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Lie, cheat, steal.
Georgia’s election board now has a conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results
“I believe when we look back on Nov. 5, 2024, we’re going to say getting to that 3-2 election-integrity-minded majority on the state election board made sure that we had the level playing field to win this election,” he said.They had a level playing field in 2020. Un-democratic bastards either believe the big Trump lie, or pretend to.
But they stand ready to do whatever it takes to help Trump steal an election.
“Clearly, the Trump allies have learned their lessons from the failure of the attempted coup of 2020, and they’re starting earlier and attempting to burrow more deeply into the most vulnerable pieces of the election system,” said Norm Eisen, a longtime Washington lawyer and chair of the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonpartisan election watchdog group.
The board’s new right-wing majority has instead aligned itself with the goals of conservative activists, drawing rebukes even from the Republican secretary of state. For example, the board this month issued a new rule that could empower local officials to refuse or delay certification of a county’s election results they deem questionable.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/politics/tru...
No. of Recommendations: 1
Yep, if we get through this, we need to pass an amendment making it easier to pass an amendment. We need to amend this whole process, we spend far too much time battling over who can vote, what is needed to vote, gerrymandering, purging the voter rolls, researching how to skew the vote in a new legal way, loading the courts, gaming the system so a minority can rule, etc.
My brother thinks Dems/Libs are a minority that want to rule the country. I would've asked him to explain except at that point the object is to get him to not explode - once he explodes it's off into a rant that usually has little to do with the conversation.
The problem is that nearly all of the interesting conversations are political. MAGAs generally can have those conversations on the internet, but not in person - they get too angry. I did manage to get him interested in a fix for the metal flashing coming off the fascia eve to the top of my aluminum patio. I have two overlapping flashings coming from under the eve that need to be sealed so they don't leak. Putting sealant in might no be difficult, but how to get the flashing to stick together so the sealant can work? I thought some neodymium (sp?) magnets might do the trick. Have to see if the flashings are magnetic (they might be aluminum).
No. of Recommendations: 11
My brother thinks Dems/Libs are a minority that want to rule the country. I would've asked him to explain except at that point the object is to get him to not explode - once he explodes it's off into a rant that usually has little to do with the conversation.
There are many ways to evaluate this. You could, for example, add up the populations of red state vs blue states and see which Governors have more votes in total. Or maybe do the same for Mayors in every cit in the country.
The easiest way, I guess, is simply to look at the vote totals in the Presidential elections every four years, as those give a pretty clear picture of whether more people are voting Republican or Democratic. (For those who say “Well, those votes are probably rigged” the answer is: Both parties have enjoyed full control of government at one time or another over the past 40 years, including as recently as Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2008 elections, so presumably they have had a chance to fix it, assuming it’s actually a problem (which ever analysis has shown it’s not. But I digress.)
1992 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican. Clinton elected.
1996 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican. Clinton re-elected.
2000 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican. Bush elected via Electoral College, not popular vote.
2004 Election: more Republican votes than Democratic: Bush re-elected.
2008 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican: Obama elected
2012 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican: Obama re-elected
2016 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican: Trump elected via Electoral College, not popular vote
2020 Election: more Democratic votes than Republican: Biden elected.
To be clear: Democrats have gotten more Presidential votes in every election but one since 1992. Minority? Not hardly
