Democrats in 2020: "We need robust manual election audits!"
GOP: "Eff you! Audits are for snowflakes! We want unverified electronic results!"
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2/ Democrats (post election): "Too bad we lost all those down ballot races we were supposed to win. Oh well. Time to concede."
3/ GOP (post election): Yeah, too bad you lost all those down ballot races you were supposed to win. Good thing you conceded, or we would have called you "sore losers!"
4/ GOP (post election): "But about the top of the ticket.... Yeah, we know Trump was supposed to lose, but we don't trust the unverified electronic results. It turns out voting machines are insecure! Who knew? Time to storm the capitol and spread our shit and pee all over it!"
5/ Me: "Hey guys, can we at least agree that we need legislation requiring robust manual election audits for all federal races in 2022?"
6/ GOP and Democrats: "No. The one thing we agree on is that we are NOT going to discuss requiring robust manual election audits for all federal races in 2022."
7/ Dear voters: If we want robust manual audits for all federal races in 2022, we are going to have to demand it. Because our elected leaders aren't doing it for us. At least not so far. #RobustManualAudits
8/ If @GOP cares about election integrity, it will support a bill requiring robust public hand audits (or public hand counting) & posting of ballot images 4 all federal races in 2022.
If @SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats care about election integrity, they will get the ball rolling.
Terrific post by @LuluFriesdat of @Smart_elections —which seeks a hand recount of the presidential election in Rockland County, NY—in which they correct those who have wrongly suggested that Smart Elections’ legitimate concerns & findings thus far amount to “proof” that the election was rigged for Trump.
THIS is what credible election integrity messaging looks like: “Are we concerned about all the software updates they released? You bet we are. Can we say conclusively that there was some kind of malware in those updates that changed vote totals? No we cannot. That’s why we’re in court. To get that kind of information.”
👏👏👏👏 1/ open.substack.com/pub/smartelect…
Those of you who have followed me for years know that I spent about four years of my life focusing on election security. (See my article below.) 2/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/trump-…
3/ After the Big Lie, I felt that the movement had been so discredited—by people improperly conflating vulnerabilities with “proof” of fraud & then using that non-existent “proof” to justify violence—that I could no longer effectively advance this ball.
“As of three weeks ago, 172 of these individuals [pardoned by Trump] had pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. By their own admission, they assaulted police. About 140 officers were injured, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day. Four officers who responded that day have since died by suicide.” 1/25/25 (Link in post 2.)
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Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”
(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/
The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt…