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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 67 points 10 months ago
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

how do i do this in pennsylvania?

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Please, please do this in Pennsylvania. As a "swing state" (Jesus fuck the electoral college has really fucked us) he needs to be removed. Here in Illinois, he's not going to win here anyway.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I want to do this in Oklahoma. It would be hilarious.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 21 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A petition filed by five voters on Thursday seeks to bar former President Donald Trump from the Illinois Republican primary election ballot in March, claiming he is ineligible to hold office because he encouraged and did little to stop the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The petition, similar to those filed in more than a dozen other states, relies on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits anyone from holding office who previously has taken an oath to defend the Constitution and then later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country or given “aid or comfort” to its enemies.

The 87-page document, signed by five people from around the state, lays out a case that Trump, having lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, fanned the flames of hardcore supporters who attacked the Capitol on the day Congress certified the election results.

Officials in Colorado and Maine have already banned Trump’s name from primary election ballots.

The Illinois State Board of Elections had yet to set the petition for hearing Thursday afternoon, spokesperson Matt Dietrich said.

The board is set to hear 32 other objections to the proposed ballot at its Jan. 11 meeting.


The original article contains 239 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 15%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

My God, what a sad existence... You really have nothing better to do with the few precious years you have left, than go stand in line, simping for a reality TV star that couldn't give two shits about you?

Fucking hell, life is wasted on some people.

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