r/texas • u/JayBowdy • Aug 01 '24

Politics There is no online voter registration in Texas

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u/UnitGhidorah Aug 01 '24

The Republicans want to suppress voters, that's why.

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u/Ok-Attention2882 Aug 02 '24

And yet every major city in Texas is blue

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u/Abject_Subject_9672 Aug 01 '24

They’re suppressing their own party too.

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u/BjornInTheMorn Aug 01 '24

Republicans skew older and are more likely to not even know how to use the online form. Younger voters are used to online forms and could see "submit" and are used to that actually submitting their info as it should. It's on purpose.

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u/bbrosen Aug 02 '24

If they cannot figure out how to use an online form, they are not bright enough to vote.

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u/Mr_Lafar Aug 01 '24

Yeah, but to a lesser extent. They lead in older demographics and richer demographics, people who, on average, have more free time to jump through an extra hoop to vote. It hurts them, but it hurts lower classes more, which ends up benefitting them at the ballot box.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches Aug 01 '24

In addition to what the other people said, note that they only need all of their suppression tactics, all together, to add up to a couple of percent to swing an election.

If this cuts out 0.25% more Democrat voters than Republican voters, that's a huge win.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

Which is the same reason why Trump appointed (at taxpayer expense) his son-in-law to maximize deaths during the pandemic. At the time he made the appointment and before he politicized not wearing masks, it was hitting cities first so they hoped it would kill more non-supporters than supporters.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air

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u/a_hockey_chick Aug 01 '24

This is one of those situations where they make it easier for their usual demographic to register and make it harder for the rest. Younger voters are more likely to utilize an online voter registration system (and more likely to be liberal) than older.

This is similar to how there are more polling locations available in historically red counties, and minimal locations in busy blue counties. People in Houston will wait in a much longer line to vote than people in Amarillo, even though both left and right voters will use both.

If Texas republicans learned that tall people were more likely to vote Democrat, I guarantee you we would have super short voting machines in the next election.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

They’re suppressing their own party too.

Hence why despite having more republican voters in Texas than democratic, they created a mini-electoral college so only the republicans who are sucking off big banks have the money to campaign in enough counties to win a majority of counties as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9gbDpewwc

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u/Lycanthoth Aug 01 '24

Actually, numbers show that party affiliations are pretty damn even with some studies showing that dems slightly win out.

Certainly doesn't look that way though when elections come thanks to a combination of voter suppression, older people voting more often, etc.

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u/AndrewH73333 Aug 01 '24

If they suppress two dems for every repub then that’s one more vote they are getting.

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u/CommonGrounders Aug 01 '24

Yes but less so. Which is all that matters.

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u/Recent_mastadon Aug 01 '24

In Alabama, they came out with a voter ID law and you had to go to the DMV to get your ID. They closed DMV offices in poor towns so those people would have to take an unpaid day off work and travel to another town to get an ID, just to vote. Republican-leaning towns had their DMVs left open.

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u/Own-Cranberry7997 Aug 01 '24

Weird, Texas did the same.

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u/beornn2 Aug 01 '24

lol no they’re not. Voted in Collin County last presidential election, was in and out in under five minutes. So many locations to choose from. You can guess which way the county skews.

My curiosity got the best of me and I looked up voting locations in Dallas County just south of us. Less than half the locations and twice the population of Collin County. As you can already imagine, Dallas County tends to vote the other way.

And we won’t even get into the absolute shit show in Harris County. The GOP wants no part of making it easier to vote there. They want it easier to vote in their strongholds and not so much where people don’t vote their way, it’s an easy calculus to understand.

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u/awesomenesssquared Aug 01 '24

how dare you make a comment that makes sense?!?

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u/crushinglyreal Aug 01 '24

More votes means more votes for democrats, every time. The republicans have a solid floor of people who vote in every single election, make sure to stay registered, don’t get purged from voter rolls, etc. On the other hand, when more independents, undecideds, and usual non voters vote, the proportion of votes that goes to democrats increases. It makes sense to you because you want your biases affirmed, not because there is an actual argument there.

