#voter ID laws

[writing-with-olive]

So as we're heading into the American primaries, now is a super good time to see if you're registered to vote. Remember: even if you've been registered in the past, it's possible you've been removed from the registry without being notified. Go check.

Also, now's a really good time to put into your calendar when the relevant dates are for voting. If you plan on voting for election day, this link lists when that is in your state.

Note that voter ID laws may have changed since last time you voted. This map by ballotpedia shows the requirements by state. These rules may be different in the event that you are showing up to register and vote at the same time.

If you're unhappy with all of the options, remember that voting is not the only form of civic engagement you can engage in - getting engaged in your local community is still very much an option that is on the table and is effective. Voting and community organizing are not mutually exclusive acts. While the presidential race is the most prominent it is not the only race that's happening, and that local races that will affect your life far more directly are also on the ballot. Go vote.

#2024 primary #2024 election #politics #civic engagement #voting #voter registration #early voting #voting day #absentee ballot #voter id laws #voter id #american politics #democrat #republican #swing state #unlikely voter #democracy #presidential race #municipal elections #state elections

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Links:

[1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/fighting-voter-id-requirements

[2] https://spreadthevote.org/voter-id-states

[3] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tolson%20Testimony1.pdf

[4] https://www.aclu.org/documents/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet

[5] https://www.educationnext.org/teachers-should-replace-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations-with-the-suspension-of-disbelief/

[6] https://glennloury.substack.com/p/loury-vs-mcwhorter-voter-supression

Original research paper:

https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/data-briefs/Data-Brief_VoterID.pdf

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Reasons given by college students for why voter ID is "racist":

Black people less likely to have ID, or particular type of ID

Black people can't get to the DMV

Black people can't afford the internet

Black people don't know how to use the internet.

Black people don't have data on their phones or don't know how to use it

Black people are uninformed

Black people are often felons

Most of them appear to just be regurgitating ACLU talking points as virtuous "antiracism" activism and have never actually considered how infantilizing and actually racist these beliefs about black citizens are. It was genuinely shocking to me to hear these things come out of their mouths as virtuous progressive beliefs, rather than from a white Southern sheriff from the 60s.

Where I'm from, voter ID is required. It's not always requested, and I've only had to show mine a couple of times ever. But they do random spot checks and nobody thinks any more of it than showing your ID when you open a bank account or collect a parcel from the post office. (Seriously, how do they think black people pick up a parcel from the post office?)

Now, it's possible that there could be racial profiling when asking for voter ID, and that should certainly be addressed. But the idea that black Americans can live their entire lives in their own country without having an ID, knowing where the DMV Is or how to get there, and without being able to figure out the most basic aspects of "the internet" is full-blown progressive racism. That is actual white supremacy.

You would think after the elections of 2000, 2016 and 2020, there would be bipartisan agreement to improve the integrity of elections. But apparently not.

#Skeptic Research Center #voter ID #voter ID laws #progressive racism #neoracism #antiracism as religion #antiracism #election integrity #election interference #election denialism #election deniers #religion is a mental illness

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Wisconsin voters on Tuesday will cast their primary ballots in what's turned into an expensive and high-stakes battle for control of the state Supreme Court in a key political battleground where power is divided between a Democratic Governor and a Republican-controlled legislature.

Voters will narrow the field of candidates down to two, who will then advance to April's general election for a seat on a court where conservatives currently hold a 4-3 majority. Although the election is technically nonpartisan -- there are no party labels on the ballot -- interest groups align, party operations mobilize and money flows into races for its seats as if they were partisan contests.

The departure of a conservative justice, Patience Roggensack, has given liberals an opportunity to seize the majority on a court that could decide on issues such as abortion, redistricting, and voting rights ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Conservatives have controlled the state's high court for 14 years -- a span in which the court has sided with Republicans' union-busting efforts and affirmed voting restrictions, including ID requirements and a ban on ballot drop boxes.

"This seat is crucial to the balance of the court, and the court is crucial to the balance of the state," said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Elections Research Center.

The candidates hoping to advance to the April general election are liberals Janet Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee County circuit court judge, and Everett Mitchell, a circuit judge in Dane County; and conservatives Daniel Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, and Jennifer Dorow, a judge perhaps best known for presiding over the trial of a man convicted of killing six and injuring scores more in a 2021 attack on a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Outside money has flooded the race, surpassing candidate spending. As of Thursday afternoon, orders for TV and radio ads focused on the race had hit $7 million, according to advertising tracked by Kantar Media/CMAG for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's law school. Experts say the spending on the race could smash the previous record -- $15.2 million spent on a 2004 Illinois Supreme Court race, according to the liberal-leaning Brennan Center -- for the most expensive campaign for a single state Supreme Court seat.

The court could become the final arbiter on a host of critical issues in Wisconsin in the coming years -- including the fate of the state's 1849 law prohibiting abortion in nearly all cases. The US Supreme Court's decision last summer ending federal legal protections for the procedure has super-charged the rhetoric -- and spending -- around abortion in the Wisconsin race.

