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.”
Jesus Christ the United States of America at this level of soiled democracy in my lifetime is nuts. I can’t believe we’re even putting up with these fuckfuck manipulation games from the fucking president. What an absolute disgrace. It’s surreal.
Trump…. Cheating in elections?? I WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED!
Ohio is voting on an amendment related to voting, and the summary on the ballot is basically “people need to show ID in order to vote”.
I didn’t read up on the amendment before I cast my vote, but upon reading the ballot my first thought was “we already do this… so what is the purpose of this bill”. It went on to explain some other rules for what counts as identification and what not, and I just voted “no” to the amendment.
Later I had a conversation with my wife about it, and the general idea was:
- We already show ID in order to vote
- If we already show ID to vote, then an amendment to require it doesn’t make it required, but changes what is required.
- If it changes what is required, then most likely it is to make it harder for people to vote, and to give an excuse to remove valid votes from the registered voters.
- If the goal is to be able to just “pick who is valid and who isn’t” then it is just an legal platform to remove the votes the people in power don’t want to have counted
But are they the right kind of citizens?
I think this is a better response to trying to do a full breakdown of how many of each category are wrong or missing. If there are citizens on the list at all the DHS didn’t do their job and the list is an unreliable threat to lawful voters. No citizens should ever be on such a list. If you don’t know who’s a citizen you have no business making such a list at all.
Saying “it’s mostly wrong, here’s X citizens, Y people who have never been registered, Z people that don’t live here in the first place” puts the onus on the voting official to investigate every name and gives conservatives ammo to pretend everyone not accounted for is an illegal voter.
