check your voting status... US citizen, born and raised, wrongly removed from voting list along with over 3,000 others

[butters]

Alabama

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - James Stroop lives in Union Grove and has lived in the U.S. his whole life. He’s voted in every election he could and even applied to be a poll worker this November. When he got a letter from his local registrar he thought it was to tell him his application was approved. That’s not the news he received.

he took the news quite well, knowing there'd been a mistake someplace.

Due to an error on a form James Stroop filled out in 2022, the Alabama Department of Labor briefly identified him as a non-citizen. It was an issue he corrected two years ago.

When the Department of Labor sent its list of non-citizens to the Secretary of State, there was a problem. Stroop was still on the list.

“The Secretary of Labor reached out to me, he called me directly and he apologized for the mistake,” Stroop said.” He said that so far he had 15 errors that they knew of, and that’s just what they knew of.”

The Sec. of State couldn't get a list from the feds, so had to resort to state databases

“We had just been running into brick wall after brick wall after brick wall and we took a little different route and were able to ascertain a little over 3,200 individuals,” Allen said.

In the meantime, Stroop is left patiently waiting, and hoping, this will be resolved before November.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...&cvid=f1c2cc01b69647b3821f9a0eff032523&ei=102

 

[Lazaran]

I suspect this is going to be a real problem on Election Day.

A fuckton of people are going to have to cast provisional ballots due to "republican" election official’s fuckery, and then it’s going to become a legal shitstorm, and, potentially, a constitutional crisis.

Sow chaos- reap the whirlwind.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

This is the Republican plan. They know Donald Trump can't win a fair election, so the only way to install him as President is to create enough chaos in enough states that the Supreme Court can hand it to him.

 

[Lazaran]

This is the Republican plan. They know Donald Trump can't win a fair election, so the only way to install him as President is to create enough chaos in enough states that the Supreme Court can hand it to him.

Lest we forget:

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...e-bannon-trump-2020-election-declare-victory/

From the article:

“On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing. Trump knew that the slow counting of Democratic-leaning mail-in ballots meant the returns would show early leads for him in key states. His “strategy” was to use this fact to assert that he had won, while claiming that the inevitable shifts in vote totals toward Joe Biden must be the result of fraud, Bannon explained.”

 

[Bn2f]

Here’s what’s scary about this anti-Democratic tactic by Republicans - They are doing this power grab in solidly red states! Alabama only sent a democrat to the senate because Roy Moore was such a terrible candidate. South Carolina has had 1 democratic governor in the last 40(?) years only because the Republican governor during hurricane Hugo botched the evacuation that bad to let a Democrat win. Both those fluke instances seem quaint to be held accountable for now in the age of trump.

They’ve learned their lesson well from seeing what all occurred in Georgia and are determined to quash any hopes of a democrat challenging even the office of dog catcher. The only purple states they will care to see are democratic ones tipping Republican.

 

[adrina]

The GOP and the Trump supporters encourage and support any and all manner of cheating - whatever gets Trump to the white house.

 

[Lazaran]

The GOP and the Trump supporters encourage and support any and all manner of cheating - whatever gets Trump to the white house.

And, ironically:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-voter-fraud-convictions-2024-rcna146434

From the article:

“Many of the cases of knowing fraud that have been prosecuted since then have had Republicans as the perpetrators.”



Once again: “Every republican accusation is an admission”.



JFC

SAD!!!

 

[adrina]

And, ironically:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-voter-fraud-convictions-2024-rcna146434

From the article:

“Many of the cases of knowing fraud that have been prosecuted since then have had Republicans as the perpetrators.”



Once again: “Every republican accusation is an admission”.



JFC

SAD!!!

Derpy still hasn't been able to find and post any voter fraud. Wonder why...

 

[Lazaran]

Derpy still hasn't been able to find and post any voter fraud. Wonder why...

I suspect Derpy’s right wing bias presents a yuuuuuge blind spot in identifying ACTUAL / INTENTIONAL cases of voter fraud…

 

[ChloeTzang]

Standard practice in a lot of countries to clean up and clean out electoral rolls. We need to get a lot better at this.

But there's always going to be glitches and it's usually quite simple to correct.

 

[dkovic77]

Instead, our parade of losers are backing the guy responsible for this….. @HisArpy @icanhelp1 @BabyBoomer50s @Rightguide

So peaceful…

Just tourists visiting the Capitol…

And that wasn’t a “white power” thrown in there for good measure was it?

 

[Rebel5soul]

File this thread under, "Jumping to conclusions."

The gentleman in question lives in Marshall County, a deep red county. Given the overall voting patterns in the state of Alabama it is highly likely that the majority of those caught up in this bureaucratic fiasco are Republican voters. But the OP and the sycophant followers have jumped to the conclusion that this is an plot to divest Democrat voters.

This does not diminish the issue, it needs to be dealt with immediately.

 

[butters]

File this thread under, "Jumping to conclusions."

The gentleman in question lives in Marshall County, a deep red county. Given the overall voting patterns in the state of Alabama it is highly likely that the majority of those caught up in this bureaucratic fiasco are Republican voters. But the OP and the sycophant followers have jumped to the conclusion that this is an plot to divest Democrat voters.

