silence7

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago

That's the least of it. The biggest group this affects is married women who changed their name. Since it no longer matches the birth certificate, they can't use that. Since the passport has a black and white photo, they can't use that either.

In the best case, they have to find three different documents, which they may not be able to easily obtain, and which require spending time and money for, in order to vote. Many won't.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah. Varies a lot by state.

 

The voter ID requirements are designed to be impossible for a lot of Citizens to meet, in particular it is very common for married women to have a different name on their birth certificate from their current name.

The color photo requiement also means you can't prove citizenship using a recently-issued passport

 

The voter ID requirements are designed to be impossible for a lot of Citizens to meet, in particular it is very common for married women to have a different name on their birth certificate from their current name.

The color photo requiement also means you can't prove citizenship using a recently-issued passport

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 18 hours ago

Headline isn't great, but they've started impersonating local police, which is something ICE has not done before. Locally, a big part of what rapid responders do is to verify that a local police action is not ICE or Border Patrol. If ICE is running around with fake local police badges, this becomes a lot harder.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago

Turns out it had a view count limit that I didn't notice. Here's an archived copy; not a completely trustworthy archive, but they seem to be accurate on this one.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 hours ago

Yes. Lots of people. Mostly the not-rich

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They tend to spread it onto other platforms though

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

A lot of local reporters think their job depends on staying on the good side of local police in order to retain access

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They've got support from Musk and Zuckerberg so that means banning their platforms

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but cause a lot of suffering in the meantime

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago (7 children)

A ton of us voted against this

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I expect it of the New York Times, which is afraid of losing access. Local outlets have nothing to lose by speaking truth to power

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