'A different level than 2020': Trump's plan to steal election is taking shape

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape

Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results serves as a preview to expected challenges in November

Sam Levine in New York
Mon 12 Aug 2024 11.00 BST

There wasn’t anything particularly controversial about Georgia’s presidential primary in March this year. Donald Trump won the Republican contest – picking up a little more than 400,000 more votes than Nikki Haley, who had long dropped out of the race.

Nonetheless, two Republicans on the five-person Fulton county election board refused to certify the election.

Julie Adams and Michael Heekin didn’t point to specific irregularities. Instead, they said they needed more information from election administrators, like chain-of-custody documents for ballots. Adams and Heekin were outvoted.

But it didn’t end there. In May, Adams, who is a part of an election activist network founded by Cleta Mitchell, voted against certifying another Georgia primary election. Again, despite no irregularities, she said she needed more information. With the backing of a group closely aligned with Donald Trump, Adams had also recently sued the Fulton county board, asking a judge to declare that she and other commissioners could choose not to certify the election.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-overturn-result-presidential-election-vote

[Think. Again.]

1. This part of the article stands out to me....

"First, Trump may be better prepared. Mitchell, a close Trump ally, has spent the last few years building up a network of activists focused on local boards of elections. And the Republican National Committee’s election litigation team is now being led by Christina Bobb, an election denier who is now facing criminal charges for her efforts to overturn the 2020 race. The RNC claims it is recruiting an army of 100,000 poll observers who could provide significant disruption during voting and counting.

“I think we saw efforts by Republicans in 2020 that were pretty ham-handed,” said Marc Elias, a top Democratic voting rights lawyer. “I worry that there will be both legal and extralegal efforts by Republicans to keep ballots from being counted.”

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Bobb isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer

And Mitchell is a craven zealot, not some genius mastermind.

They have the capacity to sow chaos, but it is far from certain they can prevail.

Swing state governors, AG’s and SOS’s may have to order some mass arrests of recalcitrant MAGA elections workers to thwart these schemes.

As this cycle has already shown us, we must be prepared to expect the unexpected.

[lees1975]

2. Democrats should have plenty of poll watchers.

and election judges.

[CoopersDad]

4. Clearly a practice run. nt

[BlueWavePsych]

5. More here ...

https://democraticunderground.com/100219321533