6mo ago

Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November

www.latimes.com Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November

Republicans hope the conservative U.S. Supreme Court will intervene in an Arizona state election dispute.

The Republican National Committee is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in an Arizona election dispute this week and block up to 40,000 of the state’s registered voters from casting ballots in the presidential race.

Republican state lawmakers say these voters did not provide proof of their citizenship when they were registered and now they should be barred from voting in person or by mail.

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6mo ago

Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November

www.latimes.com /world-nation/story/2024-08-19/republicans-urge-supreme-court-to-block-40-000-arizonans-from-voting-for-president-in-november

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Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November

www.latimes.com /world-nation/story/2024-08-19/republicans-urge-supreme-court-to-block-40-000-arizonans-from-voting-for-president-in-november

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Another place to promote voting by mail:
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-18-states-with-all-mail-elections
You get a pamphlet in the mail with the candidate's face, website, positions and philosophies about 2 weeks beforehand. I signed up for alerts, so I also know when the ballot has been sent and when it has been received. I can mail it through the regular mail or through designated ballot boxes that are usually by libraries.
You can vote naked or at a park. Or in your swimsuit, it's not hard. Vote by mail, all the cool states are doing it.
- Didn't they try and interfere with that as well, when they threw out mail sorting machines etc.
  
  I don't know yet, but this is interesting: https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/biden-admin-asks-scotus-to-rule-for-federal-voter-law-in-arizona-case,528647
  This is not a fun rabbit hole:
  At the opening of the Casa Grande office on July 2, Whatley described the effort underway to recruit 5,000 volunteer election observers across the state. In April, the RNC announced an election integrity initiative designed to have over 100,000 volunteers and attorneys across every battleground state.
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-say-arizona-s-2020-disaster-is-a-lesson-learned-things-are-definitely-different/ar-BB1pUlcJ
  This is the initiative: https://gop.com/press-release/trump-campaign-and-rnc-unveil-historic-100000-person-strong-election-integrity-program/

Getting a copy of your birth certificate if you don't already have it is a pain in the ass. I had to travel to the city where I was born (luckily only an hour away) during business hours with multiple forms of ID and pay a fee. If I needed that just to vote, I don't know that I would have bothered
- I didn't find it hard at all, when did you do it? https://www.usa.gov/birth-certificate
  
  Like 10 years ago. The first step in your link is "Contact your birth state or territory’s vital records office", which tells me the process probably varies a lot from one state to another.

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