Election Re-Run?...

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It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.
 
On 11/5/2020 7:08 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

there\'s not going to be a bloodbath. People would miss Season 2 of the
Mandalorian. sit down.
 
On 11/5/2020 6:08 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

If we had a fair media, there would be no need to rerun it.

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On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 8:47:18 PM UTC-5, amdx wrote:
On 11/5/2020 6:08 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

If we had a fair media, there would be no need to rerun it.

You mean the media gets a vote?? Damn! That has to be the Supreme Court that did that. They gave corporations rights to influence elections, now the vote? Only 100 years after women, I guess that\'s to be expected. I wonder if I can vote for my worms?

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On 11/5/2020 9:19 PM, Rickster C wrote:
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 8:47:18 PM UTC-5, amdx wrote:
On 11/5/2020 6:08 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

If we had a fair media, there would be no need to rerun it.

You mean the media gets a vote?? Damn! That has to be the Supreme Court that did that. They gave corporations rights to influence elections, now the vote? Only 100 years after women, I guess that\'s to be expected. I wonder if I can vote for my worms?

In the film Citizen Kane a media tycoon runs for office. Night before
the election he has his paper print two headlines: \"Kane Wins!\" and
\"Fraud at Polls!\"

which seems awfully familiar behavior from somewhere.
 
In article <gr49qf51elroa6khfs4vcq8ackviq17vit@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd@noreply.com> wrote:

It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

You might want to consider just how many portions of the Constitution
would need to be amended for that to happen, and for it to \"stick\"
legally.

Just to consider three areas:

(1) There\'s no provision in the Constitution which would allow
disregarding the results of a Presidental election, and re-running
it. The Constitution sets to the date for the election. It sets
a date for when the newly-elected president is inaugurated. It
sets the procedures for resolving the situation if the states\'
electors don\'t actually elect a president by Inauguration Day
(there\'s a final one-vote-per-state resolution procedure, which I
don\'t think has ever been used). Changing any of these things
would require a Constitutional amendment, passed by Congress and
then ratified by 38 or more states.

(2) The current president\'s time in that role ends on Inauguration
Day, unless the president is formally re-elected according to the
above Constitutional procedures. The current president doesn\'t
and cannot continue in any sort of \"acting\" role until matters are
resolved... he or she reverts to being a private citizen on that
day. Full stop, game over, thank you for playing. As I
understand it, if neither the President nor the Vice President is
legally re-elected, then the Speaker of the House is next in line
to fill the role of interim President. Once again, changing this
would require a Constitutional amendment.

(3) As to \"no postal voting allowed\", that\'s not a matter that\'s up
the Federal government at all. Under the Constitution, each state
uses its own authority to set its the processes for votor
registration, voting, and vote counting. The Constition claims
specific authority over very little of this: the date of the
election is specified, and the right to vote cannot be denied for
any of several reasons (e.g. race, sex, etc.) but otherwise it\'s
up to the States. You\'d need a Constitutional amendment to force
states to give up their rights to set the terms and conditions of
the elections they run, mandating new uniform country-wide
standards and processes for collecting and counting and auditing
and certifying votes, and forbidding voting by mail (and it\'d
be interesting to see how you might phrase this, such that nobody
could find loopholes or alternative ways of achieving the same
thing e.g. authenticated electronic remote voting of some sort).

Getting 38 states to agree to all of the above, and actually ratify
the necessary Constitutional amendments... good luck. History
suggests it ain\'t gonna happen any time soon, and certainly not
in time to be any help with the present situation.

Trying to force through an election do-over of any sort just wouldn\'t
pass muster, legally, without the above amendments. Neither the
President, nor Congress, nor the courts are given any such authority
by the Constitution. Even if the Democratic and Republican parties
and their candidates all agreed that it was a swell idea and we should
do it, the results would not be legal, and the authority of the
President elected in such a re-do election would be immediately
challenged by a few million lawsuits and would almost certainly not be
upheld by any competent court.

We\'ve inherited the current Constitutional system, and (for present
purposes) we\'re stuck with it. We have to work within its processes,
or the country falls apart.
 
On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 12:47:18 PM UTC+11, amdx wrote:
On 11/5/2020 6:08 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

If we had a fair media, there would be no need to rerun it.

