Effort to Keep Biden on the Ballot in Ohio Stalls Out Ahead of Deadline: Ohio’s Republican secretary of state said Legislature had until Thurs to fix procedural issue with President Biden’s nomination

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Real fucking genius shit that they just keep depending on the states to pass temporary measures each time this is an issue. “Am I so out of touch with the scheduling of my convention? No, it’s the states who are wrong.”

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an underlying problem which drives this:

    • The general election campaign is expensive
    • Campaign finance law means that there are separate pots of money for before and after the nomination at the convention
    • The very wealthy favor Republicans, which means they tend to have more money in their general election account
    • Having less time between convention and election day means that the dollars-per-day you can spend out of the general election funding is greater
    • This pushes Democrats to try and hold their convention as late as actually possible in order to enable them to match the Republican spend rate during the final weeks of campaigning

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• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So once again red states are allowed to do whatever they want meanwhile the Supreme Court says blue states can’t remove Trump due to literal treason.

  Love this fuckin country so much.

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