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Hounded by baseless voter fraud allegations, an entire county's election staff quits in Virginia
NBC News / Comcast ^ | April 10, 2023 | By Jane C. Timm (D-NBC)

Posted on 04/10/2023 3:49:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BUCKINGHAM, Virginia — Lindsey Taylor loved running elections here.

The previous registrar had spent nearly three decades in the job, and Taylor, 37, hoped to do the same when she was first hired in 2019. She loved her staff and the volunteer poll workers, and she took pride in the detail-oriented work. She implemented dozens of new laws in 2020, ran elections through the pandemic and impressed many in the rural, conservative, tight-knit community of Buckingham County.

But then the voter fraud claims started.

In January, the GOP assumed control of the Buckingham County Electoral Board that oversees her office, and local Republicans began advancing baseless voter fraud claims that baffled her. The electoral board made it clear it wanted her out of the job.

“There were people saying that they had heard all these rumors — that the attorney general was going to indict me,” Taylor said, days after leaving the office for the last time. “Mentally, I just — I couldn’t take it anymore.”

Three weeks ago, frustrated and heartbroken, Taylor, along with two part-time staffers, quit. Their resignations followed a deputy registrar who left in February, citing the same conflict.

Years after former President Donald Trump began pushing his lies about stolen elections, communities like Buckingham County are grappling with the aftershocks: What happens when election denialism drives out the people needed to keep local democracy running?

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: baseless; baselessyeahright; bias; buckinghamcounty; election2022; electionfraud; frauddenial; frauddeniers; janectimm; journalism; media; mediabias; press; voterfraud
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Noticed that, too...like signatures don’t have to match?


41 posted on 04/10/2023 6:06:49 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: GOPJ

They know what theyll find....thats why they never look very hard.


42 posted on 04/10/2023 6:09:21 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant
I've yet to read an enemedia article citing the baseless and fraudulent Russian collusion charges on the 2016 election. Not one.
43 posted on 04/10/2023 6:16:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This article is hilariously stupid.

It was all so wonderful. I was so proud of myself and the wonderful job I was doing. I aspired to hold this job for decades until......until...... those evil people took over. The Orange man who hates our democracy made people unable to see the wonderment of all the laws I changed.......and now this. It is a sacrilege I tell ya . SOB SOB I am quitting and it is all his fault. They will miss me when I am gone. Whahhhhhaa


44 posted on 04/10/2023 6:19:41 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

Good point.


45 posted on 04/10/2023 6:20:45 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pretty face. Needs to go on a diet.


46 posted on 04/10/2023 6:25:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I agree with Mao Tse Tung and Jimmy Carter on one thing. The Continuing Revolution requires that no one in government feel secure in their jobs. Personnel turnover is good for bureaucracy and the country.


47 posted on 04/10/2023 6:29:42 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If she can’t commit voter fraud, she will just leave. So there.


48 posted on 04/10/2023 6:29:55 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: AppyPappy

That dog only barks two words: “baseless” and “discredited”.


49 posted on 04/10/2023 6:44:47 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: GOPJ

Democrats have been doing voter fraud for decades.

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MUCH longer than that.

Mail-in ballots were part of a plot to deny Lincoln reelection in

1864

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50 posted on 04/10/2023 6:53:38 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pi** off, criminals. You betrayed your oath just like a priest who abuses kids.
It is not that you have to prove your innocence. Your system is supposed to be bullet-proof. If it is not, you are, at best, incompetent. Or, you are a criminal.


51 posted on 04/10/2023 6:54:15 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: cuz1961

She’s not quiting , I think she’s running from something she’s afraid of being uncovered.

If she moves to a different state entirely,,well...wouldnt surprise me.


52 posted on 04/10/2023 6:56:33 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
baseless

BS Alert!!!

53 posted on 04/10/2023 6:57:54 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
pushing his lies

This, in a supposedly "objective" "news" article???

They don't even pretend any more.

54 posted on 04/10/2023 6:59:08 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BobL

Pride? The sin that got Satan booted from Heaven? Bad hill to die on, honey...


55 posted on 04/10/2023 7:01:38 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

And she thinks she will receive universal pity for quitting? I am glad she is gone.


56 posted on 04/10/2023 7:03:23 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: semimojo
I wonder what the complaints about the elections were.

I think they probably just wanted their own person in there. Of course, the Dems will put their own person back in when they reacquire the governorship.

57 posted on 04/10/2023 7:26:07 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: rlmorel

All thru my life-—Civil Servants got more pay & benefits.


58 posted on 04/10/2023 7:26:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: MrRelevant
Re: Baseless ….. Always baseless

The GOP should be suing NBC News and Comcast for defamation.

Prove it is baseless, NBC.

Instead, the Virginia GOP will apologize and retract the accusation.

The GOP leadership is pathetic.

59 posted on 04/10/2023 7:49:41 AM PDT by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any process that is not auditable is on it’s face fraudulent. All election processes are unauditable by design.
“The article goes into detail on the audit of the election process”/s No there is not audit done however
“Braxton said the board had completed an investigation into the issues Christian raised and found no violations of law. Several days later, she resigned from the electoral board. “

An investigation is not an audit. And an audit request is not a personal attack. No one wants to be audited but any process that cannot be audited is on it’s face fraudulent.


60 posted on 04/10/2023 7:56:03 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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