Documents obtained and released on Wednesday by the advocacy group Democracy Forward show that the investigative arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gathered tens of millions of voter records ahead of the midterm elections as part of a purported effort to combat “voter fraud.”
Democracy Forward, which obtained the ICE documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said records from the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) branch underscore how the Trump administration is “using the power of the government to try to silence eligible voters and prevent them from accessing the ballot.”
If you structure voting laws such that you could illegally register or vote, you want this to happen. There is really no reason you would need a fucking third agency checking the legitimacy of votes. Especially since voter fraud has been checked and checked again, so many times recently in the US, and every fucking time it turned out to be less then a nothing burger. Why in the ever-loving fucking fuck would some Immigration and Customs agency EVER (EVER!?) need voter records. It’s a plain violation of the right to vote in privacy.
It’s fuckin’ rotten.
For Nazi shit
Who would have thought that the presidents personal police force would act like the presidents personal police force?
Literally nobody could have forseen this.
The 166-page document that ICE turned over to Democracy Forward shows that HSI has considered sending undercover agents to investigate nonprofit organizations accused of illegally registering noncitizens to vote. President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly and baselessly claimed that noncitizen voting is a significant problem in the US.
HSI admits in one of the newly released documents that its “review” of more than 40 nonprofits in New Jersey uncovered “no derogatory information.”
This sounds about right.
The most common work trumps administration has done is proving the government actually wasn’t that inefficient or ineffective after all, that fraud exists but was minuscule and fairly well addressed, that voter fraud is almost non existent and primarily exists in conservative extremist circles, but still in numbers far too low to even register statistically or effectively.
Yep. Trump has basically fucked up the government as pretense for privatizing it.
Exactly, this has been the right-wing plan since at least the Powell memo and other plans since then to keep their hoarded wealth and power over the majority. Lies to mislead about public programs, lies to stoke prejudice, more tribalism, get the prejudiced voters to resent the scapegoats, taught to fear and protect how they already benefit from the systems, and keep others below them.
Well republicans didn’t stop him as a pretense for privatizing services, he did it because that’s his only move throughout all his life - get his hands on something he didn’t and couldn’t build, make it unstable, worse, dangerous, on the verge of collapse, extract any wealth he can under the guise of rebuilding, self aggrandize while doing that, praising himself as a genius builder, and extort anyone even remotely connected to the project and industry with promises to protect them from the consequences and fallout of his own actions.
It’s funny how Trump and his co-conspirators are so incompetent even at fascism that a lot of the low-level footsoldiers aren’t getting the memo that trying to do their “job” sincerely isn’t the point.
Yep, it’s how you know which ones are actually dangerous, like Tucker - people wondered why he suddenly got off the train and started criticizing Trump, when it was clear he didn’t stop being a bigoted white supremacist corporatist authoritarian wannabe - he got off the train because he realized it would ruin the goals of his ilk to catch the bumper their dogs bark at with someone like Trump and his people in charge. They needed competence to get his vision executed, and anything this stupid would ruin those chances for decades.
in what state does it record who voted, in a manner that is rigorous? in my town a little old lady looks at my id or knows me and goes to a roll of names, finds my addr and crosses my name off. in pencil. or pen sometimes. and i have no idea, unless i am watching if she messes up.
it’s not a real system to indicate i have voted.
and there should not really be one anyway. i am never going to scan my id into a computer to vote
