Story at https://www.pressreader.com/.
Posted on 12/12/2021 4:05:41 AM PST by cotton1706
“This is a five-alarm fire,” said Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic secretary of state in Michigan, who presided over her state’s Trump-contested election in 2020 and may face a Trump-backed challenger next year. “If people in general, leaders and citizens, aren’t taking this as the most important issue of our time and acting accordingly, then we may not be able to ensure democracy prevails again in ’24.”
In some areas, new political battlefields are opening up where none existed previously.
Until this year, races for administrative positions such as judge of elections were noncompetitive to the point of being more or less volunteer opportunities. Candidates ran unopposed, or sometimes not at all: The seat that Lindemuth ran for had been technically unoccupied before his election, filled by appointment by the County Board of Elections.
“There’s a lot of apathy here,” said Lisa Sargen Heilner, a former Republican committeewoman in Mount Joy Township, who resigned her post shortly after local Republicans endorsed Lindemuth and his wife, Danielle, in a concurrent school board election in which they both won seats. “I just kind of wanted to disassociate myself from them,” Heilner said.
After Stephen Lindemuth won the GOP primary for judge of elections in the spring, local Democrats struggled to find a candidate until Mike Corradino, an academic dean at a local community college, volunteered. “Like a lot of people, it troubles me what happened on Jan. 6,” Corradino said. He lost with 268 votes to Lindemuth’s 415.
Kristy Moore, a local Democratic committeewoman and a seventh-grade English teacher who ran unsuccessfully against Lindemuth in the school board race, said she had tried to attract the attention of county and state Democrats, but to no avail.
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Look at this paragraph:
“Although candidates run on party tickets, secretary of state campaigns have generally been amicable contests among bureaucratic professionals who pride themselves on placing civic responsibility over their parties’ pursuit of power. All of that changed when Trump and his allies, fuming over his loss in 2020, portrayed a handful of swing-state secretaries of state as supervillains, often wielding false claims of election malfeasance against them.”
This is how they see themselves. Virtuous bureaucrats, not the militant leftists they are.
What she really means is, bring in more illegal aliens and print more fake ballots.
“The seat that Lindemuth ran for had been technically unoccupied before his election, filled by appointment by the County Board of Elections.”
Oh, it’s just terrible that THE PEOPLE have pushed out their APPOINTED official.
Why, this is a danger to DEMOCRACY!
Which is a very good thing for Americans and for humanity.
Why do they need our votes when they can get all the votes they need with just a few clicks.
“… a handful of swing-state secretaries of state”
A handful of swing state…? Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, ax. The facts are plan to see. Anyone can look them up.
Story at https://www.pressreader.com/.
Democrats are afraid they won’t be able to cheat so freely next time.
That’s because they ARE supervillains. I am certain that Raffensberger in Georgia is one. Gonna vote against him in his next primary for sure...
This is the Steve Bannon effort showing up at local elections. He has done more to ensure voter integrity than Mitch $ McCarthy have done in their entire political careers.
The Seattle Times....applauding Antifa’s effort to burn down the city.
Raffensberger probably has a nice big check from Zuckerberg waiting for him in Switzerland.
All politics is local.
This reminds me of the TEA Party early days. The democrats can gin up Astroturf movements all day but when facing real grass roots movements they get swept away.
If people in general, leaders and citizens, aren’t taking this as the most important issue of our time and acting accordingly, then we may not be able to ensure democracy prevails again in ’24.”
When they say “democracy”, they really mean socialist/globalist rule of the elites.
I think so. Either that or he’s getting paid off by inflated sales on that book he just wrote. Fake sales, big advances, or something. His actions in the face of what happened right before our eyes in Fulton County are proof of that. The consent decree that he and Kemp were party to with the Democrats about not cross checking signatures on registrations with absentee ballots (in the wake of Abrams’ loss) is another completely uncharacteristic of a true conservative.
Arizona
I’d think democrats would be all for ensuring elections are fair, accurate, and honest. That way they can prove their “win” once and for all. Unless...
“Democrats are afraid they won’t be able to cheat so freely next time.”
They definitely won’t. You can’t rob the bank when the cops are in the lobby.
So this broad skewed the results. She just showed her hand.
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