gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoSome GOP-led states won't allow federal poll monitors at voting locations, officials sayabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1220arrow-down1external-linkSome GOP-led states won't allow federal poll monitors at voting locations, officials sayabcnews.go.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarestoylinkfedilinkarrow-up61arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoWe allways hear that surveilence and monitoring is good, and that you don’t have to be afraid unless you have something to hide. Is this an admission that this isn’t true, or that they have something to hide?
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·2 months agoThey have something to hide. They don’t want the feds showing up and messing up their plans to intimidate voters. Speaking of which, lest anyone think this is just a Trump thing and that the GOP was all good before he showed up, check out what William Rehnquist and Barry Goldwater were up to on the 1960s (arc’d) (tl;dr harassing black and Mexican voters with literacy tests).
We allways hear that surveilence and monitoring is good, and that you don’t have to be afraid unless you have something to hide.
Is this an admission that this isn’t true, or that they have something to hide?
They have something to hide. They don’t want the feds showing up and messing up their plans to intimidate voters.
Speaking of which, lest anyone think this is just a Trump thing and that the GOP was all good before he showed up, check out what William Rehnquist and Barry Goldwater were up to on the 1960s (arc’d) (tl;dr harassing black and Mexican voters with literacy tests).