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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens (www.propublica.org)
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  • Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S.
  • Banned From Voting: In Missouri, state officials told local clerks to temporarily ban flagged voters from casting ballots, even though hundreds turned out to be citizens.
  • Texas Confusion: As errors emerged in SAVE data, local clerks said the state hadn’t provided them with clear guidance and worried about disenfranchising eligible citizens.
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[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

It always could get worse. That doesn't change how bad they are now; nor that they're steadily getting worse.

In the event Republicans do steal that election, then what? How do we decide that happened? If the elections are delayed a month, is that the cue? What about three months? What about two years? What if the new election will happen next month? Do we still declare the election stolen? What if Republicans keep all the seats they have in the House and Senate, and gain 20 more in the House. Is that rigged because Democrats "should have" won? By what logic?

We're seeing an administration united on brutalizing people and mangling our democracy, brutalize people and mangle our democracy. Maybe 2026 will be the year progressives sweep the House—Maybe—; but after 9 years watching my country continue to push the bar on how bad things can get, while constantly being told that there was going to be a progressive blue wave resurgence—and seeing people say the same throughout Reagan, Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, Trump-1, Biden, Trump-2...

I feel we're being played here. Are we not just being strung along? All I've heard is this messaging to wait just a bit longer and then watching everything get worse as people sit idle.

I just find it awfully suspicious how the winning plan to defeat this Corporate/White supremacist/Christofascist regime is to keep everything calm so the corporations can keep earning; while the white supremacists and Christofascists keep killing and maiming thousands of people of color and others they've branded "undesirables". Where is this messaging coming from? It's being echoed all around, but what is the source? It feels like we're being gaslit here, or led by yet another naive voice telling us to "stop overreacting".