Critics say Mastriano's pledge to make PA citizens reregister to vote is aimed squarely at Black Ame

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Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor and a leader of the Stop the Steal campaign, wants every voter in the state to reregister to vote, claiming that it’s the only way to regain Americans’ trust in the voting process.

“We might have to reset, as far as registration, start that whole process over here,” Mastriano said on the conservative news channel Newsmax last month. “There’s still a lot of dead [people] on the rolls … and there’s ghost phantom voters that we found, as well, at various addresses.”

While a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled in the weeks prior to the 2020 election that there was no evidence that “phantom voters” were an actual problem in the state, critics believe Mastriano’s ulterior motive is to keep minority communities from voting.

“[Mastriano’s] stated desire to have voters reregister is a dog whistle designed to reinforce the racist belief that Black and other BIPOC voters are not, in fact, fully enfranchised citizens guaranteed the same rights as white voters,” Cynthia Ann Young, author of “Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left” and associate professor of African American Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University, told Yahoo News. “The irony, however, is that were his scheme to be implemented, many white, rural voters would be excluded from the voter rolls.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/critics-say-mastrianos-pledge-to-make-pennsylvania-citizens-re-register-to-vote-is-aimed-squarely-at-black-americans-201249388.html

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Who is surprised by this?

The GOP is the party of voter suppression

[SharonClark]

2. He means everyone has to reregister to vote

and are only allowed to vote for GQP candidates.

[twodogsbarking]

3. It is clear what he is. What isn't clear is how many votes he will get.

Pennsylvania.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. So Mastriano wants to disassamble laws and start over with his own version

Sounds like fascism to me.