The state Supreme Court could also play a crucial role in the 2024 election. Wisconsin was a key location of former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 loss, and the refusal of a conservative justice on the state Supreme Court to go along with an effort that year to toss out ballots in two heavily Democratic counties looms large in the rivalry between the two right-leaning candidates in this year's race.

#us politics #news #cnn #cnn politics #2023 #Wisconsin #Wisconsin supreme Court #election #2023 election #Patience Roggensack #abortions #redistricting #voting rights #voter id laws #ballot drop boxes #Janet Protasiewicz #Everett Mitchell #Daniel Kelly #Jennifer Dorow #Brennan Center for Justice #Kantar Media #cmag

[rapeculturerealities]

The 2022 midterms are crucial for trans rights

There have been few elections as critical to transgender Americans as this year’s midterms. Over the past year, 238 anti-trans bills have reportedly been introduced in dozens of state legislatures. Trans people and allies have undertaken vast efforts to beat back the onslaught of bigoted bills that have dotted the landscape of late. The most straightforward way to combat such acts, of course, is to vote for elected representatives who can best protect our basic human rights.

Hundreds of thousands of trans people could find themselves disenfranchised at the ballot box this year thanks to the strict voter ID laws.

#Voting #Trans #transgender #lbtqia #lgbtq youth #voter id laws

[mysharona1987]

#Voting rights #voter id laws #voter suppression #democrats

[cultml]

#voter id laws

[gothicvalentine]

Is 2024 the Last Election Women Can Vote If this Plot To Strip Women Of ...

This has some really important info. 

I was not aware that voter ID laws disproportionality affect women. In some states, you can be asked to present your birth certificate alongside your driver’s license, but if your birth certificate doesn’t match your ID exactly, you can be turned away.

Most married women take their husband’s last name and thus would be affected by this. Also, it is apparently required by law to formally change your name with your state even when you’ve been married. It’s technically illegal (this may vary by state) to just start using your husband’s last name. 

Apparently it’s never enforced, but this content creator is concerned that in the states with the strictest voter ID requirements, the states might start enforcing this type of thing in order to keep women from voting. Considering, of course, that women are expected to be the ones who will turn up to vote in droves due to all the anti abortion laws being enacted and the talks of a nationwide ban being the next step in the republican playbook. Because they think those damn women should just shut up and do what they’re told. And it’s not right that some of them can still travel out of state to get an abortion. /s

#youtube #thom hartmann #abortion #women #voting #united states #united states voting #voting laws #voter id #voter id laws #female voters #women voters #voter supression #video #psa #public service announcement

[kiramoore626]

Voter ID laws could stop nearly 200,000 transgender people from voting in the 2022 midterms

Voter ID laws could stop nearly 200,000 transgender people from voting in the 2022 midterms

Voter ID laws could stop nearly 200,000 transgender people from voting in the 2022 midterms With Republicans threatening to reverse LGBTQ civil rights and generally undermine democratic elections, there’s a lot riding on the November midterms. But Voter ID laws across the nation could seriously impair transgender people from voting. New research from The Williams Institute found that out of…

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#Election 2022 #LGBTQ #Midterm Elections #The Williams Institute #Transgender #US #Voter ID Laws

[tweetingukpolitics]

#marina purkiss #political twitter #boris johnson #jacob rees mogg #conservative party #gerrymandering #voter id #voter disenfranchisement #uk news #uk politics #uk law

[unclefungusthegoat]

I can’t overstate the sense of doom I’m feeling about the US midterms, and I don’t even live there. The Republican party is EVIL - white supremacist, Christian nationalist, anti-choice, anti-human rights, anti-democracy, anti-vaccine, climate change denying, book burning, gun-toting fascists. A literal cult. The idea of them losing makes me worry for the violence they’ve been threatening - I remember watching the Jan 6th insurrection unfold live on TV and was horrified. 

But the idea of them winning?

It’s scary beyond words.

#us midterms #a european's perspective #i'm from the uk #and our government MIMICK what goes on in the US #so this is terrifying #abortion rights were stripped #guess what started being discussed here #republicans claim an 'invasion' on the southern border #our home secretary now claims an 'invasion' on ours #voter id? #we had like 6 cases of voter fraud in the last election #in an elecorate of what 30-40 million? #now we have voter id laws #which openly discriminate against young people who would vote labour #another note that makes me worry - lots of republicans don't support helping ukraine #now I don't see the uk withdrawing aid #but if america do it'll be horrific

[clusterbuck]

anyway off topic but hey america what the Fuck is up with voter registration that seems like some anti suffrage bullshit

#not to even mention voter id laws #shush emma

[gwydionmisha]

#Missouri #Voter ID Law #Voter Supression #Mike Parson #News

[johnnydiggz]

