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A ridiculous ruling, but fortunately Virginia has same-day registration. So if you show up to vote and find you’ve been purged, you can immediately re-register.

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Will the poll workers volunteer that info or do you just have to know? I found out just a week ago that Texas will let you vote without an ID but you have to provide proof of residency, sign an attestation that says you can’t reasonable acquire an ID, and you can fill out a provisional ballot.

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Texas will let you vote without an ID but you have to provide proof of residency, sign an attestation that says you can’t reasonable acquire an ID, and you can fill out a provisional ballot.

…and then they’ll throw it out.

/s kinda

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If the burden of proof is on the voter, most likely, then yeah, it pretty much won’t get counted. If you could’ve proved it in the first place you probably would’ve just had an ID.

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But wasn’t citizenship checked when registering? This is the part that blows these anti-democratic lawsuits up as purely political and a way to hopefully remove enough people they think are going to vote Democrat. Otherwise what is to stop these people from re-registering on election day?

And I have seen tons of stories about the overworked poll workers needing to deal with these voter role challengers nonsense. They all say there are safe guards built into every layer of the system and this type of stuff does nothing but create more work for election officials and less secure/democratic elections.

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But wasn’t citizenship checked when registering?

To register in Virginia, you only need to fill out a form.

There is a box on the form to affirm your citizenship, but you do not need to present any documents that could be used to check your status.

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Note that you must provide your Social Security number, if any, when applying to register to vote in Virginia. Therefore, if you do not provide your Social Security number, your application for voter registration will be denied. State and local voting officials will use your Social Security number as a unique identifier to insure that no person is registered in more than one place.

Again they already have checks in place and this is transparent tampering with voter rolls to help them in the election next week.

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How many battleground states have same day registration?

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According to https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/which-states-offer-same-day-voter-registration-and-why-does-it-matter/


Washington, D.C. and most of the states with same-day registration — California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming — make the process easy and accessible. However, a handful present obstacles.

Some states, including Michigan and Montana, don’t allow for same-day registration at polling places, only at other locations like city clerks’ offices or county election offices.

North Carolina only permits same-day registration during the early voting period, and New York is even more restrictive — only allowing it during the first day of early voting on Oct. 26.

New Hampshire has the opposite restriction — only offering Election Day registration.

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Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan* have same day registration through election day

North Carolina has it only during early voting (ends Nov 2nd)

The rest of the battle ground states do not (i.e Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia)

Across the US, 23 states + DC have same day voter registration

* not at the polls in Michigan but at the clerk’s office and then you can vote there after doing same day registration

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That’s neat, and it leaves me wondering why they even have voter registration ahead of time? I guess it saves time at the polls.

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Because of course they did.

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64 points

Fuck the supreme court

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The SC fell to TC years ago. They are traitorous to the people of the U.S.

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TC?

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Traitorous Court. As with most jokes, I’m sure my explaining it made it not as comical, haha

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37 points

It was 6-3. I think that was rather obvious though.

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All the important rulings will be 6-3.

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Oh look there’s Glenn “moderate republican” Youngkin pulling straight from Trump’s fascist playbook. Too bad it’s not going to make VA go red.

Remember this when Youngkin tries to run for president.

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