[EL] Verifying Citizenship For Voter Registration

[Jon Sherman]

If you review the subject line, this was a discussion about an actual
election administration issue, the means states have at their disposal to
verify the US citizenship of voter registration applicants and the accuracy
of various databases that are used to that end.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Ilya Shapiro <IShapiro at cato.org> wrote:

> "whereas demographics that are very much opposed to him are being
> actively suppressed and blocked at every turn." - Thinking this is another
> reason why we got Trump. Voter ID -- let alone administrative tweaks of
> voting hours/days -- are simply not suppression, no matter how much people
> jump up and down or invoke specious disparate-impact theories (which alas
> some judges swallow but that doesn't mean they comport with reality). Suggest
> people focus on actual problems with election administration, let alone
> actual social problems that are beyond the scope of this listserv.
>
> Ilya Shapiro
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> http://www.cato.org/people/shapiro.html
>
> On Feb 16, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Bensman, Lina <lbensman at cgsh.com> wrote:
>
> whereas demographics that are very much opposed to him are being actively
> suppressed and blocked at every turn.
>
>
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