“The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what’s going on,” Trump said, repeating his false allegations about mail ballots as he signed the order. “I think this will help a lot with elections.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
George Orwell, ‘1984’
As an American, Is there a way to not be on his list?
Pretty sure this is gonna be a literal whitelist, as in white voters.
This is very clearly what they wanted all those state voter rolls for.
If you haven’t already been doing so, between now and Election Day in November, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION STATUS!
Snowden released the information showing that the government was logging everyone’s text messages and logging the phone numbers everyone called. Then it was revealed that the government already has a profile that connects each person to their facebook, their phone number, their email- they know who everyone is. I guess this is really about ALLOWING people to be citizens and ALLOWING people to vote. It gives them control to create their own definitions and rules.
It also means that you, as a voter, have zero LOCAL recourse to get yourself added back on to the allowed list, should you ever find you have been kicked off it. And that is by design.
In most (all? I don’t know) states, if there is any problem with your registration or ID at the polling place you are allowed to submit a provisional ballot, which is then counted after the problem is resolved, or discarded if it is not.
But with a federal – physically controlled in Washington, DC – list of allowed voters they can kick whoever they want off the voter rolls, whenever they want, for any reason they want or even no reason at all, and have that be the final word.
EVERYONE is on the disallowed voter list until and unless specifically added, by unnamed operators, in some completely opaque process, answerable to either no one at all, or just to some rubber-stamping kangaroo court in DC.
By contrast, the framers of the Constitution very specifically and deliberately left all election matters to the states, because they never wanted that concentration of power in the federal. Coming out of a very out of touch and physically distant monarchy they wanted people to never be too far from the mechanics of their own elections, so they very carefully wrote it the way they did.
And here we are.
Now that the dominion voting booths are rigged the only way that the Republicans can really lose an election is with mail in voting, so all this makes sense
executive order
That’s as useful as a fart
Depends on what people do with it. If state governments comply, then it works. If they don’t, it doesn’t.
I suspect some states might comply, but others probably not.
WATCH: Trump
No thanks!
Rules of the comm say you have to use the exact title of the article. I had taken that off and then realized it had to stay if the post was to remain up.
Yeah, I think it’s safe to say that no one wants to watch an orange pustule erupt.
Well, it allowed my silly joke, so I approve. :)
Equal and more equal.
Seems like more people should be upset about this, but I guess we’ve all given up on democracy.
On the bright side, at least kids in the future won’t have to memorize the Bill of Rights.
This just happened yesterday. Take a deep breath already
kids don’t do that now
Apparently, neither do adults.
Seems like more people should be upset about this, but I guess we’ve all given up on democracy.
You, maybe. Certainly nowhere near ALL. I was out there on Saturday. It’s FAR from over.
Probably:
eligiblerepublican leaningHis hands are tiny lol
Ruining comedy yet again! This would have been epic if it came out April 1.
Yeah, this is extreme even for this administration. Even the rubber stamp Supreme Court will have to reject this one.
The question is whether Drump believes it himself or just cares about the temporary scare suppressing voting, hoping to draw it out until November
