Look at what he’s up to now:
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I always suspected that Raffensperger wasn’t a hero, he was just a lot smarter than the average Trump patsy. If you fudge the numbers on Trump’s behalf at the last moment, you don’t want to be the one left holding the bag.
Most Republicans who had true ethics (even if I didn’t agree with them on any subject) were forced out. If you’re still in the party, honestly, you are in it for the power, and if you’re smart (and evil) you’ll just make sure your lower end is covered with full deniability and protection of the law and position.
Did anyone have a chance to cancel Raffensperger’s registration?
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Hell, that was just a public service.
I know leopards eating faces is a tired trope at this point, but they make it impossible to not say it.
Can someone sum up what’s in the link and/or video?
Yes, there’s a difference between somebody saying “I don’t want to commit this crime because I feel it would be morally wrong” and somebody saying “I don’t want to commit this crime because I think we’ll get caught by the police.”
Georgia resident here. I’ve moved states with the military numerous times, and I don’t get it.
I don’t really understand the point of the website. Why would anyone want to or need to cancel their voter registration?
If you move you can just register in the new state, no need to cancel the old state. You’re not there anymore, so you’re not voting there. If you are the kind of person who would vote in two separate jurisdictions then you probably aren’t the sort of person who will go online to cancel your old state’s registration. I think there is, or used to be, a system that looked for new state registrations and canceled the old state registration automatically. There’s no rule against being registered in multiple states, to my knowledge, only against voting in more than one.
If you just don’t want to vote anymore, you can just not vote. No need to cancel your registration.
Honestly, and without snark, what is the underlying purpose here?
To facilitate making easy to remove legitimate voters from the rolls of registered voters via ‘security flaws’ (wink wink nudge nudge) that allow anyone with access to publicly available personal information to fraudulently request cancellation.
Of course, when you transfer your residence to another state and apply for a driver’s license or state ID card (and are generally automatically registered to vote in most states) notification is sent to your previous state of residence, where they can also mark you to be removed from voting in that state. In general, voter fraud via people maintaining registration in multiple districts or using fraudulent credentials is such a negligible problem is occurs less than incidental counting errors. But, to be fair, I’m not saying that it never happens in the occasional instance of a politically motivated malcontent:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/22/iowa-voter-fraud-wife-husband-republican/
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It’s to allow right-wingers to target registered Democrats to cancel their registration. No snark, it’s just to disenfranchise legitimate voters.
Heck, they don’t need fancy websites to kick people off of the voter rolls. The current governor was doing that way back when he was the Secretary of State and was running for governor.
Yeah, but this is a way to crowd-source the disenfranchisement.
It certainly offers a convenient cloak of deniability under the guise of ineptitude.
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