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2022-11-13 Home Front: Politix
GOP must insist on a return to pre-2020 election system in competitive states or die
[American Thinker] It’s entirely possible that the Republicans will not win the House. If they do, it will be by a razor thin margin under circumstances that should have produced a blowout.

The main reason for this second in a row reversal of all historic electoral precedent is plain to anyone who wants to look and be honest:

Florida has an electoral law that most closely recreates the US election DAY mechanics of all time prior to 2020: No mass mailing of unrequested absentee ballots to all registered voters - only those registered voters requesting an absent ballot no later than 10 days before the election get one; and their ballot is counted only if received by a specific date. In Florida there was strict enforcement of date deadlines, and larger percentages of voters than elsewhere voted at the polls.

Ergo: in Florida there was fast counting and quick results; and much less time for shenanigans.

And a Republican blowout.

In Florida there was no collecting/harvesting of ballots. And - even more important - no voting by that substantial segment of the Democrat party base that’s too disorganized and generally out of it to either remember to go to the polls or to request an absentee ballot.

The mass mailing of millions of absentee ballots, coupled with lengthy return periods and allowed methods of return (e.g., unsupervised drop boxes) has, in a multitude of ways, expanded the Dem vote.

It may save them both the House and Senate this time.

This was foreseeable. In Florida it was fixed. What was wrong during the last two years with the rest of the Republican leadership?

This election conclusively establishes that until the corrupt electoral mechanics established in 2020 in almost all competitive states are abolished, and something like Florida’s electoral laws put into place, Republicans will be laboring not merely against the entire corporate and tech media, but under vote mechanics that give the Dems: 1. every opportunity to engage in fraud; and 2. constitute a national remedial help plan for several million Democrat-inclined incompetents who, in the absence of these mechanics, would not vote at all.

All of this adds up to an unknown but significant number of votes for the Dems that were never available to them in years prior to 2020. This advantage, coupled with numerous others (see above) is too much for the traditional conservative party to overcome. Even in circumstances like those prevailing on November 8, 2022, which, under the electoral mechanics that prevailed before 2020, would have produced a Republican blowout.

All the blather about weak candidates, wrong messaging, abortion and Donald Trump are so much barking up wrong trees. This atrocious Republican electoral outcome will have been produced by the electoral mechanics that the timid Republican establishment allowed to be adopted in 2020, and then to be extended to this election, and - for all the fight on this issue Republican leaders have shown - probably forever.

Republicans, conservatives and patriots!

It’s the electoral mechanics, stupid!
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-13 05:19|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 It will continue to be tough to change back in the states where the cheating is now dug in like Colorado and Michigan.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-13 08:42||   2022-11-13 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Throw Mass. in there too - a few months ago the MA state legislature passed a law making mail-in ballots legal.
Posted by Raj 2022-11-13 12:24||   2022-11-13 12:24|| Front Page Top

#3 GA had relatively lenient law re absentee and drop boses (although Biden said it was Jim Crow-like).

and

Republicans won all the Statewide offices. Also have substantial majorities in both State legislature bodies.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-11-13 12:28||   2022-11-13 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 But dem MVP won the GA SoS spot again.
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-11-13 14:11||   2022-11-13 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 But dem MVP Raffensperger won the GA SoS spot again.
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-11-13 14:11||   2022-11-13 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Simple explanation, voter turn-out in midterms is roughly 50+%, but in mail=in voter states, each registered voter gets sent a ballot. SO there is a pool of approximately 50% of the registered voters to manipulate through"curing", ballot harvesting, purchased voting and outright fraud. When you don't have voter ID and same day in person voting, it is a candy store for one party overall.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-11-13 14:26||   2022-11-13 14:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Big talk, but you’re not going to be able to fix it.
Posted by KBK 2022-11-13 14:34||   2022-11-13 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Big joke. We won't clean up voting fraud. If we didn't after 2020 we never will.
Posted by Angstrom 2022-11-13 14:47||   2022-11-13 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ A very sad truth I fear.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-13 14:48||   2022-11-13 14:48|| Front Page Top

#10 We can’t mandate new rules unless the Republicans control both Houses of Congress with veto-proof majorities. Until then, all we can do is improve things in those states we do control, and keep going through the Supreme Court when possible to keep the federal government from rolling back the improvements. Especially now that a $40 million Democrat donor has been taken out of play.

Evolution isn’t nearly as satisfying as revolution, but a journey of a thousand miles begins —and continues — with a single step.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-13 18:52||   2022-11-13 18:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Be of good cheer, ladies and gentlemen. The bastards want us to give up.
Posted by Matt 2022-11-13 20:20||   2022-11-13 20:20|| Front Page Top

#12 My CA Dist re-elected Darrell Issa, who likes to make trouble for people who deserve it. Let the House hearings begin
Posted by Frank G 2022-11-13 20:27||   2022-11-13 20:27|| Front Page Top

#13 The trunks have not taken the House yet, and might not at all. The longer the count goes, the less likely they will.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-11-13 20:31||   2022-11-13 20:31|| Front Page Top

#14 By the Constitution national elections are state controlled. Washington is 100% compromised. Giving them control of elections is like turning over a Girl Scout troop to Gislaine Maxwell. The issues can be fixed but it will take relentless effort . Florida was a joke for decades. It is a battle that we need to wage. Quitting is not an option, but the time frame is six years in the Senate minimum and probably longer to delouse the Executive Branch. The education system will take three generations. The amount of work required is sobering. To forgo doing it is a betrayal of our inheritance.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-13 22:04||   2022-11-13 22:04|| Front Page Top

#15 The Hose knows
Posted by KBK 2022-11-13 23:22||   2022-11-13 23:22|| Front Page Top

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