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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed May 22, 2024, 08:26 PM May 2024

Here's Why Republicans Are Focusing on Voting by Noncitizens

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, part of an effort to sow doubts about the election outcome and take aim at immigrants who they say have no business participating in elections in the United States.

They are planning on Wednesday to push through a bill that would roll back a Washington, D.C., law allowing noncitizen residents of the nation’s capital to vote in local elections. And they are pushing legislation that would require states to obtain proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, in person when registering an individual to vote and require states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls.

Neither is likely to pass the Democratic-led Senate or be signed by President Joe Biden, but both are ways for Republicans to call attention to their false claims of widespread illegal voting by noncitizens.

Former President Donald Trump has long claimed in the face of evidence to the contrary that presidential and congressional elections are susceptible to widespread voter fraud and illegal voting by immigrants who lack permanent legal status that has skewed the outcomes in favor of Democrats — a charge that House Republicans have echoed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-republicans-focusing-voting-noncitizens-171320587.html

Another do nothing bill.

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Here's Why Republicans Are Focusing on Voting by Noncitizens (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2024 OP
It's actually pandering to antiSemitic Replacement Theory. blm May 2024 #1

blm

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1. It's actually pandering to antiSemitic Replacement Theory.
Wed May 22, 2024, 08:59 PM
May 2024

In Crazy world of white nationalism the chant ‘Jews will not replace us’ refers to their belief that ‘Jews’ are coordinating the migrant surges to replace white Americans with immigrants who will vote as they are told.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/you-will-not-replace-us

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