Of course not. Fox News wouldn\'t been allowed to lie about the early results. Neither would Trump.

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On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 4:08:26 PM UTC-8, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. ...

Sounds like an excessively credulous take on a close election

>... - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

Too damned late, the STATES determine that, and it\'d take fifty different legislatures
to take implement any such plan.

Besides, we\'ve been doing postal-ballots-only for years in this state (Washington)
with no problems. The whole thing was set up and run by Republican officials
(Secretary of State is an elected position). If someone told you that postal
ballots were invalid in some way, you kick him next time you see the meddler.
 
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 11:08:12 PM UTC-5, Dave Platt wrote:
In article <gr49qf51elroa6khfs4vcq8ackviq17vit@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd@noreply.com> wrote:

It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

You might want to consider just how many portions of the Constitution
would need to be amended for that to happen, and for it to \"stick\"
legally.

Just to consider three areas:

(1) There\'s no provision in the Constitution which would allow
disregarding the results of a Presidental election, and re-running
it. The Constitution sets to the date for the election. It sets
a date for when the newly-elected president is inaugurated. It
sets the procedures for resolving the situation if the states\'
electors don\'t actually elect a president by Inauguration Day
(there\'s a final one-vote-per-state resolution procedure, which I
don\'t think has ever been used). Changing any of these things
would require a Constitutional amendment, passed by Congress and
then ratified by 38 or more states.

(2) The current president\'s time in that role ends on Inauguration
Day, unless the president is formally re-elected according to the
above Constitutional procedures. The current president doesn\'t
and cannot continue in any sort of \"acting\" role until matters are
resolved... he or she reverts to being a private citizen on that
day. Full stop, game over, thank you for playing. As I
understand it, if neither the President nor the Vice President is
legally re-elected, then the Speaker of the House is next in line
to fill the role of interim President. Once again, changing this
would require a Constitutional amendment.

(3) As to \"no postal voting allowed\", that\'s not a matter that\'s up
the Federal government at all. Under the Constitution, each state
uses its own authority to set its the processes for votor
registration, voting, and vote counting. The Constition claims
specific authority over very little of this: the date of the
election is specified, and the right to vote cannot be denied for
any of several reasons (e.g. race, sex, etc.) but otherwise it\'s
up to the States. You\'d need a Constitutional amendment to force
states to give up their rights to set the terms and conditions of
the elections they run, mandating new uniform country-wide
standards and processes for collecting and counting and auditing
and certifying votes, and forbidding voting by mail (and it\'d
be interesting to see how you might phrase this, such that nobody
could find loopholes or alternative ways of achieving the same
thing e.g. authenticated electronic remote voting of some sort).

Getting 38 states to agree to all of the above, and actually ratify
the necessary Constitutional amendments... good luck. History
suggests it ain\'t gonna happen any time soon, and certainly not
in time to be any help with the present situation.

Trying to force through an election do-over of any sort just wouldn\'t
pass muster, legally, without the above amendments. Neither the
President, nor Congress, nor the courts are given any such authority
by the Constitution. Even if the Democratic and Republican parties
and their candidates all agreed that it was a swell idea and we should
do it, the results would not be legal, and the authority of the
President elected in such a re-do election would be immediately
challenged by a few million lawsuits and would almost certainly not be
upheld by any competent court.

We\'ve inherited the current Constitutional system, and (for present
purposes) we\'re stuck with it. We have to work within its processes,
or the country falls apart.

About the date... who defines the calendar? I think it was a British defense project that was very late and over budget. If they held the contractor to the contract they would go under or something. The contract had a delivery date of a certain year. To extend the contract which apparently could not be done by normal means of a new contract, for the purposes of that contract they passed a low extending the year. They finally completed it on the 732nd day of the year or some such absurdity.

If the election is held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, why can\'t they change the calendar to not have such a day and make it NoElectionDay? The calendar is not in the Constitution.

Considering what it takes to amend the Constitution and some of the proposed amenndments that never passed, I\'m surprised by many that did pass. One that doesn\'t surprise me is the 21st.

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dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave Platt) wrote:

(1) There\'s no provision in the Constitution which would allow
disregarding the results of a Presidental election, and re-running
it.