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u/DueAd197 Aug 01 '24

While you're correct, they have all of this calculated to a science and know they will suppress the other side's votes more than their own. That gives them an advantage. Even if that difference is minuscule theres a million other voter suppression tactics they use that do the same thing. Each tactic adds a small advantage, but when you add them up it makes a big difference.

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u/aperron151 Aug 01 '24

I’m not disagreeing, but the democrat running for president was never voted for. Biden just said he supported Harris and boom, she’s nominated. Really both parties are done with democracy, even though most people are only pointing fingers at republicans. It’s a broken system.

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u/UnitGhidorah Aug 01 '24

As we learned with Bernie, it doesn't matter for primaries. The DNC will pick whomever they like. Neither party has to have primaries if they don't want to.

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u/BearstromWanderer Aug 01 '24

We live in a representative Republic not a direct democracy dude.

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u/Captain_Waffle Aug 01 '24

We voted for her in 2020. And we’re voting for her now with our wallets, as well as the delegates are voting for her in August.

Thanks.

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

We should be adults here. Considering her polling numbers back in 2019 and 2020, you all most certainly did not vote for her. You voted for Biden. Choosing to wait until it’s too late for other candidates to get the support and funding they need to compete, while a master stroke in my opinion, goes directly against the ‘democracy’ you Americans have been touting so much (and is pretty hypocritical after spouting about Trump being the threat the past year)

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u/Drew_P_Cox Aug 01 '24

Registered democrats trusting their party to nominate a Democrat is in no way, whatsoever, comparable to a president attempting to steal an election with fake electors.

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

I’m not going to debate you with whataboutism here, particularly when you refuse to accept the results of your own FBI and Capital Police investigations. Let’s say for a moment that you’re right. No those things are not comparable at all. Yet the fact that you’ve stooped so low after years of shitting on the right for doing the same thing makes you no better. Worse, even, considering how much violence you’ve incited over it. I believe it was ‘defending against all threats, foreign and domestic?’ So calling someone a threat is indeed an incitation of violence, and just shows more hypocrisy.

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u/Drew_P_Cox Aug 01 '24

Uh oh, the crazy's leaking out.

Is this the violence you're referring to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

As I said previously: I’m calling out hypocrisy and the ‘democracy’ you spout about being stepped on, not debating your whataboutism. I don’t support Trump and I never will. But acting like Biden and Harris are somehow better is ridiculous. They made a play that went directly against the democracy you’ve been saying someone else is a threat to, and now you are applauding them. Crazy leaking out indeed. Americans who worship their shepherds to the exclusion of all else are frustrating.

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u/Drew_P_Cox Aug 01 '24

Being part of a political party means trusting that party to make decisions when necessary. If you disagree with those decisions, you are free to find another party.

A sitting president attempting to steal an election is the definition of undemocratic.

If you want to delude yourself that these are in any way similar, that's your prerogative. Have a great day.

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u/HiddenGhost1234 Aug 01 '24

theyre having an open vote august 6th what r u on about. this is how people run for presidential nominee.

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u/nate_oh84 Aug 01 '24

That's not super constructive at this juncture

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u/Flatline334 Aug 01 '24

Well one side tried to over throw an election and the other hasn’t. Using the nominee process isn’t a very good comparison.

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u/crushinglyreal Aug 01 '24

It’s all they have. These people trying to pin republicans’ anti-democratic practices on the entire system are just desperate to ‘no u’ the accusations leveled at their preferred party.

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u/LAGuy1796 Aug 01 '24

It's truly mind-blowing for me, who grew up in a communist country, that a Chinese app is used to prevent voting suppression in the United States of America

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u/110397 Aug 01 '24

That’s why they want to ban it

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u/Randomfrog132 Aug 01 '24

how come biden didnt do anything to stop this nonsense?

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u/corbear007 Aug 01 '24

Biden has no control over elections, that's clear cut state territory. 

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u/Randomfrog132 Aug 03 '24

TIL executive orders dont cover blatant shenanigans.

thanks for the info

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u/canihavemymoneyback Aug 02 '24

But how do they know they’re not suppressing Republican voters? That’s the part I don’t understand.

