MAGA election deniers are going all-out to rig Georgia for Trump
MAGA election deniers are going all-out to rig Georgia for Trump
The right-wing majority on the state election board passed a new rule this week that could embolden counties not to certify elections if Democrats win.
It really seems like election rigging should be a crime
88It is, but it doesn't apply in this case because bskdheiwhdh see vdvdhdkwjsjd.
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62As a cohort, the American gerontocracy is uniquely shitty. You almost have to admire the boomers’ tenacity to destroy everything before they die.
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Too bad we have a coward attorney-general.
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i really hope the Dems have a plan to combat this nonsense
85Watch it happen and complain after the fact based on historical precedent. Perhaps they will later appeal to the judicial system that will not care because trump spent his term fairly efficiently jamming it full of shit. Then instead of escalating the issue they will just let it go, because “decorum”
32Biden already made an admission that he knows these issues are going to occur.
Acknowledgement and action are different though. I assume that we're going to fuck around and find out because no one wants to get confrontational with the Republicans over it.
3Dems don't even need to come up with a plan - the Venezuelan opposition just showed them what to do.
Unfortunately, Venezuela also provided a roadmap to the Repubs. In the end, it may come down to exactly what you said: combat.
-1Is Georgia that important? Why not just skip it?
-45Georgia helped Biden win in 2020. Trump specifically asked Georgian officials to break the law to help him win in one of his many "perfect phone calls." They refused and the citizens rebuked Trump's attempt. That state is very much in play for Democrats (at least for POTUS EC votes) if they can control some of the meddling.
71hell yes is important
43Every single vote is important. Do not let Nazis gaslight you into thinking otherwise
27It would set a precedent. Imagine if we really just let it slide.
14TFG realistically can't win without Georgia. Almost all of his paths to victory center around the state.
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Election deniers is a bullshit term for people that are already preparing for the loss. Traitors is more fitting. Terrorists works too.
72The word you're looking for is "euphemism". The media always does this garbage to make the party of traitors seen like they have a point
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43Most notably, the law removed Raffensperger, who resisted Trump’s demands to “find 11,780 votes” to overturn Biden’s victory, as chair and voting member of the state board, which oversees voting rules and election certification. Instead, it gave Republicans in the heavily gerrymandered legislature more power to choose the board’s members, which allowed election deniers to gain a controlling majority of the body this year
Man, Georgia is going to be a cluster fuck this year!
40So, what's being done to prevent it?
21Well, Biden said publicly that he didn't expect a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses. One would hope that means that contingency plans are being drawn up for every possible legal challenge or disruption, all the way up to putting down a violent coup attempt and apprehending conspirators at the highest levels of government. Given the insanity we've already seen, and the unmistakable warning signs that keep popping upl around us today, to do anything less would be pure negligence.
Unfortunately, plans like that aren't something that can really be talked about publicly. We just have to wait and see and hope that Biden isn't going to fiddle while Rome burns.
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I hope Larrry David shows up to give people water!
7I would expect Georgia is one of the states where it's illegal to give water to people in line to vote.
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"Worst case" hyperbole:
Kamala wins. Georgia doesn't certify. The grassroots, organized far right decides this is the moment to mobilize. They pack up in the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, and Colorado and independently travel to their assigned locations in Georgia.
Before SCOTUS can decide there's violence. Densantis publicly states non-aggression while providing the rebels National Guard supplies: removing a front. The surrounding states join the rebellion publicly in order of education rank among the 50 states: Alabama (46), South Carolina (45), North Carolina (43), Florida (42), Tennessee (41).
The hyperbole becomes a joke because as a coping mechanism:
The dumbest motherfuckers from across the nation migrate to America's Southeast. Kamala quietly suggest we simply let them have the land and exile Trump: We could get rid of a lot of undesirables, fulfill the military industrial complex without needing to project power halfway around the world. Of course, all citizens would be welcome back, assuming they've the means to get back. Kick the ideological can to who cares because it won't be our problem. Much to her surprise everyone goes along with it without much objection.
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