Get ready: Republican election disruption is coming

[Politruk]

Get ready: Republican election disruption is coming.

Election Night is still three weeks away, but I’m prepared right now to make a prediction with total confidence. Whichever presidential candidate is leading on that night, and however many ballots still need to be counted, Donald Trump will claim victory and dare the world to dispute him.
It might be at a moment when a “red mirage” makes it look like Trump is ahead, but only because absentee ballots have yet to be tallied.

Or it might just be because it’s what happened last time, when Trump took the advice of Rudy Giuliani and announced he had won although ultimately, he lost.

Reports of what went on behind the scenes on that night in 2020 make it clear there was a real debate in the Trump camp about whether to make that outrageous claim. But there won’t be a moment’s hesitation this time.

That’s because it will be just one more step in executing a massive MAGA election-disruption, dirty-tricks scheme that is already well underway on multiple fronts with the goal of preventing a Trump loss no matter what.

It’s a scheme that ranges from seeding local election offices with loyalists to changing election laws in key states (and coming really close to changing them at the federal level), to filing multiple lawsuits ahead of Election Day.

 

[lessOHmo]

Nice post, BB

 

[butters]

Georgia judge says county election officials cannot delay or decline certification of election results

County election officials in Georgia cannot delay or decline to certify election results, a state judge ruled Monday, dealing a blow to an effort by conservatives in the critical battleground state to gain the legal right to reject results based on a suspicion of fraud or abuse.

“Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an 11-page ruling. “Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”

McBurney said in his ruling that while local superintendents have an obligation to “investigate concerns about miscounts,” such concern “is not cause to delay or decline certification.”

“If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so – because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud – refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced,” McBurney wrote. “Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen.”

unexpected but great news.
no doubt they'll try to get it overruled but maybe it'll strengthen the resolve of other judges facing similar challenges.

 

[Bray123]

Hopefully all the MAGATs are read to get out and vote on January 5th. If not, they'll only have themselves to blame.

https://imgur.com/7qxSltj

 

[butters]

Virginia Election Officials Refuse to Certify November Vote Amid Lawsuit

still playing the tired game from 2020 about not being able to guarantee voting machines are counting votes properly, are 'secretly connected to the internet' and could be manipulated by externally generated algorithms.

and these are top officials in Waynesboro: Curtis Lilly, the chairman of the Waynesboro Electoral Board, and Scott Mares, the board's vice chair

fortunately, a voice of reason is arguing against them in the joint force of Virginia Department of Elections Commissioner Susan Beals and State Board of Elections Chairman John O'Bannon.

 

[Bn2f]

Hopefully all the MAGATs are read to get out and vote on January 5th. If not, they'll only have themselves to blame.

https://imgur.com/7qxSltj

"Thank you very much, darling."

 

[deckardB26354]

Hopefully all the MAGATs are read to get out and vote on January 5th. If not, they'll only have themselves to blame.

https://imgur.com/7qxSltj

What a senile OLD loser.

 

[Politruk]

Virginia Election Officials Refuse to Certify November Vote Amid Lawsuit

still playing the tired game from 2020 about not being able to guarantee voting machines are counting votes properly, are 'secretly connected to the internet' and could be manipulated by externally generated algorithms.

You know, it is not difficult to disconnect a machine from the Internet.

 

[Politruk]

They're already pounding the "stolen election" meme.

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=160d16e3ac3b4717ae1cf354be3487d3&ei=38

and musk continues to push malicious voter disinformation on X in attempts to stir resentment and to play into the sense of a 'rigged' election if Harris wins

musk claimed in his post on X that Michigan has more registered voters than eligible citizens. This led to a back and forth between himself and Benson, Michigan's Secy. of State:

“Here are the facts: There aren’t more voters than citizens in Michigan,” Benson said. “There are 7.2 million active registered voters and 7.9 (million) citizens of voting age in our state. Musk is pushing a misleading number that includes 1.2 million inactive records slated for removal in accordance with the law.”

Firing back at Benson, Musk said Sunday she was “blatantly lying to the public” and that she “only” intends “to remove the ineligible voters AFTER this election. That necessarily means that there are far more people registered to vote than there [are] eligible voters,” Musk added.

Benson responded again Sunday, saying “In Michigan we tell the truth and we follow the law. I suggest you do the same,” she continued.

The back-and-forth stretched into Monday, with Musk then questioning Benson if she is “removing the ineligible voters before the election[.]”

“Thanks for asking!” Benson responded, along with a link to a Michigan government website on “[v]oter registration cancellation procedures[.]” “Here’s an explainer of all we do to ensure our voter registration database is accurate.”

