{"id":21737,"date":"2026-03-07T05:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21737"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:07:36","slug":"kansas-tried-a-documentary-proof-of-citizenship-law-in-2011-and-it-blocked-31000-citizens-from-voting-12-of-first-time-registrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21737","title":{"rendered":"Kansas tried a documentary proof of citizenship law in 2011 and it blocked 31,000 citizens from voting&#8211;12% of first time registrants."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen, and then he tried to steal that election himself, and is now trying to steal future elections. US democracy is under threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are disenfranchising millions of Americans to stop a few dozen potential illegal voters, then your goals are to make it harder to vote, rather than to secure the election, unless you are just ignorant of the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kansas tried a documentary proof of citizenship law in 2011 and it blocked 31,000 citizens from voting&#8211;12% of first time registrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The founders intentionally did not give the president the power to regulate elections because they feared something like a king or a dictator. Yet, Trump is claiming such powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump&#039;s Insane Plan To Steal Elections Leaked\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_WqgMg5Id0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen, and then he tried to steal that election himself, and is now trying to steal future elections. US democracy is under threat. <\/p>\n<p>If you are disenfranchising millions of Americans to stop a few dozen potential illegal voters, then your goals are to make it harder to vote, rather than to secure the election, unless you are just ignorant of the facts. <\/p>\n<p>Kansas tried a documentary proof of citizenship law in 2011 and it blocked 31,000 citizens from voting&#8211;12% of first time registrants. <\/p>\n<p>The founders intentionally did not give the president the power to regulate elections because they feared something like a king or a dictator. Yet, Trump is claiming such powers. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G_WqgMg5Id0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,198,272,355,314,661,479],"class_list":["post-21737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-tyranny","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21740,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions\/21740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}