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Nevilledog

(51,005 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:34 AM Nov 2020

Possible plan for Trump campaign to manufacture illegal ballots *UPDATED*

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Sam Stein
@samstein
Election lawyers fear that this is an attempt to sneak a clearly fraudulently-cast ballot into the pool of legitimate post-election day mailed in ballots so that they could then get a court to invalidate the entire pool.

Sam Stein
@samstein
NEW — Republican officials in Wisconsin sent an email to volunteers on THURSDAY urging them to contact Pennsylvania Trump supporters to get them to turn in their absentee ballots. This as Trump warns about votes coming in POST election day

https://thedailybeast.com/trump-warns-of-corrupt-post-election-day-votes-as-his-supporters-push-for-them-in-pa/

W/ @lachlan
9:16 PM · Nov 5, 2020


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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
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Nov 5, 2020
Replying to @lachlan
Here's the body of the email that went out at about 6 PM eastern today
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan

John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
BREAKING: I've examined one of these emails provided by the reporter. It appears to be a real message, sent w @Mailchimp . https://thedailybeast.com/trump-warns-of-corrupt-post-election-day-votes-as-his-supporters-push-for-them-in-pa
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Possible plan for Trump campaign to manufacture illegal ballots *UPDATED* (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2020 OP
No low is too low for them. FM123 Nov 2020 #1
Commit felonies for Trump? No thanks Freethinker65 Nov 2020 #2
Trump'll promise a pardon for any dirty work done on his behalf. nt oasis Nov 2020 #7
So they need to find Trump loyalist voters that didn't already vote for Trump Freethinker65 Nov 2020 #11
Yea, so they could send it in a day late so Trump could point to it and say, "Fraud" Maraya1969 Nov 2020 #17
They're gonna send in 30,000 volunteers, all of whom haven't voted yet? Roland99 Nov 2020 #3
It never ends leighbythesea2 Nov 2020 #4
I suppose their totally whacked argument would be 'well you're going to count ballots that came mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #5
What MAGA didn't already vote?? And if not, why would they even still have the ballot/envelope? Freethinker65 Nov 2020 #12
Wouldn't they then be attempting to vote twice? Sugarcoated Nov 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author 58Sunliner Nov 2020 #8
I wonder if its not in the plan already? I just heard about a woman in PA who is suing - she said tulipsandroses Nov 2020 #9
I heard that earlier in Nevada. She was contacted, they compared signatures Freethinker65 Nov 2020 #14
have to postmarked by tuesday night or hand delivered by tuesday nt msongs Nov 2020 #10
They have to have requested a mail in ballot, kept it, not voted in person Freethinker65 Nov 2020 #15
There's still very little effort to hide what they're doing. It's so insulting. nt crickets Nov 2020 #13
Kick dalton99a Nov 2020 #16

Freethinker65

(9,999 posts)
11. So they need to find Trump loyalist voters that didn't already vote for Trump
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:56 AM
Nov 2020

That requested a mail in ballot, that not only did not return it, but that kept it and the required coded envelope lying around and not already trashed?
Good luck!
However, just the idea being proposed by the State GOP should warrant a criminal investigation.

Maraya1969

(22,462 posts)
17. Yea, so they could send it in a day late so Trump could point to it and say, "Fraud"
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:20 AM
Nov 2020

????


Seems like stupid plan.

But then they always have stupid plans.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. I suppose their totally whacked argument would be 'well you're going to count ballots that came
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:39 AM
Nov 2020

in the mail until Friday, so you should accept Absentee ballots till Friday if people want to drop them off!'

And of course this will make sense to stupid wingnuts, but everyone else understands that they're ONLY COUNTING votes postmarked BY election day.

Absentee Votes turned in on Friday c/would've been filled out AFTER Election Day.

The whole friggin' point is that they're accepting votes cast BEFORE the polls closed.

And there's no chance the election officials are going to accept any such ballots.

Freethinker65

(9,999 posts)
12. What MAGA didn't already vote?? And if not, why would they even still have the ballot/envelope?
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:00 AM
Nov 2020

If they never requested a ballot, it would be tossed out. Are they planning on faking/reprinting the ballots and envelopes that are coded and printed to exact specifications? You can't just go to Kinko's.

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tulipsandroses

(5,122 posts)
9. I wonder if its not in the plan already? I just heard about a woman in PA who is suing - she said
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:41 AM
Nov 2020

a mail in ballot was cast in her name and she did not send it in. I wonder some of these clowns thought they could do this to sabotage the mail in ballots? Don't think it will work.

Freethinker65

(9,999 posts)
15. They have to have requested a mail in ballot, kept it, not voted in person
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:04 AM
Nov 2020

MAGAs were told not to request ballots or use them, but to vote in person. Ballots and envelops were professionally printed and coded to exact specifications. You cannot just go to Kinko's.

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