Republicans on the Florida state House Government Operations subcommittee on Tuesday advanced a new bill requiring voters in the Sunshine State to verify US citizenship with one of seven forms of identification, including a passport, birth certificate, or driver’s license – with the bill also mandating the DMV update state licenses to indicate US citizenship – when registering to vote or making any changes to their registration, the Palm Beach Post reports.

The bill does not however go all the way and require voters to actually present proof of citizenship at the polls and current law allows Floridians to show something as far afield from real government-issued IDs as a neighborhood association card as long as it has a photo on it. Otherwise, since the state’s required driver’s license renewal interval period is every eight years – or 6 years if you’re over 80 years old – it’ll take until 2034 for the state to verify the citizenship of every voter who uses a driver’s license as ID at the polls… which is almost certainly the vast majority of them.

All this is to say these are some sneaky, weasely sons of bitches, not forcing everyone to present citizenship proof at the polls from the get-go or at least demand everyone on the state’s voter rolls update their registration with said proof before the 2026 elections. So in one sense they’re being smarter about it by tip-toeing around disenfranchising Republican voters – in fact if you still live in the same home 10 years from now and use any of the non-governmental IDs to vote then it appears you’ll be exempted from having to prove your citizenship indefinitely – but if this is as urgent as the MAGA assclowns say it is then they should be walking the walk on “election integrity,” instead of fucking around and gradually bringing the vast majority of the state’s electorate in over a decade.