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Posted: Fri 11:54, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: Could Supreme Court's Arizona Ruling Lead to Votin |
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for voter registrants, and (2) a lengthy dictum in the six-justice majority opinion expressing a narrow view of an enigmatic earlier case, Oregon v. Mitchell. These portend future defeats, the commentators warn, either for the National Voter Registration Act itself or for a larger power of Congress to regulate state voter-eligibility and registration requirements. The first worry comes from a section of the majority opinion noting that, under the act, states can request the Election Assistance Commission to put specific instructions on the federal mail-in registration form telling registrants of specific information their state requires. Arizona did that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the Commission split 2-2 on whether that request complied with the act. The state had the option of challenging that denial in court, but instead it simply implemented its citizenship-documentation rule without permission."That alternative means of enforcing its constitutional power to determine voting qualifications remains open to Arizona here,"
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