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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Right-wing groups are mobilizing activists to pressure a top federal voting agency to require documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration form. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

sep 15, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1,127 590

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chelittle.bsky.social @chelittle.bsky.social

Counter demonstrations

sep 16, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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anthonylamarche.bsky.social @anthonylamarche.bsky.social

Surely they will also advocate to make proof of citizenship easily accessible

sep 15, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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deuce6078.bsky.social @deuce6078.bsky.social

I am a citizen of this country and I absolutely will prove it at the ballot box, so fuc- you FELON!

sep 15, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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tomhutson.bsky.social @tomhutson.bsky.social

Claim fraud and send in the National Guard that’s what coming.

sep 15, 2025, 9:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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BlueskyArtitude 🖌️🎨🧡 @sirchrisalot.bsky.social

If Merriam-Webster needed a description of Voter Suppression it makes sense to subtext “Republican Party” and “Project 2025”

sep 15, 2025, 7:35 pm • 2 0 • view
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Scorpio_19_11 @nico-02.bsky.social

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sep 15, 2025, 7:41 pm • 9 1 • view
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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social

STAND WITH MISSOURI!

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sep 15, 2025, 7:44 pm • 4 1 • view
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johocas5.bsky.social @johocas5.bsky.social

Then we also make sure everyone is registered and provides this info. We can’t just fight this, we have to have plan b.

sep 16, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
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I talk loud and fast, mostly to myself. @wtfjusthappened.bsky.social

Why aren’t left wing groups doing the same? Why do we have such an issue with real activism to protect our rights? Thank you for all you do.

sep 15, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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okguy.bsky.social @okguy.bsky.social

Use the same tactics, that’s used against us. They purge our voters we purge their voters. We stop when they stop.

sep 16, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
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yessiritsme.bsky.social @yessiritsme.bsky.social

It sounds like this is bad? I’ll be able to vote soon. I have a license and birth certificate. What else do I need?

sep 15, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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reallydebl.bsky.social @reallydebl.bsky.social

That should be fine

sep 15, 2025, 10:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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❌👑 @susan1959.bsky.social

To be safe, get a passport.

sep 15, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dean @deanakclark.bsky.social

WINNING!!!! 😍

sep 16, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0 • view
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RygelDominar16 @rygeldominar16.bsky.social

Fight back.

sep 16, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
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Sniffit @sniffit.bsky.social

Of course they are. Then, they'll move on to destroying the documentary proof possessed by "undesirable" citizens and creating a rules regime that offers them plenty of opportunities to challenge the authenticity of the documentary proof "undesirable" citizens do manage to produce.

sep 15, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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sunluvindawgz.bsky.social @sunluvindawgz.bsky.social

A bullshit "law" it can't enforce, but who targets groups that sign up democratic voters.

sep 16, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sergeant who knows the swamp💙 @1toughguy2.bsky.social

states rule ✅

sep 15, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jack @sfae0922.bsky.social

I am so ashamed of our country right now.

sep 15, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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bsechochamber.bsky.social @bsechochamber.bsky.social

What is wrong with that?

sep 15, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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Flying None @flyingnone.bsky.social

Do you remember the save act? Where women's names do not match their birth certificates so they want to block them from voting even IF they can get a birth certificate. Also, some states do not give certified copies or they are questioned. So there are already multiple checks on each ballot

sep 15, 2025, 8:54 pm • 4 0 • view
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Flying None @flyingnone.bsky.social

That would affect the outcome with computers, and finally I look at it from a forensic point of view if this vote changes the outcome. No illegal voting is changing the outcome. This is purely voter suppression.

sep 15, 2025, 8:54 pm • 5 1 • view
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♻️ Mass Hysteria @nazitears.bsky.social

If the laws constantly fails us what should we be doing with these people? Sit and watch?

sep 15, 2025, 7:28 pm • 3 0 • view
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Massive Mobile Maisonette - M³ @m-m-maisonette.bsky.social

Nope. But the country isn't *quite* there.

sep 15, 2025, 8:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Wendy@windystorm62.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @windystorm62.bsky.social

I think we came across someone with a petition from a right-wing group at a rest area heading up north in MI. Did not sign. I just said I needed to do more research. We don't need to make voting even more impossible and costly.

