A possible "bait and switch" to fight voter suppression

[Ms. Toad]

1. Not as long as voter registration is premised

on the ability to prove citizenship by the means currently required.

Individuals currently unable to prove citizenship are predominantly elderly, non-white, female, and poor. Birth certificates unavailable because the midwives were actively discouraged from (or prohibited from) registering birth, delayed birth registration no longer possible because no one old enough to have been present at and remember your birth around to testify to it, alternate documentation such as baptisimal certificates destroyed in predominantly black churches set on fire during the civil rights movement. Etc.

It will become less of an issue once the population ages out and the records of all living citizens are digitally recorded a gazillion times - but currently, premising the right to vote on being able to provide a birth certificate + documentation of all intermediate name changes is discriminatory.