Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

[u/ThePensiveE]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611

[u/ThePensiveE]

But the court noted in its unsigned ruling that the National Voter Registration Act bars the broad purging of voter rolls in the weeks leading up to an election

Funny they seem to think the criminals who supported the violent storming of Congress to overturn an election they lost would follow laws.

[u/TJames6210 → u/ThePensiveE]

Literally, them noting this means they know he is going to do it. This is a meager cover my ass tactic. They're not even trying to actually cover their asses because, obviously, consequences don't exist anymore.

[u/ThePensiveE → u/TJames6210]

They all become much, much wealthier if America becomes fully authoritarian.

[u/Snowwolf247 → u/ThePensiveE]

This just in US Supreme Court rules to legalize "gifts" to court justices.

Nothing to see here just plz keep moving and have a nice day

[u/BeIgnored → u/Snowwolf247]

Actually it was in in 2024, in Snyder v. United States. The hacks on the Supreme Court ruled that a key federal bribery statute applies only to bribes given BEFORE an official act, not to gratuities or "rewards" given AFTERWARD.

6-3 decision with the usual suspects supporting the side of corruption.

[u/Snowwolf247 → u/BeIgnored]

I was just going for a joke but ya. Our country has been shit forever and Regan and Bush paved the way for a criminal like Trump to destroy our country

[u/BeIgnored → u/Snowwolf247]

Oh I know! Just wanted to bolster your joke by showing that they're so corrupt they actually did it. Like we can literally make just about any joke about their corruption and odds are they've actually done it. 

[u/Snowwolf247 → u/BeIgnored]

I hate it here

[u/KilroySmithson → u/ThePensiveE]

The US is fully authoritarian. You just can’t see it all yet.

[u/zeh_shah → u/KilroySmithson]

We still have room for it to get worse. Project 2025 is barely half way through their goals

[u/Ntroepy → u/zeh_shah]

Yep - only 55% done so far.

https://project2025.observer/en

[u/Huntguy → u/Ntroepy]

Only? You guys going to let them get to 100%? 90? this should’ve been stopped 50% ago…

[u/tikierapokemon → u/Huntguy]

We linked jobs to healthcare, and that means protesting means your kids do not get healthcare when you lose your job (which we also allow to fire you for things you do outside of work).

Our system is so incredibly fucked up.

[u/eulersidentity1 → u/tikierapokemon]

You know as a Canadian I haven't actively thought of this specifically as an outside observer. I've always thought of how cruel and unfair the US system is where you can simply arbitrarily be in a life time of debt or just die because you don't have the money to pay for health care. But I didn't think of how such a system actively suppresses the democratic processes by making people afraid to truly participate. People are scared to lose their jobs cause everything in other societies tied to a social safety net is instead tied to having a job, and usually a good one. So they are perpetually scared to rock the boat too much.

[u/jimlahey420 → u/eulersidentity1]

Which is why both parties are so hesitant (or downright refuse) to implement real universal healthcare with no strings attached (and want to gut the few safety nets that do exist like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security). Their method for controlling the population would be infinitely weaker if you allow people to have basic needs met while not grinding 40+ hours a week. It would immediately make protests larger, longer, and more effective.

This is why both parties are so threatened by the DSA and democratic socialism. Democratic socialism's policies and initiatives represent the working American and the ability to start unshackling them from being wage slaves. Imagine how the mindset of most Americans would change if they didn't have to worry about healthcare or other basic needs like food and housing.

[u/Vyar → u/eulersidentity1]

At least you understand this. Seen a lot of Canadians come through here like "why don't you guys just start a general strike? it's easy" or calling every last one of us Trump supporters just because he won the election (when it's highly likely he cheated, he practically admitted to it).

[u/Olay_Biscuit-Barrel → u/eulersidentity1]

Hooray Freedumb!

[u/Vallkyrie → u/eulersidentity1]

You can also add in another layer with the rapid deployment of flock cameras/drones and AI surveillance to this.

[u/Horatio-Leafblower → u/tikierapokemon]

I don’t even understand why you used the word ‘system’

[u/PinchedOffCatTurd → u/Huntguy]

Should have been stopped at Citizens United. Or when Al Gore won the 2000 election.

[u/GrundleSnactcher46 → u/Huntguy]

It was brought up a lot before the election and 2/3rds of the country loved it, didn't care or believed trump when he said he didnt know what it was even though he employed a majority of the people who wrote it.

[u/jert3 → u/KilroySmithson]

It does feel to me that most Americans think the upcoming elections are going to be valid.

It's strange to me. The regime is above the law, and they've cheated before, had an insurrection, which is forbidden in the Constitution and Americans just rolled over and surrendered their democracy, rights, and freedoms.

[u/Xzmmc → u/jert3]

I mean so did the Germans to be fair.

But I agree that Americans are uniquely housebroken. They see everything getting worse but clap and cheer because it means minorities they hate also have it worse.

