Thread by @Greg_Palast

Get ready for the quiet coup in November. Trump’s dreams of overturning the vote count of 2020 can now come true in 2024, thanks to a new rule passed by the MAGA-controlled Georgia State Election Board. 🧵

Let me break this down. Four years ago, Trump called the Secretary of State of Georgia and demanded: “What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.”

The Republican pol he was calling, Brad Raffensperger, has been played as a hero, supposedly standing up for the principle that the vote of the people cannot be overturned.

But Raffensperger had another motive for turning down Trump: staying out of prison. Trump’s request violated Georgia law. gregpalast.com/stealing-georg…

But now, Georgia has de-criminalized rejecting the vote count. If this November’s vote, as polls now show, goes against him again, Trump won’t even have to make the call.

Because, on August 6, the GOP majority on the Georgia State Election Board voted itself the right to reject the vote of any county if, in the MAGA-nauts view, a county board of elections did not conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into the county’s voting process.

What does “reasonable inquiry” mean? The same Republicans who railroaded in the “reasonable inquiry” rule, voted, the very next day, that Fulton County had not conducted a “reasonable inquiry” in 2020.

While the Board cannot overturn Biden’s victory of four years earlier, they are clearly signaling that they are more than prepared to refuse to “certify” Fulton’s vote this November. If so, Fulton County’s ballots won’t count.

Fulton County is better known as Atlanta. In other words, they are already preparing to remove the heart of Black Georgia, which Biden won by a 242,965 vote margin. Well, there you have Trump’s 11,000 votes and then some.

Trump is grateful. At a rally in Atlanta last Saturday, he called out the GA Election Board’s MAGA 3 from the stage: “They’re on fire! Three members: Janice Johnston, Rick Jaffares and Janelle King. Three people, all pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”

Note that Trump recognizes their commitment, not to fairness or objectivity, but to “victory.” Trump’s victory.

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