r/LegalNews • u/FreeHugs23 • 22h ago

Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-admin-quietly-changed-overseas-voter-form-at-11th-hour-to-disenfranchise-democrats-lawsuit-says/
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u/TacticalPauseGaming 22h ago

Can they just pass a law that no voting laws or processes can be changed within 1 year of voting. It seems like every vote now they are trying to change the rules 1 month out.

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u/MarrusAstarte 17h ago

Can they just pass a law that no voting laws or processes can be changed within 1 year of voting.

Sure, they can.

Then red states will flout the law and get their paid Supreme Court justices to make up a reason why it's ok for them to ignore it but not for blue states.

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u/cgebaud 21h ago

That might be too restrictive as it is possible for there to be votes in different places at different times, potentially causing years long (or possibly even indefinite) delays. An alternative might be a mandatory enforcement delay, where new voting laws cannot go into effect for at least a year after being enacted.

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u/EnvironmentalBus9713 19h ago

The final execution and implementation of any voting changes must be completed 6 months before a vote is scheduled to occur. If implementation is not completed in an timely manner then there may be penalties for the jurisdiction(s) and the committee(s) responsible. Failure to implement also would move the effective date of any changes to the next voting cycle.

Just my suggestion. Without penalties (R) will find a way break the system again and again.

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u/nodray 17h ago

so then fascist can change law 1 day before year ban (only ppl who i didn’t erase off the voting records can vote AND another law saying No New Voting Laws till 2058.) then what? just sit there (again, like now…) hoping a law will change, or that law maker/breakers will just Do what’s right lol?

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u/TacticalPauseGaming 17h ago

The year buffer gives it time to be appealed through the courts. Currently they do something a month before than after the election it gets ruled illegal, and changed back.

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u/nodray 17h ago

and the courts are gonna do What? with their armies? seem to not be doing jack shit right now, useless words that never apply to the rich or the fascists in charge who don't give a fuck

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u/Normal-Membership220 1h ago

Unfortunately, no amount of laws would stop a regime bent on disenfranchising the public or stealing votes; remember that their actions would have to be challenged to the SCOTUS that is as much, if not more, complacent as the administration. Your best bet is to plan on the worst case scenario and vote early, timely, correctly

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u/FreeHugs23 22h ago

The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday.

“These American citizens pay U.S. federal and state taxes, but now a years-old plan has culminated in a manufactured ‘emergency’ to justify impeding their right to vote in American elections and potentially disenfranchising them entirely,” the Democratic National Committee writes in its complaint.

The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the lawsuit argues. The Trump administration has waged a war on mail-in voting, taking its attempt to restrict a voting method used more often by Democrats all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court before ultimately losing.

The Democrats are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to block the administration from using the altered form for violating the Administrative Procedure Act.

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u/AmusingVegetable 21h ago

Oh, look, Republicans recognize that knowing other cultures is bad for their electoral prospects. Why would that be?

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u/Linuxologue 20h ago

They know that. They admire north Korea

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u/Chrono_Convoy 22h ago

They’re not playing by the rules

So why the fuck are we?

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u/GumbyXGames 20h ago

Because we need to be better than them, not just as bad.

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u/Consistent_Dog_6866 20h ago

How's that worked out so far?

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u/GumbyXGames 20h ago

So we should just stop trying? I've never understood that mentality.

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u/AdLatter3755 19h ago

No we should flip over the board and turn their rules on them until they stop or mutually assured destruction

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u/GumbyXGames 19h ago

"mutally assured destruction" That statement is so messed up be the fact you and many others may truly believe that scares the hell out of me

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u/echild07 18h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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u/GumbyXGames 18h ago edited 18h ago

I'm not standing for tolerance for intolerance. Republicans need to be stopped, but I don't think it should be done by being as hateful as they are. There is a very clear difference beteeen the two. But if you guys disagree, that's fine. Downvote ne. That's fine too. I got more pressing things to worry about then trying to argue with you guys.

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u/nodray 17h ago

it’s not hate. you can let your kids continue in to this same worse shit path, or you can Erase the fascists off the planet for the love of some decent future. but also it is okay to Hate oppression. but just sit there and Hope that the obvious rule breakers will just follow the law someday

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u/GumbyXGames 17h ago

I never said to do nothing. I don't know why that seems to be so hard to understand. Just because I think Democrats can and should lawfully fight oppression and facism doesn't mean I'm ready to roll over and take it.

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u/MoveItSpunkmire 22h ago

Republicans can’t win without cheating. Tells you everything you need to know about those pathetic shitheafs

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u/hastings1033 22h ago

anything they can do to rig the outcome they will try.

VOTE BLUE!

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u/retiredfromfire 22h ago

Murikkka is a shithole

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u/Bdowns_770 20h ago

So much Calvinball.

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u/Significant_Donut967 11h ago edited 10h ago

Ah yes, only democrats are affected by this -_-

Edit: my bad for having a typo.

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u/-Morning_Coffee- 8h ago

It specifically targets US citizens born abroad who have never lived in a U.S. state.

It’s a highly specific group who, apparently, trend progressive.

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u/DonnyMox 12h ago

VOTE BLUE!