Even before President Joe Biden’s long-speculated withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democrats from having anyone other than Biden on the ballot in November.

But election administration and legal experts said the timing of Biden’s exit on Sunday makes it unlikely that any Republican ballot access challenges will succeed, with some calling the idea “ridiculous” and “frivolous.” Democrats are on safe legal ground as they identify a new standard-bearer, they say, because the party hasn’t officially chosen its nominee. That typically occurs with a vote of delegates at the party’s convention.

It’s ridiculous for people to talk about ‘replacing Biden.’ He hasn’t been nominated yet,” said Richard Winger, a leading expert on state ballot access laws and the longtime editor of the “Ballot Access News” newsletter.

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    4 months ago

    USA is big therefore they can’t have good things is bullshit.

    USA has a lot of people to send mails to, but it also has a lot of people to collect taxes from, those taxes pay for the mails.

    The cost to send mails should scale linearly with population, just like taxes. Therefore economics is not a problem. If anything, more mails should mean cheaper per mail since economics of scale take place to bring down costs.

    Logistics isn’t an issue either. Just tell each state to sort it themselves. Each US state has roughly the same population as European countries, and they manage the logistics.

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      Each US state has roughly the same population as European countries, and they manage the logistics.

      Yes, and it works at the State level…which is precisely why I drew the parallel to European Countries.

      HOWEVER I wasn’t asked about States sending them. Every comment I replied to was asked in the context of the FEDERAL Government.

      Threaded comments are not new tech, figure it out.