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June 22, 2020 09:45 AM UTC

Trump Mail Ballot Rage Really Starting To Look Suspicious

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Joe St. George of Scripps News point-blank asks Donald Trump to justify his claims of mail ballot fraud after years of covering fraud-free elections in Colorado, and this rambling mess of nonsense is what followed:

Cory Gardner, who won his Senate seat in the state’s first federal election test of mail ballots in 2014, knows better.

But will he ever say so?

—–

Donald Trump.

Fresh off a terrible weekend featuring a half-empty rally in Tulsa and horrifying statements about management of the COVID-19 pandemic that invited a fresh look at the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, President Donald Trump this morning returned to his all-caps rhetorical assault on mail-in ballots–which have been in use in Colorado without controversy since 2013, and which Republicans and Democrats alike in this state know work safely and securely.

The claim Trump makes above is of course baseless, since there are numerous safeguards in place to prevent anything other than an official and properly accounted-for ballot from being counted in any Colorado mail ballot election. Back in 2014, then-FOX News host Megyn Kelly was forced to correct a breathless report that Coloradans could “print ballots” to return in elections, a claim that simply had no basis in reality.

After Trump lost the popular vote by the widest margin of any victorious President, he laid the blame for that embarrassment on baseless allegations of vote fraud. This time, however, there’s much more at stake than Trump’s ego. By sowing doubt in the election ahead of time, Trump may be in the early stages of a strategy to dispute the result of a losing election. States increasing access to mail ballots in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are doing the right thing–and setting themselves up to be Trump’s electoral scapegoats.

There’s no nice way to say this: discrediting the results of the upcoming election based on demonstrably false claims from Trump represents a clear and present danger to American democracy. It is therefore crucially important that Colorado political leaders, especially Colorado Republican political leaders, speak out loudly as and many times as necessary to debunk what Trump is saying–before he uses it as an excuse to not give up power.

We’re getting uncomfortably close to something that’s not ever supposed to happen in America. And Colorado knows this is based on nonsense. Will local Republicans have the courage to stand up for democracy if the worst-case scenario comes to pass?

Because the worst case scenario here…is pretty bad.

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11 thoughts on “Trump Mail Ballot Rage Really Starting To Look Suspicious”

  2. Have you ever seen an election in Illinois or Pennsylvania? Just because Coloradans are honest doesn't mean mail ballots wouldn't be exploited in election fraud hotspots (otherwise known as blue states).

      1. Moddy – can you unpack this one for us?  

        Pence and his wife voted by mail in Indiana GOP primary using old address

        The couple mailed in their ballots for the June GOP primary in their home state of Indiana on April 13, according to voter files obtained by the outlet. They used the address of the governor’s mansion in Indianapolis, where they have not lived since December 2016, when they transitioned to Washington, D.C.

        [t]he Pences do not own another home in Indiana, so the governor’s mansion remains their “legally correct” address for registration.

        (this isn’t the first time a house has been at the center of a Pence controversy)

         

         

        1. Waiting for Ttump to soon declare UpTtumpsAss to be MAGAmerica’s 51st State (. . . sorry Dumphuckistan) . . .

          . . . so that Pence (and Mommy) will be able to finally properly register at their residence?

          Ttump needs all the electoral college help he can get.

          1. (unless that rather yuge posterior is stationed at Mar-a-Lago, then we have yet another glitch.  You couldn't make this stuff up): 

            Donald Trump Appears to Have Committed Felony Voter Fraud

            Trump corrected his registration 31 days after the initial filing, and he seems to have made an honest mistake. That is no surprise: Most alleged instances of voter fraud arise out of errors committed by either voters or election officials. But Trump’s Justice Department has little sympathy for such mistakes. In 2018, federal prosecutors charged 20 people in North Carolina with voting illegally in the 2016 election. Law enforcement arrested these individuals before dawn, then dragged them to jail cuffed and shackled.

             

             

    2. Have you ever seen an election in Illinois or Pennsylvania?

      Well, Trump barely carried Pennsylvania in 2016, so are you saying there was election fraud in his favor there?

      Or, maybe there's election fraud like this:

      The Post reported on a GOP operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless, who allegedly ran an operation to collect absentee ballots (which they are not permitted to do) and discard them.

      On Monday, the board issued a subpoena to the Harris campaign, according to campaign attorney John Branch. The board is expected to issue one soon to Red Dome Group, a GOP consulting firm based in the suburbs of Charlotte that hired Dowless, according to two people familiar with the probe. . . . 

      Investigators with the bipartisan state elections board — which last week voted unanimously to delay certifying the race — have identified hundreds of potential witnesses to interview, many of them voters whose absentee ballots were never turned in, according to the people familiar with the probe. That raises the possibility of a weeks-long investigation and an uncertain start date for the next congressman from the 9th District.

      The absentee ballots, wouldn’t you know, are disproportionately from African American neighborhoods.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/05/we-finally-found-voter-fraud/

      One thing I would not want to do is give my mail-in ballot to some sleazy operative.

      1. Yes, just four short years ago, our little fluffy was shilling for Marco Rubio. And when he dropped out, it was Ted Cruz. And when he flopped, it was Donald Trump.

        Anyone but Trump. Until Trump.

    4. Hmm… I think I read of some election violations in Indiana.   Someone named Pence voting from a house that is no longer his

      Pence voted by mail for the primary, the Marion County Clerk's Office said Friday.

      The former Indiana governor and current Vice President listed his address as the Governor's Residence, drawing criticism from state Democrats

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