An amazing Reuters visual analysis shows how Donald Trump’s supporters “have waged a campaign of intimidation against the state and local officials who administer U.S. elections.”
The Big Recall Election Flop
Joshua Spivak: “This year saw the most recalls attempted since this blog started in 2011 — at least 609 attempts. But unlike most years, when the recall gets to the ballot about one-quarter to one-third of the time, this year, most of the recalls went nowhere. Only 66 went to the ballot and 17 others resigned.”
“Even more unusual, for the first time more officials survived the vote than lost. Most recalls result in removal — about 60% of the time (plus 6% resignations). This year, 40 officials survived the vote and only 26 were removed.”
Just Four Dead Voters Found In Georgia
“False claims that there were thousands of ballots cast in the names of dead Georgia voters can now rest in peace. Election investigators found just four absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election from voters who had died, all of them returned by relatives,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
“The tiny number of ballots actually cast on behalf of deceased voters contrasts with Republican Donald Trump’s false accusation that there were 5,000 dead voters in Georgia’s election.”
Trump Allies Still Pressuring Election Officials on 2020
“More than a year after Donald Trump lost the presidency, election officials across the country are facing a growing barrage of claims that the vote was not secure and demands to investigate or decertify the outcome, efforts that are eating up hundreds of hours of government time and spreading distrust in elections,” the Washington Post reports.
“The ongoing attack on the vote is being driven in part by well-funded Trump associates, who have gained audiences with top state officials and are pushing to inspect protected machines and urging them to conduct audits or sign on to a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 results. And the campaign is being bolstered by grass-roots energy, as local residents who have absorbed baseless allegations of ballot fraud are now forcing election administrators to address the false claims.”
GOP Lawmakers Push More Voting Restrictions
“The push to impose voting restrictions at the state level is poised to continue next year as Republicans drive forward with an array of new proposals — ranging from legislation that would eliminate ballot drop boxes to bills that would establish new ID requirements to vote,” CNN reports.
Georgia County Wants Just One Polling Location
Lincoln County, Georgia is trying to close all but one polling place for next year’s elections even though some people live as far as 23 miles away, the Augusta Chronicle reports.
Bannon Threatens to Take Over ‘Election Apparatus’
Steve Bannon threatened on his podcast to take over the U.S. “election apparatus.”
Said Bannon: “I understand that you don’t think that’s democracy ‘cuz the globalists have kind of done the misdirection plays and had everybody look in the other way. No, no, no, no, no. Those days are over.”
He added: “Because this audience has given of themselves before. They’ve been in the military. They’ve been, you know police officers and first responders. They’ve volunteered for their country before. They’ve taken an oath to the Constitution before. And guess what? They are now going to volunteer to go to become a precinct committeeman. They’re going to volunteer to become an election official. They’re going to come and run for county clerk and overthrow these county clerks.”
Florida Officials Hunt for Snowbirds Who Voted Twice
“Florida election officials are hunting for snowbird voter fraud in the 2020 election, combing through records to uncover people who cast ballots in multiple states,” the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.
“So far three residents of the sprawling Villages retirement community have been charged with voting more than once in last year’s presidential election. Lake County has turned over another six possible cases to state prosecutors for further investigation, and Osceola County flagged seven problematic votes.”
Texas Voter Fraud Unit Closed Just 3 Cases This Year
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) election integrity unit “added two lawyers to the team in the last year, bringing it up to six staffers total, and worked more than 20,000 hours between October 2020 and September 2021. Its budget, meanwhile, ratcheted up from $1.9 million to $2.2 million during that time,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
“Yet records from the office show that the unit closed just three cases this year, down from 17 last year, and opened seven new ones. That includes the newly created unit focused on the 2021 local elections, which has yet to file a single case.”
3 Residents of The Villages Charged with Voter Fraud
Three residents of The Villages in Florida were recently arrested and face charges of casting more than one vote during the 2020 election, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
It’s unclear which candidate they voted for, but all three are registered Republicans.
Secretary of State Races Become Fundraising Magnets
“Both parties are ramping up fundraising for secretary of state races, which in just a couple of years have gone from obscure down-ballot contests to high-profile races that could reshape American democracy,” Axios reports.
Postal Service Secretly Tested Mobile Voting System
“The U.S. Postal Service pursued a project to build and secretly test a blockchain-based mobile phone voting system before the 2020 election, experimenting with a technology that the government’s own cybersecurity agency says can’t be trusted to securely handle ballots,” the Washington Post reports.
“The system was never deployed in a live election and was abandoned in 2019… That was after cybersecurity researchers at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs conducted a test of the system during a mock election and found numerous ways that it was vulnerable to hacking.”
Georgia Republican Wants to Eliminate Ballot Drop Boxes
“A leading Georgia legislator has introduced a bill that would eliminate absentee ballot drop boxes, a favored and highly-used tool last November that allowed voters to safely cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic,” Reuters reports.
Georgia Democrats Fight Attempt to Bulldoze Gains
“First came passage of one of the nation’s most restrictive voting bills. Then came efforts to overhaul the number of elected offices in one of Georgia’s largest counties,” Politico reports.
“Now, with the pending passage of a new congressional map, Republicans have taken another step toward dismantling the Atlanta-area engine that turned Georgia blue, powering President Joe Biden to victory in 2020 and flipping control of the Senate to Democrats.”
“Just as Georgia has emerged as a pivotal swing state, the GOP-controlled legislature has gone to extraordinary lengths to overhaul election administration, rewrite election rules and redraw political lines in the fast-growing metro region that is currently reshaping state politics.”
GOP In Texas County to Run Its Own Election
“The Republican Party in the second-largest county in the Texas Panhandle is planning to conduct its own election during the state primary in March, breaking away from a nonpartisan county election board in a highly unusual move,” the New York Times reports.
“Under Texas law, county parties are allowed to run their own primary elections, but the vast majority have contracted with local boards of election for decades. The decision, which was reported by Votebeat, an election news website, comes as Republicans nationally have continued to push baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election and sow doubts about the reliability of election machinery.”
Trump Loyalists Face Few Obstacles For Election Posts
New York Times: “Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of political activists who, galvanized by Donald Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020, have begun seeking offices supervising the election systems that they believe robbed Mr. Trump of a second term. According to a May Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than 60 percent of Republicans now believe the 2020 election was stolen.”
“This belief has informed a wave of mobilization at both grass-roots and elite levels in the party with an eye to future elections. In races for state and county-level offices with direct oversight of elections, Republican candidates coming out of the Stop the Steal movement are running competitive campaigns, in which they enjoy a first-mover advantage in electoral contests that few partisans from either party thought much about before last November.”
Daily Beast: Meet the election vigilantes heading for your doorstep.
New York City Will Allow Non-Citizens to Vote
The New York City Council approved a measure “that will allow immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to vote for mayor and other key municipal positions, a historic move that is igniting threats of legal challenges from Republicans and hopes from Democrats that other cities will follow suit,” the Washington Post reports.
Another Villager Charged with Voting Twice
Another Republican voter from the Villages retirement community in Florida has been charged with casting more than one ballot in an election, according to Villages News.
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