#effort to register voters!

[wyrmfedgrave]

The Texas Tribune: Ken Paxton sues Travis County to block voter registration efforts

The Texas AG is suing efforts by some county election boards to register new voters.

Simply because these are Democratic enclaves & the Republikkkans want to 'drown' such local votes.

But, all Texas counties have rules that they have to canvas the countryside & register new voters...

So, this must be another legal delay - holding Democrat voters up until after the election!!

And, this is just one out of the many Republikkkan dirty tricks going on now...

Project 2025 is being implemented in every state - in one form or another - before the election!!

Once P:2025 was revealed, Reps had to move quickly - trying to catch us all 'sleeping'!

We need to countersue their plans.

It's much too close to the election to be changing voting rules or to be suing over criminal legalities.

Let's use the Republikkkans' own logic against them & have all of these cases be heard - after the election!

Heh...

End?

For now.

[anthroposeen]

i think its important for people to not lose hope or unity right now as we get closer to november and the polls

the assassination attempt is going to make trump a martyr for the republican party, and it will increase turn out from undecided voters and centrists, so now is the time for left-leaning voters to actually find unity amongst ourselves and VOTE!! if trump was able to lose his position in 2020, the first president to lose reelection in decades, then we can keep him out of the white house again, but only if we take action

unfortunately, we find ourselves in a position to vote for the lesser of two evils again, but if there isnt a concentrated effort made to vote together, then trump will have enough backing to make it back into the presidency. im not saying the 2 party system is productive and im not saying that biden is an ethical and good leader (his actions against palestine are abhorrent, and we need to hold him accountable for the complicity in genocide) but things will not improve under trump- he will continue the support of the ethnic cleansing of palestine, and make life worse for underprivileged americans under project 2025.

the deadline for voter registration is in october, registering is easy and you can do it online! and i encourage everyone eligible to use their vote to keep him out of office

[icyg4l]

PAC: Your Upcoming Semester

hello beautiful people! alright so… i lied about not posting the other night. my bad!!! but i hope this makes up for it. i’ve been getting ready for school and i am so excited about this new transition. soon, i will make readings available for sale again. i also have an announcement to make regarding readings for sale soon as well! i hope you guys enjoy the reading! without further ado, please choose your pile!

top left-to-bottom right: (1-4)

pile one: mentally, you’re not prepared to be back in school. pile one, i’m not going to lie. it will take you a while to adjust to the new semester. this summer was definitely vacation time. you took the time off to just relax and do you, but it’s time to put in that work now. do you have your things together? are you registered? have you signed up for classes? if not, you need to do so! once you get the hang of this, i feel like the semester will fly by. i feel like some of you will get into arguments unfortunately. it could be over something small but don’t let it blow out of proportion. i heard “the future looks very promising”. you have to learn how to look on the bright side sometimes to avoid losing your mind. it’s best that you spend time learning a new language or skill. it’s also best that you get involved with the earth club if that’s something you’re interested. i thought of the everest college commercial lol (if you know, you know). don’t waste your time focusing on the small stuff. look at the bigger picture, pile one.

cards used: 7 of wands. 4 of swords. 10 of wands. 8 of swords. 3 of wands. the star. 8 of wands.

extra messages: petty arguments. solo. snooze button. cotton ball. coraline (2009). prove it. plea.

pile two: it feels like you are redeeming yourself, pile two. it feels like you failed your last semester or had the bare minimum grades to pass the last go around. but you don’t have to do anything to prove to anyone but yourself at the end of the day. there is a chance that you could be in front of the cameras during the semester. if you are interested in journalism, now is your chance to get involved. if you want to switch your major or join the broadcasting team, then go for it! you have to learn school-life balance. you have struggled with this in the past. know when you can handle something & know when to take your L, which brings me to another thing. this semester, you should know when to ask for help. if you need a tutor or extra help, you know where to find resources. use them! you cannot do everything by yourself. i see some type of celebration happening. if your birthday is in the first semester, happy early birthday! but this could also mean that you are celebrating a hard and long semester. take pride in your accomplishments because no one can take them away from you. maximize their importance! maximize your importance!

