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Washington state finds U.S. citizens on DOJ’s noncitizen voter list, rejects demand to set aside ballots (www.democracydocket.com)
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Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered. The revelation renews concerns about the accuracy of the Trump administration’s expanding effort to identify supposedly ineligible voters.

Secretary of State Steve Hobbs (D) disclosed the findings Wednesday in a blistering response to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which this week threatened litigation unless Washington stopped processing ballots tied to people on a list supplied by the Department of Homeland Security.

“A preliminary investigation confirms what your letter acknowledges: This list includes United States citizens and is not reliable,” Hobbs wrote. He said refusing to process a registered voter’s ballot without individualized proof of ineligibility would be “both irresponsible and illegal.”

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[–] 3 points 10 hours ago*

I think the interesting part i noted reading my ballot was that mail in ballots would require a photocopy of your id, which i took to mean that if the election worker saw your mail in ballot, saw your photo id, determined you were black/hispanic/a woman, and thus can decide to throw away your ballot.

Im not mailing my photo id.

I dont think it would change anything for in person votes, though

Edit to add: also, not everyone has a printer, so mail in ballots would be more difficult to cast

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