The Republican National Committee is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in an Arizona election dispute this week and block up to 40,000 of the state’s registered voters from casting ballots in the presidential race.

Republican state lawmakers say these voters did not provide proof of their citizenship when they were registered and now they should be barred from voting in person or by mail.

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    Just enough to cover the 12k votes Trump lost by in Arizona in 2020 with some wiggle room for error too. Corrupt pieces of shit.

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      To be clear, for those of us in the USA who don’t live in backwards-ass states, it’s basically the same as you describe. When I got my drivers license, I ticked a box that said I wanted to register to vote. I’ve never had a problem since then.

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        In some states, it’s even better than that - there is no checkbox at the DMV, they just automatically register you to vote if you’re eligible and it’s a whole process to not register. My anarchist never-voting roommate was so salty when the DMV automatically registered her to vote.

        Also we have day-of voter registration that you don’t even need a current ID to do, the list of accepted documents is pretty good, and if you don’t have one of those documents sometime who is already registered can vouch for you (of course, you can get into trouble if you vouch for someone who is not supposed to be voting).

        Minnesota is very proud of our best in the nation voter turnout.

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      The base concept of saying where you live in a highly mobile society makes sense for knowing how many ballots and staff to prepare, especially when there are so many local elected positions. It even helped with speeding up voting when all you needed to do was sign off when voting instead of all this ID bullshit.

      Republicans weaponized a functioning system.

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        You don’t have a central electronic registry of where everyone lives?

        Edit: on state level I mean

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          Nope. Voter registration is the closest we get to an up to date system that varifies residency and only for the purposes of voting.

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      Nah, they do win fair and square when it’s rural. Their problem is that the population of rural America is dwindling fast. Most rural kids don’t want to stay in the sticks. For starters there’s just really no decent jobs there.

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        I mean, fairer. Rural voters are still getting lied to and manipulated by the GOP, but at least it’s not straight up cheating.

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    Justice Antonin Scalia spoke for the 7-2 majority and said the federal law requires states to “accept and use” the standard federal form in federal elections.

    Scalia looking like a good guy here is blowing my fucking mind. Dissents were Thomas and Alito, so we know where this is going next.

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      Doesn’t even have to win. Thomas will write some treason into his dissenting opinion and the GOP fascists will run with it like it was a formal ruling.

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    side question, they want to drop those that failed to follow with some paperwork, wouldn’t this sample be expected to have the same ratio of dem/rep than the rest of the electorate? why would it be majority dem?

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      They probably looked into the districts they voted out of and these are mostly democrats. I’m sure if you looked into the Republican ones, there would be even more than the 40,000 they say there are.

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        Their claim is that these people didn’t properly prove their citizenship so I’m sure they just started looking at people’s last names and went from there.

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      Poor people tend to be busy people who don’t always follow up on their mail. And there’s just enough education left in this country that poir people still tend to vote intelligently… just enough

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