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GOP crackdowns on noncitizen voting ensnare newly naturalized Americans (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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She was uncomfortable with the letter — it felt like something political was going on, she said — and she said she wasn’t sure she wanted to register again.

With Republican officials around the country like Allen putting a fresh focus on preventing noncitizens from voting — which is already illegal and rare — it’s naturalized Americans like Esternita Watkins who will be most affected by such voter roll purges, voting rights advocates and attorneys say.

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 1 year ago

What an accidental unintentional result

[–] echo@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Working as planned.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“Repeated requests to the United States Federal Government for assistance in obtaining a listing of noncitizens currently residing in Alabama were denied," he said. "This lack of cooperation led my team and I to approach the issue differently."

so like, the federal government wasn't willing to assist with potentially breaking voting laws, so they decided the best idea was to do it anyway? Interesting. That being said, it looks like the intent was to prevent non-citizens from registering, but like the fact they didn't already have the information of who was a citizen vs non-citizen at hand is really weird

At least it's easy enough to fix, I figured it would be something that you couldn't fix on voting day, which is where most of the false positives will be discovered.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's not the fixing part, it's the intimidation part. The one person felt like she was going to get in trouble or be "watched" if she tried to fix it.