Stealing The Election 101

[Huntn]

Talk about a cult!

They’re desperate, have lost their minds and more than willing to take the country down if they can’t continue to hold power.

 

[fooferdoggie]

so many republican candidates are running on the sole item of being able to change the elections in favor of republicans.

 

[Huntn]

so many republican candidates are running on the sole item of being able to change the elections in favor of republicans.

ELECT US, THE NOT SO BRIGHT, BUT MAKE UP FOR IT WITH CORRUPTION, LYING, RACISM, DEMOCRACY- KNIFING, AND SPRINKLE ON SOME FASCISM TO BRING YOU KOOLAID DRINKERS THE WIN before we destroy ourselves or the country.

 

[JayMysteri0]

This is horribly disturbing

 

[Alli]

This is horribly disturbing

You’re being way too kind. It’s abhorrent.

 

[SuperMatt]

I didn’t know people on parole couldn’t vote. What a stupid law.

 

[JayMysteri0]

I didn’t know people on parole couldn’t vote. What a stupid law.

Seems many of them aren't always aware either.

Also, how do you go from NOT honoring your word on a million dollar payout if someone can find cases of voter fraud, they find multiple cases of republicans doing it, welch on paying out, but want to hit someone else who waited 6 hours to vote unaware they aren't allowed to for a decade bid?

If I'm a lawyer, I'm suing to collect that million dollars NOT paid, and using it for that man's legal defense bills. To me, if I'm the defense I'm showing Maddow's video as part of defense showing how Paxton's actions are NOT routed in any true effort to prosecute voter fraud.

 

[lizkat]

There seems to be no aspect of or option for voter suppression that this iteration of the GOP is willing to leave behind. And unfortunately it appears they now often have a majority of the current Supreme Court justices ready to give them a boost when necessary.

The conservative majority on the high court seems to have discovered new levels of difficulty in reading past rulings on and the clear text of all that has not already been pruned out of the Voting Rights Act, and so in effect they were rewriting that act from the bench while addressing the latest Arizona law's stipulations. A whole new twist on options for "judicial activism", I guess.

Well at least we have Kagan's plainspoken dissent from the Supreme Court ruling in a recent go-around with Arizona voting law, with Alito writing the majority opinion. There's a piece in the Guardian about that with a link to a pdf of the ruling with Alito's opinion and Kagin's dissent.

‘Tragic’: Justice Elena Kagan’s scorching dissent on US voter suppression

The supreme court’s conservative wing considerably weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and Kagan didn’t hold back

www.theguardian.com

From the wrap:

“The majority’s opinion mostly inhabits a law-free zone. It congratulates itself in advance for giving section 2’s text ‘careful consideration’. And then it leaves that language almost wholly behind. (Every once in a while, when its lawmaking threatens to leap off the page, it thinks to sprinkle in a few random statutory words),” she writes. “The majority instead founds its decision on a list of mostly made-up factors, at odds with section 2 itself.”

Well at least there's a trail of well toasted bread crumbs back to when this sort of mischief got the nod [again, for awhile? or until Congress gets off its behind and legislates a stronger Voting Rights Act to replace the gutted and now further maimed one we already had]. It becomes ever more clear that the high court should not have stripped out federal oversight of changes to state voting laws when it did. Contrary to the majority opinion offered up then, the idea that such oversight was no longer needed appears to have been an illusion.

The obvious solution is to re-legislate the equivalent of the original Voting Rights Act of the Johnson era, but the Republicans already managed to put the kibosh on one such effort back in June, and are apparently mostly opposed as well to the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Sigh. Well, as a guy who used to be my boss said one night after learning that a freak error in operations that evening had wiped out the source code on hundreds of modules of our work, "Hey if we did it once, we can do it again."

The only recourse Americans have now to regain some semblance of equal rights to vote --since the high court is backing up the red states' take on yet more restrictions in voting laws (and vote-counting procedures)-- is for Congress to put teeth back in the equivalent of our Voting Rights Act.

The Republican state legislatures' efforts to "eliminate fraud" are not evenhanded in their potential effect on the overall electorate. In fact the RNC's national chair made it clear at their most recent winter retreat that the GOP's aim is "never to have another election like this" after the 2020 Biden-Harris election. The only way the state chairs seem to think they can get there is to try for legal suppression of millions of votes next time around... even if some of those votes might actually have gone for Republican candidates.

It's time to phone Congress critters and tell them to work harder to shore up federal guarantee of our voting rights.

 

[SuperMatt]

There seems to be no aspect of or option for voter suppression that this iteration of the GOP is willing to leave behind. And unfortunately it appears they now often have a majority of the current Supreme Court justices ready to give them a boost when necessary.

