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Uh-oh, K9s. Have your folks on the ground heard about GA closing polling stations for the runoff?

Georgia Closes Black Polling Stations
White Polls Open for Early Voting
by Greg Palast and Zach D Roberts | Palast Investigative Fund
[Cobb County, Georgia] “They didn’t cut one White polling site!”

Barbara Arnwine was livid about this fluorescent violation of both Georgia and Federal voting rights law, a subject she teaches at Columbia University.

“All the polling sites they cut were in Black and Brown neighborhoods,” said Arnwine, Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, who relocated to Atlanta for the US Senate run-offs. She expressed concern that Georgia leads the nation in new, sophisticated Jim Crow vote manipulation tactics.



And some less sophisticated tactics as well, like this shut-down of polling stations in Black neighborhoods in Cobb County. It’s a trick the ACLU of Georgia busted in the 2018 race between now-Governor Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams.

They’re at it again, says Arnwine. “They cut from eleven voting places during the General Election, down to five for the runoff, knowing — knowing — that during the General Election they had three hour lines with eleven places.”

These five early voting stations are supposed to serve over half a million voters in a county that includes the suburbs of Atlanta.


Photo: Zach D. Roberts, © 2020

Georgia law, the ACLU wrote to the Georgia state officials, does not allow for closing polling stations after November 5. Local officials, unavailable to speak to us, have told media that they did not have enough poll workers to follow the law, though voting rights groups have offered to fill the gap.

The hidden reason may be the composition of the county’s board — overwhelmingly Republican — contrasting to the shift in their voters’ will. In Cobb, President-Elect Joe Biden crushed President Donald Trump, 56% to 42%.

With Georgia voters to decide control of the United States Senate in a special run-off on January 5, GOP officials appear to be doing all they can to make voting for African-Americans a hellacious experience, Arnwine concludes. While pressure on the County forced the opening of two new early poll sites, that still left some voters of color driving 12 miles from their neighborhood station to the new one.


Bradley Grayson. Photo: Zach D. Roberts, © 2020

And it caused massive confusion, as voters assumed their neighborhood poll would be open for early voting as it was in November. We encountered Bradley Grayson at the same polling location he voted at in the General which is now, to his surprise, shuttered.

“I came here to early vote. This is where I came to early vote for the Presidential Election. Then I found out this place was closed.”

Grayson, an African-American, was a bit flustered, but undiscouraged. “Looks like I’ll be trying to go to another location at some point.”


Cassandra Oliver. Photo: Zach D. Roberts, © 2020

If he does, he’ll have quite a wait. We spoke with Cassandra Oliver, another Cobb County early voter, who was at the end of a very long line at a new early voting location that combined two other locations. Some reported waiting three hours.

But Oliver was committed to stick it out.

“I think it is affecting a lot of people getting out here, but I think they’ll still make the sacrifice because they see the importance of it.”


Polling station closures in Cobb County cause long lines at the ones that remain open.
Photo: Zach D. Roberts, © 2020

Arnwine said, “They knew it was going to cause long lines.” She noted that African-American and Hispanic communities are known to vote early. She explained that the targeting of Black neighborhoods for the poll culling was deliberate, and therefore, a violation of the US Voting Rights Act.

More than 120 of Georgia’s counties simply closed polling stations on the weekends, Arnwine noted, in violation of Georgia law. She said officials know full well that they are blocking Black and Hispanic voters from their traditional turn-out for early voting “Souls-to-the-Polls” Sundays.

Arnwine was in Cobb County as part of a flying squad of voter protection experts. On Friday, she joined Black Voters Matter, Operation Rainbow/PUSH and others in a new federal lawsuit demanding the State of Georgia return wrongly “purged” voters to the rolls, 198,000 voters in all.

The suit is based on a report by The Palast Investigative Fund and released by the ACLU of Georgia identifying by name each of these wronged voters. Their registrations were cancelled based on false information.

Cobb County’s action, like the State of Georgia’s, says Prof. Arnwine, is “targeted voter suppression.”

At the polling site, Palast encountered two voters, about to use absentee ballot drop boxes but, the reporter noted, failed to write in their return addresses — making their ballots subject to disqualification. The final number of disqualified absentee ballots is expected to exceed well over one hundred thousand, estimates Arnwine.

As of Monday morning, over 2.1 million Georgians had voted early, either by waiting in record-length lines at the polls or by using ballot drop-boxes.

