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Originally Posted by jwb
I think there's a decent chance some **** is going down. Especially if the election is contested which, unless Biden wins in a landslide, seems likely.
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Yep, that's why one anti-Trump pundit hopes for a blue vote "too big to rig, too real to steal." Behind the scenes, I think there's a majority of Republican governors/election officials/ biased judge panels that will not be squeamish about sabotaging unfavourable election results on any pretext.
Trump's sent out the message, so they know what's expected of them:-
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The President's maneuvering ... is taking place ahead of a court hearing in Texas Monday morning on a Republican request to throw out 127,000 drive-thru votes in a key county. The case is one of a growing number of GOP legal gambits to jam up vote counting or reject ballots and comes amid new concerns that the Postal Service, after reforms initiated by its new pro-Trump CEO, may struggle to deliver a deluge of mail-in ballots before counting deadlines.
On Sunday, the President stoked fears of a disputed election that could have corrosive long-term effects by raising the false argument that results not declared on an election night were somehow illegitimate.
"I think it's a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing, and that's very bad. You know what that thing is. I think it's a very dangerous, terrible thing," Trump told reporters.
In another ominous comment, the President said that as soon as voting was over in states like Pennsylvania, "We're going in with our lawyers,"
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(source: CNN website)