And this is why they try to supress your vote with voter ID laws, cutting early voting times, restricting registration, purging voter rolls too aggressively, etc. #votersuppression
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Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
Today is the day a bunch of white non-urban Wisconsinites give a constitutional amendment a cursory glance over & then vote to strip 30-38% of us of our voting rights.
April fucking fools indeed.
"This executive order is how Trump plans to get what Congress and the courts haven’t yet handed him: control over who gets to vote"
#Trump #Autocracy #Corruption #VoterSuppression #UKPolitics
The MAGA and Musk Fever Dream to End Democracy
https://zeteo.com/p/maga-musk-trump-demmocracy-voter-suppression
Zeteo · The MAGA and Musk Fever Dream to End Democracy
Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
Even if Crawford beats Schimel, I suspect my abjectly & willfully ignorant fellow citizens are going to look at that voter suppression constitutional amendment and be like,
"yeah voter ID sounds great as a requirement for every ballot",
and thus strip me and about 25% of the state of our voting rights because we do it by absentee, dont drive, are disabled, etc.
Its par the fucking course in this shitty so called democracy.
I hate all of you fellow Wisconsinite voters on these shitty amendments until you prove me wrong.
Fuck you.
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Whether it's acceptable to mention it in polite discourse or not, the fascist GOP's plan to formalize national targeted voter suppression based on fascist conspiracy theories designed to explain why a bloviating reality TV show nazi lost the 2020 US presidential election, is a form of election rigging. We've already discussed Der Führer's recent (blatantly illegal) executive order to do just that, but the Republican plan to fuck elections and create their own permanent Pork Reich is a multi-pronged assault. One of the key spearheads in this quest to, again, rig elections by disenfranchising millions of voters who are statistically more likely to support the opposition party, is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or Save Act, currently being cooked up in a GOP fascist-controlled Congress.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/congress-republicans-save-act-voting-rights
Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters
"According to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, more than 21 million US citizens of voting age don’t have easy access to proof of citizenship documents, and only about half of American adults have a passport, while millions do not have access to paper copies of their birth certificates. Married women whose legal names do not match their birth certificates could be disenfranchised by the Save Act, and folks looking to obtain lost or misplaced birth certificates would face financial and logistical hurdles.
The Save Act would restrict voters’ ability to register to vote online and through the mail while also severely limiting the ability of non-partisan civic organizations to conduct voter registration drives, which have been crucial to civic engagement for more than a century. That’s because, despite voters’ ability to register to vote at the DMV and registration efforts by political parties, data shows that voter registration drives from non-partisan organizations can account for about one-fifth of voter registration applicants – roughly equal to the political power of California, Florida and Texas combined. We simply cannot sit back and allow Congress or the White House to destroy the infrastructure of our elections by disenfranchising so many voters."
Look, I know Trump's unhinged fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election make most liberals very leery about uttering the words "rigging elections" but at some point you have to accept that you can't stop reality from being real, just because naming the beast makes you squeamish. Targeted voter suppression by the GOP has become so normalized that in a recent(ish) battle over election maps that clearly sought to minimize the political power of African American voters, GOP operatives defended themselves from charges of racial bias by saying they weren't restricting voters because they're Black, but rather because they vote Democrat. This is election rigging, by a fascist regime, headed up by a would-be King who keeps musing about violating the Constitution to seek a third term, and it's probably time to be honest with ourselves about what that actually means - an attempt to permanently install the US Republican brand of fascism in our society by preventing free and fair elections (such as those exist, in America.)
I mean let's cut the crap here for a second okay? The Save Act specifically targets voter registrations drives because the fascist GOP is openly arguing that registering people to vote, is somehow rigging elections. Let that sink in for a minute folks; a fascist regime is trying to rig elections through nationalized voter suppression because, and they essentially admit this, if everyone gets to vote they might lose power. The fact that this type of thinking and rhetoric is considered "normal" for the right wing party in America doesn't prove these guys aren't fascist, just that America has been embracing, normalizing, and ignoring fascism for a very long time before Donald Trump ran for office.
The Guardian · Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters
Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
"Three weeks after U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death and just over a month before the state’s next uniform election, Gov. Greg Abbott has not yet called a special election to fill the seat representing parts of Houston, a Democratic stronghold, in Congress."