This does not diminish the issue, it needs to be dealt with immediately.

fuck off with your lies, liar

I am 100% committed to the idea that every single adult should have the right to vote and that choice who to vote for is entirely up to them. The USA benefits from having at least 2 strong political parties to choose from and the best representation of the American public comes from a blending of thoughts and ideals, working together in a balanced fashioned to make America a better place to live.

NO ONE should be disenfranchised or have their votes stolen/discounted

of course, magats like you make these accusations that anyone with more than half a brain can see are confessions of intent.

 

[butters]

and in Texas, a woman taking her 18-year-old to get registered discovered that she was still on the lists but her husband, who voted last 2 years back wasn't.

'She said, "If you haven't voted in a couple years, they're just taking people off,' Ann recalled.

'I was like, "Why would they do that?"

She said, "To make room for other voters."'

'My personal opinion is that shouldn't matter.

'Once you're registered to vote, you shouldn't just take people off because they're not voting enough for you. Some people only vote in presidential elections.'

Her husband's voter status was re-instated that same day, but Ann worries her husband might not have been able to vote at all if they hadn't happen to check their registration.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...&cvid=3e8076f200b94b64822d541352bc7c00&ei=144

 

[dkovic77]

and in Texas, a woman taking her 18-year-old to get registered discovered that she was still on the lists but her husband, who voted last 2 years back wasn't.

'She said, "If you haven't voted in a couple years, they're just taking people off,' Ann recalled.

'I was like, "Why would they do that?"

She said, "To make room for other voters."'

'My personal opinion is that shouldn't matter.

'Once you're registered to vote, you shouldn't just take people off because they're not voting enough for you. Some people only vote in presidential elections.'


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...&cvid=3e8076f200b94b64822d541352bc7c00&ei=144

Very simple solution, same day registration. Then pull all the tricks you want, it won’t matter.

Ensure everyone has equal access to a place to vote, let them register same day, and don’t have someone intimidating them as they enter or leave the place. Basic requirements that escape these losers.

But it’s so much more fun for the MAGA Republican’ts to keep trying to come up with different ways to attempt to keep control when just try coming up with actual good policy goals that folks like would have a better chance at getting folks to want to vote for them (instead of trying to win by restricting voting for their opponents).

The policy goals they do have suck so much, people find them laughable- since most are focused on keeping the Criminal in Chief (and others) from serving consequences for his (their) actions.

 

[Bn2f]

File this thread under, "Jumping to conclusions."

I think you misunderstand what's been happening.

The gentleman in question lives in Marshall County, a deep red county. Given the overall voting patterns in the state of Alabama it is highly likely that the majority of those caught up in this bureaucratic fiasco are Republican voters. But the OP and the sycophant followers have jumped to the conclusion that this is an plot to divest Democrat voters.

My post pointed how this hurts democracy as a whole and is happening only in republican strongholds. Dems aren't advocating restrictions to voting. In an effort to be brief, I pointed to Georgia without going into detail on specifics. Republicans are doing this, IMO, because it is their belief that fundamentally the only voter of worth is the historically held perception SOLELY to be that of the white male landowner.

Brian Kemp, as Georgia Secretary of State, was able to purge voter rolls to allow republican nominee Brian Kemp to become governor as Stacey Abrams led a campaign focused on registering new voters. It matters not to republicans like Kemp that, let’s say a person like James Stroop who lives in the stix and is possibly white has voted republican all his life - the chance that a poor white male may wake up to the fact that he’s long been disenfranchised by conservative policies and was entertaining Abrams was too much of a risk. Kemp purging rolls and being unable still to protect not one, but both Georgia senators was a marker that scared the hell out of neighboring Bible Belt states. The likes of a James Stroop would need to now jump through the restrictive hoops now in place and it’s assumed, for republicans, that a land owning James Stroop would better have the funds in place to overcome restrictions as well as realize the always self beneficial lure of the tax cut republicans offer to that white male of means over the white male James Stroop just out of college, working a menial job, or that happens to be a first time voter.

This does not diminish the issue, it needs to be dealt with immediately.

The only real solution to dealing with this immediately, as you've indicated, is to vote a straight democratic ticket in the place you live this November and in any election with a republican who is for this.

 

[ll74]

States are doing a horrible job of communicating to the voters. It doesn't help that operatives are in place promoting disinformation.

When a state cleans their rolls, a mass communication to its voters must be sent out encouraging them to check their registration status.

Every voter needs to be told that their registration should be verified several months prior to an election, especially around the time of final registration.

And every voter should be told about their options to vote if they are removed from voter rolls during an election year.

 

[Bn2f]

States are doing a horrible job of communicating to the voters. It doesn't help that operatives are in place promoting disinformation.

When a state cleans their rolls, a mass communication to its voters must be sent out encouraging them to check their registration status.

Every voter needs to be told that their registration should be verified several months prior to an election, especially around the time of final registration.

And every voter should be told about their options to vote if they are removed from voter rolls during an election year.

I know that. You know that. They know that. It's a purposeful, self serving negligence to to not inform said voter.

 

[ll74]

I know that. You know that. They know that. It's a purposeful, self serving negligence to to not inform said voter.

Yes. Unfortunately there's an advantage to parties keeping voters in the dark. And worse, it's not reserved to one party. (Though it happens more frequently from the right)

Always encourage people to vote, regardless of their vote.