The South, land of the disenfranchised.
You know, this is not unfair.
Most of those purged were cut from the rolls in March, before anyone knew a special election was coming.
They were cut from the rolls after the Davidson County Election Commission sent letters to voters more than two years ago, that were returned as undeliverable.
People whose letters were returned were purged after they did not vote in two consecutive November elections.
“We don’t purge anyone 90 days before an election,” Roberts said.
He said people purged may have moved or died.
Roberts said if someone was purged, and they come to vote in the primary election they can re-register to vote for the general election, which is on December 2.
So I was under the impression that my voter registration in Texas was in good standing, as I’ve voted in every election for the past 6 years living at the same address. I received a letter from the county Voter Registrar saying that my registration was in question because my current residence is different from the one on my registration card. I have not moved, my address has not changed, and I renewed my DL using that same address 2 months prior. After angrily contacting them to find out WTF happened, I found out that they tried to mail my latest voter registration card and it came back as undeliverable. So through zero fault of my own I had to mail in a form by a 30 day deadline (at this point, less than 10 business days) to verify what they already knew. I will have to keep checking my status assuming that this can happen again, and if it’s too close to an election, I’m screwed.
And this is why the USPS cannot be allowed to be privatized. You know as soon as that happens they’ll start doing blatant partisan bullshit like not delivering reliably to certain areas just to get that sort of response.
I gave $5 to the TX GOP like 20 years ago and gave them my email address (I still get emails to this day as well as Republican mailers, but never Democrat ones). I feel like that’s slightly insulated me from their bullshit.
I was checking my registration every few days leading up to the 2024 election, Texas as well. Luckily nothing happened but I know they pull shit like this.
If the process in this Tennessee county is as described in the article, it’s not unfair. Playing fuck around with voter registrations that have no issues is something else entirely.
Or just codify the right to vote so it can’t be argued. Then make a list that says birthday, state, deathday. When you are born you are registered to vote automatically and it goes into effect at 18. The drop down for state can only be changed to another state and whomever changes it is liable for voter fraud if they cannot prove it was filed by the person by submitting a proof of residence change. Then the states have their own crap for primaries and junk if they want, but the right to vote federally is only decided by you being of age. Show up in the wrong state to vote federally, mark them as having voted, show up in another state to vote again, arrest for voter fraud, and conduct an investigation.
Codifying it would also force states to make similar laws, and hopefully abandon the whole party registration crap. Ballot with candidates, vote for one, or ranked choice… whatever the state wants, but you walk in and vote. Show up in wrong state with proof of residence, vote then and there, update state in database. Investigation if a voter partakes in 2 states votes.
There are many different voting districts, each one depending on where you live, and they overlap and don’t in all sorts of ways. It’s not just “what state do you live in”.
All of that is for the state. The federal government shouldn’t care at all about who’s voting in those. The states would have their database that puts the residents with their proper sheriff’s vote and mosquitoes commissioner. (Also just residence based)
The US federal government does not operate elections. States do, and they all do it a little differently. However, so far as I am aware, each state only requires you to register once, and applies all the different districts from your address. Even so, US House districts also depend on your address within a state; those are not statewide offices.
But that doesn’t allow for manipulation or discrimination!
Yep, clickbait headline for something that seems completely on the up and up.
Assuming the undeliverable mail was actually undeliverable, and not just marked that way without an attempt at all. Were additional delivery attempts made, or was it only one attempt? Are their voting records are accurate?
Do we really think USPS are any better than FedEx, UPS, Amazon, etc. which we know have delivery personnel mark delivery attempts wrong intentionally because they don’t want to bother?
And millions were purged in 2024. One of the republican party’s favorite tactics as of late.
“One county” and it’s the second most populated county in the state