Essential Updates to Florida's Vote-by-Mail Regulations for 2024 Elections

Florida’s legislature has enacted new laws affecting vote-by-mail procedures for the 2024 elections. As a voter, understanding these changes is crucial to ensuring your ballot counts. Here’s what you need to know: Understanding the Shift in Florida’s Vote-by-Mail Laws for 2024 Renew Your Vote-by-Mail Requests Starting this election cycle, Florida voters will need to renew their vote-by-mail…

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#Florida election laws #Florida voting 2024 #vote-by-mail changes #voter ID requirements

[myayan1]

#Pros and Cons of Voter ID Laws #Voter ID Laws pros and cons

[janedoeremi]

Tumblr Memes of 2023

January: Polls, Bug Race, Tumblr Sexyman Round 2, No Fly List Leak

February: Vanilla Extract, Tumblr Sexywoman Polls, Homestuck Fandom Commiting Voter Fraud, Miette decimating Todoroki in Blorbo Polls, Just so many polls

March: Dean Winchester and his Time Traveling Impala in The Winchesters, Celebrating Ides of March a week early, March 14th: The Day Krabs Fries, Ides of March, Autism Swag Poll, Ultimate Cat Girl (Gender Neutral) Poll, Putin having a warrent for his arrest, The Bots returned with a vengance

April: April Fools Day, Sonic the Hedgehog died, Trumps arrest, Barbie Arresting Trump, Everyone getting a Barbie description, Poll with Nina Tucker and Alexander needs them to tie to move on together, hyperspecific polls, Misha Collins assigned Bisexual by the WB, Elon Musk being the victim of Murphy's Law, It's gonna be May

May: Dracula Daily cast is stuck in a time loop, Trigun stan causes book: This Is How You Lose the Time War to become a bestseller, whatever the fuck happened with Eurovision, TOTK releases and gave us our feral Link back, Barbie and Ken arrested template.

June: Pride month, Across the Spiderverse... just all of it, trump getting arrested...again, The Great Reddit Migration & r/196, Horse Race, Meows Morales, The week long Titanic Oceangate Iron Lung Clusterfuck, Destial 'i love you' news meme trends at least 4 different times for different reasons, Papyrus says fuck day

July: Twitter post rationing causing Tumblr Migration 2: Electric Boogaloo, ao3 went down for 2 days, ao3 readers debating on going back to wattpad/ff.net, Barbieheimer double feature, Tree Law invoked, Elon renamed Twitter to X

August: Tiktok trying and failing to make their own Goncharov: Zepotha, Destiel confirmed canon again by not-so-rouge translator, Riverdale polycule finale, Trump mugshot, One Piece Live Action Pirate-Clown annoys Tumblr users

September: Mole Interest, Ice King became a Tumblr Sexyman again, 21st of September.

October: Spooky month, Merlin Twitter updates for first time in years to show streaming options confusing fans, The Amazing Digital Circus and Nerdy Prudes Must Die both trend for a week straight, trying to insert Markipler into the FNAF Movie

November: Nov. 5th 3rd year anniversary, Zach and Cody get their dinner reservation after 15 years. Goncharovs 1st 50th anniversary.

December: Gavle Goat being devoured by Jackdaws, Hbomberguy lives up to his name and nukes James Somerton's plagerism ridden channel, Its Dec 10th, We're gonna have to kill this guy template, almost Christmas, one more sleep til Christmas (screams internally), Halloween trends on Christmas Eve

#tumblr #tumblr memes #memes 2023 #memes #polls

[rudrjobdesk]

Aadhaar-Voter Card Link: अब आधार कार्ड से लिंक करवाना होगा वोटर आईडी कार्ड, जानें सरकार ने और कौन से 3 बड़े बदलाव किए

Aadhaar-Voter Card Link: अब आधार कार्ड से लिंक करवाना होगा वोटर आईडी कार्ड, जानें सरकार ने और कौन से 3 बड़े बदलाव किए

Image Source : INDIA TV Aadhaar-voter card linking Highlights वोटर आईडी कार्ड को लेकर सरकार के 4 अहम फैसले कानून मंत्री किरेन रिजिजू ने ट्वीटर पर ट्वीट कर जानकारी दी अब वोटर आई डी कार्ड को आधार से लिंक करवाना होगा Aadhaar-Voter Card Link: सरकार ने वोटर आईडी कार्ड को लेकर 4 अहम फैसले लिए हैं। इन चारों फैसले के बारे में कानून मंत्री किरेन रिजिजू ने ट्वीट कर जानकारी दी। अब वोटर आईडी कार्ड को आधार…

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#4 major changes the government made #Aadhaar Card #Aadhaar-Voter Card Linking #Election Commission #Kiren Rijiju #Law minister #law ministry #National Hindi News #New Policy in Voter Id Card #Tweet #Voter Id Card #youth #आधार पैन लिंक #चुनाव आयोग #फर्जी वोटर आईडी कार्ड