U.S. District Court Finds that New Mexico has not been in Compliance with National “Motor Voter” Law

On December 21, a U.S. District Court in New Mexico ruled that welfare offices in that state have not been following the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.  The 23-page decision is Vladez v Herrera, 09-668 JCH.  The national law requires welfare agencies to distribute blank voter registration cards to everyone who does business with the agencies, unless the person says in writing that he or she doesn’t want a form.  But in New Mexico, the welfare forms ask the person filling out the form if he or she wants a blank voter registration card.  The New Mexico form also says if people fail to answer that question, they will not be given a form.


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U.S. District Court Finds that New Mexico has not been in Compliance with National “Motor Voter” Law — 3 Comments

  1. For genius econ folks —

    the U.S.A. regime is de facto BANKRUPT due to the accumulated welfare spending since 1929 with the related accumulated deficits.

    But econ INSANITY in minority rule gerrymander Deficit City rules on and on — until Dollar Judgment Day.

  2. It is a little more subtle (read pages 8 on again).

    The NVRA requires both (1) distribution of blank voter registration forms, unless the voter affirmatively in writing declines the form; and (2) a form that asks whether the voter would like to register today, a statement that a decision whether or not to register would have no effect on whether assistance was granted, an offer of assistance filling out the form, check boxes for the voter to indicate whether they wanted to register to vote, a statement that “IF YOU DO NOT CHECK EITHER BOX, YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE DECIDED NOT TO REGISTER TO VOTE AT THIS TIME”. If a person did not check either box, they were to be presumed by the agency that the voter was declining to register to vote at that date.

    The New Mexico welfare offices were doing the second part, and then considering a non-check mark to be a written declination of wanting a voter registration form. The judge decided that Congress intended for two separate transactions to occur, and that in one case the person had to affirmatively decline receipt of a registration form, and in the other he had to affirmatively request to fill in the registration form at the welfare office.

    When the NVRA was first implemented, state agencies were required to provide regulations on how they were going to implement it. There was one welfare program (federally financed, but state-administered), where the federal government required that the state determine if the applicant was a US citizen. The agency proposed that if the applicant said that they were not a US citizen (and therefore not a Texas citizen), and were declined assistance on that basis that they would not give the applicant a voter registration form. The federal government refused to approve that regulation.

  3. The Old Age / New Age sovereign States DEFINE who an Elector is — currently.

    U.S.A. Const. Art. I, Sec. 2 and 17th Amdt.

    Since when does the Fed regime have to do with such definition of Electors-Voters and the registration of such Electors-Voters ???

    i.e. — one more giant perversion/subversion of the ENTIRE State Govts – Fed. Govt. structure by all sorts of MORONS in the gerrymander Congress and the courts.

    For the BAN archive – What year did the first sovereign State have registration of the Electors-Voters inside such State ???

    ANY Fed regime response to such action ???

    How lunatic powermad are 218 Reps and 51 Senators of one party hack party in the gerrymander U.S.A. Congress ???

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