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Kansas and Arizona Win Case to Require Proof of Citizenship to Vote
Via Billy
Kansas and Arizona scored a big victory on ballot box integrity laws, one that the losing side is already appealing.In 2013, Breitbart News reported about the outcome of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council at the U.S. Supreme Court, where the court held seven to two that states' laws requiring proof of citizenship are generally preempted by federal law.
But in his opinion for the court, Justice Antonin Scalia noted that federal law allowed states to request that the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)—a federal agency created in 2002—include citizenship documentation items in any state’s customized version of the “Federal Form” designed by the EAC.
The two other conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented. Alito argued that the federal law allowed states to add the citizen-proof requirement, and Thomas added that if the federal law did not, it would unconstitutionally infringe upon state sovereignty.
Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/04/kansas-and-arizona-win-case-to-require.html
