True the Vote, the right-wing conspiracy theorist group that spread lies of ballot stuffing in the 2020 election is focused on perpetuating a new lie ahead of 2024: the myth of non-citizens voting in elections.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1488331
Another problem best left unsolved…
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It’s all about the Mexicans.
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Well, when you’re Mexican and you have all that downtime from the murdering and pillaging, might as well go vote illegally for Democrats. Common sense, really.
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And, yes, pray tell someone tell me what a “non-citizen” looks like?
Anyone who is not a shade of eggshell or ecru?
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Another solution to a non-existent problem, at that.
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Funny how descendants of Mexicans who live in parts of the US that were formerly parts of Mexico get all the attention during election time.
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This is all about money. I don’t know how this is not plain. These are indolent rich male white children on a righteousness bender with cash to pour into whatever.
Unlimited money in politics means unlimited power for those with money. The rest is just details.
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There’s a Scottish comedian - Frankie Boyle - who says basically customs is a paint chart. His stuff is NSFW.
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Gosh. You don’t even have to look. You can tell by the name on the ballot what to do with that ballot:
Name’s José? Throw it away
Name of Smith? Count forthwith!
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I’m imagining their “handbook” includes a Bandaid to check against skin tone.
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I hope they don’t mind if I start reporting traitorous seditionists trying to vote.
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It would seem that the FEC should investigate True the Vote with the goal of decision to request that the DOJ investigate them for election interference.
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Trump hogtied the FEC while he was President. If Biden’s tried to reverse that, I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere
‘True The Vote’ Put Out A Handbook Encouraging Vigilante Reporting Of Non-Citizen Voting
Wow!
True, but to be fair, it also takes in a much wider pool of those other dark skinned fellow human beings even further south of the USA Mexico border.
Wow, one headline that illustrates the first two (unwritten) rules of Republican political discourse!
If the truth just won’t do, lie.
If you can’t win fairly, cheat.
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ajm
May 7, 2024, 7:45pm
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How about we start checking for folks voting on two states? Get the lists for those states which pulled out of ERIC?
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mrf
May 7, 2024, 9:27pm
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Dirty shoes and calves the size of cantaloupes.
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noonm
May 7, 2024, 9:28pm
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The guide offers several pages worth of information pointing out what True the Vote identifies as a supposed “loophole” for undocumented immigrant voting and possible “foreign interference.” According to the handbook: “A loophole of which many Americans are unaware, but nonetheless has a significant impact on our federal elections is the fact that in many states, U.S. citizens who were born abroad — and have never resided in the United States — can register to vote through the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Voting Act (UOCAVA).”
It’s true that a feature of American law is that American citizens can vote, even if those citizens haven’t lived permanently in the U.S. So, this section of the handbook isn’t even a complaint about non-citizens voting, but, rather, and more strangely, about legal citizens. The fact that the guidebook spends any amount of time highlighting this, according to Levitt, shows that True the Vote’s effort is “weirdly nativist.”
Yes, American citizens can vote in American elections, even if they live outside the US. Saying otherwise is advocating for literal voter suppression.
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