2020 US Elections

[super_city_si]

Ooooooooooh we were THIS close to the Hunter Biden story breaking wide open . . .

What an absolute fuckstick of a muppet. And how many millions will believe him?

Especially as all the info is supposedly stored on Laptop hard drive. total fabrication.

 

[west didsblue]

Especially as all the info is supposedly stored on Laptop hard drive. total fabrication.

They should try looking for it in a blind man’s shop in Delaware. I’m sure it’ll turn up there.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

You’ve got to be really old to remember a time when republicans *didn’t* get up to tons of shady shit around elections, but here’s a nice snapshot, via the NYT, of what’s going on around the country right now;


Pennsylvania: The state’s highest court has ruled that election officials should count mailed ballots that arrive up to three days after Election Day. Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to get the Supreme Court to reverse the order, so that only ballots received by Election Day will count.

North Carolina: Republicans and the Trump campaign have asked the Supreme Court to block the state’s board of elections from extending the deadline to receive mail ballots. The board has said ballots can arrive until Nov. 12, as long as they were mailed by Election Day.

Wisconsin: The five Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court sided on Monday with Republican officials in Wisconsin, ruling that ballots must arrive by 8 p.m. on Election Day to count. (A lower-court ruling would have allowed state officials to count any mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to six days later.) In response, the state’s Democratic Party is urging voters to return mail ballots in person — to a drop box or clerk’s office — rather than mailing them.

Nevada: The Trump campaign has sued to stop the counting of absentee ballots in the Las Vegas area, evidently hoping to challenge the signatures on many ballots. Last night, the campaign and Nevada Republican Party filed a separate lawsuit, seeking detailed information on the vote-counting process.

Texas: The state’s top court yesterday upheld a policy announced by Greg Abbott, the Republican governor, which limits each county to a single drop-off box for mailed ballots. The state’s largest county — Harris, which includes Houston — is home to 4.7 million people.

Michigan: A conservative judge yesterday overturned an order by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, and ruled that people could carry unconcealed guns at polling places on Election Day.

Should be a legal cut off when the primaries start that anything related to the ejection process can't be tampered with/changed.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You’ve got to be really old to remember a time when republicans *didn’t* get up to tons of shady shit around elections, but here’s a nice snapshot, via the NYT, of what’s going on around the country right now;


Pennsylvania: The state’s highest court has ruled that election officials should count mailed ballots that arrive up to three days after Election Day. Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to get the Supreme Court to reverse the order, so that only ballots received by Election Day will count.

North Carolina: Republicans and the Trump campaign have asked the Supreme Court to block the state’s board of elections from extending the deadline to receive mail ballots. The board has said ballots can arrive until Nov. 12, as long as they were mailed by Election Day.

Wisconsin: The five Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court sided on Monday with Republican officials in Wisconsin, ruling that ballots must arrive by 8 p.m. on Election Day to count. (A lower-court ruling would have allowed state officials to count any mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to six days later.) In response, the state’s Democratic Party is urging voters to return mail ballots in person — to a drop box or clerk’s office — rather than mailing them.

Nevada: The Trump campaign has sued to stop the counting of absentee ballots in the Las Vegas area, evidently hoping to challenge the signatures on many ballots. Last night, the campaign and Nevada Republican Party filed a separate lawsuit, seeking detailed information on the vote-counting process.

Texas: The state’s top court yesterday upheld a policy announced by Greg Abbott, the Republican governor, which limits each county to a single drop-off box for mailed ballots. The state’s largest county — Harris, which includes Houston — is home to 4.7 million people.

Michigan: A conservative judge yesterday overturned an order by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, and ruled that people could carry unconcealed guns at polling places on Election Day.

Tip of the iceberg.

Republicans do not want people to vote. Low turn out practically guarantees a Republican win.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

That's constructive.

Felt it was a funny comment worth rewarding. Do you feel slighted?

I’m struggling to see the “constructive” aspect of replying with the comment “That’s constructive,” but I’d never suggest it was not your right to share your opinion.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Should be a legal cut off when the primaries start that anything related to the ejection process can't be tampered with/changed.

The problem is that it even though it is a Presidential election, thus what one might consider a NATIONAL OR FEDERAL matter, it is ACTUALLY 50 COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT STATE ELECTIONS (plus DC), which each state having their own election rules.

Knowing how elections conducted and how vital both the Secretary of State and State judges are to the process, Republicans have focused significant energies in these areas. Indeed, it is often said that Governors are like the President of their State, but that merely magnifies how helpless even they are when elections come around and decisions are being made!

One would think the process would (or could) be made significantly more homogenous, such that the States had the same process and rules were the same everywhere. But, as with everything in America, it comes down to what a bunch of white, slave-owning, land barons wanted in the late 1700s, not what ALL Americans need in the 21st century!

One would think that the collective intelligence of the entire United States disappeared in 1800, and only these old white guys ever knew anything worth knowing about organizing a government!

Oh, and ignore the bit about a black man only being 3/5 of a man. That was just for “tax purposes,” of course, because when people are property...!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

FAKE NEWS!!!!

Joking aside, a Democratic turnover in Texas would be HUGE. Trump will lose his sh*t bigly if that happens.

At this point, BIDEN might be able to walk out onto Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and still have people vote for him!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The problem is that it even though it is a Presidential election, thus what one might consider a NATIONAL OR FEDERAL matter, it is ACTUALLY 50 COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT STATE ELECTIONS (plus DC), which each state having their own election rules.

Knowing how elections conducted and how vital both the Secretary of State and State judges are to the process, Republicans have focused significant energies in these areas. Indeed, it is often said that Governors are like the President of their State, but that merely magnifies how helpless even they are when elections come around and decisions are being made!

One would think the process would (or could) be made significantly more homogenous, such that the States had the same process and rules were the same everywhere. But, as with everything in America, it comes down to what a bunch of white, slave-owning, land barons wanted in the late 1700s, not what ALL Americans need in the 21st century!

One would think that the collective intelligence of the entire United States disappeared in 1800, and only these old white guys ever knew anything worth knowing about organizing a government!

Oh, and ignore the bit about a black man only being 3/5 of a man. That was just for “tax purposes,” of course, because when people are property...!

Hence why Republicans have been stacking the State legislator for the last 4 years with stooges and under qualified partisan lackeys; for precisely this moment.

They put DeJoy inc charge of the USPS who then hobbled the mail delivery in carefully targeted swing states. Then Republican argued in those very same courts they've been stacking for the last 4 years that postal votes had to be counted on or before election day in those very same States.

CORRUPT AS F*CK.

 

[domalino]

Ooooooooooh we were THIS close to the Hunter Biden story breaking wide open . . .

What an absolute fuckstick of a muppet. And how many millions will believe him?

Especially as all the info is supposedly stored on Laptop hard drive. total fabrication.

It's such a shame that no one has invented ways of creating copies paper documents.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

It's such a shame that no one has invented ways of creating copies paper documents.

And of course, nobody made multiple copies of these really important hard drives.......