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Obama Justice Department Decision Will Allow Non-Citizens to Register to Vote in Georgia
Atlanta – “The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.
“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.
“This process is critical to protecting the integrity of our elections. We have evidence that non-citizens have voted in past Georgia elections and that more than 2,100 individuals have attempted to register, yet still have questions regarding their citizenship. Further, the Inspector General’s office is investigating more than 30 cases of non-citizens casting ballots in Georgia elections, including the case of a Henry County non-citizen who registered to vote and cast ballots in 2004 and 2006.
“It is important to underscore that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote because of the verification process. Further, while DOJ argues that the process is somehow discriminatory, the historic voter turnout among Hispanic and African-American voters in the 2008 general elections clearly says otherwise.
Whoa! WHOA! FREAKIN’ WHOA! I can NOT be reading this right! The justice dept is basically saying it’s just peachy for NON citizens to vote in our elections? I must be mistaken. Could anything with the word ‘justice’ in it’s name be so blatantly ignorant of the law? I won’t even get into the fact that the ACLU is constantly undermining the law, and with this action, you are being told you, as a legal citizen of the United States of America, obeying the law, mean NOTHING!
Amendment XV
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Citizens! Not visitors, not sneaky little bastards who broke the law get in the country…..C-I-T-I-Z-E-N-S! We no longer prohibit people from voting, unlike some of the old Southern Democrats did prior to the Voting Rights Acts. Yes, please notice it was the DEMOCRATS that prevented legal aged people of color, from voting. Now, those same types of Democrats not only claim the black vote, they also want possible illegals to vote for them too?
In 1975, the special provisions of the Voting Rights Act were extended for another seven years, and were broadened to address voting discrimination against members of “language minority groups.” (source)
Language minority groups? You mean people who don’t have a working knowledge of the language in which the majority of this country runs? I have issues with this. If you don’t understand the language, how can you make a reasoned, well thought out decision for whom to vote?
The federal government, once again, is stepping in where it has no business stepping. The state of Georgia has been doing exactly what ever other state SHOULD be doing….verifying the legal status of its voters. This is not difficult to understand. If we are a land of laws, then shouldn’t we obey those laws? This includes making sure that people who vote in our elections, are LEGALLY eligible to vote!
(all extra emphasis mine)
Huge H/T: Texas Fred’s Read his take on the subject here. You WILL learn something!
I simply have no words
Yeah….I’ve been trying to wipe my monitor off for a while now….sputtering is not conducive to clean monitors.
The federal government has been steadily usurping states rights since about the civil war. The problem is it has accelerated at an uprecedented rate since the election of Obama. Now states are being all but forced to accept federal funds and then abide by a host of federal stipulations as well. It doesn’t end there gun legislation, unemployment compensation and healthcare are all waiting in the wings to gobble up more states rights and by proxy our rights.
Yeah, that’s one we should have won….hopefully, we’ll win the next one, which I see coming REAL soon.
Remember when the feds forced every state to lower the speed limit to 55? No new signs, no fed money. Well, that lasted WAY too long, but it did end. I don’t see any of this crap he is pulling ending. If we don’t do something and soon, we may not have the means to do anything.