Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls
www.nytimes.com
Calling themselves investigators, activists are using new data tools and disputed legal theories to urge officials to drop voters from the rolls.
  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    77·
    10 months ago

    I have not seen this campaign. Are there any particular things i should look out for? Like, are they saying explicitly ‘don’t vote and send a message to the DNC’? I’ve only personally seen peeps saying they’ll not vote for him but that’s not the same

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      153·
      10 months ago

      It’s everywhere lately. It’s mostly something along the lines of both Biden and Trump being bad choices, so just don’t make a choice to “send a message”. Especially with the Israel/Palestine stuff, a large group has been convinced that Biden providing aid to the massacre of Palestinians means them voting for him is immoral. I agree it fucking sucks, but not voting is the immoral option. Remember how Trump tried to move things even further to Israel’s favor.

      Some of it is a disinformation campaign to get people to not vote, but I think a large portion of what you see is people who have been convinced of it themselves and spread it organically. It’s impossible to tell the difference though, and it doesn’t really matter that they are different. They are effectively the same, but you can’t tell who actually believes it and who just sees it as useful.

      • wakumul@lemm.ee
        212·
        10 months ago

        don’t make a choice to “send a message”.

        no one has said this.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          I have seen it plenty of times. How can you say no one has said it. In this thread, yeah I don’t think so. It’s all over the place though.