H. R. 4844, the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006, passed the House today. The bill would “require any individual who desires to register or re-register to vote in an election for Federal office to provide the appropriate State election official with proof that the individual is a citizen of the US.”
Yea: Renzi, Franks, Shadegg, Hayworth, Kolbe
Nay: Pastor, Grijalva
Posted by Stacy on September 20th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Filed under: CD2 Trent Franks, CD3 John Shadegg, CD4 Ed Pastor, CD6 Jeff Flake, CD7 Raul Grijalva, J.D. Hayworth, Jim Kolbe, Rick Renzi |
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This is interesting legislation which I think will really cause problems. I served as a pollworker at the Sept. 12th primary and there were problems with the current Arizona ID requirements because some Driver’s Licenses didn’t have the street address where the person lived, just the P.O. Box. People who receive all of their mail at a P.O. Box had trouble producing 2 others pieces of mail with their street address at the location where they were registered. One person who had this problem became verbally abusive to us pollworkers because she had voted for Prop 200 which intitated the ID requirement but never thought it would be used against her (an Anglo American), just the Mexicans! (I kid you not!)
Also the federal legislation extends the ID requirements to voting by mail which is not required under current Arizona law. That will come as a shock to a lot of people. I also read a news account of this legislation which says that the states have to provide free ID’s proving citizenship to persons who can’t afford to pay for them. That sounds like an unfunded mandate to me.
The real irony is that the veteran pollworkers I spoke with told me that they haven’t seen any problem with illegal aliens trying to vote in the past. I think this legislation is all about pandering to public fears rather than trying to solve a real significant problem.
I too worked the polls and we only had three provisional out of the 126 voters who voted.
Yes, only 126 vote, but that’s another story.
Two went home right away and got APS and voter IDs to show. The other voted a provisional and came back later with his IDs, which we validated and filled out a form that went with his provisional.
I thought it went well and it will go better as more elections are held.
I reminded anyone who votes that many Mexicans who worked in the US and went back to Mexico have P.O.Boxes near the border to collect their Social Security and other checks once a month. Not all Mexicans want to be citizens of the US, but want their money.
Put up every roadblock possible so that only the “right kind” of people vote!
Gerrymandering, poll taxing, push polling, isn’t America Grand?
>> Put up every roadblock possible so that only the “right kind” of people vote
Do you have any examples where this is true in Arizona? It is what the majority of the voters in this state want and it is the law.
This is America 2006, not the 1960’s South where the blacks had trouble. I think people just freak too soon, like the judge in Georgia who voided the voter ID law there, it will be appealed.
First of all I wasn’t necessarily talking about Arizona, but OK.
Gerrymandering happens almost everywhere and by both parties. I would prefer if I live in a majority Dem district or a majority Rep. District that I am represented by a like thinking representative.
Push Polling was happening in I think District 8 and District 1 in the days before the primary and it’s happening all over the country.
Poll Tax. Isn’t that what Prop. 202 was?
If I am poor or disabled, don’t have a car, don’t have a phone, and don’t have a computer, how much harder is it for me to get the information about and proper ID I need for elections.
I personally got my registration done at the same time I re-registered my car online. It took less than 2 minutes. Take away all of my conveniences and it would take days or weeks.
The reason for Prop 202 supposedly, to prevent Illegals from voting. Show me proof of wide spread illegals voting. Isn’t it easier to reprogram the electronic machines and flip votes by the thousands than to pay people to fake ID and go vote by the dozens?
I have a major problem with National ID’s for many reasons among them the security of my personal information as we have seen numerous times in the last few years. Credit Card companies and the VA “losing” databases? they always seem to find them a few hours later, enough time for someone to download and sell off the info.
You can’t say this is 2006 and not the 60’s and be serious as if racism doesn’t exist. If you beleive that then you’re transformation to ex right wing is not complete. Hell, even black men like Ken Blackwell in Ohio is selling the black vote in Ohio down the river.
Give me open source voting machines or all mail in ballots and leave the ID’s to the States. And don’t allow Sec. States to be campaign chairpeople for any candidates.
I’ve been voting for many decades, but I’d have a hard time finding something that proves I’m a citizen. A driver’s license doesn’t. A motor vehicle agency I.D. card doesn’t.