cards used: ten of swords. the hermit. 6 of discs. the emperor. 5 of swords. knight of swords. 4 of wands.

extra messages: vintage. playing cards. coolio. parlay. late night studying. destined to be. rewards. partial completion credit. i’ll take it. osmosis jones. snacking problem. cheez-its. love island voter. kiss me by sixpence.

pile three: this pile is for my people who desire to be in the healthcare industry. i think that this semester will fly by. you have always been on top of your game when it comes to school. you knew that you would do well before you even clicked on this reading. however, i think you will be putting more of an effort to get yourself out there. the dating scene will be improving for you to get in. someone will ask you out on a date. it feels like you’ve been waiting for this to happen. do not let this turn of events distract you from what really matters which is your educational endeavors. this is very specific, but if there is someone you date that is well-connected, utilize their connections to your benefit. make sure that you can get something out of all of your contacts. don’t just let people take up space in your life. this is definitely for my college babes, maybe high school seniors too. just be open to fun and don’t carry shame for wanting to have fun! you deserve to have a life too!

cards used: the tower, queen of wands, the high priestess, the empress, 9 of cups, prince of wands, the hermit, the emperor.

extra messages: veterinarian. crest toothpaste. toenail jam. worms. marine biologist. dental work. boogeyman. letting your hair down. toes in the sand.

pile four: you have a lot of stuff on the line, pile four. there will be so many things available to you that weren’t before & it would be a shame if you didn’t take advantage of that. however, you do not want to do anything that would take away from your drive, finances, goals or educational career as a whole. there are lots of temptations coming up for you this semester. some of you could just be entering undergrad, perhaps grad school too. you will have a lot more control of your life than you did before. but with great power comes great responsibilities. your energy is similar to pile three in the sense that fun is on the way. but you have the tendency to overdo it. if you’re sexually active, then you need to not engage in sex too much. if you drink, then do not engage in drinking too much. it will become a distraction, and then eventually a problem. distinguish who is supposed to be in your life and who isn’t. you have a bit of naïveté about you. lastly, if you are asked to do something that sounds like it would be risky to your academic career/your life in general, DO NOT DO IT! it is not worth the irreparable damage. bending your morals will not work in your favor.

cards used: 9 of cups, death, the magician, 10 of swords, the moon.

extra messages: call home. out of bounds. melodrama (2017). record scratch. debrief. gaining pounds. life hacks. selenite. prozac. potty mouth.

[roboticchibitan]

I've been thinking about voter suppression since yesterday. Specifically about ID requirements to vote, because I got a notification in the mail yesterday that my license expires on my birthday and it's going to cost $129 to renew. And according to the DOL I can get a reduced fee card for $25 but it's unclear if this is a license or just an ID card. When I look around the DOL website it refers you to the department of social and health services but a search of their website turns up NOTHING about this program so I can't figure out if I can get a license for a reduced fee.

Not only that, but there's two types of ID cards in Washington, regular IDs and "enhanced" IDs. An enhanced ID is required for re-entry into the US at land and sea border crossings. Starting in 2025 it'll also be required for domestic air travel. Even if I were to get this discounted card, which may or may not be a license, if I want it to be an enhanced ID I'd have to pay an extra $7 for each year it's valid. Washington does 6 and 8 year ID cards. So if I want to be able to go anywhere by plane, I am paying at least $67 for an ID card that, again, I cannot tell if it's actually a license or just an ID.

I really wish a percentage of that $129 went towards a fee waiver for enhanced driver's licenses. I would gladly pay for that. Because this is outrageous. I could get a passport for that much money.

