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Feb 24, 2023 7 tweets 5 min read
In 2021, #Georgia outlawed Democrats' campaign financing scheme to privatize the state's elections, known as #Zuckerbucks.

That's why the @ItsInDeKalb elections office secretly enlisted the Finance Dept. to submit their 2023 grant application, circumventing state law. 1/ 2/ In May 2022 at the direction of Board Chair Dele Lowman Smith, Deputy Finance Director Preston Stephens submitted an application to @HelloCTCL's new front group, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.

They kept the application hidden from the board for the next 9 months.
Sep 8, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Opinion columnist @henryolsenEPPC writes in support of #RankedChoiceVoting scheme designed to weed out conservative candidates & protect incumbents.

It's been a recipe for disaster, leading to confusion among voters & further undermining their confidence in election outcomes. 1/ Olsen concedes that @lisamurkowski has only survived her recent challenge because Dems have successfully rallied their votes to help her preserve her power in Alaska's ranked choice open primary system.

"If Alaska were a normal state, Murkowski would have been clobbered" 2/