Commentary: Trump has a new scheme to surpress the California vote this November. The threat is real
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Set us as preferred While many of us have been worried that we could see federal agents at polling places this November, it appears the Trump administration has been working another angle when it comes to potentially suppressing the vote — instilling enough fear that certain voters will simply be too afraid to show up.By certain voters, I mean immigrant voters — naturalized American citizens who have earned the right to participate in our elections, but may be so anxious about drawing the dangerous eye of the Trump administration that they choose to sit this one out.
Wednesday, the good-fight fighters at the UCLA Voting Rights Project (which includes gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra) joined with immigrant rights group the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA, in a lawsuit that, if successful, has the chance to stop not just the disenfranchisement of naturalized citizen voters, but also the whole Postal Service mail-in ballot mess.“What we’re confronting today is not simply a question of databases or election administration.
This is voter intimidation,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of CHIRLA and co-counsel on the case.“We will not accept fear being used to silence voters, and we will not accept new Americans being treated as less American because they were born somewhere else.
No second-class citizens, no second-class voters.”I want to tell you more about that lawsuit, but first let’s start with the fear.Trump’s election fraud drivel has always centered on the false conspiracy that Democrats are colluding with illegal immigrants to facilitate these folks in voting in large numbers in order to empower Democrats — never mind that Democrats keep losing elections.
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