In Plain Sight, Republicans Are Still Trying to Undermine the Election

The New York Times ^ | Updated Aug. 15, 2024, 12:09 p.m. | Jesse Wegman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Some of the most important and alarming reporting during the 2024 election cycle has centered on what used to be one of the sleepiest and least divisive corners of election administration — the vote certification process. Specifically, the nationwide effort by Republicans to install state election officials who are prepared, if not motivated, to undermine and possibly block the certification of vote totals. If that were to happen in the right counties in the right states, it could tip the outcome of the entire election.

Republicans are not being secretive about this. According to an investigation by Rolling Stone, nearly 70 battleground-state election officials have openly “questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results.”

Certification has long been a routine ministerial task, unencumbered by partisanship, as the investigation points out. Increasingly, though, that’s not the case in the Trump era, now that Republicans have reprogrammed themselves to believe that it is impossible for them to lose any election except by fraud.

The danger comes not only from isolated kooks who get their news from Rudy Giuliani news conferences. Last week in Georgia, the Republican-controlled state election board approved a measure that could unleash local election officials to do their own research and delay certifying vote counts (those that Trump doesn’t win outright, anyway).

Put aside for the moment that this new rule appears to be in conflict with longstanding Georgia law that requires certification in absence of a court challenge. The bigger problem here is in how we choose our president — via the Electoral College — and how much power that winner-take-all system gives a single state to influence the outcome of the entire election.

[Colt1851Navy]

The Old Gray Whore ain’t what she used to be but she’s still lying up a storm.

[Liaison]

I assume that the inclusion of toilet into that statement is assumed.
Democratic “ toilet” paper of record.

[xp38]

everyday....more projection

[ebshumidors]

Jew fatigue. The 98 percent making the others look bad.

[cableguymn]

and the UN.. just saying..

[Bookshelf]

“According to an investigation by Rolling Stone...” The NYTimes has sunk to a new low. When you use Rolling Stone as a source you have lost all credibility.

[FLT-bird]

Democrats are alarmed that Republicans have finally started paying attention to who counts the votes and have finally begun to put some of their people in charge of what had been an entirely Democrat controlled fiefdom.

[Liberty Valance]

Yep. Rolling Stone fired Matt Taibi for getting too close to the truth.

[9YearLurker]

Up is down and NYT propaganda continues apace.

[rdcbn1]

The Progressive penchant for accusing Republicans of what they are trying to do has become so pathologically compulsive and reflexive that you can reliably predict their plots and hidden agendas by what they accuse their opponents of .

[bantam]

Yes sir!! 1000% PROJECTION AND GASLIGHTING!!!

[Mogger]

One more name to add to the list:

Mirroring what I see and hear from democrats.

Each time I encounter another nasty word democrats use to describe normal people, I add it to the list.

If democrats didn't say and write such things, I never would have thought of these and the list wouldn't exist:

air heads, bigoted, bully, communist, constitutionally illiterate, crude, delusional, deplorables, dense, enemies of freedom, extremist, fascist, feeble-minded, greedy, grifters, haters, Hitler, homophobe, horde of budding blood-and-soil fascists, intolerant, Islamophobe, isolated kooks, leftist, liar, misogynist, morally bankrupt, NAZI, nitwits, obtuse, pathologically lying, opinionated, profoundly and pathetically weak people, racist, rapist, retarded, rich, self-serving, semiliterate moron, simpletons, snakes, totally corrupt, traitorous, treasonous, white supremacist, xenophobe...

[clearcarbon]

"In Plain Sight, Republicans Are Still Trying to Undermine the Election"

[ClarityGuy]

This guy Jesse Wegman is crossing the line and does not deserve to get away with it.

[timestax]

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