Sheriffs Are Ready To Challenge Election Results

[Nevilledog]

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/sheriffs-are-ready-to-challenge-election-results/

In March of 2024, at the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel in Las Vegas, “constitutional sheriffs” like Washington State’s Sheriff Bob Songer and Michigan’s Sheriff Dar Leaf took to a makeshift stage, stood next to the stars and stripes and proclaimed that they were ready to challenge the 2024 presidential election results, using force if necessary.

The event was co-sponsored by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), the largest group of “constitutional sheriffs” in the country. Led by ex-Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, the organization encourages elected county sheriffs to “[take] a stand against unlawful incursions and overreach of government bureaucrats” by refusing to enforce federal and state gun control laws and COVID-related health mandates and, most recently, by investigating alleged instances of “voter fraud.”

Mack and his followers also believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, including the “Great Replacement Theory,” which posits that Democrats are manipulating immigration to boost their votes, as well as theories about foreign interference in U.S. elections and disproven wild ideas about voting machines.

The hazy idea that elections are tainted and, therefore, subject to skepticism, has encouraged several sheriffs across the country to open sham voting fraud investigations. Mack has even gone on the road, determined to recruit more sheriffs not just to investigate alleged “voter fraud,” but also to form posses to serve as auxiliary patrol units for ballot boxes and polling locations. As he told Wired this month, “Every sheriff in this country should verify the security and integrity of the voting in their county. Every single one.”

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[live love laugh]

1. Call the real police. Now. Because fuck them.

I’m pretty sure they will show up in the Democratic areas because Republicans don’t cheat.

[orthoclad]

4. Bullies with lawful guns and badges protect each other.

Not always, but often enough.

[live love laugh]

7. Good point but these self proclaimed scum have no standing or jurisdiction.

[Attilatheblond]

2. There are chaps who go into law enforcement to actually protect & serve, then there are others...

who want/need to inflict their will on others all the damn time. The 'Constitutional Sheriffs' are part of that latter group. Bunch of spoiled, snot nose brats who never grew up past their Terrible Twos when they decided they were the center of the universe. They got big, got rights, figured out how to throw their weight around in order to maintain their personal delusions about being the center of the universe. That is how bullies evolve.

Give them a badge and a bit of authority and they will think THEY, not the federal government, are the deciders about what is and isn't legal, allowed, or acceptable.

We have too many chaps like this, and we even allowed the most insane of them into the Oval Office.

Never again.

We are NOT going back and these members of the bully posse need to be voted out of their offices too.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Every Sheriff attempting to do this need to be called out

And be closely monitored

[chouchou]

5. Sheriffs are like other people and fruit. There's rotton ones here and there.

[sakabatou]

6. If they DO try and challenge, strip them of their badge and ISSUED firearm

[Dennis Donovan]

8. So, they spend tomorrow harassing poll workers and voters.

What do these clowns do Wednesday should the VP win?

[splunge63]

9. FAFO

go ahead, I dare you

[Bayard]

10. Call in the state police to sit on them

[oasis]

12. Or better, put federal marshals on their asses.

[Think. Again.]

11. I certainly hope the fbi had undercovers at this "event"...

....it's clearly obvious these people, elected sheriffs or not, are planning on comitting violent election interference crimes and need to be stopped by federal authorities before they hurt, kill, or interfere with someone's vote.

[MichDem10]

13. Michigan sheriff...

The Michigan sheriff Dar Leaf named in the story is from the county I grew up in ( a VERY RED county). The 2020 presidential race in that county was roughly 71.6% (R) to 28.4% (D). Clearly he is not the least bit self aware. R's typically win by those margins in the county. If the sheriff suspects voter fraud then he needs to investgate his own party because the township clerks that run the elections are Republicans! The conspiracy theory rot is deep in this country.