That assumes proper results.

If a majority of electors fails to agree on a winner, Congress picks the
winner in continent elections held within Congress under the terms of
the 12th Amendment.

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/does-the-constitution-allow-for-a-delayed-presidential-election
 
On 06/11/2020 00:08, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

Big baby dwopped his wattle? Snot fair!

--
Clive
 
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 21:36:42 -0800 (PST), Rickster C
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have a couple of friends who are very pro Trump. I\'ve never been able to get them to explain it t

The neo-LIberal mind cannot understand the Conservative mind and vice
versa. This is why we have free and fair elections to resolve those
differences. But they must be free *and* FAIR.
 
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:20:02 -0800, dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave
Platt) wrote:

In article <gr49qf51elroa6khfs4vcq8ackviq17vit@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd@noreply.com> wrote:

It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

You might want to consider just how many portions of the Constitution
would need to be amended for that to happen, and for it to \"stick\"
legally.

Just to consider three areas:

(1) There\'s no provision in the Constitution which would allow
disregarding the results of a Presidental election, and re-running
it. The Constitution sets to the date for the election. It sets
a date for when the newly-elected president is inaugurated. It
sets the procedures for resolving the situation if the states\'
electors don\'t actually elect a president by Inauguration Day
(there\'s a final one-vote-per-state resolution procedure, which I
don\'t think has ever been used). Changing any of these things
would require a Constitutional amendment, passed by Congress and
then ratified by 38 or more states.

(2) The current president\'s time in that role ends on Inauguration
Day, unless the president is formally re-elected according to the
above Constitutional procedures. The current president doesn\'t
and cannot continue in any sort of \"acting\" role until matters are
resolved... he or she reverts to being a private citizen on that
day. Full stop, game over, thank you for playing. As I
understand it, if neither the President nor the Vice President is
legally re-elected, then the Speaker of the House is next in line
to fill the role of interim President. Once again, changing this
would require a Constitutional amendment.

(3) As to \"no postal voting allowed\", that\'s not a matter that\'s up
the Federal government at all. Under the Constitution, each state
uses its own authority to set its the processes for votor
registration, voting, and vote counting. The Constition claims
specific authority over very little of this: the date of the
election is specified, and the right to vote cannot be denied for
any of several reasons (e.g. race, sex, etc.) but otherwise it\'s
up to the States. You\'d need a Constitutional amendment to force
states to give up their rights to set the terms and conditions of
the elections they run, mandating new uniform country-wide
standards and processes for collecting and counting and auditing
and certifying votes, and forbidding voting by mail (and it\'d
be interesting to see how you might phrase this, such that nobody
could find loopholes or alternative ways of achieving the same
thing e.g. authenticated electronic remote voting of some sort).

Getting 38 states to agree to all of the above, and actually ratify
the necessary Constitutional amendments... good luck. History
suggests it ain\'t gonna happen any time soon, and certainly not
in time to be any help with the present situation.

Trying to force through an election do-over of any sort just wouldn\'t
pass muster, legally, without the above amendments. Neither the
President, nor Congress, nor the courts are given any such authority
by the Constitution. Even if the Democratic and Republican parties
and their candidates all agreed that it was a swell idea and we should
do it, the results would not be legal, and the authority of the
President elected in such a re-do election would be immediately
challenged by a few million lawsuits and would almost certainly not be
upheld by any competent court.

We\'ve inherited the current Constitutional system, and (for present
purposes) we\'re stuck with it. We have to work within its processes,
or the country falls apart.

We had postal voting in local elections in the UK and it was rife for
fraudulent voting, specifically among the Muslim communities where
such corruption is endemic. I\'d have thought the US would have learned
from our experience in this regard. :-/
 
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:21:23 -0800 (PST), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

Besides, we\'ve been doing postal-ballots-only for years in this state (Washington)
with no problems. The whole thing was set up and run by Republican officials
(Secretary of State is an elected position). If someone told you that postal
ballots were invalid in some way, you kick him next time you see the meddler.

Even if they\'re a highly trained militiaman?
 
On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 9:20:50 PM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:21:23 -0800 (PST), whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com
wrote:
Besides, we\'ve been doing postal-ballots-only for years in this state (Washington)
with no problems. The whole thing was set up and run by Republican officials
(Secretary of State is an elected position). If someone told you that postal
ballots were invalid in some way, you kick him next time you see the meddler.

