I really don’t like the term “election deniers.” Let’s call them what they are, sore losers.
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Has anyone come across a cogent analysis of why the Rs are attacking ERIC? I mean in terms of specific underlying motivation. Is there some kind of voter roll manipulation that will be made easier by withdrawing? Is it part of a strategy to have a constant drip of voter-fraud-related drama in the news cycle? Is it a general strategy to allow them to throw more dust in the air after every election?
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Their worldview should be through the safety glass of a window in a padded cell.
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Unless that’s supposed to be a Flat Earther dig, it seems like C. Columbus had quite a bit in common with these dudes in terms of worldview.
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Yeah, the sheeple are so easily won over by competent government that helps them stay employed and able to put food on the table.* Why are constituents so happy with government that works as advertised? It must be a conspiracy!
* as opposed to on their families…
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Republicans don’t want to be caught voting a second time at their vacation properties.
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Even Rasmussen has Dark Brandon at +5 (the other trash polls like YouGov are trash, but they positively fucking LITTER the analysis because they come out so often)…
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Watch as the piggy-eyed demon flounders…and resorts to “separate but equal”…
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People who were actually concerned about voter identity fraud would very much support a program like ERIC, because the fact that voter rolls in this country are split 51 ways provides a way to bypass the central safeguard against identity theft, that someone who tries to vote has to claim to be someone on the voter rolls. If you try to impersonate a legitimate voter, the actual voter has either already voted and you could be in trouble right away because that name has already been checked off that state’s rolls, or the actual voter will vote later and the fraud will be discovered when they do, because their name has already been checked off the rolls. 51 different rolls that don’t intercommunicate means there is no one roll to check that could prevent or even discover in retrospect that fraud had occurred.
If there is no interstate comparison and collating of voter rolls, that gives the Rs an excuse to impose greater barriers to registering to vote. “How do we know you’re not registered in the 50 other jurisdictions!?!?”. ERIC is an easy way to know, or at least have better info ruling out that possibility, and thus removing a reason to make it difficult to register to vote, so ERIC has to go if you want to make it hard to register to vote.
Then, after an election in which you claim voter identity fraud was rampant, in the absence of ERIC, you can’t do so convincing a retrospective look to disprove that claim.
Of course they don’t actually care about identity fraud. They definitely don’t want to do anything about preventing it that fails to make it harder for voters to register to vote, and ERIC provides a good prevention tool that fails to make it harder to register to vote. Worst of all for these people, ERIC is indeed a concrete example of how the very best remedy for all sorts of voter fraud or just innocent voting errors, would be federal preemption of state control over elections.
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I was going to compare LaRose to Renacci but he is even more of a sellout than that. He would be a perfect Josh Mandel…the consummate sellout and loser. I could live with that outcome.
Dolan would just be another Portman: toothless, gutless GOP yes man that gets credit for sounding bipartisan.
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Christamitey! And I do mean Christamitey!!
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Who do you love???
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"Far-right groups and websites, which were already actively spreading election misinformation and sowing doubt in election administration, began describing Eric as left-leaning and falsely tied the organization to liberal billionaire George Soros. The rightwing website Gateway Pundit published a series of baseless blog posts claiming that Eric was a liberal plot to inflate voter rolls and that it could allow private voter data to become public.
Republican states have also begun to take issue with the governance of the organization. In his statement announcing West Virginia’s departure, the secretary of state, Mac Warner, said the Eric board of directors rejected recommended changes during a recent meeting which he claimed would have prevented partisan, non-state actors from having influence over the organization.
“It truly is a shame that an organization founded on the principle of nonpartisanship would allow the opportunity for partisanship to stray the organization from the equally important principle of upholding the public’s confidence,” he said.
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Basically, the fascist moronic windbags are afraid that this 30 state agreement means that their racist, fascist voters can’t as easily vote in more than one state at once. Hence all the windbaggery and fascist state governments withdrawing from the compact.
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Well, we’re slouching toward a White Nationalist rump state delusion by delusion.
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Apres nous, le delusion.
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No, they’re just governed by and for idiots.
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