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Well, I guess if you know you won't win legitimately, you can always stack the deck and gerrymander at a rate like never before

 

A last-minute Republican effort just six weeks before the Nov. 5 election to award all of Nebraska's electoral college votes on a winner-take-all basis appeared doomed after Monday, when a key Republican lawmaker said he opposed the proposal despite lobbying from Donald Trump's allies.

State Senator Mike McDonnell said in a statement that he would not support altering Nebraska's current system, which splits its electoral votes by congressional district.

"Nebraska voters, not politicians of either party, should have the final say on how we pick a president," McDonnell said.

Here's more on why the issue has come to the forefront in the 2024 presidential cycle.

The U.S. does not elect presidents based on popular vote. If it did, Democratic presidential candidates would have won seven of the last eight elections, instead of the actual five times that has occurred.

A presidential candidate needs 270 of 538 electoral votes to win, and 48 states award their electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis. Maine and Nebraska are the exceptions.

Those who backed dropping the winner-take-all rule in Nebraska in the early 1990s argued that it would better reflect voters' views and ensure presidential candidates campaigned in the state.

Joe Biden won one of Nebraska's five electoral votes in the 2020 election, in the states's 2nd congressional district, while Donald Trump took one of Maine's four electoral college votes. But in a 306-232 overall electoral college win for Biden, those particular exceptions had no bearing on the outcome.

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22 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

Well, I guess if you know you won't win legitimately, you can always stack the deck and gerrymander at a rate like never before

 

A last-minute Republican effort just six weeks before the Nov. 5 election to award all of Nebraska's electoral college votes on a winner-take-all basis appeared doomed after Monday, when a key Republican lawmaker said he opposed the proposal despite lobbying from Donald Trump's allies.

State Senator Mike McDonnell said in a statement that he would not support altering Nebraska's current system, which splits its electoral votes by congressional district.

"Nebraska voters, not politicians of either party, should have the final say on how we pick a president," McDonnell said.

Here's more on why the issue has come to the forefront in the 2024 presidential cycle.

The U.S. does not elect presidents based on popular vote. If it did, Democratic presidential candidates would have won seven of the last eight elections, instead of the actual five times that has occurred.

A presidential candidate needs 270 of 538 electoral votes to win, and 48 states award their electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis. Maine and Nebraska are the exceptions.

Those who backed dropping the winner-take-all rule in Nebraska in the early 1990s argued that it would better reflect voters' views and ensure presidential candidates campaigned in the state.

Joe Biden won one of Nebraska's five electoral votes in the 2020 election, in the states's 2nd congressional district, while Donald Trump took one of Maine's four electoral college votes. But in a 306-232 overall electoral college win for Biden, those particular exceptions had no bearing on the outcome.

 

I wonder how long it took before he started getting death threats, maybe ten seconds?

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I think there are also likely going to be legal challenges to the new rule the GQP has instituted in Georgia. All ballots must be hand counted, according to the new directive:


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/24/georgia-election-board-hand-count-rule/75349261007/

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The hand-counting rule requires three separate individuals in each of Georgia's precincts – there are 2,400 precincts, according to Raffensperger – to hand count the ballots, sorting them into stacks of 50. Those three hand counts must match each other as well as match figures generated by machine counts. If the numbers don't match, a poll manager has to correct the inconsistency "if possible" and document it.

It's not clear what would happen if local precincts don't complete hand counts and verify that the ballot tallies match machine results by the certification deadline. The new rule simply states that the process "must be completed within the designated county certification period."

Asked what will happen if counties don't certify results on time, Raffensberger's office told USA TODAY that he has repeatedly said the deadline is Nov. 12 under Georgia law and his "expectation is that all Counties will follow the law and certify their results by that date."

 

 

If I had to guess, I'd say the Repug gambit here is to miss the deadline, which they likely believe will put the decision on the "winner" into the hands of the State Election Board.....the ones who instituted this rule in the first place.

 

....but the Dems are the "cheaters"...:classic_rolleyes:

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-and-vance-face-immediate-arrest-as-criminal-charges-filed-over-springfield-hoax/ar-AA1r8qr0?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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An Ohio law allowing citizens to file criminal charges is being used to target former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over their comments about Haitians in Springfield.

According to Fox 8, the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed criminal charges against the two Republican candidates at Clark County Municipal Court on Tuesday.

"The criminal charges stem from the devastating harm of Trump's and Vance's baseless fearmongering that legal Haitian immigrants to the Ohio town are eating their neighbor's pets," Chandra Law Firm said.

Alliance's cofounder Guerline Jozef sought the "immediate arrest" of Trump and Vance for disrupting public service, making false alarms, committing telecommunications harassment, committing aggravated menacing, committing aggravated menacing, and violating the prohibition against complicity.

"The Haitian community is suffering in fear because of Trump and Vance's relentless, irresponsible, false alarms, and public services have been disrupted," lead counsel Subodh Chandra said in a statement. "Trump and Vance must be held accountable to the rule of law. Anyone else who wreaked havoc the way they did would have been arrested by now."

"There's nothing special about Trump and Vance that entitles them to get away with what they've done and are doing," the attorney added. "They think they're above the law. They're not."

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17 minutes ago, Gurn said:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-and-vance-face-immediate-arrest-as-criminal-charges-filed-over-springfield-hoax/ar-AA1r8qr0?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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An Ohio law allowing citizens to file criminal charges is being used to target former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over their comments about Haitians in Springfield.

