A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most populous county, a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast. A losing GOP candidate in a November 2022 judicial race had filed a lawsuit calling for a new election in her contest in Harris County, where Houston is located. Republican Tami Pierce lost her race to be a criminal court judge to the Democratic incumbent, DaSean Jones, by 449 votes.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    So wait, can we gerrymander a state to get 51% GOPers elected and then re-gerrymander a state so the 49% of other representatives are now in solidly red districts then sue to have those elections overturned so we can achieve 100% representation of a party with a minority of popular support?

    American democracy is so innovative, I don’t think any other country has innovated so hard!

    (Heavy, heavy sarcasm contained above)

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      6 months ago

      You’re overthinking it

      Pass a law in a few places that the state legislature can overrule the state results for president

      Those states are enough to pick the president we want

      President then fires all federal law enforcement or administrative official who’s not loyal to him, replaces them from the Project 2025 binders, and just announces deployment of the military in the US and that anyone who’s against him is illegal and goes to prison or shot

      Bingo bango. More direct, less complicated, more permanent, nationwide results. Your thinking was along the right lines but too rules-based. Takes too long. Not enough innovative enough within the current system.

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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          6 months ago

          Yeah. This year is go time. It’s like the Fifth Element; it’ll either take over, or else get sent away until the next thousand years, when it returns.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I love science fiction, but it is disturbingly prescient sometimes. Which is, I suppose, one of the reasons I find the genre so fascinating.