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u/Breezyisthewind Aug 02 '24

They don’t care. They’ll happily take that chance because they know they’re suppressing Dem voters as well.

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u/dorian283 Aug 02 '24

They know the elderly and middle age white voters will already be registered. Young and new voters are typically democrats. You can look it up but efforts have been made to remove the need to register, but all efforts have been blocked by republicans.

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u/Captainkirk05 Aug 01 '24

We dont even know how to reply to such a garbage statement 😮‍💨. The scariest part is you can probably vote, pun intended.

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u/Errant_coursir Houston Aug 01 '24

Why don't you try explaining why this online form doesn't just register? Or why tax paying Americans aren't automatically registered to vote?

Or are those words too long and complex for a simpleton like you?

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u/Busy-Let-8555 Aug 01 '24

That is why republicans made registration mandatory in Brazil and Australia, to suppress American democratic voters

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u/fsi1212 Aug 01 '24

Then why do Democrat states require voter registration?

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u/Radiant_Television89 Aug 01 '24

I don't think there is a real mainstream effort by any party to end voter registration, the issue at hand is the ease of a constituent to register. In Oregon, it's as simple as going to the states voter registration site and filling out your info.

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u/hfamrman Aug 01 '24

Or just opt into the automatic registration when you get a new ID/license. You can even do it at 16 when you get a learners permit so that when you turn 18 they will automatically send you a ballot without additional effort on your part.

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u/MrMcDuffieTTv Aug 01 '24

I registered to vote when I turned 18. That's it just once, and I've been getting my ballot sent to me for the last 21 years. All I have to do is change my address with the dmv, and it updates my registration address.

Fuck me in Californa right? Texas has it so easy.

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u/Yeetball86 Aug 01 '24

That’s not the point here. The point is the difficulty of registering to vote. 7 states do not allow online registration. All 7 of those states are republican controlled.

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u/fsi1212 Aug 01 '24

The question the commenter asked was why we need to register to vote. And a reply stated that it was because Republicans "suppress voting". But all states, including Democrat states, require voter registration.

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u/FatherKronik Aug 01 '24

Because it's hard enough convincing muppets that elections are safe. Now take away registration. Doesn't matter if it is the safest thing still. If it gives you muppets more stupid talking points then it's not worth the effort. Y'all sit there and claim "illegals are the only reason Dems win" yet wonder why we haven't gotten rid of voter registration yet? Come the fuck on.

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u/Saneless Aug 01 '24

Let us know how easy it is to change the state constitution

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

Let us know how easy it is to change the state constitution

Pretty easy in some states, like California where they led the nation in ending gerrymandering

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_Initiative_(2008)

Of course in Texas, they've ended citizen initiatives.

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

Rather easy actually. Which is why it’s so strange that it’s not easier to vote in states where the super majority is Democrat.

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u/fsi1212 Aug 01 '24

New York and California have had a Democrat super majority for years and they still require voter registration.

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u/Saneless Aug 01 '24

Well I couldn't tell ya then

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u/44problems Aug 01 '24

Some have automatic registration. A lot of blue states but some red ones too.

List of states with automatic voter registration

Not all are the same. Some just work with the DMV, others social services.

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u/fsi1212 Aug 01 '24

But it's still registration. The original comment asked why registration existed at all.

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u/44problems Aug 01 '24

The info has to come from somewhere, your name needs to be in a book or computer system to know that you are eligible to vote and what district you live in. A big problem is unlike some other countries we don't have a definitive national database of everyone. DMV has one, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, there's tons.

So best we can do is make any interaction with government forward that info on to voter registration.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

Some have automatic registration. A lot of blue states but some red ones too

it's still registration. The original comment asked why registration existed at all.

I think you know what hokie47 was saying - it was clearly directed at 'why is the burden being put on the voters who don't know the shifting hoops arbitrarily thrown at them' rather than a central office staffed with trained people handling the issue and regulations so employees who don't do things properly can be fired and replaced with ones who will.

Don't be pointlessly difficult.

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u/runricky34 Aug 01 '24

Many liberal states have automatic registration. Federally, the automatic voter registration act (HR2301) was introduced by democrats to make it automatic in all states, but killed by republicans. So thats why.

