Voter citizenship?

I thought being a citizen was a requirement to vote? Does the lack of this law mean I can grab a voter reg. form, fill in chuck u farley from bumfook ind. and I'm in? No proof of anything at all?

Appeals Court Blocks Proof-of-Citizenship Requirement for Voters in 3 States

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked Kansas, Georgia and Alabama from requiring residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when registering to vote using a national form.

The 2-1 ruling is a victory for voting rights groups who said a U.S. election official illegally changed proof-of-citizenship requirements on the federal registration form at the behest of the three states.

People registering to vote in other states are only required to swear that that they are citizens, not show documentary proof.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia acted swiftly in the case, issuing a two-page, unsigned ruling just a day after hearing oral arguments. A federal judge in July had refused to block the requirement while the case is considered on the merits.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/appeals-court-blocks-proof-citizenship-requirement-voters-3-states-n646001
Does chuck u farley have the needed state issued id to register to vote? Not having to prove citizenship is not the same as not needing any id. What proof do you carry that you are a citizen?
But She is GUILTY,GUILTY,GUILTY!!!!!!!!
With the last couple of polls showing Trump leading Hillary, the libs need the illegal immigrant vote.
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Originally posted by: jatki99
I thought being a citizen was a requirement to vote?

The Constitution, . . . and particularly four Amendments thereto, suggest citizenship is a requirement.

__Amendment 14 defines the term citizen in Section 1.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside"

Section 2 establishes penalties against State officials for denying the right to vote to ". . . any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, . . ."

__Amendment 15 states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

__Amendment 19 states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

__Amendment 24, Section 1 states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax."

__Amendment 26, Section 1 states: "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

[boldface added - DD]

Isn't it a little early to be making excuses for Donald Trump's massive annihilation in November?

The only people committing voter fraud are in Trump's campaign.

Trump campaign chief registered to vote in Vacant house in FLorida
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Originally posted by: DonDiego
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Originally posted by: jatki99
I thought being a citizen was a requirement to vote?

The Constitution, . . . and particularly four Amendments thereto, suggest citizenship is a requirement.

__Amendment 14 defines the term citizen in Section 1.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside"

Section 2 establishes penalties against State officials for denying the right to vote to ". . . any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, . . ."

__Amendment 15 states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

__Amendment 19 states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

__Amendment 24, Section 1 states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax."

__Amendment 26, Section 1 states: "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

[boldface added - DD]



Which part of the Constitution states you must prove your citizenship to register to vote?
If the Constitution does not state that you should prove to be a United States citizen to register to vote , then it should, period. Enough of this liberal bullshit.
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Originally posted by: drmilled
If the Constitution does not state that you should prove to be a United States citizen to register to vote , then it should, period. Enough of this liberal bullshit.


If only there was a way to change it, perhaps amend it.
As usual, Donde Ego is blowing smoke by misdirection.
What one should be referring to is The Voting Act of 1965.
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Originally posted by: billryan
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Originally posted by: DonDiego
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Originally posted by: jatki99
I thought being a citizen was a requirement to vote?

The Constitution, . . . and particularly four Amendments thereto, suggest citizenship is a requirement.


Which part of the Constitution states you must prove your citizenship to register to vote?

The Constitution provides the framework for the governance of the United States. As such, it presents principles by which the Federal Government and State Governments are to govern - citing appropriate powers to each and setting limits on those powers, i.e. restrictions on Government actions so as to protect individual liberties.

As the Constitution includes citizenship as a requirement to vote, . . . DonDiego suggests the appropriate question is: "What should the local governments, State Governments, and the Federal Government do to assure the rights of their citizens?"

DonDiego opines that the right of the citizens to vote is affected adversely if non-citizens are permitted to vote.

And, as with most of the Constitution, DonDiego suggests that whatever should be done, should be done at the State level in preference to the Federal level.

So the question is how may State Government voting officials prohibit non-citizens from voting.
[n.b. This is not a universal conclusion. DonDiego believes it is the correct conclusion, the alternative is permitting non-citizens to vote - not in accordance with the Constitution.

DonDiego does not object to State voter registration in which proof of citizenship is required. There was a time in the 20th Century when pretty much everyone had a birth certificate or a document from Immigration authorities certifying citizenship and had no problem presenting it to register to vote. This is now known as The Good Old Days.

Now there's a growing dispute as to just what the State voting officials can do and cannot do. And it is just this issue that is making its way through the Courts.
DonDiego's hopes for preservation of the rights of US citizens dwindles, as those rights become diluted in the voting booth.
But some people approve.




From the Arizona State Law Journal, titled "Invisible Federalism and the Electoral College"

“Alien suffrage was quite common during the nineteenth century, coming to a peak in 1875 when twenty-two states and territories granted aliens the right to vote.”237 That ended in the 1920s, at which point all states required citizenship as a condition to voter eligibility.238 Today, every state prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections.239 Federal law, too, prohibits aliens from voting in federal elections.240 There are, however, jurisdictions that allow,241 or seek to allow,242 noncitizens to vote in local elections. And as resident aliens have a significant interest in the locales where they reside, and are subject to other political obligations like taxation, there have been particularly strong arguments in favor of extending suffrage to at least a set of them.243

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Oh by the way Billy, the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments address citizens rights to vote.
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