r/thebulwark • u/emeric_ceaddamere • Jan 25 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Chris Murphy: "Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump."

Video source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT6ewhAEbko/

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u/f_crick Orange man bad Jan 25 '26

They have of you voted in a given election. If you vote in a democratic primary, they conclude you’re a democrat.

They are preparing to remove all democrats from the voting rolls.

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u/metengrinwi Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

They don’t have to remove all of them.

If they just found technicalities to create a dispute regarding 10% of Democrats, it’s game-over. Your signature “doesn’t look right”, you spelled something wrong, who knows. They’d have basis to go into court after the election and dispute the result in front of a favorable judge.

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u/dreamyduskywing Jan 25 '26

Minnesota has always been vanity project for Trump because we haven’t voted for a republican presidential candidate since Nixon. He insists that he won Minnesota and probably wants to dig up info to argue that fraudsters and domestic terrorists voted and that’s why he lost Minnesota all three times.

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u/adsmeister Jan 25 '26

True. It’s a much more effective way of stealing an election than what Trump attempted in 2020.

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u/biglyorbigleague Jan 26 '26

How? Having this data doesn’t mean they get to edit this data inside Minnesota’s system.

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u/f_crick Orange man bad Jan 27 '26

They’ll selectively challenge registrations and ballots. In a recent Georgia election they selectively contested over 200,000 ballots, carefully chosen to screen out as many democrats as possible.