Throwing people off voter rolls is why Trump wants those state rolls.

[Attilatheblond]

Wondering: How many facing potential disenfranchisement are women?

And how many women will be disenfranchised because their 'married name' no longer matches birth name or previous drivers' pre-marriage license name?

The GOP, and Trump mob in particular, know women are gonna be a real problem for them. There has been talk of disenfranchising women for a few years now. The mismatched name issue could easily be the starting place for the disenfranchisement of millions of women.

GET THE PAPERS YOU NEED TO SHOW WHY BIRTH NAME AND CURRENT NAME MIGHT NOT MATCH? To it NOW!
Here is link to CDC site to guide people to links to use to get certified copies of vital records. Please share the link and why it is needed.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/index.htm]

If possible, set up ways to help poor women in your town afford to pay for any/all certified copies of records they need to prove why their names may now be different from the names on their birth certificates.

GOP knows they have lost the female vote in many places. They will try to keep us from voting. Do not let that happen.

Get the word out that women need to get vital records NOW. It takes time for states/counties to get us the docs we may need. DO NOT hesitate.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. How would the federal government throw someone off voter rolls?

Possession of voter rolls does not automatically give the possessor the authority to remove someone.

They could launch court challenges, or use the information in other ways to harass or suppress voters, but the states still controls who is authorized to vote in that state.

[Attilatheblond]

2. How, indeed. Our Constitution says STATES, not federal government control elections.

But many states and counties have GOP officials and the way Trump bribes, bullies, and blackmails local officals would make it easy to get them to go along with the federal administration to purge certain groups from their voter rolls. This goes on (happened in my state and county) while the administration is trying to find a way to violate the Constitution.

They only have to be able to tamper with the voter rolls between now and the cut off date for re-registering if one gets purged. Taking them to court for violating the Constitution takes time and by then the damage would be done.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. If states can do it, what will keep the feds from doing it. Do you think that they're following laws or the constitutio.

They are breaking one law after another, ignoring rulings from the court and not following the constitution. They think they can do anything they want - and so far it’s true.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. By working with groups such as True The Vote,

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who do the actual challenging.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/politics/voter-rolls-ballot-challenges-true-the-vote-elections

[haele]

4. He's been talking about it. Which means his staff has been talking about it...

And just from the experience of the reality of just last year - he, or Vance, or whomever is in charge in October, will go ahead and mobilize the National Guard if they have to and "Federalize" the15 Democratic States he mentioned as having elections that are corrupt or inadequately secure.
Do you think a slim majority GOP Congress or this current conservative clown car of a SCOTUS will say "no, dude, not this time - that's Unconstitutional?" before November?

Naah. He's acting "within his duties as the President" whatever that means.
They'll all just shrug their shoulders and say "take him to court" and when he(or Vance) just does it anyway and f's up the voting in those states despite court injunctions and pushback from State AGs
- or Magic Mike refuses to seat from those states only keep his Majority intact until "a full investigation can be made" like he did against Grivajia just last year -
and the GOP enablers in Congress and SCOTUS will shake their heads and say "oh well, too late - he won his case this time. No backsies"...

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. That's not how any of this works

First of all, ICE outnumbers the police in Minneapolis by something like 3 to 1, and they have no control over the population, so dystopian fantasies of martial law are just that.

Secondly, for whatever reason, this administration obeyed court orders to block deployment of troops to both Portland and Chicago, so an impulsive edict from Trump is far from a done deal.

Lastly,

- or Magic Mike refuses to seat from those states only keep his Majority intact until "a full investigation can be made" like he did against Grivajia just last year -

Johnson’s term as both speaker and representative ends on the last day of business this year, along with the rest of the house. When the new Congress convenes on January 3, 2027, there will be no speaker. The members-elect choose a speaker, and since the majority of members-elect will be Democrats, so will the speaker. The new speaker is sworn in by the clerk, and then the speaker swears in the rest of congress en masse.

There are provisions for raising objections to seating a member, but if a Republican objects to the seating of a Democratic member-elect certified by their state, it would set off a cascading tit-for-tat resulting in no members being seated that day other than the speaker, which is why it has never happened (Hawaii’s first rep is the asterisk).

Just because you can imagine something, and then type it on the internet, does not make that thing possible, plausible or probable (or true).

[orangecrush]

9. None of what has happened since he took office

Is how any of this works.

And he does it anyway.

And gets away with it.

Amazing.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. You are wrong

Although he acts with lawless impunity daily, he does not control much outside the executive branch, certainly not the states and their elections.

This administration has been stopped stalled or stymied numerous times over the past year.

No troops were deployed in Chicago or Portland- why didn’t Trump “just do it anyway” despite the court orders?

Kilmer Garcia is a free man on US soil- why didn’t Trump just leave him in El Salvador, despite the court orders?

Liam and his father are back home in Minnesota- why didn’t Trump leave them in the Texas concentration camp despite court orders?

He is an agent of chaos, and he is panicking, but that doesn’t mean he will succeed- he has a long history of being a miserable failure, and his failures as president far outnumber his successes (defined as achieving the ends he seeks)

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless.

[orangecrush]

12. Thanks

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. I remember that commercial! Nt

:lol:

[orangecrush]

15. Same!

[Totally Tunsie]

7. Wouldn't the Real ID Drivers License provide some protection

from disenfranchisement for most women? When applying for the Real ID, we were required to show the documentation to prove the name change(s) along the way, i.e. marriages, divorces, etc. Granted, not ALL women have a license and not ALL that do have a Real ID, but I'd think it covers most women.

[Attilatheblond]

8. Yeah, but women have had to get the documents needed. Not everyone has done that if their licensce hasn't expired

Not everyone opts for Real ID. Believe it or not, that $47 cost can be the difference between making the rent or becoming homeless. The is REAL poverty still in America and every penny is precious to a lot of working poor.

ALSO: There have been several stories of ICE/CPB looking at real ID drivers license and dismissing them as probable fakes. We have little guarantee county and state election officials in GOP counties and states will honor Real ID either.

I live in a county where 2 of 3 county supervisors REFUSED to certify an election. Judges had to threaten them. One of the two did a plea bargain and retired. The other is STILL trying all manner of ways to delay his criminal trial.

If it wasn't for Marc Elias' team taking those 2 GOP supervisors to court and beating them, NO VOTEs from this county would have been counted in our state total, IOW, every voter in the county would have essentially disenfranchised because 2 MAGA idiots insisted on violating AZ election laws.

[wiggs]

11. they are using our money to purge voters, who will have to use their own time and money to stay on voter rolls. nt

[Ms. Toad]

14. Voter rolls are public information.

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Here's where you can get the rolls of all registered voters in Ohio, for example: https://www6.ohiosos.gov/ords/f?p=VOTERFTP:HOME::::::

Anyone who has ever done get out the vote calling is using information culled from the public voter rolls.

I've just confirmed that the publicly available Ohio voter database (at the link above) includes my full name, my date of birth, the date I registered to vote, my full address, the last party ballot I requested, and which elections I've voted in since 2001 (as well as a bunch of stuff related to representative district, school district, etc.).