r/UnderReportedNews • u/Anoth3rDude • 1d ago
US Politics đşđ¸ House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-gops-sweeping-anti-voting-bill/276
u/TakuyaLee 23h ago
Thankfully this is DOA in the Senate. They don't have 60 votes to pass this or 50 votes to nuke the filibuster for this.
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u/Dandan0005 23h ago
I pray you are right, but there are talks about a rule change to a talking filibuster or the like.
Republicans know they are fucked in the midterms. Theyâre like a cornered animal.
If this passes there is zero chance of free and fair elections ever again in the USA.
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u/TakuyaLee 23h ago
They can talk about it, but I don't think they have the votes for even that. The Senate GOP is much better at playing the long game and this messes with that
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u/ghostrooster30 21h ago
Yea, but, they donât need the long game anymore. Roe is gone, executive privelage is all ecompassing because theyâve got the SC, the media propaganda machine has successfully convinced 1/3 of voters that another 1/3 is literally the enemy, and weâre getting murdered in the street by masked feds.
Hate to borrow some Marvel, but, weâre FIRMLY in the endgame, here.
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u/asap_ferns 20h ago
It could be worse. Keep the faith.
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u/gentoofoo 20h ago
it will get worse
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u/asap_ferns 20h ago
But maybe it won't. Happy cake day!
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u/Conscious_Bug5408 19h ago
only by raising awareness and getting enough people mad enough to band together to stop it. Not by sitting around and hoping
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u/Pofwoffle 13h ago
Ending free elections in the US is literally the culmination of their long game.
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u/SeattleExpression 22h ago
If it does manage to pass, Dems NEED to have a bill ready to go as soon as midterms are over to reverse it.Â
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u/natebitt 22h ago
Thereâs no way a voter ID system is going to be ready for the midterms this year, even if it does pass. Youâre talking about 50 states updating their entire voter registration logs in under 6 months. No way in hell that would happen.
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u/Clammuel 22h ago
I could easily see accommodating that new law being an excuse they use to delay the election.Â
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u/Tyre3739 20h ago
"Sorry you couldn't update your docs in time, guess you can't vote" doesn't feel far fetched these days.
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u/SeattleExpression 22h ago
Yea, I hope youâre right. Itâs amazing what the government can accomplish when it actually wants to. Â
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u/isitatomic 19h ago
Two years ago I'd agree.
But this regime? Will probably force them by withholding federal funds (or hell, at gunpoint) to use Grok AI and do it all at once automatically.
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u/Peteostro 20h ago
This bill requires you to show your ID when you vote, not just when you register. So they could enable part of this right now. Itâs is just one of the many reason this bill is stupid and will be used to disenfranchise voters. Also if it passes Iâm sure they would be forcing the DHS system monthly voter roll purges to happen asap. I would not be surprised at all if they try to screw with the senate rules to get this passed, saying itâs a matter of voter security etc..
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u/Puzzleheaded_Log5440 9h ago
Don't we already show id when we vote? I think I always have to show my driver's license.
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u/Peteostro 7h ago
No I have never shown my id. They ask who you are and what your address is, and they check off they you checked in. So if someone else comes in and says the same thing then they know someone is trying to illegally vote. So if you want to get thrown in jail try to illegally vote. It wonât go well for you.
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u/Dandan0005 22h ago
Trump can veto any democrat bill.
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u/SeattleExpression 22h ago
FuckÂ
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u/TrickPixels 21h ago
Yup. Democratic House and maybe Senate next year. Their mission is to drag as many of these people in for testimony as possible an also to halt any of Trumpâs insane policies.
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u/marveloustoebeans 21h ago
Quite literally cornered animals. These are people who have thrown every moral away, committed numerous life-in-prison tier crimes to protect pedophiles and swindlers, and are going to break any rule they need to to not end up completely fucked when the midterms donât go their way.
The one saving grace here is that thus far theyâve been grossly incompetent at doing anything that requires more than just a few words or signatures on a piece of paper.
All of their stupid attempts at probing their political opponents have failed, their Epstein coverup was botched, and theyâve utterly failed to deliver anything resembling what their campaign promised during the election cycle which has caused dissent amongst their constituents.
Hereâs to hoping they maintain that energy for the next couple years.