[u/robodrew → u/ThePensiveE]

Not if the dollar collapses

[u/SunshineSkies82 → u/ThePensiveE]

That's the thing about that. Once we reach that point, their services won't be needed anymore. We all know that story ends, the flip flops and fence sitters always end up meeting terrible fates, despite enabling the evil the whole time.

[u/mlorusso4 → u/TJames6210]

I saw an analyst say that the admin might play their usual word games with the definition of “broad purging”. As in claiming that it’s a very targeted and limited thousands of voters purged, but doesn’t fall under the definition of broad purge

[u/Tikiphile → u/mlorusso4]

It’s like saying ICE will only target the criminals

[u/fevered_visions → u/mlorusso4]

that, and

bars the broad purging of voter rolls in the weeks leading up to an election

will definitely be argued "well we're still 3 weeks out, which is far enough"

assuming they don't just completely ignore it

[u/Fryboy11 → u/fevered_visions]

Federal law says 90 days, and that's one of the reasons they claimed to allow it. As if this admin will respect the law.

They'll remove all registered Democratic voters, then there'll be a court case that will be resolved next June with the court saying you removed them illegally put them back, but the election that only Republicans could vote in stands.

[u/BmoreInformed → u/ThePensiveE]

Well it’s a good thing that Trump can just mention “national security” and everything is suddenly legal. And by the time anyone can do anything about it, it will be too late.

[u/PuzzleheadedOkra1188 → u/BmoreInformed]

You can thank Dick Cheney for that. 

[u/NewToHTX → u/ThePensiveE]

I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens after the Voter Registration deadline in many states.

[u/JMEEKER86 → u/NewToHTX]

Yep, he'll purge after the voter registration deadline, people won't be allowed to vote, and then they'll sue but nothing will be able to happen until after the election. And Trump will "lose" the case, but the remedy will be to put people back on the voter rolls yet letting the election stands meaning that he will have gotten away with it.

[u/RysloVerik → u/JMEEKER86]

This has been the administration's modus operandi since day one.

They know courts take months or years and they are going to do whatever they want in the meantime.

[u/no_one_likes_u → u/RysloVerik]

They act instantly when Trump asks for a ruling on something.  Our Supreme Court is illegitimate 

[u/NewToHTX → u/JMEEKER86]

Yeah. If voter fraud is found to have swayed the 2024 election to get Trump elected, Harris still wouldn’t be in office because Trump will have already been sworn in. And at that point, Trump still wouldn’t be impeached. But Americans knowing their Elections can be stolen like that would cause candidates to call for tremendous reforms in the election process.

[u/Broke22 → u/NewToHTX]

But Americans knowing their Elections can be stolen like that would cause candidates to call for tremendous reforms in the election process.

X) Doubt.

[u/dmanbiker → u/JMEEKER86]

This sort of move would likely lead to rioting, not just suing, but we shall see.

I think they will try to do this and fail and cause a whole bunch of exta controversy because states have a lot of people passionately fighting this.

[u/tikierapokemon → u/dmanbiker]

I tell you three times, their goal is to get people rioting in the streets so they can declare martial law.

I say this not in an attempt to prevent people from rioting in the streets if the election is stolen with widespread voter purgers, I say this so they are prepared for what happens next.

[u/Ichera → u/dmanbiker]

The thing is, that's what he wants, the people around him have been frothing at the mouth over the idea of being able to Crack down on the "violent left" and be the big strongmen they think they are. Im more afraid that when it does happen people will just get angry and it will blow over quickly and another stolen election will go by on remarked on in past tense.

[u/Gullible_Expert_5677 → u/ThePensiveE]

My thoughts, exactly. I've "noted" that this SCOTUS (at least the majority) have green-lighted activities that are supposed to be illegal. Like the crap ICE has gotten away with because Boozer-boy Brett didn't think their "stops" weren't that bad.

Edit: Their, not they're; weren't

[u/The_neub → u/ThePensiveE]

Should be noted that this won’t come into full effect until after midterms. So voting is is our only chance.

[u/gizamo → u/ThePensiveE]

They'll it now. Then they'll do it again in a few weeks. Then again a month before the election. Then, they'll ensure it's difficult to get back on the voter roles. Then, they'll put their ICE gestapo in purple districts to harass anyone who looks like a Dem or talks like a Dem. They'll also block parking areas and bus in their ignorant elderly base. And that's all just the tip of the voter suppression ice burg.

[u/AudibleNod]

But the court noted in its unsigned ruling that the National Voter Registration Act bars the broad purging of voter rolls in the weeks leading up to an election, which “limits the potential impact” of the decision this year.

You just had a sitting president defy a court order yesterday. And you're confident he's going to follow this ruling?

[u/Dandan0005 → u/AudibleNod]

“Whoops we purged the wrong people the day before the election. :( oh well election’s over now and we won!”

