The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments on one of the most important cases in our nation’s history. It should not be a close call, but with the recent Obama appointees on the court this is very likely to be another 5-4 decision. Arizona has a law requiring people to prove they are U.S. citizens before registering to vote. They want things like birth certificates. Currently in Arizona you can use the federal form, which is a joke:
The question for the justices was whether that state law conflicted with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which allows voters to register using a federal form that asks, “Are you a citizen of the United States?” Prospective voters must check a box yes or no, and they must sign the form, swearing that they are citizens under penalty of perjury
The bottom line here is that Democrats passed a federal law saying all you need to do to vote in an election is “say you are a U.S. Citizen.” No wonder they still don’t consider Barack Obama’s birth certificate to be an important issue. When you combine this with millions of illegal aliens in the United States and the Democratic Party openly soliciting their votes the danger is obvious. The worst outcome here would be for the Supreme Court to just overturn the Arizona law. If that happens, it may be impossible for Republicans to ever win another election. The best outcome is probably if the Court determines that the federal standard is inadequate and demand the federal government set up a reasonable system to verify the citizenship of all voters. A middle outcome would be to uphold the Arizona law or at least parts of the Arizona law. At least then a lot of states would almost immediately adopt standards consistent with the Supreme Court ruling.
If we lose this one, I don’t see any hope of recovery. I still suspect that if voting in the last election had been limited to legally registered, living voters, only allowed to vote once, that the results might have been quite different. We will never know, because we have no way of verifying this. If we don’t change this now; future elections will be determined by which party is more skilled at stealing votes.
TDM