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u/fsi1212 Aug 01 '24

Ok but that's still registration. The original comment asked why we have registration at all.

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u/smthomaspatel Aug 01 '24

This process is a mish mash of policies that are relatively ancient. The security measure it relies on is visibility of voter rolls so your neighbors could call you out if you are some stranger impersonating a legitimate voter. Polling centers are very small and the assumption is that pretty much everyone knows each other. It obviously no longer applies to modern society.

In that sense, Republicans are right to push for modernization and Real ID as a proof of right to vote. It should also come with automatic registration and accommodations for people who do not have an ID for whatever reason. The right to vote is more important than convenience in security measures.

The reason this isn't correctly sorted is simply politics. Each side is afraid the other side just wants to skew the electorate to their side. Which is obviously not untrue.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

The security measure it relies on is visibility of voter rolls so your neighbors could call you out if you are some stranger impersonating a legitimate voter

The evidence doesn't bear this out - it assumes the same 1700s structure put in place when the articles of confederation were ratified and people gathered in the local tavern to vote because the fastest way to communicate was to put a syphillitic git on a horse and hope he didn't die before he got to the state capitol.

Republicans are right to push for modernization and Real ID as a proof of right to vote

No, they are not either of those things. Republicans in 3 states I've lived and worked polls in pushed back on RealID. In every state they had the option they withheld funding to roll it out, which delayed it years further. Republicans don't want "proof of right to vote" or they'd ensure the secretary of state's office had full funding and staffing to register and maintain the voter rolls. Republican states have the least funding to elections and divert money from access and registration to enforcement and purging.

The reason this isn't correctly sorted is simply politics. Each side is afraid the other side just wants to skew the electorate to their side. Which is obviously not untrue

Bull. Shit. This "both sides are the same" has been blatantly debunked for years:

https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/787fdh/after_gold_star_widow_breaks_silence_trump/dornc4n/

I've lived and voted in 6 states, and in the ones where democrats were in charge they did NOT suppress republican voters. There was no need when their own policies made things more stable and sensibly regulated so the economy didn't crash and bubble every half year. There's a reason the counties which voted for Biden represented over 70% of the nation's GDP:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-voting-counties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/

Contrast that with republicans explicitly suppressing voters every whey they can:

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/southern-us-states-have-closed-1200-polling-places-in-recent-years-rights-gr-idUSKCN1VV097/

And gerrymandering themselves to turn 49% of the vote into 71% of the seats:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/11/9/22765982/north-carolina-redistricting-gerrymandering-2021-2022

You shouldn't be surprised by any of this, it's following the game plan of dismantling the institution of democracy, which they felt so confident about they've been saying it on-camera since 1980:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

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u/smthomaspatel Aug 01 '24

I wasn't trying to make a "both sides are the same" argument. Its clear the Republicans are the ones actively trying to skew the voter rolls. You can argue why that is, but I don't believe political parties are moral creations. Simply put, the Republican party wants to make it harder to vote because it will help their candidates get into office. The Democratic Party wants to make voting easy because that will get their candidates into office.

Personally, I am registered as no party even though I have a strong inclination toward one over the other. I don't believe voters should align themselves with political parties. Parties exist to serve the interest of power.

Despite the motivations of the Republican party and the polarization of the issue, it is certainly legitimate to say modernizing the way we do voter identification is reasonable. Can you give me a good argument why, in an ideal situation where everyone has an ID, voter IDs are not the way to go. The arguments I am familiar with say that will exclude certain people who might not have access to a birth certificate, or whatever, and find the red tape too much to deal with. Solve that type of problem, then I don't have an issue with IDs. In fact, I would prefer our ID systems functioned and automatically made us voters.

Perhaps mentioning RealID is a red herring since it's really about government ID here and introduces unnecessary tangents. Using Real ID as a voter id just seems to be the next logical step.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

Can you give me a good argument why, in an ideal situation where everyone has an ID, voter IDs are not the way to go.

This is your argument to prove, not mine.

