"One text says âYour absentee ballot is ready. Remember to vote for Pres. Trumpâs allies.â A follow-up text says, âThis is President Trump. Your early vote has NOT been RECORDED on Kansasâs roster.â
If the Dems knew how to play hardball, theyâd flood Republican precincts with another follow-up message from Trump saying âRepublicans who cast an absentee ballot must also vote in person.â
Attempting to vote twice is actual real voter fraud.
In a sane world, everybody who learned about this partisan dirty trick (the term is âratf*ckingâ) would be outraged at the party that perpetrated it. In our world, members of that party think itâs a smart tactic. Just like theyâve come to believe that lying, cheating, stealing, committing fraud, and stiffing your employees and suppliers is smart business.
That would make Kobachâs decade, all those people voting twice. He can practice litigation voter fraud cases.
I get the impression that it was just poorly executed GOTV targeting republicans. If they hadnât spent the last decade activity suppressing the vote, then everyone wouldnât be so jumpy.
The democratic process has lost all meaning for GOP fuckers. Gaining control over everything is their objective. By any means possible. The end justifies the means.
I got one of these messages in Georgia. There is some residual temptation to tell the sender to do something âunnaturalâ to themselves.
Hmmmm. Remember that text we got from Trump a few weeks ago? You know, the one reserved solely for national emergencies, etc.?
What Trump calls a national emergency is what others call another day in Crazytown.
Thatâs the way I see it. A very sloppy GOTV effort which runs the risk of inducing some of their supporters to mistakenly attempt to vote twice.
The first text probably went to people they knew had taken out absentee ballots intending to say 'âHey, vote for us with that absentee ballot you just got.â
The second text later in time was a more forceful reminder that the voterâs absentee ballot was not yet showing up on the list of absentee ballots turned in. And thatâs where the senders went wrong. Quite a number of these second calls probably went to voters who had already turned their ballots in â telling them that their vote had not been recorded might well make them think that their attempt to vote absentee had failed and they should try and vote in person. Such an attempt would fail but would subject them to suspicion of having tried to vote twice â a felony.
The third text was âWell, okay maybe youâre not going to use your absentee ballot but canât we at least help you out by giving you your polling place so you vote upon the day.â (By the way getting your polling place from us most probably means that we get your email and know that you at least lean GOP.)
Ill executed but not toxic.
In high school civics weâd laugh & shake our heads at the Soviet satellite countries and their absurd elections. How could people act like that was normal? weâd wonder. And now here we are.
In AZ our Sevretary of State(like a vice goernor) oversees elections. In our history that person hasnât done what Kobach and Kemp are doing in KA and GA which is run for Gov while running the election. That ought to be a clear conflict of interest.
I question how many of the rubes this wa directed to have digital communications let alone how to access much less read it. Ask Thomas Frank.
Hmmmm. Remember that text we got from Trump a few weeks ago? You know, the one reserved solely for national emergencies, etc.?
âWhaddyou mean ? This IS a national emergency !â