 

[MajorRewrite]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=160d16e3ac3b4717ae1cf354be3487d3&ei=38

and musk continues to push malicious voter disinformation on X in attempts to stir resentment and to play into the sense of a 'rigged' election if Harris wins

musk claimed in his post on X that Michigan has more registered voters than eligible citizens. This led to a back and forth between himself and Benson, Michigan's Secy. of State:

Musk is as bad at debate as HisArpy. Pathetic.

 

[butters]

Judge tosses GOP congressmen's lawsuit over Pennsylvania's overseas and military votes

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit by six Republican members of Congress seeking to make Pennsylvania election officials institute new checks confirming the identity of soldiers, sailors, and others who vote from overseas and to make sure they're eligible.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner said he agreed with the defendants — Secretary of State Al Schmidt and one of his top deputies — who argued there were no grounds to sue and that the case was launched too late and too close to Election Day.

The Pennsylvania congressmen “provide no good excuse for waiting until barely a month before the election to bring this lawsuit,” Conner wrote. More than 25,000 overseas ballots had already been sent out when the case was filed in late September, the judge noted.

The lawsuit was filed by six of the state’s eight Republican members of the U.S. House: Reps. Guy Reschenthaler, Dan Meuser, G.T. Thompson, Lloyd Smucker, Mike Kelly and Scott Perry. The other plaintiff is PA Fair Elections, a group led by Heather Honey, an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting procedures.

 

[Bray123]

The polling averages are being skewed by Rapist supporters, who are pumping out Trump-loaded partisan polls.

Individually, these polls are ridiculous. However the aggregators like 538 are including them in their forecasts. The idea is not to convince Dems that they're losing, but to convince the poorly educated that the bankrupt fraudster is a shoe-in. Then following the election the felon will produce these fake polls as 'proof' that it was all rigged and tell his basement dwellers to try their hand at another insurrection.

Make no mistake, they will be better prepared next time.

The 2025 Insurrection is coming.

 

[Politruk]

The 2025 Insurrection is coming.

But this time, it cannot be directed from the White House. That will make it a lot easier to put down.

 

[SevMax2]

Judge tosses GOP congressmen's lawsuit over Pennsylvania's overseas and military votes

I love how pro-military these Republicans are who want to disenfranchise our troops deployed overseas.

 

[butters]

Voters were removed from Iowa's rolls improperly, an election official says

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowa voters were improperly removed from registration rolls by county election officials after challenges to their registration status were filed too close to the election, Iowa’s top election official confirmed Wednesday.

County auditors may have processed removals stemming from challenges that were filed within 90 days of the election — a designated "quiet period'' during which only limited changes can be made to voter rolls, said Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate.

Pate did not say how many voters were actually removed. The ACLU identified three counties that saw mass challenges. The Associated Press left messages with those three county auditors seeking the information.

The National Voter Registration Act requires a 90-day quiet period ahead of elections for the maintenance of voter rolls so that legitimate voters are not removed from the rolls by bureaucratic errors or last-minute mistakes that cannot be quickly corrected.

The act also protects against removal of voters because of a change of address unless the voter themselves confirms they moved or unless the voter fails to respond to a written notice and does not vote in two general federal elections.

Iowa law separately has a 70-day freeze period, requiring that most challenges to a voter’s registration status be filed before Aug. 27.

 

[butters]

Michigan removes Upper Peninsula clerks from election duties over planned hand count

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two township clerks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan were removed from their election duties this week after they planned to hand count votes in Tuesday's election, state officials said.

Director of Elections Jonathan Brater said in a letter dated Monday that Rock River Clerk Tom Schierkolk and Deputy Clerk David LaMere intended to conduct a hand count prior to the county process of canvassing the results.

their intentions flew directly in the face of Michigan law:

Michigan law requires jurisdictions to use voting machines to tabulate ballots.

Research shows that machine counting is faster and more accurate than hand counting. Brater said in his letter that the proper procedure following the close of polls is to store tabulated ballots in “secure, numerically-sealed containers."

 

[butters]

In Madison, Alabama, officials are trying to get ahead of the misinformation and fears over voting machines by holding a public display of them and how they operate.

Madison County Probate Judge Frank Barger says while there are a lot of questions surrounding the security of the election, he wants to assure local voters that their ballots will be under lock and key.

“This is a secure piece of equipment. It can not be manipulated in any way shape or form at a polling location,” he said. “It has no external access, it does not connect to the internet in any way, you can’t remote into it. The only thing that can be done with this machine in the polling location is to turn it on, count the ballots, and turn it off.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...1&cvid=49011fb9c31e499aff1fe3c155100271&ei=44

how sad that time, money and resources need to be used up for stuff like this when it should never have been necessary