Even before President Joe Biden’s long-speculated withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democrats from having anyone other than Biden on the ballot in November.
But election administration and legal experts said the timing of Biden’s exit on Sunday makes it unlikely that any Republican ballot access challenges will succeed, with some calling the idea “ridiculous” and “frivolous.” Democrats are on safe legal ground as they identify a new standard-bearer, they say, because the party hasn’t officially chosen its nominee. That typically occurs with a vote of delegates at the party’s convention.
“It’s ridiculous for people to talk about ‘replacing Biden.’ He hasn’t been nominated yet,” said Richard Winger, a leading expert on state ballot access laws and the longtime editor of the “Ballot Access News” newsletter.
Why is this even a thing in the USA?
Belgium has a population of only 11.7 Million, a population density of 387 per square kilometer, and a whopping 98.8 percent of the population is Urban.
We have 30 times your population, 1/10th of your population density, and 20% less of our population is Urban.
The United States has 28 Million people, more than twice your entire population, that MOVES every year. Over a million people immigrate into the United States every year, meaning we could literally populate your entire nation in just a decade.
All of that means you cannot simply “send everyone a letter”.
It’s like the old saw “Everything works fine in a small network.” So no offense but relatively speaking Belgium is a tiny network compared to what we’ve got going on in the United States.
USA is big therefore they can’t have good things is bullshit.
USA has a lot of people to send mails to, but it also has a lot of people to collect taxes from, those taxes pay for the mails.
The cost to send mails should scale linearly with population, just like taxes. Therefore economics is not a problem. If anything, more mails should mean cheaper per mail since economics of scale take place to bring down costs.
Logistics isn’t an issue either. Just tell each state to sort it themselves. Each US state has roughly the same population as European countries, and they manage the logistics.
Each US state has roughly the same population as European countries, and they manage the logistics.
Yes, and it works at the State level…which is precisely why I drew the parallel to European Countries.
HOWEVER I wasn’t asked about States sending them. Every comment I replied to was asked in the context of the FEDERAL Government.
Threaded comments are not new tech, figure it out.
Colorado handles it just fine. Sounds like you’re making excuses for your state, don’t lump all the states in with yours.
We aren’t discussing a single state and if we were then Colorado has a population half of Belgium.
Everything works fine in a small network.
We literally are discussing single states. The Federal government doesn’t run the voting, it’s individual states that do. So all voting improvements literally happen at an individual state level.
Everything works fine in a small network.
what a hilarious excuse for your state being shitty. This is such a tired and untrue trope it isn’t even funny anymore, it’s just sad.
Nope. You file your taxes and send them in. They don’t mail you anything unless it’s necessary.
The irs literally did send almost everyone in the country a letter during covid… it’s not nearly as difficult as y’all are making it out to be.
