How is this even a choice?
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...it isn't.
They should have arresting authority over anyone illegally barring them entry.
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...it probably is.
Since Shelby v Holder they are restrained in where they can monitor - they need a court order to do so and can't follow old guidelines that let them monitor in "historically racist" locations like Texas.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/about-federal-observers-and-election-monitoring
If memory serves, Shelby was just about the ability of the DOJ to require states from the former Confederacy to get DOJ's approval before making any changes to their election laws, where this is about DOJ's ability to monitor any state's actual implementation of their election laws
Either way, illegitimate decision from an illegitimate court that wouldn't have any precedential value if we lived in a decent country, but yeah, back in the one we actually live in who knows what is and isn't legal anymore.
e; DOJs? I'm pretty sure there's just the one, autocorrect
If memory serves, Shelby was just about the ability of the DOJ to require states from the former Confederacy to get DOJ’s approval before making any changes to their election laws, where this is about DOJ’s ability to monitor any state’s actual implementation of their election laws
This is quite incorrect. I would read the link I provided.
We allways hear that surveilence and monitoring is good, and that you don't have to be afraid unless you have something to hide.
Is this an admission that this isn't true, or that they have something to hide?
They have something to hide. They don't want the feds showing up and messing up their plans to intimidate voters.
Speaking of which, lest anyone think this is just a Trump thing and that the GOP was all good before he showed up, check out what William Rehnquist and Barry Goldwater were up to on the 1960s (arc'd) (tl;dr harassing black and Mexican voters with literacy tests).
United States of America is a fucking joke. Pretending to be a democracy.
If it were just pretending, Trump wouldn't have left the white house 4 years ago.
He tried his fucking best not to didn’t he? And curious to see if he’ll quit if he wins this time after his turn.