{"id":18617,"date":"2013-08-16T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18617"},"modified":"2013-08-16T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:51:27","slug":"obamacare%e2%80%99s-voter-registration-ploy-will-spawn-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18617\/obamacare%e2%80%99s-voter-registration-ploy-will-spawn-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare\u2019s Voter Registration Ploy Will Spawn Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic strongholds like California, Vermont and New York have been quick to use ObamaCare\u2019s state-based insurance exchanges as an excuse to register voters.<\/p>\n<p>State officials are claiming that 1993 National Voter Registration Act (aka the \u201cMotor Voter Act\u201d) requires combining election prospects with health insurance, but the reality is much murkier.<\/p>\n<p>To start, ObamaCare is silent on voter registration. \u201cThe health care law spans 974 pages and regulates nearly one-fifth of our economy,\u201d Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) wrote in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, \u201cyet nowhere in the law is voter registration mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the Motor Voter Act itself.<\/p>\n<p>As written, the law \u201crequires states to offer voter registration at government offices, most commonly departments of motor vehicles,\u201d explains the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/08\/15\/is-little-house-on-the-prairie-a-libertarian-parable\/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Free Press<\/a>. \u201cWith the exchanges, which are in some ways a new kind of government office, some are questioning whether the law applies to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But unlike a state\u2019s motor vehicles department, not all ObamaCare exchanges are standard government agencies. The paper continues, \u201cIn some states, the exchange will be a nonprofit; in others it will be part of the state\u2019s health or human services agency. And in many Republican-controlled states, the federal government will operate the exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lack of uniformity is already leading to differing interpretations about whether the Motor Voter Act applies, which in turn is spawning lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>With this much uncertainty leading to costly court battles, states and their taxpayers would be much better served leaving the question whether Motor Voter applies to ObamaCare for academics to debate.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is an expensive and unnecessary distraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic strongholds like California, Vermont and New York have been quick to use ObamaCare\u2019s state-based insurance exchanges as an excuse to register voters. State officials are claiming that 1993 National Voter Registration Act (aka the \u201cMotor Voter Act\u201d) requires combining election prospects with health insurance, but the reality is much murkier. To start, ObamaCare is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,2026,3007,3308,1829,485,3643,560,35,3243,1273,4234],"class_list":["post-18617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-election","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-lawsuit","tag-motor-voter","tag-new-york","tag-obamacare","tag-registration","tag-vermont","tag-voter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}