Majorie ________ my mother in law, no gvt issued photo id. (until she learned to drive in her 70's, lived her whole life without a gvt issued photo id)Millions of Americans live their lives without a government issued photo id....it may not be a world you are familiar with, or even want to acknowledge, but this non government photo id world, DOES EXIST....and it's filled with natural born citizens.... so yes, it can be a burden for these mllions of people who have lived their lives without needing a gvt issued photo id. Why go after these citizens and put this on them? They are not the ones committing a crime, the illegal immigrants and legal immigrants are the ones committing the crime if they are registering to vote.the State can not impose this burden on to citizens...it would end up limiting citizen voters and that's why....Sorry. States are not allowed to do that. The SCOTUS upheld the "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" and specifically stated that States cannot impose any additional burdens beyond those on the federal form. The federal form does not verify citizenship, just an attestation.not all businesses use it....
The State welfare offices, have to prove citizenship of the person applying, even if they do not have any ids, the State can verify citizenship....they do it all the time, it is REQUIRED of them....
We can do this, and do this right....don't be such a Nay Sayer....
What could go wrong? Illegals would never break the law!
HOWEVER the State, once they receive the application for voter registration, CAN VERIFY whether they are a citizen or not via e-verify and other systems out there.... this puts no burden on to the citizen to have to carry PAPERS.
THE STATES MUST verify citizenship for certain welfare programs and use gvt lists like e-verify to do such, before the State can give welfare that is funded in part by the Federal gvt.
for goodness sakes, we are in the 21st century, and live in a digital world... the State can do the checking and vetting....
the Supreme court and the law, DOES NOT stop States from verifying citizenship, as long as it is them doing it and not requiring us citizens to carry our PAPERS.
All States should do this....and all States should remove their dead from the voter rolls.... they can verify citizenship, verify the person's address to make certain they are voting in the right district, verify whether the person is registered in another county or another address, verify that they are not a felon, etc etc etc......
Utter nonsense. It is not an undue burden to show one's ID at a polling place. We have to show our ID to conduct all kinds of transactions in our society. Voting should be no different.
Millions of Americans living with out an ID?
Bullshit.
Name me one person.
obviously, you have not been paying attention to the court cases....just in Pennsylvania alone there were hundreds of thousands of citizens without a government issued photo id that would have needed to get one in order to vote... thus the ruling... that's just 1 State...
google it... the info is out there....
if every citizen had a gvt issued photo id at their fingertips, this wouldn't be an issue, it would be easy peasy....