I still can't believe that in a system where you need to register to vote, registered voters are not believed to be registered.

It's because of a particular quirk in the law that Republicans have been mad about for years.

When you register to vote, there is no Federal requirement that you actually show proof of citizenship. You still have to affirm (under penalty of perjury) that you are a citizen on the form, and that affirmation comes with severe legal penalties if you are lying.

Republicans think that non-citizens are abusing this in droves. However, many non-citizens would like to be citizens someday. Why would they give the government a written document, with their address and identifying information, which confesses to a crime which leads to jail time and deportation, just for the opportunity to vote before they actually get their citizenship? State Governments have access to all the information after all, they would just need to look it up with the Feds to find out if it is correct, or needs to be flagged for review. It's all bonkers. Registration fraud like this simply doesn't happen.

But some Republicans believe that myth so much that, in Republican-controlled states, if you show up to register with the Federal form to register (and not their State form that requires proof of citizenship), they put you in a type of voting purgatory [pdf warning] where they only let you vote for Federal offices.

Because it's all bullshit.

Let's see.....

Jason Kirkland - citizen.
Pedro Pascual - non citizen.
Pedro Pascal - non citizen. But very European! Alina Lee - non citizen. (But excellent porn actor).
Fred Mayer - totally a citizen John Doe - citizen.
Jane D Vargas - non citizen.

That's how easy it is to remove our right to vote. Months later oh oops! I guess these were citizens, we'll returned them from the gulag when they pay for IDs.

Trump is trying to make a new set of rules, such as: if a Democrat wins, assume they cheated and declare the Republican the winner

Don't forget "ethnic-sounding" last names

It isn't, but they're just trying to build claims to push it to the SC.

With the election so close, it's kind of hard to legally challenge it in time

Fuck... I'm cooked for all of those reasons

Or has an "ethnic" last name. Or who pissed off some white nationalist.

California has the largest population of MAGAts in the country. They're a minority, but by sheer numbers there are more here than any other state. They're hoping to flip CA. Not gonna happen, but that seems to be the goal.

Lots of Hispanics in LA and San Diego.

Hmm... where have i heard those two cities mentioned prominently in the last few months?

They are building their excuses for why they will have to refuse to seat democrats from California and disqualify all of Californias electoral votes in 2 years.
It took Al Franken almost a year after he was elected to get sworn in because of bullshit legal disputes and maneuvering. So even though Franken's election technically gave Obama a Dem majority in both the Senate and House, he really only had it for a month or 2 until some other seat change flipped it back.

Presumably, you're supposed to ask them where they and their parents were born