• PyroNeurosis
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    8 days ago

    Please let us know if you moved out of state so we can cancel your registration. Otherwise we may have to cancel your registration.

    It’ll streamline the process a bit, I guess, but it’s always fun to se the consequences of doing nothing are the same as doing something.

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      I’ve done nothing to trigger this mind you. I have been the most boring ordinary citizen without any aspirations beyond mediocrity.

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        You live in an area considered “transitional” full of renters or other “undesirable” (as defined by the Republican party as likely to not vote against their best interests) and therefore they are doing all they can to remove folks who won’t vote pro Nazi.

        Georgia did this for the last Gov election where the former Secretary of State purged 500,000 votes by sending that letter on a junk mail looking post card. He only won the election by 300,000 votes.

        It’s disgusting and should be treated as a crime and locking up these morons.

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    That last bullet point is how it’s worked for as long as I’ve been registered to vote (decades). If you don’t vote in the presidential general election, they assume you’ve moved/died/been abducted by aliens and cancel your voter registration in the county that you didn’t vote in.

    But that’s the case regardless of whether they think you’ve moved or not. So that makes this whole thing suspicious.

    I would suggest making sure that the address on the card they want you to return with your personal details is actually the voter registration office, and not that of some shady group trying to trick you into giving them your personal information for some other nefarious purpose.

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      My thoughts exactly. But I called the Secretary of state’s office and verified that this was their mailing. The whole thing looked janky, but Alabama’s stuff looks janky anyway like you did it on your home computer with an HP inkjet.

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        I’ve had people double take at my name change paperwork because it’s off-center and somehow looks worse than your average HP inkjet. I just shrug and say “Florida” and it’s never been a problem because Florida is also a failed state, lol.

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      At best this thing is trying to manufacture an excuse to disenfranchise anyone who either doesn’t receive or overlooks some mail, so even if it isn’t an outright scam as described in your last paragraph it’s still blatantly unethical.

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        I’ll admit it’s definitely weird, and seems sketchy, but it says right there at the end, “If you don’t return this card… yada yada yada… next time you vote.”

        So if you don’t receive or overlook this letter, then “next time you vote” they’ll just have you do what they’re asking you to do now. I don’t see anybody getting disenfranchised, here. I just see standard bureaucratic paperwork.