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Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship

May 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Is this the new tactic to keep minorities from voting for their candidate of choice???????????????? 

 

Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship

By IAN URBINA
Published: May 12, 2008

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.
Dilip Vishwanat for The New York Times
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Lillie Lewis, 78, with a letter from Mississippi saying it had no record of her birth. “That’s downright wrong,” she said.

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.

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