Millions of Americans will vote this fall ā but six Republican justices might have the final say, in a Bush v Gore redux
Itās frighteningly easy to imagine. Kamala Harris wins Georgia. The state elections board, under the sway of its newĀ Trump-alignedĀ commissioners, grinds the certification process toĀ a slow haltĀ to investigate unfounded fraud allegations, spurring the stateās Republican legislature to select its own slate of electors.
Perhaps long lines in Philadelphia lead to the state supreme court holding polls open until everyone has a chance to vote. Before anyone knows the results, Republicans appeal to theĀ US supreme courtĀ using the āindependent state legislatureā (ISL) theory, insisting that the state court overstepped its bounds and the late votes not be counted.
Or maybe an election evening fire at a vote counting center in Milwaukee disrupts balloting. The progressive majority on the state supreme court attempts to establish a new location, butĀ RepublicansĀ ask the US supreme court to shut it down.
Maybe that last example wasĀ inspired by HBOās Succession. But in this crazy year, whoās to say it couldnāt happen? The real concern is this: if you think a repeat of Bush v GoreĀ canāt happen this year, think again.
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Iām actually more worried about threats of violence at polling places in swing states, especially in Democrat districts. Drop a smoke bomb and play sounds of gunfire and watch everybody scatter and stay away out of fear of violence. All it would take is that in one or two key polling places in swing states and watch this election shift right to Trump. And it wouldnāt take much. One of them early in the morning in Pennsylvania would have a chilling effect nationwide as word spreads.
This is why we need as many people as possible to vote early and or by mail! My state, Texas, doesnāt allow mail-in voting, but voting early takes so much less time and itās harder for any sort of shenanigans since it is so many more days.
According to a recent FD Signifier video, they have already purged him and a whole ton of other people (cough probably black people cough) from voter rolls in Georgia, he said that hadnāt happened to him in nearly a decade, gotta re register, and of course they donāt tell you if youāve been purged, that onus lies on you to figure out.
Its already illegal to hand out water to people in line for polls.
I would be entirely unsurprised if say I dunno maybe your scenario happensā¦ or maybe they just call in a bunch of bomb threats to polling locations in blue areas, seems to be doing a good job of shutting down Ohio at the moment.
Counter it, if it happens, with bomb threats to red areas.
And then right wing media and talking heads run with only that news and voila the election was rigged, against them.
If they lose, it wonāt matter the reason. āThe elections were riggedā. At least make it true for once.
How big is the crime here? Like what do you get charged with?