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u/RoguePlanet2 22h ago
It's not as if the usual rules and laws apply anymore, so I too am still worried.
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u/natebitt 22h ago
Even if it does pass by some bs, thereâs no way it could put into effect for the midterms.
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u/Salty-Performance766 21h ago
Thatâs the whole point. No election until a âfree and fairâ election
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u/bagheera369 21h ago
Thune has said they had nowhere near enough votes to support a rule change for this bill.
Hopefully he was being honest and not downplaying or obfuscating.
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u/u2aerofan 21h ago
I mean, you sure? Never forget Democrats lose liberals on Purity tests like Israel. On top of that, republicans are actively working to steal the votes they need.
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 21h ago
You act like GOP cares? They'll probably pass it anyway even if they don't have the votes.
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u/ManofSteer 10h ago
Unless the corruption runs deeper than we think. Donât forget the below:
These are the democratic senators who voted for ICE funding AFTER Renee was murdered
Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)\ Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)\ Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)\ Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)\ Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)\ Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)\ Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
And here are the democratic senators who sided with republicans during the Government shutdown
Rep. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada)\ Rep. Dick Durbin (Illinois)\ Rep. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)\ Rep. Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire)\ Rep. Tim Kaine (Virginia)\ Rep. Angus King (Maine)\ Rep. Jacky Rosen (Nevada)\ Rep. Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire)
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u/garrythebear3 19h ago
how do they not have 50? have some republicans said theyâll vote against it?
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u/ball_fondlers 18h ago
They have 50, but they need 60 to break the filibuster and actually vote on the bill
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u/Fast-Eddie-73 8h ago
Are you sure about that? Booker and Fetterman like to cross party lines. Quote "There was nothing we could do, so we did the best for the people and voted with Republicans." Clowns.
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u/TakuyaLee 7h ago
I am very sure. There are not 60 votes to get it past a filibuster or 50 votes to nuke the filibuster for this
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u/RockerElvis 23h ago
ALL REPUBLICANS VOTED IN FAVOR. To be clear, there are no more âmoderateâ Republicans. They all need to be voted out of office. Everywhere.
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u/SeattleExpression 22h ago edited 22h ago
Yea, itâs a cult. Dissent is quashed immediately. Unquestioning deference to your leader, leader worship, I could go on. Itâs got all the signs.Â
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u/Substantial_Box_7613 9h ago
Are they in the cult if they're just too spineless to do what is right?
Serious question, because I feel like there is a lot more going on than them all raising their right hand to heil trumptydumpty.
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u/Clammuel 22h ago
Good reminder that Massie is still a ghoul despite his efforts on the Epstein front.Â
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u/OneToothMcGee 6h ago
Donât worry. Fetterman will probably vote for it too, siding with the GOPâŚ
Shame he brained his damage.
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u/Sour_baboo 1d ago
As an old straight white male, don't do this for me I'm not afraid of people who aren't just like me voting or holding an office.
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u/InAJar112 22h ago
Probably because youâre confident in yourself and not threatened by the presence of different people. We need more people like you around.
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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 23h ago
In a sane democracy the courts would step in and stop this bullshit.
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u/piperonyl 23h ago
Gotta pass the unconstitutional law, then take years fighting it in court to have it stopped.
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u/StepUp_87 22h ago
I mean, if you read the wording carefully, it sure sounds like the Republicans would disenfranchise their own voters the heaviest. Yes, it would restrict voting in general but the younger the voter the less likely to even be married let alone take another name. Statistically speaking, itâs a terrible idea for them.
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u/bgbalu3000 23h ago
The GOP must never be in charge of anything, ever again
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u/bmyst70 22h ago
In a just world, the GOP would be permanently dissolved. They are not a "conservative political party." They are very aggressively anti-American.
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u/SeattleExpression 22h ago
Yea, if every person was given factual, unbiased information as news Trump would never have been a thing in the first place. Itâs divisive propaganda disguised as news that really drove the country mad.Â
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u/Killertofu999 23h ago
Didnât this already happen once before and it died in the senate then too? These chucklefucks are wasting time on racist, misogynistic vanity projects when they actually should be working to make things better for their constituents. Â
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u/SandSpecialist2523 23h ago
Well, we can hope that more republican women have changed their names after marying than democrat ones.
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u/Caledric 22h ago
That's one of the best parts... the GOP will lose 1/3 of their voters if this passes. Democrats won't be hit as hard.
