‘Remember this phrase: two-tier voting. You may be hearing more about it’.

‘Officials in Arizona and Kansas are making preparations for elections with two categories of voters’.

• ‘There will be those who provided proof of citizenship when they registered to vote, and will therefore be able to vote in all local, state, and federal elections’.
• ‘And then there will be those who did not provide proof of citizenship when they registered. Those people will only be able to vote in federal contests — if at all’.

‘In both states, the preparations underway are reactions to the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, the legal battle over Arizona’s 2004 voter identification law, known as Proposition 200’.

‘While the headlines in June painted the ruling as a blow to Proposition 200, officials in both Arizona and Kansas have chosen to focus on the leeway the Supreme Court left…