In August, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a plan to remove noncitizens from the voting rolls, citing 3,251 individuals who had registered to vote who were not American citizens.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court to reinstate eligible voters and require Alabama to inform anyone impacted that their ability to vote has been restored.
So… Alabama admits they are completely incapable of processing voter registration applications? They processed these applications from non-citizens, registered them to vote in their system and issued voter registration cards to them. And now they are admitting their complete ineptitude at the very last minute.
And in a second phase of astonishing ineptitude, Alabama is now purging citizens who are legally permitted to vote. It really sounds like they need some compulsory federal oversight in their voter registration process!
Conservatives are just not good at governing.
Keep checking your voting status right up until the election. They’re trying to kick us off the voter rolls. Don’t let them succeed.
It should be illegal to purge rolls months before an election. You do that shit last year.
Why the fuck is any person ever having their voter registration rescinded? It’s simply undemocratic.
It’s generally for clearing dead people off the list so that someone else can’t pretend to be them.
It is illegal. That’s what the lawsuit is about.
I’m getting deja vu. It’s OK if they do it close to election time. If that was the first thing a Democrat did in power, ink not even dry, it would be “too close” to election time.
I mean some states have odd year elections for local issues, etc. After the precious election, they should do their diligence to find anyone who should no longer be registered, like people who they believe have died, or shouldn’t have been eligible to register. Anyone purged should get a courtesy notice via email or mail just in case.
Recounts happen sometimes, etc, so anytime between mid November and early January seems perfectly reasonable to me.
If so many non citizens are registered, that sounds like incompetence in your state. I don’t actually believe them that that’s the case though. I’m betting there are a ton of citizens on that list.
If I’m not mistaken, residents can vote in local elections in many places.
Agreed, somehow they don’t realize what a self-own this is no matter how you look at it
You’re assuming they give a shit what you think about their actions. I don’t think that’s true at all. We’ve been in the “what are you going to do about it” phase of authoritarianism for a while now.
Wish I could disagree with this
The first step is realizing their voting base is hate filled morons who don’t understand basic logic.
Alabama’s worried that might flip blue!? That really is some paranoid paranoia!
Nah just some virtue signaling and fear mongering
