Apparently, when the GOP submits fake signatures, it's a "technicality."

[MissMillie]

Michigan's GOP push to fight fake "voter fraud" gets upended by actual fraud

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michigan-s-gop-push-to-fight-fake-voter-fraud-gets-upended-by-actual-fraud/ar-AAY87iy?ocid=U483DHP&pc=U483&cvid=77c8046e14814cd595fba2a122a8aca6

Organizers of a Republican-backed Michigan petition to enact voter restrictions to combat would-be voter fraud missed the state's filing deadline on Wednesday after discovering tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures.

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"The fact of the matter is our volunteers, our supporters had put in too much hard work for us to end up getting bounced off the ballot due to some technicality," he told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.

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They really have no shame.

[Walleye]

1. Sounds like those "questionable irregularities".They accuse us of

[underpants]

2. Meanwhile in South DAKOTA

They require ballot petitions to be one ONE sheet on paper with signatures and it has to be 14 font. Oh and the vote has to be greater than 60% (to stop Medicaid expansion).






https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016323997

[COL Mustard]

18. And you can only vote while standing

On your left foot, with your right eye closed, after spinning three times counterclockwise. Oh, and only on alternate Tuesdays in the week after a first quarter moon, when Saturn in in eclipse and the Age of Aquarius is on the radio station.

These restrictions are ridiculous!

[Caliman73]

3. Apparently the "hard work" did not include making sure that signatures were valid.

I know that any campaign for signatures will run into similar problems, but it seems like Democratic organizations at least seem to be able to do their "due diligence", especially on a matter directly related to the situation they are wanting to address.

Republicans are "trying to find" an answer to a fake problem so that they can try to restrict voting. They understand that their policies make only the richest people comfortable and do not improve lives of anyone else. That is why their strategy is always to make their based angry and afraid, and then try to dissuade or disenfranchise everyone else. If they can make it close enough, they can use other unethical and likely illegal tactics to "win" elections.

[calimary]

17. Well, at least they're being consistent.

Fake signatures on a petition about a fake problem.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Your "technicality" should earn you jail time

But we all know that'll never happen.

[kacekwl]

5. Yes we do.

That's why it just keeps happening.

[grantcart]

20. Lots of false signatures are not the fault of the campaign

If I was asked to sign one of these I would have signed "Donald Duck" and by law they have to submit all signatures even those considered "suspicious".

Their fault lies in not denoting false signatures and submitting a buffer that creates a surplus of good signatures.

[MagickMuffin]

21. Have you seen the signatures? They all look the same

https://michiganadvance.com/2022/05/24/massive-signature-fraud-scandal-upends-michigan-gop-gubernatorial-race/


But hey if you think it's alright then who am I to argue!

[grantcart]

22. No just reflecting on the dozens of times I collected signatures and

Would get smart ads signatures and have to submit them even though everyone knew they weren't serious.

In the case of similar handwriting/ink the question could be either the signature gatherer was padding the petition to get more money or the campaign was at fault, in either case should be investigated.

It's an easily solved problem for the campaigns, require sig gatherers to take pic of everyone who signs.

[lonely bird]

6. Below is the link to Jamie Roe's website

https://www.team-roe.com/jamie-roe

Please note that he is another guy claiming deity approval for his life.

Just another religionist hack.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Rule of Law party ?????????????

[Lonestarblue]

12. Lawless Rule Party

The US seems to be getting more and more lawless. While I can’t blame Trump entirely, his frequent exhortations telling his rally attendees to break the law and he would pardon them did not help. He made his disdain for the law obvious in many ways, from not paying taxes to claiming that Hillary belonged in jail with no description of her crime or evidence other than she annoyed the hell out of him. The whole January 6 insurrection was a call to break the law, and yet Trump has faced no consequences and perhaps never will. Republicans have shown many times that they have no respect for the law and willingly break it, from creating illegal slates of electors they sent to Congress to elections staff illegally breaking into voting machines and turning over computer files to partisan hacks.

When you have a whole group of people obviously breaking the law with no negative results for their actions, people get the message that they too can act with impunity. So far, only the January 6 foot soldiers are paying a price, and for most of them the price has been very low with lots of probation or very few months in jail. Between the Republican nitwits with Boebert and Greene, the heavily armed militias wanting to start a civil war, and the Republican elections officials who think they now have the laws and the crooked officials in place to steal elections, we are seeing a lot of civil laws being broken. I’d really like to see some consequences.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. Stochastic Terrorism as GOP party policy and rhetoric. When you have no plan but to eliminate the

opposition by any means you can make up.

[ToxMarz]

8. I think "tens of thousands" of fraudulent signatures would be difficult to justify as a technicality

in even the MOST corrupt mind.

[IronLionZion]

10. GOP Gang Of Projectors

So worried about imaginary fraud that they commit real fraud

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. Our household knew all along that electing TFG meant disaster.

He taught a generation how to scam, cheat, steal, hate and destroy laws hundreds of years old.

So much worse than i feared was a willingness by former Conservatives to join in the destruction.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Traitors, like crooks, have no shame.

Seeing how they put loyalty to Trump ahead of upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States and the laws of Michigan marks them for what they are.

[llmart]

14. Criminal.

First the GOP candidates for Governor were ruled not eligible to be on the ballot because of fraudulent signatures, and now this.

Just think what would happen if we didn't have Jocelyn Benson (D) and the other amazing women running this state?

[TigressDem]

16. Lies and fake signatures. Still lies. Still Fake. Nothing technical about it.

The truth doesn't work for them.


Too bad.

[towerbum]

19. time to put up or shut up !