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In reply to the discussion: They're gonna lose the House and they know it... [View all]Attilatheblond
(3,733 posts)All voters in my county nearly lost our voice in the 2020 election because 2 of 3 County Supervisors were refusing to do their lawfully REQUIRED duty of certifying our election. Why? Well, noisy MAGAs were at a lot of the county meetings screaming the ballots were not safe, machines (all tested & certified) were not reliable, despite every audit of every polling place was in agreement with the machine totals for the whole. Their guy lost, they knew it. Kari Lake lost, and they knew it, but they were not going to allow the losses to happen, so they damned near disenfranchised over 47,000 voters, the (slim) majority of which were registered Republicans!
We have sniffed out the stink of out of state operatives trying to motivate some officials to just take the election in their own hands and fuck the will of the public.
Pay REALLY close attention to what GOP officials in your county are doing. There is a lot more going on than what your read online or hear on media. Voter suppression is gonna be a major weapon this year.
Most of us in AZ vote early by mail in ballot. I seriously worry that my signature on my ballot envelope will not match my signature from years ago when I first moved here and registered. I have sever arthritis and nerve impingement, so my signature never really looks the same twice. Our County Recorder is a GOP operative who encourage our 2 stupidvisors to insist on an illegal hand count in 2020. Do I think him capable of trying to disallow a lot of ballots from a lot of us geezers based on the reality that our signatures cannot possibly look exactly the same as when we registered? Why, yes, I do think he is that corrupt. And I have tried to get the word out that WE ALL must pay him personal visits in his office to prove our point re degradation in our ability to write the same as we age, should he rule our ballots ineligible based on variances in signatures We have to make sure our ballot was counted and challenge/confront ANY attempt to disqualify our ballots.
Suppression is a creature with many, many arms. Be aware.