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I was born and raised in south Alabama. Grew up during the desegregation era. Came of age in the late 70s and while I'm reasonably sure this will be a wasted effort... your references to Selma just show how little you actually understand the south of today. If it makes you feel self-righteous to spread that propaganda, by all means, enjoy yourself. The only hoop a citizen in my state has to jump through is to provide a government-issued photo ID to register to vote. And to produce it on election day. Our state makes photo ID available to all for free if they don't drive.being required to know and recite the names of the county judges in every location in the state as shown in the film being, paying poll taxes, etc. with every one of these numerous, artificial barriers to registering to vote that were imposed on black people but not on the whites, for the explicit purpose of preventing them from being able to exercise their right to vote.
That's ALL CITIZENS. If you tried convincing the average black person here that their voting rights were being denied or restricted they'd mostly laugh in your face. Literacy tests? Poll taxes? You are still stuck in the early 60s.
I'll say this again because it really IS that important. HR1 gives the Feds ultimate control over how states are allowed to vote. The Constitution CLEARLY left that power to state legislatures. The Democrat party is attempting to create a system where there can be NO RELIABLE VERIFICATION of who is receiving and returning ballots. NO signature, NO ID required, NO request for a ballot. MILLIONS of ballots are flooded through the mail. I really don't give a damn what the Left thinks of me, my state, or my ideology.
If HR1 passes by virtue of the absence of a filibuster and it passes on a razor-thin margin you and those who think as you will soon find you've made a serious mistake in judgment about 75+ million Americans.
There will be NO way to know if only citizens are voting. NO way to know if the ballot was returned by an American at all. If you actually think that plan will be swallowed and not resisted, you are deluding yourself. The only peaceful way forward at that point will be a secessionist movement. Your party will never put a boot on the necks of half of America. Not gonna happen unless they are willing to send troops into half the states and shed BLOOD. If that happens, then you and those you love deserve the chains you'll eventually wear from that government you felt it was okay to empower against your neighbors just because they disagreed with you.