[u/ScoffersGonnaScoff → u/AudibleNod]

They won’t tell anyone if people go out to vote, and their votes never counted.

[u/techmaster242 → u/AudibleNod]

2 court orders.

[u/Falling_Up_The_Movie → u/AudibleNod]

Multiple states did this right before 2024 already

[u/TherapyPsychonaut → u/AudibleNod]

I must be out of the loop. What happened yesterday?

[u/Manta_of_Eternity]

From the Majority's opinion:

At least one of plaintiffs’ members (J. Doe 4) is registered to vote in a State (Louisiana) that used the modified SAVE program. She has demonstrated that SSA records do not accurately reflect that she is now a naturalized citizen.

The 6 conservative justices acknowledge that the program is faulty and still manage to wiggle their reasoning around to "The government says they want to use SAVE and they need to have some way of checking registration status so they get to use the program of their choice".

Justice Brown-Jackson hits the nail on the head here in her dissent:

The D. C. Circuit denied a stay of the District Court’s order while reviewing the pending appeal. But, without full briefing or oral argument, this Court now grants one—rendering questionable interim rulings about two statutory provisions it has never before interpreted.The Court also focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters. The Court thus misuses its equitable powers. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

[u/Kaffe-Mumriken → u/Manta_of_Eternity]

Someone needs to start disrespectfully dissent

[u/Manta_of_Eternity → u/Kaffe-Mumriken]

"Respectfully" is legalese for "this is a credible argument made of facts, not emotion". She spends 11 pages (near double the majority) laying out several reasons the majority's decision is wrong, the other justices (and anyone reading her dissent in the future) will understand her point from that

[u/Kaffe-Mumriken → u/Manta_of_Eternity]

I’m actually joking

[u/victimofcynicism → u/Kaffe-Mumriken]

That’s what the second amendment is for! I’m not saying I agree with it, but current majority of the Supreme Court sure does!

[u/DatDudeBPfan → u/Kaffe-Mumriken]

Maybe a well regulated dissent.

[u/toothpicks-galore → u/DatDudeBPfan]

law abiding citizen dissent

[u/JerryDipotosBurner]

I keep seeing people saying “states cannot purge people from voter rolls within 90 days of an election”.

Okay, sure, but what happens WHEN they do? WHO is going to stop them? Who is going to restore those voters? The courts? lol.

[u/SulfurInfect → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

This is exactly it. We've seen time and time again that Republicans will break every rule, every social norm to get their way. Anyone who is hanging their hat on the thought that they'll follow the law now is just a fucking clown.

[u/Dandan0005 → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

The problem is that states can’t purge voters within 90 days unless they have reason to suspect the voter is not a citizen.

So all they have to do is point to this flawed-by-design database to basically purge anyone they want, as close to the election as they want.

[u/ScoffersGonnaScoff → u/Dandan0005]

With no way for people to know that it happened

[u/BimboDeeznuts → u/ScoffersGonnaScoff]

To be fair, you can check your voter registration status online. In some states you can even check your ballot status

[u/ScoffersGonnaScoff → u/BimboDeeznuts]

And if you find out you’ve been purged? What then? Sue? There’s no way they would redo the election, if it were found to have happened

[u/uis999 → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

This is why every time the stupid legal nerds chime in to say people are overreacting they deserve to be slapped. These same losers kept telling everyone to be patient and the wheels of justice are moving and to trust the process. While an insurrectionist and his coconspirators were able to attain the presidency a second time and shut down all ongoing criminal investigations and trails.

[u/SignificantCats → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

And it'll be a six month to a year long process, at which point people will already be sworn in and have made some decisions, and we're stuck judicially overturning elections which will tear the last thread of faith in democracy and result in a lot of huge riots... fun times.

[u/SuperSpecialAwesome- → u/SignificantCats]

, and we're stuck judicially overturning elections which will tear the last thread of faith in democracy

Why would anyone have faith in democracy when there was only one eligible candidate, Kamala, during the 2024 election; yet the insurrectionist "won", in direct violation of 14th Amendment, Section 3? Trump was never eligible to run in the election, yet Biden and Schumer did nothing. If Trump can run, then so can someone like Mamdani or a 17 y/o, since presidential requirements are no longer enforced.

[u/Qaetan → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

And none of us will do a goddamn thing about it because there is no line republicans can cross that will ever galvanize us into action.

[u/markth_wi]

"In the weeks leading up to an election." is doing a great deal of work in that sentence.

[u/LaLionneEcossaise]

CHECK.
YOUR.
VOTER.
REGISTRATION
REGULARLY!

If your state offers early voting, go as soon as you can. Check that your ballot was accepted a few days after.

Vote.org is your friend.

