The Justice Department has asked states for their voter rolls with an eye toward purging ineligible voters. Democrats say sharing the data could violate federal election law.

Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country.

The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant identifying information on every registered voter in each state — and other election-related data. The Justice Department has said the effort is central to its mission of enforcing election law requiring states to regularly maintain voter lists by searching for and removing ineligible voters.

Alicia Pierce, a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, told Votebeat and The Texas Tribune that the state had sent its voter roll, which includes information on the approximately 18.4 million voters registered in Texas, to the Justice Department on Dec. 23.

  • slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    6 days ago

    With people like Trump, it’s always like this: Ypu give them an inch, they reach out and take a mile. Appeasement does not work with psychopaths. Time for Europe to learn this now. It’s kinda funny to me that Nazis finally get what I personally have heard from them on multiple occaions: That Europe stands on its own instead of being the US’s puppets. Of course the distancing will also not be enough to them, they always have been traitors that want a “strong” leadership. Not just like Putin, but exactly Putin in person.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    6 days ago

    On you don’t just need to freeze that. There rs something else we need to do:

    Tax the techbros. You want tarrffs, Donnie? We’ll give you tariffs: since big tech is selling our data and making money out of it, a 100€ tax for every EU user your platform has will need to be paid for every access of each user.

    In cases where it’s not possible to measure, the tax goes to 1000€ per day.

    The goal is simply make it too expensive for any big tech from that shithole to operate in Europe.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 days ago

      Even better. Undo the laws that allow US tech companies to sue them if they take a look inside US tech systems. Some country can make an alternative app store, eat Apple’s lunch and make it 90% cheaper and still pocket like 30B. They could even sell their dongles to US customers so they can circumvent and download the foreign appstore and there is nothing the US companies could do about it. All they need to do is change their own laws to allow for this. The US has already ripped up the trade agreements and aid that were the impetus for those laws in the first place so there is absolutely no reason to keep them on their books.

  • HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Do not do deals or ang business with the US. Cut all ties that we can now. Start building alternative plans for the ties we cannot cut right now.

  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
    3·
    6 days ago

    Start selling US Bonds and tank the US economy. Trump is a bully, but his gang is the rich. They’ll choose a new bully if he’s hurting them, and it helps he’s already threatening them one at a time.