When the wannabe strongmen act like they can steal the election, and everyone panics, this amplifies the con and gives it credence. justsecurity.org/72609/dont-bel…
Even with people amplifying the lie, we've seen that it doesn't work.
Look at Wisconsin in April.
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In April, the GOP did everything they could to steal that election.
Turns out, people don't like it when they know someone in power is trying to silence their vote.
Wisconsin voters overcame all the obstacles and the Democrats won.
The takeaway from the latest attempt in Texas to throw out ballots is that we should all be astonished by the lengths that the GOP will go to keep people from voting.
There is another takeaway in Texas: The sheer number of people who have voted so far.
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Slim chance that the US Supreme Court would allow a federal district court to overturn a question of Texas state voting law as determined by local TX officials including members of the state legislature, and the Texas Supreme Court.
If ballots are late because of deliberate sabotage, those obviously must be counted.
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Democrats as a rule have voted earlier than Republicans. So batches of late-arriving ballots are likely to have more or equal numbers of Republican ballots.
Did I mention that nobody should put a ballot in the mail at this point, even if your state has a long deadline?
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