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In The Midst of Voting Irregularity Challenges, Democrats Call For People To Move To Georgia To Stack The Vote

One can have an interesting debate over the most self-defeating political statements in American politics. There was Bill Clinton’s not-so-clever answer about his affair with Monica Lewinsky as depending what “the meaning of ‘is’ is.” There was John Kerry’s statement that he was for the Iraq war before he was against it. There was Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. However, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer may have taken the crown with his yelling on the streets of New York that “Now we take Georgia, then we change the world. Now we take Georgia, then we change America.”  It is a quote that will live in political infamy — and play endlessly in Georgia. Now adding to the Democratic problems are liberal figures openly encouraging Democrats to move to Georgia to stack the vote in the runoff elections. So Georgia just started a hand recount in the midst of claims of voting irregularities but figures like New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman are calling for liberals to move to Georgia to influence their election.  In other words, Friedman and others are sending the self-destructive message is that Jon Ossoff and Raphael G. Warnock might not have enough Georgians to vote for them so they need New Yorkers and Californians to come and vote as Georgians.  The New York Times, which has run repeated pieces on alleged vote suppression by the GOP, has had nothing to say about Friedman’s call for vote stacking in Georgia.

I recently wrote about the irony of the runoff election starting on the anniversary of Sherman’s March Through Georgia. I did not think it would literally involve Northerners invading the state to carry out the campaign.

One of the recurring arguments is that Democrats have so demonized Trump and his supporters (including calling them Nazis) that it gives license to supporters to take any measure to ensure a Biden victory.  As if on cue, Friedman then took to the airways to reinforce that concern. He told CNN, “I hope everybody moves to Georgia, you know, in the next month or two, registers to vote and votes for these two Democratic senators.”

 

It seemed like Friedman’s first thought on the runoffs was how he or others could rig it. He is not alone. New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz  wrote “These run-offs will decide which party controls the Senate, and this, whether we’ll have any hope of a large stimulus/climate bill. If you have the means and fervor to make a temporary move to GA, believe anyone who registers by Dec 7 can vote in these elections.” 

It appears that people told Levitz that he was saying the quiet part out loud and he deleted his post. Vote stacking with out-of-staters is the type of thing that you are supposed to do quietly, not openly. Georgians might not take too kindly to New Yorkers voting on their representatives.

For his part, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has announced that he is moving his family to Georgia to push for Ossoff and Warnock. Now that will help . . . a leading California politician moving to Georgia to push for the runoff. Georgians will be thrilled.

What is fascinating is that, even if some people follow these directions, a hundred times that number of actual Georgians will be left irate over these calls.

Of course, the New York Times offered not even a hint of concern with one of its writers calling for people to manipulate the voting count in Georgia. It is all too familiar. The Times was fine with forcing out an editor for simply running an opinion piece by a conservative senator on the recent protests while later running a piece by “Hong Kong enforcer” supporting the crushing of freedom protests.  It denounces Trump for what it considers suppression tactics while remaining silent as Friedman calls for dilution tactics in the election. It is also a curious call for the media which has been denouncing the effort not to count every vote. It now appears that counting every vote includes counting New Yorkers in Georgia.

Under Georgia law, you must be a “legal resident of the county” and meet other requirements to register to vote. Potential voters are required to provide either a Georgia driver’s license or a Social Security number and fill out a form online or in-person to send to the secretary of state by Dec. 7. It is a felony to vote in Georgia if you are not a legal resident or only plan to be in the state temporarily for an election.  The Georgia Attorney General is mandated with enforcing these voter fraud rules.

Friedman of course has slammed Trump, which is his right and Trump deserved criticism on many of these occasions. However, he has portrayed himself as different from Trump despite calling him names because he is “respectful even with people I disagree with.” Except when he does not trust them to elect their own representatives and seeks to negate their votes in the name of the greater good.

 

108 thoughts on “In The Midst of Voting Irregularity Challenges, Democrats Call For People To Move To Georgia To Stack The Vote”

  1. You lay out twenty ballots on the table. You write down the respective voted and then stack them. The stacks go in a box.
    With a scanner you put them in one at a time and they stack in the back of the scan machine.
    Egg other way. You are a stacker. Nothing dishonest.

      1. How do you think absentee ballots get scanned if no one but the voter can handle the ballot?

  2. Someone of leadership might needs to step in and right this ship. This is another glaring example of why many Trump voters distrust the voting system. Unfortunately, Biden is more comfortable hiding behind his socialist surrogates and has zero leadership abilities.

    1. I have never in my life seen so corrupt, duplicitous, and hypocritical as what his infested the Democratic Party in my 60 years on this earth

  3. Let me make sure that I understand this:

    Foreign meddling in a U.S. election is wrong. But domestic meddling is okay?

