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A new municipal ID designed primarily for illegal immigrants will be accepted in Chicago as a valid form of identification to register to vote.
The CityKey will be a government-issued photo identification card available to all Chicago residents regardless of immigration status, criminal record, housing status, or gender identity, according to the city clerk’s website.
originally posted by: dothedew
The CityKey will be a government-issued photo identification card available to all Chicago residents regardless of immigration status, criminal record, housing status, or gender identity, according to the city clerk’s website.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich says there is no state requirement to prove citizenship while registering to vote. He’s not expecting a surge in potential voter fraud cases because the process will remain the same.
The article continues with
''“When you go to register to vote, you do check a box that attests to your citizenship,” Dietrich said. “You are signing a legal document that says, ‘Yes, I am a citizen.’ But no one who registers to vote is required to bring in, for example, a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship. That’s something that you check the box, and you attest to it.”
Dietrich believes the penalty for illegally registering to vote is steep enough to discourage those who might be considering it.''
So it seems that the crux of the issue is that the state has, and has had, no requirement to prove citizenship to register. This is where the problem is, not in this new ID.
originally posted by: Black_Fox
Oh well..
It's the most corrupt city in America.
It's crime ridden and broke.
This wont effect the norm.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday added the father of a Chicago alderman to a fake-ID case in which 22 people were charged last month. Authorities cracked down on the operation in late April, saying they had shut down a $2 million operation that cranked out as many as 100 phony ID cards a day. Employees working in shifts made bogus driver's licenses, Social Security cards and resident alien cards.
originally posted by: neo96
I do have the words for this.
Effing hypocrites.
After a year of whining about Russian, and foreign interference in our election.
Those same people turn around and give FOREIGNERS the right to vote!
Eff that.
originally posted by: Bone75
If they really do allow illegal immigrants to vote in our national elections, then it is our duty as American citizens to declare war on Chicago.
originally posted by: WarPig1939
a reply to: Black_Fox
That's why I think a state of emergency should be declared for Chicago and the army,national guard, and homeland security to step in and root this problem out once and for all.