About 773,000 Houstonians will have no representation in Congress for about a year 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/26/greg-abbott-sylverster-turner-democrat-special-election/
The Texas Tribune · Gov. Greg Abbott showing no rush to replace late U.S. Rep. Sylvester TurnerRepublicans hold a tiny majority in the House, creating an incentive for Abbott to hold off on calling an election for Turner’s seat, which would likely be filled by a Democrat.
Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans
ThoughtCoWhat Is A Poll Tax? Definition and ExamplesA poll tax was a fee levied as a condition of voting. In the US, poll taxes were used in the South to prevent Black people from voting.
#Maine: As Maine eyes voter ID law, Trump order tightens federal registration rules
by Caroline LeCour, March 27, 2025
"As Maine voters eye a statewide voter ID proposal, a new #ExecutiveOrder from President Donald #Trump is adding another layer to the conversation around election integrity and access.
"The order signed Wednesday would require proof of #USCitizenship to register for #FederalElections and mandate that all ballots be received by Election Day—a change from the current system in many states that allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to count if received later.
"Though separate from Maine's voter ID proposal—which addresses identification at the polls rather than registration—some in the state see a common goal.
"'This is a policy, different policies to strengthen our elections, to increase confidence of voters to participate in our democratic process,' #AlexTitcomb, of the grassroots organization The Dinner Table, [a #Conservative #PAC] said. The group spared Maine's voter ID proposal, which was certified by the Maine Secretary of State earlier this year.
"Critics argue that requiring documents many voters may not readily have—especially those whose names may not match across forms of ID—could discourage legitimate voters from participating.
"'A lot of married women have changed their names, some of their documents don't match up,' Jen Lancaster, with the League of Women Voters of Maine, said. 'Maybe they don't have the perfect document, and they get turned away. That's what #VoterSuppression is. It's eligible voters being denied their right to vote.'
"Lancaster says the executive order is likely to face legal challenges, echoing concerns from national #VotingRights organizations."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-maine-eyes-voter-id-law-trump-order-tightens-federal-registration-rules/ar-AA1BJQb9
#VoterDisenfranchisement #Elections #MainePol #USPol #VoterID #VoterIDAct #LeagueOfWomenVoters #AbsenteeVoting #AbsenteeBallots #VoterID #SAVEAct #USElections
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#Trump knows he can't win a fair #election.
Apparently, he never has.
#votersuppression #cheaters #republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
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#FairFight 25 March 2025
Trump's New #ExecutiveOrder : Rig #Elections and Put Musk in Charge of #VoterPurges
www.fairfight.comTrump’s New Executive Order: Rig Elections and Put Musk in Charge of Voter PurgesMar 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvhKp54W6I
EXPOSED: Trump's Plan to RIG & STEAL Future #Elections
#FascistUSA #Elections #VoterSuppression
#DOGE can end up in charge of #VoterPurges nationwide.
Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL4KC21v9Qw
#DemocracyDocket with #MarcElias 
#ALERT
GUEST: Sec. of State Adrian Fontes , "This is a disaster for our #democcracy'
Trump's Latest Attack Will Disenfranchise Millions
#Arizona Secretary of State #AdrianFontes joins Marc to discuss #OrangeFascist's latest #executiveorder targeting #elections
#VoterRepression #VoterSuppression and explains how the action will disenfranchise #voters, cause chaos and make it impossible for states to run free and fair elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6puxLjEm8E
#IHIPNews: #WTF! DESPERATE Trump SHUTTING Down the Courts?
#ChristoFascistHypocrits #ChildLabour #FascistUSA #FuckTrump #FascistGregAbbott
7.17 min mark: Trump said he wants...wait for it...#reparations for #J6Rioters!!!
#UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT #farright #extrêmedroite #ultradroite
The following is REALLY dangerous
#ALERT 9.07min. mark: MAGA, far right executive order would ban to almost everyone without a U.S. passport (which is 50 to 55% of the U.S.) #VoterSuppression
Trump’s New Executive Order an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/donald-trump-executive-order-voter-suppression-election-assistance-commission
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/
* far-reaching executive order
* astonishing & unprecedented voter suppression effort
1. prevents millions of Americans from registering to vote
2. severely limits voting by mail
3. allows Elon Musk to subpoena voting records
4. gives Trump King-like power to make it harder to vote
Mother JonesTrump’s new executive order is an “astonishing and iunprecedented voter suppression” effortOne voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”