Court rules Arizona’s proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration violates federal law

  Earlier today the  Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Arizona’s law which required people to show proof of citizenship when they registered to vote violates the federal law known as the National Voter Registration Act. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Arizona law–which was passed by the voters in 2004 and is not part of the controversial immigration law that is currently being challenged by the Obama regime–provided an “additional hurdle” to people who wish to vote and is in direct conflict with the federal law which looks to reduce  “state-imposed obstacles” to people who are looking to register to vote.

  At the same time the court did rule that the Arizona law which requires people to show a valid ID card when they go to the polls to cast their vote was not in violation of the 14th amendment, so that is a partial victory but it does not lessen the effects of this disastrous ruling. By the time illegal aliens show up at the polls with their ill-gotten identification cards the horse will have been let out of the barn because they will have already registered to vote. At this point people who should have no right to vote will not be stopped from voting, so there is little solace in the fact that people will still be required to show ID cards.

  The court has ruled that asking a person to show proof that they are in this country legally before they are allowed to vote is a burden that is unfair to the people who broke the law to get into this country in the first place. What the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals feels is a burden, most Americans feel is common sense. If a person comes to this country illegally they should not have the right to affect our elections, it is as simple as that, but according to this decision Arizona does not have the right to ensure that only people who are eligible to vote are allowed to register to vote.

  When an American citizen registers to vote do they not have to show proof that they are of legal voting age? Yet illegal aliens are not to be bound to rules which prove that they meet voting requirements?

  The only upside to this decision is the fact that it has come too late to change the upcoming mid-term elections as the deadline for Arizona residents to register to vote has already passed for the mid-term election. But this is an issue that must be monitored closely. I am sure there will be an appeal of this decision in the near future and we can only hope that this ruling is overturned before the 2012 presidential election.

 Our country is slowly slipping away, and granting the right to our most sacred constitutional procedure to people who are not protected under the constitution amounts to nothing more than a watering down of the core principle that our representative constitutional republic is founded on, and we must stop this downward spiral before it is too late!