Documents obtained and released on Wednesday by the advocacy group Democracy Forward show that the investigative arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gathered tens of millions of voter records ahead of the midterm elections as part of a purported effort to combat “voter fraud.”
Democracy Forward, which obtained the ICE documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said records from the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) branch underscore how the Trump administration is “using the power of the government to try to silence eligible voters and prevent them from accessing the ballot.”
I have always been a registered Republican. With the exception of John McCain when he was running for president, I have never voted for a Republican in a general election in my life.
I used to do that until the corporate democrats started going too far right. I switched to Democrat to be able to vote progressive in the primaries.
If I still lived in Austin, that would have been my plan, but I moved to Wyoming. Here it’s a corporate v fascist R battle that is too close for comfort.
While I agree that McCain was probably one of the last Republicans I had even a shred of respect for, why are you registering GOP? At this point, I really do consider them to be essentially a lost cause.
The word “registering” implies a recurring activity. You register once.
Originally, the idea was to primary moderates instead of whack jobs, but that ship sailed in Texas and I stopped voting in primaries there for many years. Now that I moved to Wyoming, it is once again very important to vote in R primaries because here we have moderate Rs being threatened by crazies.
Probably to be a spoiler vote in their Primaries. Vote for the craziest GOP candidates so that no one votes GOP in the General.
I mean… we are all well aware of how that tactic pans out these days. It’s frankly far too risky of a play, imo. Not to mention, that strategy has the very obvious side effect of pushing right-wing politics in a more radical and absolutist direction, which is categorically counterproductive.
Pied piper strategy works so well. Just ask trump, MTG, Boebert etc… bottom line, there’s 2 kinds of republican voters, crazies, and people who don’t pay attention to anything but have been told to always vote R because abortion or guns are their hot button item.