Laffy
FFS. They're cheating every whichaway they can.
NEW: A right-wing group filed a new lawsuit claiming #Texas is not maintaining its voter rolls. The group wants Texas to adopt new voting procedures & be blocked from certifying the Nov. election until it can demonstrate the election was lawfully conducted. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/united-sovereign-americans-doubles-down-on-its-legal-efforts-targeting-voter-rolls/
mark
@thekitmalone you obviously don't buy into the kiss the dictators ass so he will give you nice things because he obviously recognizes your outstanding service model of government.
These smooth brains do
Urzl
@thekitmalone @GottaLaff I think the GOP has just one overriding priority - install Trump as dictator.
They don't plan for there to be any more fair elections at any level so they don't have to worry about anything else. They can burn it all down in service to Trump and expect him to "make it all right" afterward.
Kit Malone
While clearly that's the national party's priority, and a lotta folks at the local level are enabling it ... I still think pissing all over your local-level party infrastructure is kinda bad-news death-throes stuff. I don't see these tactics working out well for much of anybody in the end.
Kit Malone
@gooba42 @GottaLaff No doubt, I can see that for national and statewide candidates. But what about all those local Republican school board, city council, state reps and state senators who would otherwise just coast into their seats on an easy win?
I predict this kinda chaos will have all kinds of unpredictable impacts and make enemies at the local parties. Which is honestly par for the course with national Republicans right now and would be somewhat fun to watch if it wasn't so dangerous.
Laffy
@thekitmalone I can't figure that out. I think it's to simply sow confusion everywhere to delegitimize the entire election.
Urzl
@GottaLaff @thekitmalone Yup. They don't necessarily need to win, they just need to kick up enough dust that people will accept it being given to the courts to decide.
Kit Malone
@GottaLaff here's what I don't understand... Texas is pretty red. You can expect that a lot of Republicans would like to have their successful elections certified so that they can take office. Why doesn't this sort of think just make everyone angry at them? rhetorical question obviously, as forethought never really seems to enter this stuff
Urzl
@GottaLaff On the bright side, they're worried enough about losing Texas to fuck up the entire state's voters.
Laffy
@gooba42 Well that's a silver lining... I guess.
mark
@GottaLaff @gooba42 I would say they are doing this in Texas for favorable judges, with the end goal that no one receives enough delegates, and we see the jan6 plans again
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