Every single lash Kemp takes from Trump pleases me.
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I doubt Wisconsin did a 100% signature audit during their recount. My recollection of the one or two ballots that they threw out had to do with a missing address or something.
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Yeah, thats what happened in Wisconsin. I got it backwards. But isn’t that theoretically possible? Like I said they did it in WI
From my understanding handwriting analysis has been completely debunked even by so called experts and is no longer admissible in court. It’s just a way for Republicans to suppress the vote. In normal times I believe they just challenge black or spanish sounding names.
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Powell loses again. The people have spoken.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/07/michigan-judge-rejects-lawsuit-from-disavowed-trump-attorney/3855194001/
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The rules about signatures date to before the debunking. It’s inertia.
Same. Even though there might be a point where the pressure becomes to much for Kemp and he does call for signature matching on envelopes and Republicans just throw out a couple thousand and claim fraud and throw it to the legislature.
I’m so disgusted with the Edems I’m fine with a crisis right now. The way I see it fascism is inevitable with the way the dems are operating, playing to lose. Our only hope is some big shake up.
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By the way for my backstory here on GA, and the ‘consent agreement’ that the GA SoS entered into due to a lawsuit brought by Stacey Abrams:
It used to be that to reject a mail-in ballot due to signature mismatch, it just meant whatever election worker at that county just made a personal judgement call. Stacey Abrams’s organization sued and an agreement was reached that in order to reject a ballot due to signature it required three election officials to review the ballot, and then a form needed to be filled out stating who made the decision and the date. Then efforts have to be made to follow up with the voter regarding fixing the situation.
Republicans are claiming that due to the high volume of mail-in votes and the effort involved in the process, that elections officials had an incentive to let things slide. Now I would argue that the basic assumption should be that the ballots are valid, and it should require extraordinary oversight to reject a ballot.
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GA is over. The safe harbor deadline is tomorrow (12/8). There is no provision in GA law for whatever they are calling for regarding signature audits. The governor is not going to call for a special session of the legislature.
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Still only .88 on Predictit, lol
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Of course, just amazing that all these trump fucks screaming about protecting democracy by trying to throw out thousands of likely valid votes on the flimsiest of reasoning.
Oh ok good shit, there goes my theory. good informative post.
The lawsuit won GA. Can’t they do the same lawsuit in every state that does this shit? Or would it not win in court and she kinda just got lucky Kemp/SoS came to an agreement?
Open question to anyone on this board:
Currently there are state certified results totaling over 270 votes for Joe Biden. Am I correct that after the 12/8 safe harbor deadline, that the only possible legal path for Trump to remain president would be through getting Dem electoral college members to vote for him? Like… is there any possible legal way that electors determined prior to 12/8 can be challenged and replaced after this date?
Yes, in Congress in January.
The Mother Hen read A Promised Land and has passed it along to me. I can’t say that I’m particularly excited to read it. What I do draw comfort from is the fact that Trump will never sell as many books or make as much money from his memoirs as Obama has.
My understanding is the the entire purpose of the Dec 8 deadline is that any electors ascertained prior to this date cannot be successfully challenged in any way (including and especially by Congress)
From my right wing forum.
fucking lol obama
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Seems like it is easier to roll back the most recent EOs. When Trump took office I remember him being able to roll back Obama EOs that took plaice in last 90-120 days.
Thats because Republicans had the senate.
If they get to 50 seats they can roll back all his EOs in the last whatever 3-6 months with a simple majority and then going forward to reinstate the EO you need to pass a law with 3/4ths of congress. Without the senate you can’t do shit. Can’t roll back the EOs at all.
Ya’ll should listen to the majority report, lots of good info.
Also apparently if dems win 50 seats they can actually pass a decent stimulus bill through reconciliation without any Republicans. Not like they would though loldems.
Theses seats are so unbelievably important and the house is doing almost nothing to help and neither are most dems. AOC fighting harder than like 99% of dems just raising money.
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The whole thing for the Republicans is goal post moving. Signature verification is just another photo ID. It’s meant to discourage and disenfranchise.
Easy stuff for rural and suburban whites to do and correct if errors in small counties/districts. Hard for inner city minorities due to massive number of folks, drivers license not automatic, etc.
Anything slices off a couple of points here or there is a win
Now Trump actually wants the 2020 votes thrown out. The rest of them just want talking points in order to justify more restrictive laws down the road.
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