Lumpkin County is a bit of Northern Georgia that includes part of the Chattahoochee National Forest and is perhaps best known as the site of a 19th century gold rush. It’s a Republican stronghold that former President Trump won by nearly 60 points in the 2020 presidential race. The local GOP also backed Trump allies’ chaotic and conspiratorial efforts to overturn his loss in Georgia long after those votes were counted. Last August, over eighteen months after President Biden was inaugurated, the Lumpkin County Republicans spearheaded an effort to encourage other county party’s to donate to a group that was behind conspiracy-fueled and thoroughly discredited efforts to audit and challenge mail-in ballots.
If Democrats were like Republicans, they would sponsor huge campaigns intended to create and reinforce skepticism about mail-in voting among rural, older voters. This would lead to significant long-term electoral gains as voter participation rates would decline among voters who are overwhelmingly Republican. This strategy would probably yield the greatest fruit in places like Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas where there is a larger population of less-educated, rural voters.
But Democrats are not like Republicans, so this will not happen.
The attacks on mail in and early voting was always an admission by Republicans that if the game was fair and honest, they knew they would lose.
If you cannot eliminate counting of mail in and early votes, it was always really stupid for Republicans to not get in the game.
I mean think about how dumb this was in 2022, Republicans insisted on giving their people a voting day whereas Democrats gave their people a voting month.
Noting that as a Democrat, I want everyone to vote, regardless of who they vote for. Therefore I am glad to see that instead of engaging in their tradition of voter suppression, Republicans have finally decided to encourage all Americans to vote.
There was a time back in the olden days when being accused of being a “flip-flopper” was enough to seriously damage a candidate. Why can’t the democrats run ads in Georgia saying, “If these Republican election officials can’t keep their story straight about how you should vote, can you reaaly be sure they’re keeping the voting results straight?” Just throw it right back in their stupid faces…
Well what do you expect from a state that elected Warnock, Ossoff and Marjorie Taylor Greene, not to mention that Clarence Thomas is from here, if we didn’t have crazy, we would have nothing!
If the GQP thinks something will hurt their game of grift and power, then it is communist and satanic. If they think it will help them, then it is American and godly.
And Republicans count on this every single goddamn day. Imagine if they showed photos of Don Jr having sex in the House. Seriously. Imagine it. Sorry for that image.
There are two types of people living in Lumpkin Co. The rednecks flying the Confederate flag on their properties and the refugees of Atlanta’s Suburbia that were driven out of their homes by the presence of East and South Asians in their communities.
What now is Lumpkin Co. was territory that was reserved for the Cherokees by a Treaty, but gold was found there and the Andrew Jackson told the SCOTUS to shove their desition where the light didn’t shine and Cherokees were ethnically cleansed. I found a plate in a forest saying: “From the beginning of time until 1835 this was the land of the Cherokees”.
The main town in the county Dahlonega, to say it was a “sundown town”, would be an upgrade, it was a “Any-time-of-day town” .
Atlanta and it’s suburbs is a blue island in a red sea, there are a few islets, like Athens and Savannah. I live very close to the littoral, I can see where Trumpland begins.
The rightists are going to ballot-harvest all their illegally-employed fruit pickers: sign this straight-Republican-ticket ballot or be fired and deported.
The GOP’s newfound love for mail-in voting will lead to many many instances of proven mail-in voting fraud.
They insisted DEMs were doing it, so naturally they’re going to do it. But they’re also stupid, and probably think it’s like filling out multiple entries to win a contest for a new car.
And maybe we’ll even find out there was an well-funded behind-the-scenes campaign to falsify voting registrations to add more Republican voters to the mix.
According to the Washington Post, after the initial launch, the party’s “Unite The Right” initiative was renamed to “avoid echoing the name” of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally. It is now called “United Saves America.”
So they go from a racist name to an incoherent one. Seems about right…
