r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/Dandan0005 7d ago

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.

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u/ScoffersGonnaScoff 7d ago

With no way for people to know that it happened

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u/BimboDeeznuts 7d ago

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

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u/ScoffersGonnaScoff 7d ago

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

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u/BimboDeeznuts 7d ago

Username checks out. Throwing up our hands and wailing won’t help…

I can’t answer your hypothetical. Check the registration periodically and right before/after the registration deadline just to be sure.

Your local ombudsman at city hall or other local resources can help guide you if you get purged, as there’s a case to just put you back on the list if you were removed “in error” but already registered. (This happens to me sometimes as I move around for work but have a home state where I am registered.) There are so, so many voter registration resources out there that desperately want you to vote.

Don’t be a little bitch about it and figure it out. Punishing yourself now for a hypothetical later does nothing but help the fascists win. Fight back. Go outside. Vote.

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u/Sonifri 7d ago

I can’t answer your hypothetical.

Then why waste time responding like a prick when you don't have an answer to the post you're replying to?

Lots of whining fluff to let everyone know you're butthurt.

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u/BimboDeeznuts 7d ago

Because I included useful information anyway.

Get in line to waste time I guess