Didn’t SCOTUS say it wasn’t legal for Colorado to do that to Trump?
Colorado was trying to do it on purpose using the legal system. This at least sounds like a mistake.
“Mistake”
“Whoopsie daisy, I forgot to add 1 of the 2 candidates to the voting system, I’m such a silly goose”
I mean, absentee votes in Montana are not a very good target if it was intentional.
If you’re trying to sow doubt in the election process from the ground up, it’s a great place to start.
“Look Montana had an issue with absentee votes, where else do we have issues”
Becomes
“Montana had absentee voting issues, we can’t trust anything from absentee votes at all, they don’t count”
Uhm, every vote counts.
Why does the Left keep on getting away with this blatant election fraud!
To be fair, in this case it's election fraud, but your question is no less valid because of it.
Thanks for the correction
Actually I thought it was an election but thanks
GOP is nothing but a bunch of con men these days.
This is bullshit. The Secretary of State in Montana is a woman. The GOP is both con men AND con women.
DEI is everywhere smh😔
These days? Ronald Reagan was a decent actor. Maybe not as decent as Richard Nixon.
This sounds vaguely illegal
That's the Republican way - if you can't win, cheat.
Talk about you had one job. It's a fucking two party dualopoly and you still f'd it up. Wreaks of intent.
Also way to go Montana for having online voting though. How many states have this now?
I'm going to give you "dualopoly," it's usually duopoly but I like yours.
But the omission "reeks" of evil intent, as in we smell a rat. It will "wreak" (cause with terrible consequences) havoc on the election.
Obviously it doesn't really matter in Lemmy comments, but in case you want to use the words in a more formal situation, the more you know 🌈.
Reeks.
Next, they say that all ballots that were already submitted have to be counted as-is. Then later, it's revealed that there were Kamala Harris write-ins submitted during this time, but rather than being counted, they were discarded as invalid
Republicans are what Jesus was warning us about.
In Montana, I believe, write-ins for president are always invalid
Why allow them at all if they're guaranteed not to win?
They're not "guaranteed" not to win. Technically, 100 million people could spontaneously wake up and decide that they all want to vote for Tom Hanks as President of the United States. So long as Tom Hanks meets the qualifications for President, he wins.
Of course, I have a better chance of winning the lottery every day until Christmas, and get blown by every NFL cheerleader in alphabetical order than of that ever happening. but our constitution does allow for the possibility.
This is the chaos the GOP has been planting in different states so that they can delegitimize their states voting to justify sending "alternate" electors.
Hey, you may need a break! We don't need to write the fanfic for the other side, that's usually a sign of burnout.
You should rest up then get back to it when you can be less defeatist. We need you.
People are downvoting you but I could definitely see myself needing a reality check like this in the next weeks, or probably days.
although it insisted that very few voters had been affected by this issue.
Sus
Even if a dozen voters were affected, that's practically the entire resident population of Montana!
Source: not a single vote for her so far!
Unrelated note: Jill Stein is doing very well!
And so it begins, GOP election officials are gonna be getting up to all sorts of shit this cycle. I really hope we can turn out enough to make their efforts fruitless.
Overwhelming numbers. Polls and national stories need to be ignored and we just need to get every single person we can to vote.
electronic absentee voter system
the Secretary of State’s office, run by Republican Christi Jacobson
All you need to know right there.
Has anyone done a systematic study on ballot bullshit like this to determine if it is ever in the other direction, or is it always, without exception, done to harm Democrats?
That's awesome, America is up there with Zimbabwe for rigging elections
Ahh once again doing the same thing orbán did in hungary. They had very few places to do absentee voting so there were 10+ hour queues at the stands. They knew that like 95% of voters outside hungary would vote opposition. The one place that had enough voter stands and proper support was romania where they had a huge voter base(after they gave out a bunch of hungarian passports because historically it was hungarian land).
At this point the GOP will just keep trying crap like this and people will just allow it all ..... until eventually, the right just gets tired of playing around and just takes power out right because they know no one will stop them
Can't wait to hear about this on info wars.... Bwahaha
Nah, too busy talking to a robot
Easy, mark all ballots already filled out as invalid because the choices weren't properly given. Less R ballots to count.
Dat voter fraud tho
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