"Voting is a serious matter and is a right reserved only for citizens of the United States. The Federal Government takes it so seriously that non-citizen legal immigrants who vote face criminal charges and deportation. In Singapore, voters have to produce documents proving their identity (and thus, in practice, their citizenship) to poll officials. Why should Arizona not be allowed to make voters prove their citizenship when voter fraud is clearly a big problem in that state?
One may make the argument that making voters prove their citizenship may discourage underrepresented groups from voting. That is a good point, but any engaged citizen who cares enough to vote would not baulk at bringing his/her passport or birth certificate to the polling station."
[Nicholas Cheong]
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