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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican push to recruit election deniers as poll workers causes alarm
(Guardian UK) Republicans and other conservative groups are undertaking a huge effort to recruit election workers, a push that could install people with unfounded doubts about the 2020 election in key positions in voting precincts where they could exert considerable power over elections.
At the forefront of this push is Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who was on Donald Trumps legal team in 2020 and played a key role in his effort to overturn the election. Over the last few months, Mitchell has held election integrity summits in several battleground states, convening groups and citizens who continue to believe the 2020 election was stolen. The summits offer in-depth training on how to monitor election offices and how to work elections. At a mid-June summit in North Carolina, Mitchell mocked the term election denier and said whether the outcome was correct, thats all I deny. Voter fraud is extremely rare and there was no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020.
The effort, called the Election Integrity Network, underscores how Trump and allies are capitalizing on now deeply seeded Republican doubt about Joe Bidens victory and are targeting key election offices and jobs that play a considerable role in determining how ballots are cast and counted. The summits are a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), a group with close ties to Trumps political operation, and where Mitchell is a senior legal fellow. Mark Meadows, Trumps former chief of staff, is a senior partner at CPI.
Mitchell has described the effort as a way to take control of the apparatus of local elections, according to ABC News. CPI did not return a request for comment.
Given that people who were part of the attempted coup are behind this, its certainly something that at a minimum we need to be vigilant about, said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, who works closely with election officials across the country on election administration issues. ............(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/republican-recruit-poll-workers-election-integrity
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Republican push to recruit election deniers as poll workers causes alarm (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2022
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Lovie777
(12,257 posts)1. GQPs are really insecure . . . .
like Putin.
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)2. Hope they all have bail money
and the number of a good lawyer.
The 'watchers' will be watched.