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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/09/trump-demands-california-votes-be-thrown-out-after-state-announces-all-mail-november-election.htmlPosted on Sat, May 9th, 2020 by Sean Colarossi
Trump Demands California Votes Be Thrown Out After State Announces All-Mail November Election
Donald Trump blew a gasket on Saturday following the news that California has become the first state in the country to make November an all-mail election.
According to Politico, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made the decision, citing concern and anxiety around people voting in person during a pandemic.
Trump, of course, couldnt care less about the public safety risks attached to in-person voting and only cares about how mail-in ballots could impact him politically.
Thats why, in a tweet on Saturday, he threw a tantrum and said California votes shouldnt count. He also complained about a polling place being opened up in a part of the state where Democrats live.
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@realDonaldTrump
So in California, the Democrats, who fought like crazy to get all mail in only ballots, and succeeded, have just opened a voting booth in the most Democrat area in the State. They are trying to steal another election. Its all rigged out there. These votes must not count. SCAM!
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Squinch
(51,059 posts)CrispyQ
(36,544 posts)We have automatic registration at the DMV and online registration and same day registration. My county has ballot drop-off boxes at places like the County Clerk's office and the Public Library. You can also sign up for texts that alert you when your ballot was mailed out and when it was received back at the Clerk's office. All very efficient!
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)Not sure what other states already have mail in voting.
Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)while he's at it, let's throw out all the results of all blue states.
jimfields33
(16,044 posts)Only president Id ever write a reply like this and mean it. Lol. Hes probably figuring how to do it.
bluestarone
(17,091 posts)FUCK tRUMP and ALL his RETHUGS!!!!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)They can't hold their power-by-deception and suppression lock on the country with mail in voting if more people have easier access to vote.
The dinosaurs are obsolete and only sheer force and maximum manipulation can keep them going into the decade. Demographics clearly point that out. They know that and you can bet that, even though their politics are making them irrelevant in this era, they will fight their demise as a dominant party and will not allow something new to emerge from the rotting carcass they have become.
Trump knows that. He is getting started early though doing his predictive programming of how he is going to attack, undermine and interfere with the General Election. Pay close attention, folks. The next six-months are going to be a debacle that you could have never imagined in this country.
We must prevail. We must win. Not for ourselves alone, but for the Unites States of America. And every put down and insult they give us is always about them from now on, so don't be discouraged if they scorn us and deflect blame on us for the egregious things they will be doing to undermine our country.
erronis
(15,393 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)WITH TRUMP'S LATEST APPOINTMENT OF LOUIS DEJOY AS POSTMASTER GENERAL THEY NOW HAVE CONTROL OVER THE USPS. The turd's man is now in charge.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/07/just-straight-cronyism-top-trump-and-gop-donor-picked-lead-us-postal-service-time
That will take care of it, even if vote by mail is allowed nation wide. The turd will have control over EVERY MAIL IN BALLOT. And WHY do you think HE thinks he must have control over those ballots???
Laws need to be passed, with authority to back them up, that ANY person who attempts to interfere with the election process will automatically receive extensive jail time... then $1,000,000 rewards should be offered to anyone who supplies information resulting in a valid arrest. Bloomberg, Steyer could provide the reward funding. It wouldn't take many to address the situation.
Strange how the GOP depends on the supreme court's "states rights" ruling, to allow them complete control over the election process, AND to allow them to gerrymander and control legislatures, when they don't receive a majority of the votes in a state... but now the turd is demanding that states NOT have those very same powers over a state's election process.
So now they want to have it BOTH ways.
Gives you whiplash, doesn't it?
erronis
(15,393 posts)Wonder if it's possible to just sign a mass pardon for all white landed males. Save a bunch of ink.
Another redundancy - they already have essentially that.
I worry that a new fairly-elected democratic executive and legislature won't decide that we need to heal and reconciliate again. (Notice, no "truth".)
Brother Buzz
(36,486 posts)On Nov. 7, 2000, Oregon became the nation's 1st all vote-by-mail state.
Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)polls close. For good reasons. Many local issues suffer from citizens who decide not to vote.
Brother Buzz
(36,486 posts)Oh, I see what you are saying, and it's true; I would have no problems if all the polls open and close at the same time, say midnight EST to midnight EST.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)babylonsister
(171,103 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,486 posts)Up until now, you had to request a vote-by-mail ballot in California, and it has become a VERY popular option; over 70% of Californians vote by mail.
babylonsister
(171,103 posts)don't recall requesting it. I DID have a Dem at the door a year ago? who was pushing it and I was receptive, so maybe that's why I got one?
jimfields33
(16,044 posts)PufPuf23
(8,843 posts)(Humboldt) in California. Local voting sites were all converted to vote by mail only at least a decade ago.
Not sure if this was a county or State decision when the polling stations in the bush were closed in favor of 100% by mail.
Brother Buzz
(36,486 posts)And I bet the county saved a ton of money not staffing Podunk precincts, too.
