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In August, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a plan to remove noncitizens from the voting rolls, citing 3,251 individuals who had registered to vote who were not American citizens.

The Justice Department is asking a federal court to reinstate eligible voters and require Alabama to inform anyone impacted that their ability to vote has been restored.

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[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 120 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If so many non citizens are registered, that sounds like incompetence in your state. I don't actually believe them that that's the case though. I'm betting there are a ton of citizens on that list.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed, somehow they don't realize what a self-own this is no matter how you look at it

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're assuming they give a shit what you think about their actions. I don't think that's true at all. We've been in the "what are you going to do about it" phase of authoritarianism for a while now.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Wish I could disagree with this

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The first step is realizing their voting base is hate filled morons who don't understand basic logic.

[–] Zorg@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, residents can vote in local elections in many places.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It’s only NYC afaik.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So... Alabama admits they are completely incapable of processing voter registration applications? They processed these applications from non-citizens, registered them to vote in their system and issued voter registration cards to them. And now they are admitting their complete ineptitude at the very last minute.

And in a second phase of astonishing ineptitude, Alabama is now purging citizens who are legally permitted to vote. It really sounds like they need some compulsory federal oversight in their voter registration process!

Conservatives are just not good at governing.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Goverment is supposed to be bad so it's good when they're bad 🤔

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It should be illegal to purge rolls months before an election. You do that shit last year.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

It is illegal. That's what the lawsuit is about.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why the fuck is any person ever having their voter registration rescinded? It's simply undemocratic.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's generally for clearing dead people off the list so that someone else can't pretend to be them.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

I get that, but someone commiting fraud could pretend to be a living person too. I'd rather have the potential for someone to do something illegal that they're able to do regardless of purging voters than a system where real, living, eligible voters are disenfranchised.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm getting deja vu. It's OK if they do it close to election time. If that was the first thing a Democrat did in power, ink not even dry, it would be "too close" to election time.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I mean some states have odd year elections for local issues, etc. After the precious election, they should do their diligence to find anyone who should no longer be registered, like people who they believe have died, or shouldn't have been eligible to register. Anyone purged should get a courtesy notice via email or mail just in case.

Recounts happen sometimes, etc, so anytime between mid November and early January seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alabama’s worried that might flip blue!? That really is some paranoid paranoia!

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Nah just some virtue signaling and fear mongering

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago

Keep checking your voting status right up until the election. They're trying to kick us off the voter rolls. Don't let them succeed.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

They are gonna get such a smack on the wrist for this.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alabama should absorbed into other states. They cannot be trusted to govern themselves

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

While I agree, the rest of the southern states are equally garbage, so that wouldn't work either.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That's bad and all, but it's only because the dems manipulated everything and everyone /s