Election Integrity Bolstered By Federal Appeals Court Ruling Allowing Voter Citizenship Checks

 As the liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in favor of an Arizona election integrity law, non-citizen voting is facing pushback in both Congress and the states, as citizenship proof and voter ID become more popular.

The Thursday ruling by the court in favor of a law with restrictions on voters who don't provide proof of U.S. citizenship follows the House of Representatives passing a bill that would also require documentation of a person's citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.

The temporary stay requires residents who cannot provide proof of U.S. citizenship to use the federal voter registration form, rather than the state voter registration form.

"Jason Snead, executive director of Honest Elections Project Action, said in a statement released to Just the News on Friday regarding the decision,"Honest Elections Project Action praises the 9th U.S. Circuit [Court] of Appeals for allowing Arizona to enforce state law and reject voter registration forms if applicants fail to provide proof of citizenship.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to make states require documentation of a person's citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections and require states to remove non-citizens from their voter rolls.

Currently, according to an analysis by the Movement Advancement Project, 11 states require photo ID to vote and have additional steps that are required if the voter doesn't have an ID and four states require non-photo ID and have additional steps that are required if the voter doesn't have an ID. There are also efforts in Maine and Nevada to have ballot initiatives in the November election that, if passed, would require voter ID in the states.

In North Carolina, a 2018 state voter ID law is still being challenged in court by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. Voters are required to present photo ID for this year's and next year's elections, unless the voter ID law is blocked by a federal court.

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