These Places Have Democracy Watchdogs Bracing for Potential Election Discord

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 23, 2024, 10:07 a.m. ET | Neil Vigdor

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Voting rights groups are keeping tabs on roughly two dozen counties as potential hot spots for electoral discord, places that in recent cycles have seen pushback on the certification of results or efforts to disqualify some ballots or common election procedures.

The counties have repeatedly found themselves at the center of legal disputes, some aimed at overturning former President Donald J. Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.

These are some of the places that democracy watchdogs are closely monitoring:

Arizona

• Cochise County: This deeply Republican area in the southeastern part of the state has been a cauldron of election-driven conspiracy theories, recycled by the former president’s supporters. Officials there refused to certify the results of the midterm election in 2022. Not long after, the county’s nonpartisan elections director resigned, citing threats against her after she refused to comply with directives from Republicans who control county government. Those officials then installed an election skeptic to oversee voting, prompting the state’s Democratic attorney general to sue the county. Since then, three more people have filled the job, including another election denier, who also resigned, citing intimidation.

  And on Oct. 21, one of the Republicans who delayed certification of the 2022 election results pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing or refusing to perform her duty as an election officer. Charges are still pending against another Republican who took similar actions and has pleaded not guilty.

• Mohave and Pinal Counties flirted in the past with refusing to certify election results, according to the Voting Rights Lab.

Georgia

• Fulton County: The Atlanta metro area remains a source of consternation for democracy watchdogs. It’s the most populous county in a swing state that was a focus of Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in 2020 and the one where he was charged criminally for...

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They are telegraphing where the steal is going to take place.

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The NY Times is so happy about fake charges against Republicans trying to stop the steal.

[blackdog]

My wife and I discovered in Memphis that every time you select a republican down ballot candidate, it unselected your Trump vote on the kiosk. You must really watch this.

[Prince of Space]

AZ voters have to fill in an oval completely with an ink pen. When I lived in California, we had to puncture a ballot with a stylus to register our vote. I cannot imagine a system where it’s all done via computers.

[Jim W N]

Democrat Watchdogs.

Like wolves “guarding” but actually attacking, the henhouse.

[rightwingcrazy]

“Democracy Watchdogs”

I remember when the Times at least pretended to be objective.

[SavannahWonderer]

So they pulled it off in 2020 when Trump was in the White House (he didn’t see it coming?). Beyond any doubt it was fixed and stolen and nothing was done other than honest, red-blooded Americans have been jailed, fined, harassed, killed, etc...
4 years later when they keep doubling down on their idiocy, evil, and treachery, people think they may lose?
Serious question... We think that by overloading the rigged system with Trump votes (as we did in 2016) that we can win this time?
The folks in the spotlight are buffoons but the ones pulling the levers of power have trillions of dollars and no restraints...

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Beyond any doubt it was fixed and stolen...

In the wee hours of the morning following Election Day 2020, hundreds of thousands of “votes” for Joe Biden showed up from out of nowhere in the six states that had unprecedentedly stopped counting the night before, and those ballots were exclusively marked for the Presidential race. They contained no votes for down-ballot candidates, which explains the following:

OBAMA 2008
69,000,000 votes
Wins 873 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
WINS ELECTION

TRUMP 2020
74,000,000 votes
Wins 2497 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
LOSES ELECTION

BIDEN 2020
81,000,000 votes
Wins 477 Counties
LOSES 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
LOSES Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
LOSES House seats
WINS ELECTION

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Bookmarked.

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I forgot to add this for the nail in the coffin:

[Jacquerie]

This time, Fulton County rats will have to come up with a better stalling technique than a “broken water main.”

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This time, Fulton County rats will have to come up with a better stalling technique than a “broken water main.”

If they try this again they should immediately be turned into lamppost decorations.