by Helen Sabin, Corvallis
This SB185 bill is bad in many respects! This means NOTHING even if it’s in the Montana Constitution as the NVRA rule (section 5) still applies if the election is a federal one and until it is removed, this is a NOTHING BILL, meaningless in its context.
Further, the state will spend a lot of money on this issue and it will be meaningless as there are no requirements in this bill to prove a person is a citizen when they go to vote. How does the state determine if a person is a citizen? What requirements are needed to prove they are citizens? Student ID? Driver’s license? Electric bill? Will the amendment have the requirement to have the little box to check that states I am a citizen of the US…or of Montana? and who will check that?
What a hypocrite – she knows it probably won’t pass but she can tout her effort to help Montana…Please have one of your writers research this bill and see why I call Manzella a hypocrite!