I know Trump went in with stealing an election but, really it was him who was trying to steal the election in 2020.
So, let’s list here how republicans are trying to steal the 2024 election (if someone wants to start a democrats stealing the election in 2024 go for it).
Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board voted on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay the groundwork for spurious challenges in the battleground state.
The hand-count rule is the latest rule change passed in recent months by a pro-Trump conservative majority of the board who say they are attempting to make the Nov. 5 election more secure and transparent.
Voting rights groups say the changes could allow rogue county election board members to delay or deny certification of election results, throwing the state’s vote into chaos, while the state attorney general’s office warned the board was likely exceeding its statutory authority with some of the moves.
I was going to mention the thing that you mentioned. Aren’t they asking for some dumb timeline like one day to handcount the votes?
Republicans really hate voters.
I am not sure but I think the goal is to stretch out the counting and, if it takes too long, the Supreme Court can then choose who wins (ala Bush v. Gore).
It mentions that luckily, some of the rules the election board is trying to implement are being blocked by the courts, but I’m not sure how many of them, and I don’t know if it includes the hand count rule. That rule is being opposed by local election officials and the Secretary of State, so we’ll see if it’s actually in effect by the time of the election. Supposedly, the hand count rule would cause the vote count to not be completed in time for a certification deadline, which might make it illegal and thus might get it struck down. Again, we’ll see what happens I guess.
Nebraska is trying to change itself to a winner-takes-all state, so that all of its votes go to Trump. Currently, Nebraska and Maine are the only states to give out electoral votes proportionately. Maine (which is more blue-leaning) is considering an attempt to do the same thing as Nebraska in retaliation, but it’s more difficult to make those changes in Maine state law, so that’s unlikely to happen in time for this election.
Republicans are suing more election officials over voter rolls in several battleground states
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Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.
Questioning the accuracy of voter rolls has long been a hallmark of right-wing efforts to raise doubts about the integrity of elections and featured prominently in 2020 when allies of the former president pushed false claims that scores of fraudulently cast votes helped Joe Biden win the presidency.
As of Tuesday, at least three dozen cases related to voter rolls and their maintenance are pending in 19 states, according to the liberal-leaning Democracy Docket, which tracks election litigation.
There’s the Republican led (elected) Supreme Court in North Carolina who overrode state law so that RFK Jr could be taken off the ballot, requiring them to create new ballots and delay early voting.
I just got my Georgia ballot link in E-mail. The state had the gall to say all the stuff that I have to do in a rush to get it prepped and mailed so it will be processed in time (Yeah, right. Like that’s even possible now.*) is to, get this, make it easier for me to vote.
Per the article I linked, they had to reprint ballots again but barely got them out in time. It cost the taxpayers a fortune. Thank goodness they have the party of fiscal responsibility running things.
Right. There are firm deadlines to certify. It doesn’t matter how the process was dragged out - as long as the officials haven’t formally certified by a certain timeline, then the state’s EV slate doesn’t go. And if enough states do this so that neither candidate reaches 270, then the election is decided by the House.
This, and also because opening up the ballot machines inevitably opens the door (literally) to more human errors. This has two potential effects: an opportunity for actual Republican shenanigans (like inserting ballots after the fact); and, by inevitably introducing some human error* and chain-of-custody uncertainty into the process, making it easier for some to make it look like it’s a hopeless mess that can only be resolved by throwing the whole count away and leaving it up to the electors. In short, it gives them more opportunities to blame poll workers for anything and everything.
As always, they’re inventing a fictitious “problem,” then turning it into a real problem.
*The few errors that hand-counting will introduce isn’t necessarily a big deal in itself – there’s no reason to think they’ll favor one candidate – unless the state tally is really close, like Florida '00 or closer.
Of course, it’s ironic that they’re introducing uncertainty and error, rather than preventing it.
Of course, a cynic might notice that Georgia’s small rural counties with perhaps 10K voters would be a snap to have hand-counted by the deadline, while the large urban counties around Atlanta might have a little more trouble getting their votes counted in time. If those big counties can’t get their votes counted in time, should the small counties votes not count in that case? Of course not, says the election board…
For those who don’t want to read the article, McDonnell is a former Democrat who recently changed parties and is planning a run for mayor of Omaha when his term ends in the Senate. He is term limited so he has no need to fear losing reelection and realizes going along with the GOP switcheroo would likely hurt his chances of getting elected Mayor.
In some sense, the Democrats share the blame for the conundrum. Mr. McDonnell, a firefighter by trade and a union leader, had once been a firm blue-collar Democrat, but his Catholic faith and social conservatism led him to support Republican bills that restricted most abortions as well as transition-related care for transgender minors.
The Nebraska Democratic Party punished him in March with a censure. Then in April, he switched parties and changed the balance of power in Lincoln, where Democrats had been able to use the Legislature’s filibuster rule effectively.