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Voter suppression is illegal and carries with it both a fine and up to a year in jail. Even if it was only 1.1k that would still be over 1,000 years in jail.
by ineedasername 5y ago
Voter suppression is illegal and carries with it both a fine and up to a year in jail.
Even if it was only 1.1k that would still be over 1,000 years in jail.
The people making these robocalls are fortunate the FCC is the organization taking up the issue instead of the justice department.
And when it comes to messing with someone's constitutional voting right, there's no such thing as "only" a certain # of incidents. It's all bad, it's all illegal.
- hanniabu 5y ago> Voter suppression is illegal and carries with it both a fine and up to a year in jail. Is that a year per person who's vote was suppressed? Seems like an old law meant for before the internet. Now that a single action can affect millions of people it seems prudent to modernize punishment to reflect the scale of attacks.
- soco 5y agoSo many laws are badly outdated in times of cryptocurrencies, robotic workers, offshoring, global warming... and most of those in position to change them are badly outdated themselves.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The people making these robocalls are fortunate the FCC is the organization taking up the issue instead of the justice department. For various reasons, the federal agencies with civil enforcement powers tend to be faster in producing legal action than DoJ is with criminal action, but civil action does not preclude criminal action based on the same conduct.