With Texas’ paper-based system, many voters’ applications get lost in the shuffle. Says a volunteer deputy registrar: “It just doesn't seem to really work the way that it’s supposed to.”
We need a federal law that establishes a civil penalty people can sue their state over if they are incorrectly purged from the voter rolls. I think $10k per person would do it. States can still clean up the rolls, but they can’t “accidentally” remove a bunch of legit voters without being on the hoo for millions in legal liability.
past court cases have decided that the states get to control the voting processes; the federal government is powerless in this situation (except for a few extremely narrow hypothetical situations) which is why republicans are a thing still and are in charge of the rules.
You’re greatly exaggerating. There are all sorts of federal regulations on how stats can handle voter registration and voting. That’s the Civil Rights Act, the Motor Voter Act, prohibitions on poll taxes, and on and on. States run elections, but the federal government has broad authority to regulate federal elections.
We need a federal law that establishes a civil penalty people can sue their state over if they are incorrectly purged from the voter rolls. I think $10k per person would do it. States can still clean up the rolls, but they can’t “accidentally” remove a bunch of legit voters without being on the hoo for millions in legal liability.
You guys need the federal government to manage its own elections, simple as that.
Except, the scum who are doing this will still do it because they won’t pay the cost.
and we also forget each time they do it; every single election cycle.
past court cases have decided that the states get to control the voting processes; the federal government is powerless in this situation (except for a few extremely narrow hypothetical situations) which is why republicans are a thing still and are in charge of the rules.
You’re greatly exaggerating. There are all sorts of federal regulations on how stats can handle voter registration and voting. That’s the Civil Rights Act, the Motor Voter Act, prohibitions on poll taxes, and on and on. States run elections, but the federal government has broad authority to regulate federal elections.