Democracy Five-Alarm Fire Of The Day: North Carolina Considering Removing 'Presumptive Noncitizen' Voters

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No one knows better than Republicans that if they can’t find a way to purge voter rolls of non-MAGA-inclined voters in swing states, November’s midterm elections will be the end of their control of the House of Representatives, and maybe even the Senate too. And that means President Donald John Trump’s agenda will be dead in the water, or at least stalled and forced to get more bold about breaking every law until the Supreme Court Six get charley horses in their necks from shrugging off the fascism.

Along with all of the gerrydoodling map fuckery going on, Pam Bondi’s DOJ has thirstily been trying to get a hold of states’ voter rolls to “do maintenance” on them, including trying to extort Minnesota into handing over their voter rolls in exchange for ICE leaving. (MN is not a swing state, but Trump, Bondi et al. are hoping they can make it one!) So far Bondi’s pestered 44 states for their voter data, and 11 (Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming) have said they will cooperate and turn over information, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers. And Bondi is suing in 24 other states that have declined her generous offer.

The situation is getting even stickier in the Tarheel State, where the Legislature has been slow-barbecuing Democracy by cravenly stripping any Democrats of any means of power since forever. But they put a real final char and a side of red slaw on it in November and December of ‘24, after Democrats won the positions of governor, loot-gov, secretary of state, and attorney general, and Republicans continued to hold onto both chambers of their Legislature, a divided trifecta. So in their defeat, they seized their chance to tighten the noose on the polecat, hastily passing a raft of measures to cut the powers of the executive triplex.

Now North Carolina’s state supreme court has just given a greenlight for the MAGA-controlled five-member North Carolina State Board of Elections to give the Republican auditor the full authority to appoint an elections board of his choice, upending a 125-year precedent of the governor doing that.

Said Board is considering a new ploy to trim state’s voter rolls of infidels. They’re now trying to implement a plan that would let them challenge any voter flagged in any database as a “presumptive noncitizen” and remove them, then put the onus on the voter to appear at a hearing with proof of citizenship to get their right to vote back. Wouldn’t it be so funny if some blue state tried to do that with guns, take them away based on somebody’s name being in a shadowy database of presumptive criminals then made the gun owner have to go argue in a hearing that they deserved the gun?

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