I do not believe the State should require a box for citizenship at the election polls for four reasons. First, a voter is required to declare whether he is a citizen at the time he registers to vote. Requiring a person to declare whether he or she is a citizen at the ballot box is superfluous, a waste of resources, and may confuse voters. Second, it is intellectually dishonest for Republicans (and I am a life-long Republican) to bristle at any attempt to interfere with or limit our Constitutional right to bear arms but support limitations or interferences with any citizens' right to vote. A voter has proved his or her citizenship prior to the election; the State should not interfere or ask again. Third, it is a waste of government resources to pursue a measure that purports to lessen voter fraud. The Secretary of State's own investigation found almost no voter fraud in Michigan with respect to fraudulent identification (2 cases). Moreover, there is no statical or verifiable evidence that asking an individual if they are a citizen at the ballot box reduces the almost non-existent cases of voter identity fraud. Additionally, the real voter fraud is that committed by the likes of Rep. Thad McCotter and his cronies who falsified nomination petitions. We, as defenders of the Constitution, should have outrage at McCotter (one of our own) trying to game the system. Finally, Republicans should take the moral high ground and defend every citizens' right to vote free of government interference and castigate those that would interfere, abuse, or game this sacred right. 

Michael King, Dewitt