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Originally Posted by mapuc
It sounds like it is very easy to vote in your country. That there are no further control on who's voting an American citizens or some foreigner
Markus
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It’s not perfect but controls are tighter than most people have been lead to believe.
Every state is RealID compliant so in order to get a state issue ID card or drivers license one must provide proof of U.S. citizenship, state residency, date of birth and social security number. Only then will a state offer to register you to vote in federal elections. And just recently law was passed that in order to get a job in the U.S. a prospective employee whether they be a citizen or not must go online and basically register with the federal government by providing the same information.
The Save Act would tighten control of voter registration even further by helping states determine ones citizenship, and residency status via the Depart of Homeland Security database. But like I said I think if congress was really concerned about it they should have got an earlier start to get it passed so the bureaucracy had the time to implement it and work out any kinks in the system long before a presidential election.
Media is making it look as Republicans are out to get immigrants by banning them from voting. When in actuality the ban on non citizens voting in federal elections has existed for the last 28 years. The Save Act is imo just fine tuning and expanding the controls already in place.