Voting rights activist and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams aired frustrations over the difficulties she and others experienced in attempting to vote in Georgia’s primary elections on Tuesday.
from understaffed polling sites to glitchy voting machines to missing mail-in ballots. The chaos forced voters to wait in line for hours to vote in person.
“It’s a disaster that was imminently preventable,” Abrams said. “We found ourselves in the mix of both incompetence and malfeasance.”
Have I mentioned lately that the Republican Party is to be loathed?
The Republican Party is to be loathed.
The disaster wasn’t prevented, because the disaster was the design.
This is a preview of things and thugs to come.
Edit: That should be ‘eminently preventable,’ not ‘imminently.’
Making sure that Stacey Abrams had an unusable ballot was a nice touch–a declaration that “we aren’t even going to try to hide this, because we know we can plead ‘oopsie’ and get away with it” to the entire country.
It was a feature, not a bug.
Is there a patron saint of high-school level grammar? If not, then it is Jesus who weeps.
Either “imminently [sic]” or “[eminently].” Cringe-inducing, either way.
ETA: I had assumed the error was in an Abrams tweet, but it’s not anywhere in her timeline. So the cringe-inducement seems more likely attributable to TPM, unless someone can find a written statement from Abrams.
“Eminently,” not “imminently.” This site makes enough spelling and grammar errors. Please don’t start mangling your headlines like the click-bait ads do…
Not another republican can will an election unless they somehow cheat. tRump even said so. You don’t have to change votes, they can simply stop people from voting in various ways. Broken voting machine, faulty envelopes, republican poll watcher challenges voters legitimacy once they do get to the registration tables and having names removed from the voting rolls and never being notified.
Not only that, a correction is not imminent.
“My absentee ballot, when it finally arrived, had an unusable return envelope,”
I am not one to easily succumb to conspiracy theories, but I do wonder if any other Democrats also received unusable return envelopes…or was someone just picking on Abrams?
ETA: I see that @docd also wonders.
O/T
Typos are eminently avoidable.
Abrams said it (as opposed to writing it). The “imminently” appears in someone’s transcription (I don’t know whose originally; it may be her own; no idea).
TPM may have “borrowed” the transcription (again, I don’t know).
You can decide for yourself what word Abrams spoke. The video is linked herein:
Worked exactly as planned and designed. I’m sure every repug secretary of state is taking very careful notes for November.
I’m not going to be waiting with baited breathe for improvement
Did anyone see this? He’s blaming the problems on democratic districts and democrat poll workers. What a POS.
Not only was the disaster preventable, it took active measures to be so calamitous. The Georgia tire fire was a huge Repugnican success.
I don’t have any reason to spell-check her spoken-out-loud statement, so the fault lies with the original reporter and the subsequent cut-and-pasters at TPM. That’s three layers of cringe by the time you get to the headline!