The leader of the Stop the Steal campaign, the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, wants every voter in the state to register to vote.
Mastriano said on Newsmax last month that they might have to reset the registration process. There are a lot of dead people and phantom voters on the rolls.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled in the weeks before the 2020 election that there was no evidence thatphantom voters were a problem in the state.
According to Cynthia Ann Young, the stated desire to have voters re-register is a dog whistle designed to reinforce the racist belief that Black and other voters are not fully enfranchised. Many white, rural voters would be excluded from the voter rolls if his plan were to be implemented.
The move would likely violate both state and federal law, but election officials think it would be a logistical nightmare.
It is a bad idea all the way around, according to Democrat Edgardo Cortes, who was Virginia's former election commissioner. If voters were forced to re-register, it wouldn't do anything to prevent voter fraud.
You run into these things again when you re- register everyone.
One of Pennsylvania's most prominent supporters of former president Trump's disproven assertion that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election, Mastriano has repeatedly said that if he's elected to the state's highest.
Mastriano said during the primary debate that they would start all over again. Mastriano didn't reply to many requests from Yahoo News.
The Secretary of State is appointed by the governor in Pennsylvania. There is a chance that the laws on the books could be thrown out.
Mastriano said on the Eric Bombeck radio show back in March that he gets to appoint the secretary of state. I could decertify every machine in the state using my secretary of state's powers.
Black Americans were often presented with obstacles that prevented them from voting. Black Americans were not allowed to vote in the post-Reconstruction period. The requirements were put in place after African American men were granted the right to vote in the 19th century. The registration requirement was one of many so-called " Black codes" which restricted Black Americans' rights, including regulations on the kinds of jobs they could have and limits on property ownership.
The laws in the South were struck down by a Texas court in 1971 because they were a descendant of the poll tax.
The ruling stated that the voter registration procedures in Texas tend to make it hard for people who are qualified to vote.
Christel Temple is a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Temple told Yahoo News that Mastriano's plan was just a tactic to get votes. A lack of inspiring candidates and apathy are some of the reasons why citizens don't register to vote.
The most powerful groups in America have always wanted voting to be difficult for the people who aren't rich and simple for the people who are. When the U.S. constitution was put in place, there was no such thing as a registered voter.
It wasn't until the beginning of the 19th century that voting rolls started to be compiled in regions like New England. It took a long time for every state to create its own voter registration system. Pennsylvania created its voting system and standards in the mid 1830s, but Philadelphia followed its own law that mandated that assessors go door to door to register voters.
Alexander Keyssar, author and Harvard University History professor, wrote in his book " The Right to Vote" that the law's real intent was to reduce the participation of the poor, who were often not home when the polls were open.
In the decades that followed, as Black, Latino and communities of color gained more social rights in the country, groups that were threatened by their political fortitude began to institute other forms of voter suppression.
The Civil Rights movement may have had a negative effect on the poll tax ideology.
Young said that right's can be lost in another moment. Black people can lose what they have fought and died to secure without constant vigilance and organized struggle against racism.
We have to say loudly and clearly that their will be no return to a vision of a white nation that exploits Black labor and intellect without granting us, because Mastraino and his ilk count on us being exhausted.
Temple, the professor from Pittsburgh, believes that Mastriano may be able to keep out the same voters that he is trying to keep out.
The Black community is not intimidated by the attempts to replace voting restrictions with intimidation. Voting is no longer a matter of life or death in the South because of Civil Rights gains. The Black community is not presented with a painful emotional recall of the type of disenfranchisement that we fought to end during the Civil Rights movement.
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