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As more and more states move to require voters to show photo ID before they can cast a ballot—a policy that we've repeatedly explained is unwise and unnecessary—a number of states have proposed to restrict access to the polls even further, by passing proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration.
These dangerous proposals will suppress voting without meaningfully preventing fraud. They should be rejected.
We don't need more reasons to worry about foreclosure rates.
Digby, nonetheless, citing this AP/CBSnews.com
story, provides one: the high rate of foreclosures in Ohio and the affect election officials
believe it could have on their voting rolls.
(Digby cited the voting issue in the context of a 7/26 longer posting on Hans von
Spakovsky, "legal disenfranchisement" and "voter fraud.") There's concern that a
wave of voters, still registered to their former—foreclosed—address, will
show up to the polls on election day. This could lead to a number of
pre-election challenges or a whole lot of voters casting provisional ballots in
Ohio.
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