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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Alinsky 101: Accuse your enemy of what you are doing.

[beethovenfan]

Horse doots.

[DouglasKC]

God forbid elections should be monitored.

[Fledermaus]

The kept is in full bore propaganda mode. Smells like desperation.

[Fledermaus]

LEFT

[JBW1949]

That is totally hilarious coming from NYTimes after the way the 2020 election went...

[packagingguy]

This is why Rush described the NYT as the “Democrat paper of record”.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Imagine if the terrorists had taken out the New York Times instead of the Trade Center towers.

[johnnygeneric]

“...to undermine and possibly block the certification of vote totals...” I think they are telegraphing what THEY are planning to do.

[T Ruth]

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[TTFlyer]

That would have been friendly fire.

[Republican Wildcat]

I guess because the Republicans are campaigning for people to vote for Republicans and not Democrats and thus, democracy undermined. They probably also want only citizens of the United States voting in our elections, and only voting once per election cycle - further undermining democracy.

[Republican Wildcat]

Oh...and I almost forgot - only people who are alive to vote...finishing off the last threads of democracy.

[pingman]

I may be a simpleton, but is it not reasonable to ask that the vote tally in a town, city or even a state should conform within a minute percentage of the total number of registered voters therein? And if there is a significant difference, shouldn’t that be an item for investigation before the vote is certified?

[SuperLuminal]

"Certification has long been a routine ministerial task, unencumbered by partisanship,..."

So said Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili)...

Nothing has changed...
The American Communist Party has not deviated from the fundamental, highly-successful tenets of tyranny since it totally subsumed the former Democrat Party in the 1970s...

They have won... They rule us totally... Why should anything they do "change"?

[cuban leaf]

The NYT has become the print version of MSNBC.

[Ge0ffrey]

The NY Times spent 2-1/2 on the Russia collusion hoax in order to deny his election.

[Bratch]

Hey Michigan

August 14, 2024 | Sundance | 177 Comments

Michigan complete.

I transmitted the travel pattern, location and sequencing for Clyburn’s visits to the state.  We are seeing the outcome now detail in the pattern of campaign visits by Harris and Walz.  It’s a tight pattern, and colleges and universities seem to play a bigger role.

We now know the exact precincts and the information has been relayed. HQ is Ann Arbor, and the six outlined areas are the focus points. The goal is ballot integrity and security.  This one is much harder than Wisconsin.

Anyone who wants to sign up as a poll watcher in Michigan can use THIS LINK – and/or GO TO True the Vote HERE for training.  However, being brutally honest, Michigan is a hot mess of horrible republicanism in the key areas that matter.

If you read the information on Poll Watching and Challenging, you will understand how the state process seems to be designed to facilitate fraud. The Republican party in Michigan seems to have similarities to the Republican party in Arizona (and this is Ronna McDaniel’s home turf).

Next stop, Pennsylvania.

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[ridesthemiles]

DO NY TIMES REPORTERS DRAW STRAWS FOR WHO GETS TO DO DAILY BS STORIES????

[Uncle Miltie]

Does anyone read the NYT?

What an echo chamber.