Anonymous #1 4w

And what’s the good reason

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Anonymous #2 4w

Imagine if the president could manipulate the voter rolls and prevent everyone in the opposing party from voting

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Anonymous #1 4w

Trump is basically doing that anyway

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Anonymous #3 4w

I’m not confident that the SAVE act will pass but it’s iffy. “Basically doing that” is doing a bit of heavy lifting, as it stands rn. 30 states (including mine) are also refusing the DOJ’s requests for voter data

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Anonymous #1 4w

Cool and what’s currently preventing individual states from doing what you just described?

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Anonymous #3 4w

Their own laws and courts. At least most of the state governments still respect laws and courts, even if the federal executive branch doesn’t

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Anonymous #1 4w

In other words, literally nothing. They could manipulate voter rolls just as easily as the federal government could.

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Anonymous #3 4w

Surely you understand what I’m getting at, no? The likelihood of states that don’t have a track record of defying the courts suddenly defying them is lower than the Feds’ (who do have a track record of doing so). Moreover, the constitution (and SCOTUS’ interpretation of it) literally says the federal government shouldn’t be managing elections

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Anonymous #1 4w

The constitution also defended slavery at one point, so defending it doesn’t mean you’re in the right. And it’s way easier for us as citizens to fight back against overreach from the federal government than 50 individual state governments.

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Anonymous #1 4w

What the Feds might be able to do is require that it be automatically done at places like the DMV, but idrk. They were able to somehow dictate how voter registration worked in the Help America Vote Act

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Anonymous #3 4w

My point when citing the constitution is that a federal voter database is a nonstarter unless the constitution is amended

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Anonymous #1 4w

We already have federal laws regulating our elections, there’s no reason why they can’t also regulate voter registration.

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Anonymous #3 4w

If the Feds could manage elections directly, this admin would make sure no democrat could ever vote again, so I’m not super inclined to support any centralization of national elections rn. Now, if we put it under control of some bipartisan commission that the president can’t easily fire anyone from, I could support that. Depends whether it can be sufficiently insulated. We thought the FTC was sufficiently insulated but I guess it’s not

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Anonymous #1 4w

Once again, if that were the case there’s nothing stopping states from doing this right now. Texas is bending over backwards to cater to trump, including gerrymandering their house districts, but notice how they haven’t gone after voter registration?

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Anonymous #1 4w

Plus, voter registration doesn’t require political affiliation. You can’t just take all the democrats off the voter rolls because that’s not how they work.

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Anonymous #3 4w

Multiple swing states would have to start disregarding the law and the courts. I don’t see any reason to believe they plan to. All of their secretaries of state are democrats, except for Brad Raffensperger (GA) and Al Schmidt (PA) — both of which have refused to cooperate with Trump before — and WI (split) and NC’s (dem-leaning) boards of elections

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Anonymous #1 4w

But you’d rather each state do their own thing and have to fight 50 different legal battles rather than just controlling it at the federal level? That’s a worse system

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Anonymous #3 4w

Please look at what I said about a bipartisan commission

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Anonymous #1 4w

Then why are you fighting against it

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Anonymous #3 4w

Where did I do that? I haven’t seen a proposal for any such thing

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Anonymous #1 4w

“There’s no federal voter database, and for good reason”

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Anonymous #3 4w

For good reason if it was to be done as some ordinary government agency that the president could hire and fire people from

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