Proof of Citizenship to Vote

[leftyladyfrommo]

Detroit Free Press is running a story on this today. Supposedly voters would have to have proof of citizenship to vote - it's to keep illegals from voting in elections.

We just had a fight here in Missouri about having to have proof of identity and it got blown out of the water by the court. Too many people would not be able to vote - especially people who don't drive.

But the House is working on having proof of citizenship? I don't have proof of citizenship. Unless a birth certificate will work.

Pretty soon voting will be so onerous that no one will bother to vote.

[ThomCat]

1. "Pretty soon voting will be so onerous that no one will bother"

Exept the rich, who will have a vested interest. And because they are the traveling class, they will already have passports.

That is the ultimate goal, to make voting a privilage of the rich.

[Warpy]

2. It got blown out of the water in NM, too

because there are too many folks out on the rez who were born there and don't have birth certificates or any of the other bureaucratic nonsense we whitefolks are burdened with and consider a natural part of life. They don't drive, don't need to.

They vote, though. It's just that their identification consists of saying their names and having someone else chime in, "Yeah, that's him, all right."

This sort of thing will probably succeed in the former slave states. Since picture IDs including driver's licenses cost money, they figure a lot of poor folks in the cities won't be able to afford them.

That's a return to the poll tax. Poor folks can't vote.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. I would feel better if I had more confidence in this Supremem Court.

I don't trust them at all.