Schumer threatens to kill funding deal if House Republicans attach elections bill requiring photo ID, citizenship proof

            Looks like a DemocRAT shutdown - number 2 - is forthcoming.  ---  "I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate," Schumer said in a statement. "It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to. If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown," he continued. -- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-nukes-gop-push-jim-crow-era-voter-id-laws-trump-backed-shutdown-package

I am not against States demanding proof of eligibility before registering to vote. 

However this law seems unconstitutional. I can't find anything in the Constitution that grants the federal government the power to regulate elections. That power goes to the States. 

This would basically require someone to get a passport before they can register vote. 

The Voting Rights Act is 1 example of feds regulating elections. 

Most people have an id as a govt id is required for many things. 

A drivers license, state id easily available at dmv are ok 

Ga passed an id law & liberals said voter participation would go down; instead it went up. 

Some of The Voting Rights act is likely unconstitutional.

They have the power to ensure that the due process clause is followed. They have the power to enforce the ban on taxes to vote. They have power to ensure that 18-year-olds and over or not denied voting on account of age. They have the power to ensure that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of sex. 

Can you find anything in the Constitution that grants The federal government a general power to regulate elections? 

True most people have a state id or driver's license. However those don't prove citizenship. They do not differentiate between citizens and legal residents

It's not about left vs. right for me. I rejected the false left right paradigm decades ago. 

It's a typical MAGA parrot Tom-lie that it's easy for everyone to get a DL or photo ID. For one example, a homeless person without any proof of address, such as a phone bill or bank statement, would be unable to get such a document.

All that aside, any federal law telling the states how to regulate elections is blatantly unconstitutional and just another example of MAGA's unlawful fascist agenda.

What's really going on here, of course, is a propaganda move against those trillions of ILLEGULS who supposedly cram into polling places and cast fraudulent ballots. We know that happens because Republicans lose elections, and whenever that happens, there must obviously have been cheating.

If the feds can determine voting age and make sure everyone is 18 and over as well as not being discriminated against, no poll taxes etc then they can require citizenship. 

I am happy to show ID every time I vote.  What percentage of homeless people vote anyway ?  Maybe getting an ID would be the first step in the fight against homelessness.  Also I am guessing that nursing homes and homeless camps would be ripe pickings for ballot harvesting.

You do realize that few homeless people vote "anyway" precisely because it's difficult for them to register, one reason for which is that they often don't have the needed documents?

And what does the relative percentage matter, anyway? If ONE homeless (or any other) person is disenfranchised, that's a serious wrong.

And please stop using that idiot MAGA propaganda term "ballot harvesting." That merely refers to collecting filled-out ballots from people to drop them in ballot boxes, usually because they have difficulty getting to the drop-off locations. It's perfectly legal, but MAGA paints it as being worse than mass murder. A less pejorative and more accurate term would be "ballot collecting."

The asshole idiot term is used by MAGA to flog the myth that every election they lose was rigged.

This isn't about requiring citizenship. Weren't you just bleating and bleating about ID requirements? Most ID doesn't say jack shit about citizenship.

Those other things are specifically authorized by The Constitution For The United States. That is why the government can enforce them. 

The feds don't "determine voting age" the Constitution does. 

Obviously unauthorized immigrants shouldn't be allowed to vote. Legal permanent residents should be able to vote. 

I do agree that a State should take steps to ensure that only legal residents and citizens vote. However, absent a Constitutional amendment this is a State issue. 

Even if I like what a law might do if it is not authorized by the Constitution then I will oppose it.