Ferguson97
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« on: September 08, 2020, 01:54:15 PM » |
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In late September, thousands post offices all around the nation - but primarily in states like Virginia, Arizona, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - begin to close. DeJoy denies any knowledge. Trump suggests that if the post office is unable to accommodate mail-in voting that only votes cast in-person should count.
By mid-October, there are countless reports of people having never received their mail-in ballots despite requesting them.
The day before the election, Trump deploys DHS agents to serve as "election security monitors". He sends these agents to primarily urban centers in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Portland, Chicago, and Miami. Local police departments either allow the DHS agents to do this or work alongside them. DHS and local police use riot-control tactics to disperse people waiting on line to vote, almost exclusively people of color and younger voters. Those that aren't scared off by the tear gas or rubber bullets are arrested for disorderly conduct.
Trump and the Department of Justice cite authority under Sections 6-9 of the Voting Rights Act to send federal examiners and monitors to ensure that mail-in ballots are counted "correctly". Several poll workers speak to the press, and say that these federal examiners are destroying mail-in ballots.
What would happen next?
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