obviously convoluted measures. You've got to give them credit though, these moronic bastards are nothing if not persistent and so obvious no one can miss what is going on here.