sep 16, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
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Nancyluis @nancyluis.bsky.social

47 just appointed another crony to voter registration board (sorry I don’t remember her name but I posted it recently). The article listed dubious nonsense credentials and I had to pass it forward before I became physically ill. Just more ChaosCronySoup! 🆘🇺🇸🤬🤮

sep 15, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kim Heine @kheine.bsky.social

I wonder how many MAGA can actually find their birth certificates? Federal election changes would affect them too🤡

sep 15, 2025, 8:21 pm • 2 1 • view
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sweetooth1 @sweetooth1.bsky.social

Well, like in NAZI Germany better have your papers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sep 15, 2025, 7:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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😎Debbie🙈🙉🙊 @debralamm.bsky.social

If i make any spelling errors in the next couple of days bear with me i had surgery today so only using one hand. This is some scary ass shit. Are they using HITLER 's by the book strategies? We have become a fascist country in plain sight. Nothing we are doing is working, or am I just fucked up ?

sep 15, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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aldrina.bsky.social @aldrina.bsky.social

They want to make it hard for people to vote so they can win.

sep 16, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
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reallydebl.bsky.social @reallydebl.bsky.social

I have no idea what this federal registration is — each state has their own voter registration process and it usually requires a birth certificate or passport. Is this for expats or military living overseas?

sep 15, 2025, 10:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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Ole Badger @nekron999.bsky.social

Breaking: only white, male Christian Republicans can vote. Opinion: Klarence Thomas. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

sep 15, 2025, 7:43 pm • 6 1 • view
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SolarAlly @burkelinne.bsky.social

Do all the Maga folks have documentary proof of citizenship? Bet not.

sep 15, 2025, 7:29 pm • 4 0 • view
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carolynthechef.bsky.social @carolynthechef.bsky.social

Something that isn’t even necessary anything but doing what is Right

sep 15, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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uclagal75.bsky.social @uclagal75.bsky.social

But they keep moving the goal posts on what constitutes a “citizen”

sep 15, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social

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sep 15, 2025, 7:42 pm • 3 1 • view
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Witty Misfit @wittymisfit.bsky.social

Maybe we need to issue free photo IDs at birth, same time we issue a birth certificate.

sep 15, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Witty Misfit @wittymisfit.bsky.social

The Real ID only verifies citizenship in something like 5 States.

sep 15, 2025, 7:38 pm • 6 0 • view
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Ms. Lynne Jeff 🏳️‍⚧️ (Trannÿ of Tÿranny) @alissa914.bsky.social

And remember when conservatives tried to get everyone up in arms about that when people would have Enhanced IDs? They'd say they weren't actually Real ID compliant when they definitely are as you have to have enough docs for Real ID + citizenship? We're in the dumbest timeline. :)

sep 15, 2025, 7:53 pm • 5 0 • view
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Witty Misfit @wittymisfit.bsky.social

A lot of people still don’t know what the Enhanced IDs are.

sep 15, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ms. Lynne Jeff 🏳️‍⚧️ (Trannÿ of Tÿranny) @alissa914.bsky.social

It's one thing to not know because you've never seen it but then I've been in chats where people think 5 states are circumventing Real ID b/c apparently Google doesn't work on their computers

sep 15, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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WgwWvf @jenwen2011.bsky.social

🔦🥊⏰️

sep 16, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
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bobriensan @bobriensan.bsky.social

And can a felon vote? Asking for a friend

sep 15, 2025, 7:40 pm • 6 1 • view
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The Peacock @thepeac0ck.bsky.social

Yep

sep 15, 2025, 8:55 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kim @kimmcauliffe.bsky.social

What document proves your a citizen birth cert?

sep 16, 2025, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
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Your Unfriendly Neighborhood Ho @angelbird.bsky.social

Watch them refuse to acknowledge my X gender passport as proof of citizenship.

sep 16, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Mary Hess @limelightonyou.bsky.social

Republicans refuse to issue Americans FREE PASSPORTS, yet are now demanding to “see our papers.”

sep 16, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Democracy Worker @democracyworker.bsky.social