Even if they\'re a highly trained militiaman?

The mythical well-regulated militia. If they had enough sense to benefit from such training, they\'d have enough sense not to hang around with people who think that postal voting is invalid.

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On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 03:24:46 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

>The mythical well-regulated militia. If they had enough sense to benefit from such training, they\'d have enough sense not to hang around with people who think that postal voting is invalid.

In a scenario where one of your anarchists is launching a kick at a
militiaman or an Oathkeeper, I\'d be inclined to bet against the
anarchist.
 
The Supremes will decide whether it\'s \"fair\".

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On 06/11/2020 00:08, Cursitor Doom wrote:
It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

Big baby dwopped his wattle? Snot fair!

--
Clive
 
On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 5:15:43 AM UTC-5, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:20:02 -0800, dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave
Platt) wrote:

In article <gr49qf51elroa6khfs4vcq8ackviq17vit@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd@noreply.com> wrote:

It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

You might want to consider just how many portions of the Constitution
would need to be amended for that to happen, and for it to \"stick\"
legally.

Just to consider three areas:

(1) There\'s no provision in the Constitution which would allow
disregarding the results of a Presidental election, and re-running
it. The Constitution sets to the date for the election. It sets
a date for when the newly-elected president is inaugurated. It
sets the procedures for resolving the situation if the states\'
electors don\'t actually elect a president by Inauguration Day
(there\'s a final one-vote-per-state resolution procedure, which I
don\'t think has ever been used). Changing any of these things
would require a Constitutional amendment, passed by Congress and
then ratified by 38 or more states.

(2) The current president\'s time in that role ends on Inauguration
Day, unless the president is formally re-elected according to the
above Constitutional procedures. The current president doesn\'t
and cannot continue in any sort of \"acting\" role until matters are
resolved... he or she reverts to being a private citizen on that
day. Full stop, game over, thank you for playing. As I
understand it, if neither the President nor the Vice President is
legally re-elected, then the Speaker of the House is next in line
to fill the role of interim President. Once again, changing this
would require a Constitutional amendment.

(3) As to \"no postal voting allowed\", that\'s not a matter that\'s up
the Federal government at all. Under the Constitution, each state
uses its own authority to set its the processes for votor
registration, voting, and vote counting. The Constition claims
specific authority over very little of this: the date of the
election is specified, and the right to vote cannot be denied for
any of several reasons (e.g. race, sex, etc.) but otherwise it\'s
up to the States. You\'d need a Constitutional amendment to force
states to give up their rights to set the terms and conditions of
the elections they run, mandating new uniform country-wide
standards and processes for collecting and counting and auditing
and certifying votes, and forbidding voting by mail (and it\'d
be interesting to see how you might phrase this, such that nobody
could find loopholes or alternative ways of achieving the same
thing e.g. authenticated electronic remote voting of some sort).

Getting 38 states to agree to all of the above, and actually ratify
the necessary Constitutional amendments... good luck. History
suggests it ain\'t gonna happen any time soon, and certainly not
in time to be any help with the present situation.

Trying to force through an election do-over of any sort just wouldn\'t
pass muster, legally, without the above amendments. Neither the
President, nor Congress, nor the courts are given any such authority
by the Constitution. Even if the Democratic and Republican parties
and their candidates all agreed that it was a swell idea and we should
do it, the results would not be legal, and the authority of the
President elected in such a re-do election would be immediately
challenged by a few million lawsuits and would almost certainly not be
upheld by any competent court.

We\'ve inherited the current Constitutional system, and (for present
purposes) we\'re stuck with it. We have to work within its processes,
or the country falls apart.

We had postal voting in local elections in the UK and it was rife for
fraudulent voting, specifically among the Muslim communities where
such corruption is endemic. I\'d have thought the US would have learned
from our experience in this regard. :-/

Yeah, the election was skewed by the huge Muslim, liberal, mail in vote in Georgia. Damn it! I knew we should have done something about that.

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On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 9:03:00 AM UTC-5, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 03:24:46 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman
bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

The mythical well-regulated militia. If they had enough sense to benefit from such training, they\'d have enough sense not to hang around with people who think that postal voting is invalid.

