The Volokh Conspiracy
volokh.comFound 89 days, 20 minutes, and 34 seconds agoStill, isn't it a bit odd that Saturday's story on the reporters' privilege doesn't disclose that both of the credited authors, Eric Lichtblau and Philip Shenon, have been personally involved recently in high-profile DOJ leak investigations? Lichtblau was himself a target after he co-authored the 2005 NSA surveillance story. And Philip Shenon was one of the two reporters who had his phone records subpoened in the Valerie Plame leak investigation (the other was Judith Miller). I don't know the official standards for journalistic ethics, but it seems pretty fishy to me that Lichtblau & Shenon didn't disclose their background in the story.
crooksandliars.com
When Indiana passed a voter ID law, it was ostensibly to protect the integrity of the voting process. What better way to prevent voter fraud than to require those participating in an election to produce identification?
Was there any evidence of a voter-fraud scourge in Indiana? No. Would the law make it harder for "certain kinds" of voters (i.e., the elderly, minorities, and the poor) to participate? Yes. Did this look a whole lot like Republican lawmakers trying to discourage likely Democratic voters from taking part in elections?
Found 87 days, 2 hours, 1 minute, and 55 seconds ago
thinkprogress.org
While " the number of Americans being secretly wiretapped " or having their records reviewed by the government continues to increase, "the number of terrorism prosecutions ending up in court" has continued to decline. Experts say that the trends are evidence that "the government has compromised the privacy rights of ordinary citizens without much to show for it ."
Two campaign aides to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were forced to quit because of ties to a firm that once represented the Burmese military Junta .
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 39 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
talkleft.com
James Joyner discusses Missouri's Voter ID plan (I call it the GOP's voter suppression scheme):
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. The measure would allow far more rigorous demands than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
digbysblog.blogspot.com
And so it begins:
Found 88 days, 14 hours, 3 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
stoptheaclu.com
New York Times
Big Dog is a guest writer at Stop the ACLU. His blog, Big Dog's Weblog , deals with political and military issues as well as topical news.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 33 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
outsidethebeltway.com
Missouri is trying to join Arizona in requiring people prove that they are U.S. citizens before allowing them to vote.
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. The measure would allow far more rigorous demands than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card.
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
thecarpetbaggerreport.com
When Indiana passed a voter ID law, it was ostensibly to protect the integrity of the voting process. What better way to prevent voter fraud than to require those participating in an election to produce identification?
Was there any evidence of a voter-fraud scourge in Indiana? No. Would the law make it harder for "certain kinds" of voters (i.e., the elderly, minorities, and the poor) to participate? Yes. Did this look a whole lot like Republican lawmakers trying to discourage likely Democratic voters from taking part in elections?
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
salon.com
Vice President Dick Cheney, hard as he tries, is just not a very popular man. So it wasn't surprising to hear the rumors that he wouldn't even be attending the Republican convention in September. John McCain doesn't want to have Cheney's unpopularity tied to him -- a recent poll showed only 23 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the vice president, and that's a very, very heavy anchor for McCain to carry dangling from his neck.
Now it turns out that Cheney will be attending the convention after all.
Found 462 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
thetalkingdog.com
It seems that Missouri wants to live up to its state nickname, by proposing to pass a requirement that prospective voters not merely show identification, but actual proof of citizenship not only to vote, but to register to vote.
Obviously, much publicity has surrounded the Supreme Court's recent upholding of Indiana's stringent photo identification law for voters, a rule which excluded a dozen nuns from voting there, but the war-to-make-sure-that-the-majority-will-never-prevails continues.
Found 88 days, 16 hours, 29 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
blogs.wsj.com
Last month, when the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's voter ID law -- thought to be one of the stricter laws of its kind -- legal commentators speculated that the decision would embolden advocates of voter ID laws, paving the way for even stricter ID laws, and, of course, more litigation.
It didn't take long. This week, reports the NYT's Ian Urbina, lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship -- not merely a government-issued card -- from anyone registering to vote.
