Experts: Pro-Trump officials could face “severe” punishments if they refuse to certify election
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/17/experts-pro-officials-could-face-severe-punishments-if-they-refuse-to-certify/
Experts: Pro-Trump officials could face “severe” punishments if they refuse to certify election
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/17/experts-pro-officials-could-face-severe-punishments-if-they-refuse-to-certify/
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Not severe enough. These are traitors that deserve the maximum sentence for the crime.
My takeaway from all this chatter about not certifying means any locality who doesn’t want to certify is showing the rest of us they went blue!
In a perfect world they should be dragged into the streets for undermining democracy…
Jailed for treason
Lock them up permanently.
Throwing away your life for Orange Diaper Man ..wild
I’m more worried about them literally shredding votes. There are 70 some MAGA reality deniers working in election offices in all the battleground states.
It’s been proven time and time again that these people are willing to risk everything to help their cult leader “win”.
This election will be the most litigated in history, there will be violence and it will be the biggest shit show in U.S. history. There is no way MAGA weirdos just allow a *black woman* to win.
Not certifying the election will only delay the inevitable.
Trump isn’t in office…..
Not enough faced punishment last time, so I highly doubt they’re that worried this time. Trump has already talked about their people being in the election process, so it’s enough to start an investigation.
Is it just me, or shouldn’t “election denial” disqualify one from having a job anywhere in elections? Why are these people employed or allowed to volunteer in an election?
There is no guarantee that they will, and in time, though!
We know how fast Merrick moves, and there’s the SCROTUS to side with these fascists’ feelings that there was fraud!
They’re the same fuckers who valued Christo-corporate feelings more than actual science to take away health care from employees.
“Let’s do it anyway and fight it out in the courts.”
It would be Sedition and Insurrection.
What would be really sad is if Americans just let conservatives get away with one more thing.
As they should.
Is there anywhere that keeps a tally of how many people have gone to jail for trump, and for gow many days. A websife or electronic billboard that says for example: 675 people have spent a total of 10,475 days in jail for trump. He has spent zero. Would go hard to show these fools where they can end up.
How about we change the *could* to *should*, or better yet, *WILL*
Why do I not trust this? Oh yeah, because Republicans get a free pass to do whatever tantrum crap they want.
Bidens still president until they certify, right? The Biden who scotus just made immune of all “official” acts? Seems like it would be pretty easy to clear up.
They may use an exclamation point in the sternly worded letter. Watch out!
I don’t know why we don’t have executions for treason anymore.
Garland is the weakest AG around… do something useful… uphold the law
It already happened and nothing came of it.
I have NEVER seen SO many fools go to the slaughter for any political “cause” in my entire 73 years on planet Earth.
Rudy Giuliani had busted the mob in New York City using the RICO laws like NO one else before.
Withstood the 9/11 nightmare from hell.
Rudy KNEW about Trumps business dealings and still goes down for Trump.
Then, all of those convicted for January 6th.
The only people who have benefited from Trump are defense attorneys. Real freaking economic development my ass.
Media and law orgs need to smarten up. The soft word ‘could’ makes the claim lame. Refusal to certify results is a crime or not? Personal preference for a candidate isn’t a deciding factor. Are they doing their job or not?
My solution is they are stripped of citizenship, put on a plane to a random, poor country, and dropped off.
Garland should have acted faster and more aggressively against the first slew of traitors.
This will only be the case if Harris does what Biden didn’t have the balls to do. There were a **lot** of counties and districts with election officials who refused to certify in 2020 and 2022. There were **shockingly** few consequences for these flagrant violations of the law and many of these bad actors remain in their positions to interfere again. Biden continued the utterly contemptuous and failed political strategy of playing civility politics with traitors, election manipulators, Christo-fascists, and bigots of all kinds. It’s the disease affecting the last five decades of Democratic strategy. The foolish belief that Republicans are “good people with different opinions”, and not brain diseased fascists with values fundamentally incompatible with civil society who will gleefully see you and all of your friends into gas chambers. The Harris campaign seems to be the first Democratic campaign in my lifetime that is operating under the recognition that Republicans cannot be treated with civility, nor should their ideas and beliefs be considered with anything but contempt. “Severe punishments” require a willingness to make the hard choice and put these criminals behind bars, and not just the rank and file. The seditious, anti-democratic, anti-American leadership infecting the halls of federal and state legislatures.
Until we as a society start throwing the book at these traitorous individuals, things won’t improve
How are they going to be punished if the presidency and Supreme Court is run by the guy they were supporting?
Just ignore them and win in a landslide. He can’t cheat em all.
Prison. Attempted coups are treason.
No they won’t. We have watched in horror over the past decade as politicians,wealthy people and corporations routinely violate all kinds of laws and norms without so much as a slap on the wrist. The blatant disregard they show for our laws should be met with heavy punishment like us normal people get over a lil weed or something similar. I want one simple thing and that’s for the rule of law to be enforced equally on everyone/thing that’s in our country.
Deport them!
Well, braying for blood aside, it is an assuring reminder that despite the fuckery afoot, there are safeguard mechanisms in place, which is why this isn’t easy. Every needs to stay frosty, though – for every pernicious plan, we need to counter it, and vote in numbers that will be undeniable.
Not a single false elector from 2020 is behind bars currently. So i highly fucking doubt these “experts”
Yeah yeah, and yet they don’t even enforce subpoenas for these people. I’ll believe it when I see it
There needs to be a massive Purge of the election denying Republican vermin frauds from all branches of government.
Get out and vote! The larger the number the harder to deny
Deny, delay and disenfranchise; is the MAGA platform, but a sad one. Please vote if you are eligible, and if you are please make sure you register to do so ASAP. (Even if you were registered, it’s not implicit that you still are.)
I hope they’ve identified every ratfucker who plans to put their dirty little fingers in the mix, and paid a them a preemptive visit by the FBI.
First sign of malfeasance, they should be arrested & treated as enemy combatants.