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Why would Republicunts turn a 180 on Citizenship requirements for voting?
Is it because they learned that most registered voters lacking that documentation are Republicunts?
Do they really have no convictions?
The Truth may not surprise you.
https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-republican-voting-laws/
Republicans in Arizona over the past several years have enacted proof-of-citizenship requirements for registered voters with the purported goal of eliminating the threat of undocumented immigrants from voting.
Last month Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer "discovered that a glitch in Arizona’s driver’s license database caused nearly 100,000 registered voters not to meet the proof of citizenship requirements under the state’s recently revised election laws."
Richer filed an emergency petition with the AZ Supreme Court arguing that the law states that these voters should be deemed ineligible to vote in upcoming elections, only to be opposed in court by the same Republicans who had long championed such rules.
Overall, registered Republicans represented 37 percent of the voters affected by the glitch, while registered Democrats made up 27 percent and unaffiliated voters represented 29 percent.
AZ Secretary of State Adrian Fontes tells Just Security that the GOP's reversal on this issue shows how little they care for actually maintaining election integrity.
"In my effort to affirm nearly 100,000 Arizonans who hadn’t yet provided citizenship documentation into fully registered voters, the Republican Party and state legislative leaders joined the initiative,” Fontes said. “Their involvement was not out of concern for non-citizen voting—which they know isn’t an issue—but because more Republicans would have been affected, potentially altering legislative control and impacting certain initiatives. This was about political self-preservation. At this point, Arizona Republicans can no longer credibly claim that their concern is non-citizen voting.”
Is it because they learned that most registered voters lacking that documentation are Republicunts?
Do they really have no convictions?
The Truth may not surprise you.
https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-republican-voting-laws/
Republicans in Arizona over the past several years have enacted proof-of-citizenship requirements for registered voters with the purported goal of eliminating the threat of undocumented immigrants from voting.
Last month Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer "discovered that a glitch in Arizona’s driver’s license database caused nearly 100,000 registered voters not to meet the proof of citizenship requirements under the state’s recently revised election laws."
Richer filed an emergency petition with the AZ Supreme Court arguing that the law states that these voters should be deemed ineligible to vote in upcoming elections, only to be opposed in court by the same Republicans who had long championed such rules.
Overall, registered Republicans represented 37 percent of the voters affected by the glitch, while registered Democrats made up 27 percent and unaffiliated voters represented 29 percent.
AZ Secretary of State Adrian Fontes tells Just Security that the GOP's reversal on this issue shows how little they care for actually maintaining election integrity.
"In my effort to affirm nearly 100,000 Arizonans who hadn’t yet provided citizenship documentation into fully registered voters, the Republican Party and state legislative leaders joined the initiative,” Fontes said. “Their involvement was not out of concern for non-citizen voting—which they know isn’t an issue—but because more Republicans would have been affected, potentially altering legislative control and impacting certain initiatives. This was about political self-preservation. At this point, Arizona Republicans can no longer credibly claim that their concern is non-citizen voting.”
