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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:51 PM Aug 2020

In a late-Friday filing, Trump and @GOP ask Federal Court to BLOCK the counting of mail-in ballots


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Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
🚨BREAKING: In a late-Friday filing, Trump and @GOP ask Federal Court to BLOCK the counting of mail-in ballots cast in Pennsylvania via drop boxes, that lack inner envelops, or have been delivered via third party.

This assault on voting rights will fail!
https://democracydocket.com/state/pennsylvania/
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In a late-Friday filing, Trump and @GOP ask Federal Court to BLOCK the counting of mail-in ballots (Original Post) soothsayer Aug 2020 OP
K&R MustLoveBeagles Aug 2020 #1
This is hilarious since tRUMP has a very poor record of success in the courts! abqtommy Aug 2020 #2
Yes, but he ignores ruling against him Miguelito Loveless Aug 2020 #5
Desperate RF ShitHeads Cha Aug 2020 #3
Oh Rt! Cha Aug 2020 #4
We need to spank this man hard at the polls. Midnight Writer Aug 2020 #6
Trump is so scared of verifiable hand marked paper ballots. Freethinker65 Aug 2020 #7
This right here Trailrider1951 Aug 2020 #9
Technicalities. moondust Aug 2020 #8

Miguelito Loveless

(4,465 posts)
5. Yes, but he ignores ruling against him
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 11:22 PM
Aug 2020

and just keeps appealing. He will do this in multiple states after th election, contesting every state he loses.

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)
7. Trump is so scared of verifiable hand marked paper ballots.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 11:49 PM
Aug 2020

Seems like Trump thinks he is more likely to win if voters show up in person and enough use touch screens. Why might that be?

Trailrider1951

(3,414 posts)
9. This right here
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 01:01 AM
Aug 2020

It's the only thing that makes sense. Trump is scared shitless of a verifiable election that he and friends cannot steal.

moondust

(19,991 posts)
8. Technicalities.
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 12:21 AM
Aug 2020

Perhaps he and his goons think that if they continue to close down polling places as Republicans have done in past years, and use every trick they can dream up to eliminate mail-in ballots (in swing states), then a lot of voters won't want to risk their health to stand in long lines for hours at fewer polling places to vote in person: The Big Squeeze. Of course his base includes many older voters in high-risk groups who could be affected by such "crimes against democracy."

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