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Fiendish Thingy

(22,194 posts)
37. Hmmm
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 03:13 PM
Yesterday

Your reply wasn’t quite clear to me but I’ll try to answer:

The answer to #1 is unequivocally no, under any circumstances

Each state has laws regarding recounts, how a state funded recounts are triggered, and under what conditions a candidate may seek, at their own cost, a recount. A candidate could challenge any recount in court, but unless it is closer than a couple of dozen votes, unlikely to change the outcome.

3&4- a single state, or even a group of states could not force other states to change the date of their elections, and probably couldn’t change the date of their own, since it is black letter law. Some governors/SOS’s have ordered polls to remain open past normal closing time when they have run out of ballots, had bomb threats,etc. - that’s about the only change to the hours of the election I can think of.

Hope this is helpful.

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this is the plan to stop the midterms. Javaman Yesterday #1
Yes, but we are all 'crazy' and 'overreacting' and 'not being objective' and all the other reasons. OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #2
Nationwide martial law is a physical impossibility Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #3
never said anything about martial law. nt Javaman Yesterday #5
You agreed with the OP, that martial law was the plan to cancel the midterms Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #22
I agree that there is a plan to cancel the midterms Javaman Yesterday #23
Think it through to the end result Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #25
after everything that has happened so far Javaman Yesterday #28
It's not as simple as you imagine it might be Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #31
You still act like you think he is trying to do good, he's not questionseverything Yesterday #34
You NAILED it FT...... democratsruletheday Yesterday #46
How would that stop them? leftstreet Yesterday #6
how did he attack Venezuela without congressional approval? nt Javaman Yesterday #7
Not sure how that's related n/t leftstreet Yesterday #10
it's completely related. Javaman Yesterday #11
States run elections, not Trump leftstreet Yesterday #13
close Javaman Yesterday #17
Okay n/t leftstreet Yesterday #18
That still doesn't answer HOW elections would be cancelled in all 50 states Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #27
I guess you missed this part... Javaman Yesterday #30
He has been stopped numerous times Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #32
Trump cannot cancel any elections in states VMA131Marine Yesterday #33
The court ruled the Epstein stuff should be released over 3 weeks ago, it hasn't happened questionseverything Yesterday #35
Command of the executive branch is not equivalent to control of 50 state governments. Nt Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #26
Ask yourself this one question ScratchCat Yesterday #15
Can you imagine millionaire Senators rolling over? leftstreet Yesterday #16
see my answer to the other poster. nt Javaman Yesterday #19
Because under the War Powers Act he has the power EX500rider Yesterday #43
Nope. There is little evidence of a feedback loop stopdiggin Yesterday #4
One of his former DHS officials, Miles Taylor, was on Jen Psaki's show last night talking about how the hellbeast LymphocyteLover Yesterday #8
It Was That Interview With Taylor That Motivated My Original Post......nt global1 Yesterday #12
What a truly evil, sadistic psychopath we have in charge. Initech Yesterday #9
Pedo emulates Putin's 'model' of governing. Justice matters. Yesterday #14
If we were in normal times, we'd be banding together to bomb Putin back to the stone ages. Initech Yesterday #20
The only questions i have on elections are bluestarone Yesterday #21
Answers: Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #29
Can i go a little further here? bluestarone Yesterday #36
Hmmm Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #37
TYVM! for the responses. bluestarone Yesterday #38
Glad I could help Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #39
+1 and TY onenote Yesterday #41
Listen and rally around posters and Dems like FT folks..... democratsruletheday Yesterday #47
Thanks for your support! Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #48
Unfortunately, we HAVE TO think this way if we're gonna thwart his ambitions. calimary Yesterday #40
Some seem hell-bent on B.See Yesterday #44
We Learned And Got Under His Skin - By Somebody Calling Him A 'Pedo Protector'........ global1 Yesterday #24
Hey, it's the end of the world again? MorbidButterflyTat Yesterday #42
No, no, the SKY IS FALLING!! nt EX500rider Yesterday #45
He can't organize a cook out on the South Lawn Norbert Yesterday #49
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