    And we’re supposed to believe that such mentalities did *not* meddle in the presidential election?

    1. A better understanding –

      Illegal interference is wrong.
      Legal speech is not illegal interference, though you might condemn it based on the content of the speech.

  4. If these crooked democrats didn’t have two faces – they wouldn’t have heads at all.

  5. The funny part is New York jailbirds (minorities specifically) have been moving to Georgia for two decades now, with the belief they’re less likely to be prosecuted there.Truth. Just saying, I haven’t analyzed it, but I don’t believe “changing demographics” is wholly exaggerated.

    1. Anon: “That’s not even the half of it.”

      Part of that other half is the Dominion voting system they (and countless other states) used — the one that magically transformed some 3,000 Trump votes into Biden votes.

      There are good reasons why Texas rejected that voting system: “Accordingly, based upon the foregoing, I hereby deny certification of Dominion Voting Systems’
      Democracy Suite 5.5 for use in elections in Texas.” (Jose Esparza, Deputy Secretary of State, Texas)

      https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/dominion-democracy-suite-5.5.pdf

  7. it is a corrupt scheme to encourage people to violate Georgia election law. One might call it ‘meddling,’ or ‘interfering in the Georgia election.’ In a just world those involved would be subject to a DOJ investigation and possible prosecution.

      1. No it’s not illegal to say it. No one is saying he should be banned from saying it. However, it should be understood that Thomas Freidman has been a commentator and writer for a very long time. I have one of his books on my book shelf. For a very influential person to put forth a serious view that an election should be influenced by packing a state with new voters is at best journalistic malfeasance. People listen to what he says. A government brought forth by overriding the voter is simply a tyrany. Welcome to the new America designed by the left. Now they believe they have licence to say or do what they have kept in hiding in their minds all along. You voted for it.

    2. Look for the millennials and their parents. This is how they have gotten through every challenge in life and they see nothing wrong with it. Would not be at all surprised if the polls in question were being operated by that helix demographic. In time, without correction, all of this will be reflective of our government writ large. At some point folks like the Professor will experience the consequences first hand presuming they aren’t in the strata that is protected from everything by their privilege, sort of like these ‘Georgians’ that can easily afford to uproot their lives for a few months. Again, the cognitive dissonance and borderline sociopathy specifically on the left is at a level that is jarring and unreal, but it isn’t difficult to see how it came to be.

    3. This goes far beyond speech. There is ample evidence of a coordinated plot by the Dems and their operatives to violate Georgia’s election laws. A felony. Needs to be investigated and the violators held accountable.

  8. Glenn Reynolds description of the media in our time “Garbage people paid to lie for the Democratic Party” is apt. We’re living at a time when one of our major political parties is a criminal organization and it’s street-level supporters are perfectly content with that. This will not end will.

  9. Is Turley getting more dense with each new article? He has to take the rhetoric so literally deliberately in order to justify his nonsense.

    This is what happens when even “smart” people like Turley engross themselves in conspiracy theories. They get to the point where they can’t discern conspiracy and reality.

    1. S, it’s no “conspiracy” — it’s nakedly open fraud. Why stick around here if you’re so down on Turley? You can go to 98% of the other websites to feed your confirmation bias.

        1. CTHD, you are not referring to the fraud involved in the subject of this Turley post. This deflection indicates to me that you’ve no argument against this particular fraud.

          1. DV, re: the subject of Turley’s column, he didn’t identify any fraud.

            Can you name a GA voter who committed fraud? If not, why are you imagining “nakedly open fraud” and then treating your imagination as if it’s something more?

      2. JT promotes the idea of free and open discussion and no censorship so I assume he would welcome the criticism and not want us to leave.

    2. Svelaz:

      “Is Turley getting more dense with each new article?”

      Try a little courtesy.

      You are posting on another person’s site; don’t come in and piss all over it.

      Typical lefty.

    3. He is quoting what people have actually said in writing. How is that a conspiracy theory?

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    1. Remember, now it’s all about ‘unity’ and ‘healing the nation’. They can’t even keep their own stories straight.

  13. Mayor De Blasio’s daughter was caught in an embarrassing on camera verbal slip up when she told an interviewer that Joe Biden “was able to steal” the election.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1326284622381129729

    Just to make it even worse, she referred to Kamala Harris as the first black-Asian “President”.

    It’s like living in a cartoon world.

        1. I asked because you’re not trustworthy.

          If it’s real, produce the original, so we can check. The video in the tweet was clearly created from something that aired on TV. You can see the chyron at the bottom. What TV station did the interview?

          Stanton King says she’s “the lady in the yellow hat”. Doesn’t look like her. Why would a GA House candidate be in NY the day the media called the election?

