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    "Our nation's founders reserved the right to vote in this country for U.S. citizens," said Gary Hartwig, special agent in charge of ICE HSI in Chicago. "ICE HSI will work aggressively to investigate and bring to justice anyone who falsely claims to be a U.S. citizen so they can illegally vote in an election."
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    Voter ID bill blocked again.

    By Milan Simonich, Santa Fe Bureau

    Posted: 03/16/2011 12:00:00 AM MDT

    SANTA FE - Democrats on Tuesday blocked another bill that would have required photo identification to vote.

    The proposal, by Republican Rep. Cathrynn Brown, of Carlsbad, would have mandated government-issued photo identification to cast absentee ballots or to vote in person.

    Members of the House Voters and Elections Committee tabled Brown's bill on a 7-5 vote. Every Democrat opposed the bill, and every Republican supported it.

    With the decision, voter identification could be dead as an issue until the 2013 legislative session. Only budget matters are likely to be considered by legislators next year.

    Rep. James Madalena, D-Jemez Pueblo, said he opposed the concept of every bill requiring a photo ID to vote. He said these measures chip away at a basic right, as they make it harder for people who are older, poor and disabled to cast ballots.

    House Speaker Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe, brought forth similar arguments.

    In Navajo country, Lujan said, many people are without electricity.

    "How can they be expected to make photocopies of a photo identification so they can mail it in with their ballot?" he asked.

    Republicans on the committee rarely spoke during the debate, all of them aware that they were outnumbered.

    But Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran, an advocate of photo identification to vote, told the committee the bill was a fraud-fighting measure. She said her office may have uncovered evidence of illegal voting in recent elections.

    Duran said her staff had begun comparing voter rolls and driver's licenses that the state issued to foreign nationals. So far, she said, 37 cases had been flagged in which people who were not U.S. citizens apparently voted in New Mexico elections. She said the findings were preliminary and needed further investigation.

    But the cases that Duran cited involved people with valid, government-issued photo identifications.

    New Mexico is one of three states that issue driver's licenses to applicants who do not have proof of immigration status. About 83,000 foreign nationals have New Mexico driver's licenses.

    Under Brown's bill, a driver's license would be an acceptable form of identification to vote.

    Tuesday's decision marked the second time this session that the seven Democrats who control the Voters and Elections Committee blocked a voter ID bill.

    The first measure was by Rep. Dianne Hamilton, R-Silver City. Hamilton's bill proposed only to require photo identification for in-person voters. In that case, committee members said it was unfair to require photo identification of those who go to the polls but create no similar standard for absentee voters.

    Santa Fe bureau chief Milan Simonich can be reached at msimonich@-tnmnp.com or (505) 820-6898. His blog is at nmcapitolreport.com

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    New Mexico is one of three states that issue driver's licenses to applicants who do not have proof of immigration status. About 83,000 foreign nationals have New Mexico driver's licenses.

    Under Brown's bill, a driver's license would be an acceptable form of identification to vote.


    Illegal immigrants casting absentee ballots votes!!

    I see why so many want undocumented aliens to have drivers licences.
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    Anyone have any idea whom in Congress RUNS that committee in charge of voter fraud?

    La frontera abierta grupos ilegales deben estar diciéndole a votar o que se enviará copia de todos modos hasta que toma.

    The open border groups must be telling illegals to VOTE or you will be sent back anyway until we takeover.
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