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Should the USA require that (only) its citizens vote in elections for public office?

Should the USA require that (only) its citizens vote in elections for public office?

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@no1marauder said
Moron, when I move I can inform all that entities, including the Board of Elections, online right now.

Why should anyone be required to make two trips with a birth certificate when they move just to vote?

Answer that. Explain how it adds anything to voting security.
WHY!?!?! Because voting is probably the most sacred thing that we as a country have. We have to protect it at all costs. Do you really want me to keep writing????!!!?!!
You on the other hand, don’t give a crap about the sacredness of voting , you want everyone that is in the neighborhood to come in and vote. You cannot deny that. Does this make someone a traitor that things like that?? come one come all


Loser


@Cliff-Mashburn said
But it's not being followed, recent news report was that over 400,000 people in California alone were called for jury duty from voter registration lists but but they weren't allowed to serve because it turned out they weren't citizens.
Was this on NewsMax, or OANN or Fox?

Gotta give you your daily fear fix, don't they?

Forget about truth.


@mike69 said
I don’t have an answer to a silly comment. It’s common sense and logic that it is VERY possible and im sure has over the years. Shouldn’t we close this hole if it is a path to cheating?
"Common sense and logic"

Who do you think you're kidding?


@AverageJoe1 said
WHY!?!?! Because voting is probably the most sacred thing that we as a country have. We have to protect it at all costs. Do you really want me to keep writing????!!!?!!
You on the other hand, don’t give a crap about the sacredness of voting , you want everyone that is in the neighborhood to come in and vote. You cannot deny that. Does this make someone a traitor that things like that?? come one come all
Stop ranting like a brainwashed moron and answer my questions.

It seems to me a pointless pain in the ass requirement with only one purpose; to suppress turnout among more mobile voters who tend to be younger and thus more progressive.

I haven't heard one logical reason for the requirement yet.



@Suzianne said
Was this on NewsMax, or OANN or Fox?

Gotta give you your daily fear fix, don't they?

Forget about truth.
And what do you think your news does to you?


@wildgrass said
Insane..That's like saying the existence of Bigfoot is common sense.

If there is a hole surely you can show it, no?

People in Oregon have been voting mail in for decades without issue. I don't see the hole.
What another stupid post,we didn’t have cheating liberals then.


@Cliff-Mashburn said
But it's not being followed, recent news report was that over 400,000 people in California alone were called for jury duty from voter registration lists but but they weren't allowed to serve because it turned out they weren't citizens.
BS.

"Though around 450,000 residents have been disqualified from jury duty because of their citizenship status over prior one-year periods, according to California officials, there is no evidence that the individuals were all registered voters. State officials have repeatedly refuted the claim that the noncitizen residents were registered to vote.

California pulls from multiple sources to select residents for jury duty, not just voter registration databases. The state also relies on lists of residents who pay taxes or hold a driver’s license or other state identification, neither of which require U.S. citizenship. "

https://azcir.org/news/2025/03/14/were-half-a-million-registered-california-voters-disqualified-from-jury-duty-because-they-were-noncitizens-no/

Far from being a "recent news report", it seems this false info was from Facebook posts made in 2018 to 2019. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/11/viral-image/no-evidence-449000-noncitizens-were-registered-vot/


@AverageJoe1 said
Sorry. I cud be wrong. I don’t . Do you? Flip back through all the posts to find something that someone said? I am just trying to be helpful.
Please don’t be mad at me for pointing that out people get mad at me all the time.
Well sir he and I had just post so it was our last response before my post. So you see it really wasn’t difficult, just a short jump, and it was a conversation between us and related to that. I do understand that to someone jumping in like they know what their talking about, it could be confusing, just trying to help.

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@mike69 said
You don’t think unverified mail in voting is a hole?
Where is there "unverified mail in voting" in the US?

Answer: nowhere.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-14-how-states-verify-voted-absentee-mail-ballots

48 million US voters or about 31% in 2024 cast ballots by mail. https://statesunited.org/resources/americans-vote-by-mail-2024/

I wonder why right wingers want to kill it. Oh, because of this:

"Thirty-seven percent of Democrats reported voting by mail, compared to 24%
of Republicans. " https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2025-07/HowWeVotedIn2024.pdf p. 3


@no1marauder said
BS.

"Though around 450,000 residents have been disqualified from jury duty because of their citizenship status over prior one-year periods, according to California officials, there is no evidence that the individuals were all registered voters. State officials have repeatedly refuted the claim that the noncitizen residents were registered to vote.
Key words you are glossing over: "There is no evidence that the individuals were ALL registered voters".....
So not ALL of them were registered voters...
Notice that California isn't denying that some of them WERE registered voters.
How many is what we need to know, but Calif isn't talking.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Key words you are glossing over: "There is no evidence that the individuals were ALL registered voters".....
So not ALL of them were registered voters...
Notice that California isn't denying that some of them WERE registered voters.
How many is what we need to know, but Calif isn't talking.
"No evidence" means what it says and the next sentence (which you conveniently omitted is) " State officials have repeatedly refuted the claim that the noncitizen residents were registered to vote."

The onus of proving a bunch of pain in the ass Federal requirements on voters in States that don't want them is necessary is on folks like you.


@no1marauder said
Stop ranting like a brainwashed moron and answer my questions.

It seems to me a pointless pain in the ass requirement with only one purpose; to suppress turnout among more mobile voters who tend to be younger and thus more progressive.

I haven't heard one logical reason for the requirement yet.
Do you feel just a little bit, just a little bit, just a little bit, like a fool and a dupe to continue using that word suppress.? You did not exactly make it up. So tell us where you got that word suppressed from that you are copping from someone else.???
Can you speak for yourself??

And tell all of the losers that read your posts about how someone who is too old or feeble should ….. follow me here a little feller…. Should cause us ……follow me…, to LOOSEN our voter requirements!?!?!? To make it more comfortable for them?!?!?!?

Your posts truly get worse by the day


More pain in the ass requirements the People don't want in the SAVE Act:

"Some 80 million Americans registered to vote or updated their registrations between the 2020 and 2022 elections, according to data from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The most common way people registered was through department of motor vehicles offices, but 9% of voters registered to vote by mail, fax or email, and 14% registered online in 2022, according to the EAC.

Requiring voters to show documents in person would be particularly burdensome for rural voters, people who rely on public transit and people who cannot leave work during business hours. In the 30 largest counties by area in the West, voters would have to drive an average of 260 miles to get to their election office, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress. The same analysis found some voters in Alaska and Hawaii could have to fly to get to election offices."

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5301676/save-act-explainer-voter-registration

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