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Minnesota is pretty great. I moved up here from Florida while Rick "Defraud Medicare" Scott was governor, people kinda thought I was nuts but it's become pretty clear that was an excellent decision.

The very fact that we cant throw these particular bank robbers in prison because they stole so much money that they are now too big to jail, is an indictment of our entire system

Technically Minnesota doesn't have to allow anyone on its ballots, if they have legal justification to prevent them. And there is precedent for this. Alabama kept Harry Truman off their ballot in 1948, even though he was the incumbent president.

If Trump is convicted in Georgia he would run afoul of Minnesota fair campaign section of the state constitution (211B), or hell, I think he has already been fined for infractions that qualify as legal justification to remove him from the ballot in MN based on both campaign finance laws and the fair campaigns section of the MN state constitution.

As the GOP has been doing for the last decade, they have been eroding the federal ability to monitor and manage states' elections (reducing the voting rights act, etc) current precedent is that the state has the right to handle matters with regard to elections with near impunity.

While the court has its issues, it doesn't seem to care to side particularly with Trump. They've had a few opportunities and have so far mostly sided against or at least failed to side with Trump in matters that either made it that far or tried to make it that far.

Or, even better, that this part of the constitution doesn’t count for this specific person, in this specific case, at this specific time.

But that it counts for anyone else, at any other time.

Except the current Supreme Court who has repeatedly thrown precedent out the window to read the Constitution as intending to be both literal to modern language and assuming it was not intended to be interpreted with modern technology and crises in mind.

Let's not forget about Kavanagh, the other rapist.

let them shit or get off the pot, then. MAGA has been trying to extort us with the threat of civil war for years now.

Doubtful too fat, lazy and old and we whooped the racists in the last one anyway. We’ll fucking do it again.

Who will win in a fight 400 annoying angry rednecks or one tank?

Yeah that's a tough one

Conviction might be helpful, but is not actually necessary for this to work.

In general this would depend on the state... In Minnesota the canvass following the general ballot is used to determine who the states electors are going to be. These individuals represent their districts and are then legally obligated to only vote for candidates that meet eligibility and are on the ballot. So there would need to be a certain threshold of write ins met before he could actually make it to the electors ballots and he would have to submit a proper write in registration form ahead of time.. Because those electors are casting votes in representation for their districts they would not be authorized to write in a candidate of their own choosing as they would basically be going completely against their electoral districts clearly defined intentions.

So it's possible he could even win a fair share of the popular vote but be unable to be even selected as a candidate by the electors as they are legally unable to vote for him unless he is a properly displayed candidate on their ballots.

Super unlikely, but it would depend on how the state's Supreme Court would decide to uphold its write in registration process following the decision... And also it would probably be petitioned to higher courts who would likely overturn it since it's extremely dangerous precedent.

Doesn't the language say they aren't eligible to hold office? Even if they were written in they couldn't technically accept, legally and election officialls would be banned from counting the person's votes.

With maga corrupt officials in some states tho who knows.

After Jan 6? All if them.