How? Just pull out your national identity card. Oh, wait, there’s no such thing.
There are millions of people who don’t have access to a birth certificate, most of them poor, black, and/or women. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/download_file_39242.pdf
Oh yeah…no ratfkin’ here…I am so sick of these yahoos whining about ‘rights’ while trying to restrict rights for those they don’t deem ‘worthy’.
Wrong. Do some research before making this kind of blanket statement. Millions of people can’t get one. In many cases, they simply don’t exist.
You are God. Are you sure you are not related to Trump?
You need a birth certificate to get a drivers license the first time. You need one to get married. Does it mean that you have to keep your stuff together? Yes.
What is the alternative? Do you want anyone to fill in a Registration Form to vote and be granted a voter card? I guess the next outrage would come when people who speak with an accent, or don’t speak English at all would come to register to vote. If there is no paperwork to prove citizenship, then who could ever be turned down? No one.
You know what? Sometimes you can be so open-minded that your brain can fall out.
Gosh, maybe you should get TWO votes!
Voting is a right, not an f-ing privilege. Many people do not have - in many cases, cannot get - a birth certificate.
Also I can see a system put in place where people that attempted to register without proper ID were put on some sort of “Attempted to Fraudulently Register” list and go through hell down the road for their “criminality”.
Florida purged thousands of eligible voters for items as stupid as the street spelling on a previous registration not matching current records.
“Sir, our records indicate you live on 1469 Banta Rd. Yet you’ve submitted a registration showing 1469 Banta Road!!! TWO DIFFERENT SPELLINGS!!! Officer, arrest that man!!!”
Stick with the current system in most states, in which you simply sign a form saying that you are a citizen. So far, there is absolutely no evidence that this has allowed any non-citizens to vote.
This is a “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist. Its sole purpose is to make sure fewer of “those people” can cast ballots.
It may be a good idea to have those documents, but it is illegal to require payment of any kind in order to vote.
If it exists. What do you do if it doesn’t? You keep avoiding answering this fairly straightforward question, and it’s not a hypothetical. Millions of people are in this position.
Don’t worry, it’s about to get a LOT worse as November approaches. The voter suppression tactics in states controlled by the GOP/Teatrolls are going to rain down upon us like a biblical flood over the next several months.
Please enjoy the following selection of fascist offerings:
DMV closings.
Shortened polling hours, particularly in high population areas like inner cities.
Removal of Sunday voting.
Shortened early voting period.
Purges of the voter rolls.
Shortened absentee voting.
More restrictive absentee voting.
Less polling places.
Less voting machines.
Broken, destroyed or “missing” voting machines.
More Voter ID requirements.
More restrictive Voter ID requirements.
Proof of citizenship requirements.
Proliferation of “poll watcher” groups.
More restrictive rules for voter registration drives.
Expanded criminal liability for submitting registrations that are false, even though by law you have to submit any registration you obtain during a registration drive (including those for Mickey Mouse).
Prohibition of voter registration drives in certain places (think colleges).
Outright prohibition of voter registration drives.
Prohibition of voter registration for a longer period prior to voting day.
Expansion of opportunities to turn ballots into provisional ballots that may be challenged.
Widespread failure of the government to provide public notice of changed rules.
Government mailings warning about potential punishments for violating voting laws conveniently showing up only in certain communities’ mailboxes and hey, why not…containing errors of law too.
GOP/Teatrolls propagating voting fraud myths.
The entire MSM helping the GOP./Teatrolls propagate voting fraud myths.
Etc. etc. etc.
The list is endless and the GOP/Teatrolls are checking it twice…gonna find out who’s naughty or white…
You can bet on it. The G.O.P. is gradually losing on pure demographics, so all they’ve got left is more aggressive gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Devil’s Advocate time: why should you have to prove citizenship? Why shouldn’t you just have to prove residency?
I hope there’s toads and blood in that rain. Nothing much exciting happens around here, that would be a change.
No…now you know better than that. It’s about adding a hurdle to registration. It comes from a political party that has conjured up many hurdles to voting. Low turn out ( which is guaranteed if you cannot register ) favors GOP’ers. No one, not even you, is too dumb to see through what’s going on. So stop blowing smoke.
Because George Soros is about to offer millions of Mexicans with calves the size of cantelopes $10,000 each to vote for the Democrats.
Did you think that post made sense? It’s a bad rehash of GOP’er excuses.
Voter suppression is a very real thing that’s being and has been used by Republicans as a means to make voting for certain people as difficult as possible. Many African Americans, for instance, within the areas where this is being implemented often don’t have readily available proof of citizenship and obtaining one isn’t always as easy as people would like to believe. Does that mean there aren’t ways in obtaining one? No, there very well may be people who have the time and means to follow through with it, but the idea is still there: to make it harder for the “wrong” kinds of people to vote.
Of course, if you are a citizen. And that is the whole point, right? And if you can’t get a birth certificate, you are a moron.
This “official” must be a far right voter who prefers that the fewer people vote, the better it is for his party. There is little or no evidence of voter fraud, but it can’t hurt to keep minorities from voting. The feds should fire him. Now.