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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 07:11 PM Mar 2020

You know what they are going to next...

.... if the Covid-19 takes off, 6 dead in Washington State right now, then I predict that they will shut down, in November, polling booths in jurisdictions that may be at risk of voting blue. Public safety don't you know. Sigh.

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You know what they are going to next... (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2020 OP
Then maybe everyone should Vote early. blueinredohio Mar 2020 #1
I would not put it past them... mitch96 Mar 2020 #2
Martial law haha...there arent enough cops. Volaris Mar 2020 #6
A pandemic emergency could be enough of an excuse... Kablooie Mar 2020 #3
The individual states run the election. Trump can't order shit. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2020 #4
states run their own elections.. stillcool Mar 2020 #5

Volaris

(10,266 posts)
6. Martial law haha...there arent enough cops.
Tue Mar 3, 2020, 01:47 PM
Mar 2020

And even if there were, preventing half the adults in america from going to work for even 2 weeks would so wreck wall streets profit margins that it would never be tolerated.

And if it were tolerated, their margins would still be wrecked, with the added bonus that the people who work for a living in this country would know immediately and exactly HOW MUCH POWER WE ACTUALLY HAVE to get shit done.

And that WILL NOT be allowed lol.

Kablooie

(18,605 posts)
3. A pandemic emergency could be enough of an excuse...
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:14 PM
Mar 2020

to call martial law and shut election down, "temporarily"

This is exactly how Hitler became dictator by ordering temporary martial law and then never rescinding it.

And Trump has studied Hitler. His ex-wife said he had a book of Hitler speeches next to his bed.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
5. states run their own elections..
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:29 PM
Mar 2020

I'm sure in some states they'd be more than happy to cancel election day, but not all. Sometimes the best way to get people to do something is to tell them they can't.

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