About 20 years ago in Denver a man dressed as a priest used to walk around Larimer Square asking for money. There was always a cop right behind telling people “it’s a con, don’t believe him” They couldn’t arrest him because he wasn’t breaking any law. They just wanted to make sure people didn’t fall for it.
That’s what this reminds me of. Sad and pathetic huckster well after the grift is up, with Twitter and Facebook following him around everywhere he goes warning people, ”it’s a con, don’t believe him.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/stat...93762?s=20
Judge tosses Republican elector case in Georgia
A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a bold election lawsuit of a Republican elector, Lin Wood, who had alleged in court constitutional violations, perceived fraud in the presidential election, and sought to block the certification of election results.
"There's no doubt an individual's right to vote is sacrosanct," Steven Grimberg in the Northern District of Georgia said Thursday evening. But, that "does not mean individual voters have the right to dictate" how votes are cast or decided to be counted. "It's not for the courts to meddle with" processes set by the states.
The Georgia decision was the third against Republicans just on Thursday with judges in Arizona and Pennsylvania also rejecting election-related lawsuits from Republicans and the Trump campaign.
Wood's attorney indicated earlier today he may want to try for a second round before the judge, representing the Trump campaign as it seeks to block a Biden win. But Grimberg's ruling on Thursday, spoken from the bench, shuts down new rounds of lawsuits in multiple ways.
Grimberg decided that the elector in Georgia didn't have the ability to show he could bring a case, didn't have an avenue in court under the law, and had sued far too late to affect the election.
"I didn't hear any justification for why the plaintiff delayed bringing this claim until two weeks after this election and on the cusp of these election results being certified," Grimberg, a Trump appointee, said Thursday evening. Absentee ballot counting in Georgia, that Republicans were challenging in the lawsuit, started months ago, he noted.
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
Judge tosses Republican elector case in Georgia
A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a bold election lawsuit of a Republican elector, Lin Wood, who had alleged in court constitutional violations, perceived fraud in the presidential election, and sought to block the certification of election results.
"There's no doubt an individual's right to vote is sacrosanct," Steven Grimberg in the Northern District of Georgia said Thursday evening. But, that "does not mean individual voters have the right to dictate" how votes are cast or decided to be counted. "It's not for the courts to meddle with" processes set by the states.
The Georgia decision was the third against Republicans just on Thursday with judges in Arizona and Pennsylvania also rejecting election-related lawsuits from Republicans and the Trump campaign.
Wood's attorney indicated earlier today he may want to try for a second round before the judge, representing the Trump campaign as it seeks to block a Biden win. But Grimberg's ruling on Thursday, spoken from the bench, shuts down new rounds of lawsuits in multiple ways.
Grimberg decided that the elector in Georgia didn't have the ability to show he could bring a case, didn't have an avenue in court under the law, and had sued far too late to affect the election.
"I didn't hear any justification for why the plaintiff delayed bringing this claim until two weeks after this election and on the cusp of these election results being certified," Grimberg, a Trump appointee, said Thursday evening. Absentee ballot counting in Georgia, that Republicans were challenging in the lawsuit, started months ago, he noted.
I've noticed my Trumpist friends on Facebook have quieted WAY down about the "stolen election" and started cranking up the crazy on "covid is a hoax" and "vaccines cause...um...whatever." So I guess that means we won.
Was listening to POTUS in car talking about an article in WSJ.
77% of Trump voters think the Dems committed fraud in the 2020 election and cheated.
73 million votes for Trump =
56.2 million Americans are gullible dumbfucks. This is what happens when you buy into a con man. We aren’t debating policy in America anymore, we are dealing with half of the voters can’t separate reality from conspiracy theory, truth from lies. There is not one single shred of evidence of fraud and yet 3/4 of team red thinks there was fraud because of the orange asshole spewing more bullshit they gleefully believe.
All because GOP enabled this asshat’s destruction of democracy and now they can’t put the monster back in the bag ....
153 million Americans were drooling dumbfucks enough to be fooled into voting between two babbling old racists facing rape charges.
153. Million. American. Dumbfucks.
There, boys and girls, are the biggest threats to the country, and the same asshats keeping corrupt filth in Congress for decades.
Quote: @SFVikeFan said:
Was listening to POTUS in car talking about an article in WSJ.
77% of Trump voters think the Dems committed fraud in the 2020 election and cheated.
73 million votes for Trump =
56.2 million Americans are gullible dumbfucks. This is what happens when you buy into a con man. We aren’t debating policy in America anymore, we are dealing with half of the voters can’t separate reality feom conspiracy, truth from lies.
All because GOP enabled this asshat’s destruction of democracy and now they can’t put the monster back in the bag ....
No they can't...He's frozen the entire red party for 24. That doesn't delight me either. I grew-up a Republican, not a Dem - rare in urban Mpls btw.
No, the party I knew and believed in was on a vent with the tea party and is dead to me as the party of Trump.
Trump knows damn well he aint going to be President come January. And all the Repub's sitting on their hands on the sidelines, they're scared shitless to do a thing about it.
This is nothing but revenge for revenge sake, and validation of him ALWAYS putting politics and self before country and dignity.
I'm sporting one this these days...Got it for just $19.99
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Georgia recount results reaffirm Biden’s the winnerAfter a week-long hand recount of Georgia’s presidential election results, the Georgia secretary of state's office reaffirmed Thursday night President-elect Joe Biden won the state and its 16 electoral votes.
A "risk-limiting audit" found Biden won Georgia by 12,284 votes, a narrower margin than the 14,196-vote lead he held immediately following the election. Local election administrators identified uncounted ballots in four counties. Each was the result of human error.
“Georgia’s historic first statewide audit reaffirmed that the state’s new secure paper ballot voting system accurately counted and reported results,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who ordered the recount, said in a statement. “This is a credit to the hard work of our county and local elections officials who moved quickly to undertake and complete such a momentous task in a short period of time.”
Biden is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992. The state’s 16 electoral college votes represented a larger prize than several other battleground states, such as Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nevada.
The victory gave Biden 306 electoral college votes, 36 more than what is needed to win the White House.
Raffensperger intends to certify its election results Friday by state law, which required an audit be conducted before votes are certified. The recounting began last Friday. After certification, the Trump campaign is expected to ask for another recount, which is allowed because the race is decided by less than 0.5%. That recount would be conducted by rescanning all paper ballots.
Trump has leveled baseless claims of voter fraud in Georgia and other battleground states he lost as he refuses to concede in the election he lost to Biden. The release of the Georgia recount results came hours after Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani held a news conference where he continued to make more wild and unfounded claims.
Earlier in the week, local election administrators in Georgia found a memory card from a scanning machine that wasn’t uploaded in Floyd County, leaving 2,600 ballots uncounted and giving Trump a net gain of 778 votes. Failure to upload a memory card in Walton County gave Trump another 176 votes. Trump got another net-gain of 449 because of 2,755 uncounted early ballots in Fayette County. Biden gained a net of 28 votes because of uncounted ballots in Douglas County.
These errors decreased Biden's lead to 12,780 votes. The audit found an additional 496 votes for Trump, reducing Biden's margin of victory further.
According to the secretary of state's office, the differential between the audit results and the orginal machine counted results is "well within the expected margin of human error that occurs when hand-counting ballots."
State officials cited a 2012 study by Rice and Clemson universities that found hand-counting election results can result in error rates of up to 2%.
The highest error rate of any county in Georgia was .73%, officials said. They said most counties found no change in their final tallies and the majority of other counties had changes of fewer than 10 ballots.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...775154001/
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