Ttttttthhhhheeennn leftist groups should be mobilizing activists to pressure a top federal voting agency to leave it as-is or face a shit storm of lawsuits.

sep 15, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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Paul Arzooman @zoopaul.bsky.social

Do any of those right wing monkeys have proof? I'm guessing not.

sep 15, 2025, 7:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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JoJo @jojones2000.bsky.social

Texas already requires a copy of your birth certificate for a driver's license. But what's this about a federal form?

sep 15, 2025, 7:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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coconutlizard.bsky.social @coconutlizard.bsky.social

Cheaters

sep 15, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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janethaz.bsky.social @janethaz.bsky.social

What is a federal voter registration form?

sep 15, 2025, 7:32 pm • 9 0 • view
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Dean Y. @californiabuds.bsky.social

The Reich is very gullible to the whims of Fox News. Sad and dumb at the same time.

sep 16, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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dale @reedhart.bsky.social

any recent studies/evidence that enhanced voting registration requirements will favor R's?

sep 15, 2025, 7:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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heavenwaiting-53.bsky.social @heavenwaiting-53.bsky.social

What is wrong with the Republicans. They are so afraid they will lose the next elections. Doing everything possible to fix it in their favor. What up. Don't you think the citizens still want you in office. You say you are doing a great job and Americans are getting richer. Let it ride if it's true.

sep 16, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Amusing Pseudonym @amusingpseudonym.bsky.social

I wasn't even aware there IS a federal registration form.

sep 15, 2025, 7:34 pm • 6 0 • view
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Zabbeth🦋 @zabbeth.bsky.social

Yeah, what the heck is a federal registration form!?

sep 15, 2025, 7:37 pm • 4 0 • view
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Charles Stewart @chalst.bsky.social

I’m curious too. Elections are carried out by the states. Why would there be such a thing?

sep 15, 2025, 7:43 pm • 6 0 • view
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Charles Stewart @chalst.bsky.social

The article documents Trump’s attempt to interfere in elections, but it doesn’t talk about a specific form.

sep 15, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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Amusing Pseudonym @amusingpseudonym.bsky.social

Seems Bill Clinton signed a law in 1993 that gives people the option of registering for elections by mail using a national form that the state individual states have to accept.

sep 15, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Amusing Pseudonym @amusingpseudonym.bsky.social

So it isn't a federal registration per se, nor a requirement, just an option intended to make registration easier, especially for soldiers overseas.

sep 15, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Zabbeth🦋 @zabbeth.bsky.social

Thanks for researching!!

sep 15, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stephen Butchko @stephenbutchko.bsky.social

This not going to slow down. Be vigilant. #Solidarity

sep 15, 2025, 7:57 pm • 3 0 • view
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Ben Bailey @benbailey.bsky.social

How many of these MAGATs have a birth certificate or know how to get one?

sep 15, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dan F @democracy-dan.bsky.social

What is the link to make a public comment? Having trouble finding this one.

sep 15, 2025, 7:52 pm • 3 0 • view
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rl3.bsky.social @rl3.bsky.social

Federal voter registration?

sep 15, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cinders @suzannedspain.bsky.social

Outrageous!!

sep 15, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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jentihom.bsky.social @jentihom.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/rock... release the epstein files

sep 15, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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VAMEOW @kat5501.bsky.social

Will right wing zombies have to prove their citizenship? I’ll bet not.

sep 15, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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The Peacock @thepeac0ck.bsky.social

You can’t vote in any other country if you’re not a citizen, why would you want that here?

sep 15, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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thethirdpine.bsky.social @thethirdpine.bsky.social

It’s a fear based on things that don’t exist. These claims aren’t based in reality, as you can see from previous audits widely available to the public

sep 16, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Gvern @gvern.bsky.social

Screw that

sep 15, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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Don't Panic @saerickson.bsky.social

I have to wonder, can the people proposing (similar with the SAVE Act) even pass the test we give people who are applying for citizenship? Voting is at the local level (city, county, state) and we elect representatives (for House and Senate) to vote on federal issues. RealID already exists.

sep 15, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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lisoosh123.bsky.social @lisoosh123.bsky.social

I think they might be overestimating the documentation of their blue collar supporters.

