A network of right-wing activists and allies of Donald Trump is quietly challenging thousands of voter registrations in critical presidential battleground states, an all-but-unnoticed effort that could have an impact in a close or contentious election. Calling themselves election investigators, the activists have pressed local officials in Michigan, Nevada and Georgia to drop voters from the rolls en masse. They have at times targeted Democratic areas, relying on new data programs and novel lega
  • GrymEdm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    9 months ago

    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
      41·
      9 months ago
      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.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        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
          6·
          9 months 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…