And you know, to me, if I just needed an ID to vote and nothing else, $25 is doable. But to some people it's not. The most vulnerable people in society shouldn't have to choose between eating and being able to vote.

Requiring ID for voting is a form of voter suppression that affects the most vulnerable in our society. The people who need the most help. Not to mention the fact that voter ID laws disproportionately affect people of color.

Expand voting access! Enable voting by mail! And while we're at it, incorporate ranked choice voting!

If you want to support efforts to expand voting access, vote.org is a bipartisan independent charity organization working on that front. They score highly on charity navigator. They also have an easy tool to double check that you are still registered to vote because there's a history of people's registrations being purged. So it's good to check and I recommend you do.

[darkeagleruins]

ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Biden's campaign secretly registered the domain TrumpsProject2025(.)com in an effort to deceive voters into thinking Trump was behind the 900 page Project 2025 paper. President Biden has shared the fake website with more than 1.5 million X users.

[pearwaldorf]

Thinking about the fatalism that has inevitably emerged after yesterday's events, and how angry it makes me. Nothing about Trump has changed a goddamn iota since somebody tried to kill him. He's still the same old shitstain who's intent on tearing down the rest of this country he didn't get to last time.

The best way to legally depress voter turnout is to make people feel like there's no point in voting. When people turn out in numbers, Democrats tend to win.

And there still is a fucking point. I know it doesn't really make as much news as it should, but a Biden administration has genuinely made people's lives better. None of it gets publicized well because it's not sexy, but not being able to report medical debt to credit bureaus? $35 insulin? Cracking down on robocalls? The climate stuff in the giant infrastructure bill? All of this is important quality of life shit.

Certainly nothing is at the level it should be, but some of us old farts have stories about how much worse it was before, and why we would absolutely not go back. And I'm real fucking sorry that change isn't happening at the rate any of us want, but it's not nothing.

In philosophy, there is a concept called Pascal's Wager, which says a rational person should believe in God because the rewards are amazing if God exists, and the losses are small if God doesnt.

Obviously voting still takes effort, but I think it's effort that won't be wasted regardless of the outcome. Now you know what to do for next time! You've learned a little about your local politicians! For the states where you have to vote in person, it's a little more inconvenient, but check if early voting is available in your area.

And if (god forbid) the worst happens, you still tried. You didn't take it as a given he would win. Brazil has mandatory voting, and despite having the button RIGHT FUCKING THERE between Bolsonaro and Lula, more people chose to opt out than do the thing that would have an actual effect. That's so fucked up.

I know that people get frustrated and vote for things that represent their feelings as opposed to actual rational consequences. And this literally kills people.

I don't think it's too much to expect people to put in a bit of time and effort into something that will yield such important results if it's successful. If you need help registering to vote or a ride to the polls, it is available.

[batboyblog]

Less than 60 days out from the election, how do you think we’re doing, considering the recent debate and Taylor Swift unleashing the Swifties?

I'll start this by saying we're with-in the margin of effort, if either side really puts their backs into it, and pushes and shows up, volunteers in big numbers and turns out voters it could go either way.

So having said that, I feel good, right now the national polls are close, but all show Harris ahead. The swing state polls likewise are close but mostly show tied or leaning to Harris. On top of which Senate Democrats (and the candidate for Governor in NC) are running far ahead of her in polling, I hope thats a sign that late undecideds will break Democrat, they often do break toward the incumbent.

On the debate, I'm often skeptical that debates shift things. That said I think anyone watching would say that debate is pretty unique in the history of Presidential debates. The media has been working very hard to uh "sane wash" Trump and what he says. That debate was an unfiltered view of Trump. I'm frankly shocked he brought up the pet eating, the right has been meming about it but I thought he'd only say some dogwhistle to it not just straight up say some of the most racist shit imaginable on live TV. The bar for Trump was very low and he still failed totally to meet it. Likewise Harris had a high bar and met it, she was claim, she was professional, she came across as ready and smart while also serving as the audience surrogate to let us all know "yeah this is as crazy as you think it is"

just briefly here the attack on Haitian Americans is crazy, and racist, and the whole "the immigrants are eating dogs" goes back 100+ years, I've read people accusing NYC Jews in the early 1900s of kidnapping and eating neighborhood cats and dogs. But also its politically crazy too since Florida where Trump and Republican Senator Rick Scott have both been slipping in the polls as America's largest ethnic Haitian community, just over 500,000 or roughly 2% of the state, so great plan to call them pet stealing and eating monsters just before an election.

