Republican Party Building An 'Army' to Overturn Election Results - Report. (Politico)

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- The Guardian, June 1, 2022. Ed. - Alleged scheme include installing volunteers as poll workers and getting attorneys who could intervene to block votes, * Politico says -

The Republican party is building a grassroots “army” to target and potentially overturn election results in Democratic precincts, the *Politico website reported on Wednesday, citing video evidence. The alleged scheme includes installing party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, creating a website to put these workers in touch with local lawyers and establishing a network of district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts.

Many Republicans still believe Donald Trump’s lie that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden because of widespread voter fraud. At state level the party has passed laws that make it harder to vote while pro-Trump candidates are running for positions that would give them control over future elections. Politico obtained a series of recordings of Republican meetings between the summer of 2021 and May this year. It said one from November shows Matthew Seifried, the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) election integrity director for Michigan, urging party activists in Wayne County to obtain official designations as poll workers.

Seifried says: “Being a poll worker, you just have so many more rights and things you can do to stop something than [as] a poll challenger.”

Some of the would-be poll workers complain that fraud was committed in 2020 and that the election was “corrupt”. At another training session last October, Seifried promises support for such workers: “It’s going to be an army. We’re going to have more lawyers than we’ve ever recruited, because let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?” Politico also obtained Zoom tapings of Tim Griffin, legal counsel to the Amistad Project, a self-described election integrity group that Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani once portrayed as a “partner” in the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Griffin is seen meeting with activists from multiple states and discussing plans for identifying friendly district attorneys who could stage interventions in local election disputes. He says during one meeting in Sept.: “Remember, guys, we’re trying to build out a nationwide district attorney network. Your local district attorney, as we always say, is more powerful than your congressman. “They’re the ones that can seat a grand jury. They’re the ones that can start an investigation, issue subpoenas, make sure that records are retained, etc.” Politico added that installing party loyalists on the board of canvassers, which is responsible for certifying election results, also appears to be part of the Republican strategy.

The revelations are sure to intensify concerns about fresh assaults on American democracy in 2022 and 2024...
- More, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/01/republicans-plan-overturn-election-results-report
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* Politico: ‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections.' June 1, 2022. - Placing operatives as poll workers and building a "hotline" to friendly attorneys are among the strategies to be deployed in Michigan and other swing states. -https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758

[Abolishinist]

1. Translation: We're doomed.

Democracy as we once knew it is dead.

[Cheezoholic]

6. Im not

I will fight these fuckers to the death if I have too. If they take over they better look out.

[Hortensis]

7. :) Oh, people have called it "dead as we knew it" various times before,

and they were always wrong.

The anti-democracy sorts who tried to take the Democratic nomination away from the majority in 2016 certainly weren't anything new, and they're small potatoes compared to what's always seethed resentfully among the authoritarian right.

In any case, protecting democracy from them has been an every-election thing for over 200 years. Built in to the processes -- we have resources. And armies.

[Murphyb849]

2. THAT is why they are bragging about voter intimidation. To make Democrats

Either believe voting is futile, or we will be intimidated and harassed at the voting booth. This is the point of letting these plans be known.
I refuse to be believe we are doomed.
We elected Biden against all odds including cheating by Republicans and Russians. We voted in droves and legitimately gave a big win to our party.
Yes it sucks to have to do it again times 1000.
But we can vote these bastards out. YES WE CAN.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Sure, but we have to do it...

Vote the bastards out.

Remember years ago when the Tea Party was a big deal? You'll notice that they have gone up in smoke, saying Republicans were doing them dirt. That they had Bachmann and Palin as chief spokespeople didn't help any more than Boebert and Greene do now.

I remember when some of them showed up as "poll watchers", certificate and everything, but they were actually too stupid to know what a poll watcher does, and walked out when they found out they had to do some work and shut up.

Anyway, they learned, and won't be as fucked up this time, but they will be fucked up, as we saw last November and all we have to do is keep our wits about us.

[ItsjustMe]

3. The Republican Army - The Lincoln Project

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017739719

[Kablooie]

5. The coup is alive and well.

And this time it will be well organized.
Democrats had better start thinking outside the box because the Republicans will smash the Box to smithereens soon.