• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Yeah donā€™t do this one. do the one where you can submit ā€œsuspiciousā€ voters registrations

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    4 months ago

    Tbh, this is messed up. No one should be de-registering anyoneā€™s voters. The state needs to make sure they have better protocols in place to stop this kind of stuff.

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      4 months ago

      I think thatā€™s the idea behind the article - the state is an arm of the reactionary right wing movement and is weaponizing deregistration against minorities and the left exclusively. This is an attempt to draw attention to the injustice.

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    additional protections for less high-profile voters include warnings on the portal that abusing it could be a felony, features built into the website to prevent a single user from submitting multiple cancellations, reviews of requests by county election workers and a postcard that alerts voters whose registration is canceled. He said those safeguards make it extremely difficult to successfully cancel someone elseā€™s voter registration.

    They really think a warning is going to stop bad actors from de-registering dems en masse?

    Well certainly that warning comes with certain punishment, right?

    The portal warns users that impersonating someone to cancel a voter registration is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Hassinger said the Secretary of Stateā€™s Office was consulting with in-house legal experts about whether to seek charges for the individuals who had attempted to cancel Raffenspergerā€™s and Greeneā€™s registrations.

    Oh, nm.

    "We want to protect votersā€™ personally identifiable information,ā€ Hassinger said. ā€œThatā€™s part of running secure elections, and thatā€™s the job that we take very seriously.ā€

    Doubt.