Unbelievably (or, perhaps, entirely too believably), Holder has told Georgia that it may no longer verify identification in order to ensure that voting is done only by citizens eligible to vote.
The Department of Justice thinks that Georgia is discriminating against minorities by requiring that only legal citizens vote in elections.
Here's my proposal: make the citizenship verification voluntary, but keep track of the votes separately. When the results are announced, we should get the totals of verified citizens' votes and unverified citizens' votes. Legally, all the votes have to count the same (thanks to the Feds), but it would be interesting to see how the numbers work out. My guess is that most voters will voluntarily submit to a citizenship verification if they understand it to be a rebuke of the Federal Government. Also, any politician who wins without a majority of the the verified American vote will have a hard time claiming a mandate. Politicians are likely to ask their supporters to go through the voluntary verification for the sake of legitimacy.
They give out little "I voted today" stickers at the polling places. I think they should have a "Citizen voter" stickers for the people who volunteer for the citizenship verification, and a "I may not be legal, but I voted" stickers for the rest.
Of course, this voluntary verification process might have a chilling effect on the voting rights of non-citizens so DOJ might rule against it, but I think it's worth a try.
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