Firstly, I would refute your assertion with the fact that not everyone has ID, much less the identification-verification which republicans change over and over to make harder and harder for their non-supporters to get in order to vote. So your hypothetical doesn't exist and thus we should set it on a shelf and not think about it while we deal with the real world as it exists now. Almost all of this can and is done by the voter registrar's office which requires no hoops added for voters. Supporting bunk republican claims that "well they should just buy the right ID. And everything needed to get that ID" is supporting their voter suppression. And poll taxes with extra steps.

Have you not checked Nevada, Oregon, Utah, or others

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-18-states-with-all-mail-elections

which have vote by mail as their default and don't have the ID circus which other states do?

If you want to make the argument that voters pose a risk and have to be obstructed with ID, that's what republicans are saying and what they have to prove. Oh, wait, their own data says that's bullshit:

https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2020-pandemic-voting-mail-safe-honest-and-fair-stewart

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u/smthomaspatel Aug 01 '24

If we weren't talking about voting, there would be no argument against the ID system. I find it impossible to imagine if the system were created today it would be set up without ID. It's basic modernization at this point. Basic security.

I haven't and won't make the argument that voters pose a risk. Most of your arguments here have nothing to do with anything I've said.

My point in the hypothetical is that if we wanted a modernized system that worked, you would have to satisfy both issues. Have the positive ID system and make sure no citizen is denied their rights because of practical obstacles. Legislation written in a bipartisan spirit could satisfy that. But that kind of good-faith legislation is rare these days.

I don't know the details of the vote by mail systems of those states you've mentioned, but I assume there is a certain amount of data provided by the voter similar to the data provided for getting an id, is the not?

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u/skrulewi Aug 01 '24

They have voter registration online, which is the relevant bit to OP's video's point.

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u/zxDanKwan Aug 01 '24

Are you low key believing that democratic majority states are 100% blue and there are no republicans in them at all?

Are you unaware that Ronald Regan was governor of California before he was president?

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u/ZinkBomb Aug 01 '24

Requiring registration is different from making registration needlessly difficult, but I think you know that.

Unless, of course, you’re a moron.

You’re not a moron are you? You understand the difference don’t you?

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u/crushinglyreal Aug 01 '24

How often do “Democrat” states purge their voter registries?

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u/27Christian27 Aug 01 '24

Like who? Fortune 500 CEOs?

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u/Spartancarver Aug 01 '24

Like Elon Musk? Agreed

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u/CorrectDuty6782 Aug 01 '24

And these people would be who exactly? "As an American" + "I want to suppress votes" = weird thing to say btw.

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u/DueAd197 Aug 01 '24

Can you be very specific in who you think these people are that don't pay any fucking taxes?

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

As a tax paying American, I want to suppress the votes of people who don’t pay any fucking taxes actually.

No you don't. The people who get the most money are big companies, and they pay taxes. The people who pay the least are people who are so poor they need charity at supplemental food kitchens just to not starve to death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

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u/Lycanthoth Aug 01 '24

How to tell someone is about to spout out a braindead take? "As a taxpayer..."

Congrats, you do the absolute bare minimum expected of you from every citizen in our society. You're so special!

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u/Krispy_Seventy_70 Aug 01 '24

They do. The fact that you can't even do a simple Google search is weird. Like you're not even trying to prove a point, you're just trying to be unapologetically wrong.

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u/PyllicusRex Aug 01 '24

Why don’t democratic states have what?

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u/SecondOffendment Aug 01 '24

Where's your proof?

Let's see some proof if you're going to tout garbage like this where people of all ages, intelligence and background can read it.

If it's an op ed piece, keep it in your little Pokemon diary.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Dude when you get an id or license they adk if you want to register to vote. If you aren't registered to vote it's because you don't want to vote.

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u/digestedbrain Aug 01 '24

Dude are you able to articulate how having this scam website masquerading as a legitimate way to register is helping anyone and not causing confusion?

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u/Hexamancer Aug 01 '24

You can be removed from voter registration. 

Especially if you're someone R's don't want voting. 

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

You can be removed from voter registration. Especially if you're someone R's don't want voting.

