Trump Files First Election Lawsuit in Chilling Sign of What’s to Come
newrepublic.com
The election fraud lawsuits have started again.

The election fraud lawsuits have started again.

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But Trump chose to stoke the flames Wednesday morning, posting on Truth Social that “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before.”

“Law enforcement must act, NOW!” he added.

Bucks County officials confirmed to NBC Philadelphia that they had been notified of the lawsuit, but did not provide further comment. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, shot back at the Republican presidential nominee, highlighting that Trump and his allies have spent the last four years actively corroding public trust in U.S. elections—and that they are currently warming up their second conspiracy to undermine the 2024 election results.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    48·
    23 days ago

    Quite a lot of the misinformation out of PA stems from a willful ignorance of how all this stuff works.

    For example… the voter registration drives turning in invalid registrations:

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/voter-registration-probes-launched-crucial-keystone-state-counties-amid-claims-potential-fraud

    “District attorneys and election officials in both Lancaster County and York County are looking into potential election-related fraud after authorities received large batches of voter registration materials from a “third-party organization.” Both York and Lancaster counties have more registered Republican voters than Democrats, according to state data, with York Republicans holding a 63% majority in the area and Lancaster Republicans at a 61% majority.”

    When you do a voter registration drive, you are legally obligated to submit all registrations, valid or not. The only entity with the legal authority to reject registrations as valid is the State Secretary of State office.

    This is because, back in the day, parties would do registration drives and just shit-can any registration for opposing parties.

    Now, even if some dumbass fills out a registration for “Mickey Mouse” or “Superman”, it STILL has to be submitted to the Secretary of State for rejection.

    That’s not “voter fraud”.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      13·
      23 days ago

      Look how much time and text it took to refute a few tiny bullshit utterances. Its impossible even if it was desireable, which its not. He needs to be in custody and in 24/7 solitary with zero internet access. He’s a goddamn terrorist

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 days ago

      Y’all need to unify your federal election into an actual federal election. Not 50 separate ones.

      It would be a lot harder to pick and choose battleground states for lawsuits if you 1. Change the voting system yes, but also and importantly 2. Have consistent rules and voting infrastructure across the whole country.

      Having to understand 50 separate election rules makes it way easier to sow doubt.

      I am aware there are also some federal laws on voting, but still.

    • Shark_Ra_Thanos@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      You ain’t fucking kidding. Cities are about to get raided by hillbillies & rednecks with guns on trucks. I wish I was exaggerating.

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
        13·
        22 days ago

        No. Remember after Jan 6 when the badass freedom-fighters promised ominous “actions” in state capitals on Biden’s inauguration day? That day came and went, and at the few “actions” that did happen attendance was in the dozens. When those chickenshit couch farts saw their revolutionary heroes getting methodically tracked down and arrested by the FBI, they stayed home and shook their tiny fists at their TVs. That pathetic bunch of cowards love to talk badass, but when faced with actual personal risk they couldn’t civil war their way out of a Walmart.

        • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          22 days ago

          I’d caution this sentiment. I don’t expect highly organized violence and I don’t think anyone else here should either. What you’re going to get is basically random acts of domestic terrorism. We’ve already see several ballot boxes set on fire and that’s the kind of thing this crowd will perform.

          Well that and I really do think that polling places are in danger and so do a lot of cities. Again I doubt they’ll face organized attacks but look at the election in 2020. Several polling places were attacked and formed large crowds demanding the voting be stopped. It’s not unreasonable to think those crowds get violent this time around and maybe even attack lines of voters.

          But the ultimate thing is that people should expect the absolute worst. The people in 2020 did not feel like an election had been stolen. Their extremist groups had no time to organize. Now they have that time. And now their beliefs are stronger than ever. Do not underestimate how awful the US will be from now till January.

      • Makhno@lemmy.world
        3·
        22 days ago

        You don’t even know how many inner city black folks love Trump, huh?

        Ain’t just white trash that’s gonna try putting him in power

          • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world
            2·
            22 days ago

            I was just listening to some interview talking about how, while it was Dems’ efforts that pushed the pandemic stimulus checks through Congress, it was Trump’s signature on the check, and that was believed to have had a big impression on demographics no one would ever expect to go with the party of billionaires.

            Edit: I should add that I only expect the votes coming from more diverse sources than what might be intuitive, not that all of those voters would be persuaded to go all-out “proud boys”.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Cities are about to get raided by hillbillies & rednecks

        I’ve got some terrible news for you, about the political contingent common to plenty of big cities. It won’t be hillbillies and rednecks tearing shit up. It’ll be city cops, state troopers, and the deranged failsons of used car dealers.

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
    35·
    23 days ago

    From The Guardian:

    The queues for late mail ballots were a result of Pennsylvania not having an early on-site voting system at designated spots, as is the case in some other states. Instead, voters can apply for ballots on demand at election offices before filling them out and submitting them on the spot, a procedure that takes about 10 minutes.

    The flood of late applicants overwhelmed electoral workers in Bucks county’s administration building in Doylestown, leading to a long queue, which was cut off at about 2.45pm on Tuesday

    I went to drop off my ballot on Saturday and when I got there, not to the main office in Doylestown, but one of the smaller remote offices, and there was a huge line all the way across the front of the building and I was wondering what the heck was going on.

    As I was getting to the end of the line, a person came over and asked if I already had my ballot, and when they saw it, they said I could go right in and drop it off. There was only one couple ahead of me there.

    I had been wondering what the line was for, and now that makes sense. The Republicans had made the mail in ballot more complicated than necessary during COVID, so now they seem to feel it biting them as their potential supporters have been screwed by it.

    “Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers. They’re seeing our turnout. They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania,” he said. “They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum. We are not going to let them suppress our votes.”

    Pennsylvania does not start counting votes before election day. Nobody has any clue as to who is voting for whom.

    They’ve broken the system and want to say “look at this broken system, we can’t trust it!” To me that just shows we can’t trust you!

    I really hope Pennsylvanians do the right thing. These people need to be stopped.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    23 days ago

    Nice of him to get all the denial stuff started early so both sides have a nice heads start.

    /s

    On a serious note though, dems can weapons this

    “Trump is a sore loser even before people vote”

    But they won’t.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      202·
      23 days ago

      dems can weapons this

      The thing about wrestling in the mud with a pig is that the pig likes it.

      • TeenieBopper@lemmy.world
        131·
        22 days ago

        If the democrats hadn’t been pussies for two decades before Trump and effectively welded power, we wouldn’t have had Trump.

      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        22 days ago

        I dunno, when she said at the debate that people were getting bored and leaving his rallys early, that was straight out of the trump playbook, and he did not seem to like it at all

      • potpotato@lemmy.world
        3·
        22 days ago

        High road allll the way to losing. Yeeehaw!

        Just learned to fucking wrangle a pig in the mud. It’s been done.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
    13·
    22 days ago

    I would actually call it a ho-hum sign. It’s just his fingernails scraping the floor as he gets dragged out of the spotlight to spend the rest of his sad-ass life in court.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    23 days ago

    but county officials had observed that there were complaints on social media (shared by the Trump campaign) about long lines to obtain mail-in ballots on Tuesday, the last day of their availability

    This is all about allowing people to vote by mail in ballot??? What the fuck was his 2020 complaints all about???

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    23 days ago

    “Law enforcement must act, NOW!” he added.

    Welp, he’s right about that part! Just not the way he thinks.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    4·
    22 days ago

    He wants SCOTUS to give him a gift in a state that matters. Virginia was nice but not necessary for Democrats.