Trump FAIL: About Those 9 Discarded Ballots from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

[TheBlackAdder]

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Major news is coming in over the “case” of the nine “discarded” ballots from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania that President Donald Trump revealed to Fox News Radio on Thursday.

Here’s what appears to have happened, and we’re going to bullet point this so it’s easy to follow.

** The ballots were discarded by a temporary, or “contract” worker assigned to sort the mail who appears to have been following direction.

** They ballots were military ballots, not absentee or other by-mail ballots.

** The county immediately reported what happened to federal officials, who appear to have immediately politicized the issue.

** “Because these ballots were returned in envelopes similar to absentee ballot requests, elections officials opened them,” The Washington Post reports. “If the ballots weren’t then enclosed in another envelope which shielded the actual vote being cast, they may have been considered ‘naked ballots,’ a term used to describe mail ballots returned without the voter’s intent being protected.

** The Trump campaign and the Pennsylvania GOP in a lawsuit argued that “naked ballots” should not be counted. They won that lawsuit. These nine ballots appear to be “naked ballots,” and that appears to be the reason they were thrown out.

Here’s how MSNBC’s Chris Hayes sums it up: It’s the GOP’s fault.

Chris Hayes
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TL R the discarded Trump ballots were discarded because...Trump and GOP lawyers won a lawsuit requiring them to not be counted!!!

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/the-9-discarded-ballots-were-tossed-because-republicans-won-their-lawsuit-requiring-them-to-not-be-counted-report/

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[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Pissolini & the Rs are incessantly blatantly hypocritical.

The great shame is that it's either not noticed by or not a problem for the TrumpDeathCult.

[progressive nobody]

2. So the Republicans insisting on Naked ballot be thrown out just scraped 9 votes for Trump

I'm from PA....This is going to be a long... LLLLOOOONNNGGGG end of the year.

[stillcool]

3. Stunning. Barr chalks up another

swing and a miss. Sounds like all's well in PA.

[gratuitous]

10. With the Stanley Cup Final going on right now

I'd call it an own goal.

[Roland99]

4. K&R

[DonaldsRump]

5. These guys are the biggest idiots in the world

When we get control of the White House (including the Justice Department and US Attorneys) and the Congress, investigating these buffoons will be easy as can be. They lie and cover up everything; however, they are so foolish, they are leaving trails miles long and wide.

It is because we had no one to prosecute things at the federal level and a completely complicit Senate that Trump has been able to get away for so much. In addition, there was no one to prosecute witnesses for contempt for failing to appear or failing to answer questions, putting aside any issues of perjury.

That changes on January 3 and 20, 2021.

[sheshe2]

6. You can't make this shit up! @ Duh!

Hoisted with his own Petard

You and the GOP made the rules.

[renate]

7. I'm stunned

Does this mean that he was actually telling the truth when he said that Trump ballots were thrown out?

Honestly, I am really really stunned. It literally never even occurred to me that he wasn't talking out of his ass.

[sheshe2]

8. Well.

It is his biggest mouthpiece.

[patricia92243]

9. Do military ballots have to have a second envelope or not?

If not, then the worker made a mistake and this is a big win for Trump.

“Because these ballots (military) were returned in envelopes similar to absentee ballot requests, elections officials opened them,”

[The Genealogist]

11. Good grief, we have to go through the whole month of October with bullshit like this

So let me get this straight. CrabAss McDipshit wanted naked ballots to be thown out. The court allowed it. Naked ballots were thrown out. CrabAss McDipshit is now pissing and wailing. Am I missing anything?

I am guessing with this naked ballot crap, what Dotard & Co expected to happen was that election officials would open naked ballots, and toss those with votes for Biden and keep Trump ballots.

Am I the only one having flashbacks to the butterfly ballot mess 20 years ago?

[kacekwl]

12. Question, How did the ballots

end up in a river ?