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  Are those ballots mailed to the County Clerk?   Are the GOP now saying that the USPS will lie about their automate postage stamp date?   
  Here in Texas, the USPS office will hand stamp those ballots if that is requested by the voter.
context: No. Shit. Hilariously even after that the fucking scumfuck conservatives still lost the state house. >
  
  Less hilariously, none of the scumfuck conservatives involved in this went to jail or have been given any real reason not to try the same tricks in the next election
  "Scumfuck" is a real nice expletive, btw, good ~~vowel consonance~~ assonance >
  
  Well now that the Democrats have control, they should pass some laws to make it way harder to invalidate ballots - hell, they should add vote by mail for the whole state >
  
  Unfortunately, Republicans still control the state Senate PA and are free to obstruct anything the state House passes.
  PA Dems need a landslide in 2024. >
  
  Well I'm moving up there very soon so I'll be adding my vote for blue. I'm helping. >
  
  thank you 
  also please repeal the asinine filial responsibility laws >
  
  What a despicable law! A child is responsible for the parent’s nursing home bills as long as the parent didn’t abandon the child for a period of at least 10 years while the child was under the age of 18?! Not saying this is your situation, but why should you be on the hook for the nursing home bills of your parent, who abused the hell out of your from birth to whenever you were able to escape the home and have never had contact with them again? Even a in loving parent/child relationship it’s patently unrealistic! >
  
  Why should they be on the hook for the nursing home bill at all? >
  
  
  Why should they be on the hook for the nursing home bill at all?
  
  Exactly! 
  The wealthy get away with everything because the money "isn't really theirs, they are just a caretaker of the trust that happens to give our free private plane rides to its caretakers" or some nonsense like that. 
  Meanwhile, we get generational poverty. >
  
  Maybe your great-great-grandparents should have thought about that before being born poor. >
  
  Republicans cheat yet still lose.  Pitiful. >
  
  And that is why they say the election(s) were stolen.
  They tried their hardest to cheat and still lost. Ergo, it was stolen. >
  
  
  "The elections are dirty"
  
  Said the child with mud on his hands. >
  
  The elusive double quote >
  
  The only reason the Republicans oppose mail-in voting is that it makes Democrats stronger.  But they can't come out and say that, so they hide behind claims of fraud. >
  
  
  The only reason the Republicans oppose mail-in voting is that it makes Democrats stronger. But they can't come out and say that, so they hide behind claims of fraud.
  
  And early voting, longer voting hours at polling places, adequate numbers of polling places, and so on and so forth. They are against anything that makes it easier for Dems, or areas that trend Dem, to vote and the cowards hide behind 'voter fraud' as the reason.. >
  
  Fuck all that shit.  Mail in voting, every voter in a state that is mail in voting is not the standard should be pushing their representatives for it. >
  
  I’m also for voter IDs (as long as they are easily attainable I.e. affordable, or better yet, free) that would allow us to vote from any polling place in the country. In 2023, there is no way I (a GA voter) shouldn’t be able to slide my ID into a voting machine in MN and have all of the elections pertinent to my area available to me. >
  
  Why would we need voter IDs if we have a federal mail-in ballot voting system? >
  
  Before Trump, Republicans were historically some of the highest promoters, defenders, and users of mail-in voting.  Just goes to show how they will abandon facts, evidence, data, and reason in a heartbeat if it allows them to continue the grift.  The GOP realized after Obama was elected that they no longer had a popular mandate with modern voters.  GOP consultants told them to change their platform and embrace progressive political positions to woo new voters.  They absolutely refused to listen to their consultants, so they turned to baseless fear-mongering and dangerous, violent conspiracy theories instead.  There’s even evidence showing that the only major political strategy the GOP has at this point is to attack their opponents.  That’s it.  They aren’t a legitimate political party at this point.  They are just embarrassed confederates trying to turn the clock of history back in time.  They are not good people. >
  
  Isn't this kind of dangerous in a country that has access to nukes? If a country believes in the religious end of days scenario as America does, what is to stop it from kicking it all off with a nuclear war when the opportunity presents itself? >
  
  Cause the people in power just use that to their advantage. People in power pretend to be religious because they aren’t stupid enough to believe it… or at least I hope that’s the case >
  
  Hopefully you are correct, but it all feels a little bit like the "72 virgins" mentality that cause Muslim extremists to want to end the world. >
  
  And the people who believe that were the foot soldiers not the leaders… you think any of the actual leaders would blow themselves up? 😂 smart people tell dumb people what they wanna hear to get what they want >
  
  America is unique in that it has access to thousands of nuclear warheads, but also hundreds of millions of dumb people that can be activated to carry out the crazy by such leaders. This is all a bit unsettling. >
  
  America loves living on the brink of nuclear war, it’s just who we are… thank god Russians decided not to respond to our tricks >
  
  Is relying on the other side to figure out you're not serious a good way to do business? That all seems a bit scary, no? >
  
  
  Democrats had 10,920 votes thrown out, about half for lacking secrecy envelopes. Republicans saw 3,503 ballots forfeited. Independents and third parties amounted to 1,731 votes that did not count in the fall election.
  
  That seems like a significant number. Especially when elections were so close this past year. Some places (not PA specifically) saw wins by just a few votes. >
  
  The GOP targets certain zipcodes with signature matching.  They have stats how many votes they need to toss out and they do their damndest to hit those targets.  That’s why they were acting as if the results are fungible. >
  
  Signature matching feels like such a shitty verofocation method.
  I can't even remeber the last rime I signed my name to anything. >
  
  Even when I do sign something, I doubt it's frequently consistent >
  
  It’s not, and it’s been challenged as a literacy test for that exact reason.