Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.

Snowies@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• smayonak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are promoting the disproven conspiracy theory that illegals are impersonating US citizens and then casting ballots under false names.

  Greg Palast’s reporting proved that they are trying to purge minority and left leaning voters from voting rolls.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  they want to see whos voting Dems, or independant(that isnt aligned with the gop to siphon votes from the DEMS)

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, you do, but… Often you just attest citizenship. Not sure if it’s checked on the backend or not. And illegal immigrants often have SSNs, just not their own. That’s how they can work much of the time.

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