10-20-2014, 12:46 PM
(10-20-2014, 12:10 AM)Cutz Wrote: Yeah there's something wrong... you don't need to have photo ID to be an American citizen. American citizens have the right to vote.
Uh, no, they don't.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a point of emphasizing during the Bush v. Gore arguments in December 2000 that there is no federal constitutional guarantee of a right to vote for president.
At the moment, the constitution leaves it up to the individual states to decide which of it's citizens has the right to vote, and the states have varying criteria. (which is why the supreme Court upheld the Texas Voter ID law)
Another example, in New Hampshire people in Prison cannot vote, but in Maine, prisoners can vote.
There is legislation in the works to amend the constitution in effect of a guaranteed right to vote, but until that happens-you're wrong.