Posted by
inkling_revival on Monday, May 12, 2008 11:00:58 AM
Missouri Republicans proposed an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that would enable election officials to demand proof of citizenship in order to obtain the right to vote. Democrats, the minority in the Missouri legislature, are
ratcheting up the class rhetoric, calling the measure "an assault on voting rights."
Missouri already passed a voter photo ID law back in 2006, but the Missouri Supreme Court struck it down as an unconstitutional burden on voting rights, since the law often required citizens to pay to obtain a birth certificate. The US Supreme Court a few weeks ago upheld a similar law in Indiana, paving the way for voter photo ID laws all over the US.
Eighty percent of Americans believe requiring photo ID to vote constitutes sound policy to protect the voting process from fraud.
First of all, let's state what this is really about: it's about Democrats getting felons and illegal aliens to vote Democratic. Democrats have been
systematically using Hispanics from Mexico to bolster their electoral results in border states since at least 1996. They
show up at illegal alien rallies with voter registration posters. They
routinely submit falsified voter registration information to allow illegals, felons, and other ineligibles to vote Democratic.
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