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dhork , in In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges

“You have the constitutional right to challenge any other voter in your county,” Frank said at Cherokee County Republican headquarters in Woodstock. “In fact, it’s not merely your right. It’s your duty to clean the voter rolls.”

Which Constitution says that? Not the US Constitution, the word “challenge” doesn’t appear there at all. And not in the section of the Georgia State constitution regarding voting, either. Is there a secret MAGA Constitution which only they know about, but applies to everyone? That might explain some of the recent SCOTUS shenanigans.

henfredemars ,

Supreme Court Justice ducks under the desk with a crayon…

Oh hey look there it is! Right there in the constitution.

gAlienLifeform OP ,
@gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

“Talking a lot of shit for someone within Official Act distance” - Joe Biden (in my dreams)

dhork ,

You joke, but I have always thought that the reason why the modern Conservative movement leans so heavily on the Founders is that they want to call a constitutional convention to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, and become the new Founders who courts 200+ years from now have to defer to.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

That would be a hell of a trick when over 60% of the country doesn’t agree.

dhork ,

Prepare to be tricked. They need 34 states to call a new convention, and already have 28

www.commoncause.org/…/article-v-convention/

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

Well, shit.

nokturne213 ,

And with the way education is going in this country, it will not be long before they can convince everyone that 34 is less than 28.

Viking_Hippie ,

*~80%

Trump never got the votes of more than 20% of the population.

ech ,

ducks under the desk with a crayonsharpie…

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

They never read the article, they just read the title and make shit up to fit their narrative

SoleInvictus ,

That’s exactly how they use the bible too!

BigMacHole , in Trump Tower is coming to Saudi Arabia | CNN Business

It’s a GOOD THING Saudi Arabia DIDN’T ATTACK US ON 9/11 or pay A US Official 2 Billion Dollars for no reason and it’s an even BETTER thing that TRUMP has NEVER used his Position of Power to enrich himself at the expense of others!

NoSuchAgency , in In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges

Okay, so they’re asking the counties to remove dead people and people that have moved. They’re not just asking for random people to be taken off.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Without anyone being able to challenge them. Meaning they can claim whoever they want died or moved and those people can get struck off the voter rolls.

And if you don’t think Georgia has a long history of preventing certain people from voting, I suggest you look at their history of elections, especially pre-1964.

TimLovesTech ,
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Groups like this are often using these group sourced lists of people that aren’t Republican, and are terribly inaccurate and full of flaws. These are the same people that were “finding” all the voter fraud they couldn’t prove, or show evidence of once those accusations had to be backed up by something in a courtroom.

henfredemars ,

My registration has been removed three different times and I am very much alive and have lived at my current location for the past 10 years.

That’s what it says on the tin, but it’s a bad faith message. It’s an attack on the right to vote.

Xeroxchasechase ,

Did you provide a proof of your living state?

henfredemars ,

My state drivers license should do the trick. It even showed up on their website for a couple months and then suddenly I don’t know who you are anymore. Ridiculous. I know we had one law passed for purging voter rolls and another which greatly restricted how long a voter registration is valid. I suspect, to comply with that law, they just dumped the registrations.

But I’m going to check over and over again and I’m going to vote. I’m going to vote as hard as I can.

NoSuchAgency ,

“All we’re doing is a free service. Hey, this group of 500 people, or this group of 800 people said they moved. Maybe you should look into it,” I don’t see that being in bad faith or being an attack on the right to vote

blazera ,
@blazera@lemmy.world avatar

they didnt say they moved, different people aiming to remove democratic voters say they moved. And instead of “look into it” its just removal without notice

teamevil ,

Yeah that’s totally under selling what they’re doing… What they’re actually doing is they are hitting up areas that tend to have more transient quote unquote populations and sending out flyers that look like junk mails saying if you don’t defend your rights within 90 days we’re stripping you of them.

There is no reason to use trickery or tactics to make it look like junk mail, The only reason the governor of Georgia was elected was because he was able to purge 400,000 legitimate voters off the poles as the Secretary of State. He won Governor by a margin of less than 100,000 which means he basically ensured his own election which is what the right wants to do cuz they can’t just straight win … cuz they want to do terrible things and nobody wants them to do them

NoSuchAgency ,

Source?

teamevil ,

From a book called “How Trump stole the 2020 election” released in 18.

Also Guardian article theguardian.com/…/georgia-governor-race-voter-sup…

The books spends more time making him a statement how various conservative legislatures are trying to purge. It talks about what areas they’re trying to purge voters from and explores multiple areas. I felt like it was a pretty good read not saying it’s 100% correct but a lot of things kind of make sense.

