Proof of Citizenship? Missouri Vies for the Worst Voting Law in the Country

Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature is rushing to pass one of the country's most draconian voter ID requirements less than two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's similarly restrictive photo ID law -- a law that's best known for serving as a vital bulwark against nuns voting. Missouri trumps that: It now seems that the state that brought us the likes of GOP anti-voting fraud zealot "Thor" Hearne and became "Ground Zero" for GOP vote suppression schemes in 2006 could take the brass ring from Florida and Ohio as the state most hostile to its own voters' rights.

There's a good reason that the Republicans are moving so quickly to pass a proposed cons utional amendment that could thwart at least 240,000 Missouri citizens from voting in November. The state is a presidential battleground state where recent gubernatorial and Senate races have been decided by margins as little as 21,000 votes.

"When anybody fraudulently votes, it diminishes all of our votes," he said last week when the resolution passed the state House.

( boutons: there is NO proof that voter fraud anywhere in US exists. dubya's DoJ fraud goons, aka Repug US attorneys, after 7 years of trying, haven't uncovered ANY fraud that justifies the wasted effort)

But there hasn't been a single proven case of voter impersonation at the polls in the state's history. And based on the experience of Arizona, between seven and 30 percent of citizens lack the citizenship do entation needed to register to vote.


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The Repugs are truly Repugnant anti-American assholes.