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Sounds like trump doesn't want veterans to vote

This is obviously part of a much broader, Republican-led nationwide effort to restrict and suppress voting, disenfranchise Americans, sow distrust, and grant Republicans more control over our election system, all in the name of "election integrity."

By leveraging Trump's "big lie" and the stream of election fraud propaganda, conspiracies, and misinformation that followed to promote unnecessary solutions to fabricated problems. They've convinced millions of disgruntled supporters that Democrats have compromised our election system.

This is the claim now: undocumented immigrants are voting, and that Democrats, particularly Biden, are encouraging it, even though some of these places are VA centers.

There's a narrative in conservative circles that immigrants are being pushed to register to vote when they sign up for any benefits. Trump's allies allege this is happening.

The reality is, anyone applying for benefits is asked if they want to register to vote. However, if you are not a citizen, you cannot use that application to register, because you have to prove U.S. citizenship.

It's election fraud, interference, and subversion to combat conspiracies of election fraud... period.

There's a pattern where Republicans jump to conclusions about a stolen election, and when facts contradict these conclusions, they create conspiracies and rationalizations to double down. This is the conservative modus operandi.

Facts don't matter to them; their prejudices and delusions guide their thinking. In their minds, anything is justified because they believe the election was stolen. They won't be convinced otherwise, so it's up to Republicans, who have been pandering to these grievances, to act. Unfortunately, this action often results in widespread voter suppression under the guise of protecting elections from fabricated threats.

Aaand moreover, propaganda and rhetoric from Trump and prominent Republicans who have embraced the stolen election conspiracy are empowering right-wing zealots to intimidate voters at polling places. Some even consider becoming election or poll workers to "stop the steal."

This is happening nationwide, particularly in densely populated, Democrat-leaning areas.

This effort gained momentum after the election and has continued, with few Republicans or conservatives acknowledging it. Most believe that these Trump loyalists are justified in passing sweeping "election integrity" laws that undermine, rather than uphold, the integrity of our elections.

History will compare this era in American politics to the years before Nazi Germany.

I believe this is about making as much of the election go through the corrupt court system as possible. They want this election decided by judges.

There is no reason you should be against this at all unless you're evil.

Sadly that's true for a lot of things republicans are against. Fucking evil bastards.

“undermines the integrity of elections by increasing the opportunity for individuals to register to vote even though they are ineligible to do so.”

The quote is false on it's face - they already know that ineligible registrants won't get processed or be on the roll to vote. They want to keep disengaged voters disengaged - nothing else, here except for maybe the dog whistle of "illegal immigrant voters!"

If anything, this gives me hope still in 2024 that the GOP are STILL trying to suppress voter turnout because they know they will lose the popular vote because their policies are fascist garbage and so are their politicians.

Making voting accessible? HOW DARE YOU!

Trump’s lawsuit also claims that the VA and SBA violated the registration act and are “undermining confidence in the integrity of the electoral process and discouraging participation in the democratic process, which will harm the electoral prospects of Republican candidates.”

So. Much. Projection.

It's telling that people voting is a threat to him, why? Do you not think you can win if people are allowed to vote?

is getting SCrOTUS to overturn the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 part of 'the plan'?

VA announces state partnerships to provide voter registration assistance to Veterans, press release, dated 20 Sep 2022.

Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, President Biden, dated 7 Mar 2021.

Let's do the same with churches now.

Hopefully the dumbfucks suit will be thrown out for frivolity

Wonder why hes signaling out Whitmer after the FBI was warning people about pro trump revenge attacks. Bet there's no other reason than the voting thing though /s

Okay so there's no real argument about why the RNC, DJT, and the MRP are bringing this lawsuit. It's politically motivated and they are dicks trying to prevent people from voting.

With that said my lay reading of the Lawsuit (22 pages, pdf warning) leads me to believe that the lawsuit has merit; meaning that they may be correct that neither the Governor nor the Secretary of State have the unilateral authority to add or remove VRAs.

So yeah their motivation for the lawsuit is shitty but this is "Rule of Law" type stuff. We aren't happy when Republican Governor's pull this shit and we shouldn't be giving Democrat Governor's a free pass either.

"trump takes [X action]"

In these headlines, unless the [X action] part is farts or lies, he didn't do it. The Heritage Foundation did. He's an empty, inept coward and an erratic puppet.

I'd say this case has no standing, but in recent years that hasn't really mattered much. Just goes to show it's all rules for thee not me in the Republican party.

Whitmer 2024

Trump wouldn't need to suppress the veteran vote so much if he hadn't said that only suckers and losers would die for our country. Armed forces used to favor his party.