• @orclev
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    617 hours ago

    They must be panicking because they’ve found so few instances of illegal immigrants voting that even their delusional supporters won’t buy it. If they had found a couple thousand they could probably spin it as “these are the ones we found, there’s probably tens of thousands we haven’t!”, but I bet they’ve only been able to find less than a hundred so now they’re looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on.

    • Hegar
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      43 hours ago

      They won’t be panicking. They made up the lie that non citizens are voting, they know it’s not true.

    • @danc4498
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      336 hours ago

      I can’t imagine why an illegal immigrant would want to vote. The whole thing is ludicrous.

      • lurch (he/him)
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        74 hours ago

        it just endangers them to be found. it’s ridiculous. illegals want to lay low. they are not the trouble makers right wingers paint them to be

        • @P00ptart
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          555 minutes ago

          They also pay taxes without receiving benefits.

          • @WhatAmLemmy
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            444 minutes ago

            “No taxation without representation” exception list (updated 2024):

            • Non-Citizen Residents
            • Ex-Cons
            • Blacks
            • Children
            • Women
            • Non-Landowners
            • @mx_smith
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              You should add residents of Washington DC to your list

            • @P00ptart
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              140 minutes ago

              Right? Like, that’s your thing right? Stealing money from people? How does this part not excite you? Do you even realize that this is happening?

    • @[email protected]
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      95 hours ago

      I’ll bet they can’t find one illegally cast vote that was counted. People talk like it’s really uncommon. No, it’s so uncommon it never happens. I read some research that was done over a ten year period and they found less that 40 cases of vote fraud, almost none of which were for national office, and none of which had ever affected an outcome.

      Vote fraud in the US it’s effectively zero.

      • FuglyDuck
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        2 hours ago

        with all this projection, some one should check Ted Cruz’s immigration status.

        Just saying. maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 hour ago

          maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

          Nope, fuck that, shoot him into the sun, we’ve got enough rightwing nutjobs in Canada.

          • @P00ptart
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            152 minutes ago

            You sure? We could make it an “art” exhibit if we sent him there directly from Texas. We could even make it a symbol of peace like the statue of Liberty. Call it “the big splat” or something.

  • don
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    196 hours ago

    Texas needs to be sued for being Texas.

  • @DMCMNFIBFFF
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    267 hours ago

    (my bold)

    The lawsuit escalates Paxton’s hunt for noncitizen voters just two weeks before the election and a day after early voting began in Texas. He has pressed Texas Secretary of State Janet Nelson to request that the federal government hand over data the state could use to cross-check its voter rolls.

    His timing is impeccable.

      • @P00ptart
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        149 minutes ago

        Name a single Texas state government official that isnt/doesn’t.

    • partial_accumen
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      186 hours ago

      His timing is impeccable.

      You misspelled impeachable.