The Army of Election Officials Ready to Reject the Vote | A movement driven by disinformation about Trump’s 2020 defeat has taken over many of the boards that certify elections. It could cause chaos in the weeks ahead.

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 25, 2024 | Jim Rutenberg

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When Clara Andriola took her seat at the Washoe County, Nev., commission meeting room on July 9, she looked out at a sea of angry faces. The commission is Washoe’s main legislative body, and Andriola, a longtime local business executive, was appointed to fill a vacancy on the five-person board last year. She had just won a Republican primary that would almost certainly allow her to keep that seat in the November general election. The commission was required by law to certify elections at every level, from local primary to presidential election. What came next should have been a simple administrative procedure.

But the restless crowd had other ideas. For three hours, they told stories of a primary gone wrong. Some raised concerns about small bureaucratic errors, like improperly addressed ballots. Others shared more exotic allegations, including an unsubstantiated rumor circulating on X about a Serbian scheme to manipulate voting machines. The stories did not add up to any clear theory about what happened or why, but the community had come to believe that democracy was threatened and that there was only one way to save it: They wanted Andriola to vote with her two Republican colleagues to deny her own victory.

Andriola took her legal duty to certify elections seriously, and the stakes of her decision reached far beyond Nevada. Like thousands of administrators around the country, Washoe County commissioners are charged with certifying elections not just at the commission level but also as the first step in the process of formalizing the presidential results nationally. And Washoe wasn’t just any county. It was a swing district in a swing state.

For that reason, Andriola’s hyperlocal primary had taken on national importance. Washoe County’s longest-serving commissioner, Jeanne Herman, was one of the first and only local commission...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A movement driven by disinformation about Trump’s 2020 defeat has taken over many of the boards that certify elections. It could cause chaos in the weeks ahead.

"Disinformation" my Obama.

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. Those ballots were almost exclusively marked for the Presidential race. They contained almost 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

[Larry Lucido]

about a Serbian scheme to manipulate voting machines

[God luvs America]

Remember all the screaming and yelling the NYSlimes did over the Soros secretary of state project?? Neither do i.....

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sounds like the Times is having orgasms.

[ifinnegan]

The Steal II.

Then full on banana.

I hope not.

[MtnClimber]

No way they will do this. They would have authorized the woke military to fire on US citizens if they planned to do this.

[ifinnegan]

“ No way they will do this. They would have authorized the woke military to fire on US citizens if they planned to do this.”

The other day on Gorka radio show I heard they just did this.

Gorka show is not a lunatic show.

I’d like to know more what the guest was specifically referring to.

[MayflowerMadam]

“They would have authorized the woke military to fire on US citizens if they planned to do this.”

Done and done. Less than a month ago, IIRC.

[sauropod]

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[falcon99]

The NYT doing what it does best, making up stories, crying the sky is falling and pushing the facist fairy tale of the Left and Harris’ campaign.

[sauropod]

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