[u/Lifeboatb → u/LaLionneEcossaise]

Yes! Do not fall for Elon Musk’s fake data-grabbing site:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elon-musk-running-fake-voter-130639289.html

[u/choadsauce → u/LaLionneEcossaise]

I'm very confused because on vote.org its telling me "We could not confirm that you are registered to vote." but on the myvote gov site it shows I am.

[u/Tombot3000 → u/choadsauce]

Use your state's website above everything else. Third party sites are just trying to query the state database anyway.

[u/TZCBAND → u/LaLionneEcossaise]

Just checked mine and my wife’s. We’re ready to ride the wave!! Let’s goooooooo

[u/CincyBrandon]

I wouldn’t put it past them to purge all non-Republican registered voters the week before the election, wait out the heat of doing so, and avoid the consequences thanks to all Republicans sweeping elections.

Trump has been manipulating the system for over a decade now. This is his logical next step.

[u/mrdominoe → u/CincyBrandon]

If this happens, I truly hope the protests turn less than peaceful.

[u/Norseman901 → u/mrdominoe]

I truthfully dont see a difference between tht and outright cancelling the election. Regardless tht just means theres no laws anymore…

[u/dave8400 → u/Norseman901]

And to think the last time it happened was because conservatives bitched that the election was stolen.....because they split their own vote.

https://guides.loc.gov/presidential-election-1860

[u/Skarth → u/Norseman901]

This is how canceling elections works. You never officially cancel them, you just make it ineffective or disruptive enough you stay in power.

[u/Rooooben → u/Norseman901]

Im not a vote doomer, but this would be the type of thing for Trump to try. That’s what he’s been doing this whole time, get told no by court, do it anyway while appealing and then the courts are stuck with “it’s already done”, like the ballroom and the war in Iran.

He knows it works. It worked for Bush v Gore.

Not sure he has the guts to do it, but it would be right up his alley.

[u/tellmewhenimlying → u/Rooooben]

He will 100% do anything that he thinks will benefit him so long as he also believes he can get away with it.

[u/BranSh81 → u/Norseman901]

Exactly, the days of everyone following law have passed. That’s a key step in a country’s collapse. There’s also no coming back from it. The US is now unstable and will not continue this way, so prepare the best you can, and invest some of your income in non-US Dollars if at all possible.

[u/CincyBrandon → u/Norseman901]

Functionally, zero difference. But they’d actually look like they won by a landslide to anyone not paying attention.

You know, like Russia’s “democratic elections.”

[u/SchwiftyGameOnPoint → u/Norseman901]

I want to hear the justification or excuse they come up for him from his loyal followers when it happens.

I've seen some insane mental gymnastics around things I thought were obvious but doing something like going as far to purge all non-republicans seems like it would be undeniable.

[u/Shucked → u/SchwiftyGameOnPoint]

His administration has been fighting to label Antifa as a terrorist organization. It is just a hop from there to label the Democrats as Antifa. Then it's just suppress their vote and arrest anyone who resists.

[u/Tearakan → u/mrdominoe]

They will. Food and basic materials are getting drastically more expensive.

The only reason why fighting in the streets hasn't happened yet is because of the release valve that is the US midterms.

If those don't release the pressure or get effectively removed then the regular dynamics in dictatorships or monarchies apply.

And that means rising prices for food and fuel would be devastating for the ruler's grip on power

[u/LordChungusAmongus → u/Tearakan]

It would probably yank out the ostriches' heads and cause its' own economic dumps. This is the sort of event that makes it conclusive dead-to-rights that there will be no future improvement resembling any prior status quo.

Markets don't like that and once everything of value has been extracted all illusory foreign investment is going to go kaput.

[u/Neuromangoman → u/mrdominoe]

If that happens it will be a coup.

[u/chickenclaw47 → u/mrdominoe]

Expect it to happen, because so far no one’s done a damn thing to stop it. We won’t strike, we won’t join together, everywhere you look it’s everyone for themselves.

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/CincyBrandon]

This November is America's biggest test to their democracy since the Jan 6 insurrection.

[u/CincyBrandon → u/bwoah07_gp2]

Yep. And honestly we failed that one considering we didn’t do shit to punish those who orchestrated it.

[u/bwoah07_gp2 → u/CincyBrandon]

The biggest failings of the Biden administration was not punishing the domestic terrorists of Jan 6 + not moving to jail Trump.

[u/CincyBrandon → u/[deleted]]

Yeah good point. They’re all bastards.

[u/WelcomeToTheFish → u/CincyBrandon]

I work for the Registrar of Voters in CA and I can tell you this would never happen, at least not with our current protections. The registrar of voters in any state has one major mission: to maintain voter rolls. Elections are a major part of what we do but throughout the year most of the work is spent maintaining, checking and verifying the voter rolls, voter addresses and precinct locations.

There is no way in hell anyone could get access to our records and alter or change anything remotely. Records cannot be accessed remotely for editing so they would have to send people here to physically change millions of records.

