Arizona: Arizona Daily Star Voter-registration

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Voting is often referred to in terms of the "right to vote." Most Americans believe they have a "right to vote" guaranteed to them by the U.S. Constitution. They are sadly mistaken. The Constitution only prohibits certain discriminatory acts in voting under the 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments respectively.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore constantly reminded the lawyers in that case that there is no explicit or fundamental right to suffrage in the Constitution - "the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States." (Bush v. Gore, 531 U.