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Very possible, but keeping the illusion that she's still in charge will let them milk it just a little longer.

They can put another warm body in her seat easily enough, it's the decades of gathered favors owed, blackmail material, and "I'll vote for your project if you vote for mine" deals that would be lost.

It's nothing new, this one's just getting more press. Maybe because the victims were black, maybe it's being boosted as a smokescreen for some other scandal, maybe just that it's relatively rare that the victims are killed because Mexico's turned kidnapping into a fine science and dead victims...

'bout negative two decades. I can recall family talking about strategizing to avoid cartel kidnappings in their business trips between California and Mexico a solid fifteen years ago so it was probably going on steadily well before that.

When the elections aren't sufficiently fortified, and a popular non-establishment candidate gets in, term limits let the establishment just delay and stonewall for a few years until said candidate can't run again. This is basically what happened when California elected Arnold Schwarzaneggar...

This seems pretty racist to me. Ballot Boxes should only be placed where everybody can reach them, not just certain demographics, and a large part of the Democrat base will spontaneously burst into flames if they set foot on hallowed ground.

It's not a problem. Maricopa has some of the best vote counters. I'm not 100% clear on why the best vote counters in the country are also the slowest but there's probably a very good reason for it.

Most states hold a Special Election, which is typically the same process they'd use if the candidate died right after the election instead.

The ballot can't be changed after it's written up with all candidates who qualified, and this is typically done around mid-September. Both of the elected dead candidates died in the narrow window between when the ballot was made and the election happened.

Yeah, I reported that a bit upthread, but honestly I'm warming up to this. Dead people historically have caused no wars and committed no atrocities, really all the problems we've ever seen have been caused by living leaders. Now dead voters, they're pretty problematic as historically they...

Eh, fair enough, they're also not entitled to your approval so carry on.

Man, I'm not fond of Libertarians in general but Republicans aren't simply entitled to their vote any more than Biden's entitled to the black vote, and pretending it's something they're owed rather than something to be earned isn't a winning strategy.

Sooooo... um... Pennsylvania elected an actual corpse for their Rep. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-state-representative-reelected-despite-being-dead

The one so conservative even the dirt is red. It's not easy being center-left there.

I agonized a bit about which thread this should go in, cringe, Biden, or here, but ultimately I decided Biden talking about Fetterman was most appropriate to this thread. Fetterman: Has trouble saying a complete sentence. Biden: My kind of guy! He's everything he appears to be and what he says...

Does it sound to anybody else like the moderator was trying to cut her off halfway and keep her from finishing that gaffe?

If you can control who the people are allowed to vote for, you can always and easily control the results of the fair election.

Minarchists essentially believe that you need some government but it needs to be kept to a minimum. Specifically they advocate for what's sometimes called the "Night Watchman State," in which the only function government has is law enforcement and military defense of the citizens, with some...

I see this claim all the time and it's obvious bunk. The filibuster was first used (that we're historically aware of) by Cato the Younger in the first century BC and used many times after in the Roman senate. Given their huge fetish for all things Roman even to the styling of federal buildings...