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The five people sentenced under Higdon were given minimal penalties and misdemeanor convictions, as they almost all were encouraged by campaign workers to vote and didn’t lie about their statuses.
If true, these campaign workers should be prosecuted. No one should be putting people at risk like this. It’s unconscionable.
And yes I realize that’s not the point of the article – of which there’s an in-depth write-up at WaPo, btw.
Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon Jr. was too preoccupied trying to snag immigrants for voting illegally to notice the election fraud scandal occurring right under his nose in North Carolina’s 9th District.
Deja Vue, all over again… Bushie’s administration fired seven U.S. attorneys on a single day. They needed to “produce, manage well, and exhibit loyalty to the President and Attorney General re-voter purges and dropping corruption cases.”
But those ballots were legitimately stolen by white Republican Americans.
Malevolence tempered by incompetence. The fish rots from the head down and, after more than two years of executive putrefaction, the stink is everywhere although, in truth, things have been getting pretty whiffy – with relief from breezes now and then – at least since the 1980’s.
NB: Incompetence has real costs. The US has been using its favored position as ‘super power’ to disguise the costs of managerial incompetence for some time now and it’s unclear if current US political and corporate norms will foster improvement since they now appear to favor various forms of bad management and managers. The choices for us now seem to be pretty much between a slow post-imperial slump, like the UK’s or Spain, or a major social convulsion to get to some other kind of system.
Yeah and I say he wasn’t too busy to notice, he just chose to ignore NC fraud.
Well of COURSE…only the ‘best’ people…or at least people that can be relied on to fk with the people and vote the ‘company line’…
This is what “prosecutorial discretion” looks like under republicans.
Now favor bad management and poor choices. Really NOW, bull phucky. The only reason the US did so well in the 50s was because we essentially were the only game in town. Until countries rebuilt after WWII there was little competition. And what did our business people do, why, build winged autos no one wanted of course.
Considering that there were several attempts to call out Dowless for pulling the same stunt in earlier elections and all went ignored by the authorities prior to this point, that seems accurate.