Kansas House passes voter citizenship bill

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48. Well your outrage meter is broken then.

Well your outrage meter is broken then.

For starters, there is so little voter fraud (except in RepubliCON talking head circles - think Anne Cultergiest) that these silly little rules do nothing more then stop honest voters. The last I looked the voter fraud cases are like .001%. That's not a problem our legislatures should even be working, considering all the real problems out there. What they should be considering is those machines that may or may NOT count your vote.

Then the devil in the details comes out. What will they accept as proof of citizenship?

How about a State College issued Student ID? NO wrong, you can't vote.

How about a military retiree dependent ID? NO, they will take a military retiree ID but not their dependent's ID.

Will they take a military dependent’s ID? I don't know but you better check on it.

How about a birth certificate, well now we have to look at that certificate. Is a name misspelled? Guess what my mother's maiden name is misspelled on mine but don't tell the driver's licenses bureau, I may not be allowed to vote.

Is the location of your birth properly punctuated? Did they get that coma between the city and state? If not, stand by for some arguments at the DMV.

Is the seal raised on your birth certificate, or is it just a copy. No raised seal, too bad, you can't vote. Go get a real copy. Was your original long form birth certificate destroyed in a fire years ago? Well, you get a certification of your birth but the DMV has never seen one of those so guess what you, can't vote.

Will they take that flimsy little card they hand out when you first registered to vote five years ago? I don't know and neither do you. Do you really want to spend the time standing in line when they may turn you away anyway?

And after putting in all these totally useless arbitrary bureaucratic rules that fight an imaginary problem, the voting population suddenly, magically goes way, way down. And when fewer people vote, more idiot RepubliCONS get voted in.