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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Bannon Hand that Rocks the Democracy Cradle (Precincts) Rules the Elections..
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Apologies is this was posted. This thread started on Twitter.... (im so busy, prob behind) It bears reposting anyway.
Isaac Ansforf:
BREAKING: We found 1000s of Trump supporters taking over local GOP positions an unprecedented grassroots groundswell devoted to Trumps insistence that the 2020 election was stolen & Republicans need to stop that from happening again
https://t.co/btjMNXvft3
Most voters arent familiar with these precinct positions. But they have power over how elections are run: poll workers, board appointments, pressure on GOP officials. https://t.co/NmLDycVMwq
But it wasnt just people mouthing off online. People actually went out and got elected or appointed to precinct positions thousands of them. As one county chair said, Those podcasts actually paid off. https://t.co/Eo7W2nmOJu
There are hundreds of thousands of these precinct positions, and they arent centrally tracked. It took a ton of work to track them down. Heres how we did it...
We focused on politically competitive states. We looked for signs of activity in far-right media. Then we contacted 100s of party officials & activists to find out how many new people were showing up. All-star team @DougBockClark @AlexandraBerzon @AnjeanetteDamon @mrsimon22
We found an increase of 8,500+ new local GOP officials in 41 key counties. Key states such as AZ, NV, NC, SC, GA, FL, TX, PA, WI, MI.
See details...
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The Bannon Hand that Rocks the Democracy Cradle (Precincts) Rules the Elections.. (Original Post)
leighbythesea2
Sep 2021
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spanone
(141,211 posts)1. republicons have lost their fucking minds.
leighbythesea2
(1,291 posts)2. Frightening
Since he is the one that worked with Cambridge Analytics algorithm discovery to use it in Facebook for malevolent intent, he's versed in quiet mechanisms for terrible outcomes. And so far it is not like the fb situation has been "undone".