According to Fox 8, the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed criminal charges against the two Republican candidates at Clark County Municipal Court on Tuesday.

"The criminal charges stem from the devastating harm of Trump's and Vance's baseless fearmongering that legal Haitian immigrants to the Ohio town are eating their neighbor's pets," Chandra Law Firm said.

Alliance's cofounder Guerline Jozef sought the "immediate arrest" of Trump and Vance for disrupting public service, making false alarms, committing telecommunications harassment, committing aggravated menacing, committing aggravated menacing, and violating the prohibition against complicity.

"The Haitian community is suffering in fear because of Trump and Vance's relentless, irresponsible, false alarms, and public services have been disrupted," lead counsel Subodh Chandra said in a statement. "Trump and Vance must be held accountable to the rule of law. Anyone else who wreaked havoc the way they did would have been arrested by now."

"There's nothing special about Trump and Vance that entitles them to get away with what they've done and are doing," the attorney added. "They think they're above the law. They're not."

 

There's zero chance that either of these pricks will be arrested, but it brings added awareness to the lies they are willfully spreading, so I applaud the effort.

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Trump endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ author put on leave from school choice group after his ‘gay porn past’ is discovered

 

Anti-LGBT+ author and activist Corey DeAngelis has been placed on leave from the conservative group the American Federation for Children following allegations that he appeared in gay adult films.

 

The organization removed a page outlining his work with the group. The federation said that DeAngelis had been placed on leave while the claim that he appeared in videos as “Seth Rose” on the adult film site GayHoopla was investigated, according to LGBTQ Nation. The videos seem to have been posted around 2014, the outlet noted.

 

More in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-endorsed-anti-lgbtq-author-154602996.html

 

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No vetting, no standards, no brains, pretty much on target for this campaign.

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9 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said:

Trump endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ author put on leave from school choice group after his ‘gay porn past’ is discovered

 

Anti-LGBT+ author and activist Corey DeAngelis has been placed on leave from the conservative group the American Federation for Children following allegations that he appeared in gay adult films.

 

The organization removed a page outlining his work with the group. The federation said that DeAngelis had been placed on leave while the claim that he appeared in videos as “Seth Rose” on the adult film site GayHoopla was investigated, according to LGBTQ Nation. The videos seem to have been posted around 2014, the outlet noted.

 

More in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-endorsed-anti-lgbtq-author-154602996.html

 

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No vetting, no standards, no brains, pretty much on target for this campaign.

 

It's almost as if the people shouting the loudest from the rooftops about child grooming and what they define as 'degeneracy' are the biggest participants in it 

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4 minutes ago, DSVII said:

 

It's almost as if the people shouting the loudest from the rooftops about child grooming and what they define as 'degeneracy' are the biggest participants in it 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/matt-gaetz-attended-drug-heavy-sex-party-with-17-year-old-legal-docs

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2 hours ago, RupertKBD said:

I think there are also likely going to be legal challenges to the new rule the GQP has instituted in Georgia. All ballots must be hand counted, according to the new directive:


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/24/georgia-election-board-hand-count-rule/75349261007/

 

If I had to guess, I'd say the Repug gambit here is to miss the deadline, which they likely believe will put the decision on the "winner" into the hands of the State Election Board.....the ones who instituted this rule in the first place.

 

....but the Dems are the "cheaters"...:classic_rolleyes:

Absolutely.

 

If GA is deciding the election, they will stop the count because it's taking too long (self-inflicted) and then they try and bump it to a friendly court and steal the win.

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Here's a little something for the people who like to parrot the MAGA lies about a "Russia Hoax":

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/moscow-tries-to-help-trump-s-election-with-ai-content-us-intelligence/ar-AA1r6UWj?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d854ab3432ef4f3faa9421aa9813b5d7&ei=30

 

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Russia has produced more artificial intelligence (AI)-based content to influence the US presidential election than any other foreign nation. This effort is part of a broader campaign to support Donald Trump, citing Reuters.

 

A staff member of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), speaking on condition of anonymity, commented during a briefing for journalists on Russia and other countries' use of AI to influence the November 5 vote.

 

According to the official, AI-generated content created by Moscow is "consistent with Russia's broader efforts to boost the former president's (Trump) candidacy and denigrate the vice president (Harris) and the Democratic Party, including through conspiratorial narratives."

 

 

Like it or not, Putin is trying to get your boy elected, because he sees Trump as a useful idiot....much like he did in 2016....

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3 minutes ago, The Arrogant Worms said:
 

Trump Wildly Claims Migrant Gangs Will Soon ‘Take Over the Whole Damn State’ Of Colorado

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-wildly-claims-migrant-gangs-will-soon-take-over-the-whole-damn-state-of-colorado/

Well one certain German migrant (who came to America to avoid the draft in his former homeland - a patriot like Herr Vonn Sh*tsHisPants) did have his grandson become President forget 'being in charge of a 'small' state'.

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3 hours ago, nuckin_futz said:

 

I understand that normally these briefs are no more than 15 pages.

 

[insert:popcorn.gif]

 

I was expecting this after she told Trump's lawyers that she wasn't concerned about the election.....but it's nice to see it actually happen.

 

Like I said before: Trump don't know Jack...

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