Documents obtained and released on Wednesday by the advocacy group Democracy Forward show that the investigative arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gathered tens of millions of voter records ahead of the midterm elections as part of a purported effort to combat “voter fraud.”
Democracy Forward, which obtained the ICE documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said records from the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) branch underscore how the Trump administration is “using the power of the government to try to silence eligible voters and prevent them from accessing the ballot.”
Who would have thought that the presidents personal police force would act like the presidents personal police force?
Literally nobody could have forseen this.
The 166-page document that ICE turned over to Democracy Forward shows that HSI has considered sending undercover agents to investigate nonprofit organizations accused of illegally registering noncitizens to vote. President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly and baselessly claimed that noncitizen voting is a significant problem in the US.
HSI admits in one of the newly released documents that its “review” of more than 40 nonprofits in New Jersey uncovered “no derogatory information.”
This sounds about right.
The most common work trumps administration has done is proving the government actually wasn’t that inefficient or ineffective after all, that fraud exists but was minuscule and fairly well addressed, that voter fraud is almost non existent and primarily exists in conservative extremist circles, but still in numbers far too low to even register statistically or effectively.
Yep. Trump has basically fucked up the government as pretense for privatizing it.
Exactly, this has been the right-wing plan since at least the Powell memo and other plans since then to keep their hoarded wealth and power over the majority. Lies to mislead about public programs, lies to stoke prejudice, more tribalism, get the prejudiced voters to resent the scapegoats, taught to fear and protect how they already benefit from the systems, and keep others below them.
Well republicans didn’t stop him as a pretense for privatizing services, he did it because that’s his only move throughout all his life - get his hands on something he didn’t and couldn’t build, make it unstable, worse, dangerous, on the verge of collapse, extract any wealth he can under the guise of rebuilding, self aggrandize while doing that, praising himself as a genius builder, and extort anyone even remotely connected to the project and industry with promises to protect them from the consequences and fallout of his own actions.
I have always been a registered Republican. With the exception of John McCain when he was running for president, I have never voted for a Republican in a general election in my life.
While I agree that McCain was probably one of the last Republicans I had even a shred of respect for, why are you registering GOP? At this point, I really do consider them to be essentially a lost cause.
Probably to be a spoiler vote in their Primaries. Vote for the craziest GOP candidates so that no one votes GOP in the General.
I mean… we are all well aware of how that tactic pans out these days. It’s frankly far too risky of a play, imo. Not to mention, that strategy has the very obvious side effect of pushing right-wing politics in a more radical and absolutist direction, which is categorically counterproductive.
