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This has nothing to do with immigration law. If it did, there would be no offer on the table to withdraw the ICE troops in exchange for the MN voter database.

• brettermeier 10mo ago
  Why do you have voter databases? I always thought it's a bad idea, who doesn't?
  • ExoticPearTree 10mo ago
    That has an easy and uncomfortable answer: to check that all registered voters are actually citizens. And this is why Democrat run states refuse to share that database, because it might show they have non-citizens voting. I guess the same could be said about Republican run states, but those seem like they have a lower rate of illegal immigrants.
    • brettermeier 10mo ago
      You could people just show their ID right before voting and you would not need such lists? So no illegal person could vote, right. I don't get it.
      • ExoticPearTree 10mo ago
        In the US you can get a driving license without being a citizen. And that is accepted as proof of ID pretty much anywhere. That's the rub.
      • Amezarak 10mo ago
        Requiring voters have identification is very controversial in the US. The Democratic party generally opposes it. Even in states requiring ID, there are almost always options to bypass it (by signing an affadavit, for example), and in almost no case does an ID prove citizenship - the US doesn't actually have a "US citizen database" anywhere, and people can be legal citizens with a right to vote with no ID.
  • nomdep 10mo ago
    Every other democratic country in the world doesn't. How you can justify allowing people to vote based only on "trust me bro"?