Kristy Bailey wrote an article for the Carolina Journal exposing a flaw in statutes governing one-stop voting. Persons may be registered to vote if they present a registration form, a form of picture ID, and something like a phone bill demonstrating they live in the district in question. That means a foreign national who isn’t a citizen could vote in US elections by presenting an ID card issued by another government and a fishing license. To prevent this, voters must check a box on their registration affirming they are US citizens. Checking the box with a lie is considered a felony, but everybody but the State Board of Elections sort of has the impression precinct workers don’t have the time and resources to run thorough ID verifications.
While Bailey was investigating the matter, the Madison County Board of Elections web site linked to a pdf file from the state which read, in part:
Si usted se inscribe por correo, y no proporciona un número válido de identificación en la Sección 3, entonces debe presentar una copia de los siguientes documentos, con este formulario. Si no provee esta información, a la hora de votar por primera vez en su condado tiene que proporcionarle a un funcionario de las oficinas de las elecciones cualquiera de las siguientes formas de identificación:
– Una identificación con foto reciente y válida
– Un recibo de agua, luz, o gas, estado de cuentas bancarias, cheque de gobierno, cheque de su salario u otro documento gubernamental que muestre su nombre y dirección actual tal y como aparece en este formulario.
I can no longer find the link to that document via the Madison County page. Instead, one can access a statement from the State Board of Elections which lists a government-issued ID as only one form of identification that may be presented. (You can also remind yourself that social service agencies are doubling as voter registration locations, and politically correctly pretend that compensates for all the people who have historically been able to arrange time off work to register to vote and thereby steal this nation’s elections.) NCGS163-82(6)(a) lists requirements for registering to vote, and 163-166.12(a)(2) lists the forms of acceptable ID. Together, they leave a loophole that allows anybody willing to lie when checking their citizenship box to register to vote.
Officials at various WNC boards of election assured they were upholding all state requirements. If that isn’t bad enough, cliquez ici for a glimpse at staggering numbers and high potentials for voter fraud.