  14. The problem with Schumer et al is tat they think they can say their liberal NY garbage and nobody outside the bubble will see or hear it. Chuckie will be more famous in GA than Colonel Sanders or Matt Ryan.

    The fools on CNN think it is funny to have Thomas Friedman on to mock Georgians by implying that smart New York folks will be heading south to assist with the uneducated rubes elections. Again we have the effect of the bubble making liberals like Cuomo, Friedman and CNN think their will be no repercussions for having someone from the NEW YORK Times telling people from GA how to vote.

    1. hullbobby-
      you said: “their liberal NY garbage”, What were you trying to say? NYC is pretty much like it was under BILLIONAIRE GOP mayor Mike and even when crazy Rudy (“like my dress?”] was doing his part in the 911 inside job.

      What do you think is now garbage?

    2. This is why the rebel flag has been so popular in the south for so long. It’s not about supporting slavery. It’s about states rights and not having places like NY pushing you around.

      1. The Confederate flag of secessionists is absolutely about slavery. That’s what the war was about.

        1. If the Civil War was about slavery, why did The Emancipation Proclamation only free slaves in Confederate States that were not under Union control, and exempted Confederate States that were under Union control, along with all of the Union States (aka/ the Border States) where slavery was legal?

          (Keep in mind that slavery was still legal in those Union States even after the war ended).

          The ONLY reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation was because he knew he would not be re-elected if he didn’t do so, thanks to the Abolitionists.

          You obviously failed American History, ChiCom.

          1. What an idiot you are, Russian troll Rhodes. Think hard about why the southern states seceded.

            1. Now I’m a Russian, again?!

              Try to catch up on the debunked Russian conspiracy theories, ChiCom.

              https://digg.com/2019/mueller-report-nyt-wapo

              You still haven’t answered the question, numbnuts:

              If the Civil War was about slavery, why did The Emancipation Proclamation only free slaves in Confederate States that were not under Union control, and exempted Confederate States that were under Union control, along with all of the Union States (aka/ the Border States) where slavery was legal?

              Think hard about why slavery was still legal after the war ended, if it was actually fought over slavery.

              BTW, have you ever noticed that your leader Xi Jinping looks exactly like Winnie the Pooh?

        2. The interpretation of the Civil War cause is still hotly debated among historians.

          Also, most white southerners were not slave owners and were not fighting to protect the relatively affluent folks who could afford slaves. The were against what they considered the northern centers of power unfairly acting against them. I’m not saying I agree with them, but I am saying it’s intellectually lazy to say it was only about slavery. Yes, that was the ultimate cause, but like most things in life the situation was far more powerful.

          That’s why many southerners still like the rebel flag – because they see it as a symbol of rebellion against injustice. And it’s fine to have a different take on what that flag means if you’re not from that part of the country. But what’s not okay is pretending that your opinion is the only acceptable one and that those who disagree with you are morally inferior.

    3. Bill, is your reply to me saying that New York is NOT liberal? Really? Great argument. MA has a liberal REPUBLICAN governor, Baker, does that mean that MA is not a liberal bastion?

      My point was that people from GA will not take kindly to NEW YORKERS saying they need to move there to influence a “proper” election result. People in GA will not like hearing Schumer say, “we will now take GA and change America”. The point being that the left is so in their own bubble that idiots like Schumer will say publicly that they will “take GA” without thinking for a “New York Minute” that it may not play well OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE.

    1. There is no evidence of the election having been “stolen.”

      So far, Trump has lost all of his court cases. Biden’s margin of victory in states like PA, GA, NV and AZ is sufficiently large that there’s no reason to think that the winner of those EC votes will change. Biden’s margin of victory is bigger than Trump’s was when he won in 2016.

      Trump should commit to a peaceful transfer of power because Biden won. If you want, you can wait until the states certify their results (the date varies by state, but no later than Dec. 8) and the EC votes (that’s on Dec. 14) and Congress convenes in a joint session to count the EC votes (on Jan. 6).

      1. The election was stolen by years of media propaganda and big tech influence before any votes were cast.

  17. You say:

    “There was John Kerry statement that he was against the Iraq war before he was against it.”

    I do believe he was FOR the war before he was against it.

    One of the many downsides of having elected Biden (if we did) is that we might see Kerry come back and screw things up yet again.

  18. I would think that in a “run-off” vote only those eligible (and registered) to vote on the original Election Day could do so.

      1. Yes, that appears to be the rule but it’s an obvious thought to have. Why so snarky?

    2. Socialist carpetbaggers aren’t interested in what is right. Their only interest is power.

      The hand recount may make the runoff unnecessary.

  19. I’ll be. Moving to say way cross. Fire with fire. They leave no choice….giorgia with ballots or….

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