I'm okay with him not signing any bills.
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Yeah govt doing absolutely nothing is pretty typical
s/desperate/determined
"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."
That's been their behavior continuously since the country's founding. This is nothing new.
So, democrats are against voter ID because they can’t win democratically with verified citizenship?
The SAVE act as currently written has a religious exemption, boy do I have a church for you: The Church of Unconsented Likeness. Take the pledge today! https://substack.com/@tover153/p-188528157
I need that full release.
For people who might not be in the US and don't understand why this is a bad idea in the US and proportionately hurts poor people, proof of citizenship is usually a passport. A passport costs $130. You need supporting documents like your birth certificate, SSN, and a drivers license/state ID to get it. For your first passport you usually have to make an appointment to go somewhere authorized like a library, post office, or courthouse to apply, and then they send the application off and it can take weeks to months to get back, depending how backed up the processing agency is (and I'm sure there will be artificial delays during voting years if this passes). Also, they are passing laws limiting where you can go to apply, so now libraries and the post office are losing the ability to process passport applications, so people will have to go to the county courthouse, which could be a long drive from where they live, especially if you live in a rural area. For people who don't drive, or only have one car that is shared with another working adult, or use public transportation that has a limited range (or just doesn't exist in most of the US), or are disabled and can't travel far, this can be a huge problem.
Also, all these places are only open during normal business hours, so you probably have to take time off work to go apply. Federal minimum wage is only $7.25/hr while the living wage is actually much higher (living wage for 1 adult living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment where I live was considered almost $23/hr in 2024), and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren't getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.
While I don't think this should ever pass, I think a huge issue is we're too close to the election to be changing how voting works. People could vote in the primaries and then not have the documents to vote in the actual election. Something like this would need to be phased in over time, just think about how long Real IDs took to implement.
Also not that it matters anymore but the Supreme Court already ruled it unconstitutional a long time ago as it's a form of poll tax. Remember when Supreme Court decisions weren't just "whatever Trump wants today" and actually were based on the constitution? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
The current court regularly votes down Trump, tariffs are the most recent example.
The issue is the court is full of conservative assholes who care more about their feelings more than the law.
Don't get me wrong this is still a Trump caused problem, he appointed most of the new conservatives, but they still don't rubber stamp everything he does.
Here's the real problem: this law would require voters to identify themselves using a photo ID, and it has to be a specific kind of updated ID. Americans have been pushed over the last few years to convert their Driver's License to a "Real ID," which is a Divers License that has been verified with other documents, like a birth certificate or a passport.
If you are man, it is easy because presumably, you have had the same name since birth, so your Real ID Drivers License only requires your birth certificate.
But if you are a woman, and you are married, you probably changed your name to your husband's, so you need a marriage certificate to prove your name change. If you have been married and divorced, you may have to prove THAT name change with a birth certificate AND a marriage certificate AND divorce papers from the first marriage, then a marriage certificate from your second marriage. It can get complicated.
Then there is my wife's problem. As a man, I had no problem getting a Real ID, but my wife needed our marriage certificate. We were married in a Caribbean island over 30 years ago, and the marriage certificate has gone missing long ago. We have been requesting a replacement for over a decade, and have not been able to get one. It can't be done online, it has to be by mail. It is not too expensive, only about $10, but it's usually rejected for the wrong money. They always claim (when we hear any explanation at all) that we have sent the wrong form of payment, which they then keep. We've sent money orders, checks, cash, etc., and probably spent over $100, and still nothing.
So my wife can't get a Real ID because the country we got married in won't cooperate. I suspect our marriage license is lost, and they can't supply a copy. In any case, until we can get this straightened out, my wife has no valid ID, and can't vote under Trump's new law, and if she can't vote for this reason, there are many others on the same situation.
Could you get remarried at the courthouse? Or is that fraud?
We've considered that, but also the fraud angle. Does that mean that things like our mortgage would technically be bank fraud? It's not really an issue, unless the govt decides they don't like my politics, and need an excuse to incarcerate me. My wife is considering just paying for a legal name change in our state. That doesn't imply anything is wrong with the legality of the marriage, she's just making it legal for ID purposes.
Not all Real ID’s prove citizenship either. It varies state by state.
OTOH, if you have a passport, you can now leave the US easily...
Eh... Maybe. You could also end up like that group of Indian American citizen/green card holders who were arrested in O'Hare for being brown. Multiple had full documentation and passports.
It's curious why they would want to implement this because although it affects poor people, it would probably also disproportionately affect poor Republicans.
Many voters in states like Mississippi/Arkansas do not have passports because they are both poor and have no intention to travel internationally so don't bother with passports.
Because you won’t see it enforced in Mississippi or Arkansas, at least for white republicans. It will be selectively enforced to disenfranchise as needed.
it would probably also disproportionately affect poor Republicans
If MAGA thought that it would be a disadvantage to their voter base, they would not be pushing for it.
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I've been trying to float the idea of voters showing up to the polls armed. Everyone who has a firearm, carry it to vote. Not in a threatening manner, no waving them around, just... Everyone who has one is armed.
Great, so how is that going to help Mrs. Jones who can't afford sufficient notary proof of her marriage to explain why she isn't called Miss Smith, resulting in the polling place refusing to give her a ballot?
Voting is an administrative procedure, so rigging an election can be done purely procedurally. Once the election is rigged, no amount of weapons used defensively will unrig it. Maybe they will send ICE to pick people out of the line in Latino neighborhoods, but they don't need to in order to win. And even if they send ICE, it wouldn't help if the people with guns stand around gormlessly as they drag people into vans, or as they themselves get arrested.
I suppose them doing more than that wouldn't be the worst inciting incident for a civil war, but again: it's perfectly possible for the election to get rigged without violence.
Polling stations are often in schools, and in my state it's illegal to be armed on school grounds.
100%. Just did early voting today and that was the sitch
Schumer's gonna pass the SAVE act so he can pass Iran War funding, isn't he?
"Desperate?"
No. He rules us. He's going to do it, and there's no coming back. The way forward must pass through years of fascism.
I think they’re going to funnel all those (5k per month) white South African’s into ICE and send them to polling stations to intimidate
Because more and more people hate his guts with the fury of a thousand women scorned.
And for good reason.
woohoo. congess can't pass anymore bullshit laws.
Bitch I’ve been saying this would happen for a fucking decade
Martial law in October. Get out or buy a gun
The best time to get out was last year. The next best time is now.
...our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
... I'm tired
Every time mail in ballots is brought up I mention that Florida has a successful mail in ballot system and they’ve been Republican for well over two decades.
Trump uses mail in voting in Florida.
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Trump wants the U.S. to be on equal footing with all other first world countries. Gasp!
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