• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A shit storm is brewing an nothing is being done about it. All the fake electors should have already been dealt with. This is absolute failure on our government’s part. So much so that it implicates them in this scheme. All of them.

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      There’s a law that says the department of justice has to pre-approve election changes in some states with a history of violating voting rights, but our illustrious supreme court has ruled they don’t have to follow it anymore.

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        What I meant is that if you look at Canada for example, provincial elections are separate from federal elections and the federal government manages its own elections and the provinces aren’t involved at all (it’s even seen as a faux pas for a premier to tell people who they would rather see in power at the federal level).

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          One good side to the American system is that when Donny was president he couldn’t do much to the states that had fair elections. He tried.

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            Donnie wouldn’t have been elected in the first place with a fair system. Also you make it an independent non partisan agency so the president can’t interfere.

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    The Republican-controlled board’s newest rule allows county officials to delay certification if poll workers comply imperfectly with their long list of new and old rules—irregularities they can call “malfeasant.” And if that’s not intimidating enough, the Board also ruled that poll watchers, those watchdogs volunteering from both the Right and the Left, should have closer physical access—even though most have had only two hours of training, even though most are not familiar enough with protocol to know what “normal” is supposed to look like.