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ICE arrests former Kansas mayor who illegally voted for Trump in the 2024 election
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If you read the article, it's a tragedy. He came here from Mexico when he was four and registered to vote in a high school field trip. He has a green card and just mistakenly thought he was allowed to vote.
They accused him of some severe crimes for voting, and he was able to eventually plead to some lesser offenses.
And because of that, ICE is deporting him back to Mexico, a place he hasn't lived since he was four years old.
Then, the article says this:
I still think he's getting screwed, but man, seriously, human beings are supposed to be capable of learning from their mistakes. This guy makes me feel embarrassed as a fellow human.
It's a conservative town of 700. Maybe at least some of them are capable of thinking or learning.
he's still supporting the very person who's kicking him out. i see no reason to feel bad. this is prime leopard eating face situation. i hope he lives content with the fact that he helped elect a fascist moron into office and got his ass deported.
I have to disagree. He voted for exactly this and has no regrets. This helps to possibly send a message to the other idiots that they are supporting the villains.
Yeah, definitely not a tragedy. Dude got what he voted for and doesn't regret the vote. If he means what he says about having no regrets, this is an objectively happy ending for him.
And, frankly, props to him for not changing his stance when it happens to affect him personally. I can't say I agree with or even really understand his decision-making process, but I can appreciate the consistency at least.
It’s a tragedy for Mexico
Nah, I have friends who were brought here as a baby that suffered because of this shit. Fuck this guy.
I am amazed of the voting system in the US.
In my country, I have to go to my designated box, in the designated table of the designated school, where three people will check my ID against the list of people who can vote there before they unlock the box where I put my vote.
The problem is Republicans use Voter ID as a Trojan horse to enact naked voter suppression. There are very few people who actually oppose Voter ID if implemented properly.
The issue is complicated by the fact that elections even for president are run by the states, because of the anti-democratic views of some of the founding fathers 250 years ago. Different states wanted to prevent different types of people from voting, some states took a long time to allow non-landowners to vote.
In my state, you have to have provided ID and be a citizen to be on the voter registration list, and they check my name against the list but don't ask for ID. So someone who wanted to stealy vote would have to know I was registered and was not planning to vote.
Me: "why didn't the US solve * easily solvable problem?"
Answer, every time: "Republicans"
The US is really struggling with this issue right now.
Every time this issue is examined, they don't find any voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of an election.
So, there's little reason to change.
We don't have any national ID that every citizen has, so if we start requiring more stringent identification, we'll greatly reduce the number of legal voters, trying to fix something that isn't a problem.
The government should know who is allowed to vote, so I don't really see how this guy was allowed to vote, either. But I think we could easily set votes like that to the side, and not count them until the voter is checked to be legally voting. It seems strange that there are big criminal penalties attached when people are simply making mistakes, and nobody is hurt.
I think we should just have a national ID that isn't specifically a driver's license, that people can get for free, and roll it out slowly, eventually so that all voters are going to have it. There is something that's similar, I think called "real ID", that still seems to be a driver's license. We need something that is primarily an ID that can also act as a driver's license, not the other way around.