Stay tuned for more on our continuing litigation against Georgia’s "Purge’n General
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Bisbee wrote: Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:58 pm Uh-oh, K9s. Have your folks on the ground heard about GA closing polling stations for the runoff?
Of course! Oddly enough, these things only seem to happen in blue counties no matter the reason. I have friends in other counties that can vote in 20 mins or less. We stand in hours-long lines because... blue county.

The GOP started purging voters and polling places after SCOTUS struck down enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. They are constantly tinkering with it (to get perfect voter suppression) and they keep getting sued. At some point, it is going to backfire on them.

The funniest closure this month was in Cobb County. They claimed "shortage of poll workers" for the reason, but it was obviously a lie. After several waves of volunteers and threatened lawsuits, they opened polling places.

I can only hope that the Biden Admin DOJ will take voting rights and gerrymandering seriously. Georgia "should" be a purple state. Many states have far more GOP Reps than they should (e.g. MI, WI, PA, NC, GA, etc.) thanks to gerrymandering. Other southern states have it worse than we do (e.g. Mississippi, Alabama), though. We never get help, and we don't expect it. No one was coming to save us, so we try to save ourselves. Let's hope for a good outcome in January and a new governor in 2022.
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JMC Analytics is out with a poll that looks very good for the Democratic candidates, it's a middle of the road pollster. It's only one poll and I wouldn't bet the farm on one poll. I'd still consider the races tossups.
https://winwithjmc.com/wp-content/uploa ... ummary.pdf

When asked what he thought about the scarcity of polling in the FL run off, Nate Silver said it was probably their reluctance after taking a beating over their polling in the presidential contest.
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Jon Ossoff Hijacks Fox News Airtime to Take Down Perdue and Loeffler

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-ossof ... d-loeffler
“Any concern that the allegations of wrongdoing against Reverend Warnock could possibly be a drag on the Democratic ticket next week?” the Fox News correspondent pressed.

“None whatsoever,” Ossoff insisted. “Reverend Warnock addressed this issue a year ago and here’s the bottom line: Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman. Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman.”
Funny to watch this video. Fox thought they were clever, I guess.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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TrueTexan wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:56 pm Well they wouldn't have to stand in lines, had the federal judge not stopped the purge of the voter rolls. :sarcasm:
Yeah, we would. The lines are always long in blue counties.

Blue counties aren't urban slums. These are the wealthiest counties with most of the hospitals and universities. The few big blue counties provide 60+% of the state tax revenue, but... taxation without representation continues to happen.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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YankeeTarheel wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:50 pm Nationally, 507 counties that went for Biden are 71% of the national economy.
Almost 2,500 counties that went for Trump, but are only 29% of the national economy.

Who needs whom?
If their "leaders" would be honest about that, it might hurt their voters' feelings.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Sen. David Perdue became wealthy outsourcing work to Asia. Now the former CEO stands with Trump, who wants to ‘end our reliance on China.’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
When Republican David Perdue ran for the Senate six years ago, he spoke proudly of his years as a corporate executive in Asia. He made no apologies for having said that he “spent most of my career” relying on the outsourcing of jobs. He fended off attacks that he had enriched himself as companies he led relied on offshore production, and he won the Georgia seat.

But as Perdue seeks reelection, in a contest that will determine which party controls the Senate, he has sought to shift the focus away from such work as he allies himself with President Trump, who has blasted corporate executives who move jobs overseas.

The disconnect between Trump’s rhetoric about returning manufacturing jobs from China and the experience of Perdue was evident at an October rally in Macon with Trump. Perdue did not mention specifics about his career, telling the crowd, “I’m just a dumb business guy from right over that hill.”

That was followed by Trump promising to make the United States “the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we will end our reliance on China once and for all.” Trump made no reference to the fact that Perdue, whom he called a “very successful man,” made much of his fortune by heading Asian operations for a number of companies that relied on Chinese manufacturing of products sold in the United States.

In fact, Perdue was a top executive at some of the country’s best-known consumer brands, spending years in Hong Kong and Singapore, which he used as bases to travel across Asia to take advantage of the region’s lower-cost workforces. He was senior vice president of Asia operations for Sara Lee, a conglomerate that owned clothing lines and wanted to expand production in China, and global vice president and later president of Reebok, which made most of its footwear overseas, including in China.

