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Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights
(www.motherjones.com)
s/desperate/determined
I'm okay with him not signing any bills.
Yeah govt doing absolutely nothing is pretty typical
I think they’re going to funnel all those (5k per month) white South African’s into ICE and send them to polling stations to intimidate
Trump wants the U.S. to be on equal footing with all other first world countries. Gasp!
The SAVE act as currently written has a religious exemption, boy do I have a church for you: The Church of Unconsented Likeness. Take the pledge today! https://substack.com/@tover153/p-188528157
"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."
That's been their behavior continuously since the country's founding. This is nothing new.
So, democrats are against voter ID because they can’t win democratically with verified citizenship?
"Desperate?"
No. He rules us. He's going to do it, and there's no coming back. The way forward must pass through years of fascism.
I've been trying to float the idea of voters showing up to the polls armed. Everyone who has a firearm, carry it to vote. Not in a threatening manner, no waving them around, just... Everyone who has one is armed.
Great, so how is that going to help Mrs. Jones who can't afford sufficient notary proof of her marriage to explain why she isn't called Miss Smith, resulting in the polling place refusing to give her a ballot?
Voting is an administrative procedure, so rigging an election can be done purely procedurally. Once the election is rigged, no amount of weapons used defensively will unrig it. Maybe they will send ICE to pick people out of the line in Latino neighborhoods, but they don't need to in order to win. And even if they send ICE, it wouldn't help if the people with guns stand around gormlessly as they drag people into vans, or as they themselves get arrested.
I suppose them doing more than that wouldn't be the worst inciting incident for a civil war, but again: it's perfectly possible for the election to get rigged without violence.
Polling stations are often in schools, and in my state it's illegal to be armed on school grounds.
100%. Just did early voting today and that was the sitch
For people who might not be in the US and don't understand why this is a bad idea in the US and proportionately hurts poor people, proof of citizenship is usually a passport. A passport costs $130. You need supporting documents like your birth certificate, SSN, and a drivers license/state ID to get it. For your first passport you usually have to make an appointment to go somewhere authorized like a library, post office, or courthouse to apply, and then they send the application off and it can take weeks to months to get back, depending how backed up the processing agency is (and I'm sure there will be artificial delays during voting years if this passes). Also, they are passing laws limiting where you can go to apply, so now libraries and the post office are losing the ability to process passport applications, so people will have to go to the county courthouse, which could be a long drive from where they live, especially if you live in a rural area. For people who don't drive, or only have one car that is shared with another working adult, or use public transportation that has a limited range (or just doesn't exist in most of the US), or are disabled and can't travel far, this can be a huge problem.
Also, all these places are only open during normal business hours, so you probably have to take time off work to go apply. Federal minimum wage is only $7.25/hr while the living wage is actually much higher (living wage for 1 adult living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment where I live was considered almost $23/hr in 2024), and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren't getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.
While I don't think this should ever pass, I think a huge issue is we're too close to the election to be changing how voting works. People could vote in the primaries and then not have the documents to vote in the actual election. Something like this would need to be phased in over time, just think about how long Real IDs took to implement.
Also not that it matters anymore but the Supreme Court already ruled it unconstitutional a long time ago as it's a form of poll tax. Remember when Supreme Court decisions weren't just "whatever Trump wants today" and actually were based on the constitution? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
The current court regularly votes down Trump, tariffs are the most recent example.
The issue is the court is full of conservative assholes who care more about their feelings more than the law.
Don't get me wrong this is still a Trump caused problem, he appointed most of the new conservatives, but they still don't rubber stamp everything he does.
and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren’t getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.
A passport card is only $30 (plus the $10 or so dollars for the required photo), but everything else in your post is spot on.
I always forget you can get just the card without the passport.
Even better, you can have the card expire off-cycle from the book. Since both last 10 years, if you renew one at the 5 year mark, it means you'll always have an active document that can get you to Canada or Mexico even while the other is in the renewal cycle.
I recently learned this after renewing both at the same time missing my opportunity. I'll renew the card early in 5 years or so to get this off-cycle expiry benefit.
It's curious why they would want to implement this because although it affects poor people, it would probably also disproportionately affect poor Republicans.
Many voters in states like Mississippi/Arkansas do not have passports because they are both poor and have no intention to travel internationally so don't bother with passports.
Because you won’t see it enforced in Mississippi or Arkansas, at least for white republicans. It will be selectively enforced to disenfranchise as needed.
it would probably also disproportionately affect poor Republicans
If MAGA thought that it would be a disadvantage to their voter base, they would not be pushing for it.
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Schumer's gonna pass the SAVE act so he can pass Iran War funding, isn't he?
Bitch I’ve been saying this would happen for a fucking decade
Because more and more people hate his guts with the fury of a thousand women scorned.
And for good reason.
...our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
... I'm tired
Martial law in October. Get out or buy a gun
The best time to get out was last year. The next best time is now.
Every time mail in ballots is brought up I mention that Florida has a successful mail in ballot system and they’ve been Republican for well over two decades.
Trump uses mail in voting in Florida.
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I've got a lot of worry about how much time he still has to get this passed, and about the viability of the midterms in general. I'm very worried he finds a way to suspend them, or actually gets this bill passed. (Or both)
He will get this passed, or do it with some sort of executive order. Most left leaning states will ignore these things as they constitutionally have no power. And trump will use that at a reason to invalidate those states's votes entirely. This will cause violent protests. Trump will bring in the military and declare marshal law. We will then have a dictatorship with trump and his sons as dictators for generations.
I wish I thought you were being ridiculous.
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