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6 Jun, 7 tweets, 5 min read
Top ALEC Official Is Behind Conspiracy Theory-Fueled Arizona Ballot Audit truthout.org/articles/top-a… by @duboo via @truthout Republican Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann also serves as the second-highest ranking board member of #ALEC
in the summer of 2019, ALEC secretly launched a “Process Working Group” that is tasked with elections and redistricting. Fann is part of that group, which is chaired by fellow Arizona State Rep. Shawnna Bolick (R) as well as disgraced attorney and Trump advisor Cleta Mitchell.
Cleta Mitchell, Gold Circle Member of the Council for National Policy #CNP worked with #ALEC exploring additional ways to invalidate a potential Trump loss #ShadowNetwork
#CNP's Cleta Mitchell has also worked with #ALEC in a secret working group that addressed redistricting, ballot measures, and election law because “expanding voting rights and nonpartisan redistricting could imperil GOP political power." documented.net/2020/06/corpor… #VoterSuppression
New Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ Project Is Chaired by Attorney Who Helped Trump Badger Georgia’s Secretary of State rightwingwatch.org/post/new-right… headed by Cleta Mitchell the attorney who took part in Trump's call to threaten and badger Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State
Mitchell was also involved in a project to “protect” Trump and attack Democrats that right-wing activist (wife to SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas) Ginni Thomas presented to the secretive Council for National Policy #CNP in 2019
Republican lawyer is key player in #VoterSuppression drive across US theguardian.com/us-news/2021/a… Mitchell has emerged in a series of roles that have put her at the heart of what many see as a ferocious Republican push on limiting voting rights all across America

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