Posted on 09/09/2024 3:32:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Justice Department issued a warning to states Monday to tread lightly in trying to clean up their election systems of bogus names and ineligible voters, firing a shot across the bow of GOP-led states that have been trying to erase noncitizens from their rolls.
Department officials also released a web video pleading with people to come forward with stories if they think they have been “improperly” removed.
In new guidance to states, the department said federal law allows states to clean their rolls, but it must be done within strict guidelines and only for approved reasons such as a voter has moved out of the jurisdiction, has died or has requested removal.
Someone who has been inactive can be removed only after being notified and failing to show up for two more federal elections.
Changes cannot be made too close to an election.
“As we approach Election Day, it is important that states adhere to all aspects of federal law that safeguard the rights of eligible voters to remain on the active voter lists and to vote free from discrimination and intimidation,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who heads the department’s Civil Rights Division.
The warning is chiefly a restatement of the Justice Department’s interpretation of federal law. But the timing suggests an effort to push back against Republican-led states that have in recent weeks announced the removal of noncitizen names from their rolls.
It also comes as Republicans in Congress have signaled they’ll move to attach language discouraging noncitizen voting to the looming stopgap spending bill to keep the government open into the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
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Garland needs to be the first one offered exile or a cigarette.
No blindfold.
Myorkas is second. Yeah?
You know, in all seriousness, if polls keep showing the Skank and Tampon tanking I wonder how long before we start seeing mass resignations? A lot riding on tmro night.
The Just-Us Dept wants the dead democrat voters to keep voting for them.
You’re right. No telling what all crazy things might unfold.
Hang on tight and stay safe! :)
I had a funny experience with that series “Sons of Liberty”...my wife knows I am a bit of a history buff, so she got that for me as a stocking stuffer.
I was enthusiastic, but when I began watching it, I thought “What the Hell is this?
Not historically accurate, almost laughable...their portrayal of Samuel Adams as a twenty-something hipster, carrying two axes in his belt and leaping off of a roof was so over the top, I got pissed and threw it in a drawer and didn’t even look at it for years.
It sat there gathering dust, and one day I saw an article from the producer, and he stated it was not meant at all to be historically accurate, it was made purely for entertainment purposes. A “historical fiction” he said. Now, I kind of enjoy a good historical fiction...
I pulled it out and watched it, and...kind of enjoyed it. I didn’t appreciate that the series didn’t even give a “based on a true story” warning that when I see it from Hollywood, I know right there it is going to be an invention!
I've read that when such things happen, the names and addresses then disappear as soon as the ballots are mailed.
Federal judges ruled that Texas had to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande and Texas ignored the ruling. Later the 5th Circuit ruled that Texas could have floating barriers.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and AG Ken Paxton don’t give a shit what the DOJ wants. Texas just removed 1.1 million people off the voter rolls.
Oh, and they will. And the "news" media will be full of stories of people claiming they "believe" they were removed from the voting rolls illegally.
Later (too late), it will be found that those making those claims were not removed or they were for legal reasons...
we need to purge the agencies on day one
Voting rolls should be PURGED every, say, 10 yrs., between election cycles.
If {X} didn’t re-enroll after, they didn’t care about voting enough to begin.
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