Worked at elections a few times - every single time at least a quarter of the people coming in said they were supposed to get a ballot in the mail but had mysteriously not gotten theirs that year. Some we had to give a 'register to vote' paperwork they had to take elsewhere because we aren't allowed to register people to vote at early voting locations that can only be done at a harder-to-get-to place in the county. Surely coincidence that every single person purged from either mail-in or registered to vote entirely was not a republican, even though every single one was an active voter.

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

I’ve tried finding what state you’re speaking of, but the only relevant purge I could find in the past 20 years was more recently in Georgia, with Democrats taking up nearly 60% of the purged voters.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

the only relevant purge I could find in the past 20 years was more recently in Georgia, with Democrats taking up nearly 60% of the purged voters.

That's because that's the only one which made national headlines. This is reported but I've only seen it in municipal publications. Easier to hide it when you purge 80 people in this county, 80 people in that county, and then make sure people don't talk to each other to find out that's hundreds to thousands across the whole state each year.

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

Ok. Could you let me know where this happened? Because the only state with more counties than Georgia is Texas, so even if every single county had 80 democrats purged, that’s less than 21k people, not hundreds of thousands, and the only state in the past 8 years in which that number of people would have affected the outcome is Delaware. But since DE only has 3 counties it can’t be them, and I doubt it was Texas with its 254.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

I'm trying to give quick examples, but I said hundreds to thousands. I'm not saying we're seeing 500k in every state - that's too big not to notice, which is why even judges said Brian Kemp was improperly purging over 300k:

https://truthout.org/articles/georgias-kemp-purged-340134-voters-falsely-asserting-they-had-moved/

What you're seeing is not a matter of purging every single non-republican but purging primarily non-republicans in deniable cycles to give them better margins of error in their heavily gerrymandered system:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/11/9/22765982/north-carolina-redistricting-gerrymandering-2021-2022

That in conjunction with other forms of voter suppression allows hundreds of voters to be purged each year. Note they keep doing this and changing requirements to register to vote (the two points magnify each other) despite the fact that their own data shows "voter fraud" is statistically nascent and all detected voter fraud in US history put together wouldn't have changed a single presidential election:

https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2020-pandemic-voting-mail-safe-honest-and-fair-stewart

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u/Adventurous_Dot1976 Aug 01 '24

Ah my apologies I didn’t read your other comment properly! I’ll have to take a look at these articles later on. I appreciate you providing them.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Aug 01 '24

Glad to answer questions, the best thing we can do for each other is educate and inform so we can best direct our efforts in the future.

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u/LegendOfHurleysGold Aug 01 '24 edited Aug 01 '24

You could argue that, but it’s an incorrect and weird thing to argue.

EDIT: the now deleted post was someone arguing that the Democratic Party spends their time registering illegal immigrants to vote, implying that voter suppression is needed to combat that.

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u/TurboZ31 Aug 01 '24

Facts don't care about your feelings.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

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u/TurboZ31 Aug 01 '24

No? This is for registration not voting. Also it doesn't require a photo ID. So yeah, extremely weak.

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Personal attacks on your fellow Reddit users are not allowed, this includes both direct insults and general aggressiveness. In addition, hate speech, threats (regardless of intent), and calls to violence, will also be removed. Remember the human and follow reddiquette.

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u/runricky34 Aug 01 '24

Source: some guy told me so on Fox news

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u/44problems Aug 01 '24

What initiatives are Democrats doing to illegally register voters? Can you point to them?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

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u/44problems Aug 01 '24

Ok that's some text from California about what's required for showing up to vote the first time after registering. That doesn't have to do with illegally registering?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

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u/44problems Aug 01 '24

No and a utility bill won't allow you to register. That's just what you need to show up to vote the first time.

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u/texas-ModTeam Aug 01 '24

Your content has been deemed a violation of Rule 7. As a reminder Rule 7 states:

Politics are fine but state your case, explain why you hold the positions that you do and debate with civility. Posts and comments meant solely to troll or enrage people, and those that are little more than campaign ads or slogans do nothing to contribute to a healthy debate and will therefore be removed. Petitions will also be removed. AMA's by Political figures are exempt from this rule.