THE UTAH AMICUS

Nichole Adams Dunn
Opposing SB 200
Inter-governmental Relations for Salt Lake County

Former Salt Lake County Democratic Chair and current staff member for SL County Mayor Peter Corroon, Nichole A. Dunn was on the hill opposing SB 200.

The flyer Nichole handed to me explains that SB 200 will disenfranchise a great number of legitimate citizens who have the right to vote.

SB 200 requires everyone to show ID at the polls. This will slow down the process at the polls considerably, creating even longer waiting lines to vote. Counties will have to split into smaller precincts to accommodate this, costing counties thousands of extra dollars.

This legislation will cause an inconvenience to the masses, in fact "punishing" them to solve a problem that does not exist. There has been no public confirmation that any non-citizens have voted in recent elections.

Since current voter registration laws are already working, and since there is no reason to suspect that non-citizens are voting, then my question is why has Senator Mark B. Madsen sponsored this bill? Maybe he just likes bigger government, maybe its just another tactic to promote fear of "illegals" in Utah. Whatever the reason, without a good debate forced by a balanced legislature, this bill, if it passes, will most probably be challenged in court thus wasting even more tax payers dollars.

"There They Go Again!"