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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 01:45 PM
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41. again. How does it suppress voting if you have to be a citizen to register
Edited on Tue Apr-27-10 01:47 PM by onenote
proof of your identity to vote?

If I wanted this law to fail, the first thing I'd do is have law enforcement stand outside polling places asking for ID -- any lawyer worth their salt could get the law enjoined in about ten seconds; among other things, its facially impossible to establish a "reasonable suspicion" that someone who is entering a polling place is an illegal alien since the reaonable assumption under the law is that if you are showing up to vote you are registered which means you are a citizen.

I'm not arguing that voter suppression and intimidation hasn't taken place in AZ in the past or that it won't occur in the future. Just that if this is supposed to be a vehicle for that objective its a particularly lame one since anyone who wants to vote has to be a citizen and has to have "papers" (i.e. drivers license or some other form or forms of identification) when they go to vote.
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