“Georgia Republicans have taken the first step on their freshly blazed path toward a possible takeover of Fulton County’s elections,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
Arizona ‘Audit’ Frontman Retracts Resignation
Arizona Republic: “The main person who has been overseeing the Arizona Senate’s review of Maricopa County election results said late Wednesday he will continue to stay on as liaison, walking back an initial statement in the morning that he would resign.”
Arizona ‘Audit’ Raised $5.7 Million from Private Donors
“A private contractor conducting a Republican-commissioned review of 2020 presidential ballots in Arizona’s largest county announced late Wednesday that it has collected more than $5.7 million in private donations to fund the process,” the Washington Post reports.
Arizona ‘Audit’ Frontman Resigns
“The Republican serving as liaison between the Arizona state Senate and the private company conducting a partisan ballot review said Wednesday he intends to resign, citing his inability to back the final product,” NBC News reports.
“Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state, said he made the decision after it became clear he would not regain access to the Phoenix fairgrounds where the private company, Cyber Ninjas, continues its examination of millions of ballots cast last November in Maricopa County.”
Justice Department Issues Warning on Ballot Reviews
Politico: “The Justice Department on Wednesday issued another warning aimed at states conducting or considering audits of ballots tallied in last year’s election, reminding election authorities that allowing ballots to be mishandled can violate federal law.”
1.9 Million Texas Mail-In Voters Need to ‘Guess’ on ID
Texas Monthly: “Amid all the fighting, most lawmakers have apparently overlooked a provision that would force counties to automatically reject some mail-in ballot applications.”
“Here’s why: The Republican-authored legislation would require voters to submit either their driver’s license number or a partial Social Security number when applying to vote by mail. That number would then be cross-checked with the state’s voter-registration database.”
“Most applicants would be fine, because almost 90 percent of all registered Texas voters have both their Social Security number and driver’s license number in the database. However, 1.9 million voters—about 11 percent of the total—have only one of the two numbers on file with the state.”
Georgia GOP Mulls Takeover of Fulton County Elections
“With a rising drumbeat of criticism, several Republican Georgia legislators are building a case for the state government to take over Fulton County elections,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
“The newfound power to fire local elections management, created by Georgia’s voting law, worries voting rights advocates, who say it could be abused for partisan purposes to tamper with the heavily Democratic county.”
“Though a state monitor reported sloppy management, three counts of Fulton’s ballots arrived at similar results and state election investigators haven’t found fraud.”
Few Voter Fraud Cases Undercut Claims of Abuses
Prosecutors across the country found evidence of voter fraud compelling enough to take to court about 200 times since the November 2018 elections, according to a 50-state Bloomberg canvass of state officials.
Interesting takeaway: States controlled by Republicans reported fewer voter fraud prosecutions (59) than states controlled by Democrats (102). Divided states reported 35 prosecutions.
Pennsylvania Decertifies County’s Voting Machines
“Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting machines of Fulton County, which disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local Republican lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an ‘audit’ after the 2020 election,” the AP reports.
“The action by Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid almost certainly means that Fulton County will have to buy or lease new voting machines.”
Election Officials May Quit As They Become Targets
“Experts in the field fear a massive exodus of administrators that would change how elections are run — and threaten democracy itself,” CNN reports.
“Nearly one in three local election officials included in a recent survey for the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice say they feel unsafe because of their jobs.”
Said election expert David Becker: “We’re in danger of losing a generation’s worth of professional election expertise. That would be bad enough if it weren’t also combined with the fact that they might be replaced with partisan hackery.”
Most Don’t Want Voting Made Harder
A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds that only 27% surveyed want voting made harder, with 38% wanting it made easier and 35% wanting no changes.
Democrats Needs Strategy on Voting Rights
Dan Balz: “Democrats have produced the biggest headlines recently on the charged issue of voting rights. What they’ve yet to produce is an effective strategy to counteract the work Republican state legislators are doing to limit access and inject partisanship into the election process. More and more for Democrats, it looks like a long battle ahead.”
Few Potential Arizona Voter Fraud Cases Found
“Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ballots cast in last year’s presidential election, undercutting former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election as his allies continue a disputed ballot review in the state’s most populous county,” the AP reports.
County to Spend Millions to Replace Voting Machines
“Maricopa County will spend nearly $3 million to replace voting equipment that officials say was permanently tainted by the Arizona Senate’s election review,” the Arizona Republic reports.
“The county will spend millions to purchase and then destroy the old equipment that was subpoenaed for the audit as well as for new systems before the upcoming elections.”
Major Companies Endorse John Lewis Voting Rights Act
“More than 150 companies, including PepsiCo, Amazon and Target, threw their support behind updating the Voting Rights Act in a letter released Wednesday,” NBC News reports.
Wisconsin ‘Audit’ Leader Was Convicted of Fraud
Peter Bernegger, one of the Wisconsinites conducting a review of the presidential election. was convicted in 2009 of bank fraud and mail fraud, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
A federal judge in Mississippi sentenced him to 70 months in prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $2.1 million.
Top RNC Lawyer Objected to Trump’s Election Lawsuits
The Republican Party’s top lawyer, Justin Riemer, warned in November against continuing to push false claims that the presidential election was stolen, calling efforts by some of the former president’s lawyers a “joke” that could mislead millions of people, according to an email obtained by the Washington Post.
Wrote Riemer: “What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court. They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president is going to somehow win this thing.”
Trump Lawyers May Be Penalized In Michigan
“A federal judge is considering whether to order financial penalties or other sanctions against some of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers who signed onto a lawsuit last year challenging Michigan’s election results,” the Associated Press reports.
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