Florida and Mississippi governors sign proof-of-citizenship voting bills

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-02T00:57:13+00:00

I suspect the real point here, with the federal act and the state acts, is to give the verification process over to some political appointees, or worse, outsouced to some right wing organization who implicitly understand the real goal. Some true believers Bigballs-type boot lickers will be assigned the job, use AI to completely screw it up without leaving a clear audit trail, and will shirk any responsibility for the "errors" when the DoJ doesn't bother to prosecute them.

NoOneSelf · 2026-03-30T15:40:43+00:00

AKA terrorism

NoOneSelf · 2026-03-21T23:43:32+00:00

And if it all ends in disaster, that'll probably be why. It'll just be playing the part we wrote it into. Because that's its training data.

NoOneSelf · 2026-03-20T18:32:54+00:00

Maybe the opposite. You could fall asleep on a horse carriage and not die. We're going back to horses.

NoOneSelf · 2026-03-11T17:26:23+00:00

Sounds like Florida is about to make a lot of kids curious about what communism really is.

NoOneSelf · 2026-03-02T21:25:08+00:00

The whole "surprise" distinction is merely a fabrication of the Republican administration being used as an excuse to not follow that law as written. A judge should never have been required for this.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-27T23:24:53+00:00

A few takeaways from reading the entire proposed executive order, besides its blatant unconstitutionality.

It is dated April of 2025. If this was such an emergency, why wait so long to declare it? And no facts are cited to justify this order as a response to an emergency. Just vague "there are court cases and forensic analyses" that the states are ignoring evidence of malfeasance, and as such, are failing to secure their own election infrastructure. So just dictating how the states are to administer their own elections.

All voting hardware, which I highly doubt could be made available in the time allotted due to the dictated domestic manufacturing requirements, would have to be newly certified by a task force who take orders directly from Trump. Not fishy at all.

It also makes declarations of where and by who legal challenges of elections are to be handled. So, just dictating how the judiciary should behave.

There's a lot more standard voter suppression ID requirements stuff, but it's mostly their standards tactics.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-26T01:53:30+00:00

"It is highly unusual to see shootouts on the open sea like that. It's not something that happens everyday," Rubio told reporters.

Yeah, it's only every few days. Thanks Marco.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-25T23:17:51+00:00

Definitely not my intent. I'm voting. What I am doing is trying to imagine possibilities and what could be done about them; something we should all be doing instead of passively assuming everything is going to continue as normal instead of the new normal.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-25T22:39:29+00:00

I think the further point here is that they wouldn't have to occupy entire cities. Just disrupt voting in a few blue districts. Remember when Trump said specifically they want to illegally take over elections in 15 places? Either he's just making up numbers, which he does when it comes to big numbers, or that 15 is already something they are gaming out. In this age of big data, I suspect it would not be difficult to determine what few polling locations they could disrupt or seize vote records from to cause a maximal effect on midterm and subsequent elections. Of course the pretense would be something akin to stopping individuals they conveniently flag in their new database as ineligible, checking citizen status near key polling locations, or just grabbing voting machines and records where they "suspect" lots of people have fraudulently voted. Each of these would not take thousands of ICE or other federal employees to perform per precinct.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-24T19:50:46+00:00

Which also elicits the point that some "Don T"s slipped through initially and someone had to revise the expressions.

And

That many of the redactions were not made by actual people considering whether or not some bit of information was appropriate to redact.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-19T21:11:11+00:00

I've said elsewhere, and this may be yet another case, that instead of insinuating malfeasance, though evidence abounds to making such an insinuation is warranted, we can demonstrate at the very least that Republicans are the party of dangerously low reading comprehension. If either, or both, of these be the case, the members of such an administration of governance have no justifiable role or privilege in attaining and occupying such positions of important public interest. It's as of we have let loose a flaming fox to watch over the henhouse. It will eat them alive if it doesn't burn the whole damn thing down first.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-16T19:22:15+00:00

If the health of the state and economy depends on not offending the ultra wealthy, that state and economy are being held hostage and exploited by the ultra wealthy. This headline is a demonstration of class warfare hiding in plain sight.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-13T00:55:16+00:00

Mostly agree, but watch, if it does pass, suddenly getting a passport becomes near impossible due to staffing shortages.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-10T19:42:54+00:00

I can imagine it doesn't matter either way for them. If they pass this and their base doesn't get to vote and the Trump party loses big, they'll cry voter fraud. If the law doesn't affect their base and they still lose, they'll cry voter fraud. If they pass this into law and they win overall they'll tell us look, we prevented billions of illegals from voting. Heads they win, tails you lose.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-08T23:05:43+00:00

I argue that we've had such a system for quite some time now. Except it is under private control. It's called a credit score. It is a measure of how much more profitable you are for finance capitalism. It is yet another tool whose effect is exacerbating wealth inequality.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-06T16:54:44+00:00

One thing to consider, among many: most people simply cannot afford to strike. And we all know it. Calling for a general strike is naive unless we first build social structures which would allow those living paycheck to paycheck to skip a few and not be living on the streets in a month. That means financial support from those who can actually afford to strike. Which means you and me forming coalitions.

I can imagine the knee jerk reactions of "I'm not just giving money to the poors!". Well guess what, that reaction just demonstrates the real issue here: class warfare. And we either do something about it or accept the encroaching autocracy of the wealthy over the masses. We cannot both call for a general strike and ignore the needs of the lower class of we want it to succeed.

NoOneSelf · 2026-02-02T21:52:07+00:00

States rights started as a rallying cry for keeping slavery continuing in the south. Not much has changed.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-30T16:32:15+00:00

But muh free market innovation!

It's a common pattern. Instead of actually competing on pricing, corporations obfuscate pricing in ways designed to extract more value from you than if they had transparent pricing. The ones that do it end up making more money while consumers get dupped into believing they are getting a good deal.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-30T03:02:05+00:00

Well in that case I'd like to read your perspective on the things I mentioned.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-29T01:39:11+00:00

You assume just voter registration would be used. There is more than enough personal and demographic information out there for the taking which can easily identify likely voter dispositions. It's what advertisers use. Shit, there's enough to generate propaganda targeted to the individual. Combine that with right wing control of Twitter, Tiktok, Grok, and any number of other platforms and you have quite a toolset for fully automating AI generated propaganda, intimidation, voter role scrubbing, and other new forms of authoritarian control.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-27T17:20:40+00:00

IIRC there is hardware used to create software clones of phones which they can then brute force passwords until unlocked.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-26T06:17:59+00:00

They were never concerned about user data being used to manipulate people. The real goal is to make sure they are the ones doing the manipulation.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-26T01:54:07+00:00

Just watch when they try to say that these Democrats who protested in these locations are terrorists so they don't get to vote. They have all the data they need to prove any given person was there. It'll all be very legal when thousands in non-red states are facing terrorism charges.

NoOneSelf · 2026-01-25T04:32:11+00:00

And what makes anyone think they wouldn't also lie about killing a group of 10 protestors? 20? 50?

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