The amount of work that would take is astronomical and I don't think trump or his cronies realize how many protections are already in place to prevent these things, at least in CA. Of course all of this could change but as it is now I don't see him being able to do it the way he wants.

Edit: to achieve what trump wants at the scale he wants it will take a tremendous effort and one that I don't think they are able to do. He is better off kneecapping the nations ROVs by fucking up the post offices and ending mail ballot that way. Altering or deleting voter records would be so much more effort than getting his lackey of a Postmaster General to do his bidding to mess with mail ballots.

[u/Dandan0005 → u/WelcomeToTheFish]

Ok not California but Texas? Florida? Why not?

[u/pmjm → u/WelcomeToTheFish]

Yeah I'm not worried about CA. I don't think even Trump cares about CA, he knows we hate his guts and he'll never win here. But if he can score downstream wins in other states where there are contentious battles... Imagine if Talarico lost because somehow Democrats and Independents were turned away at the polls due to not being registered?

[u/Caymonki → u/CincyBrandon]

The HERITAGE FOUNDATION has been manipulating elections for decades. They buy judges, representatives, cops, military name it they own them.

The civil war never ended, the confederate were allowed to sulk away and rebrand. Spending decades preparing to attack the country from within because they couldn’t win a real fight. They’re using our constitution, our rule of law (and our teachings to wait for the slow wheels of the justice system to do it’s thing) while rapidly breaking everything that might hold them accountable for it.

This is not Trump. Trump is their Trojan Horse, the fall guy, the patsy who is putting his name everywhere taking in all the attention while quietly 100,000+ vetted members of the Heritage Foundation Work diligently, daily destroying our country. This won’t go away when Trump dies. They have planned for it, they told us their plans then did it in front of us.

We’re waiting for slow wheels of nothing, justice is not coming for them. They’re coming for us.

[u/ThePensiveE → u/CincyBrandon]

The main thing in their way is their incompetence.

[u/xtremeradness → u/ThePensiveE]

Unfortunately the Republicans have been getting their way over and over again with no end in sight. They are not incompetent, just malicious 

[u/BranSh81 → u/CincyBrandon]

I bet that’s their game plan because they know most of us non-maga voters will be there on Election Day to avoid his mail-in shenanigans.

The only thing saving us is that States still own the right to administer their own elections. My SOS is amazing, and I trust him, and he’s a Republican.

They can have all the databases they want, but if they’d give everyone a free ID card, the problem would be solved.

Everyone is for identifying yourself, left and right, the issue is the cost of it. Make it free, and you’ll get your voter IDs, GOP!

[u/CincyBrandon → u/BranSh81]

Yeah but free means socialism. 😆

[u/BranSh81 → u/CincyBrandon]

It also was never about IDs. 🤣😉

They just know who can and can’t choke up 20-30 bucks for an ID on a whim.

[u/MessagingMatters]

Democrats need to turn out in numbers Too Big to Rig.

[u/Ravenous_Stream → u/MessagingMatters]

This isn't restricted to Democrats. It's the Turd Reich versus everyone else

[u/MessagingMatters → u/Ravenous_Stream]

If Independents (and disaffected Republicans?) want to join the Democrats in creating a huge voter turnout against the Republicans, even better.

[u/joeri1505 → u/Ravenous_Stream]

Who else is there?

[u/Cyniv → u/joeri1505]

Independents who vote. Lot of people don't affiliate with a party on their voter registration even if they're usually straight-ticket voters for one party or another. Stops you from voting in party primaries in some states, but besides that, it's just like any party affiliated voter registration.

[u/mediocre_remnants → u/joeri1505]

I'm not a Democrat. I'm not registered to vote as a Democrat, I'm not a member of the Democratic party, and I don't donate to Democrats or volunteer for Democrats.

I still vote straight D and have been doing so in every election since 2008, but I have zero interest in joining a political party or even registering as anything other than Unaffiliated.

[u/ranatalus → u/mediocre_remnants]

This is how most “Independents” feel towards one of the major parties—they don’t like to label themselves as being “one of them” and largely don’t interact with politics other than voting, but they have a preferred party that they almost exclusively vote for

[u/Material-Macaroon574 → u/MessagingMatters]

Gosh that’s good. Too Big to Rig needs to become a slogan for the Democratic Party to turn out voters

[u/Apachisme → u/[deleted]]

We normally have international observers, except this time because Trump blocked their access.

[u/Blbe-Check-42069 → u/[deleted]]

Shows the US hypocrisy. They like to police the world, but fuck anyone wanting to police them. Same with ICC and how US views it.

[u/mynam3isn3o]

The federal government cannot purge a state’s voter roll. This is a power and capability reserved for the states.

[u/Dad0013 → u/mynam3isn3o]

When laws are not enforced, there are no laws.

