Guess in which states election laws are tightening?

Careful, lest some on here interpret this as a poll tax.

If the requirement to be eligible to vote is that you be a citizen, it follows that proof of citizenship should be a requirement to actually vote. I've never understood why anyone would have a problem with this.

 

A driver's license still isn't proof of citizenship.

 

Coming up next on Strawman Theater.

 

Except you didn't mention anything about constitutionally protected rights in your original post.

And besides, I have the right to live in a free society. I should be free from demands to prove who I am.

 

You can be. No one's forcing you to fly on American Airlines or open a bank account. But then voting is different from those things.

Remarkably enough, there are millions of people in America who have NEVER flown on an airplane or had a bank account or owned a car. They live in a world so far from your own that you can't even conceptualize it. But they STILL have the right to vote, just the same as you do.

This is not and has never been about voter fraud. It's about disenfranchisement, plain and simple.

 

You ignored my first point. If you've proven your citizenship when you registered to vote, wouldn't a driver's license then prove your identity, and thus your eligibility to vote?

And, while a Social Security card does not prove citizenship, the only foreign nationals who have them are permanent and temporary residents who have permission to work.

If you needed one to register to vote, it would be very easy to look up your eligibility. The Social Security Administration absolutely knows whether or not you are a citizen.

It would eliminate anyone in the country illegally, and if a non-citizen use one in an attempt to register, it would be very easy to identify them, prosecute them, and deport them.

 

I was getting ready to get all fighty in this thread, but you nailing this issue and are doing it better than I would. Keep up the good work!

 

Since you have brought it up, what is proof of citizenship and when do you need to prove it?

 

Why not just answer the question?

You made a blanket statement. If there are exceptions to your statement, please let me know what they are.

 

If you can't take the steps to be able to prove who you are, be it by social security card, birth certificate, passport, driver's license, school ID or anything, then you probably should not be voting.

This isn't a rich vs. poor issue, it's an accountability issue.

 

No. Citizenship changes, for one thing.

There is NO evidence whatsoever that this is occurring on anything remotely resembling a scale, let alone a large scale. Simply none.

 

An identification of any sort (not necessarily government-issued) and a signed affidavit declaring yourself to be a citizen should be plenty.

If the government then has cause to believe you committed the crime of voter fraud, they can conduct an investigation.