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Media needs to start calling out the perpetrators by name. Gregg Abbot denied these legal citizens their constitutional rights to vote. That is a headline that will sink in and cause waves. This vague click baity bullshit keeps trying to hide the real truth.
We need a federal law that establishes a civil penalty people can sue their state over if they are incorrectly purged from the voter rolls. I think $10k per person would do it. States can still clean up the rolls, but they can't "accidentally" remove a bunch of legit voters without being on the hoo for millions in legal liability.
Except, the scum who are doing this will still do it because they won't pay the cost.
and we also forget each time they do it; every single election cycle.
You guys need the federal government to manage its own elections, simple as that.
past court cases have decided that the states get to control the voting processes; the federal government is powerless in this situation (except for a few extremely narrow hypothetical situations) which is why republicans are a thing still and are in charge of the rules.
You're greatly exaggerating. There are all sorts of federal regulations on how stats can handle voter registration and voting. That's the Civil Rights Act, the Motor Voter Act, prohibitions on poll taxes, and on and on. States run elections, but the federal government has broad authority to regulate federal elections.
the texan gov't does the crazy things every election cycle and it's in the news every time; but we have ultra short memories when it comes to elections due to not paying attention so we're just as surprised when they do it every single election cycle as we were surprised the last 80 times they did the same thing.
The "media" is owned by the people who want the rigging party to win.