Voter registration took a major hit as the coronavirus outbreak began, according to a new survey of 13 states by the Center for Election Innovation & Research.
Help is on the way
Gotta get busy peeps, hanging out at the local colleges registering those voters!
Contact your local Central Committee, or Democratic Club, they can hook you up with registraation forms!!
Let me guess - the voter purge rolls on unabated, right? This plus the strangling of the post office (translated - vote by mail) are the things that keep me up at night.
How much longer can we maintain a dysfunctional democracy? Even if Biden is elected, what then?
Because misery loves company, I will share with all of you the scariest thing Iâve read about this so far. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/3/21257133/trump-2020-election-meltdown-lawrence-douglas
âItâs not inconceivable that you have states that submit competing electoral certificates. And I wonât go into the nitty-gritty about how that happens, but it can happen. And if that happens and you have a split Congress between the Senate Republicans and the House Democrats, there is basically no way to resolve the dispute.â
This guyâs scenario seems much more realistic than anything else Iâve read about Trump not leaving office.
You mean besides republican deference to the executive branch going down the toilet? Depends on the senate, I guess. If we get it, Schumer or whomever should go nuclear on the legislative filibuster.
I would say that every republican should be asked if they will respect the outcome of the election, but it hardly matters since theyâll say whatever sounds good at that particular time.
It will be a stop gap until the next wacko GOP president (Cotton?) is elected and âhere we go againâ. At some point in the future thereâll be a â2nd Republicâ and for me, the question is how itâs brought about: through storm and strife, or a thoughtful and deliberate political process.
Then Democrats go back to normal and start shredding Biden because heâs âineffectiveâ, a âselloutâ, a âbanksterâ and usurer in a new Republican majority in the midterms because Democrats canât be bothered to vote again.
Did you expect otherwise?
Ha! Good one!
I think you mean âdemocrats,â as in, the people not registered as dems who show up to concern troll, etc.
Perhaps Biden will resign in favor of his VP before the mid terms. Heâll be 80. The important thing is that Biden gets us back to ânormalâ governance (including DoJ reforms). I donât expect much beyond reversing a shitload of Trump damage and investigations of corruption will be accomplished in the first two years.
He should go into the nitty gritty, because when he does, the picture he is painting doesnât come into view.
So, here is what happens: A Joint Session of Congress convenes. If their is an objection to a given electoral cetificate, each House has their own meeting to discuss the objection, then reconvenes the Joint Session. If either the Senate or the House still objects, the vote is not counted. If both accept, then the vote is counted.
So, in the case of competing certificates from a state, the end result would be, none of thatâs states EV would be counted. (The Senate objects to one of the certificates, the House objects to the other). This puts the onus on the States to ensure that they do not submit competing electoral certificates, because the end result is, they are disenfranchising themselves.
This notion:
is incorrect. Either the Senate and the House agree on a given electoral certificate, in which case it is counted, or they donât, in which case it isnât counted. But either way, the dispute is resolved.
Thank you. Good to know. Strange that this author would have it wrong.
Any action by Congress concerning who won the election is decided by the incoming Congressânot the current one.
No matter what Trump does, his term of office ends at the stroke of noon on January 20, 2021.
Period.
Full stop.
All this whining and what-iffing about Trump not leaving office after defeat is a form of lefty hysteria and should not be indulged.
Sorry, Iâm feeling a touch snarky today. I do expect Biden to work mightily to undo the damage that Trump has caused.
The problem scenarios arise at the state level, IMO. Thatâs where the lawsuits would be. AndâŚnot probable, but possible worse case scenariosâŚlawsuits challenging the validity of a Presidential election, will almost have to challenge the validity of all down ballot races, too. And all of that is being done while the clock is ticking. Congress has to convene on Jan 6 to count do this count. So what happens ifâŚagain, not probable, but nightmarish possiblityâŚif not enough States can verify their down ballot races for either or both Houses of Congress to set a quorum? Thatâs when shit really breaks downâŚbut that is EXTREMELY unlikely.
God, I love that scene.
Automatic voter registration just like registration for the draft. Also requirements that all polling places serve the same number of voters (per capita allocation of polling places) in each state, with federally mandated minimums and maximums, and mandated vote by mail and one week of early voting options for all federal elections, to name a few simple fixes.