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It’s safe to assume at this point that delays and chaos (and the opportunities both will provide for fraud) are the exact point.

This time around, Georgia is going to be prepared to “find” Trump however many votes he needs.

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The real question is whether they’re going to bother actually doing the math to make it believable, or if they’re going to give Trump 105% of the state’s population worth of votes.

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i am thinking they are going to scrutinize black neighborhood polling stations and say they didn’t match the hand count of total ballots with the digital total and therefore this polling station is invalid or something

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Significant delay combined with the party that insists elections are supposed to be over at midnight. Seems like an obvious recipe to count certain votes first and then whoops out of time.

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That same party already made it much more onerous for people of color to vote in Georgia which will mean fewer votes to count as well

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Exactly. Low-population areas are Republican-leaning and will get counted fast. Cities which are Democratic-leaning won’t have the staff to count it in one night.

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Lots of places have rules about how many polling stations per county. It’s designed to create lines to vote in cities and no lines in rural areas.

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And don’t even think about giving water to people stuck in line for hours in the heat. That’s a felony. (Okay its a misdemeanor, and a judge “paused enforcement” of it sort of.)

Fuckery Ahoy!!

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So by law all ballot boxes will have their seals broken immediately.

Fucking Jenius, georgia republiQans! That’s such a vote-securing idea! Also when all your Big Lie accusations become plans, you’ve gone full seditionist, just FYI ok? Ok!

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Fuck. They passed it. Harris just lost Georgia.

Look into the details of what was passed. It won’t simply delay reporting, it will allow them to refuse certification of results based on almost anything, including “suspicious” results, i.e., Trump losing under any circumstance. They’ve also installed loyalists across the state to halt certifications based on that principle on purpose.

Georgia just successfully overthrew democratic elections in their state. They did it after working out loud and in public on it for four years, and no one did anything about it. I’m dead serious when I say that this functionally and practically, which is all that matters, makes it impossible for Harris to win Georgia.

Incredible. And incredibly sad.

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