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Election legal battles & fraud claims
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Gift Link: How a Far-Right Takeover of Georgia’s Election Board Could Swing the Election
“… Since the takeover [by Trump-backed Republicans], the Georgia State Election Board has approved a host of rules on certifications and investigations backed by right-wing election activists who claim, falsely, that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump. The moves underscore a sharp rightward turn for what is supposed to be an apolitical body and have alarmed Democrats, election officials and even some Republicans.
“Clearly, the Trump allies have learned their lessons from the failure of the attempted coup of 2020, and they’re starting earlier and attempting to burrow more deeply into the most vulnerable pieces of the election system,” said Norm Eisen, a longtime Washington lawyer and chair of the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonpartisan election watchdog group.
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But the board’s new right-wing majority has instead aligned itself with the goals of conservative activists, drawing rebukes even from the Republican secretary of state. For example, the board this month issued a new rule that could empower local officials to refuse or delay certification of a county’s election results they deem questionable.
The majority also requested another investigation by the state attorney general into questions of impropriety in the 2020 election in Fulton County, allegations that have already been investigated on multiple occasions.
The three board members who voted to pass these rules have been accused by watchdog organizations and Democrats of working with Trump-aligned activists in preparation to reject the results of a presidential election if Trump loses.
… The three members of the Republican majority — Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares and Ms. King — earned praise from Mr. Trump at a rally two weeks ago, calling them out by name as “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”
… Mr. Jeffares, a longtime friend of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who is being investigated over his role in helping to overturn the 2020 election, was appointed to the board and began siding with Ms. Johnston.
… In April, the Election Research Institute, a right-wing group run by Heather Honey, an activist in Pennsylvania known for spreading conspiracy theories about elections, submitted a proposal to weaken certification requirements and allow counties to exclude results from individual precincts if there is evidence of discrepancies or malfeasance. While the rule did not pass, it received support from Ms. Johnston.
… Board members themselves have been active in meetings of the right-wing election activist network. Ms. Johnston has attended at least three virtual meetings of the Election Integrity Network, the sprawling activist coalition helmed by the Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell, according to recordings of the meetings obtained by The Times.
… Mr. Jeffares has told multiple people in Georgia government that he had a job in a future Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the conversations. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Mr. Jeffares clarified that he had pitched himself as a potential candidate for a regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency …”
“… Since the takeover [by Trump-backed Republicans], the Georgia State Election Board has approved a host of rules on certifications and investigations backed by right-wing election activists who claim, falsely, that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump. The moves underscore a sharp rightward turn for what is supposed to be an apolitical body and have alarmed Democrats, election officials and even some Republicans.
“Clearly, the Trump allies have learned their lessons from the failure of the attempted coup of 2020, and they’re starting earlier and attempting to burrow more deeply into the most vulnerable pieces of the election system,” said Norm Eisen, a longtime Washington lawyer and chair of the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonpartisan election watchdog group.
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But the board’s new right-wing majority has instead aligned itself with the goals of conservative activists, drawing rebukes even from the Republican secretary of state. For example, the board this month issued a new rule that could empower local officials to refuse or delay certification of a county’s election results they deem questionable.
The majority also requested another investigation by the state attorney general into questions of impropriety in the 2020 election in Fulton County, allegations that have already been investigated on multiple occasions.
The three board members who voted to pass these rules have been accused by watchdog organizations and Democrats of working with Trump-aligned activists in preparation to reject the results of a presidential election if Trump loses.
… The three members of the Republican majority — Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares and Ms. King — earned praise from Mr. Trump at a rally two weeks ago, calling them out by name as “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”
… Mr. Jeffares, a longtime friend of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who is being investigated over his role in helping to overturn the 2020 election, was appointed to the board and began siding with Ms. Johnston.
… In April, the Election Research Institute, a right-wing group run by Heather Honey, an activist in Pennsylvania known for spreading conspiracy theories about elections, submitted a proposal to weaken certification requirements and allow counties to exclude results from individual precincts if there is evidence of discrepancies or malfeasance. While the rule did not pass, it received support from Ms. Johnston.
… Board members themselves have been active in meetings of the right-wing election activist network. Ms. Johnston has attended at least three virtual meetings of the Election Integrity Network, the sprawling activist coalition helmed by the Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell, according to recordings of the meetings obtained by The Times.
… Mr. Jeffares has told multiple people in Georgia government that he had a job in a future Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the conversations. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Mr. Jeffares clarified that he had pitched himself as a potential candidate for a regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency …”
1moretimeagain
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MAGA Election Board officials should remind themselves that while Trump himself never goes to jail, those who do his bidding often do.
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Supreme Court rejects GOP push to block 41K Arizona voters but partly OKs proof of citizenship law
The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican push to block more than 41,000 Arizona voters in the presidential race.
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Supreme Court rejects GOP push to block 41K Arizona voters but partly OKs proof of citizenship law
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican push that could block more than 41,000 Arizona voters from casting ballots for president in the state that Democratic President Joe Biden won by less than 11,000 votes four years ago.
But in a 5-4 order, the high court allowed some enforcement of regulations barring people from voting if they don’t provide proof of citizenship when they register.
The justices acted on an emergency appeal filed by state and national Republicans that sought to give full effect to voting measures enacted in 2022 following Biden’s narrow win over Republican Donald Trump in Arizona.
The legal fight will continue in lower courts.
Jenna Ellis should've been forced to make a more public statement, one that could be replayed. Same for Cheseboro, Eastman... all the kracken folks.
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“Texas Republicans are doubling down on claims that Democrats in the state’s biggest cities are attempting to steal the 2024 election – a contest in which the GOP’s leads in the Senate and presidential races are increasingly narrowing.
State GOP leaders like Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have made the state’s large urban counties a focus of allegations of a grand Democratic conspiracy to steal the 2024 election.
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Paxton falsely told right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck last Thursday that President Biden and Vice President Harris, now at the top of the ticket, had worked to move masses of undocumented voters into critical states to vote illegally — claims he did not back up with any basis.
“This was the plan, tell the cartels, ‘Get people here as fast as possible, as many as possible, we’re not going to make them hide anymore — we’ll get them placed in the right states,’” Paxton said. “They want to fix the election so that we have a one party country that we can’t fix.” …”
lawtig02
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If there’s ever been a place in the US where systemic fraud would take place on a large scale to favor one party over the other in a national election, it’s Texas in 2024.
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Summary of ballot access cases (mixed results) for independent candidates.
heelinhell
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It's so sad that we have reached a point where a major party has become so feeble that the only way it can compete in elections is to rely upon voter suppression/nullification to survive.
God I hate Ken Paxton.
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