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Illinois and Massachusetts voters seek to take Trump off 2024 ballot (www.cnn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/illinois@midwest.social

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I'm in Illinois, how do i support this?

[–] blazera@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Misleading title. Its a democratic political group, not a voter referendum or anything.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How many states will it take before Trump can’t numerically win the election?

[–] Greens 2 points 10 months ago

Most of the states removing him right now are strongly democratic, so it won’t have much of an impact on the electoral college right now. Mostly it’s just going to reduce the popular vote numbers, which don’t mean a thing.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Groups of voters from Illinois and Massachusetts on Thursday filed motions to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, adding to the list of states where the former president faces a challenge to his candidacy under the 14th Amendment’s so-called insurrectionist ban.

In Illinois, the challenge filed in conjunction with the liberal advocacy group Free Speech For People, asks the Illinois Board of Elections to hold a hearing on the matter and bar Trump from appearing on both the primary and general election ballots because of his role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

“Donald J. Trump, through his words and actions, after swearing an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to its enemies, as defined by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the voters wrote in their petition to the board of elections.

The same advocacy group on Thursday filed a challenge to Trump’s eligibility to appear on Massachusetts ballots for both the primary and general presidential elections in the state.

The Oregon Supreme Court could soon rule on another bid to remove Trump from that state’s primary and general election ballots because of his role in the January 6 insurrection.

Judges in Michigan and Minnesota, however, rejected bids to block Trump from appearing on the primary ballot in those states.

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