Pro-Trump Group to Challenge 364K Voter Registrations in Georgia Ahead of Runoff Election
Source: Newsweek
Conservative political group True the Vote announced plans on Friday to preemptively file more than 360,000 electoral challenges in Georgia before the state's special elections are expected to occur in January.
Georgia's run-off elections have garnered nationwide attention. If the Democrats who are running for office—Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock—obtain victory over Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, then Democrats would be equally represented in the U.S. Senate. However, Democrats would have a distinct advantage over Republicans in the case of a tie, as Democrat Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would be the one voting to break the deadlock.
Some observers, including President Donald Trump, have baselessly alleged that Georgia's processes during the November election were unfairly manipulated by Democrats. According to True the Vote founder and President Catherine Engelbrecht, the challenges could help validate the results of the January election by ensuring "the sanctity of every legal vote."
"Filing the challenges preemptively, before absentee ballots are opened, will help ensure only legal, eligible votes are counted in Georgia's January 5 runoff elections," Engelbrecht said in a Friday statement.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pro-trump-group-to-challenge-364k-voter-registrations-in-georgia-ahead-of-runoff-election/ar-BB1c3nlD?li=BB141NW3
The only way Republicans can win is by suppressing the vote.
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and literally stumbled on that term yesterday! 
I also saw it when looking up Marc Elias' latest lawsuit tallies on the web version of his twitter account and I guess Webster's twitter account was showing on the page as a trending with that word since I think one of the replies to his tweets must have included it. 
How can you file "preemptively"? 
That's like me filing suit to claim - "'Loeffler is going to break into my house' so I'm going to sue as proof that she will break into my house". 
And this part misses the point of why this push (hint: it's not just for being able to "break a tie" ) -
Because the VP IS the "President of the Senate", that position is automatically part of the Senate and with that comes a technical (D) "majority" of 51 - 50, thus Democrats WOULD HOLD THE MAJORITY LEADER POSITION and Chairs of ALL the Senate committees.
What has been done in the past when this type of situation occurred, there have been shifts back and forth and "agreements" to do some "sharing" of power. I.e., just after the election of Shrub in 2000, from the point of swearing in of the new Senate in early January 2001, through to inauguration day (a couple weeks), Democrats ruled the Senate with Daschle as Majority Leader because Gore was still VP and the "51st Senator" (a (D)). But after the inauguration, Darth became the "51st Senator" (R) and gave control of the "50-50" Senate to the GOP.
Political Junkie
Send your questions about campaigns and elections.
By Ken Rudin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, June 8, 2001
Question: How come everybody calls Sen. Tom Daschle the majority leader? Shouldn't he be correctly called "Plurality Leader?" Doesn't the 107th Senate power-sharing agreement between the Democrats and Republicans say a party has to get a majority number of party-designated senators? An Independent and 50 Democrats wouldn't meet that definition!
– Kevin McCarthy, Valley Forge, Pa.
Answer: You make an interesting point, but there is no such distinction in the title. Tom Daschle is majority leader not because the Democrats have more than 50 votes in the Senate - which they don't - but because Sen. Jim Jeffords' (I-Vt.) switch gives Daschle 51 votes to organize the chamber. There was a similar situation in early 1953, when the Senate was comprised of 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats, and one independent. Yet Robert Taft (R-Ohio) was called majority leader, even though theoretically he had just a plurality. In Daschle's case, the same holds true.
The power-sharing agreement between Daschle and Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) in January never talked about a majority. It spoke to the fact that by picking up a net of four seats in last year's election, the Democrats wound up with the same number of seats as the Republicans. Some in the GOP, such as Texas's Phil Gramm, argued that the agreement was a sellout, that Vice President Cheney's tie-breaking vote negated the need for any power sharing. But Democrats, who actually had a Senate majority from Jan. 3-20 (when Vice President Gore could still break the tie), were threatening to cause mischief with the Bush Cabinet choices, which would have gotten the new administration off on a dubious start.
The Lott-Daschle agreement, which called for equal representation and staffing on Senate committees, was always conditional on a 50-50 split in membership. The understood message at the time was that if circumstances changed – say, if 98-year old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) retired and was replaced by a Democrat – the agreement would be nullified. Little did anyone know that the catalyst would be the defection of a party-switcher from Vermont.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/archive/junkie060801.htm
Later, Jeffords switched from (R) to (I) and decided to caucus with Democrats, so the control shifted back to the Democrats again with Daschle as Majority Leader.
But this go-around (even with there being 2 obvious Independents caucusing for (D)s), if given the opportunity? FUCK NO. Democrats will take over the Senate in terms of leadership.
"Some observers, including President Donald Trump, have baselessly alleged that Georgia's processes during the November election were unfairly manipulated by Democrats."
So republicans are going to unfairly manipulate Georgia's processes in a preemptive attack on democracy. 
Whatever republicans accuse democrats of possibly doing, you can bet the house they've already done it.
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