GOP lawsuits about an obscure immigration database may set up election challenges

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR

October 26, 2024 5:00 AM ET


As former President Donald Trump and his allies spread baseless conspiracy theories about Democrats bringing in noncitizens to vote illegally, GOP state officials are escalating last-minute demands on the Biden administration to check the citizenship of voters on their state rolls.

In recent days, Florida, Texas and Ohio have each sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the issue. They argue a longstanding data sharing program, which the federal government has offered states over the last dozen years for this purpose, is insufficient.

"The Biden-Harris Administration has refused to comply with the law and has failed to supply Texas with the required information necessary to secure the integrity of Texas elections," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. But with Election Day around the corner, the states' demands are coming far too late to be considered credible, according to election law experts and voting officials.

Instead, the lawsuits are "in service of a fraudulent narrative — which is the notion that widespread numbers of noncitizens are intentionally registering and voting — which is patent garbage," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School who also served as an adviser on voting rights issues for the Biden administration.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5156112/noncitizen-voting-election-lawsuits-trump-stephen-miller-save

[BaronChocula]

1. Nice dramatic headline

It suggests gopper efficacy when in fact many gopper suits are failing. Headline should be "GOP makes yet another attempt to challenge elections."

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Well what it means

is that governments and advocates are forced to waste money battling nonsense cases while they use billionaire donations to generate the cases (their "cost of doing business" ).

[PortTack]

2. Worthless, and they know it. They waited to this close to the election purposely. They get the lie put out there

And a ruling that isn’t coming b4 election makes them look like they were ignored

[slightlv]

5. How interesting,

since this database was the topic of discussion some months back, with the states refusing to use it... but no mention of WHY they refused to use it. Did we not get all the information at the time of that reporting, or did the gop just drop that part of the discussion?

[Clouds Passing]

4. The real threat is organized Voter Suppression!

[slightlv]

6. Absolutely! Voter Suppression is the story

of this election, and it should be written about, in detail, over and over again. From fake purges to disinformation mailers from the gop, all of it should be documented for future reference in regards to both voter information and new election laws. If the states can't handle the elections in a normal, structured manner then I think the whole thing should be turned over to the Feds. Maybe that's one law where we start the changes? I think it's structured well as it is now, but unless you have state election offices and workers willing to abide by the law, then the law breaks down and needs to be replaced. At least, that's how I see it.

[raising2moredems]

7. Ya know what?...

Biden should just squash the shit out of it as an official act. After all, he's immune.