{"id":2019,"date":"2013-03-20T07:18:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2013-03-20T07:18:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:18:06","slug":"battle-of-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"BATTLE OF THE BALLOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments on one of the most important cases in our nation\u2019s history.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Arizona has a law requiring people to prove they are U.S. citizens before registering to vote.\u00a0 They want things like birth certificates.\u00a0 Currently in Arizona you can use the federal form, which is a joke:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-justices-appear-divided-on-arizona-voting-law.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-justices-appear-divided-on-arizona-voting-law.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>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, \u201cAre you a citizen of the United States?\u201d Prospective voters must check a box yes or no, and they must sign the form, swearing that they are citizens under penalty of perjury<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line here is that Democrats passed a federal law saying all you need to do to vote in an election is \u201csay you are a U.S. Citizen.\u201d\u00a0 No wonder they still don\u2019t consider Barack Obama\u2019s birth certificate to be an important issue.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The worst outcome here would be for the Supreme Court to just overturn the Arizona law.\u00a0 If that happens, it may be impossible for Republicans to ever win another election.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 A middle outcome would be to uphold the Arizona law or at least parts of the Arizona law.\u00a0 At least then a lot of states would almost immediately adopt standards consistent with the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>If we lose this one, I don\u2019t see any hope of recovery.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We will never know, because we have no way of verifying this.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t change this now; 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