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In Plain Sight, Republicans Are Still Trying to Undermine the Election
The New York Times ^
| Updated Aug. 15, 2024, 12:09 p.m.
| Jesse Wegman
Posted on 08/15/2024 4:19:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Some of the most important and alarming reporting during the 2024 election cycle has centered on what used to be one of the sleepiest and least divisive corners of election administration — the vote certification process. Specifically, the nationwide effort by Republicans to install state election officials who are prepared, if not motivated, to undermine and possibly block the certification of vote totals. If that were to happen in the right counties in the right states, it could tip the outcome of the entire election.
Republicans are not being secretive about this. According to an
investigation by Rolling Stone, nearly 70 battleground-state election officials have openly “questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results.”
Certification has long been a routine ministerial task, unencumbered by partisanship, as the investigation points out. Increasingly, though, that’s not the case in the Trump era, now that Republicans have reprogrammed themselves to believe that it is impossible for them to lose any election except by fraud.
The danger comes not only from isolated kooks who get their news from Rudy Giuliani news conferences. Last week in Georgia, the Republican-controlled state election board
approved a measure that could unleash local election officials to do their own research and delay certifying vote counts (those that Trump doesn’t win outright, anyway).
Put aside for the moment that this new rule appears to be in conflict with longstanding Georgia law that requires certification in absence of a court challenge. The bigger problem here is in
how we choose our president — via the Electoral College — and how much power that winner-take-all system gives a single state to influence the outcome of the entire election.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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Alinsky 101: Accuse your enemy of what you are doing.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:20:42 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
God forbid elections should be monitored.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:21:57 PM PDT
by
DouglasKC
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The kept is in full bore propaganda mode. Smells like desperation.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:22:09 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:22:25 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That is totally hilarious coming from NYTimes after the way the 2020 election went...
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:22:31 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is why Rush described the NYT as the “Democrat paper of record”.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Imagine if the terrorists had taken out the New York Times instead of the Trade Center towers.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:27:23 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“...to undermine and possibly block the certification of vote totals...” I think they are telegraphing what THEY are planning to do.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:27:57 PM PDT
by
johnnygeneric
(Blocked website)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:34:37 PM PDT
by
T Ruth
(Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
That would have been friendly fire.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:36:19 PM PDT
by
TTFlyer
(Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I guess because the Republicans are campaigning for people to vote for Republicans and not Democrats and thus, democracy undermined. They probably also want only citizens of the United States voting in our elections, and only voting once per election cycle - further undermining democracy.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Oh...and I almost forgot - only people who are alive to vote...finishing off the last threads of democracy.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I may be a simpleton, but is it not reasonable to ask that the vote tally in a town, city or even a state should conform within a minute percentage of the total number of registered voters therein? And if there is a significant difference, shouldn’t that be an item for investigation before the vote is certified?
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:40:10 PM PDT
by
pingman
(It's a Clown World, and we're paying for it.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Certification has long been a routine ministerial task, unencumbered by partisanship,..." So said Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili)...
Nothing has changed...
The American Communist Party has not deviated from the fundamental, highly-successful tenets of tyranny since it totally subsumed the former Democrat Party in the 1970s...
They have won... They rule us totally... Why should anything they do "change"?
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:40:27 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NYT has become the print version of MSNBC.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:41:07 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NY Times spent 2-1/2 on the Russia collusion hoax in order to deny his election.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:42:30 PM PDT
by
Ge0ffrey
To: DouglasKC
August 14, 2024 | Sundance |
Michigan complete.
I transmitted the travel pattern, location and sequencing for Clyburn’s visits to the state. We are seeing the outcome now detail in the pattern of campaign visits by Harris and Walz. It’s a tight pattern, and colleges and universities seem to play a bigger role.

We now know the exact precincts and the information has been relayed. HQ is Ann Arbor, and the six outlined areas are the focus points. The goal is ballot integrity and security. This one is much harder than Wisconsin.
Anyone who wants to sign up as a poll watcher in Michigan can use THIS LINK – and/or GO TO True the Vote HERE for training. However, being brutally honest, Michigan is a hot mess of horrible republicanism in the key areas that matter.
If you read the information on Poll Watching and Challenging, you will understand how the state process seems to be designed to facilitate fraud. The Republican party in Michigan seems to have similarities to the Republican party in Arizona (and this is Ronna McDaniel’s home turf).
Next stop, Pennsylvania.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:43:22 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: E. Pluribus Unum
DO NY TIMES REPORTERS DRAW STRAWS FOR WHO GETS TO DO DAILY BS STORIES????
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:55:13 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Does anyone read the NYT?
What an echo chamber.
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posted on
08/15/2024 4:58:45 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(And yet we have the morally inverted allahu akhbar chorus at FR on the pro-barbarism side!)
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