Hypothesis, if there were that much brains in the FLGOP: it’s trolling those FL voters who voted a couple of years ago to restore the right to vote to felons who completed their sentence (Fun Fact: the GOP Legislature then turned around and said “completing your sentence” included refunding the state the administrative expenses… so did he?)
I’ve been seeing it for some time now including some threads here at SDMB. Still I did not think it’s yet one of those that can be just put out there w/o explaining.
Don’t forget, while simultaneously bragging that his strategy of focusing on key small swing states that tipped the Electoral College in his favor is what let him beat Hillary.
There is of course a rather considerable difference between felons having a right to vote and felons having a right to be elected to the US Congress. Criminal records are routinely disqualifying factors for many jobs, for access to rental housing, for loans and mortgages, and for immigration. But apparently not for trying to get elected to the US Congress. It’s good to know that the government holds its representatives to such high standards!
I literally cannot count the number of times this has been discussed on this board
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason…
That’s it. That’s the crime of treason under U.S. law, and nothing else.
Trying to “stop democracy” or “take office when they lost” is not a crime of treason. If they use force, it may be the crime of sedition. And, indeed, a number of people have now been charged with seditious conspiracy over the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
What Jason Mariner is doing is both ridiculous and appalling. It is toxic and corrosive and undermines our democracy. But, so far, I don’t think he’s committed a crime.
Apparently, the current Republican standard for treason if you are Republican is outright declaring that you are committing treason while sworn in during voluntary testimony.
If you are a Democrat, the standard is not being a Republican.
Not in Florida. We stopped letting people ask for recounts - or letting people look at ballots that a machine has already counted - sometime after the year 2000.
With this doofus I can see the wisdom in that and I just looked it up – Arizona has no mechanism for requesting a recount either. Is there a system in place for automatic recounts if the margin is less than a certain percentage? Here it’s typically 0.1% with exceptions for the smaller races ranging from 200 to 10 votes.
Yes, within a 0.5% they will run all the ballots a second time. If the margin is within 0.25% they will manually sift through ballots rejected for overvotes and undervotes. At no point does a human being ever manually review a ballot that a machine has already counted.