No, wait, that’s complete bullshit. republicans are dedicated to rigging the game in their favor, just as the resident authoritarian “elections are not safe” liar is.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/30/georgia-county-purges-democrats-from-election-board-and-cancels-sunday-voting

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/31/new-arizona-voting-bill-would-allow-legislature-to-reject-results

Let’s see:

* Trump is a racist
* Trump is a misogynist
* Trump doesn’t believe people who are not white deserve any respect
* Trump really doesn’t care about democracy, only preservation of privilege

There’s more, but those four alone describe rickA well enough. Those are the type of people who support trump

At this point I find it bizarre that anyone still supports Trump, with his serial lies and inability to ‘move on’. He has not changed a thing at his rallies. It is the same old, same old: the election was rigged, he was robbed, blah, blah, blah. One is happy to listen to the old classics of the Rolling Stones, but comedians constantly need to update their material. Trump does too. He hasn’t, because he is an ignoramus. Intellectually lazy. He needs new scriptwriters to write new material. His mumbling rant in Arizona recently was very embarrassing. Incoherent mutterings, and non-stop self praise. No wonder even lowlifes like DeSantis are beginning to abandon ship.

Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, stoked outrage on Sunday by predicting members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack will be imprisoned if Republicans retake the chamber this year.

One of two Republicans on the committee, Liz Cheney, said: “A former speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent attack on our Capitol and our constitution. This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels.”

Outrage as Newt Gingrich says Capitol attack investigators could be jailed

Still reckon that the Rebup’s support democracy RickA?

Walk me through your coup theory.

Trump grabs the voting machines . . .

And then?

rickA’s nazi-loving democracy hating president was working on his coup long before January 6. I’m sure he’ll be outraged knowing was was attempted.

(Actually he won’t be: he’ll either ignore it, try his “but but but the blacks were rioting” crap, or say it would have been good if it had worked.)

In the heady days between Donald Trump’s defeat in November 2020 and the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, an executive order was prepared. It commanded the defense secretary to seize voting machines in battleground states, as part of Trump’s “big lie” that the vote was rigged.

Draft Trump order told defense chief to seize swing-state voting machines

Note link to Michael Flynn allies shenanigans in left side bar.

Rogue Dems and Moscow Mitch need to be pinioned.

And, ‘chunter’ is a expression commonly used in the UK, especially the RN to describe arguing incoherently .

Chuntered? You meant “ranted and lied about things that haven’t happened” — just as you always do.

things that have happened:
‘a sitting president trying to get a governor to overturn the results of an election that the president lost’

‘a sitting president and members of his political party trying to get the vice president and others to set aside the results of a presidential election, so overriding the people’s vote’

‘a sitting president urging people to storm the Capitol and “take back the election by force”‘ on January 6

‘texas ag ken paxton trying to become the person who can decide when to prosecute “voter fraud” ‘ (luckily he lost: he did declare “if everybody who can votes we’re done”

‘repeated QOP ranting about the case of Rosemarie Hartle, who they claimed “voted after she was dead” — it was her husband who voted for her, as a republican

‘texas and other states removing polling places in areas where minorities, elderly, and low-income people live’ because they know they won’t get votes from the majority of those people

Lots more, but the point is the same as always: you’re willing to lie and toss out “serious problems” with the voting system, when in fact those problems don’t exist. You’re willing to ignore proven illegalities by your people because, well damn, it’s just not right that poor people, people who aren’t which, certainly people who aren’t white males, get to vote. That just shouldn’t happen in your world.

We get it. your history of dishonesty and racism is a long one here. You couldn’t even find an article that supported your assertion about the problems with renewable energy a couple posts ago (that posted article doesn’t do it). All you’re doing is demonstrating, repeatedly, that you are a walking personification of all the worst characteristics and beliefs a person can have.

I am going to “chunter” some more (whatever that is)!

It is not voter suppression to make sure that each state voter database is accurate.

It is not voter suppression to verify that voters are actually eligible to vote.

The states are in charge of voting laws and I am against Federalizing voting, district line drawing and so forth.