Such efforts to lower costs by moving jobs out of the United States to Asia have been common for the past several decades, and Perdue in his first campaign strongly defended the practice. He included references to that work in a 2014 campaign commercial in which the narrator says, “For Sara Lee, David led their expansion into Asia, living in Hong Kong for two years.” The ad showed a picture at the Great Wall of China of him and his wife, Bonnie, who says, “It sure wasn’t Georgia.”

But when the campaign launched a new version of the ad this year, starting with the same video montage presenting Perdue as an “outsider,” the references to his work in Asia and the Great Wall picture were deleted. That has prompted the campaign of Perdue’s opponent, Democrat Jon Ossoff, to say that Perdue is trying to erase references to his work in Asia and mislead voters.

Perdue’s de-emphasis of his China experience comes while he has alleged that Ossoff’s film company has profited from working with a firm tied to the Chinese communist government. Perdue tweeted that “Jon @Ossoff did business with a company owned by the communist Chinese Government and then tried to hide it from Georgia voters. Georgians can’t trust him to hold China accountable.”
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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Axios co-founder Mike Allen told CNBC on Thursday that some Republicans believe President Donald Trump is hurting the party’s chances in next week’s Georgia Senate runoffs.

“There’s a big strain of thought among Republicans that President Trump is sabotaging this race. He’s done so much to be unhelpful to those candidates,” Allen said on “Squawk Box,” referring to GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.

“I talk to Republicans and they look at what’s happening, and they say, ’You know, he must be thinking, ‘I want to send a message, If I’m not on the ballot, Republicans are in trouble,’” added Allen, a longtime political reporter in Washington.
“Republicans look at it and they say, ‘Like everyday President Trump is saying something that either puts those candidates on the spot or makes some of those .... voters who were maybe queasy about Trump anyway but are Republicans in their bones, like everyday he gives them a reason either not to come out or to decide to go the other way,’” Allen said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/31/georgia ... -says.html

Trump is expected to travel to GA on Monday. Between now and then Biden and Harris will also be campaigning in GA before Tuesday's election.
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You know Loeffler and Perdue are in trouble when both Newt Gingrich and far-Left Democratic experts agree totally on how this runoff election is going down the tubes for the GOP. This is DESPITE the fact that Dems almost never win run-offs, the party of the incoming President rarely wins run-offs, and it's still-red Georgia.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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YankeeTarheel wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:07 am You know Loeffler and Perdue are in trouble when both Newt Gingrich and far-Left Democratic experts agree totally on how this runoff election is going down the tubes for the GOP. This is DESPITE the fact that Dems almost never win run-offs, the party of the incoming President rarely wins run-offs, and it's still-red Georgia.
Yes, this is still GOP-controlled Georgia. I am still pissed off at Iowa (Joni Ernst), Maine (Susan Collins), and other states with a much better chance of flipping a Senate seat.

Leave it all up to Georgia? Seriously? With a long history of racist voter suppression and GOP corruption?

I don't expect the GOP to lose, but it might happen. We are giving them a good race with record breaking runoff voting. The voting lines in my blue county are LONG today.
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Do Not Read This After Eating.
Welcome to the big money Republican Slime Pit.
Kelly Loeffler makes mysterious last-minute donation to her own campaign

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., the unelected multimillionaire facing a tight runoff against Democratic rival Rev. Raphael Warnock next week, has submitted a number of irregular last-minute contribution reports with the Federal Election Commission, failing to disclose employment information for hundreds of donors in the final weeks of the campaign. For some donors, the reports show what appears to be misleading information about their employer or their position — including lobbyists and executives — some of them with notable names or corporate or personal ties to the appointed senator.

One of the more glaring irregularities is a last-minute donation from Loeffler herself, in the amount of $67,200. While the wealthy former financial exec has made a public show of funding her own campaign, those donations have so far come in injections of millions of dollars. This $67,200 contribution is notable in that it parcels out to 24 donations of exactly $2,800 — the maximum allowable amount. Because the candidate is by default an agent of the campaign, Loeffler can match donor contributions and can accept checks from donors on behalf of the campaign. However, if she does accept checks on someone's behalf, the campaign must still report the donor's identity to the FEC. And if those donors have already given the maximum $2,800, their donations would be illegal. If Loeffler were knowingly acting as a fence for those donors, that too would be illegal.

The Loeffler campaign did not respond to Salon's request for comment.

Loeffler's conflicts of interest are inescapable: She worked for more than a decade at a top global financial firm, Intercontinental Exchange, which was founded by her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, and owns the New York Stock Exchange; now Loeffler sits on the Senate committee that has direct oversight of that business. A number of donors this year have raised eyebrows, including several million dollars from billionaire Ken Griffin, whose company closed a major deal in November that required NYSE approval.

