To the editor: If the U.S. Structure provides the precise to vote to each citizen over 18 years of age, then states want to ensure that each citizen can train that proper. Meaning they have to make sure that each citizen can acquire paperwork required to show they’ve the precise to vote. (“Kansas once required voters to prove citizenship. That didn’t work out so well,” Dec. 29)
Acquiring delivery certificates or naturalization papers — and the fee to journey to acquire these paperwork — should not be a barrier. It’s the state’s accountability to ensure that this course of works each time. In any other case, we merely have Jim Crow legal guidelines of a brand new shade.
The states should additionally present an appeals course of for instant decision when paperwork are deemed unacceptable. Stopping residents from voting is clearly an even bigger downside than noncitizens registering to vote.
Marvin Gordon, Laguna Seaside
