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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
1. Maybe we can get that going with the new MI Supreme Court or something
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 09:29 PM
Nov 2020

But it isn't like we wanted it this way.

David__77

(23,364 posts)
4. I can see that propositions (in some states), legislators can enact these provisions.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 09:32 PM
Nov 2020

I'm hopeful that the courts will not be relied on to facilitate that.

BumRushDaShow

(128,703 posts)
6. Both chambers of the PA state legislature are GOP so that is DOA
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 09:35 PM
Nov 2020

except for one attempt they made by extortion that they would allow "pre-canvassing" if we gave up the drop boxes and satellite offices.

Bzzzt. Nope.

As a note, this is the first full year of PA actually having "no-excuse absentee ballots" and it was a miracle that the legislation was passed at all. Of course that happened last fall before COVID and the later manufacturing of a new GOP talking point from the crazies at 1600 that insulted mail-in voting. So now their dear leader has hung it like an albatross around their necks and they seem to want to do anything they can to kneecap it.

LakeArenal

(28,809 posts)
7. WI Repukes removed a lot of power from the Governor in a lame duck session.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 09:38 PM
Nov 2020

WI Ron Johnson went to Russia on the Fourth of July.

Pukes won’t even count late arrivals postmarked by 3rd.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
8. I don't want to go all CT...
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 09:41 PM
Nov 2020

...but maybe it's better this way. I couldn't help but notice that practically every state that tallied their mail-ins early had "blue mirage" syndrome and wound up falling for Trump. It struck me that, if the mail-ins are counted first, someone could leak those totals to the right Comrades...I mean people, who could arrange for the vote-count from in-person voting to fall just enough toward their favored candidate to give them the race. Whereas, if they don't know what the totals will be, it's a lot harder to manipulate the in-person tabulation for a plausible result.


yellowcanine

(35,698 posts)
10. No, don't count them before election day, just get them ready to count. That is what takes the time
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 09:45 PM
Nov 2020

Counting them is fast once they are prepared.

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