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"My grandmother was Dutch."

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Many states have their own, particular royalties. I've been reading about California history, and learning about amazing, talented, very smart people who were part of establishing San Diego. (Not including the Mission era.) Many of their descendants are still around, and they are not flashy about it. "Californios" are still a large, tightly knit community, and rightly proud of their history.

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The oddest projection from the artist is the one bearing a swastika.

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I had a one sided chat with the RWNJ at my last job about deportation once. I asked her why weren't we chasing down "illegalz" from the white/blond countries like Britain, Germany, Poland... All I got was a blank stare. She went mute. No comment, just a dead expression with the jaw agape. To this day, it frightens the piss outta me.

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I don't find the explanation for legitimate uses particularly convincing. In my experience sample ballots don't automatically get sent to Texans, one has to request one, I'm sure that at the point where one requests a ballot one could stipulate which language it should be printed in. The form is to get voter data FROM the Texas sec state, not to get information TO voters. "to help with redistricting"?? This is Texas we're talking about, the odds that the information would be used to IMPROVE the representation of people with Spanish surnames is near zero in my opinion, given the control the GOP currently enjoys in Austin.If you ask me that check-box is far more likely to be used to facilitate discrimination than to assist citizens with Spanish surnames. Maybe I'm missing something, but it smells.

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Why not both?

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Indeed, but then again, until further notice, here we are fucked, so the fuckery is still effective, and Roger fucking Stone is still free to move about the cabin.

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He sued as part of the committee, not a FOIA request.

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Anyone else moderately alarmed that people can buy voter data at all? This is a thing states sell?

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So you said, "state royalty".

If you weren't familiar, you may want to read about Emperor Norton (San Francisco):

Emperor Norton

'Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton, was a citizen of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States". He later assumed the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico."'

I just click around on WP a lot, this was one of the more memorable articles I read.

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This has nothing to do with voting. In Duval County/ Jacksonville, you cannot obtain any information about the ownership of a car by using the tag number. Not gonna happen, against the law doncha know. However, you can, if you want to, for thousands of dollars, buy a complete list of every car registered in the county, complete with owners name and address. I once ran a telemarketing company and we bought this list every year. So much for privacy.

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It's called the voterfraud commission because the commission itself is the fraud.

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(he should probably not claim it was demographic data)

Snark-o-licious 😂🤣😂🤣😂

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One of MANY reasons! I, myself, like the Rocky & Bullwinkle references 😂😂😂

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I should have known known it was crazy ben who drew this crap.

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And the frequent Monty Python references.

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