Trump Files First Election Lawsuit in Chilling Sign of What’s to Come
newrepublic.com
The election fraud lawsuits have started again.

The election fraud lawsuits have started again.

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But Trump chose to stoke the flames Wednesday morning, posting on Truth Social that “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before.”

“Law enforcement must act, NOW!” he added.

Bucks County officials confirmed to NBC Philadelphia that they had been notified of the lawsuit, but did not provide further comment. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, shot back at the Republican presidential nominee, highlighting that Trump and his allies have spent the last four years actively corroding public trust in U.S. elections—and that they are currently warming up their second conspiracy to undermine the 2024 election results.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    951·
    15 days ago

    Its so weird to see this unfold now where they know they can’t win in any legitimate manner so they are doing stuff like this before the election is even over. Its like, hey guys we only need the election to have a pretense that cheating is going on, which we all know is happening, but we blame it on the other side and seize power.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      16·
      15 days ago

      And with the usual ambiguous word salad too.

      Hey, you heard about all this incredible cheating? Cheating. Cheating! Vote cheating is bad, it’s so bad. Never seen anything so bad I tell you. But the police does nothing. Nothing! You think vote cheating is ok? I don’t think people should be allowed to get away with it!

      Etc etc etc ad nauseam.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          2·
          15 days ago

          The election is RIGGED. Votes are being STOLEN from PROUD AMERICANS. You go to the poles and they throw away YOUR vote. But not when your vote is for BIDEN, no. The IMMIGRANTS are voting illegally and he counts their votes. But not for hardworking AMERICANS. And NOBODY stopped him. We WON’T let that happen again! HILLARY stole the vote! GO OUT THERE. COUNT THE VOTES. THE TRUTH WILL WIN.

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
      4·
      15 days ago

      We’re seeing in real-time why maintaining a coherent, unified, transparent voting system and communicating how and why it’s secure against tampering is so important. It needs to be difficult to sow doubt in the election, and you can only achieve this through simple to understand and explain methods.

      Because if the average person can be convinced it’s not secure and legitimate, then it doesn’t matter what the reality is.

      This is why I’m so sick of people pointing out the defamation lawsuits from the voting machine companies as some kind of win for the democratic process.

      Voting machines have been just one of the many ways the Republicans have sown doubt over the results. Stop using voting machines, obviously (in my opinion. There’s also 2 great videos from Tom Scott on the topic)

      Important things to get right:

      • functioning, reliable postal system. (Trump did a great job on undermining this)
      • unified electoral communication so that every place has the same election, not bloody 50 separate ones with wildly different practices. (Well shit, constitution needs to be amended)
      • a simple voting recording method anyone can understand. (Voting machines are bad, simply because they’re too much of a security risk and black box that can have doubt sown very easily)
      • consistent invigilation
      • courts that aren’t stacked (good luck with this one, though)

      And obvious move away from FPTP, but everyone is already calling for that.

      Armchair citizen under the American empire, giving you my 2¢.