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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn South Dakota you'll soon be able to challenge other voters' citizenship
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16057174/south-dakota-citizenship-law-voting/SOUTH Dakota residents will be allowed to challenge each others citizenship at the polls after the state passed new voting registration laws.
Republican Governor Larry Rhoden urged locals to take advantage of the massive change and protect election integrity.
The new law was one of six bills signed into law by the governor on Thursday.
The new law adds citizenship as a justification for challenging voter registration.
If you find somebody whos not a citizen and is trying to vote, then do something about it, Thomas Deadrick, the deputy secretary of state, said during a legislative committee hearing, according to South
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BlueWaveNeverEnd
8 hrs ago
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Attilatheblond
(8,705 posts)1. That'll be a big can of worms
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,911 posts)3. Yeah..i foresee lots of racial profiling
Attilatheblond
(8,705 posts)6. Having been a blue dot in a part of Montana sometimes called West Dakota, I assure you profiling will be more than race
I was the 12th person to register as DEM in the county where I lived and just about EVERYBODY knew it. Always amazed me there wasn't a cross burning in my front yard.
The year I worked to count ballots was interesting.
WestMichRad
(3,201 posts)2. Expect this to be weaponized
frogstar0
(249 posts)4. I would hope that every patriotic SD citizen will....
....make sure they challenges every republican, and many independent persons registered in the state.
What could go wrong?
MustLoveBeagles
(15,859 posts)5. I predict a lot of Native Americans will get profiled