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes ago
prometheus6.org
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 19 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
nytimes.com
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Found 88 days, 17 hours, 56 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
dubyad40.com
( Link )
Found 88 days, 50 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
americanpatriotjournal.com
( NY Times ) - The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.
The measure would allow far more rigorous demands than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card.
Found 88 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
electionlawblog.org
The NY Times offers this front-page report , which begins: "The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote."
This is an important story, but there's a detail here that shouldn't be lost on those who have been following the election administration wars. Thor Hearne' s American Center for Voting Rights is back, with no explanation as to how it can return as mysteriously as it disappeared .
Found 88 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
fox-tractorfacts.blogspot.com
NY Times
Found 88 days, 14 hours, 34 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
secureborders.com
desmoinesregister.com
POSTVILLE, Iowa -- At least 300 people were arrested today at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat packing plant, federal officials said.
The operation, which targeted people who illegally used other persons Social Security numbers and were in the U.S. illegally, was the largest of its kind in Iowa, said Claude Arnold, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The workers arrested so far were interviewed by agents with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Public Health Service.
Found 88 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
arunsmusings.blogspot.com
If legislation works out as various nutcases want , Americans will have to prove to the Federal Government their right to work.
Found 88 days, 8 hours, 30 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
prairieweather.typepad.com
If passed this week, the amendment clears the way for a pending bill
that would require some kind of identification in order to prove
citizenship and to register to vote. But many questions about the bill
- like whether current registered voters will have to obtain a new form
of identification - have not been resolved.
Lillie Lewis, a voter
who lives in St. Louis and spoke at a news conference last week
organized to oppose the amendment, said she already had a difficult
time trying to get a photo ID from the state, which asked her for a
birth certificate.
Found 88 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
rturner229.blogspot.com
An effort in the Missouri Legislature to put a photo I. D. issue on the ballot is explored in an article in today's New York Times:
Found 88 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
crackersquire.blogspot.com
From The New York Times :
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 16 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
volokh.powerblogs.com
reports , the stated purpose of this requirement is to prevent voting by illegal immigrants and other non-citizens.
Voting experts say the Missouri amendment represents the next logical step for those who have supported stronger voter ID requirements and the next battleground in how elections are conducted.
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 16 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
phosnorkapages.blogspot.com
There are many good reasons to oppose voter ID laws. One is the sense that the advocates for such laws are less interested in responding to real concerns about voter fraud and more interested in throwing up a thousand tiny barriers to discourage voting. So this report from NYTimes is distressing:
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
nomoremister.blogspot.com
When I started to read this New York Times article about a proposed new voter ID law in Missouri, my first thought was "Surely we'll just have to have national ID cards eventually" -- a possibility hinted at in the article. And then I realized that's never going to happen.
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 16 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
thepiratescove.us
Of course, those liberals who love to make sure that elections are fair, such as Firedoglake , Hullabaloo (who calls it voter fraud fraud), Prairie Weather , and Eschaton , are all for the measure. They love it!
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 16 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
politics.propeller.com
( nytimes.com )
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
racewire.org
Missouri Lawmakers Want Voters to Prove Citizenship
Found 88 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
weinish.blogspot.com
But when it comes to keeping minorities from voting, well, then they're willing to change a constitution .
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 29 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
ruthgroup.org
As if last week's Supreme Court ruling that it was not unconstitutional to require photo IDs at the time of voting weren't bad enough, Missouri is taking disenfranchisement one step further. A constitutional amendment is on the ballot stating that in order to register to vote you must prove citizenship. You must present, let's say, a birth certificate.
Sponsors of the amendment - which requires the approval of voters to go into effect, possibly in an August referendum - say it is part of an effort to prevent illegal immigrants from affecting the political process.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
noisyroom.net
Good… They should have to prove citizenship. If you are obeying the law, you have nothing to hide. From the
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
thealbanyproject.com
Will he or won't he? That is the question for Vito Fossella. Phillip has the resignation watch . More states are trying to implement a Voter ID requirement that would mean every time someone votes, they must show identification first. The problem? You will disenfranchise thousands because of this. We saw what happened to the nuns in Indiana . This could happen to many people. What about new, young voters (18 years old) who might not have a driver's license? Believe me - I've seen it. This is a terrible law in a number of states even though our Supreme Court finds it constitutional .
