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Be Prepared to Protect Our Democracy in November From a Trumpian Plot | Common Dreams
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He's been saying out loud that he'll declare a state of emergency, which lets him do whatever the hell he wants. But people will still be surprised because most people just can't conceive of it. I don't expect armed guards while voting is going on (though wouldn't be surprised) as much as I expect the state of emergency declaration, and armed teams of Fed agents will sweep into selected polling places (dem-heavy precincts) and confiscate the ballots and/or voting machines.
So unless states have taken measures to physically protect their ballots with force against Feds (exceedingly unlikely), this will be very easy for them to do. They'll allow ballots in repub-heavy precincts to be counted and/or let the election be declared invalid or whatever, it won't matter as long as they disrupted the ability to count all the votes.
A state of emergency still doesn't grant him any authority over state run elections. The states are fully aware of this and many are taking measures to prevent the involvement of unauthorized personnel through both legal challenge and physical security.
We are so far past all the "but he can't do that!", "that would be illegal" bullshit now. This is a fascist regime. The rule of law no longer applies.
I hope we all realize by now that Dump doesn't give a shit whether something is legal or whether he has the legal authority to do it. He just does it. He doesn't care if one day in the future some court will say, "Oh you shouldn't have done that." By the time courts can do anything, it's far too late--the damage was already done. He has the support of the Congress which is controlled by repubs. The courts either go along with his corruption or he just ignores them. I read yesterday that they're going to carve his name directly into the marble facade of the Kennedy Center, ignoring the courts. ICE and his concentration camps violate all kinds of laws every day and nothing is done to stop it. He's put billions of our taxpayer dollars into his own and his cronies personal pockets.
So can we please stop with the "don't worry, he doesn't have the authority to do that" stuff?