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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCritics say Mastriano's pledge to make PA citizens reregister to vote is aimed squarely at Black Ame
AmericansDoug Mastriano, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor and a leader of the Stop the Steal campaign, wants every voter in the state to reregister to vote, claiming that its the only way to regain Americans trust in the voting process.
We might have to reset, as far as registration, start that whole process over here, Mastriano said on the conservative news channel Newsmax last month. Theres still a lot of dead [people] on the rolls and theres ghost phantom voters that we found, as well, at various addresses.
While a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled in the weeks prior to the 2020 election that there was no evidence that phantom voters were an actual problem in the state, critics believe Mastrianos ulterior motive is to keep minority communities from voting.
[Mastrianos] stated desire to have voters reregister is a dog whistle designed to reinforce the racist belief that Black and other BIPOC voters are not, in fact, fully enfranchised citizens guaranteed the same rights as white voters, Cynthia Ann Young, author of Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left and associate professor of African American Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University, told Yahoo News. The irony, however, is that were his scheme to be implemented, many white, rural voters would be excluded from the voter rolls.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/critics-say-mastrianos-pledge-to-make-pennsylvania-citizens-re-register-to-vote-is-aimed-squarely-at-black-americans-201249388.html
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Critics say Mastriano's pledge to make PA citizens reregister to vote is aimed squarely at Black Ame (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jun 2022
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So Mastriano wants to disassamble laws and start over with his own version
bucolic_frolic
Jun 2022
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,554 posts)1. Who is surprised by this?
The GOP is the party of voter suppression
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)2. He means everyone has to reregister to vote
and are only allowed to vote for GQP candidates.
twodogsbarking
(9,805 posts)3. It is clear what he is. What isn't clear is how many votes he will get.
Pennsylvania.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)4. So Mastriano wants to disassamble laws and start over with his own version
Sounds like fascism to me.