Political scientist Rachel Bitecofer on a harrowing possibility and why we should make a plan to vote early.

[CBHagman]

Link to tweet

[Think. Again.]

1. Yes, they will be attempting this and more.

The plan is to create a thick cloud of chaos and confusion to disrupt every aspect of the election process, in every location that they can.

[biophile]

2. They will do everything and anything

Bomb threats, power outages, fire alarms, actual fires, gun intimidation, possibly even actual shootings.
Be aware and be prepared. Tell all majority Democratic or progressive voting areas to have enough provisional ballots to cover all voters in their precinct in case of electrical failure.

[Woodwizard]

3. Cool put it out there to give them ideas.................

Now every dumb ass that could not come up with a original idea was just given the keys.

[Lonestarblue]

6. They already have the idea. Springfield is awash withnbomb threats.

Right-wing Republicans are seeing just how effective those threats are for shutting things down.

[poozwah]

22. internals

perhaps the trump internal polls are showing a much tighter race in ohio than regular polls indicate. i wonder why this bullshit is taking place in ohio, a supposedly safe red state. WATCH WHAT THEY DO, NOT WHAT THEY SAY.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

[Fla Dem]

11. Naive to think they haven't already thought of this as well as 100 other ways to subvert the election.

[pat_k]

4. Of course.

I'm guessing judges would order them to stay open extra time after the threat clears, but not everyone can come back.

It sucks. Absentee ballots are at risk of being rejected for some bullshit reason (and I would guess with the gender gap women's ballots will be targeted in addition to urban) and voting in person is at risk of being fouled up by things like bomb threats. I guess in states that have early in person voting that's the best bet.

[Kaleva]

5. You'd think they would have done that in 2020.

[Biophilic]

7. I suspect they really weren't worried about their hero losing.

He was, after all, the chosen one.

[Kaleva]

9. They could have called in bomb threats when the EC was voting.

[wnylib]

21. Donny had a more dramatic plan for his ego that put him at the center

of attention on J6.

[pecosbob]

8. Clickbait title and no context...only a Xitter link. C'mon, man...

[Wednesdays]

13. See reply #6. nt

[ShazzieB]

18. Here's a screen cap of the tweet.

[pecosbob]

19. Many thanks...

[0rganism]

10. When those bomb threats become actual bombs, we'll see the true fragility of our democracy

All it would take is a couple McVeigh-style car bombs in Atlanta and Richmond, and we'd lose everything. I used to diss on Plato for his critique of democracy, but the longer I live the more I think he made some fair points.

[markodochartaigh]

15. Unfortunately,

humanity has reached the point where we are destroying the biosphere with our emissions, where we have the capability to destroy all higher life on Earth with nuclear weapons, and where we have the highest income/wealth inequality and we have no better alternative than democracy.

I think that the only solution is the education and engagement of the electorate.

[KPN]

12. Wow! Never thought of that ... but, yeah, no question

we should be prepared and expect that for sure! Good alert!

[barbtries]

14. i do plan to vote early

but they can send in bomb threats on every single day of early voting too.

i'm working the election this year for the first time. Expect it to be interesting to say the least.

[Cha]

16. TY!!

[ShazzieB]

17. Here's a screen cap of the tweet.

[Ohioboy]

20. Early in- person voting starts in Ohio October 8th!

I've got it on my calendar.

[CoopersDad]

23. THIS is what we need to keep front and center. nt

[KS Toronado]

24. I can absolutely see the MAGA wing doing this in liberal leaning areas

And if this does happen to where it affects outcomes, I hope President Biden with his new found
immunity powers writes an executive order .........WHOA, not so fast, every polling place shut down
will make arrangements to counter this unforeseen act-of-God so every citizen's vote is counted.
And I give everyone 2 weeks to accomplish this feat.

In fact a week before election President Biden should do a public service announcement and inform
the public that there's a nasty rumor going around in some circles that TFG is planning on shutting down
polling stations in liberal areas and that's why he said several months back he didn't need your votes.
So vote against all these cheaters and save Democracy.