'Vote stealing in plain sight': Ethics expert sounds the alarm on Georgia election board

[B.See]

'Vote stealing in plain sight': Ethics expert sounds the alarm on Georgia election board - Rawstory

Former Obama White House ethics czar and impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen sounded the alarm about the Georgia Election Board changing the rules to give Donald Trump a boost.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday that the Trump-endorsed board is trying to change rules for the certification of the results.

The report explained that the three officials were involved in a "possibly illegal meeting where they approved two new election rules suggested to them directly by Georgia GOP chair Josh McKoon, who (along with the three officials) was also praised by Trump" during his rally on Saturday.

The Trump-backed majority will consider 15 changes, one of which would require "reasonable inquiry" before any county approves an election.

MEANWHILE:

"They're laying the foundation to do it again": Maddow details GOP plan to undermine 2024 election - Salon.com

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sat down with Democratic lawyer Marc Elias on Monday to discuss Donald Trump's past efforts at election subversion and how his supporters are preparing to again undermine the vote in November.

"Republicans pioneered this in Michigan in 2020," Maddow said, speaking about Trump's pressuring of GOP officials to not sign a certification of the 2020 presidential election.

"Now Republicans have kept trying this thing in every election since," she added, citing a recent report from Democracy Docket, Elias' voting rights advocacy group, that officials in at least 10 counties have now refused to certify accurate election results. Republicans in Pennsylvania and Arizona also attempted to block the certification of the general election results outright.

"They're laying the foundation to do it again, in the next national election," Maddow said, noting how Trump at a Georgia rally last weekend "randomly" shouted out the names of three members of the Georgia state board of elections. "Those three officials have all refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election," Maddow clarified. "They are now trying to push through new rules that would make it easier for county-level officials to refuse to certify election results."

[Dave Bowman]

1. They simply don't know how to do anything without cheating.

That's so pathetic.

[Skittles]

2. it's the only way they can "win"

they simply do NOT believe in DEMOCRACY

[GoodRaisin]

3. Their actions have nothing to do with election administration. They are

actively engaged in planning and staging a government takeover! I don’t get why they are allowed to continue with what they are trying to do. What is the law around such un-American activity ? Seems to me they should be arrested for what they are doing.

Who are they really working for? The MAGA Party? Putin? China?

[proud patriot]

4. kick

[Think. Again.]

5. Thanks for posting this.

I hope everyone realizes that this Georgia situation is only the tip of the iceberg, this is just the one "mini-coup" that we happen to know about, the rightwingers have many, many more in the works.

Their hope is to create so much chaos around the November election that the true results will not matter.

[rampartc]

6. seems obvious where this goes if they kick it to the supremes

or that state by state vote in congress.

perfectly legal. but what kind of "mandate" will this azzwhole claim for his immune self? certainly no claim to "consent of the governed ( the problem biden has had for 4 years- not his fault- these nihilists are ungovernable, and should have been crushed by jan 7.)

i'll be in the streets. non violent, of course, but geez, that is getting old.

[B.See]

8. Tip of the iceberg is right. There are MANY other similar stories.

Cousin of mine told me of THOUSANDS of names published in her county's local newspaper, pages and pages of "inactive voters" - names so small one would need a frkng magnifier to read them.

I'm guessing this is what MAGA's consider "official notice."

CHECK YOUR REGISTRATIONS... REPEATEDLY.

Why thousands of Michigan votes likely weren’t counted in Tuesday’s primary - Rawstory

Ohio removes 155,000 from voter rolls ahead of November's presidential election - CBS

Elon Musk Super PAC Spending Millions Collecting Battleground State Voter Data to Elect Donald Trump - Mediaite

MEANWHILE:

Thousands of voter challenges rejected in Georgia over faulty data - Raw Story

A Georgia county election board rejected a wave of voter challenges filed under the state's new election law.

The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration dismissed an attempt Saturday to cancel the registrations of 2,472 voters challenged by local conservative activist Eugene Williams using software from the Republican-backed company EagleAI to identify voters who may have moved, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Williams has previously challenged thousands of registrations using the database to find voters without an identifiable address, and the state's Republican legislature passed a new law that went into effect July 1 to give private citizens even more power to challenge voter eligibility.

Nevada GOP loses in court again in bid to block mail ballot counting - Rawstory

[Think. Again.]

9. Would you consider making this post it's own thread?

You've got great info there and this is extremely important.

Thanks for this.

[slightlv]

7. I've said all along

that the coup never stopped. Jan 6 was only one part... A part that failed. There were other moving parts even while it was going on, like the fake electors. They won't stop until the are stopped by the public and by the legal system. Problem is, as I see it, is that democrats and most normal people can't think like they do. Down that far into the gutter is not a usual place for us. Second, the minions want... and the oligarchy doesn't care about... a civil war. They think the normal 3/4 of the country will just shrug shoulders and say what can you do? They don't realize we feel stronger about retaining our freedoms and our democracy than they feel towards tearing it down. They only think the Watts riots were bad. Wait until they actually start shooting demonstrators and see the country catch fire. I hated the movie Red Dawn, but there are a lot of us who've been thru counter terrorism training, as well as actually fought it. And what are these enemies within but terrorists? The public will have its say... I just don't have trust in the legal system any longer. But when protests and fighting gets bad enough it starts to effect the oligarchs' bottom lines, I'd lay odds on which side wins.

But IMO, if we make it absolutely clear at the start of the cheat I'd bet they back down like any other bully. But its gonna take someone like Marc Elias to get a head on these state changes. SCOTUS doesn't get involved in state laws, so this would be at state Supreme court. Not all of them have been taken over by magas.

Meanwhile, something has to be done about treasonous Old Don. I'm sorry now that was only a piece of plastic that grazed his ear... if indeed it even did. He must be made to pay for his crimes against the people and the country... and for his crimes against humanity in the things he did to immigrants and their children. I include his congressional lackeys, too.

One thought I just had... All these independent repubs on our side could turn ally in helping to contain Trump and electoral damage, if they would. They're much more familiar with repub tricks than we are. I guess we'll see how badly they want to keep democracy.