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Title: Pueblo Politics: Court overturns Arizona's proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration
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AZ STAR
URL Source: http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/pue ... 2c-11df-b57f-001cc4c002e0.html
Published: Oct 27, 2010
Author: Rhonda Bodefield
Post Date: 2010-10-27 09:56:05 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Views: 288
Comments: 23
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned Arizona’s requirement that people show proof of citizenship to register to vote. The split decision by a three-judge panel determined that the requirement to show proof of citizenship — passed by voters in 2004 — is not consistent with the National Voter Registration Act. Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, temporarily sitting by designation, and Circuit Judge Sandra Ikuta, with chief judge Alex Kozinski dissenting, said Prop. 200 creates an additional hurdle, while the national act is intended to reduce “state-imposed obstacles” to registration. The majority noted that Congress was well aware of the problem of voter fraud when it passed the voter act, and built in sufficient protections, including applying perjury penalties to applicants who lie about their eligibilty. The court determined Arizona’s polling place photo identification requirement, however, is a minimal burden and does not violate the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment. Attorney General Terry Goddard’s office is still reviewing the decision and was unavailable for comment. Secretary of State Ken Bennett said he does not anticipate that the ruling will make any difference in voting next week, since it wasn’t in place when registration closed Oct. 4. Bennett said the state plans to appeal the ruling, adding he disagrees the documentation sets up a barrier for registration. “I think it’s an outrage and a slap in the face of Arizonans who are concerned about the integrity of elections,” he said.
Pueblo Politics: Court overturns Arizona's proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
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#6. To: christine, Itistoolate, Original_Intent, X-15, noone222, Red Jones, A K A Stone, James Deffenbach, Lod, TommyTheMadArtist, ghostdogtxn, Eric Stratton, Artisan, Jethro Tull, FormerLurker, SonOfLiberty, buckeroo, HOUNDDAWG, Cynicom (#0)
With the extent of document fraud that we've witnessed, this ruling is dangerous. Let's look at the scenario: - An illegal alien obtains a drivers license through fraud, obtains a fraudulent SSN and registers in his respective county. - Said illegal alien then takes his fraudulently obtained drivers license to the local voting booth, presents it, his county registration is checked via database and he is allowed to cast a vote. - Said illegal alien has just NULLIFIED MY LEGAL VOTE. This illegal vote is sufficient to turn a close election. Does anyone with an ounce of intelligence believe that fraudulent votes like this will be investigated and an election overturned? NO!!!!!
#7. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#6)
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You need to show photo ID to buy f**king cold medicine, but not to vote? It's time to make this radical and physical. EDIT: Sandra Day O’Connor = Rope.
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When I present my ID at the polls my registration is checked. This means I'm in the book as a registered voter, and I then sign a signature card which is compared to my signature already on file. (I don't have to use photo ID but I can use the card mailed before each election because of the signature card on file at my polling place) Could it be that the drivers license is simply to verify that the person voting is the same registered voter already on the rolls in AZ? In other words, if AZ's laws are the same as ours the process of verifying voter eligibility before election day is a separate procedure and unless those suspected "ill eagles" have previously registered they can't just pop over to the polling place and vote. They don't have open primaries or any other such liberal voting rules so I assume that AZ requires registration prior to election day at which time the voter fraud is facilitated by Hispanics who have already slipped under the wire and now work for the elections bureau. I'm not certain of course but this may be a misunderstanding. No judge would rule that a state cannot verify voter eligibility because that would most certainly not survive appeal. In theory: If the person with photo ID is already in the book as a registered voter then verifying citizenship at the polls would be a redundant and unnecessary hindrance. Naturalized citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law and should not have to produce extra paperwork because of their skin. In practice: In my state black election workers knowingly allow black convicted felons to register-I witnessed it myself- so we can assume that corrupt Hispanic elections officials will do the same for all who cross El Rio Turdo and wish to register. When it comes to reducing whitey to 2nd class citizenship all minorities are "unified in the struggle." Once they outnumber European Caucasians they can concentrate on killing each other for control of the govt and resources and releasing all of the rapists and murderers who in "self defense and out of frustration," i.e. black rage & barrio defense "only attacked oppressive whites who stole Mexican land and who held the black man down all these umpteen hundred years." EDIT: Remember the state troopers who were stationed at Florida polling places and the black folks who complained about it? That's because who knows how many ex cons have been registered by their fellow neegrows and they're afraid that police officers who sent them up or know them as convicted felons may recognize them as they attempt to vote.
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#10. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#6)
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#23. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#6)
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- Said illegal alien then takes his fraudulently obtained drivers license to the local voting booth, presents it, his county registration is checked via database and he is allowed to cast a vote.
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