Red state plans to run all 2.9 million voters through federal immigration database
Source: Raw Story
June 10, 2026 10:20AM ET
New Louisiana laws will establish stricter voter identification protocols and require election officials send every voters personal information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Act 5 by Sen. Thomas Pressly, R-Shreveport, removes provisional ballots from voting locations, forcing anyone without a photo ID to go to their parish registrar of voters and provide additional identifying documents in order to cast a ballot.
Previously, voters who didnt have or forgot to bring a photo ID could still show up to polls and cast a provisional ballot by signing an affidavit attesting to their identity. Election commissioners would forward the affidavits to the parish registrar who verified the affidavits by checking the voters signature and registration information.
Under the new law, voters will need to go to their parish registrar to vote on Election Day and must return within two days to verify their identity. This will require providing a Louisiana or U.S. military photo ID or some combination of official identifying documents such as a birth certificate and a bank statement.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/louisiana-adopts-stricter-voter-id-rules-that-suffrage-advocates-call-unneeded/
IronLionZion
(51,637 posts)-misanthroptimist
(1,904 posts)They could be a big help if they did understand it.
IronLionZion
(51,637 posts)it won't be fixed until after election day.
littlemissmartypants
(35,021 posts)New Orleans is sinking, and the land around it is disappearing, and they have NO PLAN for how to fix it.
ananda
(35,660 posts)IMO
cstanleytech
(28,653 posts)The same fate is eventually in store for almost every city in world that is near the ocean.
littlemissmartypants
(35,021 posts)My point is they are wasting precious time and tax money on fixing something that wasn't a problem to start with (manufacturing problems) while there are plenty of identified problems with no funding.
reACTIONary
(7,353 posts)....it seems to annoy people to suggest that we do what will have to be done anyway in advanced in an orderly and reasonable manner. Go figure.
jmbar2
(8,241 posts)Nearly all of them committed by people running for election, not armies of immigrants.
2023 The court found that 2 individuals voted twice in the election, by mail and again in person. Four individuals voted who were under court interdiction (declared mentally incompetent) and thus ineligible to vote. Five individuals submitted absentee ballots that did not have proper signatures or comply with witness requirements under Louisiana law.
2022
Jerry Trabona, former Chief of Police in Amite City, was initially charged by federal authorities with one count of conspiracy to commit vote buying and three counts of vote buying and aiding & abetting after his involvement in a vote-buying scheme during 2016 Tangipahoa Parish primary and general elections
2022
Hart conspired with Jerry Trabona, who served as Chief of Police for Amite City from 2005-2020 and sought re-election in 2016, by soliciting individuals to buy votes for them and other candidates they supported in the Tangipahoa Parish 2016 and 2020 Open Primary and General Elections.
2020
Delores "Dee" Handy, of Crowley was found guilty of failing to mark a ballot as instructed when assisting an elderly voter, a misdemeanor. She was sentenced to 11 months in jail which was suspended, two years of probation, and fined $800.
2015
In the 2014 Turkey Creek election, incumbent mayor Heather Cloud was voted out of office by a margin of four votes. It was later revealed that Stanley Leger, a campaign employee for challenger Bert Campbell, had paid $15 each to four mentally impaired individuals in exchange for their promise to vote for Campbell.
2005
Former St. Martinville City Council member Pamela Thibodeaux pleaded guilty to falsifying information on voter registration forms to allow people outside the district to vote for her in the 2002 city election. She was sentenced to three years' probation, eight months' home confinement, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and $1,500 in restitution.
2003
Tyrell Matthews Braud pleaded guilty to federal charges of making false statements to a grand jury in connection with his 2002 fabrication of 11 voter registration applications.
2002
Lincoln Carmouche was convicted of voter fraud in the Marksville mayoral race for bribing a voter. He was sentenced to two years in prison, which was suspended, and two years of supervised probation. He was also fined $2,050 and ordered to perform 64 hours of community service.
reACTIONary
(7,353 posts)....just how hard it is to run millions of names from one database through another database and reliably match up names. It could take them years to get it right. Throw in the lawsuits and the anger when substantial numbers of qualified voters are disqualified, and this is going to be a big fail.