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
politics.boogietrain.nl
Missouri is trying to join Arizona in requiring people prove that they are U.S. citizens before allowing them to vote.
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. The measure would allow far more rigorous demands than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
dekerivers.wordpress.com
The idea that we should work to find ways to make it more difficult to cast a ballot seems like a past-time for the Missouri State Legislature. The Missouri voter ID requirement, which the Supreme Court ruled to be constitutional, and which many of us understand to be better labeled as disenfranchisement, seems to be but the start of their efforts to stymie voting.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
forlornapple.blogspot.com
Recently the Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring voters to present a valid government issued ID before being allowed to vote. Now Missouri wants to go one step further by requiring people registering to vote show proof of citizenship .
Found 88 days, 2 hours, 6 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
electric-escape.net
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Found 87 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
keithburgess-jackson.com
How anyone could oppose a requirement that voters prove their citizenship is beyond me. If it were up to me, nobody would be allowed to vote unless he or she had passed a college-level critical-thinking course.
Found 87 days, 21 hours, 43 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
triskele.com
Seen in the New York Times :
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.[...]
The Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who opposes the measure, estimated that it could disenfranchise up to 240,000 registered voters who would be unable to prove their citizenship.
Found 87 days, 21 hours, 43 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
flapolitics.blogspot.com
"The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote." Voting experts say the Missouri amendment represents the next logical step for those who have supported stronger voter ID requirements and the next battleground in how elections are conducted. Similar measures requiring proof of citizenship are being considered in at least 19 state legislatures.
Found 87 days, 18 hours, 53 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
joeirvin.blogspot.com
BRIBERY may be a way of doing business in the Mideast, as it is in other parts of the world, but to whose cronies did the money go? al-Maliki's? Cheney's? Other neocons'? All of the above?
Found 87 days, 18 hours, 1 minute, and 53 seconds ago
kcblueblog.blogspot.com
Missouri Legislature Pushing To Stop Latinos, Working-Class/Low Income Citizens and Seniors From Registering To Vote
Found 87 days, 17 hours, 16 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
charmingjustcharming.blogspot.com
Yeah, I can understand why the dim-a-crits are fighting in Missouri a "...proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote." See, now that voters are going to have to show a picture ID before they can vote it is gonna stop those dim-a-crit ghosts from the grave yard from voting as they have in the past and carried so many elections. So the dim-a-crits figure they can round up the illegal aliens, get them a picture ID card and bus them to the polls.
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
flapolitics.com
"The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote." Voting experts say the Missouri amendment represents the next logical step for those who have supported stronger voter ID requirements and the next battleground in how elections are conducted. Similar measures requiring proof of citizenship are being considered in at least 19 state legislatures.
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 9 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
ginacobb.typepad.com
Requiring proof of citizenship to vote should not be a "battle," as the New York Times describes it. The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. . . . .
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
kmareka.com
I guess I'd better get a passport, in case I have to show my papers .
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote…
Measures requiring proof of citizenship raise the bar higher because they offer fewer options for documentation.
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
peskyapostrophe.com
I'm of two minds about requiring photo ID in order to vote. I mean, yes, nearly everyone has photo ID - whether it's a driver's license or a non-driver's license. I don't know anyone who doesn't have one or the other [that I know of anyway]. On the other hand, I realize there are always going to be people who don't have any reason to have a license - nuns and other religious folk, for instance. I've heard that requiring photo ID may discriminate against low income folk...I guess if they can't afford to get their non-driver's license, I can understand.