Salon recently reported that among the donors Loeffler failed to identify were several members of the Asplundh family, owners of the eponymous multibillion-dollar infrastructure clearing company, which one of Loeffler's committees oversees, and who have properly identified their employer in other FEC reports this election cycle.

This week, Karl and Randall Meyers, listing themselves as CEO and CFO at XPO Last Mile — a subsidy of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's former company XPO Logistics — made Christmas Eve donations to Loeffler. The Meyers brothers also gave this month to the other multimillionaire Republican Senator under federal scrutiny while facing a runoff in the Peach State, David Perdue, as well as the Senate Battleground Georgia fund, but neither brother appears to have made any donations to any other candidate or committee this year. Each appears to have made only three other contributions ever — an amount they doubled this month alone.

Earlier this month, XPO announced plans to spin off the Meyers' former subsidy of XPO into a new publicly traded company, and both companies will be traded on the NYSE — which Loeffler's husband's company owns. However, an XPO spokesperson told Salon that the Meyers brothers had not worked for XPO in several years. It is unclear why they listed XPO as their employer, and their specific positions as CEO and CFO.

The irregularities come despite what the Loeffler campaign describes as its "best efforts" — as well as readily available public information, including from the donors' own recent FEC contribution history — her joint fundraising committee, which shares the same treasurer as the Loeffler campaign, responded just this month to to an FEC notice that it had not reported employer information for dozens of donations over the summer. Indeed, the campaign failed to identify employers for hundreds more donors in several reports filed since responding to that notice — for example, here; here; here; and here.

Recent FEC reports from Perdue are also missing employer information, though not to the same extent as Loeffler (e.g., here; here; and here). By comparison, none of the recent reports for either Democratic candidate in the Georgia runoffs — Loeffler challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock, and Perdue rival Jon Ossoff — are missing any employer information.

An analysis of Loeffler's three most recent reports reveals a number of significant omissions, and shines a light on who might want to fund her fight from the shadows.

Kirsten Chadwick, of the lobbying firm Fierce Government Relations, gave Loeffler $2,500 on Dec. 27. She is listed as a "consultant" but is in reality the president of the firm, which does about $13 million in lobbying work annually, including for industries under Loeffler's purview, such as forestry, healthcare and finance. She has also worked as a registered lobbyist for both Facebook and Apple, companies Loeffler has trashed recently when she sided with President Trump against "Big Tech."

A similar story applies to Christopher Bravacos, who gave Loeffler $1,400 on Christmas Eve, and lists his job at Bravo Group as "public relations." Bravacos' Wikipedia pages identifies him as the founder and CEO of the prominent communications and lobbying firm, which in 2020 lobbied on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America — an area where Loeffler conducts oversight.

Anthony Dinovi, who reports being "investment manager" at Thomas H. Lee Partners, gave a max $2,800 on Christmas Eve as well. Dinovi is in reality the chairman of that Massachusetts firm which focuses "primarily on North America middle-market buyouts" for financial services and healthcare, both of which intersect with Loeffler.

W Russell Carothers, III, chair of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta gave along with his wife a total of $5,000 to Loeffler on Dec. 28, but his employer is not disclosed "per best efforts." The Director of Corporate Development for Sprecher's company, Intercontinental Exchange, came there from FHLB Atlanta.

John Pasquesi, whose occupation is listed as "self-employed," is actually the Chairman of Arch Capital Group, a Bermuda-based global real estate insurance underwriter with about $11 billion in capital. Pasquesi is also the managing member of Otter Capital LLC, a private equity investment firm he founded in 2001, according to the Wall Street Journal. He and his wife, Meredith, each gave Loeffler $2,900 — one hundred dollars more than the legal limit, which the campaign will need to return or redesignate.

Loeffler donor John MacGregor Fox listed his employer as "none," and occupation as "retired," but in earlier FEC reports this year he is identified as the Executive Chairman of Trona Energy. He is also Chairman of the Board of Kona Mountain Coffee, the Hawaii-based coffee farm. His $5,000 donation is over the maximum limit.

