Originally published at: Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks
Election officials in battleground states across the country — both Republican and Democrat alike — are getting ahead of election misinformation, debunking baseless claims of fraud and issuing strong warnings against any attempts to delay election certification from rogue, election denying county and precinct-level officials. In some cases, they’re removing them before they have a…
Glad to see that election officials in these swing states are being proactive in countering republican ratfuckery, including the integrity shown by republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in GA.
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They need to come down and come down hard on this stuff. Interference should not be an option. It should not be tolerated. Those that do it, need to be prosecuted and barred in the future from participation in the process.
Let them whine and cry. Too f-in bad.
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Wow. Look at those chairs they make these incredible people, who work together to get this done correctly, SIT ON! Awful.
In my four wards, housed in a little community center with concrete floors and hardly any heat, and in summer no A/C, and with two little bathrooms. we had those old aluminum folding chairs (which I always called church chairs), similar to these. Hard, and really uncomfortable.
I asked for, and got, chair cushions (do-nuts) for every one of my poll workers (including me, because I rotated out of all the tables.) Speaking of do-nuts – the local bakery had ten dozen assorted bakery delivered to all our wards, for break time. I tried to make those absolutely essential volunteers comfortable and treated for their work and their integrity. Honestly, at least for jury duty, you get a free lunch! This is even more important, IMO.
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We all know that Trump has a personal issue with accepting defeat. We should expect him to wax crazy. Professional Republicans on the other hand should be expected to support the election law. I have no doubt that many of them will do all in their power to back Trump’s frivolous claims of election fraud. They should pay a high price if they baselessly back Trump after he loses. .
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In my former church in NW CT, at the time, my partner (prior to Dear Hubby) would go to the AA meetings there. He told me how uncomfortable our ‘church chairs’ were. I pulled together the money for the church to purchase new chairs with padded seats.
It’s made a lot of people happy (more than 12 years ago)!
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Who is this “They?”
There are people prosecuting this now, no? SoS in GA and even this from the opening statement of the article:
Election officials in battleground states across the country
Not everyone will be stopped, but where it can be done, it is being done.
Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of the people that are doing it (old consultant’s line).
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Good on you, and good on us. It makes for a whole lot of gratitude, better experience, and, hopefully, results/outcomes. It is so easy, and cheap, in the long run!
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I like how you put this – I would think he looks at it like total defiance, and an assault on his eminence. Because, projection!
And, yes, if they break the rules and laws, arrest them, charge them, and prosecute them –
TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.
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There were two counties in Colorado (I think), DEEP Red.
Trump won 80/20. BUT the officials ordered recounts both counties because they did not think 20% of their county was infested with DEMON-CRATS.
Both recounts showed Trump won … 80-20.
Who pays for these recounts? The party or the county (ie the poor TAXPAYERS)?
Very irksome.
These people have the right to their beliefs but they DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to make somebody else pay for them ‘proving’ out their theories.
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Yeah, but the term “election official” is pretty broad, and most of these people have absolutely no ability to prosecute. And, most state-level Secretaries of State have administrative duties, and no ability to prosecute.
Unfortunately, in Georgia, I’m still waiting for the trials of the 15 remaining defendants in the Trump RICO trial from the 2020 election. Aren’t you?
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Don’t hang by the neck, waiting. That’s true of most of the TIFBG litigations.
I suspect things could change in a week’s time?
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Meanwhile, the Russian foreign agent, pardoned felon, and the new Rudy Tootie replacement, Mike Flynn, is warning and subtly inciting violence:
“We’re moving towards the sound of the guns here, folks. And the sound of the guns is freedom. We are going to move towards freedom.” Recently, he told a right-wing Christian audience that if Trump wins, “the gates of hell, my hell, will be unleashed.
Separately, during the same interview, Flynn said he believed Trump will win a 50-state victory if the election is fair, but that he doesn’t believe Democrats “are going to allow a totally fair election to occur.”
He advised Trump to declare victory even before he knows the full results.
“If I were Trump, and he was way up, and the polls haven’t closed in Pennsylvania, the polls haven’t closed in Arizona, polls haven’t closed in Wisconsin — I would claim victory that night,” Flynn said. “When I look back in 2020, he should have claimed victory last night. And let everybody go to bed. Whatever they were going to come up with, just say that’s a bunch of B.S., those are all a bunch of lies.”
Please note who has the byline!
ETA: I’d really like to have Flynn be the one who passes through “the gates of hell, my hell," wherever that is. In his psychotic mind?
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Here is delusion at an unknown level. This guy is sicker than TIFBG.
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Sorry, too slow in my book. And, I really doubt anyone is going to be “taking action” against the 2020 transgressions, or any of the other Trump charges, for a long time, if ever. Even if Kamala wins. She’s got to get her cabinet in place first. I would not want to be a target of her prosecutorial hell - I can tell you that! 
Yeah, but none of that activity is affecting the litigations. The courts aren’t changing, neither are the prosecutors or defense attorneys. The charges haven’t changed. Who’s POTUS or what happens during the intervening two months doesn’t change anything either.
I think things begin to percolate once things are clear as to who has won the election for POTUS.
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Hey, ‘unleashed’ is fine by me: barred like this, they won’t even swing open:
Also, without Billy Barr at DoJ or Donnie in the White House, I don’t think Mikey will be walking if he gets himself indicted again.
Even if he does rehire Sydney Powell.
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I’ve been on several juries and never got free lunch. Did get a bus pass though.
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Hoping: Harris wins, and lots of these sons of bitches who then try to overthrow the government–again!–spend a long time in jail.
We really don’t want people thinking they can try to overthrow the government every time they lose an election.
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