Wisconsin Republicans Plan Audit of Election Audit
Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate announced “they were launching a review of a recently completed audit of the 2020 election, just days after one of their members said the audit had shown voting had been safe and secure,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Biden May Tap Republican to Protect Elections
“A Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 is the front-runner for a job heading the Biden administration’s effort to protect future elections,“ the AP reports.
“Kim Wyman has led elections in Washington state for years, and she was reelected to a third term in November — the lone statewide-elected Republican on the West Coast. She is in talks to serve as the election security leader for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the agency responsible for safeguarding U.S. elections.”
Man Who Alleged Voter Fraud Voted His Dead Wife’s Ballot
“A man who once described a ballot being cast in his dead wife’s name as ‘sickening’ and was cited by the Nevada Republican Party last November as evidence that massive voter fraud swayed the results of the 2020 presidential election has been charged by prosecutors with voter fraud,” the Nevada Independent reports.
“According to a lawsuit filed in the Las Vegas Justice Court this month, the man, Donald Kirk Hartle, voted his deceased wife Rosemarie Hartle’s ballot.”
Death Threats Cause Mass Exodus of Election Officials
Vice News spoke with over a dozen election officials who had experienced death threats and felt endangered during the 2020 election period.
“Officials across the United States experienced physical stalking, explicitly violent phone calls, racial slurs, home surveillance, bomb scares, and threats of mass shootings. For some officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania, the threats have continued for nearly a year. And now, many of these officials want to quit.”
Abbott’s Pick for Top Elections Post Worked with Trump
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appointed John Scott — an attorney who represented former President Donald Trump in a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania — as Texas’ new secretary of state, the Texas Tribune reports.
Scott will now oversee election administration in Texas.
Texas Lt. Governor Pays Out First Voter Fraud Bounty
“Nearly a year after offering up a hefty bounty for evidence of voter fraud in the wake of Donald Trump’s loss, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) has handed out his first reward,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
“But instead of going to an informant who smoked out fraud by Democrats, Patrick’s five-figure payout went to a progressive poll worker in Pennsylvania whose tip led to a single conviction of illegal voting by a registered Republican.”
Republicans Block Voting Rights Measure Again
Senate Republicans blocked Democrats from advancing a revised bill to overhaul federal elections, the Washington Post reports.
Despite months of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) lobbying Republican senators, not a single one voted to advance the bill.
FiveThirtyEight: How Democrats’ failure to pass a voting rights bill fits a pattern of failing voters of color.
Trump-Backed Election Bills In Texas Expected to Die
“Despite unusually heavy lobbying from former President Donald Trump, two elections bills that he pushed Gov. Greg Abbott to enact this fall are all but dead,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
Advocates Worry Biden Is Letting Democracy Erode
Washington Post: “Voting rights advocates meet once every week or two with White House officials via video conference, and in almost every session, an advocate speaks up to say that President Biden must do more, that American democracy is under threat and the president is not meeting the challenge.”
“At one such meeting earlier this year, a Biden aide responded that Democrats would simply have to ‘out-organize’ the other side, according to multiple advocates familiar with the exchange who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting. The comment infuriated advocates, who believe they are watching former president Donald Trump actively and perhaps permanently undermine faith in U.S. elections.”
Peter Nicholas: Is Biden doing enough to protect democracy?
Trump Allies Eye Election Law Push
“Even before he lost his reelection bid, former President Donald Trump has been obsessed with challenging and changing election laws. Should he find himself back in the White House, his allies are hoping to turn that obsession into legislative action,” Politico reports.
“Trump is expected to mount another bid for president in 2024. And as talk of such a campaign has grown more concrete, so too has speculation over what type of agenda he’d actually pursue.”
Texas Election Official Hounded Out of Office
“An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal to former President Donald Trump to force her out of office,” the Texas Tribune reports.
“Hood County would seem an unlikely place for disputes over the last presidential election given that Trump won 81% of the vote there, one of his largest margins of victory in the state.”
Georgia Election Workers Fired for Shredding Forms
“The elections office in Georgia’s heavily Democratic Fulton County said on Monday that two workers had been fired for shredding voter registration forms, most likely adding fuel to a Republican-led investigation of the office that critics call politically motivated,” the New York Times reports.
“The workers, at the Fulton County Board of Elections, were dismissed on Friday after other employees saw them destroying registration forms awaiting processing before local elections in November.”
DNC to Intervene In GOP Challenge to Mail Voting
“The Democratic National Committee is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Republicans aimed at curbing the use of mail voting,” NBC News reports.
“Fourteen Pennsylvania Republican legislators filed a lawsuit against the commonwealth on Aug. 31, arguing that a 2019 law that expanded access to mail voting to all eligible voters was unconstitutional.”
Head of Wisconsin ‘Audit’ Unclear How Elections Work
“The attorney leading a partisan review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election acknowledged this week that he doesn’t understand how elections are supposed to be run,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Said former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman: “Most people, myself included, do not have a comprehensive understanding or even any understanding of how elections work.”
Youngkin Echoes Trump’s Call for Election ‘Audit’
“Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin continues to call for an ‘audit’ of the voting machines in his state, an echo of the Republican push to investigate 2020 election results around the country following former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud,” Politico reports.
19 States Have Passed Laws to Restrict Voting
Nineteen states have passed 33 news laws this year that make it harder to vote, according to an updated analysis released Monday, CNN reports.
Lindell’s Election Fraud Claims Shot Down In Idaho
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell alleged “electronic manipulation” in vote tallies in all of Idaho’s 44 counties, KMVT reports.
The only problem is that seven of Idaho counties don’t use any electronic steps in the vote counting processes.
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