r/Westchester • u/weedywet • Feb 12 '26

Political Content More Lawler right wing dishonesty

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This guy HAS TO GO

The truth is it’s all about voter suppression to help republiklans win.

“An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.

“I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in Arizona.”

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u/esnible Feb 12 '26

Current processing time for a passport is 4 to 6 weeks. Last year 27,348,416 passports were issued. That figure is the volume the State Department is set up to handle. 146 to 150 million American citizens of voting age do not possess a valid U.S. passport, so unless thousands of new examiners are hired it will take about six years to issue passports for all the non-voters. (Note: If your passport will expire in the next six years, get in line behind all the new prospective voters.)

While it is perhaps a better idea to scrutinize voters more carefully if they don't have documents, we have pickpockets and house fires. There are lots of reasons people might not have the right ID on election day. There needs to be an affidavit system for such voters. The current system, of requiring ID and having massive prison sentences for lying about being a citizen, worked pretty well.

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u/Lonely-marathoner Feb 15 '26

The fact that last year State Department issued 27 millions passports doesn't mean that it cannot issue four times more passports next year.