Federal law already allows only U.S. citizens to vote in elections for president and Congress. Yet Republicans are raising concerns about the potential for noncitizens voting in this year's elections.
You have a better chance of snapping a photo of Bigfoot than you have of a voter fraud incident in your jurisdiction, but it infuriates me that the myth of widespread voter fraud persists.
I'd say it's ironic, but given their history, it's really not.
It wasn't that long ago that Donald Trump ordered mail drops removed, and Louis DeJoy ordered post offices shut down, and sorting machines removed from USPS distribution centers.
That was objectively the biggest voter fraud ever committed.
Really feel sorry for the orange cult folks. They are incredibly ignorant and gullible to the point of being their own worst enemy. Demons will gather up their souls one day because nothing else tolerates such filth.
Pictured is Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign page, main menu, as viewed on mobile. The second screenshot shows the menu from the bottom of the website.
Of note is the fact that there is no reference whatsoever so Harris’s policy positions.
She doesn’t give interviews.
She is doing what you’re accusing Republicans of doing, which is having nothing real to run on. She is literally running on nothing.
Also, she was not elected as the candidate in a primary.
But oh yes, let’s all remember that “Democracy’s on the ballot here”, as we back our wild card candidate who skipped the primaries, doesn’t do interviews, and doesn’t have a platform.
Perhaps watch one of their numerous huge rallies or speeches where they outline exactly what they are running on. Two screenshots you took of a website are meaningless.
The primaries elect delegates to the convention, but the legal authority for choosing the nominee of the Democratic Party, or for that matter, the Republican Party, is not the primaries, it is the delegates voting in convention.
They’re beating this drum now so they can claim the election was stolen by “illegals” voting in swing districts. They just need to (at a minimum) challenge a couple thousand votes in 2-3 states.
Don't forget the voter suppression before the election. They'll have long list of blue voters that must be purged because maybe one of them is illegally voting.
Its rare enough to be trivial, and when it happens, it's usually someone who doesn't realize that they are not eligible. For example, if someone came to the country at a young age and mistakenly thought that they could vote.
But as it turn out, policies that require people to verify their citizenship are also very good at disenfranchising eligible voters who are poor, young, immigrants, disabled, or non-native English speakers. Neat, huh?
Edit: I forgot LGBT folks who may have changed their name or lack access to their childhood documents.
You are correct. However, every cycle they single out one group and hit all the same fear tactics. It's not new or innovative but it has the same deadly results.
Trump losing won't change the party viewpoint. It will just make them more secretive. Closet racists again.
The "first they came for..." quote is probably more damaging than people realize. They don't systematically make more different people the problem. Everyone is fair game at all times whenever it's opportune.
And when voter fraud is found... It's Republicans.
"If I feel like I could justify doing it then that means they can do the same so I better do it to compensate for them doing it!" But the truth is, the other side isn't doing it...
There's an amendment on the ballot here in Missouri to ban non-citizens from voting this year. Also to ban ever adopting ranked choice voting, but it's really about that non-citizen thing. Totally not ballot candy to do something undemocratic.
If you're in Missouri, vote no on amendment 7 please.
Yeah that's the point. They know it's already illegal, they put it on the ballot to drive turnout. Conservative voters are convinced that non citizens are voting in droves.
In San Francisco, a resolution was passed allowing undocumented residents who had children to vote legally in school board elections and no one voted. My guess is that even if officially invited to vote, an undocumented person isn’t going to just give the government their name and address. So yeah, Republicans are just conjuring up yet another conspiracy theory to rattle what they themselves call “low information voters”, aka their base.
I was coming here to ask this very thing. Weren't most instances of fraud perpetrated by the republican chodes anyway? It's pretty simple: they know they can't win fairly, so everything has to be a convoluted shit-show with absolutely no substance whatsoever.
There was a Republican chode here in Wisconsin who voted twice to prove that people could vote twice. (The clerks caught his double vote, and he got prosecuted.)
There's a this American Life episode about this, starts off being about the birthday paradox.... Gives a good run down of how voter fraud has been disproven as an issue:
Years ago the ACLU actually had Kris Kobach's records on voter fraud cases from when he was KS Attorney General. I pored over them, and over fifteen years of reports he prosecuted something like ten cases affecting even fewer votes.
And that's a guy who built his whole career around voter fraud. Even he couldn't produce evidence that it actually existed.
Those records may still be on the ACLU's website if any of you want to take a look.
Voter roles are registration are effective. I vote in almost every election, and they can tell my ballot status when I go in. My vote is tied to my address and other factors, so it seems like it would be clear if I wasn't a legal citizen.
I also have to show a government ID when I vote, but it doesn't seem like that's made a big difference in the security of the elections I participate in.