Trump's DOJ demands to see WA State's voter rolls. Why? What are they looking for?
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Still stings daddy won the popular vote, I feel for you.
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Take it up with the justice department. The state does no verification of citizenship for voter roles.
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First, you made the claim they didn't even ask which is false. They have a variety of means to make sure you live at the address you say, I believe. But as far as checking birth certificates, how to you plan to manage that without introducing huge problems? That's been the debate.
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The issue I have never understood is why anyone who is truly not a US citizen would really risk a felony for one vote? It probably does happen. Would you risk it? I wouldn't.
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Because there is no risk in a lot of places. No checking, no risk. You used to have to show a US birth certificate to get a state driver's license. Then it would be easy to cross check DMV records against voting rolls to both confirm citizenship and your actual residence. It's illegal in many states to vote harvest but dems still do it. Did you know its illegal to kill people and yet it happens all the time. Should make shoplifting illegal. That will stop it.
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In order to really prove US citizenship you likely need not just a birth certificate but a notarized one. The problem is that it sets up a lot gotchas for people, there may be name changes to contend with, some other state may be very slow to produce the certificate, it may be lost, who the fuck knows? That's why they can't practically check it. Idiots like Trump keep insisting it is necessary.
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The Feds know who is a citizen. This isn’t a hard solve.
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It’s only a felony if they can prove you were aware of the law in the first place which makes it essentially impossible to prosecute effectively.
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I see you can use your last 4 digits of SSN on the form so they have some way of FED lookup. They probably do check it against the person's name. If some of these checks fail the state could demand more info.
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Fuck, what a load of bullshit. They teach in elementary school not knowing the law is not a defense.