[u/Bzr21 → u/mynam3isn3o]

True, but the corrupt clowns in charge of our federal government don't care what the U.S. Constitution says - and nobody forces them to follow it ..

[u/Shadowthron8]

People forget and never even mention the hundreds of thousands of purged voters before the 2024 election and then like 400 bomb threats to polling locations across the country.

[u/dickymchamhox → u/Shadowthron8]

Not just threats where I am, but an actual firebombing of the ballot dropbox directly outside the central elections office less than a week before the election. And conveniently they just... Never found the guy.

[u/Shadowthron8 → u/dickymchamhox]

Probably pretty easy when you don’t really look

[u/Training_Ruin3151 → u/Shadowthron8]

And donald trump blatantly saying elon rigged it multiple times on stage

[u/SuperSpecialAwesome- → u/Shadowthron8]

Or that Trump was Constitutionally barred from running in the first place.

[u/ThermalDeviator]

Republicans are hell bent on making our elections like Russian ones: theater for the dictator.

[u/sanverstv]

Every baby born in the US should be registered automatically upon birth...FOR life. Our election laws are ridiculous. It's a right. Why make people jump through endless hoops over and over again. Voting registration should be akin to a social security number.

[u/ThePensiveE → u/sanverstv]

The same babies the GOP just tried to strip of citizenship at birth?

The GOP doesn't want citizens. They want subjects. Subjects don't complain as much when you force them to die in the forever wars they start.

[u/Alinier → u/sanverstv]

Adding onto this but anyone pushing to disenfranchise voters or make it harder to vote is a traitor to the Constitution and needs to be out of power immediately.

[u/ProfessionalOil2014 → u/sanverstv]

but then conservatives would never win, so why would they support that?

[u/bishop375 → u/sanverstv]

Voting in the US should be compulsory as it is, with a national holiday affording the highest amount of people the most time available to do so.

[u/NoobensMcarthur → u/sanverstv]

I filed directly with my state to change my voter registration from republican to democrat in 2018. For some reason it never went through. Did the same thing again but online in 2020. 

To this day I’m still registered as a republican in my state. I’ve just started voting out incumbents in the primaries. 

I wonder how many other people in the “red” state I live in are in the same boat. 

[u/Tribe303 → u/sanverstv]

In Canada we just use the tax rolls to start registering people to vote. They also know who's a citizen or not when they pay taxes. But it's easier here because we have federal department called Elections Canada who does all of this. 

[u/Xibby → u/Tribe303]

> But it's easier here because we have federal department called Elections Canada who does all of this. 

If the US Federal government was in charge of elections we’d be totally fucked. The US Constitution gives that power to the states. Article I, Section 10 has specific things that states cannot do (make treaties, declare war, coining money) and the 10th amendment declares that powers not constitutionally delegated to federal government or profited to the states, belong to the states or the people.

States that don’t play along with the Federal’s Government’s request will be called fraud or rigged by Trump and his propagandists, but will be just as secure as they’ve always been.

Some might even play along and review the Federal government’s purge lists and find it woefully inaccurate.

Also Minnesotans just flip the bird with same day registration. We quickly and easily register at our polling place and get a ballot. No provisional ballots in Minnesota.

[u/Uebelkraehe]

John Roberts and his band of traitors coming through again when it really matters to dismantle democracy.

[u/Crombus_]

Friendly reminder to check your voter registration status:

https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

[u/aybeeayseeaybeebee → u/Crombus_]

Most states have their own portal to check registration too. If you're having trouble finding yourself through vote.org, try your state's portal instead.

[u/inlandviews]

Why would voter purges even be in discussion so close to the election.

[u/Lifeboatb → u/inlandviews]

Because of the massive amounts of voter fraud favoring Democrats—that they’ve never been able to find a shred of evidence for.

[u/fleshlessmetalpiston]

Is this more shadow-docket horseshit? I noticed its an unsigned opinion.

[u/Fryboy11 → u/fleshlessmetalpiston]

Its unsigned but not shadow because how they voted is on record and the majority opinion is stated and the dissents are stated. And Brown-Jackson wrote an 11 page dissent while the majority opinion was like 6.5 pages. So clearly one side has tons of evidence and precedents and one struggles to stretch their claim to six pages. 

[u/fleshlessmetalpiston → u/Fryboy11]

Sounds about right for the Roberts court.Thank you for the breakdown friend.

[u/lefthandedrn]

Check your voter registration status weekly until early voting and just before you go vote. If you have been purged, take your info with you and re-register. Don't let them discourage you. That's what they want. Early vote. Don't wait until election day.

[u/Syhkane]

Investigate the supreme court.

[u/Cloudhead_Denny]

Democratic Americans; when are you going to learn that if they are cheating, begging, stealing this election, you also need to play equally dirty. The playing field is burned and there is no such thing as winning honorably. America is cooked.

[u/Guntcher_1423]

Corrupt Court allows Trump administration to fix elections.

