Marc Elias: This is how Republicans are planning to steal elections in the future.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news/a-constitutional-crisis-is-brewing-in-pennsylvania/It all started simply enough at the end of 2021 when the outcome of a local judicial election in Lehigh County hinged on whether a small number of contested undated mail-in ballots would be counted. These ballots were cast by eligible voters, received on time by the county and had properly signed return envelopes. However, the return envelopes were missing a handwritten date next to the voters’ signatures. In litigation over these ballots, a federal court of appeals ruled in May that the missing dates were legally immaterial (meaning unrelated to voters’ eligibility) and ordered the mail-in ballots to be counted. A month later in June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block the ballots from being counted and the judicial race was decided.
While that case was proceeding, Pennsylvania held primary elections for the U.S. Senate on May 17. Once again, there was a close election where undated mail-in ballots were at issue. When a Republican candidate in the race filed a lawsuit to require the counting of the undated mail-in ballots, a state court, following the reasoning of the federal court’s order in the Lehigh County judicial election, ordered the mail-in ballots to be counted.
In normal times, this would be the end of the story. But we do not live in normal times.
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This is how Republicans are planning to steal elections in the future. By refusing to count lawful votes and then certifying incomplete and inaccurate results, Republicans hope to create a veneer of legitimacy around an illegitimate outcome. Our system is ill equipped to address this looming crisis.
Sometime soon, the remaining three counties in Pennsylvania will at last certify their election results for the 2022 primary. But the current stalemate is a warning siren of what is to come. Pennsylvania is in a constitutional crisis right now as three counties continue to delay the accurate results of a primary election held nearly six weeks ago. While this may be a low-stakes crisis given the dispute is over a now uncontested primary election, it is still a crisis nonetheless. We must learn from this and take steps to address it before November, when the stakes will be much higher.
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That's why he walked away from it. On the other hand Chump himself walked into the 2016 race with the intention of doing exactly that. He fully expected to lose in 2016 and then his plan was to disrupt everything. It shocked the shit out of him when he "won."
Well the point is that ANY Democrat would do the same as Al Gore. But it's scary as hell to realize how many Repukes would do as Chump did.
But I was referring to his race against Hillary Clinton.
Most of the polls and pundits had Hillary winning until the last few days before the election. Chump was planning major disruptions and hissy-fits, but then he couldn't because he was declared the winner.
They will figure out how to win EVERY fucking future election! We better be ready to FIGHT any way needed! I fear our votes won't count if they succeed with their plans. 
The "professional" pollsters won't ever face the fact that they cannot get true answers from anybody any more. Political polls are almost worthless. Well I can believe exit polls but by then it doesn't matter any more.
