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| TRUMP: Give me your info! |
Officially,
the federal government says it wants to do a review of the policies in place to
ensure that people are voting in legally legitimate ways. Which led to the
information request from the entities in each of the 50 states that are in
charge of keeping track over who is legally allowed to vote.
FOR
THE RECORD, Illinois (in the form of the State Board of Elections) says it won’t
provide anything to Trump.
They
say we have existing laws in this state that prevent the voter roll data from
being shared with political committees.
And
it would seem many people are viewing this Trump-era investigation as some sort
of fact-finding mission to advance the concept of there being certain people
who have no such business thinking of themselves as having a right to vote.
Maybe
it means that Trump finally accepts that only 46 percent of the electorate in
2016 wanted him to be president and that some 3 million more people wanted
Hillary R. Clinton instead.
BUT
RATHER THAN accept that a majority of the nation is displeased with him,
perhaps Trump now wants to figure out a way to bolster his support by
subtraction.
Find
people who are not inclined to vote for him and come up with a legalese way of
taking away their vote. Do enough of that, and you could take his “46 percent”
and turn it into a majority.
Conniving?
Less than honorable? Of course!
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But
then again, I’m sure Trump is of the Leo Durocher School (“Nice Guys Finish
Last”) of politics, even though I’m sure he’s intellectually unadventurous
enough to have a clue who Durocher was – or that the baseball club he once
managed in Brooklyn wasn’t always a part of the Southern California scene.
SO
WHY WOULD Trump-allied people want to gather up personal information about who
is capable of casting a ballot? Who knows.
It
brings out the most suspicion that exists in our human nature in that we’re
willing to think the worst.
Which
is why Illinois is saying flat-out that it won’t give any information. Many
other states say they’re only going to give the most basic of details; so
little that it’s likely the Trump-types won’t be capable of learning much of
anything from this.
In
all, some 44 of the 50 states are being less-than-cooperative in dealing with
the president. Something I’m sure he will regard as a personal insult – and perhaps
reason for him to consider cracking down on those states when they start asking
for favors.
WHICH
PROBABLY IS the way he views their requests for the funding that the federal
government provides to states that they, in turn, use to support their own
obligations to their residents.
I
wonder if it will turn out to be something along the lines of the legal actions
he is threatening against cities, including Chicago and Cook County, Ill., both
of which are continuing to maintain their “sanctuary city” status with regards
to immigration. Meaning the local cops won’t turn over every bit of data they
stumble across to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Federal
Immigration officials have to do their own legwork in their ongoing pursuit of
people to face deportation.
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It’s
good to see that so many states are refusing to go along with this
potentially-partisan political witch hunt – a search for anybody not inclined
to worship at the Altar of The Donald. It makes me feel sorry for those people
in the six states that see nothing wrong with going along with Trump on this
issue.
And
it is comical the efforts in some states where some people are going so far as
to un-register themselves to vote – so as to ensure there is NO information on
them to provide to the T-Men. Although I suspect that the Trump types will have
their ways of finding out personal dirt on whomever they want – it most
definitely is their style.
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