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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Miller pushing a national "show your papers" rule that would make voter registration harder
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Lets be clear about whats happening here: Trump and MAGA think they cant win free and fair elections so their plan is to make voting harder for the people who would vote them out.
But their unpopular SAVE Act already failed in Congress, and this show your papers tactic was blocked by the courts when Trump tried to impose it by executive order.
Thats why theyre trying to sneak this rule in through the back door. We have until October 20th to push back. If enough of us speak out and flood the EAC with public opposition, we can stop this voter suppression scheme in its tracks.
allegorical oracle
(6,513 posts)registered to vote without a driver license that has a star in the right hand corner. To get that license, certified docs have to have been produced to show that you're a legal citizen. Still, the appeal to object is a worthy effort.
CousinIT
(12,627 posts)I can't remember what I had to bring to them to get it.
The assholes still insist "illegals" are voting even though there is ZERO evidence of it. ANYWHERE.
Really, though, they know they're lying. They are just trying to sell that bullshit to their ignorant cult as a pretense to enact more voter suppression - requiring a passport on top of everything else one has to have to register and vote. It disenfranchises people who don't have them. If fewer people can register and vote, then MAGAts "win".
Their cult will never seek out the facts and data. They actively reject all that in favor of what Faux Noose and Facebutt tell them.
Wicked Blue
(8,949 posts)Miller needs to crawl back to his teeny tiny cave