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
blogrevolution.com
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
politics.netscape.com
( nytimes.com )
Found 87 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com
Bob Pastor of American University, who served as Executive Director of the Carter Baker Commission, had an explanation for the New York Times for Missouri's proposed constitutional amendment requiring proof of voter citizenship. "Election verification" was a "force," he said, and it is now converging with the other "forces" of immigration and national security to produce proposals like the one now pending in Missouri.
Found 87 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
d-day.blogspot.com
So off of that, the Republican leader in the House John Boehner has decided that Obama called Israel a constant wound and a constant sore , instead of what he actually said, that the conflict is a wound, and conflict resolution is preferable.
Found 87 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
donklephant.com
That's right. It's not needed and never has been
Folks, this will be sold as "don't let illegal immigrants vote", but that's not the goal. Republicans are pushing it so fewer people will get to vote.
Found 86 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
leftinthewest.com
I've written exhaustively about the myth of voter fraud , that it isn't a problem, that it's used by Republicans to discourage voters with likely Democratic leanings from going to the polls. The conservative SCOTUS rubber-stamped the practice , allowing states to address a problem that doesn't exist at the cost of chasing away a number of voters from the polls. At the time of the court decision, Stanford law professor Rick Hasen wrote:
...I am disappointed by how cursory that opinion was in its review of the state's interest in light of the highly partisan atmosphere of election administration, and I fear that, despite the Stevens-Kennedy-Roberts' opinion's best intentions, this opinion will be read as a green light for the enactment of more partisan election laws in an attempt to skew outcomes in close elections.
Found 86 days, 19 hours, 32 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
firedupamerica.com
A voter in Kansas City on Tuesday --- one I happen to know, because he's an Election Integrity advocate in the Show Me State --- was arrested and sent to jail after he refused to show a driver's license at the polling place before attempting to vote during the state's Primary Election. Read the full story here .
Found 252 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
alandwilliams.com
A couple of political notes for you, before I'm off to fix the sprinkler system before we dry up and blow away:
1) From the inbox and just in time for Obama's 47th b-day , you can find all your election gear at the Elect Obama Store . I have no idea who gets the money, but somebody's got to make a fast buck. If nothing else, this stuff will be collectors' items in a few decades.
2) The running mate announcements are right around the corner and McCain has been working hard on his selection:
Found 462 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes ago
abovethelaw.com
* Voter ID movement spreads to Missouri, which is considering a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters. [ New York Times ]
* Obama ties Clinton in the superdelegate count. [ CNN ]
* Foxy Brown shows you how not to use your Blackberry. [ New York Times ]
* Counsel 'n things in the Linens 'N Things bankruptcy case. [ WSJ Law Blog ]
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
makethemaccountable.com
Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow
Found 88 days, 4 hours, 52 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
desertbeacon.blogspot.com
government…plunging the volatile Muslim nation back into political uncertainty" [ Reuters ]
Found 88 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
brennancenter.org
DOJ: Former Aide Broke Law in Hiring Scandal
Found 205 days, 4 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
salon.com
Vice President Dick Cheney, hard as he tries, is just not a very popular man. So it wasn't surprising to hear the rumors that he wouldn't even be attending the Republican convention in September. John McCain doesn't want to have Cheney's unpopularity tied to him -- a recent poll showed only 23 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the vice president, and that's a very, very heavy anchor for McCain to carry dangling from his neck.
Now it turns out that Cheney will be attending the convention after all.
Found 462 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
illegalimmigrationjournal.com
Read More Bradenton Hearld
Found 463 days, 21 hours, 49 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
roadkillrefugee.wordpress.com
Former Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA) to declare himself a Libertarian candidate for president. Presumably any votes for Barr would otherwise be votes for McCain, not Obama. While it's unlikely he'll have a material impact in many states, it's always possible that in a particular swing state, he could cost McCain a victory. There is a faction of the GOP that despises the Bush/Cheney neocon-"imperial executive" approach to governance, and yet many of these voters would be unwilling to vote for Obama. To the extent McCain continues to sell himself as a Bush third term on the neocon agenda, Barr gives these folks an alternative (even if it is a symbolic protest vote).
