271
Just enough to cover the 12k votes Trump lost by in Arizona in 2020 with some wiggle room for error too. Corrupt pieces of shit.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
271 points (99.3% liked)
politics
18828 readers
4644 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
This whole concept of needing to separately register to vote ahead of time is insane to me.
As a Canadian, when I file my taxes there's a tickbox that allows anyone to register (if it's their first time) or update their address if they've done it before. Then you'll get automatically mailed a voter card prior to any election giving you details on your riding and voting location.
However, even if you don't do that, you can still vote on the day of the election by showing up with two pieces of ID. The process takes like 2 minutes longer because they need to fill out a short form, but they fill it out for you so you really don't need to do anything but sign it.
To be clear, for those of us in the USA who don't live in backwards-ass states, it's basically the same as you describe. When I got my drivers license, I ticked a box that said I wanted to register to vote. I've never had a problem since then.
In some states, it's even better than that - there is no checkbox at the DMV, they just automatically register you to vote if you're eligible and it's a whole process to not register. My anarchist never-voting roommate was so salty when the DMV automatically registered her to vote.
Also we have day-of voter registration that you don't even need a current ID to do, the list of accepted documents is pretty good, and if you don't have one of those documents sometime who is already registered can vouch for you (of course, you can get into trouble if you vouch for someone who is not supposed to be voting).
Minnesota is very proud of our best in the nation voter turnout.
The base concept of saying where you live in a highly mobile society makes sense for knowing how many ballots and staff to prepare, especially when there are so many local elected positions. It even helped with speeding up voting when all you needed to do was sign off when voting instead of all this ID bullshit.
Republicans weaponized a functioning system.
You don't have a central electronic registry of where everyone lives?
Edit: on state level I mean
Nope. Voter registration is the closest we get to an up to date system that varifies residency and only for the purposes of voting.
I think we all know by now that, if they didn't cheat, they'd never win. Corrupt fecal stains.
Nah, they do win fair and square when it's rural. Their problem is that the population of rural America is dwindling fast. Most rural kids don't want to stay in the sticks. For starters there's just really no decent jobs there.
I mean, fairer. Rural voters are still getting lied to and manipulated by the GOP, but at least it's not straight up cheating.
The coup has already started.it started in 2016 and is still going strong. They will do anything to get absolute power.
Justice Antonin Scalia spoke for the 7-2 majority and said the federal law requires states to “accept and use” the standard federal form in federal elections.
Scalia looking like a good guy here is blowing my fucking mind. Dissents were Thomas and Alito, so we know where this is going next.
Doesn't even have to win. Thomas will write some treason into his dissenting opinion and the GOP fascists will run with it like it was a formal ruling.
Fuckery: rising
side question, they want to drop those that failed to follow with some paperwork, wouldn't this sample be expected to have the same ratio of dem/rep than the rest of the electorate? why would it be majority dem?
They probably looked into the districts they voted out of and these are mostly democrats. I'm sure if you looked into the Republican ones, there would be even more than the 40,000 they say there are.
Their claim is that these people didn't properly prove their citizenship so I'm sure they just started looking at people's last names and went from there.
Poor people tend to be busy people who don't always follow up on their mail. And there's just enough education left in this country that poir people still tend to vote intelligently.... just enough
Note: I didn't encounter a paywall on this one so apologies if you do.
We must force the republican traitor filth to account.
LA Times - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for LA Times:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this source
Media Bias Fact Check | bot supportSearch topics on Ground.News
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-08-19/republicans-urge-supreme-court-to-block-40-000-arizonans-from-voting-for-president-in-november