Thread by @DempseyTwo

On August 11, 2021 the Republican National Committee (RNC) adopted and circulated a document called ‘Report of the Temporary Committee on Election Integrity’. In essence, it’s a 24 page, after-action review of the 2020 election to determine what went wrong. A wee thread 🧵👇🏻

My intention was not to find this document so I am not going to focus on its entirety. I leave that to you as the full document is linked right here if you want to read it. I suggest you do, but here, we’ll focus on just a few aspects.

prod-static.gop.com/media/document…

Probably the most important thing the Republican National Committee is reporting to the Republicans for which this document was intended, is its first finding. You will notice the most impactful issue was not massive voter fraud or stolen election, it was unsurprisingly COVID.

Also, I think it is important to point out the language that is used. Remember, this is republicans talking to republicans about election integrity. They use words like:

✌🏻enact meaningful election reforms✌🏻

What this really means is:

🗣🎙VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS!!!

Also up there👆🏻, they lament a lack of public access to election records and data. They are arguing that your data should be publicly available, but what they mean here is, it should be available to them. So they can then study it, and find out how best to use it…against you.

That seems awfully Cambridge Analytica of them, doesn’t it?

https://twitter.com/DempseyTwo/status/1300535014602551296

But at the heart of this, is ‘Election Integrity’. We’ve heard this so often from the Ivan Raiklin types. Take a look at all these ‘Election Integrity’ projects popping up all over the country. Like in places where they were filing lawsuits and demanding audits.(📌1)

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1485699154902982656

The party that has been against cancel culture, that has told you the Democrats were taking away your freedom of speech is recommending they ‘retire’ the words ‘Election Day Operations’ from the republican lexicon.

Which brings me to the point of this thread. The RNC *had* Election Day Operations Directors. More than likely a very normal thing to have someone on the ground the day of the election. Someone from the campaign to oversee things for their candidate. But let’s look deeper.

We just saw above that it was Ivan Raiklin, a former Green Beret, former Defense Intelligence Agency alum (just like Mike Flynn and Phil Waldron 🤔) trained in irregular warfare, holding ‘Election Integrity’ calls with the states. Is this what the RNCs report is recommending?

So if RNC is retiring Election Day Operations in favor of Election Integrity Operations, was Raiklin in contact with those who served in Election Day Operations? Such as Election Day Operations Directors for example? Were there such things as Election Day Operations Directors?

Yes. Yes, there were.

Most importantly though, were there any in the states that sent fraudulent electors? Because if the point was ‘Election Integrity’, then surely, these Election Integrity, Election Day Operation Directors would have put a stop to any shenanigans, right?

Well, there was definitely one in Pennsylvania. Mark Roman. PA had identified a slate of fraudulent electors, but changed the language on their fraudulent certificate to, ya know, avoid criming. Hopefully the Election Day Director’s integrity…

Aww jeez

theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…

Waging war on voting doesn’t seem like something an Election Integrity Director should be doing.

Let’s see if there were any others. Wisconsin sent 2 fraudulent electors. Did they slip past Michael Brown?

Let’s let him update us…uh oh…these look like talking points.🤦🏼‍♂️

Let’s leave the cold of WI behind and go to a warm place where there were no fraud electors (🤷🏼‍♂️) and take a break from all that. Let’s put our masks on, head to Florida to see who’s in charge and if there are reasons to get our Susan Collins on.
Yes? Why?

floridapolitics.com/archives/40433…

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1465524898512711682

Thread side note: Did you know that the announcement above is for Joe Gruters to lead the very Election Integrity Committee that produced the report that began this thread? Yeah, I know right.

Did I meta? Was that a meta? I honestly don’t know.

Sorry about taking us to Florida. That was my fault. It’s a more dry heat we’re after anyway.

What about in Arizona? They sent 11 fraudulent electors. Their Election Day Operations Director must have been busy Election Integrity-ing.

Ugh…the Arizona and New Mexico Election Day Operations Director also moderates mail-in ballot discussions for the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation. I’m sure it’s fine.

‘Lane’ though🤔 I feel like I just saw a ‘Lane’ somewhere. Weird. Anyway in Arizona, we can now watch the moment those 11 fraudulent electors signed those fraudulent certificates being passed out by a gentlemen in a smart blue jacket.

https://twitter.com/justthefacts68/status/1489272925664411650

There it was again! ‘Lane’. Who is the person in the trump campaign jacket passing out the fraudulent certificates for Arizona’s fraudulent electors? Is passing out fraudulent certificates the type of thing the RNC envision their Election Integrity Directors do?

How about Virginia’s?

(Look 4 tweets up)

📌1 had an embedded thread in the tweet. In that, you will see the name Hartman highlighted. It is in reference to an Al Hartman a billionaire from Texas who, well…I’m going to have to end this thread at some point but here…take a look….

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1454823629435322374

Hartman being on the phone with Ivan Raiklin making Election Integrity calls is interesting. He was also making calls to @EverettStern1.

https://twitter.com/everettstern1/status/1456838322559533056

Is this ok. It doesn’t feel ok. This is not business as usual. This is not a party serious about Election Integrity, this is a party who wants to win at all costs and rule rather than lead. Democracy or Fascism. That is our choice.

#RememberInNovember and vote.

We have to look at this and see there is a plan. Do @TheDemocrats have a plan to save our democracy? Do they have the will to see this for what it is and pass voting rights?

For Election Integrity?

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