Posted on 08/15/2006 9:07:58 AM PDT by GoldwaterFellow
Proposition 200's voter identification requirement is upheld
Part of Arizona's 2004 Proposition 200 law requires citizens to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote. Because voting is a right enjoyed by eligible citizens only, it makes sense to ensure that voters are who they say they are.
But, Proposition 200 recently came under legal attack in the federal courts. In this challenge, plaintiffs argued that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) precluded Arizona from enacting its own voter certification requirements. The federal court disagreed and ruled that nothing in the NVRA prevents states from determining voter qualifications. The court said the federal rules set minimum, not maximum, requirements and states like Arizona are permitted to do more to regulate their elections.
This ruling correctly affirms the right of states to secure the integrity of their elections. From hanging chads to touch-screen voting machines, there are many things that can go wrong in elections, making sure only eligible voters cast ballots shouldn't be one of them.
Benjamin Barr is a constitutional policy analyst with the Goldwater Institute Center for Constitutional Studies.
We need this in California, big time.
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We need this in every state.
RATS won't have it. They will then find out that outside of three or four blue cities, the country is really red.
Arizona citizens have thrown down the gauntlet. Will the citizens of other states that suffer from corrupted elections systems take it up?
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