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  1. bisco

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    Jim cantore was shoveling in Boston yesterday.
    Doing more talking than shoveling though.
    The guy he was helping kept giving him the side eye
     
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    If you are looking to cast extra election ballots, it'll be much easier to vote in North Dakota, which doesn't even have any voter registration.

    I wouldn't. Around here, that would be a very serious wage/salary cut. At that rate, I'd rather go skiing.
     
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    That's because you can use your driver's license to vote. North Dakota, unlike 19 other stupid states, doesn't issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

    Hey if you really want to cheat, go to Minnesota where you can "vouch" for up to 8 people that allows them to vote....one little house had 108 "registered" voters!

    Worried about illegal aliens who are in the 19 states that lets them get driver's license? No problem, they just make them sign a form that affirms they are a citizen.....sure to work about as well as making illegal to drive above the posted speed limit, dontchya know??? (Colorado does this and disregard our wonderful election secretary mailing out 30,000 voter registration forms to illegal aliens....oopsie.) And she still has her job....unbelievable.

    Colorado accidentally sent voter registration notices to 30,000 residents who are not citizens
     
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    North Dakota DOES issue driver's licenses to legal residents who are NOT citizens, according to its own website:
    Driver License Requirements | NDDOT
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    • Valid, unexpired Permanent Resident Card
    • Valid, unexpired Employment Authorization Card
    • Valid, unexpired Foreign Passport with I-94
    • I-94 Card stamped Refugee or Asylee"
    How many of them actually voted? The figures I've seen show that of non-citizens discovered to have registered, very very few actually voted. In the current combings of many voter rolls for ineligible voters, among the registered voters 'tagged' as possibly ineligible, the numbers of "false positives" greatly exceed the numbers that turn out to be actual non-citizens.

    When setting requirements, I feel that each citizen improperly blocked from voting, is equally bad as each non-citizen managing to cast a vote. Voter suppression is equally bad as ineligible voting. The "cure" shouldn't be worse than the "disease".

    I'm seeing lots of states that allow Election Day registration, including many Red states. Checking the Red states nearest me, it appears that Idaho, Montana, and Utah don't require registrants to show proof of citizenship, just ID and some sort of 'proof' of residency, such as bills or bank statements with an in-precinct address, which plenty of non-citizens do have. Any back-office checks for citizenship are done separately, after votes are already counted. Wyoming didn't require showing proof of citizenship until just last summer.

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    "When confronted with allegations on noncitizens voting in Utah, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, the state’s top election official, initiated a monthslong review of Utah’s approximately 2.1 million registered voters. She and her team found one “confirmed noncitizen.” Just one. And that one noncitizen, while registered, had never voted.

    Idaho, a state of one million voters, ran similar tests in 2024, and they found 36 “very likely” registered noncitizens. That may seem like a lot until you view it in light of claims that statewide elections are altered by such anomalies. Some, but not all, of those 36 people have previously voted, the secretary of state, Phil McGrane, said, but “out of the million-plus registered voters we started with, we’re down to 10 thousandths of a percent” of the overall count — not even close to affecting the outcome.""

    From another Idaho report, over a longer time period:

    "Since January 10, 2020, in Ada County, 78 registered voters were removed for not being a U.S. citizen, according to a report Ada County Clerk Trent Tripple shared with the Sun, which included data as recent as Oct. 4, 2024.

    One case, in 2020, was the only instance of noncitizen voting in Ada County that Tripple knew of and the county’s records show, he told the Sun. That case involved a Canadian citizen — who Tripple declined to identify — and was referred to prosecutors. ...

    The report Tripple shared, spanning almost five years, said more than 29,000 voters in general in Ada County were removed for maintenance, along with over 9,800 for being deceased, nearly 3,800 for being registered more than once, another 604 for having felonies, among other reasons. "
     
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