Good news a from NC. Republicans passed a law that required a postcard be sent to the address of any person who took advantage of same-day registration, if the card was undeliverable by the post office the vote would be thrown out.
(The voter would *not* even be notified this happened.)
Like many voter suppression laws, it almost sounds sensible: if you don't think about it much.
On closer inspection, it is designed to target poor, minority and/or young voters. 1/
So, this is my question/concern with these laws:
Normally laws are made to address an issue. Republicans keep passing laws that make voting harder, but what is their *pretense* for doing this? (Their purpose is too obvious & self-serving, to be the "reason" they give when making these laws)
Was there even a single instance of a bad vote that triggered this?
A fair proportion of "undeliverable mail" is due to post office error. A large proportion of same-day voters are younger. 2/
@futurebird It's called "voter caging" and one of the effects is that it generates its own "evidence" that they can then cite in the form of the returned postcards.
I had an argument about this years ago with a Republican who was *convinced* that the Democrats were systematically registering huge numbers of fake voters all over the country. He cited what he claimed was an entire nonexistent apartment building of fake voters in Missouri. I suspect there was some kind of clerical error that happened during one of these voter-caging exercises.
@mattmcirvin a whole apartment building of fake voters! Oh no! (of course it’s an apartment and not a single family house— in an ‘urban area’ where we, all of us are fake)
But seriously if there was any chance this were real I want to know more! When was the trial? Who went to jail?
Somehow getting to the bottom of it isn’t important— just throwing the very real votes of Americans like you and me in the trash!
@futurebird @mattmcirvin occasionally I was assigned to voting precincts in NYC apartment buildings where all thousand voters had the same address, so looking them up in the voter rolls was fun.
