FARGO (KFGO) – The Cass County State’s Attorney has requested an opinion from the state Attorney General on an issue that prompted complaints from voting rights groups during the June Primary election.
In a letter dated July 18, Birch Burdick asked Drew Wrigley to answer questions that arose around the authority of election judges to require that some potential voters provide proof of citizenship. In his request, Burdick said the requirement of US citizenship for voting is clear, but the process for ascertaining citizenship for New American voters is less so. Burdick asked Wrigley to weigh in on whether election workers, in the case of voters whose IDs indicate that they were not citizens at one point, should take those individuals at their word when they assert that they have since become citizens, or if election judges should require additional proof of citizenship in those instances.
