California Voter ID Bill
Posted by: Jaime Huff | 02/26/2008 11:57 AM
Assemblywoman Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel) introduced AB 2317, a bill that would prohibit a person from registering to vote unless that person can provide proof of citizenship at the time of registration. Proof of citizenship includes: a birth certificate (or legible photocopy), a United States passport (or photocopy), United States naturalization documents, the number of his or her certificate of naturalization in lieu of naturalization documents (but must be verified with the United States Immigration Services), any document or method of proof established by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs card number, tribal treaty card number, or tribal enrollment number. Read the text of the bill in pdf format by clicking below.
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Makes sense to me.
stupid. creates more bureaucracy -cost to enforce far outstrips benefit of requirement. what's the argument for the policy and for the expense? what's the fiscal impact?
Brilliant. Do you know how many dead people and illegals vote in every election? You need an ID to drive, you need an ID to to make a charge purchase, why wouldn't you need an ID to vote? It would help cut down on corruption. The expense is nominal to the benefit of safeguarding elections.
That a good question: do YOU know how many dead people and illegals vote in every election? Answer your own question truthfully and you'll have to agree with ESQ -- this is an expensive and complex solution to a non-problem.
California doesn't have too many people trying to vote -- the problem is quite the opposite. The hard part is getting people to participate. Making participation more onerous is not going to help anything.
That's right Tito - we don't have a problem - let's leave the issue unchecked and unsolved. I'm not sure if "response to esq" has numbers or not, and I don't care, the point is these things happen and in a democracy that prides itself on a fair and balanced voting system, we can't allow non-citizens or rotting corpses to vote. Who cares what the numbers are, happening once is too much.