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REUTERS: Pro-Trump conspiracy theorists hound election officials out of office
Reuters ^ | Oct 20 | By LINDA SO, JOSEPH TANFANI and JASON SZEP

Posted on 10/20/2022 4:10:34 AM PDT by RandFan

Nevada

Businessman Robert Beadles claimed he had found evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. He went on the attack, targeting a 48-year-old woman who runs elections in Nevada’s Washoe County

“Now, let’s talk about treason. That’s right, treason,” Beadles told a Feb. 22 county commissioners’ meeting in Washoe, the second-largest county in this election battleground state. The Republican activist falsely accused the registrar of voters, Deanna Spikula, of counting fraudulent votes and told commissioners to “either fire her or lock her up.”

After the meeting, Spikula’s office was flooded with hostile and harassing calls from people convinced she was part of a conspiracy to rig the election against former U.S. President Donald Trump. On March 2, a caller threatened to bring 100 people to the county building to “put this to bed today.” Spikula, under severe stress, stopped coming into the office. A post on Beadles’ website said she was “rumored to be in rehab.” That was false, she said; she was at home, working on a state elections manual.

By late June, fearing for her family’s safety, she’d had enough and submitted her resignation.

Beadles’ campaign in Washoe is part of a wave of efforts by pro-Trump activists to gain control of voting administration by replacing county government leaders with election conspiracy theorists. Some are spending big money. In Nevada, Beadles has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into campaigns targeting opponents of Trump’s false rigged-election claims and backing Republicans who believe them.

The goal: to profoundly change how U.S. elections are run. Right-wing activists want to eliminate voting machines and return to hand-counting of paper ballots, which experts say would make elections more prone to fraud, not less. Trump allies have also targeted the ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting that Democrats embraced in 2020

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; demnewsoperatives; dncnewsoperatives; electionfraud; jasonszep; josephtanfani; libnewsoperatives; lindaso; mediabias; reuters; voterfraud
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To: Liz

And now they are trying to paint Trump with the same actions that Hillary did. But she was right to try, wasn’t she and Trump wasn’t.


41 posted on 10/20/2022 9:30:44 AM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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To: RandFan

They stole one election and have every intention to continue stealing elections. How dare anyone try to stop it?


42 posted on 10/20/2022 10:40:08 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: who knows what evil?

1960’s vote rigging, a definite, ballots found in the trunk of a car late in the counting in democratville, democrats come from behind to win. The steal is real.


43 posted on 10/20/2022 2:28:32 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so mee s)
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