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[–] 35 points 1 week ago

Wow, a Trump administration department massively fucking up their metrics and analysis?! Surely not!!! /s

This is a replay of that DOGE social security benefits fraud fiasco all over again.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The one thing missing from articles like this is any look at _where_the names are. Disenfranchising 20,000 voters usually won’t affect a statewide election in California, but it certainly could decide local elections and maybe congressional

    Realistically i think it’s just a trial balloon. They’re trying many different ways of interfering with election to see what they can get away with, and in the hope they add up

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago

    This is actually telling that the strategy with these lists isn’t direct modification of election results and it’s very much a pretense for argument to try to sow doubt on results.

    I’m really curious how next week’s White House push is going to go down…

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    My security blocks the article, but it would be cool to know how many names were in it. I'd bet only a tiny percentage of voters were not supposed to be registered. Many probably didn't know due to some crazy technicality. Headline made me think at first they had thousands of names.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    They block AP News? That’s hardly a scam source

    The research found that 8,880 of the names, representing 42% of the entire list, do not correspond to anyone in California’s current voter file.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    They have also already tried to get those who performed the analysis charged with contempt of court for sharing their findings publicly.

    https://www.dailynews.com/2026/11/01/justice-department-urges-sanctions-for-database-analysis-critical-of-its-noncitizen-voting-claims/

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago