11-02-2020, 08:08 PM
(11-02-2020, 06:48 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Nope. GOP just trying to stop massive voter fraud perpetuated by the Democrats.
Actually that wasn’t the claim at all. They made the claim that the voting, which had been approved by the state board of elections was too close to curbside voting and therefor not legal. That was rejected by both the Supreme Court and the federal court, but what makes it worse is they were asking for the votes to be simply thrown out which in Texas there is a distinct difference between procedural issues and voting issues. This was by all parties considered procedural and would have simply been a reprimanding but the votes would be allowed. Even this judge who is considered one of the most conservative in the country said had they had standing to being the suit he’d still have allowed them.
Long story short the GOP went after a remedy that wasn’t, for good reason, even an option in an attempt to suppress the votes in an area they expect to lose. Anyone who actually likes the idea of democracy should be appalled that they are literally trying to throw out peoples votes on procedural errors, that weren’t an error by the way. To make it worse this procedure was known for months and they intentionally tried to file right before the election to make it so the voters wouldn’t have had time to re cast their ballots.
This is suppression there is no other way to spin it. Back to the Fraud claim, Trump’s own FBI director said there is no credible evidence of wide spread voter fraud either in person or by mail in September. Numerous studies have also proved this, saying anything to the contrary at this point is an obvious and intentional lie.
