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Best logical explanation yet of why 45's ballot disqualification charade is just that!
How exactly is that going to work, in practice? Because—bear with me people, and let me know if I’m totally off base here—but doesn’t every single ballot that has Trump’s name on it also have the name of every Republican and Democratic candidate for offices ranging from U.S. Senator to county dog catcher?
In some cases you have up to twenty or thirty candidates on the ballot. And that’s true whether you mail your ballot in or slog it out at the voting booth. Literally thousands of elections are happening on November 3rd, not just Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. Do we really expect every single Democrat on those mail-in ballots, candidates for county solicitors, city councils, school boards, district justices, sheriffs, Senators, Congressmen and Congresswomen, Clerks, Prothonotaries, Mayors, Judges, Attorneys General, Governors, Lieutenant Governors, state representatives and state senators, to sit there quietly while Donald Trump’s distinctly unstellar lawyers tie up—and possibly ruin-- their careers for what could be months of litigation by bogus allegations of fraud? For that matter, how many Republican candidates for office are going to be willing to stand for that? Now multiply that by a whole lot of states, and you’ll see a morass emerging on an incalculable scale. Are they planning on going to go district by district? You gotta be kidding me.
Because every single mail-in ballot that Trump’s lackeys say is fraudulently cast also must be deemed fraudulent for those other candidates—on the same ballot--as well.
No amount of Republican collusion gets us past that fact. If he tries this, he will run into opposition on a scale he can’t possibly cope with. And a whole lot of angry people, on both sides, because mail-in balloting is hardly monolithic to one party, everywhere around the country. They vary, district to district based on population and other demographics.
And these people have huge egos, most of them. And a whole lot of money, power and influence. Their entire careers are going to be on the line. Does anyone expect them to sit on their hands while Donald Trump runs his last big con?
In some cases you have up to twenty or thirty candidates on the ballot. And that’s true whether you mail your ballot in or slog it out at the voting booth. Literally thousands of elections are happening on November 3rd, not just Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. Do we really expect every single Democrat on those mail-in ballots, candidates for county solicitors, city councils, school boards, district justices, sheriffs, Senators, Congressmen and Congresswomen, Clerks, Prothonotaries, Mayors, Judges, Attorneys General, Governors, Lieutenant Governors, state representatives and state senators, to sit there quietly while Donald Trump’s distinctly unstellar lawyers tie up—and possibly ruin-- their careers for what could be months of litigation by bogus allegations of fraud? For that matter, how many Republican candidates for office are going to be willing to stand for that? Now multiply that by a whole lot of states, and you’ll see a morass emerging on an incalculable scale. Are they planning on going to go district by district? You gotta be kidding me.
Because every single mail-in ballot that Trump’s lackeys say is fraudulently cast also must be deemed fraudulent for those other candidates—on the same ballot--as well.
No amount of Republican collusion gets us past that fact. If he tries this, he will run into opposition on a scale he can’t possibly cope with. And a whole lot of angry people, on both sides, because mail-in balloting is hardly monolithic to one party, everywhere around the country. They vary, district to district based on population and other demographics.
And these people have huge egos, most of them. And a whole lot of money, power and influence. Their entire careers are going to be on the line. Does anyone expect them to sit on their hands while Donald Trump runs his last big con?
Part of a longer article worthy of a read.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/24/1979752/-Americans-are-finding-out-this-Emperor-is-naked-and-his-private-parts-are-not-very-impressive
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The SCOTUS steps in and says, “This is a mess. To prevent panic, to provide certainty, to avoid civil unrest, and to insure the peaceful transition of power, we hereby declare that Donald J. Trump is the duly-elected President of the United States.”
Then what? 
That’s what they did in 2000.
-Laelth
The legal posture and various legal arguments they put forward are irrelevant. The result of their ruling was that George W. Bush became our 43rd President. They ruled against the Supreme Court of Florida in 2000. What makes you think that they wouldn’t usurp state sovereignty again?
They could, and might, do the same thing this year if the conditions allow for it.
-Laelth