2020 Absentee/Early Voting megathread 2

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

Texas about to be ground zero for disenfranchisement:

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
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15m
Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming.

We will never live this down if this happens

This is going all the way to SCOTUS unfortunately. This judge will throw them out, guaranteed.

If SCOTUS refuses to stop it, use it as a rallying cry to pack the courts

[The Mikado]

A poll worker signs you in, checks your ID, and you vote on the voting machine. Like most Texas voting sites, except outdoors and you don't leave the car.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Lfromnj how will Kavanaugh rule on this

[Tender Branson]

If this „curb-side voting“ is handled like a regular election precinct/polling station, with an election commission present, and this judge invalidates 100.000 votes, he’ll probably have crosshairs on his body ...

„We know where you live, you will not see the next day.“

[BlueSwan]

Texas about to be ground zero for disenfranchisement:

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
·
15m
Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming.

We will never live this down if this happens

This is going all the way to SCOTUS unfortunately. This judge will throw them out, guaranteed.

If SCOTUS refuses to stop it, use it as a rallying cry to pack the courts

Yeah, that would be excellent justification for packing the courts.

[BlueSwan]

Lfromnj how will Kavanaugh rule on this

If he has any consistency whatsoever he'd have to rule that a Texas judge cannot overturn the election law of Texas.

[Yank2133]

The GOP needs to be nuked to the stone ages. If you have to go to these lengths to win elections then there is no reason for you to exist as a party.

[Tender Branson]

A poll worker signs you in, checks your ID, and you vote on the voting machine. Like most Texas voting sites, except outdoors and you don't leave the car.

Is there also a precinct election commission present at this drive-thru made up of D/R/I members, like in a regular polling station ?

[redjohn]

The GOP needs to be nuked to the stone ages. If you have to go to these lengths to win elections then there is no reason for you to exist as a party.

It's a fascist party that is rapidly turning the United States into an authoritarian country. There needs to be mass protests if they do this.

[GeorgiaModerate]

The GOP needs to be nuked to the stone ages. If you have to go to these lengths to win elections then there is no reason for you to exist as a party.

When one party is trying to get more people to vote and the other is trying to get fewer people to vote, it's obvious which one is more representative of the people.

[Inmate Trump]

Texas about to be ground zero for disenfranchisement:

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
·
15m
Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming.

When might we find out the judge’s ruling?


And what happens to those 100,000 voters? Would they get to vote again?

[swf541]

If it gets thrown out violence is an acceptable if not morally just recourse

Literally the end of a democratic system.... People shouldnt take this lying down....

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

@Trends: If the curbside ballots get thrown out, how much of an impact does that have on your TX predictions? I don't know if I'm overreacting, but this makes me very nervous about Biden's chances of flipping it. More than anything else that's been going on there

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

@Trends: If the curbside ballots get thrown out, how much of an impact does that have on your TX predictions? I don't know if I'm overreacting, but this makes me very nervous about Biden's chances of flipping it. More than anything else that's been going on there

I think Biden could sustain it, but it gets a lot iffier.

[Yank2133]

The GOP needs to be nuked to the stone ages. If you have to go to these lengths to win elections then there is no reason for you to exist as a party.

When one party is trying to get more people to vote and the other is trying to get fewer people to vote, it's obvious which one is more representative of the people.

They don't even try to appeal to the voters anymore. The GOP is intellectual bankrupt, they have nothing to sale to the majority of voters. They lost the culture wars and tax cuts for rich people aren't popular. So stacking the courts and throwing out ballots is the only way they can remain in power. It is not just dangerous, but extremely pathetic.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

I swear to God I will not be able to sleep thinking about this

[swf541]

I swear to God I will not be able to sleep thinking about this

[Xing]

How can Republicans even try to justify this? This is just blatantly evil and anti-democracy.

[BudgieForce]

On the "brightside", Hanen isn't a Trump appointee. He's incredibly anti-immigration, but I'm not sure he's partisan enough to just throw out 100,000 ballots.

[Holmes]

Cue Beet coming here and blaming Dems.

[Hindsight was 2020]

How can Republicans even try to justify this? This is just blatantly evil and anti-democracy.

BuT WE’rE A repUbLIc nOt A deMOCRAcy!

[OneJ]

AL and MS have no in person early voting and have pretty strict absentee rules (though AL seems stricter). Only if you’ll be absent on Election Day, if you’re sick, disabled, a senior, basically.

This plus here in MS you could give reasons such as work and being away from home on E-Day. I was thinking about doing that but I've ultimately decided to wait until election day.

My limited and anecdotal experience suggests that the Courthouse employees don't really care about their job and will probably give anyone an absentee ballot who asks for one without asking for an excuse and verifying it's a sufficient one.

Fwiw, my parents voted absentee last week (my mom's done it before though) and it seems that what you've said about the employees not verifying excuses is pretty much accurate considering what I was told happened when they voted.

[swf541]

How can Republicans even try to justify this? This is just blatantly evil and anti-democracy.

Because they are fascists

Aint hard to understand

[Tender Branson]

How can Republicans even try to justify this? This is just blatantly evil and anti-democracy.

?

Republicans are the embodiment of EVIL.

[Roblox]

Just a completely evil and irredeemable party. There is 0 changing or moderating it, no epiphany that is gonna come. If you don’t want to live in an autocratic hell scape, the Republican Party needs to be destroyed with the ground it was built on salted.