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[–] 116 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

Turning? There was never enough fraud to justify any effort, less you consider gerrymandering and unfair polling practices, or other efforts to limit voting rights or fair outcomes.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Nah that's the system working as designed.

    It's just designed in a shitty way, and instead of doing something productive like, oh, I dunno, fucking governing...the Republicans have been chipping away at rights in a very strategic and legal way, in order to see the final payout of the Southern Strategy: Unitary Executive Theory (or, in non-legal speak, dictatorship).

    This all seems very familiar. Perhaps this isn't the first time someone cemented their power legally, by changing the laws to their suiting?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago*

    It’s just designed in a shitty way

    No, it really isn't. Aside from the whole first-past-the-post thing, the process of physically voting itself was close to perfect and worked well. What happened to it was unaccountable electronic voting machines in private hands, a lot of quiet power grabs, and open, blatant illegal acts by officials entrusted with making sure all who can vote can do so and keeping our votes safe.

    Don't blame a voting system -- or a Constitution -- when the REAL problem is corruption.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    So, I've never really heard this theory, I'd be surprised if someone hasn't talked about it before though.

    I 100% think Trump committed voter fraud and cheated every step of the way when he lost to Biden. He was freaking the fuck out way too much, even for him. I think he cheated, and still lost. So his only conclusion was Biden must have cheated to win. I think he went fucking berserk that he cheated and STILL lost.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    The main thing they seem to be doing that's officially illegal is that they are taking their own databases of dubious quality, and then manually inputting that information into state voter registration verification sites. These sites by and large make the user legally certify they either are the voter or have their express authorization (e.g. "Hey, bud, will check my voter registration for me?"). They're basically asking the entire staff to engage in a bit of light identity theft 40 times a day.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    At this point, anyone who works for or with this regime needs to be destitute and in prison after this admin. I don’t care if “they had mouths to feed” or other bullshit - without the people powering it this dictatorship wouldn’t exist.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago (1 child)
  • [–] 25 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    Voter suppression is what it is, targeted at liberal areas. Closing polling places, trying to disqualify women because of their married names, screwing with the USPS. It's all suppression.

    When dealing with MAGA always remember every baseless accusation is a confession. When they cry election fraud, they are plotting or doing election fraud.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    Wait, it's not legal to bribe voters with 5000 USD so you can keep your corrupt friends in power to protect your treacherous and corrupt old shitty ass from prison?

    Next, you're gonna tell me that The "United" States of America aren't the lamest & angriest mofos on Earth?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Good news (I guess): Trump is not going to break that particular law re: the $5000 that we'll hear nothing more about after the election.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    The promise itself is already illegal.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    That means absolutely nothing for this administration.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    IDGAF what it thinks; objective reality exists.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago*

    And the objective reality is that the current admin suffers no consequences for violating the law, and very likely never will.

    Something being illegal only matters if the law is enforced. That's the objective reality.

    I mean, it's illegal to own more than 6 sex toys in Texas, but it's not something that's enforced so it's functionally not illegal.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 3 days ago
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    Fucking everything that pedo does is illegal child killing filth.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    I never understood the practice of registering to vote. Why that extra step? Are not every US citizens registered? Why not just sending everyone of these the ballots?

    This is working in other countries, why not in the US?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago*

    Your vote is tied directly to where you live here, all political offices cover some territory (a state, city, district, village, town, etc). So your vote is directly tied to where you live.

    But it's not necessarily the case that the state always knows where someone lives. Yes, there are property deeds and utility bills and what-not, but there is no official place where everyone's addresses are held.

    Therefore, "Registering to Vote" is really more like registering your address, so they know which ballot you need to vote on. Even ex-pats what no longer live in the country (but are still citizens) get to vote at the last US address they lived at.

    There isn't always an "unregistration" process either. When you move, you just re-register. Since most of these are administered at the State level, if you move between States you may end up registered in two places. In most cases, that is perfectly legal! You only break the law if you actually vote in the same election in more than one place.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago

    One of the major parties wants less citizens to vote, because they do better if less people vote, especially "those people". The other of the major parties wants all citizens to be able to vote. So setting up an automatic voter registration in all states, since this IS a given state's right, is a bit of a conflict, oddly enough. I absolutely agree it would in fact save a lot of trouble to just register every US citizen at age 18.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    elections in the US are run by the states, not the federal government. a handful of states (specifically California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington) automatically register eligible voters and send a mail ballot to every registered voter

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah I understand what they are doing, but not WHY. (Other than thinning out voters)

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Quick! Someone call Alvin Bragg! Only a human who has ever actually press charges against this asshole can protect us.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Can private citizens who feel they can prove they've been directly harmed by presidential acts, sue the president?

    Maybe a class-action per unconstitutional deed?

    Can we get a GoFundMe for this or something?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Can private citizens who feel they can prove they’ve been directly harmed by presidential acts, sue the president?

    No. Pretty explicitly no.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's an interesting argument to debate, and has been since the beginning. What's really telling is how much Trump is mentioned in that wiki vs. the past Presidents. Almost as if he's seeing how far he can push the envelope.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago

    There's a theory that he's playing 11-D chess and strategically testing the system through clever probs and prods.

    There's another theory that he's always just done whatever he felt like, damn the consequences. And since there isn't any material opposition to a billionaire in a plutocracy like the US, nobody stops him now any more than anyone has ever stopped him before now.

    What’s really telling is how much Trump is mentioned in that wiki vs. the past Presidents.

    I'd say Nixon was the real historical test case, at least from the perspective of the article. The Trump Election Obstruction case is more interesting because it's an edge case, even within very expansive immunity provisions. It was specifically with respect to Nixon v. Fitzgerald, which had ostensibly defined the boundaries of Presidential immunity... until it didn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)