sep 15, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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StuffAboutHockey @stuffabouthockey.bsky.social

While trying to pass laws rescinding our passports used to prove citizenship.

sep 15, 2025, 9:26 pm • 9 0 • view
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9thIslander @9thislander.bsky.social

This! The ability to summarily revoke passports is bad enough, but not enough folks are making the connection to the coming elections, esp if the SAVE Act passes.

sep 15, 2025, 9:42 pm • 8 0 • view
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jasper41.bsky.social @jasper41.bsky.social

🤬

sep 15, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Churanah @churanah.bsky.social

Ironically these laws will make it impossible for rural Republicans to vote.

sep 15, 2025, 8:23 pm • 5 0 • view
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Sno-Write says Nationalism is not Christian @snowrite.bsky.social

Changing the federal form will trigger changes at each state, in effect disenfranchising any CITIZEN without required documents. Name changes, etc., will automatically and unnecessarily disqualify vast numbers of voters.

sep 15, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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John Pate @johnpate.bsky.social

Well.. if you have nothing better to do..

sep 15, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steve Fermier @stevefermier.bsky.social

Is the form I sign at the county elections office a federal document? Or a state form?

sep 15, 2025, 8:54 pm • 3 0 • view
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Marc Martin @marcjmartin.bsky.social

Apparently the government issued forms of ID that are already required aren't enough. 🙄

sep 16, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
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LR @trychick.bsky.social

How would they even fucking do this?

sep 15, 2025, 8:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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derftiii.bsky.social @derftiii.bsky.social

I wonder if these right wing weirdos know how many of their followers would have a hard time proving citizenship? Maybe they don’t want their followers to vote either

sep 16, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pucks N Ponies @pucksnponies.bsky.social

Understandable. If 300 million out of 340 million people died from drugs last year then there must be A LOT OF DEAD PEOPLE VOTING. 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

sep 15, 2025, 7:31 pm • 21 2 • view
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Elli Anderson 🌊💙🇺🇸 @ellilanderson.bsky.social

Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal. Audits show it’s extremely rare & usually clerical error. This is a waste of time & money: • Solves a problem that doesn’t exist at scale • Risks disenfranchising real citizens • Adds cost & red tape with no security benefit

sep 15, 2025, 7:33 pm • 47 11 • view
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Jackie Sentenne Pettit @sentenne.bsky.social

Achieves goals: * cast doubts on results, if needed * suppresses non-white voters

sep 15, 2025, 7:40 pm • 24 2 • view
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Frances H @chris-83.bsky.social

It also strongly suppresses female voters of any race. It's the name on your birth certificate in the name on your marriage license don't match, you have to obtain amended documents. Took over 4 months to get a new birth certificate from the state of Texas after paying for the "expedited" rate.

sep 15, 2025, 8:18 pm • 15 1 • view
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Prime157 @prime157.bsky.social

Yup. They want to go back to white, male, landowners only.

sep 15, 2025, 10:43 pm • 5 1 • view
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Prime157 @prime157.bsky.social

It also suppresses the "whimsically political." People who decided for [Whatever but usually not a good reason]. Basically, the apathetic people that didn't believe us when we said, "Trump will absolutely implement project 2025 and p2025 is making existence illegal for marginalized groups."

sep 15, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Happy Warrior 🎙️🐝 @happywarriorbee.bsky.social

I was trying to help an elderly friend get a copy of her birth certificate and she died before we were able to accomplish this because it’s so difficult when you don’t live in the state you were born in

sep 16, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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s-vdb.bsky.social @s-vdb.bsky.social

Dems should start a registration push, helping every registered voter to get the paperwork updated. Also get all potential unregistered citizen enrolled. Especially in RED STATES.

sep 15, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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smichelle @smichelles.bsky.social

And TACO is trying to take our passports away as well. Another proof of citizenship to vote.

sep 15, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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DIGITALMB @digitalmb.bsky.social

Capitalizing on the ignorance of voters who don't know there's been federal legislation to cover this problem-that-does-not-exist since 1996

sep 15, 2025, 8:44 pm • 5 0 • view
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monkeymom21.bsky.social @monkeymom21.bsky.social

What federal voter registration form?

sep 16, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view