I don't know that it's about "suppressing" Democrat votes, I do know it is about making it more difficult for Dems to cheat by registering non-citizens for national elections (you can deny it but we all know they do it). The Dems have a huge base of non-citizen aliens that are not allowed to vote by law in national elections but vote anyway because there is no burden of proof of citizenship. They are registered easily by the motor voter method (initiated by Dems just for this sole purpose). We all know these legal and illegal non-citizen alien voters vote 90% Democrat. That is an unfair advantage simply because it is constitutionally illegal!
Here's what www,usa.gov says about the requirements to register to vote;
To be eligible to vote,
you must be a U.S. citizen. In most states, you must be 18 years old to vote, but some states do allow 17 year olds to vote. States also have their own residency requirements to vote. For additional information about state-specific requirements and voter eligibility, contact your
state election office.
From the "Washington Times";
"Beyond requiring applicants to sign a pledge on voter-registration forms affirming that they are U.S. citizens, there is no way to prevent the nation’s estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens from casting ballots in November, area elections officials said."
From the Heritage Foundation;
In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens.
Illegal voting by immigrants in America is nothing new. Almost as long as there have been elections, there have been Tammany Halls trying to game the ballot box. Well into the 20th century, the political machines asserted their ascendancy on Election Day, stealing elections in the boroughs of New York and the wards of Chicago. Quite regularly, Irish immigrants were lined up and counted in canvasses long before the term "citizen" ever applied to them-and today it is little different. Yet in the debates over what to do about the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens estimated to be in the United States, there has been virtually no discussion of how to ensure that they (and millions of legal aliens) do not register and vote in elections.
3% is enough to change an election, Dems know this and they will whine and complain about voter I.D. laws because of it.