The conservative majority on the high court seems to have discovered new levels of difficulty in reading past rulings on and the clear text of all that has not already been pruned out of the Voting Rights Act, and so in effect they were rewriting that act from the bench while addressing the latest Arizona law's stipulations. A whole new twist on options for "judicial activism", I guess.

Well at least we have Kagan's plainspoken dissent from the Supreme Court ruling in a recent go-around with Arizona voting law, with Alito writing the majority opinion. There's a piece in the Guardian about that with a link to a pdf of the ruling with Alito's opinion and Kagin's dissent.

‘Tragic’: Justice Elena Kagan’s scorching dissent on US voter suppression

The supreme court’s conservative wing considerably weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and Kagan didn’t hold back

www.theguardian.com

From the wrap:



Well at least there's a trail of well toasted bread crumbs back to when this sort of mischief got the nod [again, for awhile? or until Congress gets off its behind and legislates a stronger Voting Rights Act to replace the gutted and now further maimed one we already had]. It becomes ever more clear that the high court should not have stripped out federal oversight of changes to state voting laws when it did. Contrary to the majority opinion offered up then, the idea that such oversight was no longer needed appears to have been an illusion.

The obvious solution is to re-legislate the equivalent of the original Voting Rights Act of the Johnson era, but the Republicans already managed to put the kibosh on one such effort back in June, and are apparently mostly opposed as well to the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Sigh. Well, as a guy who used to be my boss said one night after learning that a freak error in operations that evening had wiped out the source code on hundreds of modules of our work, "Hey if we did it once, we can do it again."

The only recourse Americans have now to regain some semblance of equal rights to vote --since the high court is backing up the red states' take on yet more restrictions in voting laws (and vote-counting procedures)-- is for Congress to put teeth back in the equivalent of our Voting Rights Act.

The Republican state legislatures' efforts to "eliminate fraud" are not evenhanded in their potential effect on the overall electorate. In fact the RNC's national chair made it clear at their most recent winter retreat that the GOP's aim is "never to have another election like this" after the 2020 Biden-Harris election. The only way the state chairs seem to think they can get there is to try for legal suppression of millions of votes next time around... even if some of those votes might actually have gone for Republican candidates.

It's time to phone Congress critters and tell them to work harder to shore up federal guarantee of our voting rights.

I have a few thoughts about Justice Roberts and his BS confirmation hearing where we got to hear that he was against judicial activism. What could be more activist than striking down a law enacted by a unanimous Congress to preserve the right to vote with the justification that HE thinks racism is over. Being on the court seriously went to his head.

Post in thread 'Toyota supports politicians who favour insurrections'
https://talkedabout.com/threads/toyota-supports-politicians-who-favour-insurrections.1587/post-50047

 

[JayMysteri0]

FFS

Just SUE these Arizona republicans back under the rock they crawled out of, along with the cyber ninjas already.

In Arizona recount fight, Maricopa County and Dominion Voting Systems defy new subpoenas by state Senate

"The board has real work to do and little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land," Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers wrote.

www.usatoday.com

• Board chair: "The board has real work to do and little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land."
• It's unlikely a judge would force the supervisors and the company to comply.

Maricopa County, Arizona, supervisors and Dominion Voting Systems refused to produce additional election material on Monday in response to new subpoenas filed by the Arizona Senate in the state's contentious, ongoing audit of the 2020 presidential election.

The subpoenas, issued July 26 by Republican Senate leaders, demanded that representatives for the county Board of Supervisors and Dominion appear and produce the materials by 1 p.m. Monday at the state Capitol.

Instead, county officials and a Dominion attorney sent Senate President Karen Fann a letter outlining why they will not comply. However, county officials said they will work with the Senate to provide some documents sought via a public-records request.

After three months, the audit of Arizona's 2020 election results has surfaced no evidence of widespread voter fraud, even as former president Donald Trump and his supporters say otherwise and misinformation circulates on social media.

Those mccarthy flashbacks are getting stronger all the time.

 

[JayMysteri0]

And here we goooooo....

Georgia Republicans didn’t waste any time in using their new voter suppression law

Republicans have begun a legal process that could allow them to disenfranchise much of Atlanta.

www.vox.com

In March, Georgia Republicans passed SB 202, a sweeping new election law that erects obstacles between Georgia voters and their right to cast a ballot. While some are relatively minor or even popular, the most ominous provisions of this new law allow the state election board, which is dominated by Republicans, to seize control of county election boards. Those boards can disqualify voters, move polling precincts, and potentially even refuse to certify an election count.

