Hey what do you politically knowledgeable folks think about the unfolding situation in Mozambique? Apparently they are evacuating a bunch of people due to threat of imminent ethnic/religion based murder sprees?
I have a cousin over there who has confirmed that there have been massacres in villages near to (1-2 hours distant from) where he is staying.
Keep in mind, the only way the US "helps" in this sort of situation is to drone everyone and let god sort it out.
US embassy is apparently involved in telling people to GTFO, figured it was at least tangentially related. :3
I wonder we will have another refugee situation on our hands soon.
The Blue Puddle shrinks a little more every day. But keep on being Reasonable Centrists, I'm sure the public will stop being stubborn with your Rational and Enlightened Politics one of these days! Maybe if you vote for just a few ICE Death Camps Trump will let you keep the minimum wage.
Keep on telling everyone else how stupid they are with all the caustic sarcasm you can muster. I'm sure you'll be relevant one day.
Now now let's not get all shouty at each other. Also, Metal, I see you edited your link to add "non-republican", I guess... what, for shock value? That law looks like it very clearly targets, if anyone, indiscriminate people who was unable/unwilling to get to the voting booth last election.
Here are some excerpts from the actual text of the ruling.
The Ohio process at issue relies on the failure to vote for two years as a rough way
of identifying voters who may have moved. It sends these nonvoters
a preaddressed, postage prepaid return card, asking them to verify
that they still reside at the same address. Voters who do not return
the card and fail to vote in any election for four more years are presumed
to have moved and are removed from the rolls.
Ohio’s removal process follows subsection (d) to the letter: It
does not remove a registrant on change-of-residence grounds unless
the registrant is sent and fails to mail back a return card and then
fails to vote for an additional four years. See §20507(d)(1)(B). Pp. 8–
9.
respondents argue that Ohio’s process violates
subsection (b)’s Failure-to-Vote Clause by using a person’s failure to
vote twice over: once as the trigger for sending return cards and
again as one of the two requirements for removal.
The NVRA contains no “reliable indicator” prerequisite to
sending notices, requiring States to have good information that
someone has moved before sending them a return card. So long as
the trigger for sending such notices is “uniform, nondiscriminatory,
and in compliance with the Voting Rights Act,” §20507(b)(1), States
may use whatever trigger they think best, including the failure to
vote.
...the NVRA requires States to
“conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort
to remove the names” of voters who are ineligible “by
reason of ” death or change in residence.
TLDR, sort of: They can remove you from the voting list if they notice that you haven't voted in 2 years and ALSO don't respond to their checks via mail that you are still alive and/or have not moved from the residence they have on file. Ergo if you don't vote you will get a card to return in the mail asking you if you died or moved. If you don't reply to THAT, and
of note is the specific stipulation that such notices must be non-discriminatory, you risk being removed from the voter list and presumably need to re-register in your area. Not voting is a red flag that makes them check on you, and it's clearly stated that they CANNOT remove you based simply on a failure to vote. They are REQUIRED to have a comparable program in place according to this.
I'm not sure about Ohio, but in VA I moved close to election season for the Trump/Hillary election. I didn't realize I needed to re-register until I tried to vote in the wrong district. I was able to do so within a week, and still vote.
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