The other factor is the Laura Loomer. If anyone doesn't know who she is click that link and enjoy, but basically she's a white nationalist and Islamophobe (that's according to her) and the person extreme far right Republicans point to as proof that they're not "that bad" any ways, Loomer seems to have been with Trump, on his plane the day of the debate and every day since, and Republicans are wigging out

MTG, and any number of Trump super supporters are sounding off about how much they don't like this, and the internet is "joking" that Trump and Loomer are sleeping together. Together with his unhinged debate being connected with one of the worst people in American politics might cause serious problems. In any case a campaign of just alt-right memes is not gonna win most Americans.

On TSwift, I mean the data I've seen showed a really big jump in people exploring registering to vote after her message which is good. I'm again skeptical about how much of an impact she'll have? celebrities in general don't have that big of an impact, basically 90% of famous people are Democrats/liberal, but their fans don't always go along, don't get me wrong I'm happy she endorsed I just am unsure how big an impact it'll end up having.

So to repeat what I said at the top, we're in the margin of effort, if everyone who doesn't want Trump volunteers and puts in the work Harris will win, so

VOLUNTEER

[darkmaga-retard]

Mississippi and eight other states have sued the Biden administration to block an executive order that requires federal agencies to develop strategies to expand voter registration, which the states claim aims to promote left-wing politicians and policies at elections.

The complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on Aug. 13, accuses Executive Order 14019 on Promoting Access to Voting of “partisan infection” so severe as to undermine its claimed intent, which is to make registering to vote and voting simple and easy, and to promote the right to vote among eligible Americans.

Mississippi, which was joined in the lawsuit by Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota, alleges that the executive order oversteps the boundaries of federal authority and violates the U.S. Constitution, particularly in its alleged encroachment on states’ rights to manage their own voter registration processes.

The lawsuit claims that the executive order turns federal agencies into voter registration entities, bypasses transparency, and is driven by partisan motives.

“We fully support encouraging voter registration and promoting an engaged electorate,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said in a statement. “But putting the full weight of the Oval Office behind an effort first developed by partisan activist groups and then hiding the agency activities from public scrutiny goes too far. The law does not allow it. Mississippi will not stand for it.”

The legal action seeks to block implementation of Executive Order 14019, arguing that plans for the order did not go through notice and public comment or any of the safeguards under the Administrative Procedure Act that ensure accountability and transparency.

[grundyscribbling]

This one's for the US citizens. (I like the rest of you, too, but it's about our elections/voting.)

I think everyone who wants to vote should be able to vote. I think it should be easy to register to vote. I have helped with both voter registration drives and get out the vote efforts in the past.

So I want to warn people about America PAC: they are collecting the personal data of would-be voters through an online "register to vote" form that does not in fact register people to vote, and in some states doesn't even direct you to anywhere you can register.

If you want to register to vote, or check your registration, go somewhere not run by a PAC. Try Vote411 (which can also tell you about how to become a poll worker, if you're interested), Rock The Vote (which focuses on getting young people involved), or check out USA.gov's How to Register to Vote or the National Association of Secretaries of State's Register To Vote page. And be aware of voter registration deadlines - don't leave it too late!

If you are already registered, check your registration.

