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Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If your strategy for winning is to keep people from voting then you don't really support democracy (aka rule by popular vote). This sounds like a type of gerrymandering (which is ~~illegal~~ Edit: sometimes illegal, varies by state), just at the voter registration level instead of geographically.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. Gerrymandering for non racial reasons is legal, which the founding fathers would consider 100% grounds for revolution. They'd be surprised and saddened that that wasn't the instant result.
  2. It's not gerrymandering, it's straight-up election fraud. Kicking Democrats off the voter rolls has been a key strategy for quite a while now.

It's sort of amazing they get away with it.

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting! To point #1, I looked it up and apparently the legality of partisan gerrymandering (i.e. by likely vote as opposed to race) varies by state. I had thought it was completely illegal. Thanks for fact-checking me.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 2 years ago

All good. It's such a blatant violation of what voting should be that it seems like a no-brainer for it to be illegal. And yet, just like bribing politicians, it's fuckin legal for some fuckin reason...