Posted on 01/28/2023 12:02:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
Republican lawmakers who have spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in two major political battleground states.
Divided government in Pennsylvania and Arizona means that any voting restrictions those GOP legislators propose is likely to fail. Even so, the high-profile appointments give the lawmakers a platform to cast further doubt on the integrity of elections in states that will be pivotal in selecting the next president in 2024.
Awarding such plum positions to lawmakers who have repeated conspiracies and spread misinformation cuts against more than two years of evidence showing there were no widespread problems or fraud in the last presidential election. It also would appear to run counter to the message delivered in the November midterm elections, when voters rejected election-denying candidates running for top offices in presidential battleground states.
At the same time, many mainstream Republicans are trying to move past the lies told by former President Donald Trump and his allies about his loss to President Joe Biden. […]
The legislative appointments in Pennsylvania and Arizona highlight the divide between the two major parties over election law. Already this year, Democratic-controlled legislatures are moving to expand access to voting and heighten penalties for intimidating voters and election workers, while many Republican-led states are aiming to pass further restrictions, a trend that accelerated after Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election. …
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Thought for sure this was an opinion piece.
Clicked on the link.
Disgustingly, AP is trying to pass this propaganda off as “news”!
ASS Press
They must be Confused,for it was THEM and All the Other Presstitutes in Collusion with the Deep State and the Demonrat that DENIED THE ELECTION for 4 years.
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA
Election ‘deniers’ are the people who oppose election thievery. AP supports the thievery, and wants to suppress the truth about the thefts of elections.
It’s all so very medieval.
All who question the State Religion are heretics and deniers who must be burned at the stake.
Will Federal judges be required to wear red frocks from now on?
Election fraud deniers run the AP.
Consider the source: AP LIEberals are gonna LIE!
2000 mules still being fed.
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