Republicans hope the conservative U.S. Supreme Court will intervene in an Arizona state election dispute.

The Republican National Committee is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in an Arizona election dispute this week and block up to 40,000 of the state’s registered voters from casting ballots in the presidential race.

Republican state lawmakers say these voters did not provide proof of their citizenship when they were registered and now they should be barred from from voting in person or by mail.

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Danielle Lang, a voting rights attorney for the Campaign Legal Center who worked on the case, said she found that argument to be surprising.

“They are trying to upend the law as it has been in Arizona at least since 2018,” she said. “The voters who registered using the federal form were not asked to provide proof of citizenship.”

She said the Republican lawmakers and their attorneys who brought the case “didn’t cite a single example of a noncitizen who was enrolled. Not one. Why would someone who is not a citizen try to register? It’s a felony and would get you deported, just to cast one ballot.”

  • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Texas is really fucky. My wife needs a new ID and has to go in in person. Ever since the pandemic the DMV has been by appointment only. When I went to make one the soonest I could get was almost February of 2025 and that was something like 40 miles away. I decided to check Austin and San Antonio as I’m between both. Neither had any availability for the foreseeable future.

    Texas requires that you present you driver’s license or state ID to vote. If you need either and can’t renew by mail, you either have to travel a hundred or more miles to a DMV in the middle of no where or not be able to vote. Maybe it’s the tin hat wearing part of me talking but this all seems awful coincidental.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Maybe it’s the tin hat wearing part of me talking but this all seems awful coincidental.

      it’s not a “conspiracy theory” in that there’s nothing “theory” about it. GOP isn’t even trying to hide the fact that they’re working to keep as many people from voting as possible, especially people who may not have the means to travel 100 miles and jump through hoops within hoops just to be able to vote. GOP has been working on suppressing votes for many years.