SCOOP from WaPo's Greg Sargent on how the Biden campaign will respond to Trump/Dejoy USPS attacks

[highplainsdem]

Worth reading in its entirety. Sargent just got this info from Robert Bauer.



Sargent's tweet about this:

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/17/trump-is-trying-corrupt-election-heres-how-biden-will-respond/

Robert Bauer, the veteran election lawyer and senior adviser to the Biden campaign, told me the Biden team has come to believe Trump’s efforts have two goals. The obvious one: DeJoy’s changes could introduce chaos into the delivery of mail ballots, potentially disenfranchising untold numbers of voters, particularly in states where ballots that are postmarked before Election Day but arrive after won’t count.

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House Democrats have called on DeJoy to reverse these changes and testify to Congress. They’ve demanded documents designed to probe their true nature and rationale. But the fear that they could impact the election is shared by some Republican officials.

The second goal behind Trump’s efforts is more subtle, but the Biden camp thinks it’s critical: By constantly (and falsely) attacking vote-by-mail as riddled with fraud, Trump and his allies are trying to dissuade people from using it at all, by persuading them their own ballots won’t be counted and by casting a pall of confusion over the whole process.

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To remedy this, the Biden campaign tells me it’s planning massive expenditures in educating voters about mail balloting, with two goals: To get people to initiate the vote-by-mail process as early as possible and follow it through, and to inform people that mail balloting is secure.

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Another crucial piece of the Biden response is supporting litigation currently underway in many swing states against state laws that invalidate ballots postmarked before Election Day that arrive after. Trump has repeatedly telegraphed that he will declare later-arriving ballots fraudulent, and he’s banking on those laws to ensure they aren’t counted.

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[getagrip_already]

1. what if they don't get postmarked?

That doesn't happen magically. The computer system that runs those machines could "break", or go down for extended maintenance. Then no postmarks for days.

Just saying.

[SharonClark]

9. Not all mail receives a postmark although it should.

A Dem Iowa state house candidate lost by a few votes when something like 17 ballots that arrived the day after the election did not have postmarks and weren’t counted.

[secondwind]

2. Kicking

[Laelth]

3. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[chriscan64]

4. The main goal is to cast doubt about the result.

Sure he wants to suppress the vote to make the count closer, but this is all about a rationale to reject the result when he loses.

[HotTeaBag]

6. Yep, that's exactly why.

He's going on and on about how it will be the most corrupt election of all time - and he's made it not a warning, but a promise.

[2naSalit]

5. Shouldn't be up to him to decide in the first place.

But I have heard a little about this ground game for what comes after on Nov. 4. I like that their is a plan for that.

[Gothmog]

7. From Marc Elias

Link to tweet

[calimary]

8. Looking at trump in that tweet - my immediate takeaway was "his eyebrows say 'evil'."

I see EVIL.

Also can't help wondering if he had an eye-job that hasn't aged well. His eyebrows AND skin in the eye socket are pulling upward and outward in the same way.