The League of United Latin American Citizens, as well as several individual voters, sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his Thursday order that allowed local election officials to set up just one mail ballot drop-off location per county.
You think we won’t kick your ass because you’re in a wheelchair?
Guess again, son!
Harris County, Texas here - we find it interesting that his bs rationale is safety from COVID, while what he’s doing will force people to wait in line to drop off their ballots at the ONE box in the county, thus exposing them to COVID. This along with the straight-ticket voting debacle? The call blitzkrieg has begun.
I think it was in WaPo, but there is a line in their reporting about how Kenosha county has 17 drop boxes for a population of just under 170,000, vs Harris county TX with a population of over 4 million.
This is about REPUBLICANS, not just but including Donald Trump, trying to steal the 2020 election.
That is what the real danger in 2020 is not Trump stealing the election or otherwise causing violence to prevent the peaceful transition of power but rather REPUBLICANS stealing the election or otherwise preventing the peaceful transition of power.
That is, like Bush in 2000, to steal the election Trump would need at least the Supreme Court to do what it did in 2000 and not care about the constitution or their oaths of office but just want a Republican to win.
But even that was not enough for Bush in 2000. Bush got lots of help from his brother, then governor of Florida, by stopping from voting over 50,000 minorities because they shared the same last name as a felon or other person “legally” prevented from voting.
But as it is likely Trump will need to steal multiple states as opposed to Bush who only needed to steal Florida, Trump will also need help from state courts and state legislatures and governors. This help would be to invalidate ballots and mess with the mail. It could also be to ignore the will of the voters and appoint electors that chose the loser.
Because the 2000 election was close it was possible to let Bush steal it and still claim we have a democracy. The difference this time is the vote is likely to be so much in Biden’s favor, for Republicans to steal the election would require the recognition by the world, if not the American media, that America does not have a functioning democracy.
That is the real question is not so much about Trump, but rather how far are Republicans, to include Supreme Court justices and all federal judges, Mitch McConnell and all Republican senators, but also state and local Republicans to include legislators, judges, and local administrators, ready to go to end American democracy.
Incoming 5th Circuit decision completely contradictory to the ruling they just issued saying it was too close to the election to make changes…
If you cannot win without cheating, you have already lost.
Abbott had a reason to get rid of drop off locations for ballots on areas where Democrats live. He just didn’t state it.
Only an idiot doesn’t know his reason.
A smart judge will enjoin the drop box decision and not lift it until November 4.
Details? This is critical. What was the prior decision? What is the incoming decision? Thanks.
You’d think judges would get tired of these incessant attempts to end-run the law in transparent fashion.
That’s only true is you want to claim the path of righteousness, or the moral high ground. Doesn’t matter to those that seek power and will use any means necessary to get and keep it.
It’s a good thing John Roberts is so supportive of the Voting Rights Act
Morally but not in practice; in practice if you can win with cheating you win! That is why the white evangelicals and GOPers in general are powermad nihilists, it works for them.
Oh, absolutely, you’re quite right.
But, I think, in this instance this move is way too clearly saying the quiet part out loud – indeed, it’s screaming “we’re losing! we’re losing” so loud even the MAGAts can figure it out.
The scary stuff is the stuff that has been happening quietly under the radar over the past 4 years. Gonna take us a long time to find it, weed it out, and make laws to prevent it happening again.
This? Just blatant. It’s like the kid with the frosting all over his face, saying “no, no, not me…dunno who done it.”
Before Chief Justice Bobby came along this kind of shit would get nixed at pre-clearance. But no more. Our SCOTUS made this butt fuck of our Democracy possible. When it was a 5/4 Court. Soon to be a 6/3…folks…we aint seen nothin yet!
Is it too much to “Hope” that Marmalade Mussolini met with the conservative justices to discuss the nomination of Conehead recently?
Oh, hi Clarence!
IIRC it was Kenosha had three or 4 and Harris had 12.
This is voter supression pure and simple. It costs essentially nothing to have a lot of ballot drop-off locations. Texas doesn’t want to count votes.
This smell of desperation reeks to high heaven. As my mother used to say, “It’s enough to gag a maggot.”
I think you need to revise your timeline on how long this has been going on under the radar. I’m going to have say it goes back to Newt. And to be realistic in some areas earlier than that.
That Family Circle cartoon was published in what the '70s?