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[–] 86 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Nothing is thwarted until they lose the election.

Vote. Vote in numbers too big to be manipulated.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    It’s not even over then! Why wouldn’t they try a congressional j6 there were no consequences last time

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    J6 was centered around the notion that they had a "chance" to change or stop the certification of electoral votes for the US president. Afaik, no such process exists for US senators or reps. Their certification is by the state that elects them.

    All that said, they are likely to try something, it will just look different and require different expectations to thwart.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Which means bad faith governors and MAGA statehouses may defy an election in which a Democrat unseats a MAGA. Do you think Florida's radically MAGA Statehouse is going to be happy about certifying a Democratic Governor or Senator? How about Texas? How about Kansas?

    We aren't out of the woods just because we're at a state level. The state MAGAs may be more virulently dishonest than the Feds (other than Trump, he's the clear champion of corruption).

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    Probably why I said what I did at the end then, huh? If the problem is going to be multiple states rejecting certification, then expecting "another J6" isn't going to help.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    That’s a good start, but this is a multifaceted threat to democracy. I don’t see how they could expect disenfranchising 20,000 people would affect California elections, BUT

    • are they targetting swing districts, specific congresspeople?
    • terrorizing/suppressing many more voters?
    • terrorizing official trying to run legitimate elections?
    • distractions, always distractions. Are we missing more serious threats to elections in swing states?
    • most importantly creating excuses they will use to try to invalidate californias elections?
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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    Unfortunately I don't think any numbers are enough. Vought has already published their plan to prevent "unfit" candidates from taking the oath on 1/3/27. They've laid the groundwork for DSA members and Muslims to be deemed "unfit" which could be as many as 13 seats that will sit vacant until the courts sort it out (years). UNFTR has a good video about it, this segment starts about 8 min in.

    https://youtu.be/-2mYvvoz25Q

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