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Let’s Make It a Felony to Purge an Eligible American From a Voter Roll 76%
By Klaus Marre96%
8/2/2026, 1:20:25 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 37 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Appeal to Emotion, and Slippery Slope, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 58.4% saturation with 620 hits. Analysis detected 3,763 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,062 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 62.5% and a BS Rank of 76% (6,102 of 25,256 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.80% of the article peer group.
Over the past month, both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin warned election officials that they could face prosecution if they knowingly helped anyone vote who is ineligible to do so.
Ostensibly, that sounds like a very reasonable thing.
After all, this is not something that should happen — and, fortunately, it doesn’t.
There is zero evidence that election officials are in any way complicit in the extraordinarily rare cases of fraudulent votes being cast in US elections, and neither the DOJ nor Mullin presented any when making their threats.
Coming from someone interested in protecting democracy, this might be a harmless, albeit unnecessary, reminder.
However, that’s not who we are dealing with here.
These are not government officials acting in good faith to ensure that an upcoming election is administered smoothly and fairly.
Instead, they are henchmen of a president who has demonstrated time and again that he wants to rig the midterms by just about any means necessary.
And their messages to election officials aren’t helpful tips; they are threats.
In a letter sent to all 50 states, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon repeatedly said that officials, including secretaries of state, could be prosecuted for “aiding and abetting” (nonexistent) fraudulent voters — for example, by not purging them from state voter rolls or sending them ballots.
And we need to stress again that there is no evidence that any of this is happening.
Even New Jersey’s self-reported glitch that caused the registration of more than 6,000 noncitizens would not fall into that category.
Mullin was even more explicit about what this is about.
“If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections — and they chose not to — then those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even, depending on how far it goes, prison time,” he said.
Anybody who has been paying attention should know that this “information they need to secure their elections” is not going to be benevolent tips but rather consist of requests to conduct the wholesale purges of state voter rolls that have proven to disenfranchise eligible Americans.
For example, Donald Trump recently claimed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had identified 278,000 noncitizens on the rolls of just four states, which raises some important questions: How did the DHS arrive at that figure?
It’s a complete mystery.
Why isn’t the DOJ indicting these 278,000 people?
Nobody knows.
Is it all BS?
Extremely likely.
However, the threats gave us an idea.
If the administration is so intent on prosecuting people who meddle in US elections, including high-ranking officials, then let’s do it!
To realize what’s at stake, let’s turn to Vice President JD Vance, who said a couple of weeks ago that “a single ballot cast illegally in an American election is, in fact, the theft of the ballot from another American citizen, from an American citizen who deserves to be able to vote.”
It should be a felony to steal or assist in stealing the vote of an eligible American!
You know, for example, by purging them from the rolls.
So, here is our proposal: Let’s not only prosecute any election official who knowingly helps a noncitizen vote — which we know is something that doesn’t happen — but also lock up any election official who prevents an American voter from casting a ballot.
In fact, let’s go a step further and hold culpable any government official, including lawmakers who vote for bills that result in the purge of even a single eligible voter, any governor or president who signs such legislation, and any official who executes it.
Like, for example, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina, who just passed a bill that would require the Board of Elections to compare the names of voters on the state’s rolls to federal registries of noncitizens, including the controversial SAVE database (not to be confused with the SAVE Act, although both are tools of targeted voter suppression), which is known to wrongly list lawful voters as ineligible.
In June, a federal judge ruled that the government cannot use the error-prone database to determine whether an individual is allowed to vote.
A major flaw in the SAVE registry is that it often lists recently naturalized Americans as noncitizens.
Another potential flaw is that, because it is under the control of an administration openly dedicated to sustaining itself and its leader in unchallenged power, the registry is subject to at-will augmentation — the addition of names of known citizens that someone in charge doesn’t want voting.
The North Carolina bill also includes other provisions that will lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters, such as a reduction of early voting days.
However, we don’t want to be sticklers; we would only make it a felony to directly prevent eligible American citizens from voting, not indirectly — for example, by making it more difficult for college students to vote , curbing mail-in voting , or criminalizing voter registration drives .
Heck, we would even go as far as saying that only those lawmakers should be prosecuted and jailed who support legislation that disenfranchises 10 eligible voters for every noncitizen it keeps from voting.
Or let’s make it 100, or even 1,000.
That would still mean that just about every single Republican in Congress and Donald Trump would end up in prison for voting to pass the SAVE America Act and signing it into law — a massive voter suppression bill that pretends to address the nonexistent scourge of noncitizens voting in anything other than negligible numbers by imposing a new, strict documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements that would place a burden on tens of millions of Americans.
So, if the GOP were to agree to add a provision making it a felony to strip the right to vote from any eligible citizen, we’d be all for getting it passed.
Of course, in that case, they may want to make sure that the disenfranchisement of nonviolent felons ends, or else the vote for the SAVE Act would be the last one they’ll ever cast… perhaps apart from voting for cell block representatives.
Let’s Make It a Felony to Purge an Eligible American From a Voter Roll originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
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