The letters from Republican lawmakers are the first step in the legal process Republicans may use to take over elections in Fulton County, the most populous county in the state, which encompasses most of Atlanta. In 2020, nearly 73 percent of Fulton County voters cast a ballot for President Joe Biden. Biden won the county by nearly a quarter-million votes, enough to push him ahead of former President Donald Trump in a state decided by 11,779 votes overall.

Both letters ask the state elections board to begin a “performance review” of the local officials who oversee elections in Fulton County. The senators claim that such a review is justified because “nearly 200 ballots were scanned twice last fall” during the initial vote count in Fulton — a claim that was previously featured on Tucker Carlson’s show.

The reality is much more nuanced, and it suggests that the state’s existing systems worked exactly as they were supposed to work. Although nearly 200 ballots were double-counted during the first count of Fulton County’s ballots, Georgia conducted both a machine recount and a hand recount of all its ballots, given how close the statewide result was. And there’s no evidence that any ballots were counted twice in the final tallies that showed Biden ahead of Trump.

It appears likely that a poll worker in Fulton County made a minor clerical error, and this error was corrected in the subsequent recounts.

Nevertheless, it is probably inevitable that the GOP-controlled state elections board will open an investigation into Fulton County. And once this investigation concludes, the state board can use it as a pretext to remove Fulton County’s local elections board and replace it with a temporary superintendent who can undermine voting within that county.

Georgia law provides, for example, that any voter in Fulton County “may challenge the right of any other elector of the county or municipality, whose name appears on the list of electors, to vote in an election.” If Republicans appoint a temporary superintendent in Fulton, that GOP official will adjudicate these challenges. That means that Republicans could potentially flood the zone with frivolous voting challenges — which could be sustained by a partisan superintendent.

The outcome of Georgia’s 2022 statewide elections, in other words, may not be determined by the state’s voters. It could hinge on a sham investigation into Fulton County’s election administration — and by a partisan board’s subsequent decision to place a partisan official in charge of counting most of the votes in Atlanta.

From the group worried about election integrity, brings the actions based on absolutely NO integrity.

 

[Yoused]

We found a hardcore Individual-ONE loyalist in DoJ

By late December, as (CFSG) and his allies pushed conspiracies about alleged irregularities that he claimed stole the election from him, Clark told senior Justice officials that he knew of sensitive information that indicated Chinese intelligence used special kinds of thermometers to change results in machines tallying votes, people briefed on the matter said.​

("thermometers" means IoT digital thermostats)

 

[Thomas Veil]

This is just savage. Bill Maher on why Republicans continue to perpetuate The Big Lie.



It’s jarring to see Bill explain just how utterly unskilled and unqualified you can be and still be a Congressman.

 

[Roller]

This is just savage. Bill Maher on why Republicans continue to perpetuate The Big Lie.



It’s jarring to see Bill explain just how utterly unskilled and unqualified you can be and still be a Congressman.

It's worse when you consider people like Lauren Boebert, whose record of transgressions would be enough to disqualify her from almost any other job. Others — Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, and Marjorie Taylor Greene come to mind — aren't far behind. They are horrible human beings, but their constituents clearly think they're worthy of their support.

 

[Huntn]

This is just savage. Bill Maher on why Republicans continue to perpetuate The Big Lie.



It’s jarring to see Bill explain just how utterly unskilled and unqualified you can be and still be a Congressman.

Why I love Bill Maher: Congress: There is no other job where morons get paid to ride around in a limo.

Gee “stupid“ effects more than just beating COVID. Most here have figured this out, while the Republican power structure is busy trying to dismantle the country for its benefit.

The bar is really low in GOP country to place sweet sounding hucksters and co-Koolaid drinkers in charge of the voluntary self destruction movement. Maybe the feeling is if I can’t have my way, then burn it down, but maybe I’m giving the yoyos too much credit to actually realize what they are advocating.

 

[JayMysteri0]

I present to you, one minute of crazy & incoherence...

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1425140025700847620/

 

[Thomas Veil]

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1425841737176600581/

Police report filed after MyPillow CEO ‘attacked’ at South Dakota hotel

‘You’ve got to realize, I’ve been in all walks of life, I’ve had guns to my head, swords to my throat,’ Lindell says

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Thomas Veil]

And now that the symposium 3-day rant is over and he once again has failed to show any proof, he’s blaming Antifa. Somehow they “sabotaged” him.

If not for the fortune he’s made from his freaking pillows, he’d be that mentally ill guy living under a bridge, raving about people who aren’t there.

 

[Alli]

The pillow guy has quite the imagination. Maybe he should try fiction.