What could go wrong?
“How could this go wrong?” Said absolutely no one.
So are there any pro-boner lawyers looking to challenge as many white people as they can?
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.
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.
flooding the office is the only way to deal with these things
We can “flood the zone”, too.
wait’ll white people start claiming indigenous people aren’t citizens.
You’re too late. ICE has already arrested people with Native American IDs, claiming they are invalid.
ICE has arrested people with valid REAL-IDs claiming they aren’t real. They’ll do whatever they want to whoever they want.
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
Oh right! Ok, the comment makes more sense now. Thanks
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.
Just out of curiosity: What do you think 'll is the contraction of?
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.
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.
It’s a fairly common. I think YingYang Twins used it in a popular song. “Wait’ll you see this dick”
Til/Till is used quite a bit below the Mason Dixon line on the Eastern coast of the US, often related to time. Wait’ll is super prevalent there in speech.
It’s used pretty widely throughout the country in my experience.
You’re a little late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_v._Wilkins
Do it. Let me know if I can help.
Don’t limit it to those that spend time out of state. It’s not your job to be accurate. I assume everyone travels.
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
It says you need some kind of documented evidence but I’m sure that’s pretty easy to gin up for a lot of people.
AI go brrrr…
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
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.
In the worst case, maybe they could simply disallow manual reports, and automate the selection of reports that match their desired outcomes, and the silent discard of all others.
Real chaotic good energy. I dig it!
I try. The world needs more chaotic good.
State law already allows challenges to a voter’s registration up to the 90th day before an election, if a person is suspected of lacking South Dakota residency, voting in another state or being registered to vote in another state. The new law adds citizenship as a justification for a challenge.
Challenges may be filed by the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office, the auditor in the county where the voter is registered, or a voter in the same county. The challenge must be in the form of a signed, sworn statement and must include what the law describes as “documented evidence.”
So the “challenge” this already exists but citizenship is being added as another reason. I wonder what the requirements for evidence are or if some county officials will call the sworn statement itself “documented evidence.”
gonna be shocked when all the people challenged aren’t white while all the people challenging are.
So they added pvp to voting
How else are you going to legally bully and intimidate voters?
How on earth are other voters supposed to have or get evidence of other voters citizenship? Challenges filed by actual elected officials may still be corrupt attempts to suppress the vote by challenging without reason but at least its a limited pool of people who are actually accountable to the people. Allowing any yahoo to challenge all the brown people in the county opens the door to a flood of nonsense.
In theory it could be contained by the actual officials that should throw out nonsense but nothing is stopping them using chatGPT to mass produce “evidence” that passes a minimum smell test of looking like real evidence. For instance names are VERY non-unique find every record of registration in any state which matches an ethnic name in your county submit one challenge per name and challenge half the brown people in your county because again names are NOT very unique.
This happened across multiple states last election. So many votes were lost because of “challenges.”
Soooo…every reservation gonna challenge every South Dakotane citizenship?
God I hope so.
So when they receive a complaint about every non-Republican voter, are they going to say that there is a 2 year backlog on paperwork, so these people will have to skip this election?
Start challenging the Republican voters, then.
If I lived there then this is what I’d do. Challenge every single person who shows up to vote. After all, how can I personally know they are allowed to vote if they don’t prove it to ME?
She’s a witch!
Who are you who is so knowledgeable in the ways of science?
My god, burn me!!
Reunite the Dakotas!
Oh, that could be fun. After voting, myself, I’d form a line of like minded folks to pick out likely MAGAS and challenge each multiple times.
So political donations are often open even small donations you can use that and social media to find the majority of magas in the state. One of the most obvious disqualifying criteria is voting in another state or being dead names being pretty non-unique you can find someone who died or votes in another state with the same name for most people. If you automate this you can probably legally file a challenge for literally every Trump voter in your county.
If you make this automation available you can probably with a little help from your friends (thank you joe cocker) file a challenge for every Trump voter in the entire state.
I’m betting this wouldn’t actually disenfranchise anyone though because the system would simply collapse under hundreds of thousands of challenges.
Make sure you misgender them when addressing them, they love that.
This is the correct response to fuckery.
Nope, that is not democracy
