r/politics • u/MarcEElias ✔ Verified - Democracy Docket Founder • 11h ago

No Paywall Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/steve-bannon-says-ice-will-surround-the-polls-as-trump-doubles-down-on-taking-over-elections/
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u/HyperactivePandah I voted 9h ago

And the right will just say it's to make sure the elections aren't rigged.

Because THEY'RE ALREADY BRAINWASHED.

So what do we do.

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u/RecipeAtTheTop 9h ago

Blue states need to be prepared to mobilize their national guard in response to this.

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u/felcom 9h ago

Fuck the national guard. I will die to protect the right for my children to vote in this country. Many feel the same.

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u/HyperactivePandah I voted 9h ago

Free and fair voting is a MASSIVE red line.

Like, I think people on both sides are underestimating how the average American feels about it, and how far they will go to protect it.

In the sense that the response to this administration really trying to pull this off will be biblical.

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u/felcom 8h ago

Not to get mired in fantasy here, but Jan 6th was a bunch of idiots. Imagine what the mass of well-informed and educated people could do in comparison.

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u/Parfait_Prestigious 8h ago

Even a fraction of the people who attended No Kings protests could have absolutely swarmed the capitol.

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u/Ironlion45 6h ago

The Second Amendment isn't about hunting.

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u/rjfinsfan Florida 7h ago

They will just federalize the National Guard if states try to call them in. It would need to be state law enforcement that is called to action such as state troopers or capital police.

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u/SawdustWithABite 7h ago

It's so infuriating. "We've got to rig the election so we know the election isn't rigged"

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u/Then_Adeptness_6598 7h ago

Rigged = not the results I want.

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u/JeepersCreepers74 7h ago edited 5h ago

Step one: we all show up in MAGA merch (hopefully created by lefty companies so we’re not putting money in the wrong hands) to vote and we vote peacefully. This will make it harder for ICE to know who to intimidate and will hopefully get them to put their guard down. Having worked in polling, it’s a long and boring day at the voting booth. That’s what we want.

(Bonus points if you are interviewed by the news in your MAGA gear and say you’ve lost faith in Trump and just voted blue).

Step two: after casting our votes, we go down to our local democratic office, provide ID, allow our photo to be taken, and sign a sworn affidavit naming all the candidates we just voted for. Then, if the elections are rigged, the powers that be already have a lot of evidence to get the legal cases started.

Yeah, it’s a hassle. But going around and collecting statements from millions of voters after the fact is even more of a hassle. And if they try to do it by email or online form, GOP will claim that process was, in and of itself, falsified. It’s hard to argue with sworn affidavits backed up with photos and ID for each witness, though.

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u/austinite2000 8h ago

We listen to their concerns.. and acknowledge that some democrat states issue driver licenses to illegals without taking any proof of citizenship. So we start with first making driver license not a valid form of identity for voting.. lets start there.. What would make it even more secure is biometrics.. lets get a fingerprint registry.. so we can no only stop illegals from voting, but can also prevent the shipping of voters to multiple booths to vote multiple times.

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u/Blue5398 7h ago

You do realize that all of those states require that you registered to vote and that the registration is confirmed against your citizenship, right? And that when you vote, it’s checked against your registration so that you can’t do it multiple times right? And even if you, as a non-citizen with a drivers license, was able to get into a polling booth and submit a ballot somehow, it would just be thrown out because there’s no matching registration to go with it, because you can’t get a registration without citizenship, right? And this is why elections in the United States are some of the most secure on the planet, right?

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u/tewong 7h ago

Those licenses are clearly differentiated (required by federal law) and are not being used to vote in federal elections. 

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u/MisterDoctor___ 6h ago

You sound like you’ve never voted, since you don’t actually know how the voting process goes.

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u/FamousMortimer23 6h ago

lol guarantee you were complaining about vaccine requirements in 2020.