Posted on 03/27/2022 6:21:37 AM PDT by cotton1706
MADISON, Wis. — The push by Republicans to conduct partisan ballot reviews similar to the one that unfolded last year in Arizona has spread beyond the battleground states where former President Donald Trump disputed his loss, an effort that has had mixed legislative success but has sown doubts about whether future elections can be trusted.
While most of the bills are unlikely to become law, the debates and public hearings in GOP-controlled state legislative chambers have added fuel to the false claims that widespread fraud cost Trump reelection in 2020.
“They’re really tearing down democracy, and they don’t think they are,” said Scott McDonell, the election clerk in Dane County, Wis., home to the state capital.
The proposals come after flawed Republican-ordered reviews in Arizona and Wisconsin in which GOP lawmakers gave the job of examining the previous election to partisan actors.
In Arizona, the contract went to a Florida-based firm with no previous experience in election audits but with a CEO who had expressed support for conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential results. In Wisconsin, the Republican leader of the state Assembly appointed a retired state Supreme Court justice who declared the election stolen even before he began his review.
Similar efforts are being pursued by Republicans in the presidential battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, also won by Biden.
More than a dozen bills have been introduced this year in seven other states proposing similar reviews of elections and election results, including in states Trump won such as Florida, Missouri and Tennessee, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks such efforts. That comes after legislation was introduced in eight states last year to review the 2020 results and 12 states considered bills to perform new review processes for future elections.
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It won't be so easy to put up poster over the counting room windows and have the people just shrug their shoulders.
This has been a long time in coming.
This article is written as if that's a bad thing.
Distrust of election sows the call for.review. the authpr has it backwards
The stolen election is what sows distrust in elections.
News flash! THAT train left the station long ago!!
Stealing elections sows distrust in elections you psychopaths.
Can’t think of a better thing to do than appoint a person who thinks there is election fraud to look for it. If correct the person will have some good ideas where to look and persist when the information is hidden.
Not in the warped mind of the leftist.
They believe stealing an election saved the nation. Up is down, good is bad.
We’re beyond distrust. We’re in “THEY WILL CHEAT” mode. No 2 ways about it.
So now seeking the truth about the election is bad because it sows insecurity in the system? Really?
Didn't need to read past that to know this is NOT honest reporting.
Oh for crying out loud! It is distrust in the elections that seeds the needs for audits.
If Democrats cooperated then they’d be bi-partisan ballot reviews. If they really have their self-professed faith in the system, then they’d have to reason to deny a review.
Can't find it if you're not allowed to look for it.
Yeah. People who do evil out is sight in the darkness will always be suspicious of those with flashlights.
Only in a bizzaro world would reviewing ballots for integrity be seen as a bad thing…
Distrust of elections? Is this guy kidding after the report to the Wisconsin legislature. There was NO democracy in 2020 in Wisconsin, it was ballot trafficking and demented people voting,as well as bribery.
Or maybe the democrats call ballot stuffing and illegal actions, Democracy now.
Duh!!
Can’t find it if you’re not allowed to look for it.
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Yep they want to keep it hidden, imo. But that to a large
extent has always been the problem no matter which side is
in power.
My thought too. Except my initial reaction was WTF is he trying to do, but it’s clearly obvious.
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