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Who's funding these "national networks" of election deniers?The elections director, 47-year-old Michella Huff, who’d lived in the county since high school and knew many voters by name, considered it ludicrous that anyone could think the election had been rigged in Surry County. Donald Trump had received upward of 70% of the roughly 36,000 votes cast. Huff, a registered Republican for most of her adult life, had personally certified the vote.
Yet people had begun approaching Huff in church recently, saying things like, “I know you didn’t do anything, but that election was stolen.” In February, a longtime acquaintance of Huff’s cornered her in a bluegrass music store and berated her with complaints rooted in conspiracy theories. Huff started limiting her trips to town, even doing her grocery order online.
Unbeknownst to Huff, a national network of election deniers had been making inroads in Surry County, on the fringe of Appalachia.
Huff is hardly the only election official struggling to stand up to those who believe the voting system is rigged; such confrontations have dramatically unfolded across the country, from Hood County, Texas, to Floyd County, Georgia, to Nye County, Nevada. Her circumstances illustrate how the efforts to target her are part of a larger playbook, with tactics that are replicated throughout the country.
This shit right here absolutely needs to stop.Election deniers, the far-right Republicans who deny the certified 2020 election results despite all evidence to the contrary, are subverting our democracy. But they are also subverting faith, in my view, since they often misuse Christian theological terms to ratchet up their rhetoric.
But there is no way to break the spiral of violence unless you engage, especially with enemies, those whom you may now be tempted to call “evil” or “Satan.”
So yes, there is evil among us and many are tempted to commit even horrific wrongs. There may be those with whom you radically disagree and even consider enemies. But the way forward in our political process is to engage and not to write anyone off, ever, no matter how impossible that may seem.
While this is shaping up to be one of the most challenging election cycles this nation has ever seen, don’t give up on democracy or on each other.
This is the true threat to our elections.Some county clerks in Colorado have installed bulletproof glass after receiving death threats from election deniers. One clerk is even wearing a bulletproof vest.
Two of the clerks who have fielded the most attacks this election are in the most Republican parts of the state -- Weld and El Paso counties.
They say people they once thought of as allies are now among their antagonists.
"For last 2 years been it's been nonstop - innuendo, threats at all levels," said El Paso County Clerk Chuck Broerman, who is one of the last people you would expect Republicans to turn on.
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ScienceChic wrote: 1. If you move out of state and don't notify the clerk that your registration is no longer valid, which is every voter's responsibility, then who's truly at fault?
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koobookie wrote: Examples of fraud, Rick? Do you have any with credible evidence? Where is the fraud of the mail in ballots?
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FredHayek wrote:
koobookie wrote: Examples of fraud, Rick? Do you have any with credible evidence? Where is the fraud of the mail in ballots?
Wouldn't it be funny if the Red Tsunami hits tomorrow hard in Colorado and Democrats start investigating the vote by mail system?
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