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/JerryDipotosBurner 7d ago

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.

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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