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the law they are trying to pass requires you to prove you are a citizen each and every time you vote

not when you register to vote, every single time for the rest of your existance

it has no basis in logic

it's already illegal to vote if you are not a citizen

no-one trying to gain citizenship would risk being deported for voting in an election

every time conservative groups comb the voter rolls to try to find people who are not allowed to vote, not only do they find only like a couple people out of MILLIONS, they discover they never actually voted, it was a mistaken registration

out of billions of votes the past decade there were like seven people prosecuted

that's what's going on

what they are really trying to do is make it REALLY hard to vote, to make incredible fiction, so people stop voting

because if people stop voting, the people already in power keep that power

btw don't confuse this with showing an ID when you vote

that's already the law almost everywhere

what they want is you must have a passport (most people do not have one) or a birth certificate (most people have no idea where or how to get it) EVERY time you vote, not just register but EVERY time, like it changes somehow

see the nonsense now?

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