Comment on Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The fact that there are no other images of this is odd, but assuming it is at an early voting location today, perhaps they are pretending to be “ghost voters”:
As that drama played out, readers asked Snopes to look into social media posts and media stories reporting that multiple counties in the U.S. had more registered voters than voting-eligible residents. One such story was published by the Washington Timesand headlined, “Judicial Watch finds 1.8 million ‘ghost voters’ in 29 states, warns of ‘dirty elections.’”
Judicial Watch, a right wing legal activist organization, claimed to have discovered in an October 2020 studythat “353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens.”
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Some further important context, the ‘comparison’ Judicial Watch made to come to this conclusion was based on, on one side, ‘the most recent voter registration data for counties’ and on the other, a math-based population estimate collected over the course of five years.
It’s kind of like claiming that Johnny, age eighteen, is a different person from Johnny, age thirteen, based on height difference.
BluesF@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or perhaps accusing someone of short changing you based purely on the sound the coins make on the counter.