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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5993470" data-attributes="member: 54375">donald&#039;s strategy via Ed Kilgore:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Insisting on voter-roll purges to eliminate people who don’t respond quickly to official verification inquiries, whether or not they are appropriate. (In the past, overzealous purges have disqualified hundreds of thousands of eligible voters, most notably <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-the-2000-election-in-florida-led-to-a-new-wave-of-voter-disenfranchisement/" target="_blank">in Florida in 2000</a>.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Promoting <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/mail-in-ballot-republican-lawsuits-battleground-states/index.html" target="_blank">ridiculously strict rules for mail ballots</a> that don’t have anything to do with their integrity (e.g., tossing them out due to extremely minor address or date errors without the possibility of curing them).</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Flooding the polling places with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.html" target="_blank">poll watchers</a> trained to challenge individual ballots that might go to Kamala Harris on a variety of sketchy grounds.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">An inside-the-tent effort to place <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers" target="_blank">MAGA loyalists in key election-administration positions</a> from the precinct to the <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/" target="_blank">county to the state level</a>, where they can not only slow down vote counts but increase the odds of Democratic ballots being thrown out.</li>
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[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5993470, member: 54375"] donald's strategy via Ed Kilgore: [LIST=1] [*]Insisting on voter-roll purges to eliminate people who don’t respond quickly to official verification inquiries, whether or not they are appropriate. (In the past, overzealous purges have disqualified hundreds of thousands of eligible voters, most notably [URL='https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-the-2000-election-in-florida-led-to-a-new-wave-of-voter-disenfranchisement/']in Florida in 2000[/URL].) [*]Promoting [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/mail-in-ballot-republican-lawsuits-battleground-states/index.html']ridiculously strict rules for mail ballots[/URL] that don’t have anything to do with their integrity (e.g., tossing them out due to extremely minor address or date errors without the possibility of curing them). [*]Flooding the polling places with [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.html']poll watchers[/URL] trained to challenge individual ballots that might go to Kamala Harris on a variety of sketchy grounds. [*]An inside-the-tent effort to place [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers']MAGA loyalists in key election-administration positions[/URL] from the precinct to the [URL='https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/']county to the state level[/URL], where they can not only slow down vote counts but increase the odds of Democratic ballots being thrown out. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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