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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls (www.democracydocket.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by [M] to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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The filing also points to mounting evidence in Minnesota that the prospect of federal immigration agents around voting sites is already changing how voters and election workers behave.

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[–] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

I am curious. Could a group of concerned citizens show up at polling places armed and with signs saying they are there to defend anyone voting from any intimidation. Would that be technically legal?

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    • [–] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    ICE also fed voter DATA to PALANTIR, so they know which polling stations to hit. likely they will be targeting swing areas, like they rigged in 24.

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    • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago

    Good. At least the courts won’t have the “we have to wait for the crime” excuse.

    I’m sure they’ll think of something, but still.

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    [–] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

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    • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago

    All they need to do now is attack noncompliant voters, and it's Russian democracy.

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    [–] 11 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

    They can't just cull half of the entire population for voting blue, right....?

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    Problem is, they don't need to cull the complete half.

    And

    They are taking bites out of whatever's left of a fair election process in the USA, all over the place. The threat of actual physical violence, as horrifying as that is, is unfortunately only one of many efforts.

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    • [–] 5 points 19 hours ago

    Spawncamping

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    [+] -20 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

    The election is already over.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    Not quite. It's salvageable but Americans won't save it because it's too much work.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    That's hardly better than the comment you're replying to.

    Honestly, I'm still optimistic about MAGA ending soon.

    But then I was also optimistic in 2024.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    That's hardly better than the comment you're replying to.

    Um yes I'm not exactly brimming with faith in American democracy.

    Honestly, I'm still optimistic about MAGA ending soon.

    Yeah no. MAGA isn't just a random flare up; it's the result of systemic problems in American society producing fascism*. The best you're ever going to get without wide-reaching systemic reform is a four-year break before neo-MAGA (probably but not necessarily under a different name) appears with a vengeance. You can't wait out fascism any more than you can wait out cancer; you actually have to get it treat it or it'll kill you.

    *To radically oversimplify, there are only two modes of government capitalist elites will tolerate: centrist liberal democracy and rightwing totalitarianism, and a society that (to give one example) can't house its young won't get to exist as a liberal democracy for long. You do the math.

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