[jmtorres]

tags from @lierdumoa

#but they wanna "boycott" voting because nobody explained to them the difference between a citizen of a government vs. a netflix subscriber #"if we don't vote they'll have to listen!" no! they won't! that's the opposite of how reality works; not voting guarantees they ignore you #politicians ONLY listen to voters

yeah these are different paradigms! but you made me thinky thoughts so i'm expanding on this

corporations are already primed to think about negative space as space they could have claimed but have not, eg "we lost $15 million to piracy!" when there's no guarantee any of those eyeballs would have subscribed to netflix if not for torrenting, but presumptively they think you should be giving them your money. So if you tell a company "I'm not giving you my money because I disagree with your political donations to X" for example, that makes sense to them, their reputation and public perception of their viewpoints is affecting their bottom line

because for a corporation, bottom line--profit--is the biggest consideration. Market share is important but fundamentally if you don't generate more revenue than costs, you (eventually) have to go under. Individual sales do matter.

but voting.

like i understand the temptation to view your vote as currency, but it's not. You can't save it up for later. You can't exchange it for goods or services. And most crucially, a candidate doesn't need an amount of votes. They need a proportion of votes.

They don't want more votes like a corporation wants more money; for the corporation, more money is the final goal. For a candidate, more votes only matters in the context of more than the other guy. The competition is more important than the scale. If only 10 people vote but 6 of them vote for you, who cares about voter apathy, you won! A candidate is not threatened when you withhold your vote, because that doesn't change the proportion of votes they receive. A candidate is only threatened when you vote for the other candidate in an election, because that changes the proportion of votes.

the fact that different parties practice voter suppression or "rock the vote" stuff muddies people's understanding of this, I think. the thing you have to understand is that demographically, the bloc of voters affected most by these efforts will tend to vote Democrat. So when Republicans try to make it more difficult for a predominantly black district to vote, they're trying to shift the proportion of votes. There may have been Republican votes in there suppressed too, but they're outnumbered by the Democratic votes prevented. And when a liberal org runs a voter registration drive to help more people vote, they don't ask who you're going to vote for. They understand they're registering some Republicans voters too, but statistically they're registering more Democrats, so the effort is overall shifting the proportion of available votes. These efforts seem like they're about the amount of votes but it's never about the amount, only the proportion.

[marvelsmostwanted]

It’s midterm Election Day!

What are midterms?

Help get out the vote:

- Sign up to call or text to remind people to vote

- Drive someone to the polls

- Support the Every Last Vote fund to help overcome voter suppression efforts

- Share a positive, progressive message on social media (it may seem small, but it helps to stop hate & disinformation from spreading!)

- Thank a poll worker!

Some last-minute reminders:

- If they say you are not registered to vote at the polls, do not leave! Ask for a provisional or affidavit ballot.

- Call the Election Protection Hotline 866-OUR-VOTE or 866-VE-Y-VOTA with any questions or concerns. See other numbers above.

- And of course… if you are in line to vote, stay in line! They must allow you to vote as long as you were in line before polls closed.

- Finally, it may take days or even weeks to calculate the election results. Be patient and remind others that this is normal and expected.

Resources:

- Am I registered to vote?

- Can I register on Election Day?

- Where is my polling place?

- What’s on my ballot?

- Get a discounted Lyft to the polls

[darkeagleruins]

OPEN BORDER: Why are Arizona Democrats fighting in federal court to be permitted to leave illegal aliens and non-citizens on voter rolls? Can there be any other reason than fraud?

Today, America First Legal filed an amended lawsuit against all 15 counties in Arizona—Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, and Yuma—for failing to remove foreign citizens from their voter rolls.

Back on July 16, AFL sent letters to election officials in each county, reminding them of their legal obligation to ensure that only American citizens are allowed to vote.

They warned that failure to act would result in legal action, and today, AFL is holding them accountable. In August, AFL initially sued Maricopa County on behalf of EZAZ and Yvonne Cahill, a naturalized citizen and registered voter, for blatantly refusing to follow state laws requiring monthly voter list maintenance to remove foreign citizens. In a typical move, Maricopa County tried to shift the case to federal court, delaying the process.