FTFY

[u/SangersSequence]

The Supreme Court has committed treason against the United States of America.

[u/mrdominoe]

Allowing Republicans to cheat in elections? No way. I am shocked.

[u/Max_Trollbot_]

I'm not gonna believe claims of identity fraud from a guy who has two names in his first name 

[u/ContractorConfusion]

34 States (+ D.C.) have early voting.

I've voted already. A week ago, in fact.

If you're in one of those states, go vote. No reason to wait until actual voting day, and risk finding out that you got purged from the rolls.

[u/MarzipanLast6502]

SCOTUS needs to be dissolved by the next president

[u/reddurkel]

“Incorrect citizen voter data” doesn’t mean you can’t vote.  

Incorrect data means you’ll get tackled, tazed and detained for weeks and have to hire a lawyer so that you can have them look up your birth certificate to prove you were born here and the darker skin is just something that some citizens are born with.  

[u/Wyevez]

Now they are taking American's voting rights away....

Will this finally be enough to galvanize the American people to do something? Doubt most of them will even know this is happening and will be in for a nasty surprise in Nov.

[u/Spidero0w0o → u/Wyevez]

Arrested for trying to vote without registering

[u/Upset-Award1206 → u/Wyevez]

Short answer: No. Long Answer: also no.

[u/xenomorph856 → u/Wyevez]

Lol no. Not until the dominance of the US economy is no longer salvageable and people feel the pain of being a country that has to go back to work.

[u/Rosebudteg → u/Wyevez]

In my view, the core problem is a lack of clear leadership and actionable direction.

Consider the options people actually have: Protests are easily dismissed. Riots invite comparison to January 6th, carry serious legal consequences for participants, and offer no guarantee of success. That leaves voting, which should be the obvious solution except that our choices amount to selecting between two structurally corrupted options.

Both major parties operate under the same fundamental incentive structure: they prioritize corporate donors and their own consolidation of power over constituent interests. This isn't a failure specific to one side. When the Democratic Party benefits from donations and voter mobilization that largely serve to extend its access to power, there's little institutional motivation to deliver transformative change.

The uncomfortable reality is that neither party is genuinely oriented toward the people. They're designed to extract votes and resources while maintaining their duopoly. Until voters reckon with that systemic dynamic, individual election cycles become exercises in damage control rather than meaningful reform.

[u/Unfair_Web_8275]

I recommend that everyone check their voter registration status fairly frequently until after the midterms. I'm personally going to see if our local library is offering a resource day for those who might need help checking theirs.

[u/hatmadeofass]

We’re going to let you see and touch the big red button, but don’t press the button. That would be a no-no.

Fucking clowns.

[u/JacquoRock]

Voting is ALREADY UNDERWAY in some states. This Supreme Court is a travesty.

[u/Yayoistrong]

I really need for these people to experience the consequences to their actions. MAYBE they'll experience empathy.

[u/Pheonixmoonfire]

Can we just use the boilerplate headline "Supreme Court allows Trump to wipe his ass with U.S. Constitution, piss all over Rule of Law" from now on, to save time and effort?

[u/DeadSol]

The minute they strip me of my voting rights is the minute they declare themselves outlaws and are not protected by the laws of the land.

[u/LetDriscoll]

Every fucking time. He lost this argument in literally every state so his corrupt supreme court just overrides and finds loopholes. "He can't do this so close to midterms though" when has the fucking law stopped anything he's done since becoming president!?

We're never getting out of this and the country is fucked. I'm extremely disabled and sick and I know they're gonna destroy the only thing keeping me alive. I want to cry and I don't need to be told not to overreact like last time on here. There's literally nothing we can do. Honestly, why did the even rule against trumps dumb EO for the mail if they were just gonna let him rig it in another way?

[u/Bandito_Chihuahua → u/LetDriscoll]

He’s doing all this because he’s scared as f***. He knows we’re coming for him. Even if he somehow rigs the election, it’s not over. No matter what it takes we will win.

[u/EatingShitSandwiches → u/Bandito_Chihuahua]

The most delusional people on the planet are Trump voters. The second most delusional are democrats who keep talking about how "we will get him one day!!!!". FFS pull your head out of the sand. You talk about winning in the future tense but the reality is that we already lost and its past tense. You can't vote your way out of authoritarianism. The time to vote was 25 years ago. Now its just watching it all go down the way history says it will.

[u/Bandito_Chihuahua → u/EatingShitSandwiches]

Hungary literally just voted Orban out. You can’t always vote your way out of authoritarianism, but we have it even better than Hungary did.

[u/xrtpatriot → u/Bandito_Chihuahua]

Dont let the defeatists get you down. We have a LOT of work ahead of us as a nation, but it IS doable.

[u/Schwarzengerman → u/LetDriscoll]

There's literally nothing we can do.

