Follow-up article from the creator of the viral Twitter thread observing the U.S. election from Kenya:
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Is this how we finally get rid of that shitty voting system? Making Dominion look bad to their customer base of right-wing voter suppression efforts?
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In the interview, Raffensperger also said he spoke on Friday to Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has echoed Trump’s unfounded claims about voting irregularities.
In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state’s signature-matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with nonmatching signatures, according to Raffensperger. Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures, Raffensperger said.
Raffspenger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. Absent court intervention, Raffensperger doesn’t have the power to do what Graham suggested, as counties administer elections in Georgia.
“It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,” he said.
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“I don’t think it’s helpful when you create doubt in the election process,” Raffensperger said. “People might throw up their arms and say, ‘Why vote?’”
Well, having people say “why vote?” would certainly benefit the party that’s basing their strategy on making it more difficult for people to vote…
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Except Raffensberger is smart enough to know that only one set of voters is buying into that doubt in the system, and they’re precisely the same ones that said party needs to vote.
Adding targeted hoops discourages the opposition. The only ones who don’t know that this isn’t the tantrum-y flailings of a poor loser are the ones who are preventing the slide into irrelevancy.
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Saw that one coming. And love the thing of how it “hurt President Trump”, considering that it changed the 14,000+ vote margin by a little over 800 votes.
[Edit] And:
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Some Michigan news, because Georgia can’t have all the fun…
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Yeah, but no one’s plotted to kidnap THEIR governor, nyeah!
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He’s absolutely right: refusing to apply the law to the president has emboldened both sides, and it’s time someone stepped up. There is a difference between authoritarian-style prosecution of one’s political opponents and prosecution of a president for breaking laws that existed while they were president. Prosecuting Trump for violating the Hatch Act (for example) is not the same as inventing crimes against the state afterwards. It is not the same as prosecuting him for things that were part of his job, it is the exact opposite: prosecuting him for things his job explicitly forbade. There is no “I am president” loophole for tax evasion.
Someone needs to remind TPTWTB that there is no moving forward without reckoning with the truth. No forgiveness without contrition.
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It looks like someone on the Republican side blinked.
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awesome.
but we’re not out of the woods yet
The Wayne canvassing board was not the last hurdle in the Michigan certification process. The Board of State Canvassers, which must deliver final state certification, consists of two Democrats, Jeannette Bradshaw and Julie Matuzak, and two Republicans, Norman D. Shinkle and Aaron Van Langevelde.
Mr. Shinkle’s wife, Mary Shinkle, filed an affidavit in support of a lawsuit the Trump campaign has brought in federal court lawsuit alleging voting irregularities in Wayne County. The affidavit claimed, among other things, that poll workers had been “extremely rude and aggressive” to her and other observers, that they had not allowed her to look over their shoulders as they processed ballots, and that envelopes and ballot stubs had not been securely stored. The judge in the state case had dismissed similar affidavits as based on “an incorrect interpretation of events.”
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Boy, if Fu… err, I mean, Tucker were an actual journalist, he might have done some research before slandering these people on national television.
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The situation could be worse, though.
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Slander and impunity is that show’s business model.
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How can they do when Tmurp voters absolutely refuse to make any compromise whatsoever? The people they vote for certainly don’t.
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Trump & Co have just gone way out of their way to make it easy for Raffensperger to present himself as a fair and rational party in this election. It would seem suspicious if it weren’t so obvious that so many of them are just throwing stuff out there to see if any of it sticks.
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More on the third mysteriously alive person that Trump’s campaign accused of voting while dead:
The campaign and Carlson said this vote was a fraud because Deborah Jean Christiansen died last year. In fact, the vote was legally cast by a living woman who also happens to be named Deborah Jean Christiansen, born in the same year and month but on a different day.
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Ok, this is just silly at this point.
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