But their efforts backfired—federal court rules allow AFL to sue all 15 counties at once, ensuring no county can avoid its responsibility.

Now that the case is in federal court, AFL has added the remaining 14 counties to ensure that every county in Arizona is forced to comply with the law.

Their work is essential in preventing illegal voting and securing the integrity of our elections, and I fully support their efforts.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dan Rather at Steady:

If their national convention didn’t motivate Democrats to register, volunteer, donate, and vote, perhaps the prospect of a widespread voter suppression plan at the hands of the Republican Party will. Just listen to Marc Elias, one of the foremost election lawyers in the country, who recently said that the “Republicans are building an election subversion war machine.” Last week, Elias began working with hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers already teamed up with the Harris campaign to combat the Republican voter suppression effort. He will focus on recounts and post-election litigation.

This is not a new tactic for the MAGA right, but in this election cycle, “the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared [than ever before],” Elias told Rolling Stone magazine. Here’s the Republican playbook, according to The Brennan Center for Justice. “Over the last 20 years, states have put barriers in front of the ballot box — imposing strict voter ID laws, cutting voting times, restricting registration, and purging voter rolls.” But this election cycle, new MAGA tactics seem even more insidious — including delaying or refusing vote certification. So if someone in, say, Georgia doesn’t like the election results, Republican officials could question the count, seriously slowing down or stopping the process of announcing results. That’s a very big deal. The 2024 pre-election period has already seen dozens of lawsuits filed in 25 states by Republicans trying to manipulate or change laws to, among other things, make it easier to challenge ballots and voter eligibility and to deny election certifications.

In an investigation of local election boards, Rolling Stone found 70 pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorists working as election officials in key counties in battleground states. Since 2020, Republicans have refused to certify results at least 25 times. I know I may sound like a broken record saying Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy. But he is, and this is a terrifying example of his cult leader-like ability to get others to do his undemocratic bidding. At an Atlanta rally, he recently called out pro-Trump members of the Georgia State Election Board as “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory.” Seriously. In 2020 he primed the voter suppression pump before the election, knowing he was likely to lose the race, and then promoted the “Big Lie.” Hundreds of lawyers, dozens of lawsuits, and an insurrection later, he still lost, but all those efforts laid the groundwork for a more organized Republican push, or perhaps putsch is a better word. Fortunately the Republicans aren’t the only ones gearing up for this battle. The Harris campaign has assembled the largest Democratic legal team ever to protect voting rights. It is 10 times larger than the 2020 team. Ten times.

[...] The Democrats’ voter protection program is focused on eight battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and four states of interest: Florida, Maine, Minnesota, and Virginia. Their pre-election efforts are two-fold: First, protecting voters’ ability to register to vote while also having unfettered access to the ballot box. They are doing this by fighting all the legal challenges Republicans are launching. Second, they are educating voters. All of this is a serious shift in how elections are run in this country. “The expansive new Democratic legal team, and the opposing group at the Republican National Committee, is a reflection of the legal arms race that is the new reality of American elections since Mr. Trump’s election victory in 2016. The battle over whose votes count — not just how many votes are counted — has become central to modern presidential campaigns,” explained Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times.

The Democrats are learning to fight the battle to ensure that the votes from this election are counted properly to ensure that a repeat of 2020 doesn’t happen.

[qqueenofhades]

Thank you for your reasonable words. Your approach is the one I am striving to adopt permanently (whether we win this or not, and we have a good chance!!!!) of funneling my severe anxiety and panic episodes into organized action.

I think people in their 20s and maaaybe early 30s too? are used to either sinking to the ground in despair or “protesting” through angry social media posts and by purchasing small-batch-printed tote bags with progressive slogans.

Not that I don’t support both those things, but some people slightly older than us seem to have a more effective strategy of volunteering for and supporting what they identify as effective, soundly researched grassroots efforts.

