• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    If this suppresses votes, it suppresses the votes of illegal immigrants. If illegal immigrants don’t vote, why do Democrats worry so much about illegal immigrants being barred from voting? They shouldn’t care at all.

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      3 months ago

      The boogeyman of ‘illegal immigrants’ has been dragged out over and over again ever since I was a child by conservatives. It had no teeth then and it has none now.

      Simply put, the data does not support your irrational fears or your assertions: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/noncitizen-voting-missing-millions

      If I were the type to take your point in good faith then I’d say eliminating mail-in voter registration is just a solution looking for a problem.

      However, given your profile, I’m just going to say that this is classic voter suppression tactics. Raise the barrier to voting access and see how quickly the disenfranchised, poor, and working class voting numbers plummet. All in the name of continued voter disenfranchisement.

      Edit: Nothing really to say about the most recent cases of voter fraud, eh?

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        3 months ago

        Raise the barrier to voting access and see how quickly the disenfranchised, poor, and working class voting numbers plummet.

        Why can’t they vote in person?

        Edit: Nothing really to say about the most recent cases of voter fraud, eh?

        Which ones? Tell me about them.

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      3 months ago

      Funny, the article says otherwise.

      It says Paxton wants to limit or repeal the ability for Democrats to register to vote.

      Not “Paxton wants to stop illegal immigrants from registering to vote”.

      Also; you can’t register to vote if you’re an illegal immigrant. It doesn’t work. Full stop.