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Chuck Darwin

In an interview with Slate,
Wendy Weiser,
a leading expert on democratic rights at the Brennan Center for Justice,
estimated that
❌up to 21.3 million people could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act,
which “would also
💥completely upend voter registration[,]
💥end mail registration[,]
💥end voter registration drives[,]
💥end online registration,
💥and make it much harder to do automatic voter registration,”
she warned.

The SAVE Act’s passage would enormously
🔥disenfranchise citizens without passports,
as well as
🔥“rural voters, voters with disabilities, older voters,”
and other vulnerable people who are
“going to face special burden,” Weiser said.

Similar problems would occur should #mail-in #voting be dismantled
-- the practice has been a particular target of Republicans.

Now -- making use of fringe legal interpretations
and building upon an unorthodox Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision,
-- the Trump administration hopes to ❌establish the precedent that ballots received after Election Day are invalid.

As Diaz commented,
“Egregiously, the executive order tries to
override state laws in 17 states.”

Local laws ensure that late-arriving ballots are counted,
as long as they’re postmarked before Election Day.

Diaz points out that barring this method is also going to ⚠️disenfranchise overseas service members
who very commonly vote by mail.

And internationally mailing proof of citizenship documents is not a safe or viable practice.

“All the policies that are in [the order],” Diaz said,
“are things that individual states have tried before
— and they’ve all been disastrous.”

For instance,
proof of citizenship requirements in Kansas and Arizona
necessitated a vast administrative burden to review documents.

Those laws also faced a bevy of challenges.

After years of litigation,
Kansas’s rule was struck down.

“They got sued, and they lost,” said Diaz.

But in the meantime, the rule “ended up preventing tens of thousands of eligible American citizens from registering to vote.”

truthout.org/articles/trump-as

Donald Trump
Truthout · Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of ElectionsHis order on voter policy could disenfranchise millions, but multiple lawsuits have already sprung up to challenge it.
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rexi

brennancenter.org/our-work/res

as Congress considers the #SAVEAct, an anti-voter bill that would require Americans to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. These efforts are based on false claims about #voting and #elections.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed challenging the legality of this executive order on elections, including a lawsuit by the @BrennanCenter and other #votingrights groups.

Person at a voting booth
Brennan Center for JusticeThe President’s Executive Order on Elections, ExplainedThe illegal order risks preventing millions of eligible American citizens from voting.
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CBC Canada

Some small Alberta villages say voting themselves out of existence may be a path to prosperity
There are two fewer villages in Alberta this year and a third may soon emerge. Caroline and Halkirk are now hamlets within their respective rural municipalities, while Delia is set to vote on its future later this month.
#politics #village #municipality #voting #Alberta #Caroline
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alb

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CBC Saskatchewan

Some small Alberta villages say voting themselves out of existence may be a path to prosperity
There are two fewer villages in Alberta this year and a third may soon emerge. Caroline and Halkirk are now hamlets within their respective rural municipalities, while Delia is set to vote on its future later this month.
#politics #village #municipality #voting #Alberta #Caroline
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alb

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CBC Top Stories

Some small Alberta villages say voting themselves out of existence may be a path to prosperity
There are two fewer villages in Alberta this year and a third may soon emerge. Caroline and Halkirk are now hamlets within their respective rural municipalities, while Delia is set to vote on its future later this month.
#politics #village #municipality #voting #Alberta #Caroline
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alb

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CBC Edmonton

Some small Alberta villages say voting themselves out of existence may be a path to prosperity
There are two fewer villages in Alberta this year and a third may soon emerge. Caroline and Halkirk are now hamlets within their respective rural municipalities, while Delia is set to vote on its future later this month.
#politics #village #municipality #voting #Alberta #Caroline
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alb

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Silkester

340 Mio people in the US
245 Mio eligible to Vote
155 Mio people voted in 2024
_77 Mio voted for Trump

Of these 77 Mio people many have serious buyers remorse, Some polls claim 60% were ok Trump policies pre Trump tariffs.

46 Mio MAGA people
My guess is this number is down to somewhere 20-30 Mio hard core MAGA.

Trump support is somewhere between 6 and 16% of the US population.

youtube.com/watch?v=fGpG2KHyknM
#Politics #VotingMath #Voting #Democracy #MinorityRule #Republicans #electoralCollege #US

YouTubeNo, Half of Americans Did Not Vote for ThisBy Jezebel Vibes
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CBC Calgary

Some small Alberta villages say voting themselves out of existence may be a path to prosperity
There are two fewer villages in Alberta this year and a third may soon emerge. Caroline and Halkirk are now hamlets within their respective rural municipalities, while Delia is set to vote on its future later this month.
#politics #village #municipality #voting #Alberta #Caroline
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alb

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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴

FACT FOCUS: Dem leaders' challenge to Trump's election executive order misrepresented online

Social media users, incl elected #GOP officials, are erroneously claiming top #Dems filed a lawsuit to allow noncitizen #voting in US #elections.

It's a brazen lie.

But you already figured that. B/c lying about #Dems & #GOP screw-ups is the GOP brand now.
apnews.com/article/fact-check-

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