So...jail?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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The most she'll get is a misdemeanour fine for filing a false residency declaration in Texas.
It will certainly be less than the shitstorm for voting in Hawaii without the correct residency requirements.
No, she's white.
Passing
They say light-skinned Indians are Italian-level white now so...she's half right I guess.
She's Samoan, if I'm not mistaken.
Gabbard was raised in a multicultural household.[8] Her mother was born in Indiana and grew up in Michigan,[9] and her father, who is of Samoan and European ancestry,[8][10] was born in American Samoa and grew up in Hawaii and Florida.[11]
- republican
They'll gladly fuck over a white democrat for the same thing
Useful*
Everyone thinks it won’t happen to them until it does
Don't forget rich
For you? yes.
She has her summer home in Moscow
...where her vote casts itself.
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!
Is this a quote? Honestly, this is a children's book.
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.
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.
illustrates the complexity of state voting laws.
But, are they, though?
Anytime fascism shows up:
OOOHH THE COMPLEXITY
Is Texas a new Russian oblast?
Send her to El Salvador
Pretty sure that's a five year sentence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not about who votes. It’s about who counts them.
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.
That’s the dream. Good on her for claiming to live in Texas but actually living in Hawaii.
Abbutt might want her but the rest of us dont
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.
Sketchy background on her. Look it up
Raising questions? Are guys new to this? This is what all politicians do. They know they will get away with it even if they are caught. As long this is not a paedo crime.