Melanie Foster gave $1,000 to Loeffler on Dec. 24, and listed her occupation as retired. Foster ran multiple commercial landscaping companies, but currently serves on the financial advisory board of the Michigan State University board of trustees. According to survivors of the sexual assault scandal involving Larry Nassar, the Olympic gymnastics team doctor, Foster worked in her capacity as a trustee to block an independent review of thousands of pages of documents related to sexual assault cases. The survivors allege Foster "continually demonstrated a complete lack of moral conviction to pursue the truth and ensure that what Larry did to hundreds of women and children never happens to anyone again on MSU's campus."

Another $2,800 Christmas Eve gift came from James H. Drew III of Augusta, Georgia. Drew says his employer is "Continental GA Corp," but he is perhaps more well known in Georgia for operating traveling carnival and midway company Drew Expositions, which issued a denial in 2019 after nationwide reports that the company employed a serial killer.

In 2003, Drew pleaded guilty to giving $5,000 in illegal campaign contributions to Georgia's former agricultural commissioner.

This fall, Loeffler's husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, completed a major acquisition of a real estate firm that marked the first foray into the mortgage industry for his company, Intercontinental Exchange. A striking number of donations have come to Loeffler from executives that industry.

One max-out donor, Edward Inman, is listed as self-employed, but has worked for more than a decade at Atlanta-area investment firm Ashford Advisers, according to his LinkedIn page. And Lincoln International's Lawrence Lawson, who contributed $1,700 to Loeffler on Dec. 27, says his occupation is "entrepreneur." He is the chairman and global co-CEO of the multinational financial firm.

Douglas Neff lists his occupation as "real estate investment" at IHP Capital Partners. He is the chairman and CEO of the prominent real estate equity firm, and gave $1,000 to Loeffler on Dec. 27.

John K. Castle gave Loeffler the maximum allowable $2,800 on Christmas Eve, and lists his occupation as "merchant banker." He is the billionaire founder and CEO of private equity firm Castle Harlan, according to his own Wikipedia page. In 2016 he sold his Palm Beach estate, once known as the "Winter White House" for former president John F. Kennedy, for $31 million. The buyer was billionaire real estate mogul Jane Goldman, who also gave Loeffler $2,800 on Christmas Eve.

Loeffler also received a Dec. 24 contribution from Pat Deon, who lists Progressive Management as his employer, and his occupation as "real estate." A 2019 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Deon is subtitled, "Meet the most influential man in Pennsylvania you've never heard of."

Loeffler donor Chuck Ames identifies himself as an energy trader at Vitol, a firm whose energy futures business intersects with Loeffler's government oversight role and the primary functions of her husband's business at both Intercontinental Exchange and the NYSE. This month, Vitol agreed to pay $163 million to settle civil and criminal charges that employees paid bribes for oil bids in Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador.

Indeed, a great number of last-minute contributions come from wealthy and influential donors with patent conflicts of interests: The CEO of Woodforest Financial; the co-founder of industrial real estate investment firm Black Creek Group; the chief strategy officer of Payroc, an Atlanta-based global payment processing firm whose business overlaps neatly with Loeffler's crypto payment platform firm, Bakkt; a principal at real estate equity firm Huizenga Capital Management; a partner at venture investment firm Rock Creek Capital; the head of fund and brokerage operations & technology at Fidelity; and a V.P. at NextEra Energy Resources, which uses Sprecher's ICE platform to handle payment processing.

George Archer Frierson II, who contributed a max donation on Christmas Eve, reports as a "self-employed investor," but for other donations this election cycle is listed as an agent for Vintage Realty. The Dec. 24 maximum donation from John Ginger lists him as a retiree, but as recently as Dec. 8 he was identified in press as the CEO of J. Ginger Masonry, one of the largest masonry outfits in the Western U.S. Another "retired" West Coast donor, Jim Godfrey, is the founder and CEO of Chateau Retirement Communities, according to the company's website.

Caroll Neubauer's $1,000 Christmas Eve contribution says that the longtime CEO of the U.S. branch of the healthcare and pharmaceutical multinational corporation B. Braun is now retired. But a news release this October names him as a new executive advisor at the firm Water Street Healthcare. Loeffler oversees healthcare.

Finally, Loeffler received $1,000 from former U.S. Senator Connie Mack, R-Fla., but the campaign could not seem to retrieve his employment information, "per best efforts."
https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/kelly- ... net-worth/
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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YankeeTarheel wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:43 am Purdue is in quarantine. Hopefully, he'll get really sick, but not die before Ossoff beats him.
He's a scumbag who pillaged his workers when he was CEO of Dollar General, a la the WalMart model and Amazon models.
Word on the street...

