In August, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a plan to remove noncitizens from the voting rolls, citing 3,251 individuals who had registered to vote who were not American citizens.

The Justice Department is asking a federal court to reinstate eligible voters and require Alabama to inform anyone impacted that their ability to vote has been restored.

  • TooManyFoods
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    1207 months ago

    If so many non citizens are registered, that sounds like incompetence in your state. I don’t actually believe them that that’s the case though. I’m betting there are a ton of citizens on that list.

    • makyo
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      387 months ago

      Agreed, somehow they don’t realize what a self-own this is no matter how you look at it

      • @krashmo@lemmy.world
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        327 months ago

        You’re assuming they give a shit what you think about their actions. I don’t think that’s true at all. We’ve been in the “what are you going to do about it” phase of authoritarianism for a while now.

        • makyo
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          147 months ago

          Wish I could disagree with this

      • snooggums
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        77 months ago

        The first step is realizing their voting base is hate filled morons who don’t understand basic logic.

    • @sudo@lemmy.today
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      147 months ago

      Why the fuck is any person ever having their voter registration rescinded? It’s simply undemocratic.

        • @sudo@lemmy.today
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          37 months ago

          I get that, but someone commiting fraud could pretend to be a living person too. I’d rather have the potential for someone to do something illegal that they’re able to do regardless of purging voters than a system where real, living, eligible voters are disenfranchised.

    • @Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I’m getting deja vu. It’s OK if they do it close to election time. If that was the first thing a Democrat did in power, ink not even dry, it would be “too close” to election time.

    • nfh
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      47 months ago

      I mean some states have odd year elections for local issues, etc. After the precious election, they should do their diligence to find anyone who should no longer be registered, like people who they believe have died, or shouldn’t have been eligible to register. Anyone purged should get a courtesy notice via email or mail just in case.

      Recounts happen sometimes, etc, so anytime between mid November and early January seems perfectly reasonable to me.

  • d00phy
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    207 months ago

    Alabama’s worried that might flip blue!? That really is some paranoid paranoia!

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    137 months ago

    Keep checking your voting status right up until the election. They’re trying to kick us off the voter rolls. Don’t let them succeed.

  • UnfortunateShort
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    47 months ago

    That’s bad and all, but it’s only because the dems manipulated everything and everyone /s