Posted on 10/10/2022 11:54:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
DENVER — County clerks across Colorado say they’re bracing for a surge of highly motivated election deniers working as poll watchers or election judges in the November midterms — part of a nationwide attempt to manufacture evidence of election fraud.
Local, state and federal officials, alongside political experts, have repeatedly debunked claims of election fraud but clerks in Chaffee, Eagle, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Summit and Weld counties told the Denver Post they’re still seeing an increasing number of bad-faith poll watchers and election judges around the state.
Encouraged, even recommended, by party officials or far-right voices with national reach, the clerks say those watchers and judges have antagonized or threatened election workers, wrongly rejected hundreds of ballots, and one man in Chaffee County even tried to steal a password to the election system last year.
The irony sits in the notion that these far-right election judges and poll watchers are damaging the country’s foundation of fair and free elections, all under the guise of fighting for election security, said Larry Jacobs, a professor of political history, elections and voting behavior at the University of Minnesota. Their goals appear to be to sow doubt and prop up losing candidates. The effort continues former President Donald Trump’s work to overturn the 2020 election except it’s now more sophisticated.
“It’s moved from spur of the moment, ad hoc, to an organized, well-funded, premeditated effort to make charges of election fraud,” Jacobs said.
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We need a meme on denatured elections.
The real McCoy.
ACME Roadrunner elections.
Funny how putting up poster-board on the windows of the counting rooms makes people suspicious of just what’s going on.
Funny how putting up poster-board, on the counting room windows...doesn’t get THEM called election STEALERS...by the lying, Fake News media!
How about the counties in Ohio & Pennsylvania in 2008 that showed NOT A SINGLE VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY?
ONLY OBAMA VOTES————in the whole county-———
People that are getting off their butts to help with the process are now bad for doing that ?
They had questions and complained about integrity of the process.
So now instead of ranting online, they assume civic duties and help out.
Now they are bad people for participating in the process rather than ranting online?
Wow, liberals really do hate conservatives getting involved.
Those smelly Walmart people will just get in our way.
They should have battered those windows down.
What a concept: Election officials should have to prove the elections are fair. They sit back and say “just trust us”
Here they kicked out GOP POLL watchers to the top of the TCF BUILDING. There is a video showing the Dem leader there telling GOP folks that due to COVID, THEY have to limit number of people in the building. The GOP rep so, send up equal number of dem folks and send down GOP folks. Nope. Notta.
They used 6ft distance for reasons keeping GOP people from doing their jobs. Claimed also they had their masks below their noses. Funny thing there are lots of photo’s of workers there with their masks down below their noses and they were not GOP workers.
Pretty hard to check the laptop when checking voting info standing 6 ft back. I trained to be a worker for that and when I asked how can I possibly view the laptop from 6 ft away, my GOP trainer said, well you can’t. So I didn’t work. What’s the point. GOP wouldn’t even fight to have that rule thrown out. Just caved.
Getting the same number after recounting the same ballots is not the issue. Throwing out the illegal ballots and then recounting is the issue.
That's encouraging!
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