Posted on 05/30/2022 10:46:15 PM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day.
But when the time came, the 54-year-old Georgia Democrat cast a ballot in last week’s Republican primary for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. While state law allowed her to participate in either party’s primary, she said it felt like a violation of her core values to vote for the Republican. But it had to be done, she decided, to prevent a Donald Trump -backed “election denier” from becoming the battleground state’s election chief.
“I feel strongly that our democracy is at risk, and that people who are holding up the big lie, as we call it, and holding onto the former president are dangerous to democracy,” said Murray, who works at the University of Georgia. “I don’t know I’ll do it again because of how I felt afterward. I just felt icky.”
Raffensperger, a conservative who refused to support the former president’s direct calls to overturn the 2020 election, probably would not have won Tuesday’s Republican primary without people like Murray.
An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters. Even taking into account the limited sample of early votes, the data reveal that crossover voters were consequential in defeating Trump’s hand-picked candidates for secretary of state and, to a lesser extent, governor.
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BTTT
Notice this fountain of lies labels Ratburger as a “conservative”. Yeah, a conservative CROOK working for the other side. A paid-off criminal.
Might make a difference in the closest of close elections.
99% of the time no.
I hope she starves to death during the upcoming food shortage. At least she can die happy knowing she voted against an "election denier."
Two of the worst Republicans on the issue of Election integrity get reelected. Nothing to see here...move along...
Moron thinks we have a democracy. She helped piss that away by voting rat.
See? I’ve been telling y’all Democrats pushed Ratburger over the finish line.
Hopefully they both lose in November. If I were still a Georgia resident, I sure as hell wouldn’t vote for either Kemp or Ratburger.
“Open Primaries” make no sense...if going to do that at least skip the “primary”, just do a “general” and save millions of $$ in election cost.
I stopped reading the AP garbage categorized as “news” when it casually called Trump supporters “liars”, used the word “extremist” several times and showed no objectivity of any type. Note that they never use these words for Democrats.
Now thinking like that makes no sense to me. Yes, they are both bad Republicans, but they are a hell of a lot better than the Dems they are running against. It’s thinking like yours that gave us the 2 GA Dem senators that flipped the Senate.
Nope. RINOs are enemy #1. It is RINOs who were complicit in the steal and who put Biden in the White House. RINOs must go first. Then we can take on the Democrats.
Ruby! Ruby! Ruby!
I just felt icky.
How effin brave and bold!!!
Puke.
This passes for news???
The article is supposed to make us think that somehow, the woman who reasoned the way she did was because she was insightful, contemplative, and educated. She is a dumbass.
Even as we post, RINOs are singing kumbaya and holding hands with the Democrats to pass "gun control."
Some Democrats voting in GOP contests to block Trump picks
An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4067465/posts
There's that OUR DEMOCRACY thing again. I think what it really means is our upcoming global communism.
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