After crying fraud, Republicans go silent when Nevada ally is charged with voting twice

[Demovictory9]

Days after the November 2020 election, Kirk Hartle appeared on Las Vegas television, his brow furrowed and voice tinged with disbelief.


Someone, he said, had intercepted the ballot mailed to his wife, Rosemarie, and cast it in her stead. Rosemarie Hartle died of breast cancer in 2017.


"That is pretty sickening to me, to be honest with you," Hartle told KLAS-TV.

For President Trump, his campaign surrogates and their champions in the conservative media, it was an outrage and, they claimed, a mere hint of the widespread fraud that cost Trump not just Nevada's six precious electoral votes but a second term in the White House.

"Dead people voted in Clark County," Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and one of Trump's loyal foot soldiers, asserted at a nationally televised Las Vegas news conference. He cited the case of Rosemarie Hartle as just one example.

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Last week, the state's Democratic attorney general, working with Nevada's Republican secretary of state, announced that investigators had cracked the case. Hartle, 55, was charged with two counts of fraud: voting more than once in the same election and voting using another person's name. He allegedly forged his late wife's signature to cast the ballot she'd been sent.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/column-after-crying-fraud-republicans-go-silent-when-nevada-ally-is-charged-with-voting-twice/ar-AAPY6va?ocid=msedgntp

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Well, shut my mouth!

Also, I hope the people of Clark County will take that chairperson up on his name...

[MagickMuffin]

2. Someone, had intercepted the ballot mailed to his wife

And that someone was . . . .



me!

[Demovictory9]

5. Lol..yep

[struggle4progress]

3. Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies

[struggle4progress]

4. Honesty is such a lonely word

[struggle4progress]

6. Liar! liar, liar!

[gratuitous]

7. The outrage, it's situational

We'll all be admonished not to intrude on poor Kirk Hartle's ongoing grief over the death of his beloved wife, a grief that drove him to vote a ballot in her name in the 2020 election. Let us please not turn this little episode over to the huggermugger of the legal system, where Mr. Hartle will be further hurt.

If we insist on the harsh measures and punishments for Mr. Hartle that the Republicans swore a blood oath to inflict, it will be just so unfair! We liberals and progressives need to sit down and shut the fuck up, rather than use Republicans' own words against them. At least, that's what I've heard from estimable voices in our national discourse.