When she was working as an election official in Arizona years ago, Tammy Patrick encountered voters who supported what was then the state’s new “proof of citizenship” law for voter registration — only to realize that they weren’t able to vote. Via Huffington Post:
“They’d say, ‘I voted for that!’” she recalled of the voters, many of whom were “snowbirds, older people, who didn’t have the wherewithal to get [the correct documents] because the documents didn’t exist anymore.”
“It was heart-wrenching,” Patrick said.
At the time, Arizona was the only state in the nation with a documentary proof of citizenship requirement for voters, and thousands of people have since lost out on the right to vote in state elections. Kansas, which later also tried its own citizenship requirement for voter registration, saw similar results.
I wonder how many people know that Republicans and their tech donors want to keep women from voting — because women lean stubbornly liberal? In Peter Theil’s essay, “The Education of A Libertarian,” he wrote:
