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More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended (www.sacurrent.com)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/news@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

How does that happen?

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  • [–] 28 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    Fucking Kris Kobach, the attorney general in KS.

    He has a program that checks if you haven’t voted in awhile, if your address doesn’t match, if you were registered somewhere else and didn’t tell them you moved (does anyone do this?).

    And if you have a common name, you’re probably going to get removed from the registers every single time since it’s a very flawed system.

    Many conservative states joined his program.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    So I'd suggest Reading "How Trump stole the 2020 election" by Greg Palast. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659617/how-trump-stole-2020-by-greg-palast/

    Basically the Republicans send out a junk mail looking slip to people living in high density rental areas if they had not voted in a couple of cycles and then punted them off the rolls, the justification is they must have moved and we need to clean up the voter lists...

    The Gov of Georgia at the time in 2020 was elected by less votes than he purged as the Secretary of State..if I recall he purged like 400,000 and won by 100,000.

    Republicans are nothing if not crooks

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    No clue to be honest, but yes I am registered D

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (1 child)

    So what are you going to or can you do about it? Has this ever happened before to you or someone you know?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

    Never happened to me before. I was able to vote in the last major elections without a problem. I even looked it up a few months ago and it was fine. What's odd is that it's showing the last address I had, not my current. I updated when I changed my license, and submitted the voter change. My wife did it at the same time, hers is still valid and got updated, while mine did not.

    I am hoping that by mailing in the new forms (for some fucking reason I can't online) it will be updated in time for the midterms.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I'm dealing with the same exact thing. I updated my license with my new address months ago. There was an option to update my vote registration information with that and, of course, I did that. It's showing my registration is active, but it's showing my old address and I can't change it online. The website keeps having unresolved errors when I put all the information in to update it.. We moved two hours away, but I'll sure as shit drive two hours to vote for Talarico and Hinojosa

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    It might not be a bad idea to get in touch with, not sure who's dealing with election law stuff but even ring up ACLU and see if there's anyone they can connect you with who's trying to get ahead of all this election disenfranchismnet bullshit.

    This is happening to over a million+ Texans so you're not alone in it but theres absolutely fuckery afoot.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Your question doesn't really need a specific answer. It's easy to create weird rules and enforce them badly. Exactly how is irrelevant, because justice was never the goal.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Voting democrat likely

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Where are they getting that information tho

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Registered voter lists maybe?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Does America not have a secret ballot?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    In most American states you can register under a political party in order to be eligible to participate in their primary. So therefore party affiliation is gathered data - not sure if it’s public (might vary by state) but they have that data.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    America has separate primaries for the political parties. You're only allowed to vote in one per election, and they know which one you picked. So if you voted in the Democratic primary, they know you're either a Democrat or a strategically-voting Republican.

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