A Tea Party-linked voter fraud activist known for her vigilante approach to poll-monitoring is heading to the Arizona Attorney General’s office.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1244037
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1244037
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Anderson, the AG spokesperson, told TPM that the unit was being launched to help to maintain voter confidence after some — including President Trump — claimed mass voter fraud in recent elections. Anderson said those claims were “unfounded” and compared the unit’s work to the show “MythBusters” in that it could debunk allegations if the evidence to support them weren’t there. Though if there was credible evidence of voter fraud, the unit would investigate it and prosecute it, he said.
So they have no evidence of any voter fraud occurring, but are creating a group in the AG’s office “just to be sure.”
I also have no evidence that the Arizona AG’s office is full of corrupt officials. Can we create a group to investigate it “just to be sure?”
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Commence to voter roll purging to combat the nonexistent voter fraud, just to be sure.
justtobesure should be a trending meme-thingey.
“I want a DNA sample from the body labeled J. Epstein in the morgue, #justtobesure.”
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Verify the Vote was a partner of the more well-known Houston-based group, True the Vote, which sprung from the Tea Party organization King Street Patriots.
How Orwellian of them…these groups are a euphemism for voter supression …AZ electorate resembles the waiting room scene in Beetlejuice…
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And if they don’t find widespread voter fraud, then Trump’s fans will be reassured that voter fraud is not a real issue, and the “President” himself will STFU about it, right? I’m sure.
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The Thumb on the Scale Brigade
Screw demographics
We win any way we can.
The only way we can
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“It’s unclear where she derived those numbers.”
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…“was hired,” apparently by George Freakin’ Orwell, “ [to] be focused on election integrity.”
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Impeccable logic. Who better than a “fraud hawk” to reassure the anxious FOX-watchers that there was, in fact, little or no fraud? It’s all about trust! It’s like sending an ostensible billionaire to clean up the influence-peddling swamp in D.C. because his lengthy experience in buying influence will tell him right where to go to start draining.
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The hurdles and standards for registering and voting get tighter, “to protect voters,” while the standards and hurdles for purging voters and challenging voters gets looser.
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There is a quote that goes something like this:
“The problem with being a liar is not that no one believes you, it is that you cannot believe anyone else.”
Fits the Repub’s and their election integrity thing.
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They are obviously worried about losing Arizona in 2020 and are going to go to great lengths to prevent it. Maybe Kobach can show up and give her office some pointers.
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or…
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Trump/RepubliCONS PROJECT their criminality, corruption and violence to the Dems…
Remember RepubliCONS lied, cheated, and stole to win elections in N.C.
Remember that RepubliCONS have memo to downplay mass shootings and blame the Dems!
Most important of all, RepubliCONS have been taken over by the BIGGEST Fraud of All who won the election by asking a foreign nation to steal political opponent’s emails for doxing (that is a crime) then welcomed illegal help from the Kremlin murderous dictator!
So projection and blame others is the political game at play in AZ!
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In GOP world, as we all know, “election integrity” is code for voter suppression.
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I have voted at the same precinct place since 1980 (it’s a Greek Orthodox church hall used for social gatherings). In all of that time and all of the intervening elections I have heard of exactly three instances of people trying to vote who lack proper ID. In AZ you show identification when you show up to vote which is usually some government issued card, driver’s license, tribal ID etc. I know about this because the poll workers are my neighbors and we talk about it. Three instances in nearly 40 years is not much fraud. But then I am speaking only of one polling place.
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And for my morning’s contribution to "trump Insanity"™ I offer the following:
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I think a more apt name for “Verify the Vote” is “Suppress the Surge”.
Could really have fun with the double “SS” which really is their guiding light in principle and spirit.
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No problem. Arrange to have get-out-the-fair-vote vigilantes monitor “her vigilante approach to poll-monitoring”
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If the U.S. had international monitors
Plus three layers of redundancy plus paper ballot back-up
Plus Trump at vegetable status unable to speak
I might consider Vlad and crew manageable (but I might not).
Trump needs to be removed ASAP.
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