• cm0002@lemmy.world
    55·
    3 days ago

    In a town painted Red, not so far away, Lived the Projecters who had much to say. PROJECTING their faults with the greatest of ease, PROJECTING their guilt like a strange heart disease!

    “Those blues over there are the ones who are bad! They do all the things that make everyone sad!” But the truth of the matter, quite funny to see, They were PROJECTING exactly what they happened to be!

    When caught with their hands in the cookie display, “It’s the Blues who eat cookies!” they would hastily say PROJECTING their actions with thunderous noise, Using PROJECTION as one of their favorite toys!

    Oh, the PROJECTING they did was a sight to behold, The stories theyd spin and the tales that were told! PROJECTING their fears and their schemes on the rest, While doing those things they PROJECTED with zest!

    And would they admit it? Oh no, not at all! They’d PROJECT even harder and stand very tall. For PROJECTING protects them from looking within At the truth of their actions, their very own sin!

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    3 days ago

    Trump has continued to press false claims of widespread voter fraud…

    False you say? Sounds pretty true to me. In fact, this isn’t the first story where a republican has done such a thing.

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 days ago

      The widespread part is what’s false. It’d probably be impossible to have no voter fraud with this many people. If only because sometimes it happens accidentally. Like an ex-inmate who is told they can vote but actually can’t.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    They could get a judge to decalre that she’s too stupid and incompetent to be held responsible for her actions and she’s off the hook.

    Or maybe she can work with Hawaii state officials on a deal to not press charges as long as she never sets foot in the state again.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.

    Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
      11·
      3 days ago

      We don’t n have a national registrar. Elections are administered independently by each state.

      Since 2022, in response to conservative conspiracy theories about it working on behalf of the Democratic Party, many republican leaning states (including Texas) withdrew from the interstate voter registration verification program that cross checks the voter rolls of the member states against each other to see verify who has moved or died, etc.

      • saltesc@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Oh, we do have state and local registries, but they pull off the federal if it can’t be confirmed. You can also change details in federal and have them push it down the chain.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      In Louisiana, they mail me voting cards of people who haven’t lived here in 25 years and are surely dead. But in fairness, the police also don’t care about laws so it evens out. Free and fair elections don’t matter if laws aren’t enforced anyway.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      1·
      3 days ago

      In addition to the other post, people also can vote by postal mail in some cases. Whilst registration requirements and checks exist, it’s not done (at least for the state in which I vote) at the time I send my ballot… though I do have to sign a sworn statement and fill out additional info in the event something changed since registering (and it might be disqualified for not doing it in advance; I’m not 100% clear on it).

      Trying to get my ballot from rural Japan to rural (US-state-name-here) in and of itself can be a logistical challenge (particularly during corona); I can’t imagine having to go all the way to Tokyo and queue at the embassy or something as that would cost a fortune in time and money.