Plugging Arizona
Donk-dominated states like Wisconsin and Washington may have utterly no respect for the integrity of their elections processes, but that ignominy can't be visited upon the land of the sun.
Startling numbers, no? Just goes to show how "loose as a goose" our election system is around the country, and how straightforward a process it is to tighten it up by the simple expedient of making citizenship worth something again.
As you might have expected, some Arizonans aren't happy about it.
Well, you have to admire the man's corrupt candor. He openly admits with that last comment that his party cannot win elections without breaking the law and therefore wants that law functionally and formally eviscerated. He equates partisanism with process by casting the very vehicle of democracy - citizenship - as its own impediment, and manages to attack the patriotism of those who seek no more than to defend both in the same breath. The only thing he left out was the standard accusations of "racism." I guess that's why he's still just a local party apparatchik.
I'm frankly flabbergasted that Arizona Donks haven't yet found a federal judge to injunct/overturn Prop 200. Stories like this are precisely the sort of publicity that their cheating-dependent political interests do not need, both in exposing how "broken" the system is and the ease with which it can be fixed, if there is but the political will to do so.
It's telling that this was a citizen initiative rather than formal legislation. It also harbinges a rash of siblings across the country as "We, the People" finally get fed up with the "elite"'s anti-democratic insistence upon eroding citizenship and civic integrity and, much like the Minutemen, take matters into our own hands.
Stricter immigration laws now on the books in Arizona that require elections officials to check for proof of citizenship have uncovered thousands of new registrants who don't qualify to vote.
According to the Arizona Daily Star, state election officials credit the citizenship requirement contained in Proposition 200, the illegal-immigration initiative passed last November, for screening out the illegal voters.
In Arizona's Prima County alone, elections officials have rejected 59% of all applicants in the last two weeks - or 423 of the 712 new registrants.
"We rejected none during the same period last year," when six times as many people were registering because of the presidential election, said Registrar of Voters Chris Roads. "There was nothing in the law that required a rejection" last year, he explained.
Most voter registration forms rejected by Prima County since April 20, when officials started keeping track, were submitted by new voters who provided no valid proof of citizenship whatsoever, Roads said. [emphases mine]
Startling numbers, no? Just goes to show how "loose as a goose" our election system is around the country, and how straightforward a process it is to tighten it up by the simple expedient of making citizenship worth something again.
As you might have expected, some Arizonans aren't happy about it.
Despite the fact that it's illegal for non-citizens to vote, the rejections had Arizona Democrats up in arms.
Paul Eckerstrom, chairman of the Prima County Democratic Party, complained that forcing Arizona voters to prove their citizenship is "anti-American and anti-democracy."
"It's just another obstacle for voters to deal with," Eckerstrom griped. "The whole idea behind this thing is to suppress voter turnout."
He said Proposition 200's "real intent" was to make it difficult for voters - especially those inclined to vote Democratic - to cast a ballot.
Well, you have to admire the man's corrupt candor. He openly admits with that last comment that his party cannot win elections without breaking the law and therefore wants that law functionally and formally eviscerated. He equates partisanism with process by casting the very vehicle of democracy - citizenship - as its own impediment, and manages to attack the patriotism of those who seek no more than to defend both in the same breath. The only thing he left out was the standard accusations of "racism." I guess that's why he's still just a local party apparatchik.
I'm frankly flabbergasted that Arizona Donks haven't yet found a federal judge to injunct/overturn Prop 200. Stories like this are precisely the sort of publicity that their cheating-dependent political interests do not need, both in exposing how "broken" the system is and the ease with which it can be fixed, if there is but the political will to do so.
It's telling that this was a citizen initiative rather than formal legislation. It also harbinges a rash of siblings across the country as "We, the People" finally get fed up with the "elite"'s anti-democratic insistence upon eroding citizenship and civic integrity and, much like the Minutemen, take matters into our own hands.
posted by JASmius at 10:52 AM
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