Of course there are also a bunch of middle-aged and older Democrats who are sniffling into their Kleenex. But many of the over 30s in the party do seem to move their asses even when they are despairing, and that motivates me.

Thank you, dear, and I appreciate everyone who has taken the time to send me a supportive or encouraging message and/or say that my posts have helped them keep steady during this fucking insane stretch of time. It's not unprecedented in history altogether, but it certainly is for us, it just has never stopped, social media only exacerbates it, and... yes.

I do my best, with the caveat that I have no special magical wisdom or action to fix this all immediately (though truly, I wish I did). I have been a registered voter since 2006 and a registered Democrat since 2008, and while that doesn't make me the oldest person here by a long shot, it DOES make me older (and hopefully wiser, but yknow) than some of the early 20s/late teens crowd that gather on spaces like Tumblr. Either way, I have leaned fully into being the crotchety old elder and yknow, it's very freeing.

We have a good chance to win this. We have got to do the work, as ever, but that has always been the case and always will be, whether for this election or like, life in general. So chin up and let's do it.

[whenweallvote]

A near total abortion ban will go into effect soon in Arizona after the state Supreme Court ruled they must follow a restrictive abortion law from the 1860’s. Previously, Arizona doctors were allowed to provide abortions up to 15 weeks into pregnancy. There are no exceptions for rape or incest and it makes performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison.

But voters could be the ultimate decision makers on abortion access in Arizona this year. More than 500,000 Arizonans have signed a petition to put a state constitutional right to abortion on the ballot this November. They need 383,923 signatures from registered Arizona voters by July 3rd to qualify, and the group leading the effort hopes to gather at least twice as many to guarantee enough signatures are valid.

Arizona will not be able to enforce the decision for 14 days, so abortions are still available in the state until then.

Reminder: abortion access has been undefeated at the ballot box since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Your vote is your voice. Make sure you’re registered right now, visit weall.vote/register.

[meret118]

Last Thursday, he demanded that Republicans insert into must-pass budget legislation that’ll be considered in the next two or three weeks a provision that would demand that every state require absolute proof of citizenship to register to vote. Right now, this is largely confined to red states. “I would shut down the government in a heartbeat if they don’t get it and if they don’t get it in the bill,” Trump told Monica Crowley on her podcast.It’s already a felony in every state for noncitizens to cast a ballot. The simple reality is that there’s never been a noncitizen “voter fraud” problem in America—or any other advanced democracy—so there’s no need for a “solution.”

What Republicans know, however, is that the lower a person is on the economic ladder, the less likely they are to have kept or have easy access to the kinds of documentation of birth and citizenship necessary to meet the GOP’s anti–voter fraud registration requirements.

And the poorer a person is, the more likely they are to vote Democratic.

Republicans also know that millions of women are seriously pissed off about the Dobbs decision, particularly in the 20 Republican-controlled states with bans on abortion. This demand for proof of citizenship to prevent “voter fraud” is the main way the GOP is now expanding its suppression efforts to women. The National Organization for Women notes: “Voter ID laws have a disproportionately negative effect on women.… Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name. That means that roughly 90 percent of married female voters have a different name on their ID than the one on their birth certificate. An estimated 34 percent of women could be turned away from the polls unless they have precisely the right documents.”

Many women won’t have them, won’t be able to track them down, or can’t afford to replace them, so millions will just shrug and go back to their lives, figuring that “just one less vote” won’t make that much difference.

Claiming widespread noncitizen “voter fraud” is the GOP’s primary go-to strategy to prevent people from voting or even registering to vote, and every day it seems they come up with new ways to exploit it. As Crystal Hill pointed out Wednesday at Democracy Docket, “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued one of the state’s most populous counties to block its plan to mail out over 200,000 voter registration forms to residents, claiming the move will ‘facilitate [voter] fraud.’”