Posted on 03/18/2013 10:55:45 AM PDT by montag813
by John Hill
Stand With Arizona
The following statement would seem to be a no-brainer: people who vote in national elections must be U.S. citizens.
Yet we see bizarre headlines such as this from the Associated Press today: Must voters have to prove citizenship to register?
You might as well ask: "Must drivers have to open their eyes to drive"? It is the biggest 'duh' imaginable.
Unless of course, you have a vested interest in enabling and expanding voter fraud in the United States. And so we have the U.S. Supreme Court today hearing arguments in Arizona vs. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona.
What is this case about? In a nutshell, the state of Arizona is once again standing up for the rule of law, and being taken on by the entire left-wing establishment, plus the Obama DOJ.
The details:
In 2004, Arizona passed Proposition 200, which among other things (such as denying welfare to illegal aliens), required all voters to provide evidence of citizenship before registering to vote or casting a ballot.
As a response, the plaintiff, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona - backed by the illegal alien advocacy group Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, among others - sued the state, arguing that Proposition 200 was inconsistent with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) - Bill Clinton's infamous "Motor Voter Law" - which requires states to “accept and use” a voter registration form created by the Electoral Assistance Commission (EAC). The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco - the most liberal in the nation - struck down Arizona's citizenship requirement. The Supreme Court granted review of the case on October 15th, 2012. And so here we are.
Above: Obama showing Voter ID before early voting in Chicago
Was that so hard? No? So why did you sue 8 states to try and ban it?'
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So what is this "voter registration form" that the Motor Voter law established? Quite simply: an invitation to voter fraud. It does not require any proof whatsoever that the individual registering to vote is a U.S. citizen. It merely asks them to "affirm" that they are. That's it...the "honor system"!
To make things worse the Motor Voter Law requires local welfare offices, social service agencies and motor vehicle departments to offer voter registration forms to everyone who comes in, no questions asked. ACORN-like groups have long practiced signing up new “voters” at places where illegal aliens congregate.
Columnist and radio host Roger Hedgecock detailed his experiences canvassing in Orange County, CA in 201, and discovering potentially massive voter fraud by illegal aliens:
EXCERPT...CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE.
Then I take this hearing as a good thing. After all, they could have let the 9th Circus strike-down stand ...
> “I'm an illegal invader Mexican born . I cancel out your vote I vote for socialism/democrats. I also take your job, steal your ssn, get Obamacare, take your American women ,all the while bad mouthing America, viva Mexico!
If the SCOTUS decides that citizenship is not needed to vote, it is time to disband this entire Government and start over. I do not trust this SCOTUS to uphold he Constitution anymore. They have demonstrated they will bend to Populist intimidation by Marxists.
Like a favorable ruling will stop precinct workers from voting 6 times? No way. Ballot stuffing, ballots in trunks of cars carried to precinct that need them . . . Republican precinct workers being thrown out of the voting areas . . . voter intimidation outside the voting areas . . . just who in the hell will stop this? A Supreme Court ruling? A criminal DOJ? nonsense!
Those are the areas that need to be addressed.
If the argument is state law cannot be more stringent then fed law, will the same logic apply to gun control laws, since gun ownership is now a right like voting.
Hopefully they will not look to foreign courts or add or change the meaning of words in the law to make their judgment.
It also seems to me that the matter of voter registration is decided by each state unless it violates one of the basic rights of the constitution. I don’t see anything in the constitution that says we take your assertions of citizenship to be true on their face i.e. it is not a test or poll tax.
You must show gov ID to buy a gun. So why not to vote.
“You must show gov ID to buy a gun. So why not to vote.”
You must show gov ID to renew your nursing license. So why not to vote.
You must show gov ID to renew your drivers license. So why not to vote.
lets start a list!
If state law cannot be more stringent than Fed laws, then let's begin a discussion about "California Emissions." Do we really need a separate set of environmental rules for one state?
I think we have a very interesting set of developments in the efforts to legalize marijuana in some of the states. If states can legalize marijuana, then why can't they legalize full-auto firearms within their borders?
Thanks for the ping.
These people they cannot destroy this county fast enough. I am waiting for them to come out voter forms like Iraq had.. Vote. Yes Or No..
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This is utter madness.
Aren’t all cars made to CA emission specs?
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