"Kamala just lost 3,200 votes" directly ties into the narrative that illegal voting is a problem, even though Republicans have spent hundreds of millions over the years showing it’s not. https://immigrationimpact.com/2024/08/01/myths-about-noncitizen-voting-heritage-foundation-data/ The conservative Heritage Foundation has campaigned hard against “voter fraud.” It proudly championed legislation passed by the House in July which would mandate the use of photo ID for all voter registration. Importantly, it also maintains a database of 1,546 “proven instances of voter fraud,” where Heritage researchers have collected criminal cases which have been brought against people who have committed some kind of electoral fraud, either registering to vote or voting when ineligible. It’s this database—created and maintained by Heritage itself—that helps reveal how there is no crisis of noncitizen voting. A close review of the cases in Heritage’s database reveal that the organization has documented just 68 total cases of noncitizen voting going back to the earliest cases documented in the 1980s. That’s less than 5% of the cases in their database, total. The remaining cases all involve U.S. citizens. What do those 68 cases tell us? First, it demonstrates that proven cases of noncitizen voting are incredibly rare. Even an organization engaged in a major effort to document voter fraud produced fewer than 70 proven cases of noncitizens who voted in elections in the last 40 years. Given that over one billion votes have been cast over that period in thousands of elections, the incidence of proven noncitizen voting is below 0.0001%. Alabama Secretary of State finds over 3,000 non-citizens registered to vote Allen found 3,251 non-citizens who were registered to vote, 742 of them were from north Alabama. “We got the information, we cross-checked it with our centralized data files here in the state of Alabama and found those 3,200 individuals,” Allen said. The information he’s talking about is people with alien registration numbers. Those are issued to immigrants who intend to live in this country permanently and have already applied for a green card. However, you’re not eligible to vote with just an alien identification number. When WAFF 48 asked Allen how 3,000 plus were able to register in the first place he could not give us the answer. “It’s our belief that only American citizens should be allowed to vote,” Allen said. “Non-citizens, whether their legal or illegal cannot register to vote. It’s a federal offense.” To vote here in Alabama you need one of these things: a driver’s license, a passport, a voter photo ID or any other type of photo ID. But Mike Nicholson with the voter’s rights group Alabama Arise is now questioning the state’s system as a whole. “It just leaves me with questions, How could that many people supposedly register to vote when you need a photo ID or a social security number, there’s all these barriers in place that wouldn’t allow that to happen,” Nicholson said. “So I would ask the Secretary of State to be more transparent with that because we know in other states that similar actions like that have purged other voters from the polls.” Allen acknowledged some people on the list may have already become naturalized citizens and are now eligible to vote. Those individuals will regain their registration and right to vote. If you would like to check your voter registration status, you can do so by clicking here.
I'm a dude who would vote for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan, George H Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris over Trump. Shrug
Harris platform is one that is what the country wants. Trump's platform sucks donkey dicks.....and screws over most of the population. Not a hard choice for real. DD
link will work for everyone Harris Plans to Ban Grocery ‘Price Gouging.’ What Does the Evidence Say? Price increases when demand exceeds supply are textbook economics. The question is whether, and how much, the pandemic yielded an excess take. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/...e_code=1.DU4.e4z4.eEEY_CXbWJly&smid=url-share excerpt: “Egg prices went up last year — it’s because there weren’t as many eggs, and it caused more egg production,” said Jason Furman, a Harvard economist formerly in the Obama administration. *** “This is not sensible policy, and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality," he said. "There’s no upside here, and there is some downside.” more at the link
