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It is not just about voting and mail in ballots or in person voting. I really hope Biden has a plan to secure the polling places. trump has warned us that he plans to send all kinds of officials to the polling locations. Why? To steal the mail in ballots? Then what? That is a putin tactic. These Red states will let this happen. That is the plan. Please tell me I am wrong. The justice dept. will assist trump, will not protect the ballots. We can't walk into this blindly ... think putin style election.
Speaking of the justice dept, barr is setting up all the pardons for trump to make as soon as trump steals the election. I believe that is why such a flurry of indictments are flowing at this time. This gives trump his list of names for pardons, even before court cases for some.
The worst case scenario is upon us. Biden and Harris are smart and strong, they must be planning for this.
brooklynite
(94,703 posts)You should realize now that Trump threatens all kinds of things that he wont and cant do. The Federal Government doesnt control voting, so they cant interfere with polling sites. Even if you believe hell send the FBI or DHS agents out, I dont think you appreciate how many polling places their are and how few Federal LEOs there actually are.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)Think about that. We are becoming a third world country.
The athletes are doing their part battling to get stadiums as polling places. That could be amazing if you think about all that space and how many entrances they have for covid protection.
It's gonna take a lot of work and still we might win in a landslide but have it all stolen.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,651 posts)For the first time in 40 years, the GOP will be allowed to pay off duty, uniformed, armed LEOs to observe polling places and challenge voters who they think are voting illegally.
Wish I could find the link- this cycle is the first time since the 70s that this practice will be allowed.
Who pioneered this practice? None other than Roger Stone.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)with all elected officials including Governors to get them to speak on the record about plans to secure the mail in ballots and make sure that all votes will be counted. All of us must call our State Houses and demand public statements from elected officials guaranteeing this. Red states especially. Michigan repbs lead our State House (gerrymandered) and will not let mail in votes to be started to be counted early even though they already know that there will be large amounts more cast this year due to Covid-19. They want confusion, they want the opportunity to steal it. Biden team please get out a head of this. Thank the stars that we have a Democratic team leading the State. This election is going to be a putin election.