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Pam Bondi is now demanding voter rolls. It's clearly about suppressing liberal voters in liberal areas through a show of force. They're using this data to opt
by jayd16 9mo ago
Pam Bondi is now demanding voter rolls. It's clearly about suppressing liberal voters in liberal areas through a show of force. They're using this data to optimize who to harass.
- cma256 9mo agoIf citizenship is required to vote then how would accessing voter rolls suppress liberal voters? Honest question; I'm not concern trolling. I had to Google who's allowed to vote. I found this article[1] by the Brennan Center. It alleges this is an attempted federal takeover of elections but it doesn't suggest or allude to voter suppression. I'm not convinced by the article that having access to voter rolls can be considered a federal takeover of election administration (but I'm not in the know and would need things explained more verbosely). If you have more information about the attempted centralization of election administration and its impacts on voter suppression I would be interested to know more. 1. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-administration-has-sued-more-20-states-refusing-turn-over-voter https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trum...
- neumann 9mo agoI don't understand your question. What does citizenship got to do with this?
- cma256 9mo agoI thought GP was arguing they were trying to find non-citizens on the voter rolls to intimidate them (which may be a misreading).
- jayd16 9mo agoThey'll claim they're doing that but intimidate citizens instead.
- cthalupa 9mo agoNo. There are not non-citizens on voter rolls. They want the rolls to get data on voters. When you ask yourself why the ultra-politicized DOJ (which isn't even the DHS...) from an administration that has explicitly called liberals the enemy is asking for voter rolls, it becomes pretty understandable why people might come to the conclusion that it is to suppress the people that have already explicitly been identified as targets.
- smsm42 9mo ago> There are not non-citizens on voter rolls. That is incorrect, there are actually non-citizens on voter rolls, especially in the states with automatic voter registration. Example: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/scotus-allows-virginia-remove-noncitizens-voter-rolls-election-attorney-general-paxton-and https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/scotus-al... Of course, actually voting would be a crime: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611 but it doesn't stop everybody: https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state-more-than-100-non-citizens-have-voted-ohio/kLDaZOPtJBvlx1JNEWt1DJ/ https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state-more-than-100-non...
- cthalupa 9mo agoThank you. I stand corrected.
- pyrophane 9mo agoHonestly my real fear is ICE agents at polling places on Election Day harassing would-be voters with citizenship checks and aggressive behavior, slowing things down and maybe causing some people to leave. Regarding voter data though, if it becomes known that registering to vote as a minority will get you extra scrutiny from ICE, and perhaps a visit to your home, that would probably cause some citizens avoid voting altogether, especially if they are associated with people who are not her legally. Either way, the federal government really has no right to that data or legitimate use for it, so hopefully they don't manage to get their hands on it.
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- fastball 9mo agoHow does that work? As a US citizen, no amount of "harassment" is going to stop me from voting.
- hydrogen7800 9mo agoNonetheless, it was successfully implemented for about 100 years in the US.
- nullocator 9mo agoAre you a citizen, can you prove it at the polling station? I am doubtful you are, and your documents if you have them don't seem legit enough, so I think we'll set your vote aside, or possibly prevent it from being cast; we can't be too sure!
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- AlotOfReading 9mo agoIt doesn't matter whether you can prove it. ICE's current position [0] is that their face scanning app supercedes documents like birth certificates to determine status. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face-scans-to-verify-citizens-is-unconstitutional-lawmakers-say/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face...
- guerrilla 9mo agoWell that's insane. I hadn't heard that.
- totetsu 9mo agoIsn’t the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility act going to stop married women who have changes their last name from what was on their birth certificate from voting?
- max51 9mo agoIf you think making sure only citizens can vote equals "suppressing liberal voters", that sound like a big self report. The voter lists don't tell you how people voted, it only tells you who did.