RE: Help me understand why anyone would be opposed to proving citizenship in order to vote
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Actually four House Democrats voted for it: Ed Case of Hawaii; Henry Cuellar of Texas; Jared Golden of Maine; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.
Thanks, I thought I would be able to count on you to point this out :)
If it is dead on arrival in the Senate I am sure we are going to be hearing about this come time for re-election, over and over and over and over again.
I see a lot of good comments on this, but I don't see anyone actually explaining WHY the Dems are opposed to it, just that they ARE.
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I guess the main reason is because of the framing. Republicans frame it as protecting the security of elections; Democrats frame it as voter suppression. Republicans essentially tend to see voting as a privilege; Democrats see voting as a right.
I think even you can admit that much of this is political posturing though, wouldn't you agree? I don't think any reasonable person can suggest that preventing non citizens from voting in US elections is a bad thing. But I get what you mean in that there is almost certainly some sort of ulterior motive for having this bill in the first place.