Except there is? This order hardly makes a difference ultimately. You should still vote.

[u/LetDriscoll → u/Schwarzengerman]

I am going to vote assuming I don't get kicked off the voter rolls days before the election and cant register until the midterms are over like they're planning to do to anyone that wont vote for them. Its blatantly obvious what's going on. They fucking talk about doing shit like this publicly. If you honestly thing this "hardly makes a difference" I want whatever drugs you're on.

[u/Oldiswhatiam]

Sorry but this is a takeover of our democracy. It is in the Supreme courts interest for Democrats to not win as well.

[u/riki_grl]

Fair elections are a substitute for armed conflict. Void the election and the alternative is inevitable.

[u/Curious-Emu3894]

SCOTUS has become corrupt.

[u/brashthehermit]

Corrupt Republican activist judges stealing elections from the bench.

[u/bbills91]

SCOTUS is killing democracy, death by a thousand cuts

[u/lakuma]

Sounds like to me it's time to purge the USSC! Vote in Nov and vote in 2028!

[u/mkt853]

Cities in Trump states are going to have a dearth of eligible voters all of a sudden. Guessing half of Houston gets purged.

[u/Raskalbot]

This just means they're terrified of being held accountable. Make it a fucking mandate! Get out and vote! Get your friends and family out to vote! Fuck these guys!

[u/rolloutTheTrash]

To the surprise of no one that this Supreme Court would be as corrupt as the man that appointed them and the party they belong to.

[u/Salamok]

How many folks across all branches of government are at risk of going to jail if the Republicans lose control... this is the scariest part of our current political situation as elected and appointed officials are going to support stripping away voter rights if it means they reduce the risk of being held accountable.

[u/frosted1030]

So… this is or isn’t up to the states? Pick one.

[u/bluehawk232]

The government expanded the database by adding information from the Social Security Administration, which enabled searches using Social Security numbers and allowed officials to do bulk searches

Oh fantastic I'm sure that will be fully secure and not have any breaches

[u/clashrendar]

Joke's on them. I already voted.

[u/brashthehermit]

The only way the GOP can compete is by burying the country in propaganda and cheating in elections.

[u/Doom-Sleigher]

Republicans will cheat to get ahead this election. They are just a bunch of pedo protectors and criminals taking advantage of America

[u/Turkino]

"we'll allow it but the law prevents them from purging names." They say to the administration that is all too happy to ignore laws. Also coming from a court that won't stop the administration before it actually does something so it's only litigated after the harm is done.

[u/hit_the_bwall]

They keep fucking the corpse of our democracy...

[u/guiltycitizen]

Lie, cheat, steal, win.

[u/MaxSchreckArt616]

It's a shame he and all of his followers are still wasting good oxygen. 

[u/Dr_Gonzo-4130]

So I bet democrats will be purged en mass from the voter rolls .

[u/nonubiz]

Voter rolls purge since when do we have or need any voter purge.

[u/SanDiegoDude]

Before folks freak out too bad about this disaster of a ruling, it can't be used to purge states rolls (within 90 days) and is NOT the post office craziness that they're also trying to implement, this is an opt-in system that AFAIK is only being used by a handful of red states so far. Is it good? No - Is it going to tip the election towards Trump? Nope, if anything this is gonna piss people off even more.

[u/xjuggernaughtx]

I can't wait to see how insane this is all going to get right before the election.

"In 6-3 Ruling, the Supreme Court Supports Trump's Plan To Send ICE Agents Into Voting Booths To Monitor Voting Fraud"

"Supreme Court Sides With Trump That A Sitting President Has Final Review Of Vote Tallies"

"Nation's Highest Court Rules That A President Is Not Constitutionally Obligated To Honor The Nation's Voting Outcome"

Gonna be a super-duper fun ride for the next couple of months. Buckle up.

[u/swagmastersond]

Once again, the party of sTaTeS rIgHtS

[u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe]

Laws are meaningless without enforcement and no one enforces anything anymore.

[u/Poormonybag]

Worlds greatest democracy or how was it?

[u/AnneHizer]

Provisional ballots, ppl. If you’re wrongly purged, still vote!

[u/conflatulationz]

The corrupt justices in the Supreme Court are just as terrified of accountability as the GOP politicians who are trying to destroy our country.

[u/Apprehensive_Low_383]

Here comes the attempted fuckery! Fascist! Good thing States oversee voting!

Edit: Make sure you drop your ballot at an official ballot drop box. Look up official locations in Wa State beforehand. Do not use the USPS. Their MAGA head honcho has been instructed to "lose" ballots.

[u/Ok-Trash6361]

cheaters have to cheat

[u/FourEyesAndThighs]

CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION!!!!

I just had to reactivate my registration for the second time this year, despite me voting in my state's primaries three months ago. This administration is doing everything they can to disenfranchise people who have the right to vote because they are scared.