They’ve come to Washington. Volunteer canvassers want to know if you or someone in your household shouldn’t be registered to vote. That’s between you and election officials, and none of their business. If they come to your home, there’s no point in being rude, but you should [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GOP Election Conspiracies’
May 28th, 2022 - 11:43 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Indicting Trump for election fraud looking more likely
The best thing that could happen for American democracy is a convicting Trump of a felony to disqualify him from running again. Second best is disbarments and prison time for those who aided and abetted his efforts to steal the 2020 election to deter similar conduct in the future. That includes the [...]
Will Trump’s postmaster go?
Trump lackey Louis DeJoy (photo, left) is notorious for slowing mail service. But I’ll always remember him as the guy who made mailboxes disappear before the 2020 election. (They magically reappeared after the election; see my posting here.) You want an election conspiracy? Well, there it is. [...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 10:12 pm § in Politics
GOP county chair tried to get access to voting machines
A North Carolina GOP county chair pursuing a false election conspiracy theory “threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment,” Reuters reported (see story here). William Keith Senter was “aggressive[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Joe Crackpot for Congress
Rep. Jaime Herrera-Butler (R-WA) probably will be re-elected. Age 41, now serving her 7th term in Congress, Herrera-Butler’s never had a “real” job. She’s a career politician, of the sort wingnuts want to “term limit.” They have another reason for term-limiting he[...]
How to launch a conspiracy theory
Ask Peter McIndoe, 23, a former psychology student. He’s an expert on this. Not intentionally. After the 2016 election, which Trump won, there were protests. During the Women’s March, McIndoe saw “counterprotesters, who were older, bigger white men” who he felt “had no busi[...]
April 18th, 2022 - 2:25 pm § in Politics
How do you define a “fair election”?
Rioting, phoned death threats to election workers, and sham audits didn’t work, so now they want to run elections themselves. And they have their own ideas about what a “fair election” is. For example, in Ohio, former GOP legislator John Adams is running for secretary of state, the[...]
Request to GOP: Can we have some leaders?
Karl Marx famously said, “the masses are asses,” to justify what he called a “dictatorship of the proletariat” that turned out to be just another plain old dictatorship. The idea of representative democracy is to entrust ultimate authority for decision-making to the collectiv[...]
April 8th, 2022 - 4:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How Don Trump Jr. sees elections
“Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that ‘we have operational control’ to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the [...]
April 7th, 2022 - 12:07 am § in Politics
Another GOP investigation finds no Arizona voting fraud
An investigation by Arizona AG Mark Brnovich, a Republican, has “found no evidence of widespread voter fraud or irregularities associated with the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County,” NBC News reported on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 (read story here). Biden won the state by 10,45[...]