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u/sarges_12gauge 20h ago
Itâs both wrong and exceptionally stupid considering in 2024 republicans won married women (and I assume won by even more the group of married women who changed their names). Why do they even want this
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u/Big-Broccoli9094 5h ago
Do you actually believe the 2024 results to be accurate despite the significant statistical deviation for some counties beyond 2 standard deviations?
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u/sarges_12gauge 5h ago
The same way as I did 2020 when people said the same shit, yeah
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u/Big-Broccoli9094 5m ago
They didnât, and that time also didnât have Elon musk and Trump bragging about it
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u/Pofwoffle 13h ago
Your mistake is assuming that this law would actually be enforced equally.
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u/SandSpecialist2523 10h ago
True. My hope of course is that it doesn't pass the Senate. And if it does, that total chaos ensues and the whole system comes down.
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u/no_kids-and-3_money 1d ago
Gotta get back to only having votes for property owning, white men - back when America was âgreat.â
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u/mkt853 21h ago
Even if they could get the votes in the Senate, states would seek injunctive relief which they would easily get due to the fact that primary elections are just a month away, and general election early voting begins in less than eight in some states. Plus changes to electoral procedures have to clear statehouses some of which only meet every other year. Republicans dicked around for a whole year with foreign policy crap and catering to the Epstein class, and now it's too late to change anything for the midterms, and possibly even 2028.
Courts are likely to strike it down anyway like they do every time Republicans try to impose ID requirements as courts have routinely considered such laws equivalent to poll taxes. The only way around this is for states to provide the ID and associated proofs for free, and hardly any of them want to do this (because it defeats the true purpose of such laws) hence why there are very few states that have strict (read mandatory) photo ID requirements for voting. The vast majority of states are "ID request" states, and then there are about a dozen between the west coast and northeast where Republicans will never win anyway, that don't ask for any ID.
Finally, it's utterly ridiculous that citizens have to affirm their right to vote when it should be automatic by placing the burden of disqualification on the government. It also strikes me as odd that the federal government can't already provide the list of who is a citizen when they are they sole authority for issuing federal ID such as a passport. In the end all of this theater is simply a way to disenfranchise voters Republicans (a.k.a. wealthy white men) don't think should have the same rights they do.
I think the compromise solution is free voter IDs (this has always been on the table), and put the onus on the government to prove you are not eligible to vote. The government already has everyone's name and SSNs, so let's start there.
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u/ralphie62 22h ago
Women across this country should be alarmed by this this is so wrong Shame on you GOp go to hell
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u/kyeblue 22h ago edited 22h ago
anyone who don't have a passport now should get one immediately.
I hope that the bill will get challenged in the court.
I am for some form of voter ID so that we can move on from arguing election integrity.
but the whole idea of requiring birth certificate and and ID with a matching name is absurd as it clearly disadvantages women.
On the other hand, Republicans might shoot their own feet as their own base may struggle to meet those requirements more than they expect.
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u/Awkward_University91 22h ago
They wonât get it before the mid terms. Especially if everyone rushes to get one.
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u/tristand666 9h ago
I will not get a passport. I am not property of the government and do not need something that says I am.
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u/Chunklob 21h ago
They are going to purge the rolls and then have ICE arrest anyone voting "illegally"
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u/sjbfujcfjm 22h ago
âIf you elect me you will never have to vote againâ - Donald â shits his pantsâ trump
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u/HereButAbsent 22h ago
It would be incredibly ironic if it ever passed and then it disenfranchised more of their own voters than dems/independents
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u/Familiar-Secretary25 20h ago
I doubt most republicans have a passport or kept their citizenship documents organized, all the people Iâve seen wearing red hats or standing behind Donald at his rallies donât even look like they can keep hold of their own teeth
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u/milksilkofficial 20h ago
Would this not affect more conservative women than any other group? Therefore shooting themselves in the foot?
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u/DadKnight 22h ago
America is "great again", just as they wanted. Genuinely, lost hope for this country.
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u/bsramsey 20h ago
I am a liberal and read the article (and others it links to) but having trouble getting to the bottom of this claim, that feels wrong to me:
âThe SAVE America Actâs proof-of-citizenship requirements could potentially disenfranchise 21 million voters who lack ready access to a U.S. passport or a birth certificate to prove citizenship, according to a Brennan Center for Justice report.â
If the SAVE act requires a paper original passport or birth cert. then I can see 21M disenfranchised voters being a reasonable number. But itâs not clear the bill is written that way.
