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The Election Denier Who Could Run Michigan’s Elections
The Atlantic ^ | 5/22/22 | Elaine Godfrey

Posted on 05/22/2022 5:02:36 AM PDT by Libloather

In the weeks after the 2020 election, one particular Michigan woman was trumpeting claims of fraud as loudly as she could. Kristina Karamo, a community-college professor who’d previously accused Democrats of having a “Satanic agenda,” went on Fox News again and again to describe how illegal ballots supposedly had been tallied for Joe Biden at the TCF Center in Detroit, where she worked as a poll watcher. She testified before the State Senate that sacks of votes inexplicably had been dropped off there in the middle of Election Night. She suggested that Dominion Voting software had flipped Trump votes to Biden votes statewide.

None of what Karamo described actually happened - as far as anyone has been able to confirm. Her story served its purpose, though: Karamo has spent the past year campaigning to be Michigan’s next secretary of state. Some people might have dismissed her, at first, as just another down-ballot conspiracy kook with no chance of winning her party’s primary. But last month, the Michigan Republican Party chose Karamo as its nominee. Barring any changes at an upcoming convention in August, and with Republicans poised to have a strong midterm election year, Karamo has a shot at victory in November.

Michigan’s next election chief, in other words, might be one of its foremost election-conspiracy theorists. And what happens in this swing state in 2024 could tip the entire presidential outcome. “One thing the last six years has taught me is you never say never,” Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party who has been highly critical of the GOP’s new direction, told me this week. “Crazy is powerful, and it doesn’t get tired.”

Donald Trump is the main reason Karamo has gotten this far.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: audit; denier; elainegodfrey; election; karamo; kristinakaramo; mi; michigan; theatlantic
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To: Libloather

If the Election Fraud Deniers at the Atlantic are unhappy then I am happy.

I think it will be necessary to take down Gestapo Gretchen this November to get real election integrity laws in place in Michigan for 2024.


21 posted on 05/22/2022 6:20:59 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: HandBasketHell

Ditto to everything you’ve said.

Let’s add Evers in Wisconsin as well. The Governor’s races in Michigan Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are especially important. Democrat governors are all that stands in the way of real election integrity laws in all 3 states.


22 posted on 05/22/2022 6:23:28 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That’s why I turn it around 180 degrees and call them Election Fraud Deniers.....kinda like the way Trump turned Fake News around and threw it back at them and now we on the Right own that term.


23 posted on 05/22/2022 6:25:05 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

I guess the author, along with the all the host on Fox, haven’t seen or acknowledge 2000Mules


24 posted on 05/22/2022 6:28:55 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Libloather

“None of what Karamo described actually happened - as far as anyone has been able to confirm”

They are starting to crack!

The last bit there would not be in the article if it were written last month. It’s been only “outright false” or “bizarre” since the election.

But they used some language that indicates they are preparing to back pedal and save their skins.


25 posted on 05/22/2022 6:29:08 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Celerity

has been able to confirm
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A blindfolded man can’t swing a dead cat without hitting confirmation evidence in any state on the continent.


26 posted on 05/22/2022 6:47:17 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: MayflowerMadam

The title of Hemmingway’s book is Rigged


27 posted on 05/22/2022 7:14:28 AM PDT by NorthernDancer
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To: Libloather
None of what Karamo described actually happened - as far as anyone has been able to confirm.

Well, if you keep your head buried in the sand, you're not going to see much.

28 posted on 05/22/2022 7:16:12 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Libloather

But, isn’t it RACIST to disagree with a woman of color?


29 posted on 05/22/2022 7:48:17 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob
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To: Tell It Right

The Left loved the old Communist USSR. When Communism collapsed there, to be replaced by oligarchy, their love turned to China.


30 posted on 05/22/2022 8:03:52 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“.....Senate candidate John James too who was on the ballot....”

But, but, but, Ditch NEVER complained about losing the Senate.

[Ditch was obviously ecstatic that Trump was Gone.]


31 posted on 05/22/2022 8:29:35 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SteelPSUGOP
Michigan was rigged in both 2018 and 2020.

The Assistant Democrat RINOs in Michigan went along with the 2018 Steal because that's what they do.

Ricky-Rick Snyder's reward was to get a felony indictment from Commissar Dana Nessel.

32 posted on 05/22/2022 8:31:03 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Hot Tabasco
They stole the Senate from James twice.

2018 was rigged, too.

The Michigan "blue wave" ONLY HAPPENED IN THE RED COUNTIES - because the vote harvesters were only able to get the 2016 turnout data they needed from the smaller red counties, not the bigger blue ones, who told the harvesters to kiss off until after the 2018 election.

Mystery group blankets Michigan seeking ballots from 2016 election
August 24, 2018
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/08/24/mystery -group-blankets-michigan-ballots-2016-election/1086788002/
Voting group behind mystery requests in Michigan
August 28, 2018
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/08/28/voting-nonprofit-sent-mystery-foias-michigan/1120399002/

33 posted on 05/22/2022 8:36:24 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: MayflowerMadam

https://www.amazon.com/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections/dp/B097J242H7/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=


34 posted on 05/22/2022 8:39:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: quantim
see my posts #32 and #33.

MI 2018 and 2020 were both rigged.

35 posted on 05/22/2022 8:41:49 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: cranked

“None of what Karamo described actually happened - as far as anyone has been able to confirm.”

Now there is a line worthy of a Clinton. Actually everything she claimed did happen with multiple witnesses. The problem is the people who committed the theft are the ones running the election to replace them.


36 posted on 05/22/2022 8:59:31 AM PDT by es345st
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To: Libloather

They are so dumb with their catchphrases, but that is just a big lie.. haha


37 posted on 05/22/2022 9:03:12 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: Libloather

The only deniers I see are those that deny that the election was full of fraud in five battleground states (GA, PA, MI, WS, and AZ)!!
By coincidence mind you, all five of the battleground states counted their walk-in votes, then shut down around midnight. After all the press and observers left Dems only started counting the fraudulent mail-in votes. By morning, sham, Biden wins all five by small margins. And we’re suppose to believe this wasn’t coordinated (probably by Obama and his network). By the way, the other 45 states had no trouble finishing their vote count by midnight.
Then we are not suppose to suspect foul play when Biden out performed Hillary and Obama in those five states. But in the other 45 states, Hillary and Obama clobbered Biden.
We’re not the deniers, they are.


38 posted on 05/22/2022 9:08:13 AM PDT by Oak007
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To: NorthernDancer

Thanks. I’ve heard of Rigged but didn’t know she’s the author.


39 posted on 05/22/2022 9:50:43 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: Libloather

I—a FORMER Atlantic subscriber (a long, long time ago) and a Harvard PhD in science—am what the leftists call an “election denier”!!!!

And I’m Ultra-MAGA, too!!!!

PHOOEY to the current ownership and management of the Atlantic!!!! And quadruple-PHOOEY to biden and his disgusting crew of demented ones!!!!


40 posted on 05/22/2022 9:52:47 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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