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New South Dakota law allows voters to challenge other voters' citizenship (southdakotasearchlight.com)
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[–] 225 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Time to start looking up every white-ass right-wing voter in the state that has a second home or spends early November out of state this year and challenge their registration 91 days before the 2028 election.

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  • [–] 61 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    wait'll white people start claiming indigenous people aren't citizens.

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  • [–] 103 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You’re too late. ICE has already arrested people with Native American IDs, claiming they are invalid.

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  • [–] 63 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    ICE has arrested people with valid REAL-IDs claiming they aren't real. They'll do whatever they want to whoever they want.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    REAL-IDs

    Are Native American IDs not real?

    ETA: Reading this back, it looks really pas-ag. Not American, the question is sincere. I've never heard of Native American IDs

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    REAL-ID is a new-ish standard required to obtain a driver's license or personal ID. It requires more documentation than was previously required. Native American IDs are real, but REAL-ID is not related.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Just out of curiosity: What do you think 'll is the contraction of?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not proper but it scans as "wait till", as "til", "till", and "until" are interchangeable in common English, "till" being a somewhat archaic but still often used version.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting

    The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/till

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That would be hilarious. Just start challenging anyone and everyone with a MAGAt sticker just before the election and lock them all down in pointless bureaucracy of proving their citizenship

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago*

    Liberals love to pretend the law is self-enforcing and refuse to ask what role the state's deeply racist and violent state bureaucrats, or the police and sheriff's offices (nevermind any ICE agents operating in the state) will play.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Eye_(United_States)

    Incidentally, Supreme Court Justice William Renquist started his career as a poll-watcher in Arizona, screening out any who looked too Democrat.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If a county auditor deems the challenge valid

    The article doesn't say how South Dakota county auditors are chosen, how they make decisions or what scrutiny they are subject to but I'm not sure I like your chances here

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It doesn't matter. If 50 people challenge every voter in the state, that's almost 50m reports that need sorted. Ideally, there will be enough outrage that thousands of people will be reporting. Also, manually reporting without using an API to create a denial of service would be the best tactic. The point is to display how insipid the process is, not to cause a denial of service attack.

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