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Arizona Republican becomes first fake elector to plead guilty for role in Trump scheme
(www.politico.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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It'd be good if they can get the rest of them soon. Hopefully this'll serve as an example to any would be fake electors in the coming election.
I think I have a mix of dyslexia and some kind of hallucinations, because I read that as can’t get to the restroom soon, and I just exploded and laughter.
What a horrible but simple curse to wish on someone, that was how I read it at first too
If anything, it makes scrolling through Lemmy more interesting 😂
They're going to try to go thr Georgia route and just make election certification entirely discretionary. That this will effectively end democracy bothered exactly zero Republican voters.
You know they’re going to fuck this up, the red counties are going to obviously contest the results before they’ve even started counting them and it’s going to make them look really stupid
They've planted people in the right positions in blue counties to keep their votes from being counted.
The voters are idiots. But the evil bastards running the show are not.
If they make election certification discretionary then if doesn't matter how they look. They can legally just not certify for any made up reason. It's how they'll avoid the charges that their fellow chuds in AZ are currently facing.
Yeah, they are actively taking over the board of elections in georgia for this very purpose.