‘Election integrity’ activists have found way to positions of power, raising red flags about potential partisan meddling
A number of people who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and often of other elections in which Republicans have not been victorious, have been elevated to positions of power since Donald Trump’s re-election, raising concerns about the potential for partisan meddling in critical parts of the country like Arizona and Georgia.
State by state, activists aligned with the “election integrity” movement have found their way on to local elections boards and elections offices, raising red flags for Democrats who have already started efforts to have them removed.
“I think Republicans want to put us in jail,” Fulton county commissioner Dana Barrett said, moments after a contempt hearing in an Atlanta, Georgia, courtroom in August, where she and five other county commissioners were fighting a battle to reject the appointment of two Republican election denialists to the Fulton county board of registrations and elections.
“Concerns”, my ass. They’re gonna rig it, and they don’t even care that we know.
Dems should have been aggressively targetting every level of election integrity. Do they even doing anything? They get out maneuvered constantly.
I assume you mean “Dems” as in the DNC, but that’s not really their operating level. The issue here is that these seats are generally filled by super low level and local political operators. It’s only become a thing in recent years because one side wants to have people in place to help rig elections. I do agree the DNC needs to get people involved at these lower local levels though though, if not just to stem this kind of obvious bullshit.
In theory this is something most dem and rep voters would get behind, as long as election integrity also included voter ID. It’s the politicians who want to cheat more than anyone, not most voters.
Try bringing this up in a conservative space, they’ll twist themselves in knots to try to justify why them cheating is fine. They view their opponents as actually evil - in refinance if what they think their god wants, you can’t reason with absolutism
I mean, the left thinks the right is evil too. And gerrymandering is everywhere. It’s harder to find states that aren’t trying to disenfranchise the minority than ones that are. Blue and red. And no, this isn’t saying both sides are the same, but the leadership on both sides wants to win by any means possible. At the moment the left is slightly more divided than the right I think. But as the right gets high on power and inevitably pulls the next level of crazy, the left will unite again, temporarily.
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