That being said a quick Google has sources saying it didn’t affect the outcome I find it very disingenuous to be expelling voters in good standing while using cheesy junk mail style notifications. If you’re really concerned about getting the voting lists all cleared up fine but do it in a transparent method no underhandedness.

dhork ,

What business is it of anyone if the rolls have too many names? People can still only vote once, and the system comes down hard on people who try and trick the system. It should be the State’s job to purge registrations after due process, not the voters’ (and certainly not some random busybody).

NoSuchAgency ,

You’re just being naive to think that. Maybe a person can only vote once in their name, but they can fill out absentee ballots in other peoples names and drop them off in ballot boxes. Thats why having dead people and people that have moved on voter roles just invites fraud.

dhork ,

Yeah, but why do private individuals have to police voter rolls? It should be the state’s job to do that.

NoSuchAgency ,

Why is that? The voters handle elections, count ballots, etc. You really want to trust the state (bureaucrats) to do it? Look at the DMV. They suck at everything they do, just like the government

dhork ,

In my state, the county Board of Elections (and their staff) is in charge of the voter rolls. They are employed by the state to do that job, and can be fired if they do a bad job. They also can have access to state vital records, and can take deceased voters off the rolls right away.

On the other hand, if we leave this job to unelected busybodies, then there is nothing keeping them from adding some extra names to their list, to harass neighbors they don’t think belong there.

IHeartBadCode ,

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  • grue ,

    They’re not just asking for random people to be taken off

    Yes. That’s how this works. They are indeed taking random people off the rolls.

    No, he’s right: they’re not taking “random” people off the rolls; they’re choosing who to challenge based on specific characteristics.

    IHeartBadCode ,

    Oh I see... (laugh/cry)

    AnUnusualRelic ,
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    It’s probably not random people but people that insist on voting for the wrong candidate.

    FlyingSquid , in In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    I assume they are just going to go by a skin tone chart like in that Family Guy bit.

    _haha_oh_wow_ ,
    @_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

    [paper bag test intensifies]

    eran_morad , in 16-year-old Quincy Wilson now the youngest-ever male US track Olympian

    Kick ass. Why’s he wearing that sleeve?

    fine_sandy_bottom ,

    Idk but it’s dope.

    twistypencil , in After Supreme Court immunity ruling, Biden draws sharp contrast with Trump on obeying rule of law

    He needs to pledge to over turn this, and citizens united, put the us on a trail path

    Telodzrum ,

    Anyone telling you there is a practicable path to overturning Citizens United, Trump v. United States, or Loper Bright is outright lying to you.

    flicker ,

    If Biden starts officially executing people, he can accomplish anything he wants.

    aaaaace , in New Report Argues Private Rail Is a Train Wreck, Public Ownership Needed

    We need National Trackage Rights in the USA.

    They had no problem deregulating trucking si that any company can serve any customer, let railroads do the same, i.e. Union Pacific can serve BNSF or NS customers.

    And large customers, esp hazmat shippers, can run their own trains. The environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio likely woukd not have happened if those chemicals were self-shipped.

    Railroads used to have to run their iwn passenger trains, govt formed Amtrak to take the burden off them. We could give successor railroad companies that burden back.

    Freefall , in After Supreme Court immunity ruling, Biden draws sharp contrast with Trump on obeying rule of law

    That is what they are counting on!

    555_1 , in Instances of anti-LGBTQ vandalism reported in nearly two dozen states during Pride Month

    The real crime is not having a list when the headline suggests a list.

    praise_idleness , in Taiwan raises travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau over Beijing's new judicial guidelines introducing death penalty for supporters of Taiwanese independence

    Since lemmy.ml and hexbear are banned in China, I like to see their users visiting China and have a nice time explaining about their little website.

    GreatAlbatross ,
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    Now that I think about it, activitypub must be a nice little wiggle-around for the great firewall. As unless they whitelist (I honestly don’t know), all you need is a federated instance that isn’t blocked.

    555_1 , in Steve Bannon swaps his podcast studio for a prison cell

    The acoustics are terrible, but he’s got a built in audience.

    AnUnusualRelic , in Alec Baldwin’s case on track for trial in July as judge denies request to dismiss
    @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

    I still don’t understand why they’d have live ammunition on a film set.

    brlemworld , in Conspiracy Theorists Think Biden Was Hit With Directed-Energy Weapons During Debate

    This community is called news. It should include news. Not some trash blog.

    ThePantser , in Trump Tower is coming to Saudi Arabia | CNN Business
    @ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

    This seems like a conflict of interests.

    kevindqc ,

    It’s not a peanut farm so he’s good

    TimLovesTech , in In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges
    @TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

    When official means exist to remove non-qualified voters, but groups like this want to circumvent that, it tells you they are acting in bad faith and is the whole reason they don’t want to do it the official/legal way. This should be grounds for election interference, voter fraud, and voter suppression charges.

    eldavi , (edited )

    voter id’s only work to disqualify voters; but it’s has popular moderate/centrist support.

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