Idk if you remember Palast"s reporting on the 2000 election but this is exactly how they stole Florida.
And of course they’re going to do it again. Conservatives have been doing this to black people for 150 years. It’s only in the last 25 or so years that the liberals have been purged from the Republican party that racism has become entirely partisan.
I look forward to the long expensive lawsuit that results in the draconian admonishment of “Hey, you shouldn’t do exactly this thing anymore.” from the courts.
Oh, fun, they use the USPS address change database to find people to remove. Thank goodness the USPS is a non partisan entity that would never be party to any worse shenanigans.
Followed by no punishment and doing a slightly different thing. They should run out of iterations in like 500 years, then WE GOT 'EM!
Or doing the exact same thing and nothing happens.
You would think all those smarty pants Law & Economics types at the University of Chicago would have wrapped their heads around the concept of a freeroll.
They have.
100% there is something very scurrilous going on here. How is it exactly 1000 people?
Like maybe there’s always a certain # of people who vote absentee then forget and vote in person. And maybe usually they just throw away the extra vote, but this time they’re actually enforcing it and making a big deal for PR purposes and to scare the shit out of people.
This will be a thread on Chiefsplanet within the hour I bet.
Republicans have absolute immunity to do all the fraud in Georgia (and more importantly, in Florida). They 100% can and will initiate “fraud” to prove it exists, thereby justifying whatever bullshit they have planned for absentee ballots.
What’s to be scared of, a prosecution by Barr’s Justice Department? Or Kemp’s AG? Or realistically, the Biden Administration? Total free roll.
The Democrats’ plan seems to be “hope Republicans show some decency.” How’s that one looking?
On election night there was only one thing that needed to happen to prove there was wide scale cheating, it not going to a runoff. There’s zero plausible reason for it not to have gone to a runoff without cheating on a wide scale. They’re so stupid they rigged an election that had basically a certainty of going to runoff. I even said that on election day before any results were in. I said if there’s no runoff, there’s big time cheating happening. Guess what? There wasn’t a runoff, and there was big time cheating.
It certainly seems like a GOP publicity stunt. It’s inevitable that people will double-vote, either by accident, on purpose, or simply because they aren’t sure if their mail-in ballot was counted (I guess that’s on purpose, but I kind of qualify that as “in between”). But the system should be able to weed those votes out and toss them. The SOS shouldn’t grandstand and say WE’RE GONNA GET YOU! Just make sure the system works, that the extra votes are thrown out before they are counted, and then go after people if necessary.
The fact that the votes actually got counted is the problem, not that there were some extra ballots cast.
I refuse to like this post.
11th Circuit just upheld Florida’s felon poll tax. GG FL electoral votes
Sounds like Bloomberg needs to set up some kind of organization to pay off these fines ASAP.
I read somewhere that the majority of these people have no fucking clue what they even owe and the state can’t even tell them because it doesn’t know for sure either.
Florida claims it will take 6 years to figure out how much people owe.
This is a huge deal.
The law, Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in the majority opinion, doesn’t constitute a poll tax. Instead, “it promotes full rehabilitation of returning citizens and ensures full satisfaction of the punishment imposed for the crimes by which felons forfeited the right to vote.”
Go fuck yourself you irredeemable douchemuppet.
I’m going to read the opinion now and get even angrier. Link:
I don’t even know what to say. The guy ruled the state has no obligation to tell people how much they owe.
I remember getting into an argument with @nunnehi when the referendum passed. He said something like it delivered us Florida and I said it wasn’t going to be in effect in 2020 because the GOP would find a way around implementing it. We argued of course.
LOL nunnehi.
