Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Elections
www.nytimes.com
Administration officials cited cracking down on immigrants illegally on voter rolls as one of the executive order’s main goals, amplifying Mr. Trump’s grievances about electoral integrity.

The net effect would be to deny a huge number of Americans the ability to cast a ballot.

  • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    you already need another way to prove you are a citizen in order to get a passport.

    So you can just use that proof to register to vote, this is already how it works. This proposal literally solves nothing, it would only prevent people from voting who happen to forget the document day of and wouldn’t stop anyone who is voting fraudulently anyway ( a birth certificate is significantly easier to forge than a passport and the 95 year old lady with coke bottle classes checking you in at the polls won’t know any better anyway)

    Making it harder to get a passport won’t mean much unless they also make it harder to register to vote, at which point, you don’t need this proposal or to make it more difficult to get the passport.