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发帖数: 29846 | 1 选举欺诈的不要！堪萨斯州新法案要求选民投票时出示有照片的身份证件以证明自己的
选民资格
New Law Requires Photo ID, Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Kansas
Monday, April 25, 2011
By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) - Voters in Kansas will need to show a photo ID the next time
they go to the polls.
In a signing ceremony last week, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill
to protect the integrity of elections, he said: "We must be able to
accurately and fairly discern the will of the people of Kansas."
While Gov. Brownback said the new law establishes "reasonable steps" to
protect the rights of citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union called it
a "giant leap backwards."
The new Kansas law requires photo ID from all in-person voters at every
election. People submitting mail-in ballots must include either a copy of
their photo ID or the number from the photo ID card. The law also requires
proof of citizenship – a birth certificate, for example -- for new voters
who register on or after Jan. 1, 2013.
The ACLU complains that the new law offers free birth certificates only to
Kansas-born residents, while residents born out-of-state "would bear the
financial burden and trouble of contacting their home states to attain birth
certificates" to meet the new law's requirements. "The costs associated
with meeting the new law's requirements are especially burdensome to low-
income voters," the ACLU added.
The group says Kansas' new voter ID law undermines efforts to expand the
right to vote to "historically marginalized groups" such as racial
minorities, low-income voters, the disabled, and senior citizens. It also
rejects the argument that a photo ID will bar illegal immigrants from voting
in Kansas. It says there is no evidence of rampant voter fraud.
Only 41 percent of eligible people voted in the 2010 general election, but
Kansas' Republican leaders "apparently think that number is too high," the
ACLU said.
The group accused Gov. Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach of
preferring a system where voting is a privilege secured "by jumping through
hoops."
"Theirs is an extremely nearsighted view of just how difficult it will be
for remote, marginalized, and under-resourced individuals to obtain a valid
photo ID and evidence of citizenship," the ACLU said.
But Secretary of State Koback said Kansas has accomplished something truly
extraordinary with its voter ID law: "No other state in the union does as
much to secure the integrity of the voting process," Kobach said.
According to the ACLU, 32 state legislatures have introduced similar photo
ID bills this year. |
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