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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • dhork@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Tuesday 9/10 Presidential Debate Megathread!English
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    9 days ago

    Don’t think of them as undecided, think of them as indifferent. Like if I had to vote in a poll for my favorite NBA team. I don’t really follow the NBA, so I might pick a team if I was forced to but I don’t really care. If there was a player witn particular charisma, though, maybe I might adopt that team.

    People who are just focusing on getting by might think of politics as just too much noise, stuff that doesn’t affect them at all. These voters are not watching the debate, but they are seeing five-second sound bites on social media. The right little quip might be just enough to convince one of these low-engagement voters to show up.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Congress makes it harder to voteEnglish
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    9 days ago

    First of all, elections are overseen by each state individually. While there is Federal law involving elections, it’s up to the States to implement them. Due to the Electoral College, the Presidential Election is really a weighted combination of the results of 50 separate State elections (and DC). So ypu can argue that we really don’t have any national elections at all, so each state runs their own.

    Then, there is another complicating factor that there is no one piece of Federal ID that everyone is mandated to have. The closest thing is the Social Security Card, but that isn’t really supposed to be used as ID. Not everyone has a passport, and there is no national ID card. The closest thing we have to a universal ID is the driver’s license, but again that is managed on a state-by-state basis.

    The main argument here is that when someone registers to vote, they must submit proof of residence, but Federal law holds that they do not have to show proof of citizenship. They merely have to attest that they are a citizen, and lying on that form is a crime. Many states object to that. Some go as far as to say that if you do not bring your proof of citizenship whe you register to vote, they will only let you vote in Federal elections, not state ones.

    The fundamental question is: if you know you are a citizen but have lost both your passport and your birth certificate, should you be disenfranchised? Republicans clearly say “yes”.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Contradicting JD Vance’s claim, Ohio police have no reports of Haitian immigrants harming petsEnglish
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    10 days ago

    All you have to do is post stupid shit on Facebook.

    The false claims about threats to pets began going viral on social media over the weekend, fueled in part by a fourth-hand story that appeared to come from a Facebook group focused on local crime in Springfield.

    The group was set to private on Monday, but according to screenshots posted on X, someone in the Facebook group posted that “my neighbor informed me that her daughters friend had lost her cat.” The poster went on to describe Haitians allegedly taking the cat for food.

    Surely someone can make up crazier shit. Like JD Vance cheating on his wife, only to abandon his new crush at Goodwill once she found out