I do what I can, @zandru, meager as the outcome may be.
Anyhow, I’m out. I hope you have a great week-end!
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Elias agrees with you. The internals must be horrible and hence the lawsuits to suppress the vote. It is going to be Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride during the counting.
NEW: Here is the latest lawsuit in Georgia, complete with allegations about Hugo Chavez.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 19, 2020
It may not technically be a Kraken case, but its as close as we have in the US Senate run-off.🐙https://t.co/Jedbqb5afO
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May I ask the esteemed lawyers here why they don’t have standing in this particular case? And if they don’t, then who or what entity would?
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I’ve been burned by polls too many times to trust them, but if Mitch McConnell is actually considering passing a Covid relief bill (as paltry as it is) to help the poor and unfortunate, that tells me more than any poll that Kelly and David are in trouble.
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There are esteemed lawyers here?
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I actually thought the phrasing redundant. You don’t think so?
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Yes, but don’t know where you could place this and be: a) read; b) understood. Ever try to talk with one of these yahoos?
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She put the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, George Meros, a partner at the Tallahassee office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, on the hot seat as she prodded for how, even if she agreed to silo the ballots, they would prove that a new Georgia registrant specifically had filled out the bubble for a senatorial race when that voter cast a ballot in another state during the general election.
Good point Judge Wood. It also calls into question the claim below (from the earlier article):
They say that some of them voted in other states’ senatorial contests in the general election. That, they argue, is a violation of the Voting Rights Act’s prohibition of “double voting.”
Still, they only found 425 voters who they allege fit that criterion (though they say there are probably “hundreds more”) — likely not enough to swing the election, even if a judge does agree with their argument.
Did they violate the secret ballot of 425 voters or are they lying?
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How does a lawyer who files a suit claiming that citizens can’t vote in a Senate election because they might have voted in another Senate election, in another state on a previous date, when they lived in that other state, not get disbarred? That’s before you get to the obvious question raised by the judge: How do you know if said voter actually did vote in that other Senate election?
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Well, we all just presumed there were.
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Don McGahn. Rudy Giuliani. Alan Dershowitz.
Clearly your “here” was meant to exclude them.
I’ll gladly leave it at that!
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Oh, no. Not them. I meant our fellow posters who, when they’re not here, moonlight as attorneys in their spare time. I would value their thoughts.
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“…judges shouldn’t jump into ongoing elections and change the rules…”
Not shouldn’t. Can’t.
Signed
The American People
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Only one person is known to have done this and it is, drumroll please, a Republican operative who is currently under investigation.
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How is the risk that people will move to GA to vote in the runoff different this time than any other time GA has had a runoff? Or for 5hst matter between the primary and the general in any enlection? Isn’t that a risk they chose when selecting the run-off system?
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Each time one of these bullshit suits are filed by plaintiffs WITHOUT standing (they know going in- they don’t), why are judges giving these MF-ers any airtime and wasting time explaining to them? NO ONE outside of these privileged basturds would be giving the time-of-day in ANY court. WHY THEM?
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Like Joe said:
Don’t make it close.
EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRATIC VOTER MUST CAST A BALLOT FOR WARNOCK AND OSSOFF
The benefits will be epochal
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Good Lord, what’s that naughty, socialist dead boy been up to now? You can’t keep a dead man down! And the Venezuelan funeral industry is very concerned.
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That’s anyone’s guess, but one of my favorite comments about Chávez appeared in the NYT during the 2002 coup that (eventually) failed. Here’s what our brave and elite editors said while the coup was in “progress”:
With yesterday’s resignation of President Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chávez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader, Pedro Carmona.
Chávez had been elected, so he could only be a “would-be dictator” as opposed to an actual one, but the Times praised a military intervention instead.
If this does not reveal what US elite media think of democracy, nothing will.
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And you’re (thank the continuum) sealed in a spacesuit with its own atmosphere.
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Every Hail Mary lawsuit these idiots file reduces their chance of finding a judge who’ll rule in their favor. Even if they found one who was sympathetic to their claims, would any judge want to be the one to let the litigation go forward after fifty other judges, including some nominated by Trump, have tossed their bogus claims?
I. Don’t. Think. So.
Like everything else in the Trump maladministration, there’s never been a strategy here (the “elite strike” force is incapable of strategizing), just scattershot prayers. I am, however, disappointed that none of the federal judges has issued an order preventing further filings without leave of the court. That’s been done in the past with some plaintiffs who love to file frivolous lawsuits, and it works.
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