As a Georgian, I request UN Election Monitors.
(Which is ironic, considering the Carter Center is right here!)
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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That's unironically a good idea. I wonder how one would make a formal request.
Based on my own very lazy research, it appears Biden or Blinken has to request it.
Requests for electoral assistance can be made by the head of government or the minister of foreign affairs of the UN Member State.
UN - What We Do - Elections: Requesting Assistance
And the supreme court would just point at the Constitution and say "Well it says here that states are responsible for and must hold the elections." And then trot off into magical dictator land.
It's like they fell out of the evil tree and hit every branch on the way down.
And yet they wont allow a state to exclude an insurrectionist from the ballot.
3 of them are good people who belive in the law and human rights. Unfortunately they're outnumbered by evil scum.
Yeah, and their job now has been reduced to writing an essay-length response to every ruling explaining just how fucked up it is.
He doesn’t intend to win this election by votes, he intends to win this election through actions like this.
Johnson will refuse to certify the results of the election that put Democrats in the House, claiming some kind of bullshit irregularities with no proof, leaving the House controlled by the Republicans. They’ll then claim irregularities in the presidential election and force a contingent election where they have a 100% chance of electing Trump no matter what the public votes.
More people need to be made aware that this is 100% legal for them to do (this is a perfect example of them making it even MORE legal to completely subvert election certification in a battleground state with no proof), and more people need to be aware that it is almost certainly what they will try. The only thing that can possibly stop it is significant awareness by the mass population of Americans and significant publicity (similar to how mass awareness of Project 2025 turned it into a poison pill).
I've never protested before, but I will be in the streets if this happens.
Having well-defined, specific, measurable rules for critical infrastructure is for leftist commies.
It would be great if Trump worked as hard for America as he does to subvert our democracy.
Do they have guns in Georgia? I mean, is it one of those batshit red states where any and every motherfucker old enough to drive can waltz into a store and ten minutes later waltz out with a fully loaded assault rifle or what-the-fuck-ever, almost no-questions-asked?
It is?
Oh. Well. My advice for the Georgia Election Council is probably not to take people’s voting rights from them. They might get, y’know, fussy. Uppity. Furthermore they might consider these sorts of things before whipping out their tiny flaccid politics on a crowded bus. Because people won’t, what is it? Oh yes “take kindly to it”.
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