78% Favor Proof of Citizenship Before Being Allowed to Vote

Rasmussen.com ^ | March 25th, 2014 | Scott Rasmussen

[usconservative]

Excerpted:

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

A federal judge last week upheld the right of states to require proof of citizenship before allowing someone to register to vote. Voters continue to overwhelmingly support such a requirement.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% of Likely U.S. Voters believe everyone should be required to prove his or her citizenship before being allowed to register to vote. That’s up from 71% a year ago. Just 19% oppose that requirement. (

[Hoodat]

The 22% here represents the dead voters.

[epluribus_2]

Haters

[mulligan]

That means 22% are still stupid.

[SunkenCiv]

The other 22% are either here illegally, or voting from beyond the grave. Thanks usconservative.

[usconservative]

I’m with you on that, especially here in Illinois! More elections get stolen here by ballot boxes magically appearing than any other method!

[usconservative]

Watching the news reports recently of voting in Crimea, I was interested to note all voters presenting some form of ID before voting.

Exactly right. You know we live in a country run by complete idiots when you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but it's somehow perfectly acceptable for illegal aliens to cross over our border without fear of recrmination, and voting without having to show ID!

It's ridiculous that at 51 years old I'm carded to buy alcohol (ok, I look very young for my age) and I have to show proof of insurance and a legal ID to receive medical treatment but no ID required to vote?!

It's outrageous and it needs to be fixed.

[usconservative]

Different from the headline.

I copied and pasted the headline in, so if it's now different from what's on Rasmussen's site, he changed it. Not I. I don't do that.

[al_c]

78%?! What the heck is wrong with this country?! 100% of Americans should DEMAND that proof of citizenship be provided in order to register to vote.

[Sherman Logan]

Quite reasonable. However, at present I’m not aware of any easy way for a native-born citizen to prove citizenship.

I had to jump through a number of hoops a decade or so ago to get a passport.

IOW, if we’re going to require people to prove citizenship before registering to vote, then we need to make it reasonably easy to do so.

This tends, at least, to point us back in the direction of a national ID card. Which a lot of conservatives oppose for other reasons.

BTW, I found the passport ID requirements more than a little disturbing. The two primary docs required were SS card and birth certificate. While these certainly proved a Sherman Logan was born in the US, how did they prove that I was the Sherman Logan in question?

Went through a similar issue recently with my wife and her driver’s license. Had to get a copy of the marriage license from a county in MO. But that was all handled over the phone, with no real way to prove that the Miss Wilson on the birth certificate was the one who became Mrs. Logan. Anybody could have called up claiming to be Mr. Logan and get a cc on the marriage license.

Possibly there’s some mechanism here I don’t understand.

[ExCTCitizen]

Only 78%? It should be 100%!

[justiceseeker93]

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% of Likely U.S. Voters believe everyone should be required to prove his or her citizenship before being allowed to register to vote. That’s up from 71% a year ago. Just 19% oppose that requirement.

Strange, you would think that such a requirement would be widely discussed by elected officials if it's so popular among voters. Plus, the citizenship requirement to vote, in and of itself, is already on the books in every state of the Union. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, not a single congresscritter nor state legislator has been making a big issue about voter registrants proving citizenship. Not even "conservative" Republicans. What the heck are they scared of?

[cripplecreek]

Our SOS in Michigan tried to get a citizenship requirement for voting but the courts shut her down. We do have a check box that says you’re a legal voter which needs to be signed.

[GeronL]

As if they have all been bought and Paid for

[boycott]

If they talk about it, the media will label them a racist.

That is what they’re afraid of.

[DanielRedfoot]

Exactly, media translation: 78% of americans are racist, in other news….

[LucyT]

78% Favor Proof of Citizenship Before Being Allowed to Vote

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% of Likely U.S. Voters believe everyone should be required to prove his or her citizenship before being allowed to register to vote.

That’s up from 71% a year ago. Just 19% oppose that requirement.

Plus, the citizenship requirement to vote, in and of itself, is already on the books in every state of the Union.

Yet, to the best of my knowledge, not a single congresscritter nor state legislator has been making a big issue about voter registrants proving citizenship. - Not even "conservative" Republicans. - What the heck are they scared of?

Thanks, justiceseeker93.

[ken in texas]

... no votes counted and/or revealed until after the polls are closed

Agree, and no boxes of "lost" ballots allowed either.

[justiceseeker93]

We do have a check box that says you’re a legal voter which needs to be signed.

(1)Does the form specifically include the statement "I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN" next to the check box?

(2)Is that statement signed under penalty of perjury if it turns out to be false?

[cripplecreek]

[Salvation]

BTTT!