Arizona voter-law fight reaches SCOTUS as election groups warn ‘absurd’ consequence could ensue
Election experts are warning the Supreme Court that affirming a lower court's ruling could mean that noncitizens, minors, or factitious people listed on state voter rolls could be impossible to...
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Election experts are warning the Supreme Court that affirming a lower court's ruling could mean that noncitizens, minors, or factitious people listed on state voter rolls could be impossible to remove. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in RNC v. Mi Familia Vote this December and will determine whether a pair of Arizona's state laws which remove the registrations of noncitizen voters from voter rolls within 90 days of the election and require voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote are in violation of the National Voter Registration Act. "Citizenship is a qualification for voting. If states are going to enforce that requirement, they have to be able to verify it," Justin Riemer, president & CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "And when officials find noncitizens on the voter rolls, they should be able to act before an election, not after. We are confident the Supreme Court will agree and reverse the Ninth Circuit's misguided ruling." In an amicus brief filed on Thursday, attorneys from Center for Election Confidence, Inc., Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, Inc., and Honest Elections Project, argued that the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling that the Arizona laws are an act of "voter suppression" is "absurd" and raises serious threats to state rights. CLINTON-APPOINTED JUDGE TRIGGERS APPEAL AFTER BLOCKING KEY VOTER CITIZENSHIP LAW The brief argued that Congress may regulate the mechanics of federal elections, but states have the constitutional authority to set and enforce voter qualifications — a power they argued becomes meaningless if states cannot obtain documentation needed to verify citizenship or remove people who were never eligible to register. "Since the power to establish voting requirements is of little value without the power to enforce those requirements, it would raise serious constitutional doubts if a federal statute precluded a State from obtaining…