southernhybrid
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I considered adding this to the thread about the Democrats rigging he election and if the mods feel it would be better there, by all means add it.
I'm going to gift an article from the NYTimes that demonstrates some of their tricks at making the election look like some immigrants are voting illegally. It's a long article, so I hope most of you who are interested in this, will read all of it. And, please add other evidence from other sources to show how the Republicans aren't interested in a fair election. They are trying to intimidate some voters and lying about fraud. We already know about Georgia's Republican electors trying to put off certification, but this is something new. You can listen to the article if you prefer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/...e_code=1.JU4.NXyT.U8y_pmqG2Gjd&smid=url-share
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/24318293692180
There are a lot more details in the article. If I'm not mistaken, this is the article that discusses these Republican going into Norcross, Ga, a suburb of ATL that has a lot of Latino residents and asking some non citizens if they were registered to vote. Some of them said yes, but they had not intention of voting and had never tried to register. They were just scared and wanted to get rid of these annoying pests. Afterwards, the Republicans made outrageous claims that something like 47,000 non citizens were planning on voting in Georgia, despite the fact that there is no evidence of this. In fact, I think after an investigation, it was found that something like 23 non citizens had voted in something like 20 years. If it's not in this article, I'll see if I can find the one where I read that. There is so much of this crap going on by the Republicans, most likely to try and make naive and low information people believe that our elections are not fair. it's rather sickening.
I'm going to gift an article from the NYTimes that demonstrates some of their tricks at making the election look like some immigrants are voting illegally. It's a long article, so I hope most of you who are interested in this, will read all of it. And, please add other evidence from other sources to show how the Republicans aren't interested in a fair election. They are trying to intimidate some voters and lying about fraud. We already know about Georgia's Republican electors trying to put off certification, but this is something new. You can listen to the article if you prefer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/...e_code=1.JU4.NXyT.U8y_pmqG2Gjd&smid=url-share
Activists, party lawyers and state officials are mobilizing behind a crackdown on a supposed scourge of noncitizens’ casting ballots. Voting rights advocates say the effort is spreading misinformation.
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https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/24318293692180
In late July, a group of Republican activists met on a Zoom call to discuss preparations for the November election. The topic was how to keep undocumented immigrants from voting in November, a problem they claim, inaccurately, to be a looming threat to a fair election.
One woman, a local party chair from Georgia, recommended scouring school enrollment figures to find neighborhoods with large numbers of migrants. Another, Darlene Hennessy, an activist from the Detroit area, recommended hanging up signs in “ethnic” neighborhoods warning people not to vote if they were not eligible. She also suggested searching voter rolls for certain types of surnames.
“I think it’s unfortunate, but sometimes the only way you can find out is to look for ethnic names,” Ms. Hennessy said, according to a recording of the call obtained by The New York Times.
“We don’t want to be doing anything illegal,” she added.
There is no indication that noncitizens are voting in large numbers. And yet the notion that they will flood the polls — and vote overwhelmingly for Democrats — is animating a sprawling network of Republicans who mobilized around former President Donald J. Trump’s false claims of a rigged election in 2020 and are now preparing for the next one.
Activists like Ms. Hennessy, prominent lawyers, Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers and other allies of Mr. Trump have ramped up pressure on local election officials to take steps that they say will keep noncitizens from tilting the election in Democrats’ favor. They have pressed for voter roll purges, filed lawsuits, prepared for on-the-ground monitoring of polling places and spread misinformation online.
Republican elected officials have responded. In Texas, the state’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, recently announced an investigation into whether organizations were purposely registering noncitizens to vote. (He also authorized the state police to search the homes of activists who had been registering Latino voters as part of an investigation into allegations of voter fraud.) In Alabama, the secretary of state recently deactivated the registrations of more than 3,000 people, including some who are naturalized citizens, according to news reports, forcing them to update their records before they can vote.
There are a lot more details in the article. If I'm not mistaken, this is the article that discusses these Republican going into Norcross, Ga, a suburb of ATL that has a lot of Latino residents and asking some non citizens if they were registered to vote. Some of them said yes, but they had not intention of voting and had never tried to register. They were just scared and wanted to get rid of these annoying pests. Afterwards, the Republicans made outrageous claims that something like 47,000 non citizens were planning on voting in Georgia, despite the fact that there is no evidence of this. In fact, I think after an investigation, it was found that something like 23 non citizens had voted in something like 20 years. If it's not in this article, I'll see if I can find the one where I read that. There is so much of this crap going on by the Republicans, most likely to try and make naive and low information people believe that our elections are not fair. it's rather sickening.