Voter suppresion/"stealing the election" megathread

[GoTfan]

Whichever way we got here, talking about Bernie Sanders does not matter right now. There are actual pressing issues to deal with.

We're a politics discussion board--discussing stuff like this is precisely why we all spend our time here.

And this matters because it's one more illustration of how lefty absolutists (Sanders) keep screwing our democracy over.

Well if you want to find something to attack Sanders for, it's not this:

For this to have credence, you have to believe that Obama was attempting to pack the BOG in an attempt to privatize the USPS, which...man, come on.  Do I really have to argue that Obama wasn't trying to privatize the postal service?  Regardless, I'm not sure keeping the BOG empty for years on end so Mitch McConnell could fill every vacancy with a Trump sycophant was the smart alternative.

https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/1294382286205583362

Except the people he blocked were literally supportive of privatising USPS.

You tnink privatisation of USPS is a good thing, apparently

[GoTfan]

This election's outcome has been decided in advance by the Supreme Court.

[GoTfan]

So to sum up, Murphy's current mood is : I'm doing my job; please feel sorry for me.

[GoTfan]

For whoever was dooming about Pennsylvania:

https://twitter.com/Elaijuh/status/1332823176120832006

So is certification still blocked or . . .

[GoTfan]

So what happens if Mo Brooks decides to try and push through with his plan for Congress to not certify the results? I'm assuming nothing and he ends up suitably humiliated?

[GoTfan]

Gaetz has now said he will be challenging the EC certification on the 6th.

[GoTfan]

When will Trump work out that judges are not meant to be personally loyal to him?

[GoTfan]

In light of the events since last month, I propose the temper tantrum be renamed the trumper tantrum.

[GoTfan]

According to Jake Tapper, "at least" 140 House Republicans will vote against the election results on January 6th:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1344749990703411205?ref_src=twsrc%5...

This is kind of alarming

[GoTfan]

My "dooming" has been less that the vote will go Trump's way than the message it sends. 140 elected officials minimum voting against the official results of an election, along with minimum 11 senators is more than a little alarming.

Not to mention we don't know what sort of stuff the MAGAts are going to do between now and inauguration day.

[GoTfan]

A group of Republican House members have an interesting argument. Chip Roy (TX), Mike Gallagher (WI), Kelly Armstrong (ND), Ken Buck (CO), Thomas Massie (KY), Tom McClintock (CA), and Nancy Mace (SC) put out a press release explaining why they won't object to the certification of the vote on the 6th. Basically, even if there was a lot of voter fraud, it's up to the states and the courts to figure out. The Congress's role is only to decide between different slates of electors. But every state has only sent a Biden slate or a Trump slate, so there's nothing to decide. Their constitutional responsibility is to defer to the states and count the votes.

https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-colleagues-release-statement-concerning-january-6-vote

So these are the actual state's rights Republicans then.