Tim Alberta

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@AsteadWesley @EugeneDaniels2 1000% true — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Local sports radio (drive time, big ratings) devoted today's opening segment to Trump-Biden debate. Ttook calls from people having viewing parties, laying prop bets (Biden -110 to take the first sip of water; Trump over/under 5.5 lies). This is officially a cultural main event. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jimgeraghty every day — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @yashar: Please be mindful of how you talk about this story and suicide on social media. If you don't care about Brad Parscale, please… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @erinschaff: Conservative women, who support Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, pray while touching the doors of… — PolitiTweet.org

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dignity trending on Twitter, per usual https://t.co/zD9gD1QWYW — PolitiTweet.org

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@_justinlevitt_ @rickhasen @adambonin Interesting. The question of whether the privacy envelope requirement applies to these ballots is moot in this case, and others from now until Election Day, because any ballot opened prematurely is spoiled regardless. — PolitiTweet.org

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The "known issue" from the primary was ballot mail being mistaken for application mail. The same thing happened here. If these pieces of mail had been opened—and the clerks discovered a privacy envelope inside—the ballots would not have been opened & spoiled. It's all related. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonward11: @TimAlberta he's following the leader https://t.co/rJ51xJVTla — PolitiTweet.org

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@svdate indeed — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad he deleted. In a normal world, this guy would be launched out of a cannon, exiled from the party and never heard from again. How many thousands of people saw & believed his reckless allegation? How does he sleep at night knowing it only takes 1 to act on it in a tragic way? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch Not sure. But I do know the 6th one's free! — PolitiTweet.org

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8 hours later, the Trump spokesman's instigating tweet—"Democrats are trying to steal the election"—is still posted, with 67,000 retweets/likes and counting. This sort of disinformation is going to get innocent people hurt. https://t.co/xGOb8WICHT — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's that DOJ update https://t.co/4oZamK7ssE Pretty clear the problem here wasn't absentee voting, which is routine for military personnel, but rather the new (and controversial) ruling that requires ballots be placed in privacy envelopes. More on that: https://t.co/hb4I2EmQiq — PolitiTweet.org

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Yup. From the latest DOJ statement, it seems like: 9 military voters sent write-in absentee ballots to Luzerne. Because these letters weren't in SC-mandated privacy envelopes, Luzerne officials thought they were *requests* for absentee ballots. They opened them, spoiling them. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @morningmoneyben: Trump may not be preparing for a handover of power. But his staff is. Great piece by @nancook https://t.co/klWES0gAto — PolitiTweet.org

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The story in Luzerne County keeps getting stranger. The @CitizensVoice reports the local DA launched her investigation a week ago today... before Pennsylvania ballots were finalized and eligible to be mailed out. https://t.co/L1USH2EJ3Y https://t.co/YD9r5EKt4y — PolitiTweet.org

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If somebody(s) tampered with these absentee ballots, they're going to prison. We don't know if that happened. Lots of reasons a ballot could get discarded. You want law and order? Let the investigators do their damn job, and wait for evidence before tweeting sweeping allegations. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattWolking The elections director in Luzerne Co., Shelby Watchilla, has no present partisan affiliation—but did run for county seat as a Republican. Meanwhile, DOJ statement gave zero detail on why the 9 ballots were discarded. Reckless & dangerous to level this accusation w/out evidence. https://t.co/aTYCw0H8Na — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

The elections director in Luzerne Co., Shelby Watchilla, has no present partisan affiliation—but did run for county seat as a Republican. Meanwhile, DOJ statement gave zero detail on why the 9 ballots were discarded. Reckless & dangerous to level this accusation w/out evidence. https://t.co/xEcQ6O6ffQ — PolitiTweet.org

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In conclusion, if you want to minimize risk of confusion and chaos the first week of November, there's one simple way. Encourage the healthy people you know—especially those in MI/WI/PA, where the backlog of absentees won't be processed until Election Day—to vote in-person Nov 3. — PolitiTweet.org

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Will Trump say it's rigged no matter what? Yes, he will. But it's not about what he believes; it's about what the public believes. The longer a count drags out, the less confidence people have in the legitimacy of the outcome. Any election official, R or D, will tell you that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Idealism and realism are not mutually exclusive. Expanded access to voting is a good thing. We can celebrate it. We can also recognize that Trump *wants* chaos, and that the more votes cast in-person, the fewer chances for delays, disqualifications & talk of a rigged election. — PolitiTweet.org

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Deleted the one tweet b/c some are interpreting as me excusing/enabling Trump, which I'm obviously not doing. The president's delegitimizing of elections is the single greatest threat to American institutions in our lifetimes. Knowing that... nobody should play into his hands. — PolitiTweet.org

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Covid-19 is not a good answer. Nearly every state offers early voting, either in-person or absentee drop-off. Also, Dr. Fauci has said physically voting is safe. What should have been stressed as a last resort, mail voting, was celebrated as a cause. Dems may come to regret that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Given all we know about this president delegitimizing the electoral process, historians are gonna look back and wonder why the hell Dems invested so heavily in the one thing (mail voting) that could cause mass counting delays, mass disqualifications, and mass chaos. — PolitiTweet.org

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If I'm a Dem elected official, after everything I've seen/read in past 48 hours, I'm begging all my constituents to vote in-person if able (early or Election Day), and urging everyone else to hand-deliver their absentee ballots to the clerk's office. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is painful to read. Please don't politicize the replies. Just pray for this baby girl, who survived the ordeal but has a long road ahead, and for her mother, a crack and heroin addict who did a barbaric thing but is not beyond redemption. https://t.co/9QquYIsm78 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Our country." Very subtle. Almost makes you forget the subject of the president's criticism is an American citizen and a duly elected federal lawmaker. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @deepa_shivaram: A reminder that it has been 42 days since Harris was tapped as the VP pick. There are 42 days until election day. Th… — PolitiTweet.org