Originally published at: Safeguards Will Block Georgia Board From Blocking Certification Indefinitely. But Delays Could Still Wreak Havoc - TPM – Talking Points Memo
While Georgia has safeguards in place to prevent officials from indefinitely refusing to certify the results of the upcoming election, the newly approved rules by the MAGA-controlled Georgia State Election board have the potential to delay election certification for up to seven days. Experts tell TPM such a delay could open the floodgates to potential…
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Hopefully the trump defeat will be so large that Georgia’s 16 electoral votes will not be needed.
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FIRST!!
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I encourage all MAGA county election officials to refuse to certify their voters’ election results. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Speaking of certification delays… there is a nasty bad hurricane headed Georgia’s way and at present they’re getting deluged by an unrelated rainstorm. Atlanta will see over a foot of rain in hours, It will be epically bad for the whole state. It will take time to recover from this. There’s gonna be a lot of destruction to make right again.
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I assume you mean just the MAGA votes?
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They have to certify the whole county, not just the MAGA votes.
I don’t give a shit if 12% of Jasper Lee Twittendale County’s votes don’t get counted for Kamala, so long as the 87% for trump also don’t get counted.
Go ahead, shoot yourselves in the dick.
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Oh they will certainly shoot themselves in the dick. But only after stepping on their body part to flatten it a bit so it’s an easier target. This is Georgia after all…
FYI for clarity… I have a cousin who lives in Athens, GA. She’s a democrat as am I. We two are the “left” in my extended family. The others are republicans but none are MAGA nut cases.
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Watching it pass me by about 230 miles west-southwest. Beautiful breezy day here. Unfortunately, the panhandle is going to get whacked badly with a potential 20 foot storm surge and category 4 winds.
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Looks like a colorized image of Trump’s vanity.
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such a delay could open the floodgates to potential threats of violence and upheaval, all while sowing seeds of distrust in the election system.
That’s why we elect Republicans to Congress – to sow seeds of distrust in other representatives we elect so they can foster violence and upheaval, thereby deflecting attention from their own criminal activity, and weakening the ability of law enforcement (especially the judiciary) to hold them accountable.
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Republicans are trying to generate delays so they can sow enough doubt that some friendly court will throw the election to them. Their problem is the law is clear, elections have to run a certain way and deadlines are solid. And, historically, anyone that has tried to monkey with the results, whether interfering with the certification or some other way, has been squashed quickly by courts that follow the law. This has included judges appointed by Republicans, including Trump…when the law is clear and the people expect votes to be counted it’s difficult to pull a fast one.
So, I don’t think there’s much to worry about with the counting…it’s going to happen the way it should, and all the shenanigans will just delay the inevitable at most. The only worry I have is that Republicans will try to drive doubt in the election through that delay, and possibly plan for violence around vote counting centers in an effort to destroy ballots…that will be in Democratic cities that output results more slowly because they have more ballots. Republicans have assaulted centers in the past, though they haven’t destroyed ballots before, but it’s easy to imagine rabid MAGAts deciding all the votes in Fulton county were illegal (whether cast by noncitizens or just Democrats) and trying to burn them so GA goes Republican.
I don’t think it will get quite to this, and hopefully the police are ready if there are any big threats…the way to avoid that is to make sure Harris wins big of course, if there’s no space for doubt then they will look like fools and unpatriotic when they try to install Trump as president.
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Just a minor quibble, given I was born and raised there. The “Panhandle” is on the relatively milder (though still dangerous) western side of the storm (think Pensacola to Panama City and on to Apalachicola), where gales are blowing toward the gulf. The “Big Bend” is going to get clobbered, with gales driving and geography channeling the surge toward the coast. It’s going to be deadly.
PS - And even as I post this, it occurs to me that we’re both correct (to a point). The far eastern “Panhandle” on the graphic is not looking so good. Strangely, some decades back, that entire section past the point of Apalachicola would have been considered the Big Bend. Where I was born, I don’t remember anyone referring to anything past Apalachicola as being in the Panhandle.
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Does that also mean that the votes for members of congress running in districts made up of those counties don’t get certified? It would be terrible if they couldn’t take their seats.
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This is what I don’t get. Sure they don’t certify, but then the county, or the state, depending on the level, don’t have a government. No one gets elected. I am not sure the people will put up with that.
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I’m pretty sure Marjorie Taylor Greene wants her votes counted.
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I think it may be just about giving the GOP time to sow enough discord to get the villagers to grab the pitchforks.
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Will Ron “Putz in Boots” DeSantis be any help this time?
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Imagine the look on their faces when the torch-and-pitchfork brigade shows up on their doorstep and says “hey, we didn’t mean for you to screw up OUR votes!”
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IIRC, it was vote-flipping in just the Presidential race that they screamed about, nefarious Venezuelan software of some such. Miraculously leaving all the down-ballot races alone. There wasn’t a stink in GA, again IRRC, about Warnock and Ossoff being legit or not.
Of course there is no logical sense because they also yelled about ballot overcounting (suitcases of ballots!) which would have showed up easily in the counts.
But yes, I agree that counties should have their own officials ‘frozen’ if they delay their certs.
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I can’t wait for someone to tell her they won’t be. But her district is likely to go for TIFBG, so she shouldn’t have an issue.