SECTION1. Chapter 56 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding after section 4 the following section:—
Section 4A. Any person registering to vote for the first time in the Commonwealth shall provide verification of U.S. citizenship. Such verification shall include one of the following: a birth certificate, passport or United States naturalization papers.
Any person who transfers, alters, or defaces any such card or license or who makes, uses, carries, sells, or distributes a false identification for the purposes of voting illegally shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
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