Do we really want every citizen to have the right to challenge every other citizen’s right to vote? Why? The whole purpose is supposedly to prevent non-citizen voting which is already against the law. According to our Secretary of State she found 273 people registered to vote that couldn’t legally vote. How many of those folks voted in 2024? Zero. Seems like we don’t need additional legislation on this topic.
It’s no doubt a great thing to campaign on, (election integrity!! pounds chest) but it doesn’t add anything and furthermore, when we begin to eye each other with suspicion because you don’t speak the same language I do or your skin color is different than mine or your gender is different and I can just anonymously challenge your right to vote, we’ve taken a dangerous step toward the destruction of community.
This is nonsense - a prove you're legitimate law with no basis in fact. Predictably MAGArats will run through precincts leaning democratic or independent and challenge every voter. This will clog Auditor work loads, cost taxpayers, and foul election delivery. Amend this nonsense requiring the complainer file a notarized affidavit and be subject to a $100,000 civil fine for false reporting if wrong. Are SD legislators this removed from imagination and reality?
A very old Latin phrase expresses a well respected principle in American jurisprudence: "De minimis non curat lex," meaning, "The law does not concern itself with trifles." South Dakota legislators should quit horsing around, adopt that principle, and get serious. Time and again, legitimate studies reveal that non-citizens virtually NEVER vote -- not only in South Dakota, but anywhere in the United States. False statements to the contrary are part of the BS perpetrated by a small group of sore losers at election who happen to like dividing people by accusing the "other" of nefarious conduct. If I had a dollar for every non-citizen who has voted in South Dakota in the past 10 years, I'd be lucky to have enough for a cup of coffee.
A solution in search of a problem. What a joke.
Ah yes. Once again solving non-existent problems and trying to out private information. Doesn't Pischke ever have anything better to do?
Do we really want every citizen to have the right to challenge every other citizen’s right to vote? Why? The whole purpose is supposedly to prevent non-citizen voting which is already against the law. According to our Secretary of State she found 273 people registered to vote that couldn’t legally vote. How many of those folks voted in 2024? Zero. Seems like we don’t need additional legislation on this topic.
It’s no doubt a great thing to campaign on, (election integrity!! pounds chest) but it doesn’t add anything and furthermore, when we begin to eye each other with suspicion because you don’t speak the same language I do or your skin color is different than mine or your gender is different and I can just anonymously challenge your right to vote, we’ve taken a dangerous step toward the destruction of community.
This is nonsense - a prove you're legitimate law with no basis in fact. Predictably MAGArats will run through precincts leaning democratic or independent and challenge every voter. This will clog Auditor work loads, cost taxpayers, and foul election delivery. Amend this nonsense requiring the complainer file a notarized affidavit and be subject to a $100,000 civil fine for false reporting if wrong. Are SD legislators this removed from imagination and reality?
Yes. 100% they are.
I like the false reporting and notarized affidavit suggestions—at least this would make lying carry consequences.
I worry this would be selectively enforced.
A very old Latin phrase expresses a well respected principle in American jurisprudence: "De minimis non curat lex," meaning, "The law does not concern itself with trifles." South Dakota legislators should quit horsing around, adopt that principle, and get serious. Time and again, legitimate studies reveal that non-citizens virtually NEVER vote -- not only in South Dakota, but anywhere in the United States. False statements to the contrary are part of the BS perpetrated by a small group of sore losers at election who happen to like dividing people by accusing the "other" of nefarious conduct. If I had a dollar for every non-citizen who has voted in South Dakota in the past 10 years, I'd be lucky to have enough for a cup of coffee.