Perdue is a Covid denialist who holds maskless rallies and parties, so he would never have quarantined himself unless he were trying to avoid voting against Trump in the Senate today (NDAA veto override).

Also, his seat expires in two days (1/3/21) so he gets to stay home and avoid the 1/6/21 vote on the Electoral College no matter what. His election won't be decided (win or lose) by January 6.
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Trump Declares Georgia Senate Races ‘Illegal And Invalid’ Days Ahead Of Vote

President Donald Trump declared the Senate runoff elections in Georgia both “illegal and invalid” in a tweet on Friday, which could dissuade his followers from heading to the polls.

The results of the Jan. 5 vote will determine which party controls the Senate. More than 3 million Georgians have already voted during the state’s early voting period.

Trump issued his baseless conclusion in a Twitter thread Friday night when he attacked the election process in the state, which is controlled by Republicans.

In his slam, Trump wrote that the Georgia “consent decree” is “unconstitutional.” He was referring to a bipartisan agreement forged by election officials in March that helped establish standards for judging valid signatures on absentee ballots. Lawsuits challenging the decree on Trump’s behalf have failed.

“The Georgia Consent Decree is Unconstitutional & the State 2020 Presidential Election ... is therefore both illegal and invalid, and that would include the two current Senatorial Elections,” Trump tweeted.

There was no immediate comment from Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and Sen. David Perdue about their “invalid” races.

The president is scheduled to speak at a rally in support of them in Dalton, Georgia, on Monday.

Axios co-founder Mike Allen told CNBC on Thursday that many Republicans believe Trump has been deliberately sabotaging the Georgia race. (Check out the video up top.)

“There’s a big strain of thought among Republicans that President Trump is sabotaging this race,” Allen said. “He’s done so much to be unhelpful to those candidates. [Republicans] say he must be thinking: ‘I want to send a message. If I’m not on the ballot, Republicans are in trouble.’”

Trump’s ideas are veering dangerously close to the thoughts of his right-wing allies, attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood. Both lawyers have advised Republicans to boycott voting in the runoff unless the presidential race is overturned.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ge ... 92290e7903

that is a smooth Move Donnie Dumbass, just another great way to keep the Trumpers at home and not voting. Then when they both lose to the Dems he and his Trumper followers will scream rigged election.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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Trump is such a storied and respected Constitutional expert, authority, and scholar, that he's lost 60 or is it 70 cases on Constitutional law in state, district, circuit, and Supreme court cases. Republican dominated courts, Trump appointees to the Federal system, have universally rejected his arguments. What's extraordinary is how unanimous it has been. The ONE case he got a partial win on, allowed poll-counting watchers to stand 6 feet away instead of 10 feet.

His ENTIRE "Constitutional" argument has been consistently and constantly rejected as INVALID!

As usual, Trump is full of shit, doesn't know SHIT, thinks he's hot shit, and is pulling this shit out of his butt. I have no fear that courts will give ANY point of leverage, but he's deliberately ramping up violence to justify an armed seizure of power. He is simply the biggest threat to the nation since the Civil War.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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Trump is a basket case for sure but it’s interesting just to observe just how/why he continues with the same lies when really nobody pays attention to them.

Except that there are folks out there that just eats it up just because what he tweets is “rebellious” and fits their version of the US where sheer willpower is enough to steamroll over any obstacles. And there’s money to be made by milking their fear/hatred.

They aren’t right of course, they will not get what they want just because they demand it. It’s not how the world works and most adults know that. But more to the point these folks don’t even see when the obstacles they roll over just might be a warning sign, “bridge out ahead”.

And Trump preys on this kind of weak mindedness.
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TrueTexan wrote: Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:32 am
that is a smooth Move Donnie Dumbass, just another great way to keep the Trumpers at home and not voting. Then when they both lose to the Dems he and his Trumper followers will scream rigged election.
That isn't what's happening on the ground. GOP voters are climbing out of every hill and holler to vote. Anti-GOP voters are voting in big numbers, too.

The only real hope is that enough Trump voters will stay home because Trump isn't on the ballot and they really don't like Perdue and Loeffler. Many new voters voted against Trump or for Trump and may not vote again until 2024, if ever.

The true believer "rigged election" crowd is small and screaming "rigged election" is just a way to own the libs here. It is the new "f*k your feelings" mantra. If you've ever met the worst sort of sports fan ever who claims their team should have won (the refs are bribed, the refs are blind, they cheated), this is the GOP. GOP politics is just a team sport now.
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