The U.S. Supreme Court has put NAACP v Billups, 08-1231, on its conference of June 4. The Court will probably decide on that day whether to hear the case, which concerns Georgia’s requirement that voters at the polls show a government photo-ID in order to vote.
One of the interesting complications of the case is Georgia’s new law that says no one may register to vote without presenting documents proving citizenship. Georgia virtually denies voting rights to people who don’t have a birth certificate (or, if born outside the U.S., if they can’t produce their naturalization certificate or some proof that their parents were U.S. citizens).
This go directly to the problem on John McCain III.
He was born on August 29, 1936 in the Colon Hospital, Republic of Panama. His mother, Roberta
McCain nee Wright never married John S. McCain II
before John McCain was born. McCain in his book
FAITH OF MY FATHER claimed that Roberta Wright married John S. McCain II in a bar in TJ, Baja California, Mexico. The only place on can marry in
Baja California is in a office of the civil registry. Bottom line they did not get married.
Then on August 4, 1937, Congress passed the Collective Naturalization Act of 1937. That act
declared certain aliens born in the Republic of Panama collective naturalized citizen. However,
John S. McCain III did not meet the requirements for citizenship because his mother never married prior to the birth of John S. McCain III. The Act
of August 4, 1937 must be read with the terms of the Hague Convention of Nationality of 1930. That
require Roberta Wright to be either employed by the
United States Government or the Panama Railroad Company. She was employed my neither. She took
John S. McCain III as a wetback unlawful alien to
the United States in December, 1936.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party
It seems there are 2 competing principles here. On the one hand, it’s not unreasonable to ask for ID at the polls. On the other hand, it is unreasonable (and unconstitutional) to require people to pay for the right to vote. So why not provide voter IDs to those who lack other forma, like drivers licences, free of charge? I suppose states will cry poverty, but people have died for the right to vote, so it’s hard to rationalize denying the right over a few $$. Besides, fighting lawsuits isn’t free either.
Obama making sure that all of acorn’s hard work registering illegals and dead people will remain on the election rolls in ’12. Requiring an i.d. is not impossible to comply to, its required for nearly every other governtment business why is it that you dont have to provide proof to vote?