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CousinIT

(12,627 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:00 AM Oct 2025

Stephen Miller pushing a national "show your papers" rule that would make voter registration harder

https://www.commoncause.org/articles/miller-and-his-allies-want-to-silence-millions-of-americans/

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Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: Trump and MAGA think they can’t 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.

That’s why they’re 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.
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Stephen Miller pushing a national "show your papers" rule that would make voter registration harder (Original Post) CousinIT Oct 2025 OP
That's so superfluous. In Florida, and probably many other states, nobody is allegorical oracle Oct 2025 #1
Yes. I have one of those with a star. CousinIT Oct 2025 #4
Nope. We need a national Show Your Face and Show Your Warrant law. Wicked Blue Oct 2025 #2
We used to have that maxrandb Oct 2025 #3

allegorical oracle

(6,513 posts)
1. That's so superfluous. In Florida, and probably many other states, nobody is
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:08 AM
Oct 2025

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)
4. Yes. I have one of those with a star.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:49 AM
Oct 2025

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)
2. Nope. We need a national Show Your Face and Show Your Warrant law.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:11 AM
Oct 2025

Miller needs to crawl back to his teeny tiny cave

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