Joyce Vance on Disturbing news from Georgia . . . and a little joy too. [View all]

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https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/disturbing-news-from-georgia?r=lxca0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Today, emails between county election officials in Georgia surfaced, revealing that election deniers from 2020 are busily working on a plan to call the results of November’s election into question—presumably only if Trump loses. Apparently, they are gifted fortune tellers and have determined, before the first ballot has ever been cast, that the 2024 election will be overwhelmed by fraud. Amazing.

Election officials from at least five Georgia counties are involved, calling themselves the Georgia Election Integrity Coalition. According to people who have reviewed the emails, many of the people involved in the exchanges had already, as of earlier this year, refused to certify election results. The goal of their plan is to hamper certification of the election results if Trump loses.

This news is not a surprise. As we’ve discussed previously, there are some efforts underway to pretend the purely ministerial obligation election officials have to certify completed counts is something else, a process whose outcome these officials have the discretion to challenge. If this sounds familiar, it’s roughly akin to the idea of delaying certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2020, to throw the election into chaos amidst claims of (nonexistent) fraud. It’s a recipe for a coup.

When we discussed this in August, we noted that “The duty of these officials to certify election results is ‘ministerial’—a task they are required to do. They lack discretion to question the vote counts.

All of it at the link, including the part that gives joy.