The Inside Story of Michigan's Fake Voter Fraud Scandal

[OneBlueSky]

How a state that was never in doubt became a "national embarrassment" and a symbol of the Republican Party’s fealty to Donald Trump. (bold emphasis added)

By Tim Alberta, Politico, 11/24/2020

After five years spent bullying the Republican Party into submission, President Donald Trump finally met his match in Aaron Van Langevelde.

Who?

That’s right. In the end, it wasn’t a senator or a judge or a general who stood up to the leader of the free world. There was no dramatic, made-for-Hollywood collision of cosmic egos. Rather, the death knell of Trump’s presidency was sounded by a baby-faced lawyer, looking over his glasses on a grainy Zoom feed on a gloomy Monday afternoon, reading from a statement that reflected a courage and moral clarity that has gone AWOL from his party, pleading with the tens of thousands of people watching online to understand that some lines can never be uncrossed.

“We must not attempt to exercise power we simply don’t have,” declared Van Langevelde, a member of Michigan’s board of state canvassers, the ministerial body with sole authority to make official Joe Biden’s victory over Trump. “As John Adams once said, 'We are a government of laws, not men.' This board needs to adhere to that principle here today. This board must do its part to uphold the rule of law and comply with our legal duty to certify this election.” (bold emphasis added)

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“We have to see this for what it is. It’s a PR strategy to erode public confidence in a very well-run election to achieve political ends,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, said in an interview last week. “This was not any type of valid legal strategy that had any chance at ultimately succeeding.” (bold emphasis added)

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[underpants]

1. Aaron Van Langevelde That was a great read.

[Cha]

2. TG for Aaron Van Langevelde.. he could

have been another Shinkle.

[Ms. Toad]

3. I watched the meeting, and was very impressed with Mr. Van Langefelde -

He seems to be cut from the cloth of many Republicans with whom I differ on policy, but not on the importance of integrity.

Unfortunately, thse are becoming a rare breed.

[catbyte]

4. Just FYI, I posted it on Wednesday.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214618480

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5. K&R