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Posted on 11/02/2024 11:47:22 AM PDT by lightman
There is reportedly a five-alarm fire in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This area will decide the 2024 election. Donald Trump must win here. He split with Hillary Clinton in 2016 and won the state. While historically an evenly split county, the voter registration advantage has tilted toward the Republicans. Shockingly, that coincides with some administrative issues at election sites that some allege are intentional.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee were incensed that voters were reportedly turned away during the early voting process. They sued, and a Pennsylvania judge sided with them, extending the deadline until yesterday. Even then, it was a shambolic process (via The Guardian):
A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday sided with Donald Trump’s campaign and agreed to extend an in-person voting option in suburban Philadelphia, where long lines on the final day led to complaints voters were being disenfranchised by an unprepared election office.
A lawsuit demanding an extension of Tuesday’s 5pm deadline in Bucks county was filed on Wednesday morning after long queues outside the county’s election office on the last day for applications led to security guards cutting off the line and telling some of those waiting they would not be able to apply.
Videos of the scenes were widely circulated on social media, fuelling rumours of voter suppression.
The Trump campaign was joined by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick in the lawsuit, alleging that voters waiting outside election offices for mail ballots were turned away empty-handed and ordered to leave after the deadline expired at 5pm on Tuesday.
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Judge Jeffrey Trauger said in a one-page order that Bucks county voters who want to apply for an early mail ballot now have until Friday.
The queues for late mail ballots were a result of Pennsylvania not having an early on-site voting system at designated spots, as is the case in some other states. Instead, voters can apply for ballots on demand at election offices before filling them out and submitting them on the spot, a procedure that takes about 10 minutes.
Still, the videos on the ground painted a different picture, where officials were criticized for doing the bare minimum to accommodate voters and the judge’s order. People were allegedly waiting five-plus hours to vote, with some locations reportedly having inadequate staff to handle the waves of voters everyone and their mother could have predicted. If this isn’t voter suppression, it’s outright incompetence:
Activist Scott Presler, who's been organizing voter registration drives, said everyone waiting in line cast their ballot.
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I think that Trump will probably lose PA after a week of fraud from Josh Shapiro, but will win WI anyway.
“ Activist Scott Presler, who’s been organizing voter registration drives, said everyone waiting in line cast their ballot.”
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But how many GAVE UP WAITING in line due to the obvious ‘RAT shenanigans… that’s the question.
I am sorry. There was never anything wrong with long lines and long waits when all voting was on election day, period. The people endured it, and the nation endured it for most of its history.
The changes began to be made when Democrats claimed “low voter turnout” was because their voters were not given enough chance to vote and NEEDED more relazed voting rules.
Actually low voter turnout is always a vote, a real vote, for “none of the above”.
I’m trying to watch the Flyers/Bruins game and it is wall to wall Pennsylvania political ads. I’m wearing out my mute button.
I’d switch to the Boston feed but that probably won’t be any better.
INCOMPETENCE raised as a possiblity? *slaps head*
Following President Trump’s inauguration in January, 2025, various election officials in Demonicrat-controlled Pennsylvania precincts (and probably some PA state officials) will need to be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced for their efforts in giving aid and comfort to the domestic enemies of the United States.
I wonder if the Democrats there were told to go in and vote and take their time doing it, slowing the process.
Keep your uninformed, knee-jerk pity-party to yourself. The steal is big in Pennsylvania, but the electorate so far is considerably more Republican than in 2020, when the steal was huge and Trump still came this close -><- to winning. We need to fight hard, but we can do it.
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What the rats did in Bucks County is suppression of GOP votes.
Period.
Bring you own walker and have a seat on it while waiting.
Don’t forget to pee first.
Bring a task for sipping water, gotta take you meds, too.
This election is even more important.
Vote for Trump. No matter what obstacles are thrown up. Do it for the Gipper.
Oh woe is us. (Wring hands.)
YOU BET!
I’m disabled and use a waker and/or cane. My knowledgeable friend
told me I can go to the front of the line with no problem. Texas!
Maybe some dirty looks from those who do not know this.
Surely there is more to know We’ll see Tuesday.
If possible, don’t go alone, so one of you can hold the other’s place in line for potty breaks, etc.
That’s why the Dims made so many different new rules - more complex, more opportunity for fraud, more biased intefereence by local authorities and local judges to enhance all the new rules, to “meet” the new conditions; all on the practice - create a crisis, and then, never let a good crisis go to waste.
>If possible, don’t go alone, so one of you can hold the other’s place in line for potty breaks, etc.<
That’s also good thinking.
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