States Push New Voter Requirements, Fueled by Trump

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Source: NBC News

SPECIAL REPORT POLITICS JUL 10 2017, 9:32 AM ET
States Push New Voter Requirements, Fueled by Trump
by JANE C. TIMM

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Fueled by President Donald Trump, who has claimed, without evidence, that voter fraud deprived him of the popular vote in 2016, there's more energy behind election legislation than ever before. Trump has appointed a federal commission to find and combat voter fraud a problem experts say doesn't exist on a large scale.

"With President Trump, voter fraud is a crime that's a high priority," the commission's vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said in an interview.

Trump's stance is already playing out in court: His Justice Department, which under President Barack Obama fought Texas over its voter ID law, filed a motion Thursday supporting the latest version of the law. After nearly a decade of raising alarm about alleged vote fraud, Kobach, a leading advocate of tough voter requirements, said it's heartening to have the muscle of a federal commission and the Justice Department tackling the issue.

But it is the states, where Republican-controlled legislatures are using more sophisticated tactics than they have previously, that are poised to have the most immediate effect in the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election.
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Surge of New Laws Passed or Implemented in 2017

{Solid - New laws this year ---- Shaded: New laws, after courts intervened}



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Retweeted by Mark Murray: https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics

Must-read deep dive by @janestreet: Fueled by Trump's claims, GOP state legislatures push new requirements to vote

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[Hestia]

1. Okay, I'll go with this if, ONLY IF, there are secure machines, pen & paper, whatever for us to vote

I was reading an article that Voter Registration Records are purposely wrong, in case a person wants to vote. It's in the Motor Voter Law that Election Boards can do this.

Go.After.The.Machines - but oh yeah, that Bureau is no longer being funded and is being disbanded.

It's already going to be on the 2018 ballot here in Ark. and the fight is fixin' to start. The State Constitution says absolutely no new provisions for voting, but 'pugs state that ID's don't count, even though it has been shot down by Ark SC.