What should be done about illegal immigration?

Illegals, or legal immigrants and workers, can, in fact vote, if they can come up with a legitimate registered voter's name within the precinct. If they show up before you do, and initial your name - well, it looks like you've got a problem.

When you vote, you MUST prove your identity and address. You have three options:

Option 1
Provide one original piece of identification issued by a government or government agency containing your photo, name and address (e.g. driver’s licence).

or
Option 2
Provide two original pieces of identification authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Both pieces must contain your name, and one must also contain your address (e.g. health card and hydro bill).

or
Option 3
Swear an oath and be vouched for by an elector who is on the list of electors in the same polling division and who has an acceptable piece or pieces of identification (e.g. a neighbour, your roommate).

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This perpetual whining and bleating rant of "racism!" on your part is truly tiresome.

Gets through the chinks in your armour, does it, HS?

There is no evidence of any significant amount of voting by illegal people.

Around here we spell it "armor"...

The hardline left Democrats fought tooth and nail to prevent any form of ID being produced in order to register to vote in New Mexico. After massive public pressure to do so, they finally relented and at least allowed photo IDs to be shown at the polling places in the last election, but there are those who are trying to get that rolled back too--presumably all the dead people who used to vote are now pretty much disenfranchised. People still don't have to show any kind of ID in order to register to vote.

I ask you, how does it disenfranchise eligible voters to prove their identity when they register to vote and when they vote? What possible reason would there be to discourage that unless it was that photo IDs make it at least somewhat more difficult to cheat?

It was once a real rite of passage to go down to the County Clerk's office when you turned 21 (later 18) and register to vote. It was what responsible, patriotic citizens did and we knew we had to do it at least six weeks before the election. And it was considered one's civil duty to make it to the designated polling place to vote on election day. If you absolutely could not do that, then it was your responsibility to obtain an absentee ballot, competently fill it in, and properly file it.

Why was that such a bad system?

Then you must have "evidence" to show how many illegals are voting.

Identification Required to Vote
New Mexico voters must provide identification at the polling place in order to vote. Acceptable forms of physical identification include the following:

an original or copy of a current and valid photo identification with or without an address, the address of which is not required to match the voter's certificate of registration or a voter identification card; or
an original or copy of a utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, student identification card or other government document, including identification issued by an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo, that shows the name and address of the person, the address of which is not required to match the voter's certificate of registration.

Acceptable forms of verbal identification include:

a verbal or written statement by the voter of the voter's name, year of birth, and registered address; provided, however, that the statement of the voter's name need not contain the voter's middle initial or suffix.

If a voter fails to provide the required voter identification, the voter shall be allowed to vote on a provisional ballot.
http://www.866ourvote.org/state?id=0043

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Identification Required to Vote
New Mexico voters must provide identification at the polling place in order to vote. Acceptable forms of physical identification include the following:

an original or copy of a current and valid photo identification with or without an address, the address of which is not required to match the voter's certificate of registration or a voter identification card; or
an original or copy of a utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, student identification card or other government document, including identification issued by an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo, that shows the name and address of the person, the address of which is not required to match the voter's certificate of registration.

Acceptable forms of verbal identification include:

a verbal or written statement by the voter of the voter's name, year of birth, and registered address; provided, however, that the statement of the voter's name need not contain the voter's middle initial or suffix.

If a voter fails to provide the required voter identification, the voter shall be allowed to vote on a provisional ballot.
http://www.866ourvote.org/state?id=0043

In pulling this up, I do see that they did get the rule through that first time registrants must also provide photo ID now. That wasn't true long ago. That will probably get rolled back really quick.

However I see that the requirements for photo ID are so lax and there are so many loopholes for what constitutes valid ID that they are almost meaningless. Sigh. Apparently in Dys's precinct they didn't even require that in violation of the law which also does not give me a great deal of confidence in the system.

In our precinct we were asked for and presented photo ID before we voted. In the previous election when we tried to show our voter registration card and/or photo ID they waved us off and said no , no, we shouldn't do that.

Very frustrating.