• @capital_sniff
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    171 month ago

    What the republican machine is setting up for this go around is at the local level. They are putting funding into “election monitoring” and there is also the risk that certain states or localities refuse to certify a Kamala win.

    • @Burn_The_Right
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      430 days ago

      certain states or localities refuse to certify a Kamala win.

      This is guaranteed to happen. Thankfully, it seems it will only be happening in states we weren’t counting on anyway.

      • @forrcaho
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        29 days ago

        Idunno, man. I thought I heard of some of this shit going down in Georgia, which was an important swing state for Biden in `20. Arizona was also important, and I’d be surprised if there aren’t MAGA crazies installing themselves into the election machinery there. Pennsylvania is another state to worry about.

        edited to add this link to a story about this, even though it’s paywalled and I can’t read it: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/

        • @Burn_The_Right
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          129 days ago

          Those are great points. I agree that this is dangerous. I have hope for Arizona because they have a Dem governor. Georgia… Georgia is little spookier.

    • @grue
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      229 days ago

      They also hold the House and have captured the Supreme Court (three of the justices were lawyers on the Bush side of Bush v. Gore!). They are clearly setting themselves up to declare Trump the winner regardless of what the actual Electoral College vote is.