Good old fashioned voter suppression.
I miss my youth and the naivete of believing my teachers that this sort of shit ended decades ago.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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Being in TX & not having the magic “R” next to my name, checking my status every week or so for a few months before every election has unfortunately become a habit.
It's kind of making a deal with the devil but I think your likelihood of having your status stripped is far less if you donate $5 to a republican candidate or other GOP organization. Just be aware you'll get Republican mailers, emails and phone calls for the next 10 years at least.
If only they got a taste of their own medicine
But then in the form of a swat team dragging them out of their house by their ankles and being put up on charges for election interference, right?
And if done across state lines, federal charges.
To be fair, that would be a much easier task than coming up with rational reasons to vote for Trump.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A network of right-wing activists and allies of Donald J. Trump is quietly challenging thousands of voter registrations in critical presidential battleground states, an all-but-unnoticed effort that could have an impact in a close or contentious election.
A top deputy to Mike Lindell, a leading promoter of election-related conspiracy theories, helped conceive of the data program the activists use to hunt for suspicious voters, according to recordings reviewed by The Times.
The state’s Republican Party, which is mired in a leadership dispute, has also endorsed the data program, and the Trump campaign cited its numbers in a misinformation-riddled report released in January.
In training sessions, Tim Vetter, a developer of the system, has acknowledged that it turned up large numbers of supposedly questionable voters in dense areas of Detroit and in student housing in Ann Arbor, both overwhelmingly Democratic cities.
In an email to The Times, Ms. Engelbrecht said True the Vote supported “voters in their efforts by providing an organized way to review local voter-roll records.” She disputed the findings in Wired, and said the group had added features to its software.
Two longtime conservative activists, Chuck Muth and Dan Burdish, have organized door-to-door canvassing and enlisted landlords to compare voter rolls with their leasing records.
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