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UTUSN

(74,822 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:59 AM Friday

BOEBERT former flunky messing with CO county clerks & DOJ requesting voter rolls in 9 states on behalf of WH

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doj-issues-sweeping-request-for-voter-rolls-in-nine-states/ar-AA1INZrE?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=545e582f149c4bf381b7aa225e2a5cb0&ei=48

DOJ issues sweeping request for voter rolls in nine states

.... Meanwhile, a political consultant named Jeff Small — claiming to act on behalf of the White House — has contacted "more than half a dozen" Republican county clerks in Colorado, per the (Denver) Post, asking if the federal government or a third party could physically inspect their election equipment.

Small is the former chief of staff to Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Windsor). ....

What they're saying: All clerks who Small contacted reportedly rejected his request. "To me, it felt like they were wanting to intervene before 2026," Fremont County Republican clerk Justin Grantham told the Post. ....

The big picture: The Justice Department has requested voter lists from a mix of Republican- and Democratic-controlled states, including Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, per the Post.

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Ocelot II

(126,069 posts)
1. Minnesota doesn't register voters by party designation,
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:00 AM
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so I don't know how they think they can purge Democrats from the voter rolls here.

UTUSN

(74,822 posts)
2. Plus, Dem large constituencies voter-suppress themselves, making Repuke suppression almost superfluous
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:17 AM
Friday

As BEGALA says about Texas, "It's not a Red state; it's a non-voting state."

Almost makes voter suppression gimmicks by Repukes a waste of their resources.




Ocelot II

(126,069 posts)
3. Minnesota consistently has among the highest voter turnout numbers in the US,
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:31 AM
Friday

and it's a majority Dem state that hasn't voted for a GOP president since 1972. We have a Dem governor, both Dem senators, Dem representatives in the biggest districts, and Dem control of the state House. We vote.

Qutzupalotl

(15,440 posts)
4. The old FB data from Cambridge Analytica is out there
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:39 AM
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somewhere, and heaven knows what AI advances since then, that could be used to cross reference a significant subset, like they did in 2016. You bring up a good point, but they might have workarounds.

Ocelot II

(126,069 posts)
6. They could correctly assume that the Democrats are mostly in the big cities,
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:44 AM
Friday

but they'd need a lot more data to determine who the individual voters are. They could also cross-reference political contributions, which are public information, and some social media. So maybe at least some individual Democratic voters could be identified even if not registered as such. Then what, and what are the plans for those states that do identify voters by party?

Qutzupalotl

(15,440 posts)
7. This is where I speculate, but according to
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:59 AM
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the Mueller Report, Russian hackers were able to get into certain states’ voter rolls. They say there is no evidence that they changed anything, which is not a definitive statement, assuming they can cover their tracks. I have a suspicion this is what happened in Detroit in 2016, when voters went to the polls and found out too late that they were not on the rolls.

So I suspect the plan is to alter individual voter registrations, maybe changing a name or address, in order to invalidate that vote. Sophisticated actors could even change them back after the election, to further cover their tracks. They could even limit their targeting to people deemed unlikely to check their registration online beforehand.

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Qutzupalotl

(15,440 posts)
5. As troubling as this is, it indicates fear of the electorate
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:41 AM
Friday

in a legitimate election, hence the attempt to rig.

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