If a state wants to allow mail in ballots I think they should have the right to do that. If a state wants to deny mail in ballots I think they should have the right to do that. If a state wants to let people vote using their cell phones (random example) – I think they should have the right to do that. If a state says hell no to cell phone voting – I think they should have the right to do that.

States are in charge of voting logistics (except for the date of the election for Federal offices). Every eligible voter currently has the right to vote in all 50 states (but just once and in only one state).

I would like to see each state revisit their election system in light of COVID and make the appropriate changes to ensure that it is as easy to vote as possible – but consistent with the principle that each eligible voter is only entitled to vote once. I would like to see each state study the number of polling places and ensure that the wait to vote is not unreasonably long in any precinct (which seems to happen in some large cities). If that is happening it should be fixed – but by the State – not by the Federal Government.

I would like to see each state pass a law that requires voting procedure changes to be locked in a certain amount of time prior to the election – and not permit changes to close to the election. I think the massive amounts of mail in balls mailed out without voter requests, based on inaccurate state voter databases, just before the last election, created a lot more problems than were solved and I would like to see that fixed by each state reviewing their existing voting system and changing the laws as they see fit. And also getting their database up to date and keep it that way – as best as humanly possible. As soon as someone dies – the voter database should reflect that. As soon as someone moves out of state – the voter database should reflect that. As soon as someone turns 18 – the voter database should reflect that. And so forth.

But the system in each state should be able to identify voter fraud, if it happens. They should be able to audit each election and report on various types of fraud and reassure the people that how ever much fraud took place – it was not enough to change the results of the election. I want to know if any voter voted in more than one precinct in the same election. I want to know if any voter voted in more than one state in the same election. I want to know how many dead people voted in each election. I want to know how many people voted for their aged parent or incapacitated adult child. I want to know how many ballots were stuffed in a ballot box (should that occur). I want to know how many ballots were “lost” (should that occur). I want to know how many ineligible voters voted in a particular election. You get the idea. Such a system would be very reassuring to the voters – to help validate the results of the election.

Currently Biden is implying that the next election will not be legitimate if he is not allowed to control how each state handles the voting process. How is that any different than what Trump did (crying fraud)? I predicted cries of Fraud and it looks like when democrats lose in Nov. that is exactly what we will see. The loser always seems to cry fraud – Trump did it and Biden is going to do it also.

So lets fix that – at the state level – by making it harder to commit fraud. It is not that difficult.

Look – I think it is just a very bad idea to allow people to go door to door in nursing homes and influence or outright bribe people who are in cognitive decline to vote a certain way – via mail in ballots. Or discard mail in ballots of those who voted in ways they don’t like. Ballot harvesting is just bad public policy and should not be allowed. The more sets of hands which touch a ballot between the voter filling it out and the election official getting it – the higher the risk of voter fraud. That is easy to see – right? Do we want mail sorters throwing away ballots – I think not. Do we want mail carriers throwing mail in ballots in the ditch – I think not. Do we want random people dropping off ballot boxes and having control over hundreds of ballots – which they may or may not actually deliver? I think not. These are all bad things which should be prevented.

What would be wrong with making early voters (who are able bodied) go to city hall to cast their ballot? City hall could even be staffed to accept voting during the 10 days or 14 days or whatever state law permits before hours and after hours – to help people who cannot get off during regular business hours. Say allow voting from 6 am to 10 pm during the early voting period. Reserve mail in ballots for the non-able bodied or emergency business trips – as it typically the case now. That cuts down on the number of hands touching the ballot between voting it and getting it to its proper destination.

I think Machin and Sinema are heroes for keeping the filibuster and the democrats will be very very happy they did when they are in the minority.

I hope Machin and Sinema jump ship and change parties to join the Republicans – as they are no longer welcome in the democratic party.

I “chunter” against voting fraud.
I “chunter” for the principle of one person one vote.
I “chunter” for a system which starts to ensure that NOBODY can vote in one state and then travel to another and vote for a second time.
And I “chunter” for a system which can count how many times that type of fraud (any many others) happened in a particular election.

I don’t think that is to much to ask for.

But that is just one middle aged white males opinion. You are free to disagree.

But I have “chuntered” on to much. So I will stop and see what you think about my thoughts.