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In normal democracies, the winner of the popular vote wins
Republicans have a backup plan if Trump loses again: fact-free allegations (e.g.,"millions of illegal alien voters'), bogus election challenges, trying to throw out state elections and send them to state legislatures, slowing things down so much that state elections fail and deny Harris an electoral majority, which could end up with the US Congress voting for president. And of course, stoking political violence (like last time),
We've already seen a number of late cycle voter purges and last minute election changes of election rules. Last week Lindsay Graham lobbied Nebraska to change their Electoral College apportionment. The howls of outrage and "RIGGING!" would be so keen if the roles were reversed.
Republicans are just getting started with their election shenanigans, here's one more example:
When Max Himsl opened his electronic ballot on Friday, he was dismayed to see a candidate missing from the list of options.https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024...voting-system/Voting absentee electronically while living abroad, Himsl saw that under the options for president, only Republican Donald Trump and Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were listed. Missing was Democrat Kamala Harris.
In normal democracies, the winner of the popular vote wins
Hypertechnical voter registration and voter ID rules are mainstays of vote suppression. Passing the SAVE Act was to be a sine qua non of of passing a CR to keep the government open last week.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1861...-voting-rightsThe SAVE Act is a proposed federal law, so, first off, it would put a future president (say, Trump) in charge of enforcing it, taking that power away from the states. Millions of voter registrations in any states the president decides are problematic could be removed until those voters “cure” their registrations, and state authorities would have no say in it.
And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change.
apparently the Montana SOS has a track record of rat ing Democrats
https://x.com/MamaSissieSays/status/1837722394368078142
I'm already mentally preparing for it. It's going to be a show
no amount of mental preparation can prepare you for what they're going to do
I am hoping Biden will, knowing he has presidential immunity, exercise his official powers as president to put a stop to Yam s’ ery, fast.
like how?
Biggest one off the top of my head: give DOJ leadership/investigators pardons (in advance) for any actions associated with an aggressive investigation of the insurrectionists.
pardons for what, exactly? not sure I see your point.
like, immediately ordering worthless merrick to jail trump and his accomplices…
installing extra scotus judges to balance the court, and make trump appeal his cases from prison even if appeals take years
ordering the transfer of power to resume with the doj acting as temp govt until swear in ceremony
new scotus of 13 justices can take their time to decide cases while kamala runs govt
this is all bonkers
of course it is...
just as bonkers as the GOP on their mission to steal another election...
the corrupt maga scotus is not credible so extreme measures are needed - or
goodbye democracy
You are free to move to normal democracy.
nah, I'm good
Lindsay Graham lobbying Nebraska to change Electoral College apportionment seems to have failed
MAGA threats on the life of state Sen. Mike McDonnell incoming...
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/09...e-all-in-2024/“Elections should be an opportunity for all voters to be heard, no matter who they are, where they live, or what party they support,” McDonnell said in a statement. “I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue. After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.”
McDonnell said he told Gov. Jim Pillen his stance and suggested that the Legislature put winner-take-all to a vote of the people, as a proposed cons utional amendment, so people can decide the issue “once and for all.”
Also free to want the one we have changed for the better
That's not the GOP's Plan A?
wasn't really needed as a Plan A until Biden stepped down
Never gonna happen cuck
Right, because too many re ed pieces of like you like living in worse conditions.
hilarious coming from the party full of crybabies whining how bad the US is
leave it if you dont like it tbh
In all likelihood this dude is also pro-Texas-secession. Patriotism is just a convenient fallback when it suits them, otherwise America is Sodom & Gomorrah.hilarious coming from the party full of crybabies whining how bad the US is
leave it if you dont like it tbh
so then, if MAGA crazies create chaos and violence at the polls, or just lie loudly about the election being unfair, the House of Representatives might have a pretext not to follow the Cons ution
https://x.com/bartongellman/status/1838606075706175706
the amount of voter roll scrubbing in the home stretch in several states *feels* unusual, but this is just shenanigans
Nebraska Reverts to 19th-Century Voting Restrictions, Clouding Rights for Thousands | Bolts (boltsmag.org)
On July 17, less than 48 hours before LB 20 was to take effect, Hilgers issued an advisory opinion stating that the new law was uncons utional. But Hilgers didn’t stop there; he also declared uncons utional a 2005 reform law ending lifetime disenfranchisement of anyone convicted of any felony; the 2005 law, Legislative Bill 53, allowed Nebraskans to vote two years after completing their sentences, a waiting period that LB 20 was set to eliminate.
In his opinion, Hilgers wrote that the state Board of Pardons—a three-member body composed of him, Evnen, and Republican Governor Jim Pillen—has sole discretion over whether to restore someone’s voting rights. Right after Hilgers issued his opinion, Evnen, the state’s top elections official, emailed county-level elections offices, ordering that, based on the AG’s stance, “we will not be implementing LB 20 and will no longer register individuals convicted of felonies.”
These moves by Hilgers and Evnen shocked Nebraskans who have spent years pushing for voting rights restoration. The new law had overwhelmingly passed the Republican-controlled legislature earlier this year, and Nebraskans with past felonies have been registering to vote, and actually voting, for almost 20 years with little issue or outcry.
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