In case you didn’t have enough Supreme Court business to worry about.... By Charles Kuffner
In this blog, Charles Kuffner is discussing the current issues regarding voter registration. He explains a previous bill passed that set the nation-wide standard for voter registration and he also discusses a bill passed in Arizona which requires people to provide citizenship when registering to vote. Here in Texas, a bill has been filed by (R)Rick Miller which will hold Texans to the same expectation while obtaining a voter registration card.
This was a good article and I enjoyed reading it. This is a tough subject to make a stance on so it is definately a complicated subject to write about. This is a complicated subject because when you first hear about it, it sounds somewhat reasonable but when you get passed "illegal aliens shouldn't vote" and you look at the big picture, all of the understanding you had kind of just drifts away. I feel this way because after doing further research on the topic, I have learned that it is very hard to track if illegal aliens are voting, if we could track them, i'm sure there is an easier way to prevent it. I believe the topic of voter registration is more of a diversion to the real issue, immigration. In states like Texas and Arizona, immigration is an issue politicians like to dance around without ever really getting anything done. The topic of voter registration seems to me like an extremely watered down version of the really big issue. I believe if we made the immigration process more time and cost efficient, we would decrease the problem greatly. People flock to this country for a shot to be able to get a good job and provide for their families, I doubt voting is very high on their list of priorities upon arrival. It seems as if it is just extremely difficult for opposing political parties to even come close to a comfortable medium on the topic, so both sides just start coming up with solutions to only an unidentified fraction of the big problem.
