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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

19 states... 220 Electoral College votes. 50 short of the presidency if they win every single one of them.

Pro-tip: They will win 0.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is not accurate, CT does not count write ins. There's a field on the form but it's not counted, it's as if you left the field blank. I assume there are many others like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You are literally spreading disinformation.

CT has an official write-in candidate application and in the form it mentions that they do get counted.

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/sots/electionservices/write-in-candidacy/2024/ed-622-write-in-application-for-president-2024.pdf

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If a candidate has so registered, a vote may be cast by write-in ballot for such candidate by writing in the last name of the candidate for President and the last name of the candidate for Vice President or only the last name of the candidate for President; such write-in ballot shall be counted, and shall be in all respects effective, as a vote for each of the presidential electors representing such candidates for President and Vice President.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's a change then, as of 2012, they did not. And I'm sure a non-0 number of other states still do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't speak to Georgia election law, but I live in Pennsylvania and the Democratic Party doesn't have any authority to kick anyone off an election ballot.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They took the case to court and paid lawyers and worked with Republican judges to take them off the ballot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So duly elected judges ordered them removed from the ballot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Democrats took them to court and paid for the lawyers for that to happen. The lawyers also being democrat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since judges are not in the habit of doing things just because they were asked to by a lawyer, especially Republican Pennsylvania judges at the behest of lawyers for the Democratic party, I went and looked up the case.

They used ineligible electors to get on the ballot.

I don't see how it's the Democrats fault they weren't up to the task of following Pennsylvania election law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

To be more specific, in the state of Georgia the requirement was 7500 signatures to get on the ballot. After volunteers got 17,000 signatures, the democrats sued saying that it was actually 7500 per elector not per candidate, so we would need a total of 120,000 signatures (7500 for 16 electors) and a republican appointed judge ruled in their favor. I believe we are still on the ballot as by the time that ruling had came down the ballots had been made at least for early voters but no votes cast for Claudia de la Cruz will be counted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you would prefer a socialist party candidate the most logical choice is to pick whatever Democratic/Republican candidate is most willing to enact voting method reform, e.g. ranked choice voting.

Because voters are incentivized to pick one of two main parties in the current method, third parties are essentially guaranteed never to get off the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not going to be able to kick Marxists off of Lemmy, especially not on an instance run by Marxists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Marxist created Lemmy too 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yep, and maintain it.