SharpieGate

[DURHAM D]

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

1. Are these people serious?

Maybe Trump voters were filling out their ballots with sharpies to be like Trump, to embrace Trump's love of sharpies. If that is what they choose to do and it caused some kind of issue, then I have this to say - Too Bad!

[BusyBeingBest]

2. I knew they were trying to pull some shit there.

I felt it in my bones--anything to buy time to make more votes appear magically.

[demmiblue]

3. Oh, good lawd.

[Fahrenthold451]

4. Machines can scan just fine. Red is the only color barred

https://www.azfamily.com/news/politics/election_headquarters/yes-sharpies-are-fine-for-maricopa-county-ballots/article_b4906792-1e88-11eb-9ff1-4fd0a99ca009.html

[Nevilledog]

5. Ballots specifically say to only use ballpoint pens, blue or black.

[burrowowl]

14. This year in NM also said

black felt tips on absentee ballot and in the voting booths were felt tips.

[Nevilledog]

15. I almost panicked cuz the blue pen I was using ran out of ink.

Spent 10 minutes looking for another one...lol

[qazplm135]

6. Or it could be just a handful of voters

Lol

[BusyBeingBest]

7. BTW, why would "huge numbers of Trump supporters" all use a sharpie to fill out

a ballot? Is that a particular voting characteristic of Repubs, that Dems don't do? Does it show thru the privacy sleeve/envelopes so that they know which ballots are "theirs"?

[Timewas]

8. Not sure BUT

I believe this is what they call satire, in reference to t-rumps use of a sharpie on that weather map

[Ms. Toad]

13. No. It's actually one of their claims.

The similarity to Trump's huricane path is a nice coincidence.

[wackadoo wabbit]

12. Back before I signed up for permanent early voting, I voted in person at the polling place

And at the polling place, the election workers handed everyone a black Sharpie to fill out their ballot.

To be fair, this was in Yavapai County, but the fact remains that Arizona has been using Sharpies for probably close to two decades. This is nothing new.

They're really reaching here.

[NotASurfer]

9. Waiting to see corroborating reports

It sounds like something a chaotic incompetent despot wannabe would try to sow confusion and provide an excuse to sully legitimate results, so it's sadly not implausible to frame the report - if borne out - as part of a planned scheme to commit election fraud

[spanone]

10. fuck off schlapp

snake excrement

[Catherine Vincent]

11. This claim is ridiculous.