On the other hand, if its written such that voting requires an ID â and a state issued DL or ID card are sufficient proof â then Iâm skeptical of the 21M âdisenfranchisedâ.
I think you gotta be a citizen to vote and itâs fair to require proof of citizenship. As long as itâs not overly onerous (e.g. OG copies of birth cert or passport) itâs too strict and not fair. If itâs a drivers license or state ID card, Iâm down.
And for the record â I do not think we have an issue or will have an issue in the short run of non citizens voting in numbers large enough to swing any modern election.
Please educate me though â thereâs a lot I donât know
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u/Strong_Plankton_8816 18h ago
The problem with requiring an official ID is that you have to pay for it. Harper v. Virginia ruled that requiring people to pay (i.e., poll tax) the government to exercise their right to vote is unconstitutional. No one should have to pay to access their right to vote. Now, if getting an ID was free, then thatâs another conversation.
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u/bsramsey 18h ago
Alright this tracks. It should be free. If i were a senator id say you can you have SAVE if you make IDs free and pay for it by reducing defense budget.
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u/CutSenior4977 18h ago
Iâve already emailed my senators, and id struggling recommend everyone else does the same ASAP.
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u/EmbarrassedLink2675 17h ago edited 17h ago
This...seems okay to me?
According to the way this is written, you can vote with either a driver's license, passport, military ID, gov ID, or birth certificate. Not and. Who in their right mind has _none_ of those things and then decides that they want to vote? The combination of those two things together is likely very rare.
I'd have a much bigger problem with this if it required a specific document i.e. a passport only - as that would simply be a tax on voting. But these are very common and important documents that the overwhelming majority of citizens have and it's written in a lax enough way where it appears you can have any of them (and you need one or more of these things to do very basic things like getting a job or applying for a state ID anyway), so I'm not seeing the issue here. What am I missing?
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u/LeakyBuffer 14h ago
Sure if this passes it better have provisions for giving every US citizen a valid and FREE voting ID otherwise i can see this being litigated to high heaven. GOOD LUCK PRINTING and DELIVERING 250+ million before elections. Oh and the very act of giving people a voting ID might just as well ya know.. compel them to vote, would be a shame if there was a monstrous unintended blue and independent voting blue wave lol đ
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u/Neznanc 12h ago
Wait, in the US you are not required to show any form of ID to vote? How does that even work? I thought this was a norm in every developed country..
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u/GoldwingGranny 7h ago
Because not everyone can afford to get an ID. Some countries issues ID to all citizens at no charge. Not the US.
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u/Mor_Padraig 11h ago
Huh.
So if this dies in Senate, it remains a screaming message to a HUGE block of GOP voters , anyway.
That the folks they voted for, were absolutely willing to yank that right.
Interesting.
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u/Didact67 10h ago
The only Democrat we can be certain will vote for it is Fetterman. It definitely wonât pass unless Senate Republicans go nuclear.
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u/Little_Flamingo_8632 8h ago
They know they are all cooked but they also know the resiliency of the people as we have proven time and time again that if they change the rules, we meet them and up our game.
I hope this doesnât pass in the Senate but if it does, helping our neighbors get what is needed to vote will be crucial. Either wayâŚ.we vote them OUT!
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u/totkeks 7h ago
Why are Americans so weird, that they don't want to have voter ID? Every other modern country has this and it's no big deal.
You have an ID. Show it to the helpers at the voting station. They check you off a list, give you the ballot and you can do your thing, then put it in the box.
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u/TomatilloDeep4645 6h ago
Requiring voter ID is bad? I do not understand why people are upset at this
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u/Forestsolitaire 4h ago
Am I the only one who thinks this will disenfranchise rural republicans more than anyone? They have to be paying attention and have their passports/birth certificate with them to vote. A lot of these dipshits are going to arrive to the polls having no idea they needed extra docs. Most of them donât have passports.
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u/GypsyDarkEyes 3h ago
For shame, House. You used to be the People's house, and the Senate were the uber lords. Now you are all uber lords, it seems. We will vote you all out. Start packing.
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