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trof

(54,256 posts) Mon May 11, 2020, 07:41 PM May 2020

WOW! The repugs are scared shitless of mail-in voting.

They KNOW that they can't win a straight up fair election in this country any more.
Their only hope is to suppress the vote as much as they can.

Here is my hope, and I know it won't happen, but...
We take both houses and the white-house.
We add two justices to the supreme court.
And then we make provision for multiple political parties to have their say in our government.

And that last one I know will never, never happen.
If the Democrats to come into power they/we will probably try and hold onto it as tenaciously as the repugs do.
But I can dream, can't I?

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WOW! The repugs are scared shitless of mail-in voting. (Original Post) trof May 2020 OP

SO MANY disgruntled Repukes are going to vote against him this time FakeNoose May 2020 #1

If elections were fair the GOP would be PULVERIZED Blue Owl May 2020 #2

Republican states must have been planning to shut down lots of polling places and limit the sop May 2020 #3

I'm in Iowa, and the report this morning was that there are more absentee ballot requests bullwinkle428 May 2020 #4

and the Democrats need to use this in an ad how republicans want to surprise the voting turn out still_one May 2020 #5

I would think it's also harder to hack. 58Sunliner May 2020 #6

Not only do I think we could take the Senate, more house seats and the presidency, I think it is Demsrule86 May 2020 #7

FakeNoose

(32,737 posts)

1. SO MANY disgruntled Repukes are going to vote against him this time

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 07:48 PM

May 2020

... and he knows it. Also a lot of stay-at-homes, elderly, disabled, etc. will be able to vote by mail even though they can't get to the polls to vote.

It's going to be a Polar Vortex of Americans voting BLUE in November.

Blue Owl

(50,490 posts)

2. If elections were fair the GOP would be PULVERIZED

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 07:54 PM

May 2020

God damn those cheating fuckers to hell...

sop

(10,239 posts)

3. Republican states must have been planning to shut down lots of polling places and limit the

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 08:11 PM

May 2020

number of voting machines at each remaining site - only in Democratic-leaning precincts, of course - just in time for the November election. Probably a bunch of confusing notices were going to be mailed out at the last minute, advising poor, elderly and minority voters their voting places had been moved somewhere they couldn't get to easily. Their voter suppression schemes will be foiled if people can vote by mail.

bullwinkle428

(20,630 posts)

4. I'm in Iowa, and the report this morning was that there are more absentee ballot requests

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 08:13 PM

May 2020

per DAY (for the upcoming primary) than they typically receive for the entire primary cycle!

I just put my own absentee request in the mail today.

still_one

(92,375 posts)

5. and the Democrats need to use this in an ad how republicans want to surprise the voting turn out

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 08:18 PM

May 2020

58Sunliner

(4,394 posts)

6. I would think it's also harder to hack.

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 09:43 PM

May 2020

Demsrule86

(68,656 posts)

7. Not only do I think we could take the Senate, more house seats and the presidency, I think it is