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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week

Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form

Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.

US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.

#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week

Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form

Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.

US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.

#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an #unconstitutional violation of the #SeparationOfPowers, dealing a blow to the #Trump admin & its allies who have claimed such a mandate is necessary to restore public confidence that only Americans are voting in #US #elections.

#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week

Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form

Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.

US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.

#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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> Packer is not Turia

Don't be so sure. Here she is singing the "kingmaker" song again;

https://omny.fm/shows/the-bradbury-group/debbie-ngarewa-packer-on-by-election-fallout-teanau-tuiono-john-tamihere-matthew-tukaki-bradbury-group

I can imagine a scenario where TPM form a centrist coalition with Nats+TOP to keep ACT and Winston First out. Ferris and Tamahere's dogwhistles to socially conservative Māori could even suggest they'd considering going with Nats+WF to keep ACT out.

Labour cannot treat TPM votes as if they're Labour votes. A coalition must be *negotiated*, on policy, not taken for granted.

Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

NatACT First's voter suppression tactics are motivated by 2 things;

1) Challengers benefit tend to more from a high turnout than incumbents

2) Left-leaning parties tend to benefit more from high turnout than those leaning right

The single most important thing the left need to do over the next year is to get as many people signed up on the electoral roll as possible. Especially young people, like those who weren't old enough to vote in 2023.

#Election2026 #VoterSuppression

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The disclosure came as #Trump vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate #MailinBallots & #VotingMachines such as those supplied by #Dominion & other companies. It was unclear how Trump could [legally] achieve that.

#law #defamation#ElectionLaw#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#VoterSuppression#Trump#FactCheck#TrumpLies

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Total moron

#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The disclosure came as #Trump vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate #MailinBallots & #VotingMachines such as those supplied by #Dominion & other companies. It was unclear how Trump could [legally] achieve that.

#law #defamation#ElectionLaw#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#VoterSuppression#Trump#FactCheck#TrumpLies

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Trump argued in his post that #states were “merely an agent’ for the #FederalGovernment in counting & tabulating the votes.” [he is so unbelievably ignorant]

“They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,” Trump said. [whatever happened to the #StatesRights party?]

#law#ElectionLaw#Constitution #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Trump’s latest comments came after he said that President Vladimir #Putin of #Russia had discussed the issue during their summit on Friday in Alaska. #Trump said in an interview with FauxNews that the Russian leader had agreed with him that the 2020 election had been rigged in favor of Biden. “He said, ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting,’” Trump quoted Putin as saying.

[cuz Russia is a model for free & fair elections 🤦🏼‍♀️]

#law#ElectionLaw#VoterSuppression#BigLie

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Trump also wrote that he wanted to get rid of voting machines, which he described as inaccurate & expensive [wrong. Far more accurate than hand counting]. He claimed, incorrectly, that the US was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.

#law#ElectionLaw #access#BigLie

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Trump argued in his post that #states were “merely an agent’ for the #FederalGovernment in counting & tabulating the votes.” [he is so unbelievably ignorant]

“They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,” Trump said. [whatever happened to the #StatesRights party?]

#law#ElectionLaw#Constitution #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Total moron

#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Trump has maintained his opposition even after #Republicans in the 2024 #election made significant gains in mail voting when the party encouraged its supporters to make use of the practice.

On Truth Social on Monday, Trump posted: “THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”

[IOW if people #vote, he & his candidates lose]

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Total moron

#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

"I'm not taking any lectures from frick'n Chris Hipkins."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e209c491-f7d1-421e-abf2-a68afd0c9b0b

Ooh, the nice guy mask is slipping. CLuxon is rattled!

The NatACTs are running scared. Which is presumably why they've turned to blatant voter suppression, in a desperate attempt to avoid being turfed out in 2026.

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-attack-on-free-and-fair-elections.html

#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #VoterSuppression

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