In a scenario where one of your anarchists is launching a kick at a
militiaman or an Oathkeeper, I\'d be inclined to bet against the
anarchist.

In Las Vegas, police shot and killed Jorge Gomez, who was walking among protesters and reportedly reached for his firearm when he was shot.[66]

In Downtown Austin, 28-year old Garrett Foster was killed in a shooting at a Black Lives Matter protest. The incident happened around 9:52 p.m. near East Sixth Street and Congress Avenue, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.. Police said initial reports indicate that Foster was carrying an AK-47 style rifle, and was pushing his fiancée\'s wheelchair moments before he was killed.[83][102]
=I think we will see some rise in news about militiamen and such, then they will just fade away over the next eight years.

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On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 5:15:43 AM UTC-5, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:20:02 -0800, dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave
Platt) wrote:

In article <gr49qf51elroa6khfs4vcq8ackviq17vit@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd@noreply.com> wrote:

It\'s the only way to prevent a bloodbath. Re-run it but with proper
(international if necessary) observers in place at all times during
the whole tallying up period - and NO POSTAL VOTING ALLOWED.

You might want to consider just how many portions of the Constitution
would need to be amended for that to happen, and for it to \"stick\"
legally.

Just to consider three areas:

(1) There\'s no provision in the Constitution which would allow
disregarding the results of a Presidental election, and re-running
it. The Constitution sets to the date for the election. It sets
a date for when the newly-elected president is inaugurated. It
sets the procedures for resolving the situation if the states\'
electors don\'t actually elect a president by Inauguration Day
(there\'s a final one-vote-per-state resolution procedure, which I
don\'t think has ever been used). Changing any of these things
would require a Constitutional amendment, passed by Congress and
then ratified by 38 or more states.

(2) The current president\'s time in that role ends on Inauguration
Day, unless the president is formally re-elected according to the
above Constitutional procedures. The current president doesn\'t
and cannot continue in any sort of \"acting\" role until matters are
resolved... he or she reverts to being a private citizen on that
day. Full stop, game over, thank you for playing. As I
understand it, if neither the President nor the Vice President is
legally re-elected, then the Speaker of the House is next in line
to fill the role of interim President. Once again, changing this
would require a Constitutional amendment.

(3) As to \"no postal voting allowed\", that\'s not a matter that\'s up
the Federal government at all. Under the Constitution, each state
uses its own authority to set its the processes for votor
registration, voting, and vote counting. The Constition claims
specific authority over very little of this: the date of the
election is specified, and the right to vote cannot be denied for
any of several reasons (e.g. race, sex, etc.) but otherwise it\'s
up to the States. You\'d need a Constitutional amendment to force
states to give up their rights to set the terms and conditions of
the elections they run, mandating new uniform country-wide
standards and processes for collecting and counting and auditing
and certifying votes, and forbidding voting by mail (and it\'d
be interesting to see how you might phrase this, such that nobody
could find loopholes or alternative ways of achieving the same
thing e.g. authenticated electronic remote voting of some sort).

Getting 38 states to agree to all of the above, and actually ratify
the necessary Constitutional amendments... good luck. History
suggests it ain\'t gonna happen any time soon, and certainly not
in time to be any help with the present situation.

Trying to force through an election do-over of any sort just wouldn\'t
pass muster, legally, without the above amendments. Neither the
President, nor Congress, nor the courts are given any such authority
by the Constitution. Even if the Democratic and Republican parties
and their candidates all agreed that it was a swell idea and we should
do it, the results would not be legal, and the authority of the
President elected in such a re-do election would be immediately
challenged by a few million lawsuits and would almost certainly not be
upheld by any competent court.

We\'ve inherited the current Constitutional system, and (for present
purposes) we\'re stuck with it. We have to work within its processes,
or the country falls apart.

We had postal voting in local elections in the UK and it was rife for
fraudulent voting, specifically among the Muslim communities where
such corruption is endemic. I\'d have thought the US would have learned
from our experience in this regard. :-/

Yeah, the election was skewed by the huge Muslim, liberal, mail in vote in Georgia. Damn it! I knew we should have done something about that.

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Rick C.

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