Vox: Trump's plan to win by invalidating votes, explained

[TomCADem]

This is why we can't just stop at beating Trump. We have to try to beat Republicans up and down the ballot given their increasingly brazen efforts to sabotage the election.

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/1/21544279/vote-count-trump-pennsylvania-mail

Behind in the polls, Republicans are becoming increasingly blunt about their plan to win the election: don’t let everyone’s votes be counted. As Astead Herndon and Annie Karnie reported for the the New York Times Saturday evening: “Trump advisers said their best hope was if the president wins Ohio and Florida is too close to call early in the night, depriving Mr. Biden a swift victory and giving Mr. Trump the room to undermine the validity of uncounted mail-in ballots in the days after.”

This is a very plausible scenario. As Vox’s Andrew Prokop has explained, due to differences in local election law, “the general expectation is that Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona are in a good place to count most of their votes on election night or soon afterward” but “Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan — the trio of states that clinched Trump’s victory in 2016 — are a different story.”

Current polls show Biden leading in all six states. But his leads are narrower in the fast-counting states than in the slow-counting states, so if Trump does moderately better than polls currently suggest, he could win the fast-counting states on election night and wage battle in the courts to try to prevent the slow-counting from fully tallying their votes.

It’s a long-shot effort, but the only reason it’s on the table at all is that the GOP-controlled legislatures in those three states have deliberately acted to keep the vote count slow. So there’s indication Trump may have party support if he tries to undermine the counting. Meanwhile, other actions over the weekend from North Carolina to Texas reveal a Republican Party that is broadly committed to using roadblocks to voting as a strategy for victory.

[Newest Reality]

1. Are his wing-nut supporters...

Are his wing-nut supporters signaling that by blocking roads, tear gassing voters and performing ambushes?

It's a new form of goose stepping in lock step with Hair Furor.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Un-American!

That’s what they used to call Democrats at the drop of a hat during the Bush years. That is what they are and what they are doing. Their actions are antithetical to Democracy, the Constitution, and the American way!

Let’s call them what they are, un-American!