JeffCo Republicans Claim Elections Have Been Fraudulent for Over a Decade

[TexasTowelie]

Multiple Jefferson County Republicans believe their local elections have been fraudulent since as far back as 2010.

A current party official and former candidates shared their allegations with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is running to be the GOP nominee for Colorado secretary of state after she gave her own conspiracy-laden speech to the JeffCo Republican Men’s Club two weeks ago.

Peters concluded her prepared remarks by invoking the “red pill” Matrix movie scene adopted by QAnon followers and other conspiracists as a metaphor for their discovery of “the truth.”

“In the popular movie series The Matrix a few years ago,” said Peters. “After the staggering truth was revealed to the hero who was given the choice to take a blue pill and forget all the truth revealed to him and go back into the matrix. Or take the red pill that would help him embrace the truth. This election isn’t just about red and blue, it’s about falsehoods and the truth. My name is Tina Peters and I’m running for Secretary of State.”

Peters remains under investigation by federal, state, and local authorities for her role in the release of Mesa County’s election data to a QAnon-linked website. She is also facing obstruction of justice and contempt charges related to her subsequent interactions with courts and law enforcement. She continues to assert, without evidence, that “globalists who have their thumb on the scales” are rigging elections nationally and here in Colorado, even including last year’s municipal election in Mesa County. Earlier this year the FBI searched Peters house, as well as the home of her campaign manager, Sherronna Bishop, who previously managed Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s campaign, executing warrants as part of the investigation into the data breach.

Read more: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2022/03/jeffco-republicans-claim-elections-have-been-fraudulent-for-over-a-decade/43574/

[Chainfire]

1. In a roundabout way, there is some smattering of truth there.

Elections are being rigged by big money. Money has the ability to glorify or damn a candidate through advertising campaigns. Money effectively selects who has the ability to mount a viable campaign. A tiny minority of extremely rich Americans donate 40% of all campaign finance money. In effect, they buy policy. The big problem is that these QAnon nuts, think that the system is rigged in favor of Democrats, and nothing could be further from the truth.

It is absolutely amazing to me that so many Americans embrace such obviously insane organizations as QAnon. What happened to make people insensitive to the smell of bullshit? How is it possible that 40% of Americans are insane?