If Jay couldn’t stand up to his dear old dad, who was the US AG…
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Desantis makes alot of proclamations…but doesn’t follow thro’ on anything…he has his elction ‘police’ but they have no authority…they just stand behind him when he is on TV.
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That one flows better because it’s close to his real name, but I don’t like implying he has that kind of power. DeFascist works for me. It describes all the over-the-top methods of control he has either tried or succeeded at while FL Governor.
He would be a nightmare President. Worse than Trump because he loves control more than chaos, but I don’t think he can win a general election by taking this act on the road nationally. At least I hope not. Also he’s short and has a squeaky voice. Not a good look for a dictator.
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I am so damned old… this is the second time in my life that Governors of Southern States have attempted to dissuade Federal Officials from checking in on their shit-fsckery at the polls. I believe we can skip the “happenstance” and “coincidence” options and just assume “enemy action.”
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What are Florida and Missouri trying to hide? Just keep security cameras turned on without recording any actual ballots.
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Once again, try reading the supremacy clause of the Federal Constitution, Article VI, Paragraph 2.
Its pretty clear the Federal law takes precedence over state law.
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I’m so sick of this shit.
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I would assume it’s similar for MO SOS, but I expect DeSantis is just posturing and “standing up to President Biden” because his name’s on the ballot. If he weren’t running for office this year, I doubt he’d be so vociferous. He’s just yapping at the big dogs walking by outside the fence, confident that they won’t actually call him on his bullshit.
I would be astonished if any Federal poll observers in FL or MO are actually blocked from entering a polling place.
ETA: from the LiveBlog:
That’s been the case for nearly ten years, since the Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision of 2013. Since that ruling, former Campaign Legal Center executive director Gerry Hebert tells TPM, the DOJ has not has the power to send observers inside polling locations, and has settled for having them outside the site.
So as it turns out, DeSantis and Ashcroft are just posturing, saying they will enforce the “Employees Only” sign that everyone is already obeying.
“We won’t let patrons go in the kitchen!”
“No one was trying to go back there anyway…”
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My above comments were made just after I returned from voting. And damn I had good timing. I walked in and there were 4-5 people a head of me, but one machine that prints the ballots was down. So that kind of slowed the line down. It did still keep moving.
By the time I got to check-in, get my ballot printed, there was a line of about 20 people. The got the ballot printer working, and everything was moving along nicely.
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Trying to understand why the ballots would be printed on demand and not just there?
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It takes awhile to process that bamboo into paper, duh.
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For the honest answer, it’s because we can vote at any polling place in St. Louis County. For the snarky answer see @teenlaqueefa answer.
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ok, thanks! Never lived in an area where I had similar options, so always had a paper one just handed off the stack (or mailed).
Also white robes, or Brown Shirts
It’s something new, but I still go to my old polling place since it’s less than a mile from my house.
I think this change was giving the County BOE some solutions to perennial problems like, not enough Republicans would volunteer to be poll workers outside their neighborhood, the constant changing in some parts of the county of where a polling place could be located, and it solves the problem of where to go vote by also having an app one can check to not only see where a polling place is, but also check on the wait times.
Last time I checked the app it was funny for me to see polling places clustered together, and some large areas where one wasn’t located.
All of this was made possible because we got new machines a couple of years ago. Went from electronic and paper to all paper ballots.
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It also seems useful for people who have long commutes. They don’t have to budget the time to go to the polls in the morning or the evening; they can possibly go to a polling place near their work during a lunch break or when they see the lines are short.
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Can Mike Lindell survive the night? Already very twitchy.
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Exactly!
You won’t believe what his people are finding!
And KS? Things must be pretty bad if Lindell is worried about Kansas…
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You are correct. Thanks for flagging this. I had just a few minutes to post and intended to point out that SoS Byrd didn’t even state Florida law correctly. I could have been more clear.
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