Election legal battles & fraud claims | Nebraska may try last second restore winner takes all Electoral College (too late for Maine to do so)

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finesse said:
Isn't DeJoy a Trump appointee and isn't he a huge screw up?
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Yes and yes.

It's just astounding that Trump has so little memory of his presidency. Like, he seems to have no idea what he did or didn't do. Part of that is his usual bluster, but I see a deeper confusion underneath. I mean, people don't remember what they don't care about, and we know how much Trump cares for the actual job of being president. Still, I would think he would remember a few things here or there.
 


“… The group – which includes elections officials from at least five counties – calls itself the Georgia Election Integrity Coalition.

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The communications also show members of the group coordinating on messaging regarding their false claims of widespread voter fraud. Ahead of a December meeting of the group, Adams, using her TeaPartyPatriots.org email address, sent an agenda that included an item about a “New York Times reporter traveling to several counties in Georgia”. Another agenda noted that the Federalist, a rightwing publication, was seeking “freelance writers (no experience needed)”.

The group has heard from speakers at their meetings that include the state election board member Dr Janice Johnston, an election denier who smiled and waved to the crowd at Trump’s 3 August rally in Atlanta in which he praised her and two other Republicans on the board as “pit bulls” “fighting for victory”. One agenda also noted that Frank Schneider, an election denial activist who has challenged the eligibility of more than 31,000 Georgia voters, would speak at a meeting. Other speakers at the group’s meetings include Garland Favorito, perhaps the state’s most prominent election denial activist who constantly pressures the state election board to launch investigations into supposed election fraud as well as to implement policies and rules he and others frequently submit. (In a separate release of emails obtained by the Guardian, Favorito is seen scheduling a July lunch with the state election board’s chair, John Fervier, a moderate Republican who has voted against recent denier-based rules passed by his Republican colleagues.) …”
 
Can Trump and Nebraska legislature claw back the one available electoral vote in Nebraska ... too late for Maine to respond in kind?


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Republicans’ push to alter the state’s allotment to a winner-take-all format first cropped up back in the spring, when Gov. JIM PILLEN said he would call a special session if GOP state lawmakers could find the requisite votes to pass the change.

Now, Pillen is back in the mix. Yesterday, Pillen “hosted two dozen state senators at the Governor’s Mansion, along with Secretary of State BOB EVNEN, the state’s chief election official,” the Nebraska Examiner’s Aaron Sanderford reports. “Several who attended the meeting said some senators who had wavered earlier showed more support” for making the change. (As we noted in Playbook this morning, Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) and the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation are part of the lobbying effort.)

... [But in Maine] First, Gov. JANET MILLS would be required to call a special session of the legislature. But the stickier wicket is in the timing: A bill only becomes law in Maine 90 days after it’s passed, unless the bill receives a two-thirds vote in each chamber (Democrats currently have majorities, but not supermajorities). We’re 46 days away from Nov. 5, and 87 days from Dec. 16, when electoral votes are set to be cast.

That tricky timetable does beg the question of whether Trump and his GOP allies in Nebraska held off on renewing their push for a change in the state in order to jam up any effort to match it out of Maine. ..."
 
And again, the Independent State Legislature doctrine rears its head. Under the ISL, Maine's allocation of EVs wouldn't be constrained by the state constitution. Fortunately the ISL failed at SCOTUS but imagine if it had succeeded.

Nebraska decided to allocate that EV by district to give the state some national relevance. If they change it back, they will never be relevant again.
 
I assume this effort in Nebraska is because trump knows he’s going to lose Pa, Mi, and Wi.

Hopefully NC comes through and Ne is a moot point.
 
He's Not Here said:
I assume this effort in Nebraska is because trump knows he’s going to lose Pa, Mi, and Wi.

Hopefully NC comes through and Ne is a moot point.
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Anything can come through and make it a moot point, even NV.

This is why I think Nebraska would be insane to flip their policy on a dime, to mollify a candidate who isn't likely to win. But then again, it's the GOP.
 
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