National Voter Registration Act of 1993
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Oct 8, 2026
Amy HoweGUEST
Um, I'm gonna take you back to 2013, a case called Arizona versus Inter Tribal Council.
Amy HoweGUEST
And in that case, the Supreme Court held that a 1993 federal law called the National Voter Registration Act required Arizona to accept and use the federal voter registration form, which does not require proof of citizenship.
Amy HoweGUEST
And Arizona responded to that decision by setting up a two-pronged system.
Amy HoweGUEST
So you could use the federal voter registration form, which did not require proof of citizenship, but then you could only vote in federal elections.
Amy HoweGUEST
There are a couple of other petitions out of the Ninth Circuit's decision that the Supreme Court decided not to take up.
Amy HoweGUEST
But there- so there are two issues.
Amy HoweGUEST
The first is whether either the National Voter Registration Act or the 2018 consent decree bar Arizona from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote with the state form.
Amy HoweGUEST
And then the second issue is whether or not the National Voter Registration Act bars Arizona from implementing a program to cancel voter registrations, um, of voters who are not citizens within ninety days of federal elections.
Richie L.HOST
By the way, there's just a couple of federal laws I want to point out besides the one we just read in the article.
Richie L.HOST
You got the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as NVRA.
Richie L.HOST
So we've got the Motor Voter Act and then the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Richie L.HOST
That's the HAVA, H-A-V-A, which established minimum standards states must follow to maintain voter rolls.
Richie L.HOST
All right.
Richie L.HOST
And they can even alter their own.
Richie L.HOST
But anyway, National Voter Registration Act of 1993, commonly referred to as the Motor Voter Act.
Richie L.HOST
This is just somewhat it requires states to offer voter registrations at state agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
And be it further resolved that all actions and transactions entered by the board and the executive director in connection herewith be, and they hereby are ratified, confirmed, and approved in all respects and...
Ashe in AmericaHOST
And be it finally resolved that the executive director is directed and empowered to assist the DHS and the DOJ pursuant to their letter of September 2nd, 2026, in their examination of the use of QR codes in Georgia elections as a potential violation of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, HAVA, and in their re- investigation of the sharing of Georgia motor vehicle data and voter registration information with the Electronic Registration Information Center, ERIC, and the Center for Election Innovation and Research, CEIR, to determine whether the arrangement violated the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, DPPA, and the National Voting Regist- Voter Registration Act, NVRA."
Brian LupoHOST
So this has been a long time coming for Georgia.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
It made everybody crazy.
Lorenzo SewellGUEST
The judge actually is going to hear us.
Lorenzo SewellGUEST
So I'm looking forward to seeing how we're going to apply the National Voter Registration Act and making sure that we can finally get justice.
Lorenzo SewellGUEST
I'm believing for a congressional hearing, my brother.
Lorenzo SewellGUEST
I believe that the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ, He hears our prayers, He hears our petitions.
Carrie SeverinoGUEST
Yeah, generally, the Constitution does give that to the states, the method of, of go- carrying out the election.
Carrie SeverinoGUEST
Now, we do have the National Voter Registration Act, which sets federal standards, but the, the challenge is, you know, h- th- this is what the Court's gonna have to look at, the federal government does allow states to use slightly different forms.
Carrie SeverinoGUEST
It doesn't say you have to use this exact form, and the states vary a little bit-
Jessica RosenthalHOST
Oh
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
It doesn't even make sense, because the Supreme Court has already ruled about the, um, help, uh...
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
The whole, the whole reason we started working on the Save America Act is because the Supreme Court has ruled on the National Voter Registration Act, the NVRA, the motor voter w- w- uh, bill.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
And they ruled on it in relation to Arizona, which is...
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
I want, want to talk more about what's happening on, on December 8th in just a minute.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
But the point is, they ruled on that.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
They didn't say, "Oh, no, the Su- the, the Constitution does not allow the Congress to do this in the first place." It was saying that this was the supreme law of the land, and states had to abide by it.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
And what I mean by that is that there's a, a form you fill out f- to register to vote from the National Voter Registration Act, and it has a checkbox rather than the requirement for proof of citizenship.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
The State of Arizona, through a statewide proposition, said that only American citizens could vote in their elections and required proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Tom RenzGUEST
Good law, law that we can all love and support.
Tom RenzGUEST
Problem is, is that the other side is arguing that National Voter Registration Act, uh, supersedes it, right? So this is the problem that we have, and with the climate change, uh, lawsuit that I mentioned previously, where they're saying that, you know, the, the Clean Air Act, uh, supersedes, uh, any sort of state law, so there's no tort.
Tom RenzGUEST
Well, in this case, the Trump administration is arguing the other side of it, and they're saying that no, the National Voter Registration Act doesn't prohibit states from, uh, you know, carrying out elections how they choose.
Tom RenzGUEST
The problem that we're running into, uh, Dave, with some of these is that the, the government's arguing out both sides of its mouth.
Tom RenzGUEST
The law doesn't do political convenience, right? And I know that there's a lot of politicization in the courts, but the reality is, is that, you know, to an extent the law is the law.
Tom RenzGUEST
And there's a lot of nuance to this, and I'm painting it with a very broad brush, but essentially this is what you have.
Tom RenzGUEST
On the proof of citizenship, uh, for voter rolls law that was passed in, in Arizona is a properly passed law, and it's a good law, and it's a law that we need in more states.
Tom RenzGUEST
But, uh, this-- in this case, the Democrats are doing the, uh, are arguing that, you know, "Hey, the National Voter Registration Act prevents us." So, uh, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Pat ProctorGUEST
So, um, last year, um, I passed, uh, I carried and passed a bill that requires the DMV to provide a list quarterly to the secretary of state's office of non-citizens who are getting driver's license.
Pat ProctorGUEST
Because, A, um, just like every state in the union, the National Voter Registration Act makes us a motor voter state, which means they have to ask everybody who's eligible, "Do you want to register to vote?" And then, B, um, we have- Repeatedly heard that non-citizens are ending up on the voter rolls because they're asking the, you know, they're, they're, uh, asking the wrong people.
Pat ProctorGUEST
And when I was trying to pass this law, it was great.
Pat ProctorGUEST
The Democrats, they're like, "Oh, this is a conspiracy theory.
Roxanne HogeGUEST
You can't whine about the voter rolls being corrupted.
Roxanne HogeGUEST
Uh, that was thanks to Motor Voter, and predating that, they gave the driver's licenses, the ability to get driver's licenses to illegal aliens, and then fron- you know, back-loaded that so it didn't take effect until people had forgotten about it, and then immediately they instituted Motor Voter.
Roxanne HogeGUEST
So everything that the left does has been leading us inexorably to a place where, yes, the voter rolls are bloated and terrible.
Roxanne HogeGUEST
It doesn't mean that your vote doesn't count.
Pat ProctorGUEST
Yeah.
Pat ProctorGUEST
So, um, last year, um, I passed, uh, I carried and passed a bill that requires the DMV to provide a list quarterly to the Secretary of State's office of non-citizens who are getting driver's license because, A, um, just like every state in the union, the National Voter Registration Act makes us a motor voter state, which means they have to ask everybody who's eligible, "Do you want to register to vote?" And then, B, um, we have repeatedly heard that non-citizens are ending up on the voter rolls because they're asking the, you know, they're, they're, uh, asking the wrong people.
Pat ProctorGUEST
And when I was trying to pass this law, it was great.
Pat ProctorGUEST
The Democrats, they're like, "Oh, this is a conspiracy theory.
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