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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Georgia's new law was around before the 2020 election, Trump might have just 'found' those votes
What if Georgia election officials had somehow found those nonexistent votes that then-President Donald Trump pressured them to find to overturn his narrow loss in the Peach State? What if there hadnt been a secretary of state with not only the spine but the authority to make sure the election was immune from partisan cheating?
Thanks to a somewhat overlooked provision in Georgias new restrictive voting law and similar measures being pushed in more than a half-dozen other GOP-controlled legislatures, the skids are becoming better greased for Trump-style election tampering in the future. These attempts to subvert the will of voters must be stopped.
Tucked inside the new Georgia elections law is a measure that shifts a significant amount of election oversight power from the secretary of state and county election boards to the legislature. The measure removes the elected secretary of state as chair of the state election board and replaces him or her with an appointee of the Republican-run legislature.
Such a coincidence! Just a few months after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says no to magical vote-finding, the legislature takes a chunk of power and authority from his office and shifts it to someone of their choosing and, we can only assume, more likely to do their bidding.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-might-found-votes-needed-100155899.html
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)Mysterian
(4,520 posts)If the fascist republicans had successfully seized power by subverting the election results, it would have been the end of democracy in the USA.