{"id":53481,"date":"2024-01-22T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53481"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:35:22","slug":"the-impact-of-changing-the-voting-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53481","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Of Changing The Voting Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about what happened in Arizona when the voting laws were changed so that let voters who failed to provide proof of U.S. citizenship on their state voter application forms vote in federal elections anyway,<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, Arizona voters approved Proposition 200, also known as the\u00a0\u201cArizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act.<\/a>\u201d At its core, the election integrity initiative required proof of U.S. citizenship to vote and photo identification at polling places. Prop 200 has come under constant assault from leftists fighting against the Arizona Constitution\u2019s key qualification to vote in elections: U.S. citizenship.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The challenge went all the way to U.S. Supreme Court, where in 2013 the justices ruled 7-2 that states could not add documentary proof of citizenship requirements to federal election registration forms. States must \u201caccept and use\u201d the standardized federal voter registration form for national elections under the 1993\u00a0National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)<\/a>. The NVRA form, developed by the federal Election Assistance Commission, does not require proof of citizenship. It only asks that an applicant \u201caver, under penalty of perjury, that he is a citizen.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

…According to Mussi (Scot Mussi, president of the\u00a0Arizona Free Enterprise Club<\/a>, a nonprofit committed to advancing a pro-growth, limited government agenda in the Grand Canyon State), the pause in the proof of citizenship provision saw an \u201cexplosion of federal only voters\u201d \u2014 voters who used the federal honor system instead of showing actual proof of citizenship.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the secretary of state\u2019s office, about 1,700 people in Arizona\u00a0voted<\/a>\u00a0in the 2018 midterm elections with a federal-only ballot. Two years later, in the absence of the documentation safeguard, the number grew to 11,600 individuals, according to\u00a0AZ Free News<\/a>. President Joe Biden claimed victory in Arizona by just 10,457 votes, or about 0.3 percent.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s time for all Americans to work together to secure our elections. Voter ID should be required, and paper ballots (to be hand counted). Otherwise, we are on a slippery slope to becoming a Banana Republic.<\/p>\n

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