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#Registration laws were originally intended as an inventory of noncitizens in the country, Morawetz said. But once govt officials obtained that info, they used it to aid the #detention of #Japanese Americans during WWII & #Muslims after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“Registration laws have a very, very bad history in terms of what they have meant when they have been fully enforced,” she said.

Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain

One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:

When […]

#counternotice #dmca #google #infringement #nonProfit #publicDomain #registration #shakespeare #takedown #usCopyrightOffice #youtube

walledculture.org/copyright-ma

This election should be the first election that we use NATION WIDE VOTER REGISTRATION data to measure #UnitedStates voter #electorate. Please go to your state and verify this data is public and available.
#vote.
#election2024
#2024election

Here is current list of voter registration in #NewMexico.

***By every measure, #Democrats are crushing #Republicans in voter registration in NM.***

Voter #registration as of August 2024 in
#NM
sos.nm.gov/2024-voter-registra

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@KamalaHarrisWin

#NorthCarolina #voter registration deadline #Election2024:

Friday, October 11 at 5 PM

NC has online #voter registration

or register during early #voting period via same-day #registration:

October 17 - November 2

#ElectionDay, November 5, same-day registration is *not* available

NC just removed 10 PERCENT of their #registered #voters!

they are trying to suppress your #vote #disenfranchisement

thehill.com/homenews/campaign/

check your voting status:

vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/

"A Gallup survey released this week found that 78% of Democratic-leaning voters say they are more enthusiastic than usual to vote. That nearly matches the record-high numbers recorded in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama rode a wave of voter energy into the White House. By comparison, just 6 in 10 Republicans say they are more enthusiastic than usual—a lower number than around this point in 2020."
dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/1/
#Vote #Registration #Election2024 #Democrats #MAGA #Harris

Daily KosNumbers don’t lie: Harris drives massive wave of voter registrationsKamala Harris and Donald Trump have both framed the 2024 election as a race to maximize voter turnout. For much of the campaign, that effort to energize voters has favored Republicans, but new ...

👀 Voter registration among #young #blackwomen took off like a #rocket across more than a dozen #states after President Joe #Biden bowed out of the #race against former President Donald #Trump, according to data.

As Vice President Kamala #Harris worked to secure her party’s support in the week after Biden announced his decision, #new #registration among the #group was up more than #175%, according to an #analysis from #TargetSmart.

nj.com/politics/2024/08/massiv

nj · Harris vs. Trump sparks massive increase in voter registration among this group: ‘You just don’t see that’By Matt Arco | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com