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Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country.

The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant identifying information on every registered voter in each state — and other election-related data. The Justice Department has said the effort is central to its mission of enforcing election law requiring states to regularly maintain voter lists by searching for and removing ineligible voters.

Alicia Pierce, a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, told Votebeat and The Texas Tribune that the state had sent its voter roll, which includes information on the approximately 18.4 million voters registered in Texas, to the Justice Department on Dec. 23.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

Oops, accidentally purged the registration of 1,000,000 voters in the Democrat folder

Honest mistake, no cap frfr

[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey Trump, now you know I live in Texas and vote blue. Bite me.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

He does not bite, but he lets shoot. Be careful what you wish for.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 113 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Republicans really are fucking idiots aren't they

No disrespect to any fucking idiots reading this

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think I speak for all fucking idiots when I say this, thank you for not disrespecting us because WOW we are dumb but we aren't Texas dumb!

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Spongebob and Patrick were right all along

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 93 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Right now it will be used to cull "illegals."

Later it will be used to cull the "politically unreliable."

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The definition of "illegals" will expand to more and more groups.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ding ding ding.

The Trump regime has already floated the idea of suspending citizenship, and has already told those that don’t agree with them to ‘leave’.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Republican Party right now: "they're the same picture!"

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

cull

OK that's bad, but they can do so much more with such data. Like, make sure they "win" the election.

Is that legal, that the federal government can demand this from states?

Honestly voter registration (with party affiliation) just feels illegal to me.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas doesn't have party affiliation in voter registration.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, but they do track which primary we choose to vote in, which locks you in for any runoffs and serves as a defacto party registration until the next primary.

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[–] 50MYT@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Interesting.

Last election, Elon used his scam lottery to collect names and details of independent voters.

One of his dodge hires had written a full test software for voting machines, including a program to use names and data to generate votes for testing.

Those states then all had the increased single vote percentages move a significant margin to all vote red.

Now they are telling the states to give them the same data....

Last election, Elon used his scam lottery to collect names and details of ~~independent voters~~ members of the Trump cult pretending to be independent.

Fixed it for you.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The state that constantly wanted to secede is now getting as cozy as could be with the federal government.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

texas is pretty much russia2.0, as far as how the govt is ran, its a template for the rest of the country.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

This is exactly why I changed my registration to independent in 2016. I knew this shit was coming and I for one am not willingly putting myself on a registered "enemies list" for a fascist fuckwit to use against me. Unfortunately in NY that means I can't vote in primaries...

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That may not help though, if you don't support them, you're a target. You don't have to be dem to be targeted you just have to be a problem.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I suppose, but if I'm ever questioned about it I can just make up some b.s about living in NY and was afraid that the evil leftist communist Venezuela loving Democrats would hurt me if I registered as Republican.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hope you posted this on a VPN and have never logged into your account without it

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We don't have party affiliation on the voter registration forms here though.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The information includes what party's primary you voted in.

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[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Good to know, but they do want this nationally. Texas was just eager to assist.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When I lived in Texas I registered as a Republican so I could vote in the primary.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Might actually be a good idea if everyone registered as Republican. Then there's no way to tell who's really going to vote for them. Hah, sorry I forgot there probably won't be any more votes.

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[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Sorry but registering as Independent doesn’t save you. If you still speak out you go on the list.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

The whole premise of "registering as a xxxxxx" is screwed up.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

For a state that loves to say "don't mess with [us]", they sure are a bunch of dumb little bitches.

The next time a democrat decides to take over Texas, or whatever the hell they thought Jade Helm was, they'll have this list now too.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aren't these already public? Whenever I canvas they give us a list with everyone registered and their party affiliation, and if people ask how we know we tell them that it's from the voter rolls.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm kinda confused here as well. You've been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I'm not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government...

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Washington State refused the request because the feds wanted socials, license numbers, signatures, birthdates, and other information protected by state law. They happily shared the general info like name and address, but the feds are trying to sue to get the protected parts too.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, yep, that's what it is. Thanks for the clarification. Found this in another article:

The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bet 'The don't tread on me' sovcit folks are knotted and contorted messes now. Where'd all yer flags go now, ya cunts.

[–] retreaux@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry about them, they didn't hear about this news at all and wouldn't care even if they did. Everyone in that camp will fall in line with Daddy Trump.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can’t tell if this is just for those currently registered or if it includes previous.

Glad i no longer live in texas

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Experts and state officials around the country have raised concerns over the legality of the Justice Department’s effort to obtain states’ voter rolls and whether it could compromise voter privacy protections.

I always thought these were public record. TIL, I guess.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope as the rolls contain very sensitive information such as home addresses and legal names.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

That's not exactly sensitive info. Property records are very public with that same info.

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Counting on TX being a POS state has never been a bad bet.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

FUCK THIS STATE

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Can anyone truly say they dont think voting is rigged?

I mean im certain it was rigged with paper ballets, just a little more difficult. But we have voting machines programmed by musks friends/fans. There's no way votes matter and probably haven't for 20 years.

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