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Arizona recently enacted a new law requiring those registering to vote to show proof of citizenship. The result: 59% of all new applicants in the past two weeks were rejected.
“We rejected none during the same period last year,” when six times as many people were registering because of the presidential election, said Registrar of Voters Chris Roads. “There was nothing in the law that required a rejection” last year, he explained.
What’s astonishing is that the Democrat party is objecting strenuously:
Paul Eckerstrom, chairman of the Prima County Democratic Party, complained that forcing Arizona voters to prove their citizenship is “anti-American and anti-democracy.”
It’s Anti-American to make sure that only Americans vote for our elected officials? How can Eckerstrom talk such nonsense?
