This is exhausting.
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Or they have a GOTV operation primed and ready to go for the likely GOP voters among the 29k who would have to go through the contested ballot process.
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It just seems awfully stupid to basically warn 29,000 voters that you’re trying to have their ballots tossed due to an error that was absolutely no fault of their own. People typically don’t vote for candidates who are desperately trying to punish them for something that isn’t even their fault.
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Allegheny County has Pittsburgh within it. It’s nearly 60 percent registered Democrats. They know what they’re doing here.
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Say the GOP does agree to the procedures that will be implemented. I would fully expect them to still file the aforementioned Election Day lawsuits if Chitler loses.
Because, you know…Republicans.
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Seems like a lot of work for a small return, but, hey, it’s not like logic is part of the toolset of the GOP these days.
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How will this be settled?
5-3… or 6-3?
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Yes
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They’re pulling out all the stops to either “win” PA outright or throw it to the supreme court. 29k contested ballots could make that happen. PA is “must-win” for the donbald, part of a landslide if Biden wins it.
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Fight it, knowing that they’ll probably get their wish, but make them spend as much time and energy for this bullshit as possible. Anything to take their eyes off Florida
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537 votes determined a bigger return in 2000, and this is 29k votes.
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I’ve noticed. They’ve concentrated a lot on Pennsylvania.
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I’m just hoping that Biden does well enough elsewhere that PA isn’t going to decide the election. I also hope the Dems can flip one or both of the houses of the state legislature. Of all the states I’ve called into, PA seems to have the biggest inconsistencies in administering elections.
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From here it looks like the new Ohio. And that’s not good.
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If the election is honest, the election is over and these sorts of activities by the GOP in Pennsylvania prove it.
There are 7 states Trump must win, Pennsylvania is viewed as the most difficult of those 7 states.
That is if you look at any electoral college forecast for the 2020 election, most have Arizona and Pennsylvania solidly in Biden’s column. Trump, in addition to needing to win 5 other “tossup” states, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Ohio, must win Pennsylvania, which Biden has a lead in the polls beyond the margin of error.
Or to put another way, Trump must win Pennsylvania but it seems impossible to win Pennsylvania honestly hence to win the 2020 election Trump and the Republicans must rely on Bush v Gore.
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Yes, but Allegheny county also includes Republican suburbs and Trump won one of the two districts where they’re challenging votes. My point is that if they get their way they’re likely to get a bunch of Republican ballots tossed too.
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I go with Sandra Day O’Connor’s interpretation of Bush v Gore which, after leaving the Supreme Court and before her mental decline she came clean about.
According to former Justice O’Connor, the Bush v Gore decision for her was about wanting to retire and have a Republican president pick her successor and had nothing to do with the law or the constitution. She was especially upset because Bush promised to pick a moderate to replace her and instead appointed a Republican hack. She was also upset that her violating her oath of office and constitution resulted in overruling the will of the people in favor of who would be the worst president of her lifetime.
So I view Bush v Gore along with one of the 5 in the 5 to 4 decision, as a majority of the Supreme Court saying to heck with democracy, the constitution, everything we have ever said or ruled on in our lives, we just want power and we don’t care what we need to do to get it.
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I like your view of the electoral landscape and outcome. I don’t think it’s going to end up in the SCOTUS. I really don’t.
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But there has been no harm. How can the GOP contend that the process that election officials approved and are currently working does not work, when the results have not even happened? Similar SCOTUS opinion recently contend that you can not claim that something is wrong without evidence of wrong doing. In this case the process went through the traditional PA election process and was approved by election officials. Nothing here shows that the process is flawed, except for the strawmen the GOP is painting. More sewing confusion for the American voter and consumer of local news.
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Sounds like a vendor problem that was well repaired. This isn’t some tainted sacrament. It’s petty and stupid.
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