The off year election that keeps on sending both earthquakes and tremors across the upcoming election landscape.
This should be a bigger story. I know it’s not as exciting as PP’s tweets or Dem infighting- but c’mon guys, they’re stealing the election right under our noses! Apparently postal ballots were also not delivered by the post office to the election commission in time, even after the commissioner called every hour to check. Finally a bunch of them were delivered shortly after the cut-off time.
I’m amazed at the extent to which goopers will go to steal an election.
Not clear who’s responsible for the fuckery, but it is clear that the courts should order a recount in the affected districts.
I swear, the Keystone Kops under the supervision of The Three Stooges could hold a more honest, efficient election than 90% of the voting districts in America.
And to think Canadians, using only pencils and paper, have their elections results within hours of their polls closing. And the results are rarely, if ever, contested.
I expect the results in the coming Alabama election are likely to be every bit as chaotic and contentious, with the added specter of hundreds of 1,000s of Democratic voters intentionally disenfranchised.
Oy vey, USA.
Link on the missing mail? Is it possible to get the names of the voters who ballots did not make it thru the post office in time?
I’M not at all surprised since the Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter-identification suppression law in 2008. It gave the R’s a legal foot-hold in their long range strategy aimed at countering a white voting block that will be getting smaller with each passing decade.
With the gutting of the voting rights act 5 years latter the strategy has borne rich fruit.
The 2016 Presidential elections have shown that even a small nudge can yield big rewards.
….In Wisconsin, the intent of those who pushed for the ID law was clear. On the night of Wisconsin’s 2016 primary, GOP Rep. Glenn Grothman, a backer of the law when he was in the state Senate, predicted that a Republican would carry the state in November, even though Wisconsin had gone for Barack Obama by 7 points in 2012. “I think Hillary Clinton is about the weakest candidate the Democrats have ever put up,” he told a local TV news reporter, “and now we have photo ID, and I think photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference as well.”
“Prolonged chaos” is the Republican operations plan. Saw it in Kansas, I’m living it in Illinois.
It is better though than Republican control.
The question is, will they be able to govern a country that’s so chaotic?
The problem is where to assign the ballots. A vote for a candidate in the wrong district just doesn’t count, even when the voter cast it with good intent.
This is one of those situations that anyone could have conceived of but no one believed could ever happen.
Then hold a revote.
You clearly know nothing about WI. In that state, which was kind of a dishwater blue until about 2012, the Rs held the entire state apparatus - Gov, LtGov, both houses of the legislature, AG. 6 of the 9 HoR members are Rs. Ron Johnson, the dumbest guy in the Senate, easily beat Feingold, the Champion of the Liberals, in a rematch during this election. I am a part-time resident, and own a house in WI. My wife’s relatives (she is the WI native) are all very very R. It’s R-red, and will be so for the foreseeable future. In 2016, the H and S of the State L became MORE R, and the Gov Walker will be easily re-elected. Because the Dems have no idea how to talk to rural people. It has almost nothing to do with voter ID, and almost everything to do with identity politics, and the Dems pimping of the liberal interest groups (gays, transgenders, illegals, illegals, gays, BLM, illegals).
“Exactly why they were assigned to the wrong districts is unclear, as the registrar responsible died in April.”
Cue evil music
Some Trumpkin: It was the Clintons…again! Run! Run for the Hills!
Kidding aside, we all know who did this and why. Losers.
I am so sick of this type of shit that I have to rant:
Guess what? These are not just some “liberal interest groups”, these are PEOPLE. Something republicans just can’t seem to wrap their minds around. Not only are they people, totaled, they out number SWM/F by 10 to 1 (that’s my guess, if anyone has the real numbers feel free to correct).
Please describe your version of Utopia. Oh wait, you don’t have to because it’s pretty clear it excludes the “liberal interest groups” and only SWM/F need apply.
By the way, it’s not the Dems fault you don’t like the way they talk to you. Blame your republicans, for they are the ones that have gutted public education, on purpose, to dumb you down so you believe them when they tell you anything. It’s much easier to control a populace if they’re dumb or can’t/won’t think for themselves. Try reading 1984 (though you’ll probably think it was written by some liberal with an agenda).
And as for your accusation that Dems don’t know how to talk “rural” people here are some words from my mother: You don’t want to be treated like a baby? Don’t act like one! And the same applies here, you don’t want to be treated like an racist, bigoted, asshole? Don’t act like one!
WaPo has a few stories on the Virginia race, but it’s all hidden in the back. I haven’t seen enough coverage of the fuck-ups anywhere.
Aaaaand the judge is a … Wait for it…
Reagan appointee!
Thank you for playing “Killing Democracy” the game any Republican can win!
(Seriously, one ballot being late I can say, yeah they got it in the mail too late. 55? That’s the USPS’s fault - the postmark ought to determine if they were mailed in a timely way. It shouldn’t take more than one day to get from a local resident to the local registrar.)
Do you think we’ll still have those annoying Wayfair commercials during the coming revolution?
And the beauty is, No Russians Required…
In typical Republican fashion, the Virginia GOP will have to go outside the law in order to maintain control of their choke-hold of Virginia State government. If at first you lose the support of the people, change the rules to subvert the democratic process.