Your very first passport is subject to additional scrutiny. You generally have to go to a local facility that accepts applications, present your original documents, and attest that they are genuine. Then, all the documentation is sent to the State Department where they validate it all. When the passport is issued, your supporting documents are returned to you by mail. (I hope you didn’t have to move in between!)
In the course of Doing My Own Research, I uncovered classified footage of the party balloon, which proves Noem’s case that the balloon was dangerous and needed to be taken down…
If you can afford a BMW in the first place, you can afford the blinker fluid subscription…
If BMW truly wants to innovate, they should work on fixing their turn signals. They must always be in a state of disrepair, because I rarely see a BMW driver use them…
Indeed.
It’s quite simple. If the US had evidence that aliens existed, do you think Donald Trump would gave kept it a secret? He would make a big show of insisting to be the guy who they talk to when they say “Take me to your leader”, and he wouldn’t be able to resist telling us all about it.
Actually, you technically don’t. The only citizenship requirement that the Federal Government puts on voting is that you affirm, under penalty of perjury, that you are a citizen, which moves the burden of proof. If a government official thinks someone registered themselves illegally, it’s up to the government to prove it.
Some states will impose their own documentation requirements, with varying levels of force. Some states have their own forms that require proof, but still accept the Federal form which only asks for the affirmation. Others will accept the Federal form, but will only register those people for Federal elections. (A small handful of states do not take the Federal form at all, and I am not yet sure why.)
All states will require some proof of address (like a drivers license), only because they will need to know which district to put you in. Yet there was a court case in the 80s that homeless people without a permanent address (and presumably without their documentation) were still entitled to be able to vote if they hold citizenship.
North Dakota has no statewide voter registration at all, but that turns out to be a bad thing too, because it required proving eligibility every time someone votes.
More good info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_registration_in_the_United_States
It’s a remarkable story. I wonder what it is that makes the game so hard to port to other systems. It’s probably not structured the way a program in a modern language would be. Is that why so many devs struggled with it?
This makes me wonder who owns Lindsey Graham
Thank you, I try
Speech jammer? Really?
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Pure motherfucking magic, right?
That’s an awful lot of words, when you could have just said “No, I can’t tell you that.”
Can you tell me honestly that it would have been worse than what we have now?
Don’t underestimate how disasterous that last debate was for Biden. For many Americans, their last impression of him was a doddering fool who was up past his bedtime. I suspect that if he hadn’t run for a second term, but didn’t change anything else, he would be remembered better.
I am convinced that the real problem is how Republicans have seized the narrative on immigration, and have somehow made it so that anyone who is against their very heavy-handed enforcement mechanisms are somehow for “wide open borders”. (Note for most Lemmings: Yes, I know you don’t feel “open wide borders” is a bad thing. I don’t either. But just roll with me for a while.)
Republicans have presented this heavy handed enforcement as the only way to “secure the border” whatever that means. Democrats need to disengage on arguments on who we let in and make the discussion on the how. Focus on how the current enforcement methods are counterproductive, and actually makes us all less safe, regardless of who we let in. Leave those discussions about who for later.
And Democrats need to remind everyone that they had a path to making this all better towards which they made real progress in 2024, until Candidate Trump called a few Senators and told them to knock it off. They can’t try to actually fix the problem, because he was planning to run on how broken it all was.
Hey, it’s a Drew Magary sighting! Glad to see he is not just sticking to sports…
Our voting laws are a hodgepodge of Federal and State laws. The current Federal voter registration form (which States are obligated to accept) asks you to simply affirm (under penalty of perjury) that you are a citizen. Conservatives point to this as “proof” that the voter rolls must be filled with non-citizens, probably because they are so comfortable with lying.
In fact, some Conservative states impose their own documentation requirements, and if someone comes with that Federal form they accept it, but only let them vote in elections with Federal positions on the ballot (President, Senator, Representative). If there are Federal and non-Federal positions on the same ballot, they hand that citizen a different ballot, with fewer choices, only because they didn’t fill out the right form when registering in the first place.
But a non-citizen would be nuts to sign that form, because if they are found out then they could be prosecuted for a crime, and likely deported. And for what? The chance to offer a tiny bit of influence in our politics? Most people here illegally are looking to keep off of the governments radar, not to hand them a form that says “please arrest me!”
Furthermore, Trump’s ramblings are triggering some people because of his emphasis on names matching exactly. Yes, they prove citizenship, but many voting age citizens have changed their name in adulthood. Many women look at Trump’s rants as a direct attack on the right of married women to vote, because their original citizenship documents have a different name on them. And, sure enough, there is a push for Household Voting in some Conservative circles these days.
TL;DR: Requiring ID (vs. simply asking for a sworn affirmation) causes more problems than it solves, and people are concerned about this administration using it to push the country backwards.
Um Ackshually, they proclaimed Feb 6 as Ronald Reagan day because that was his birthday, and he used to be Governor of California, so there’s at least a connection there. Thatcher’s day would probably be October 13th.
Where’s the fog?