Many seniors don’t have I.D. due to loss or whatever, if they don’t drive.
This legislation is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise the poorest voters in our society.
Here’s an earlier example of right wing hysteria carried into the halls of Congress:
Dornan Challenge to Sanchez Rejected
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 5, 1998; Page A046
A Republican-led task force formally dismissed a vote fraud challenge to the election of Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) yesterday, ending a 14-month investigation denounced by Democrats as a “witch hunt” designed to frighten Latino voters and keep them away from the polls.
Former representative Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.), who filed the complaint, refused to concede defeat, blamed “3,000 non-Americans for voting me out of office,” promised that someone from his family would run for the Orange County seat in November, and left open the possibility he may run for senator.
Sanchez brought tears to the eyes of some of the 40 Democratic colleagues gathered at a victory celebration when she asserted that her success showed Orange County supporters that “you can prevail” when “you stand up and fight.”
The task force of two Republicans and one Democrat recommended dismissal of Dornan’s complaint after lead GOP investigator John Kelliher reported that his staff could find only 748 tainted votes, more than 200 short of Sanchez’s 979-vote victory margin. Democratic investigators noted that it was impossible to tell for whom the tainted ballots were cast.
The Committee on House Oversight then approved the task force finding by 8 to 1 and sent it to the floor, a virtual guarantee that the full House will pass the measure, probably next week.
The task force finding put a formal end to a tumultuous affair with implications that went far beyond the simple question of whether Sanchez or Dornan had won the right to represent a suburban slice of Orange County. The district has a burgeoning immigrant population that has transformed a onetime Republican stronghold into an iffy swing district trending toward the Democrats.
Dornan, a fiery conservative whose intemperate remarks often landed him in trouble during nine terms in Congress, charged in the aftermath of the 1996 election that he lost to Sanchez, a Latina businesswoman, because of a “criminal conspiracy” of tainted votes by illegal immigrants.
And for more than a year he repeated the charges, loudly and often. One altercation with Rep. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) in the chamber last fall finally prompted the House to deny Dornan access to the floor as a former member. He returned to the chamber briefly yesterday.
As a result of Dornan’s challenge the House Republican leadership formed the task force in early 1997 and launched a complicated review, comparing Orange County voter registration rolls with lists obtained from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The Orange County district attorney also began a fraud investigation to determine whether the community organization Hermandad Mexicana Nacional deliberately set out to register illegal immigrants and send them to the polls. In December, a grand jury refused to indict anyone.
Democrats capitalized on the affair in a nationwide public relations campaign denouncing Republicans for insensitivity bordering on racism. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee incorporated the Sanchez case into its national efforts to woo Latinos to the party’s cause. Task Force chairman Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.), a quiet-spoken former college professor, denied yesterday that there was any attempt to intimidate Latinos, and said “I frankly object very strongly” to charges that the investigation was “racist, sexist, et cetera.”
Kelliher described in painstaking detail how the task force winnowed the list of possible bad votes from an original total of 7,841, a process that earned an acknowledgment from Dornan, who attended the task force meeting, that “I was not betrayed.”
But Dornan still had plenty to say, claiming that illegal immigrants had defeated him, and that “Sanchez, in her heart of hearts, knows it.” He suggested he might become a journalist or a talk show host, or challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) or try to win back his old seat. He guaranteed that “a Dornan” would run against Sanchez. Daughter Terri, who accompanied him, said he would make his decision after “a family meeting.”
Exultant Democrats, meanwhile, were surrounded by orange and white balloons as they cheered Sanchez and condemned Republicans for conducting what Minority Whip David E. Bonior (D-Mich.) called a “witch hunt” against Latinos “to discourage them from voting again.”
But they weren’t discouraged, said Menendez, a Cuban American, and Sanchez’s triumph showed that when Hispanics “stick together, there is nothing that we cannot do.”
And after Republicans “have been beaten to a pulp” over their effort to “prevent people not born in this country from taking control over their own political future,” noted Democratic Caucus Chairman Vic Fazio (Calif.). “We look forward to Bob Dornan making one last run for Congress. We will blow him away,” Fazio said.
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