Found 88 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
apublicdefender.com
Lawmakers in Missour a are voting on a proposal to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.
Found 88 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
vaguelylogical.blogspot.com
I exaggerate, somewhat. They just want to amend Missouri's constitution to let election officials require proof of citizenship from anybody who registers to vote. A bunch of other states are considering similar steps - not coincidentally, at the initiative of Republicans in each and every one of them.
Found 88 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
thepage.time.com
NY Times: Missouri lawmakers expected to support proposal allowing election officials to ask for proof of citizenship from those registering to vote.
Measure would require voter approval -- possibly in an August referendum just months before the presidential election.
Issue could be the "next battleground" in how elections are conducted with similar measures being considered in at least 19 states.
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
bronxnews.wordpress.com
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 2 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
prorev.com
THE MASSIVE DECLINE OF FISH IN OUR OCEANS
Found 87 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
independentsunbound.blogspot.com
Latest Republican Jim Crow Revival Effort to Keep As Many Non-Whites from Voting as Possible: "Supporters of a measure in Missouri cite concerns about illegal immigrants voting, but critics say tens of thousands of legal residents could be disenfranchised."
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
news.aol.com
In the wake of the Supreme Court's approval of an Indiana law requiring voters to present a state-issued photo identification card at the polls, voting security activists are seeking to take the argument over voter ID one step further, just in time for the presidential election. Missouri lawmakers plan to vote on an amendment to the state constitution that would require voters to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The amendment would tighten the proofs required for registration in the state.
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
stlcofcc.wordpress.com
The New York Times profiles what may be a Missouri constitutional amendment that will require those who register to vote to submit proof of citizenship. They go on and on like it's such an extreme and drastic proposal, but they are virtually the same as Missouri's driver's license law enacted about three years ago.
Actually, I have never been a fan of merely registering to vote by filling out a postcard and sending it in the mail. The method of registering to vote should be one where, with a few exceptions, one should show a little bit of ambition in order to register to vote.
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
uptownflavor.com
Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity [ New York Times]
Commuters' group report: '10 plagues of the subway' [ amNY.com ]
Marrying at Rikers Island: Few Frills, Many Rules [ New York Times]
Aspartame, MSG, Dumbing Down Society [UrbanWorldOnline]
For Rooftop Antennas, It's Showtime [ New York Times]
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship [ New York Times]
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
cronespeaks.wordpress.com
the next battle in the Voter ID arena appears to be in Missouri , where "fears of illegal immigrants voting" is fueling the Show Your Papers! people.
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.
The measure would allow far more rigorous demands than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card.
Found 87 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
idrunk.com
But in a painfully misguided ruling, a Supreme Court Drunk Newsproved a Indiana measure anyway. We're now seeing a predictable result - conservatives who want voter ID laws to help keep Democrats from a polls are ratcheting up air efforts .
a battle over voting rights will exp& this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.
Found 87 days, 1 hour, 57 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
inthekut.wordpress.com
I simply do not understand how photo voter ID advocates can push for more restrictive laws as a means of preventing undocumented immigrants from swaying close elections . If you are in the country illegally why in the world would you show up at the polls? Too many immigrants are afraid to go to the hospital much less show up at the polls to cast a ballot.
That would be the last place I would go.
Plus, actual U.S. citizens are the ones who bear the brunt of these laws whether are foreign or native born.
Found 86 days, 22 hours, 47 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
project-vote.dailykos.com
UPDATED at bottom!
By Nathan Henderson-James
In the wake of increasing media scrutiny and aggressive push-back from voting rights activists, the fight over Missouri's proposed Constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship documents in order to register to vote moves to the State Senate today. The New York Times chose to make this issue the lead story on their front page today, Monday May 11, 2008 and Art Levine, writing at the Huffington Post gives a very good analysis of the potential impact of the law and the work being done both to push this draconian voter disenfranchisement measure and to fight for the voting rights of up to 240,000 Missouri voters.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, and 1 second ago