Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move already facing lawsuit threats
From AP
The order signed Tuesday calls on the Department of Homeland Security, working in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to make the list of eligible voters in each state. It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list.
Trump is also calling for ballots to have secure envelopes with unique barcodes for tracking, according to the executive order, which was first reported by the Daily Caller. Federal funding could be withheld from states and localities that don’t comply.
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Unique barcodes for tracking. That's interesting. So they can identify easily the ones to get rid of?
Something something Yellow Badges.
Got to give this administration some credit on this one. I don't think the Nazi party has a good parallel. The Nazis were much more overt in deciding who could or could not vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree
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Heh, mail-in voting in my state uses that same "envelopes with barcodes" stuff. So more smoke and mirrors from this admin, for sure, since they want to get rid of mail-in ballots but still require all the steps those require, minus the mail part...