U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz demanding the state take three specific actions before federal immigration agents would consider reducing their presence in Minneapolis, including handing over voter rolls.

In the letter, Bondi blamed both state and local leaders for the unrest that has come in response to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. She said that Walz could “restore the rule of law.”

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    18 hours ago

    They need this data to conduct vote tampering.

    This is why they want it.

    They will target machines with high use of Dem voters.

    There is zero reason why the federal government should have that list except for nefarious intentions.

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      23 hours ago

      Preparing for election fraud, like their efforts to sue media that reports low Trump approval rates. Gotta make sure that non-Trump voters have difficulties voting e.g. by purging their registrations, and if that’s not enough and Trump doesn’t win, declare the result as fraudulent because Trump’s poll results were so good (because nobody dared report bad results).

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      To whom? The US Attorney General? SCOTUS? This shit is raining down from the highest levels of government and nobody’s been held accountable for breaking the law yet. 🤷‍♂️

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        Should at least try the scotus. Might shame them into doing something since its all their fault

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    I see we’ve now hit the “Trump is tired of this and wants to TACO, but you have to make it look like he’s winning something” stage.

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    I saw someone say that she’s literally from Minnesota, and as such can just pay a $20 processing fee and get the voter rolls thru official means…

    They’re making a ridiculously easy to fufil demand so idiots don’t realize they’re not getting anything after the literal extrajudicial executions.

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      They don’t just want voter rolls. They want voter INFORMATION, including the things that the state collects but isn’t normally public, like SSN, party affiliation (sometimes), etc.

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    21 hours ago

    Bold request from the people who owe us the Epstein files. Walz should send the 100+ page blacked out PDF to them.

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    21 hours ago

    The Voter Protection Project, in a post on X: "That’s not immigration policy. That’s leverage. Even more, it’s election interference dressed up as "enforcement."