A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 8:32 AM EDT, May 4, 2024


ATLANTA (AP) — It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online.

So Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who had defended the 2020 election in Georgia amid an onslaught of threats, posted a message to his nearly 71,000 followers on the social platform X explaining what had happened and saying that all votes would be counted correctly.

He faced immediate criticism from one commenter about why he was weighing in on another state’s election while other responses reiterated false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “It’s still the right thing to do,” Sterling told a gathering the following day, stressing the importance of Republican officials speaking up to defend elections. “We have to be prepared to say over and over again -- other states are doing it different than us, but they are not cheating.”

Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, is part of an effort begun after the last presidential election that seeks to bring together Republican officials who are willing to defend the country’s election systems and the people who run them. They want officials to reinforce the message that elections are secure and accurate, an approach they say is especially important as the country heads toward another divisive presidential contest.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/election-lies-trump-republicans-2024-legitimacy-f9b015fb3ead18f5c7b1432415680361

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I had watched that guy's press conference back in 2020 and he was a little firebrand. GA ended up doing 3 recounts forced by loons (some based on out of state pressure). It's reminding me of how the MAGats turned on Mr. "Far Right Conservative" himself, James Lankford (R-OK), and the disillusion that he expressed afterwards (although still not ready to cut ties with MAGats).

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I'm still on guard

I don't trust them.

[RussBLib]

2. Good to see

...there are indeed still many decent and honest Republicans out there. More need to speak up and repudiate Trump in the process.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[EarthFirst]

3. Interestingly enough; they have no issues purging voters...

…and hiring third-party vendors to do their dirty work.

They’re just concerned enough about it to ensure that the right type of person is voting; just not everyone having the same ballot access as those whom they favor.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I think I saw an article

where they announced they were going through that purge... errr... "review" process right now.

I will never expect them to become Democrats. But one less vote for 45 and MAGats is one less vote for the democracy-destroying loons.

[Martin68]

5. That's a good turn of events. We need that kind of support from the other side.

[FakeNoose]

6. Thank you Gabriel Sterling

This is proof that not all Repukes are evil, not all of them are idiots. Eventually the MAGAts will be tuned out.