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And that’s basically it!
Time to start looking up every white-ass right-wing voter in the state that has a second home or spends early November out of state this year and challenge their registration 91 days before the 2028 election.
wait'll white people start claiming indigenous people aren't citizens.
You’re too late. ICE has already arrested people with Native American IDs, claiming they are invalid.
ICE has arrested people with valid REAL-IDs claiming they aren't real. They'll do whatever they want to whoever they want.
REAL-IDs
Are Native American IDs not real?
ETA: Reading this back, it looks really pas-ag. Not American, the question is sincere. I've never heard of Native American IDs
REAL-ID is a new-ish standard required to obtain a driver's license or personal ID. It requires more documentation than was previously required. Native American IDs are real, but REAL-ID is not related.
That would be hilarious. Just start challenging anyone and everyone with a MAGAt sticker just before the election and lock them all down in pointless bureaucracy of proving their citizenship
It says you need some kind of documented evidence but I’m sure that’s pretty easy to gin up for a lot of people.
AI go brrrr...
Liberals love to pretend the law is self-enforcing and refuse to ask what role the state's deeply racist and violent state bureaucrats, or the police and sheriff's offices (nevermind any ICE agents operating in the state) will play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Eye_(United_States)
Incidentally, Supreme Court Justice William Renquist started his career as a poll-watcher in Arizona, screening out any who looked too Democrat.
Real chaotic good energy. I dig it!
I try. The world needs more chaotic good.
If a county auditor deems the challenge valid
The article doesn't say how South Dakota county auditors are chosen, how they make decisions or what scrutiny they are subject to but I'm not sure I like your chances here
So they added pvp to voting
Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed legislation into law last week that authorizes challenges by individuals and election officials.
It would be a terrible shame if a bunch of people started challenging Larry's citizenship.
"Rhoden"!?!
Sounds like a foreigner to me!
He’s obviously a very large monster from Japan. I’m thinking some kind of kaiju mosquito. Dibs on the band name
Not being from the US, I was flabbergasted when I learned how voting laws are working there. Where I live we're all automatically registered by the government. They send a card with your name and your address. If there is an error, or if people don't get a card, they can manually register or correct the error. And we all stay registered unless we move or there is an error. That's it.
I'm in my mid life and had to register once in my 20ies because I moved a lot. Otherwise the government just automatically registers me. Nobody can challenge that except the election's office. They decide who meets the requirements to vote or not. Not some random conservative asshole that thinks people are not white enough. Democracy in the US seems like a joke.
It isn't a joke. Jokes are funny. This isn't funny. If hasn't been funny, ever.
In Canada we have the same thing. You can every year when filling taxes tick off a box to update your voter info to save you the work. You also can register at the voting booth with ID, or proof of residence, or the statement of a registered voter in the area willing to vouch for you.
Basically zero voter fraud.
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Indeed. I'm in Canada too so that's why this is familiar to you. As an anecdote, I don't drive and have no license. Once, a long time ago, an election worker was kind of insisting that I had to show one to vote. I had the other required documents and was able to vote but not having a diver's license apparently made them suspicious. And that was my biggest hurdle with providing ID at an election!
Lots of comments can be read about people not going to vote, some even blaming them for the election results, but it's just incredible how difficult they seem to make voting in the US.
We don't do "efficiency" round these parts.
Nope, that is not democracy
I fucking hate my country now
So when they receive a complaint about every non-Republican voter, are they going to say that there is a 2 year backlog on paperwork, so these people will have to skip this election?
Start challenging the Republican voters, then.
If I lived there then this is what I’d do. Challenge every single person who shows up to vote. After all, how can I personally know they are allowed to vote if they don’t prove it to ME?
Probably the most not-the-onion headline I've ever read. My brain keeps trying to illustrate it as comedy to explain it to myself in my mind.
South Dakota? Home of Kristi Noem? UNBELIEVABLE!!!
She's a witch!
Soooo...every reservation gonna challenge every South Dakotane citizenship?
God I hope so.
“How could this go wrong?” Said absolutely no one.
Conservatives clearly hate our Constitution. So why don't they secede? Seems like something they'd be into. They even whine about it from time to time.
The answer is because their failing red states require our blue states to exist.
This is an abusive relationship and it's high time we end it.
gonna be shocked when all the people challenged aren't white while all the people challenging are.
Oh, that could be fun. After voting, myself, I'd form a line of like minded folks to pick out likely MAGAS and challenge each multiple times.
How else are you going to legally bully and intimidate voters?
Good now challenge citizenship of all white ppl
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU PALE, TERRITORIAL CHEESEWHEATS
edited to add specificity
"John Smith"? Doesn't sound like a local name to me! Yeah don't bother with the Dakota people ancestry either. They aint from around here. Oh you claim the land belongs to Paleoindian people called 'Ugluk' or 'Kroar'? Well fuck off, glyptodonts should rule this place.
State law already allows challenges to a voter’s registration up to the 90th day before an election, if a person is suspected of lacking South Dakota residency, voting in another state or being registered to vote in another state. The new law adds citizenship as a justification for a challenge.
Challenges may be filed by the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office, the auditor in the county where the voter is registered, or a voter in the same county. The challenge must be in the form of a signed, sworn statement and must include what the law describes as “documented evidence.”
So the "challenge" this already exists but citizenship is being added as another reason. I wonder what the requirements for evidence are or if some county officials will call the sworn statement itself "documented evidence."
There's a New South Dakota?
Start with the government officials, and their local donors!
I'm assuming each challenge needs resolved separately, right?
Reunite the Dakotas!