• Trump voting commission bought Texas election data flagging Hispanic voters
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[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-election-fraud-commission-bought-texas-election-data-flagging-hispanic-voters/2018/01/22/2791934a-fd55-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html[/url] [quote]President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show. In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms. White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.[/quote] [quote]Texas since 1983 has identified voters with a Hispanic name to mail bilingual election notices in Spanish and English as required by state and federal laws, said Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos (R). Names are selected from the U.S. Census Bureau’s list of most common surnames by race and Hispanic origin, Taylor said.[/quote] 🤔
What the dick. I am, without even being sarcastic, getting Nazi Germany vibes here. Before long, the US government will demand all hispanics walk around with a sombrero for easy identification or some shit.
Glad the White House never got that data. Fuck off and leave me alone.
Somebody enlighten me for what reason there was a checkbox asking about hispanic votes in the first place, if not to tinker with the votes?? This is utterly fucked.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;53072685]Somebody enlighten me for what reason there was a checkbox asking about hispanic votes in the first place, if not to tinker with the votes?? This is utterly fucked.[/QUOTE] [quote] to mail bilingual election notices in Spanish and English as required by state and federal laws, [/quote] i mean it was in the OP
[quote]Texas since 1983 has identified voters with a Hispanic name to mail bilingual election notices in Spanish and English as required by state and federal laws, said Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos (R). Names are selected from the U.S. Census Bureau’s list of most common surnames by race and Hispanic origin, Taylor said.[/quote] That doesn't necessarily seem like a reliable metric. If they have enough constituents who aren't fluent in English, shouldn't they just send these out bilingually in general?
[QUOTE=Tamschi;53072705]That doesn't necessarily seem like a reliable metric. If they have enough constituents who aren't fluent in English, shouldn't they just send these out bilingually in general?[/QUOTE] I've met people here in Texas who become visibly angry or deeply offended when confronted by the idea of people not speaking English. At my job someone came in specifically to complain to my boss that [i]our online survey asked him whether he spoke English or Spanish[/i]
[QUOTE=New Cidem;53072820]I've met people here in Texas who become visibly angry or deeply offended when confronted by the idea of people not speaking English. At my job someone came in specifically to complain to my boss that [i]our online survey asked him whether he spoke English or Spanish[/i][/QUOTE] It didn't even offer American as an option? What the fuck is the world coming to
I shudder to imagine what they would've done with that data or how they would've treated anyone who fit the bill. They could've flagged anyone who didn't vote for Trump as invalid voters, gerrymander the area to hell just to make sure that no area with an influx of hispanics gets a say with their vote or send us a lot of spam mail ( though that seems a little too innocent to be true.. ) It's horrifying to think that if Trumps cronies actually did get their hands on the data, that a lot of people including myself could've been silenced all because of a difference of opinion.
[QUOTE=New Cidem;53072820]I've met people here in Texas who become visibly angry or deeply offended when confronted by the idea of people not speaking English. At my job someone came in specifically to complain to my boss that [i]our online survey asked him whether he spoke English or Spanish[/i][/QUOTE] As an American living in Quebec this is very funny to me.
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