BeepNew South Dakota law allows voters to challenge other voters' citizenship
DominusOfMegadeusI fucking hate my country now
Ellvix
MinnesotaGoddamit sucks because there are parts (state parks and county roads, and anywhere there’s good food mostly) that i absolutely love, but i would gamble it for life in one of the countries my ancestors comes from that has decided to open immigration up in a second. i just have to convince my wife and scrounge up the money.
EvilBit
SanctusTime to start looking up every white-ass right-wing voter in the state that has a second home or spends early November out of state this year and challenge their registration 91 days before the 2028 election.
katy ✨You’re too late. ICE has already arrested people with Native American IDs, claiming they are invalid.
ICE has arrested people with valid REAL-IDs claiming they aren’t real. They’ll do whatever they want to whoever they want.
Kraiden
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RobotToasterYou’re a little late en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_v._Wilkins
FreshLightJust out of curiosity: What do you think 'll is the contraction of?
Not proper but it scans as “wait till”, as “til”, “till”, and “until” are interchangeable in common English, “till” being a somewhat archaic but still often used version.
Interesting
The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.
It’s a fairly common. I think YingYang Twins used it in a popular song. “Wait’ll you see this dick”
UnderpantsWeevilLiberals love to pretend the law is self-enforcing and refuse to ask what role the state’s deeply racist and violent police and sheriff’s offices (nevermind any ICE agents operating in the state) will play.
That would be hilarious. Just start challenging anyone and everyone with a MAGAt sticker just before the election and lock them all down in pointless bureaucracy of proving their citizenship
Real chaotic good energy. I dig it!
chickenIf a county auditor deems the challenge valid
The article doesn’t say how South Dakota county auditors are chosen, how they make decisions or what scrutiny they are subject to but I’m not sure I like your chances here
It doesn’t matter. If 50 people challenge every voter in the state, that’s almost 50m reports that need sorted. Ideally, there will be enough outrage that thousands of people will be reporting. Also, manually reporting without using an API to create a denial of service would be the best tactic. The point is to display how insipid the process is, not to cause a denial of service attack.
Rymrgand's Daughter flooding the office is the only way to deal with these things
TrackinDaKrakenWe can “flood the zone”, too.
Do it. Let me know if I can help.
Don’t limit it to those that spend time out of state. It’s not your job to be accurate. I some everyone travels.
Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed legislation into law last week that authorizes challenges by individuals and election officials.
It would be a terrible shame if a bunch of people started challenging Larry’s citizenship.
moondoggieHe’s obviously a very large monster from Japan. I’m thinking some kind of kaiju mosquito. Dibs on the band name
There’s a New South Dakota?
She’s a witch!
Who are you who is so knowledgeable in the ways of science?
My god, burn me!!
grimpy“How could this go wrong?” Said absolutely no one.
Not being from the US, I was flabbergasted when I learned how voting laws are working there. Where I live we’re all automatically registered by the government. They send a card with your name and your address. If there is an error, or if if people don’t get a card, they can manually register or correct the error. And we all stay registered unless we move or there is an error. That’s it.
I’m in my mid life and had to register once in my 20ies because I moved a lot. Otherwise the government just automatically registers me. Nobody can challenge that except the election’s office. They decide who meets the requirements to vote or not. Not some random conservative asshole that thinks people are not white enough. Democracy in the US seems like a joke.
It isn’t a joke. Jokes are funny. This isn’t funny. If hasn’t been funny, ever.
In Canada we have the same thing. You can every year when filling taxes tick off a box to update your voter info to save you the work. You also can register at the voting booth with ID, or proof of residence, or the statement of a registered voter in the area willing to vouch for you.
Basically zero voter fraud.
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Indeed. I’m in Canada too so that’s why this is familiar to you. As an anecdote, I don’t drive and have no license. Once, a long time ago, an election worker was kind of insisting that I had to show one to vote. I had the other required documents and was able to vote but not having a diver’s license apparently made them suspicious. And that was my biggest hurdle with providing ID at an election!
Lots of comments can be read about people not going to vote, some even blaming them for the election results, but it’s just incredible how difficult they seem to make voting in the US.
www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids…
You can literally show up buck naked and have your next door neighbour vouch for you.
If anyone is prevented from voting, they should make a report regardless of if they think it was right or not.
Look at that list of acceptance ID, literally a pill bottle and your work issued ID will count as two pieces.
In Canada, though, everyone has Some form of gov ID, if even just a health card (from the gov, With your pic and address).
Many, many Americans don’t have ID.
Also. “Real ID” is another animal, not produced in all regions, barely usable, a mess. If they’re demanding “real ID” the challenges will be exciting.
No not really, a bunch of us Canadians don’t have ID and there are alternate criteria to register
Okay. Now I’m agape.
No health card? How do you get broken arms fixed?
I get ‘no passport’ because Flatlanders especially don’t travel. I get ‘no DL’ because city rats don’t drive. No health card?!? I’ve had a health number since birth, and it’s been my gov id forever.
Honestly: how can that be?
You can go to the ER without documents, you would just need to sort out the bills later
There are a bunch of reasons someone might lose access to their documents, that shouldn’t interfere with their right to vote.
We don’t do “efficiency” round these parts.
How else are you going to legally bully and intimidate voters?
EZPZ.
Find red districts.
Cross reference with public address information.
Automate the challenge process.