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#votersuppression

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@CrickettGrrrl @Rhona_Redtail @tjcrowder @thefwguy @randahl Let's not overdramatise.

Yes, the #gop is good at #votersuppression

They got certainly better at it in 2024.

Yes, they managed to disable a number of federal safeguards in the years before 2024, so the red states can be even more creative in their voter suppression.

(Let me put it like this, US elections, from the perspective of an European look barbaric, purely on the organisation level, 3rd world level style elections.)

"‘The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud.’ Oregon representative gives fiery speech as House approves changes to voter registration"

oregonlive.com/politics/2025/0

“The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud, it’s about preventing participation in our elections" - Rep. Maxine Dexter

oregonlive · ‘The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud.’ Oregon representative gives fiery speech as House approves changBy The Oregonian staff and wire reports
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Postal services in some areas of the USA are unreliable, so it makes sense to have a grace period when it comes to returning election ballots — at least, that’s been the case for a number of years in around half of the states across the political spectrum. @bolts reports on how that’s changing. “This past March alone brought news that two states … will repeal their grace periods; that conservative federal judges are on the brink of killing grace periods in two other states; and that Trump, who for years has falsely alleged rampant mail-voting fraud, wants to pressure the rest of the nation to reject every mail ballot that arrives after polls close,” writes Alex Burness.

boltsmag.org/restrictions-on-g

Bolts · Trump Wants Mail Votes to Arrive By Election Day. Red States Are Rushing to Toe the Line. - BoltsFrustrated by slowing mail delivery, particularly in rural areas, the Kansas legislature in 2017 passed a law to let elections officials count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, for... Read More

🚨 USA: Contact both your senators and tell them to vote NO on this!

"SAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions"

democracydocket.com/news-alert

"Republicans have pursued the SAVE Act under the guise of preventing noncitizens from voting, which they portray as an existential threat to the American electoral system. In fact, illegal voting by noncitizens — and fraud in general — is extremely rare."

Democracy DocketSAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise MillionsRead more here.

#Republican #House just passed a bill that would require people prove they were US citizens when they registered to #vote, 220-208, w/4 #Democrats joining #Republicans. The bill, which is unlikely to make it through the #Senate, echoes an EO #Trump signed last month as part of his push to tighten voting laws tied to his #BigLie.

It is already against the #law for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, & there is NO evidence of voting by noncitizens.

Apologies for the previous boost, I'm not one to push that fucker's bullshit into your timelines and certainly not his picture but the wholesale disenfranchisement of married women? ??

This would affect not only people registering for the first time, but also when moving to another state and however else they can find to weird this weapon.

We should be screaming like our hair is on fire.

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@georgetakei say what you will but the eggs were simply unaffordable, we had to stick it to the libs, punish black and brown people for no reason, and stop women from becoming ever more independent. Next thing would have been smart, black women getting better pay than their half-witted, white, male colleagues and polluters, scammers, Russian agents, and tax cheats being held accountable for their crimes. That's why we had to go nuclear on everything... But don't worry. This is just transitional: Transitioning from an exceptionally healthy, resilient economy to a full recession, from democracy to autocracy, and from being the leader of the Free World to a rogue regime picking fights with everyone simply because we think we can...
#TheUnAmericanVotersDidThis #VoterSuppression #WhiteChristianNationalists #Racists #LeftPurists #OilAndGasMafia #RussianAssets #BillionaireGrifters did this.

Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"

The order includes:

* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;

* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;

* preventing millions from registering to vote;

* severely limiting voting by mail.

Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#uspol #trump #votersuppression #autocracy #musk .

Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”

Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"

The order includes:

* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;

* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;

* preventing millions from registering to vote;

* severely limiting voting by mail.

Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#uspol #trump #votersuppression #autocracy #musk .

Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
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Whether it's acceptable to mention it in polite discourse or not, the fascist GOP's plan to formalize national targeted voter suppression based on fascist conspiracy theories designed to explain why a bloviating reality TV show nazi lost the 2020 US presidential election, is a form of election rigging. We've already discussed Der Führer's recent (blatantly illegal) executive order to do just that, but the Republican plan to fuck elections and create their own permanent Pork Reich is a multi-pronged assault. One of the key spearheads in this quest to, again, rig elections by disenfranchising millions of voters who are statistically more likely to support the opposition party, is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or Save Act, currently being cooked up in a GOP fascist-controlled Congress.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters

"According to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, more than 21 million US citizens of voting age don’t have easy access to proof of citizenship documents, and only about half of American adults have a passport, while millions do not have access to paper copies of their birth certificates. Married women whose legal names do not match their birth certificates could be disenfranchised by the Save Act, and folks looking to obtain lost or misplaced birth certificates would face financial and logistical hurdles.

The Save Act would restrict voters’ ability to register to vote online and through the mail while also severely limiting the ability of non-partisan civic organizations to conduct voter registration drives, which have been crucial to civic engagement for more than a century. That’s because, despite voters’ ability to register to vote at the DMV and registration efforts by political parties, data shows that voter registration drives from non-partisan organizations can account for about one-fifth of voter registration applicants – roughly equal to the political power of California, Florida and Texas combined. We simply cannot sit back and allow Congress or the White House to destroy the infrastructure of our elections by disenfranchising so many voters."

Look, I know Trump's unhinged fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election make most liberals very leery about uttering the words "rigging elections" but at some point you have to accept that you can't stop reality from being real, just because naming the beast makes you squeamish. Targeted voter suppression by the GOP has become so normalized that in a recent(ish) battle over election maps that clearly sought to minimize the political power of African American voters, GOP operates defended themselves from charges of racial bias by saying they weren't restricting voters because they're Black, but rather because they vote Democrat. This is election rigging, by a fascist regime, headed up by a would-be King who keeps musing about violating the Constitution to seek a third term, and it's probably time to be honest with ourselves about what that actually means - an attempt to permanently install the US Republican brand of fascism in our society by preventing free and fair elections (such as those exist, in America.)

I mean let's cut the crap here for a second okay? The Save Act specifically targets voter registrations drives because the fascist GOP is openly arguing that registering people to vote, is somehow rigging elections. Let that sink in for a minute folks; a fascist regime is trying to rig elections through nationalized voter suppression because, and they essentially admit this, if everyone gets to vote they might lose power. The fact that this type of thinking and rhetoric is considered "normal" for the right wing party in America doesn't prove these guys aren't fascist, just that America has been embracing, normalizing, and ignoring fascism for a very long time before Donald Trump ran for office.

The Guardian · Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of votersBy Guardian staff reporter

Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"

The order includes:

* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;

* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;

* preventing millions from registering to vote;

* severely limiting voting by mail.

Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#uspol #trump #votersuppression #autocracy #musk .

Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”

Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"

The order includes:

* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;

* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;

* preventing millions from registering to vote;

* severely limiting voting by mail.

Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#uspol #trump #votersuppression #autocracy #musk .

Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”

Trump’s New Executive Order an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort
motherjones.com/politics/2025/
whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

* far-reaching executive order
* astonishing & unprecedented voter suppression effort

1. prevents millions of Americans from registering to vote
2. severely limits voting by mail
3. allows Elon Musk to subpoena voting records
4. gives Trump King-like power to make it harder to vote

Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”