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They should do one for zombies and sasquatch too.

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Hold up. Bigfoots were American long before the white man came. They deserve their vote, especially in the swing states. They tend to vote Democrat.

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They tend to vote Democrat.

Unfortunately their cousin Yetti is a libertarian…

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And Wendigos are full on maga.

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Yeah, in fact I’m really concerned about this, I think they should cover all of the fictional creatures, maybe also martians, better cover animals, too. Every species, list them out. I think Trump should personally oversee this, and fund the research. Just take it out of his campaign fund.

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Come on, man

Everyone knows Sprites, pixies, and brownies are the root cause of voter fraud. Unless they stop those beings, it’s going to do nothing

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And a bill for voting only once… oh, but then that might end up putting Republicans and their family in jail. 😢

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Oh, so they want to make it…like, double-illegal or something? Can we also pass extra laws to prevent murder–but, you know, more?

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It’s now super-duper illegal. That’s a technical term.

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They will put them on Double Secret Probation.

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It’s a way to push voter id and other voter suppression tactics.

It’s just life how whenever someone wants to censor media, it’s to protect the children.

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Vote for me, I promise to make crime illegal.

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There actually are a lot of laws that allow prosecutors to stack charges.

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The real question is what other things this bill will have.

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At best they’ll make it a fixture of the election that Democrats don’t support legal elections. At worst universal voter ID, no more mail-in voting, and hassling the fuck out of anyone that doesn’t “look American” or have an anglicized name.

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What a great idea. Solve a problem that doesn’t exist rather than all the shit crumbling around us. Heroes.

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Also, given that’s a non-problem, they will, in fact, never solve it. Which is exactly what they want. A “problem” they can endlessly demagogue whip up grievances about.

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Democrats should agree with this, and amend the bill to indicate that all citizens should have the right to vote (ideally with it being a felony to try to prevent them from doing so). Let Trump and Johnson explain why they don’t want that part of it.

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Love this idea, great way to sneak in Voting Rights Act that was pretty much DOA on week 1.

Anything that puts them on the backfoot and exposes the awful Republican policies in the light of day will work extremely well!

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Great idea. Maybe also add extra provisions that would give extreme punishment to those cons that were caught trying to vote more than once, as well. Call out those specific examples when it’s being debated.

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