The PA case would not have materially impacted the race.
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superrific
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That's not exactly true. Alito ordered some of the ballots to be segregated. It turned out they weren't enough to swing the election, so the case became moot. But they were at least halfway to intervening. Also, ACB wasn't on the court yet.
Also, what has changed is the radicalization. Do you think they would have issued the immunity decision they did in 2021? I don't.
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Right, but that cuts against your claims here. We never got a decision there because it didn't matter. But there were at least four votes to fuck Biden. And we don't know what ACB would do, but I'd say she's more than 50% likely to side with Trump on virtually anything.
Remember: the immunity decision is a Dred Scott level fuck up. Anyone who joined that opinion abandoned any effort at appearing non-partisan. And six joined it.
But the PA case was reasonably debatable (or at least debatable). The Texas case truly was bat shit crazy, as were most of the other 60+ cases that Trump filed that the Supreme Court opted not to reverse.
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I've got a bad feeling that PA Supreme Court is about to get fucked by Alito.
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And the former has allowed the possibility of the latter.
ZenMode
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I don't agree with SCOTUS or VA in this situation, but it sounds like people were notified by mail and given 14 days to verify citizenship.... whatever that means.
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"A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday sided with Donald Trump’s campaign and agreed to extend an in-person voting option in suburban Philadelphia, where long lines on the final day led to complaints voters were being disenfranchised by an unprepared election office.
A lawsuit demanding an extension of Tuesday’s 5pm deadline in Bucks county until today was filed this morning after long queues outside the county’s election offices on the last day for applications led to security guards cutting off the line and telling some of those waiting they would not be able to apply. ..."
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Although I tend to assume the worst of Team Trump's motives, I'm always for extending opportunity to vote if there are delays.
A lawsuit demanding an extension of Tuesday’s 5pm deadline in Bucks county until today was filed this morning after long queues outside the county’s election offices on the last day for applications led to security guards cutting off the line and telling some of those waiting they would not be able to apply. ..."
Judge extends in-person voting option in Pennsylvania after Trump lawsuit
Trump campaign demanded extension of deadline in Bucks county after long lines outside election offices were cut off
Although I tend to assume the worst of Team Trump's motives, I'm always for extending opportunity to vote if there are delays.
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“… received or submitted …” — it seems like “received” would be the key word.
Anyway, in 2020 Biden won Erie 68,286-66,869. Trump won it in 2016, 57,168-54,820. Obama won by about 19,000 votes in 2012.
Dems currently lead in returned ballots by a lot (15,286 - 6,716) in Erie.
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I am not a student of history when it comes to the Supreme Court, but it doesn't seem conceivable that a Court has done more damage to the foundation of democracy than this Roberts court. It is entirely possible that I am captive in the moment, though.
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“Election denial activists on Wednesday seized on errors in a routine Michigan voting report to claim that multiple people were casting ballots under a single voter’s name.
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The glitch was the result of a formatting error in a routine report generated from voter roll files, Ms. Benander said in a statement. The report counted people’s past addresses on separate lines, “resulting in the same ballot for the same voter appearing on multiple lines of information all associated with one unique voter ID,” she said.
“Each of these voters only had one vote recorded for this election,” Ms. Benander said.
The incident underscores the extent to which small glitches and mistakes — which are inevitable in the management of elections by thousands of jurisdictions and all 50 states — can be amplified by a well-organized network of election denial activists bent on elevating false claims to enforce the notion promoted by Donald J. Trump and his allies that Democrats are rigging the election. …”
www.nytimes.com
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The glitch was the result of a formatting error in a routine report generated from voter roll files, Ms. Benander said in a statement. The report counted people’s past addresses on separate lines, “resulting in the same ballot for the same voter appearing on multiple lines of information all associated with one unique voter ID,” she said.
“Each of these voters only had one vote recorded for this election,” Ms. Benander said.
The incident underscores the extent to which small glitches and mistakes — which are inevitable in the management of elections by thousands of jurisdictions and all 50 states — can be amplified by a well-organized network of election denial activists bent on elevating false claims to enforce the notion promoted by Donald J. Trump and his allies that Democrats are rigging the election. …”
Michigan Election Denial Activists Seize on Voter Report Glitch
Participants in the Election Integrity Network spread false claims in right-wing media that were debunked by the Michigan secretary of state.