PufPuf23
(8,843 posts)reduce costs and be more efficient.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)bsiebs
(688 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)She had big plans for profit & hacking!!
Now what?!!
erronis
(15,393 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Oregon has been all mail in voting for 20 years. People with disabilities and mobility issues also vote by mail. Americans living and working abroad have been casting their votes by mail as well. And the military has always voted by mail. Is Trump going to not count all those votes as well?
It's a bit obvious that Trump is only worried about the huge chunk of democratic voters in California, with even more voters likely to swell the count because it's easier to vote by mail.
I like him to explain which section of the constitution gives him the power to not count votes in states where he is that clear loser.
stopbush
(24,397 posts)that the margin will be that much wider? Hillary beat tRump 62-31% in CA in 2016. I have no doubt it will be 75-25% in favor of Biden.
CA is a winner-take-all state when it comes to the EC.
procon
(15,805 posts)the stage for his defeat by claiming the whole election was some how "rigged".
Maybe he thinks he can win if he starts shouting that various evil doers have snatched his victory as away through chicanery and bamboozling fraud.
All he needs to do is plant the seed that he was robbed of winning the election that clearly should have been his. The rightwing fringe will take it from there and flesh out their conspiracy theories to provide Trump with a plausible background story that will let him use the Bully Pulpit to get people to question the legitimacy of the whole election in hopes he can cling to power.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)to be settle by a Conservative court
To avoid that, Trump has to be clobbered.
SWBTATTReg
(22,183 posts)claimed fraud too, w/ NO evidence (other than a republican operative that got caught tampering w/ votes back then). We should all do the opposite of what rump claims. I love it when he throws a temper fit, it means that we're doing the right thing.
sinkingfeeling
(51,484 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,202 posts)erronis
(15,393 posts)You know the joke about the two boys walking past a dog licking him(her)self....
Little Donnie (mushroom) is a contortionist since 2yo.
Takket
(21,652 posts)he wasn't winning CA anyway lol what he needs is voter suppression in swing states.......
In It to Win It
(8,297 posts)He's not winning CA. It doesn't matter to him
ancianita
(36,177 posts)2. to pose as powerful against any governors and state legislative bodies; 3. to let his base know that the other party rigs elections; 4. to set regional states against each other. He has the entire executive branch's power as leverage.
In It to Win It
(8,297 posts)We suck at stealing elections!
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Does he feel that Republicants aren't bright enough to fill out and mail an absentee ballot? Why does he assume all those will be Dems "illegally" voting? Does he not realize it makes it easier for "his people" to vote also? Will he insist on the same for red states?
So many questions, and an idiot in charge.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)There are already at least two Supreme Court decisions that hint that there needs be no popular election at all. The
Constitution (Amendment 23) very specifically says the states appoint the electors, and does not give them any hints how to do it.
It would be fun to see a state try to eliminate the popular vote for President and go back to the legislature appointing the electors. Absolutely no legal reason for them not to.
That might, at the moment, actually be beneficial to Tangerine Turd.
Baitball Blogger
(46,771 posts)MissMillie
(38,591 posts)he was going to take California anyway.
Oh wait... he's stupid enough to think he might have.
Nevermind.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,510 posts)Ratfuckers will continue.
erronis
(15,393 posts)Not sure there's time to kill the postal service before the election, tho.
Desperation.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Lock him up.
(6,947 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)DFW
(54,462 posts)So, of COURSE Trump wants then thrown out. otherwise, he'll have to charter a plane to the Bahamas the day before the inauguration.
Brother Buzz
(36,486 posts)We have 55 electoral votes for the 2020 election, all for Biden. We'll have to wait for the results of 2020 census results, but projections indicate we'll drop to 54 for the 2024 election.
That being said, my Magic 8-Ball says the orange anus will have to fly to the Bahamas by coach.
niyad
(113,668 posts)Retrograde
(10,168 posts)No excuse or reason required. In the early 2000s California let any voter in the state sign up as a permanent mail voter. Several counties have - including mine (pop. 1.9 million) have already been doing all-mail elections. All this decree does is make the option state-wide instead of county by county.
Anyway, Oregon has been doing this for years. It would be nice if news outlets would occasionally check their facts before disseminating them.
malaise
(269,237 posts)thrown out. Fuck that criminally negligent ignoramus
Enoki33
(1,588 posts)for a bogus claim of voter fraud when he loses big in November. The criminal traitor will not be going quietly.
Lock him up.
(6,947 posts)And the orange virus and his corrupt henchmen have no say on how.
That's what makes US different than Russia in that matter.
On January 20, 2021 at noon, if it's still infecting the WH, the Secret Service will drag him out:
The official ceremonies of Inauguration Day start at noon on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol with the vice president-elect and president-elect Joe Biden taking the Oaths of Office administered by the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Hey Maggot, just STFU!
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)of the SS Dumbass.