Posted on 06/14/2021 5:38:55 PM PDT by cotton1706
There is no shortage of job openings for local election officials in Michigan. It's the same in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin, too. And an elections leader in Iowa earlier this spring retired early out of frustration.
After facing threats and intimidation during the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath, and now the potential of new punishments in certain states, county officials who run elections are quitting or retiring early.
The once quiet job of election administration has become a political minefield thanks to the baseless claims of widespread fraud that continue to be pushed by many in the Republican Party.
"These conspiracy theorists are in it for the long haul. They're in it to completely crumble our republic, and they're looking at these election administrator positions," said Democrat Barb Byrum, clerk of Ingham County, Michigan. "They're playing the long game."
It's difficult to quantify exactly how many election officials across the country have left and why, since the departures are not generally tallied. Retirements also are common after presidential elections. But in places that do track such information, along with anecdotal accounts from county officials, it is clear that many have recently left because of the newfound partisan rancor around the jobs and the threats many local election workers faced leading up to the November election and afterward as former President Donald Trump and his allies challenged the results.
In Davenport, Democratic Scott County Auditor Roxanna Moritz retired earlier than expected in April after 14 years on the job — and just five months after being reelected. On her way out, she blasted local supervisors for a lack of support in last year’s elections and cited Iowa’s new elections law, which among other things threatens local election officials with jail time and fines.
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The gravy train is over.
Frustration, my Aunt Fanny… it’s fear that has them fleeing. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
“Baseless claims”. I stopped reading right there.
Counting votes shouldn't take months.
“These conspiracy theorists are in it for the long haul. They’re in it to completely crumble our republic, and they’re looking at these election administrator positions,” said Democrat Barb Byrum, clerk of Ingham County, Michigan. “They’re playing the long game.”
It was a while ago, but does anyone remember the video floating around of the lady that addressed a county board or something and she, more or less, took one of the Democrats to the woodshed. She’s an older black lady, was some type of election supervisor, smart as hell and was way too quick on her feet for any of the morons on the board she was speaking to. Anywho, she was saying that the secret to all the crap in Michigan lies in boxes of ballots, from Detroit and a few other cities, that no one has ever been allowed to see. One of those things where the election officials say whats in them and but no one has ever been allowed to verify.
And, of course, the audit conducted in Detroit that uncovered so many things wrong that they stopped it........
I am so tired of reading that sh*t.
thanks to the baseless claims of widespread fraud that continue to be pushed by many in the Republican Party.
"These conspiracy theorists are in it for the long haul. They're in it to completely crumble our republic, and they're looking at these election administrator positions,"
Baseless, groundless, unfounded, meritless, with no evidence, proven to be false, etc. etc...I've read so many of these DNC press templates my ass coughs from all the smoke being blown up it.
Seems to be a lot of smoke for “baseless claims”.
Great, with them gone, maybe we can get some honest ones in there.
It is far more likely that older election officials were and are stepping down due to COVID-19 concerns. That was the narrative in 2020 before the Democrats thought up their latest attack on Republicans.
affidavit = “baseless claim”
voter integrity = “anti-democracy”
There’s a pattern that has been playing out in our midst for all too long.
I would rather see them in an “Oregon Boot”.
But when the shoe is put on the other foot it becomes baseless claims, while the previous was a "serious" investigation of manipulation to subvert Democracy, even though a democracy is not what we have, nor is it a desirable form of government to have. Which is why the founders did not choose that form of government.
Their claims were baseless as the special counsel and his cadre of anti-Trump Democrat supporters came away with nothing, nada, zip. Though the special counsel did muddy the water to cast other suspicions upon President Trump to keep attacking him after they found nothing.
Some are retiring before they have to learn new rules and software, others for strait incompetence before the fall, and others before their unauthorized collusion with political hacks (can you say RICO) is found out. This is not a one size fits all removal post election personnel but a sea change in many states.
The place that need cleaning up like CA, NY, IL, and NJ will have decades more of bad actors running their elections.
The places that need cleaning up like CA, NY, IL, and NJ will have decades more of bad actors running their elections.
"Under Michigan law, precincts cannot be recounted when the number of voters in the poll book doesn't match the number of ballots in the ballot box (emphasis mine - qoute continues) Almost 60% of Detroit's precincts were mismatched — either having too many or not enough ballots to match poll books — and ineligible for recount, according to the Wayne County Clerk's Office."
So let me make sure I have this right... Precincts cannot be recounted when the number of voters in the poll book doesn't match the number of ballots in the ballot box." ????
So the thing that should trigger a recount is exactly the thing that outlaws a recount? WTH??? Imagine how awesome Detroit would be without all the corruption, all of the USA for that matter.
Too bad it isn’t open season. They’re harder to hit than a rabbit across the Grand Canyon.
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