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Republican commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote

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  1. Amiga

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    Preview of 2022 and 2024 elections

    Republican commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote | New Mexico | The Guardian

    New Mexico’s secretary of state on Tuesday asked the state supreme court to order the Republican-led commission of rural Otero county to certify primary election results after it refused to do so over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines.

    The commission’s members include the Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin, who subscribes to unsubstantiated claims that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Griffin was convicted of illegally entering restricted US Capitol grounds – though not the building – amid the riots on 6 January 2021, and is scheduled for sentencing later this month.

    The commission’s vote is the latest example of how conspiracy theories and misinformation are affecting the integrity of local elections across the US. Trump has continued to describe the 2020 election as “rigged” or “stolen”, despite a coalition of top government and industry officials calling it the “most secure in American history”.


    Under state law, county canvass boards can call on a voting precinct board to address specific discrepancies, but no discrepancies were identified on Monday by the Otero commission.
     
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    Attempts to take away the votes of hundreds of thousands voters. This is why Republicans need to lose. They are a threat to our democracy.
     
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    yet if they were sued and taken to court, they’d provide zero evidence for their dumbass claims and probably use the defense of “no reasonable person would take our statements as facts”
     
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    Interesting radio interview today with some people who study voting integrity as their specialty and one guy noted that Trump raised about $250M to "stop the steal" but pretty much just pocketed it. Several key states, like Michigan and Wisconsin, allow candidates to request (and pay for) manual recounts, no matter the margin of victory. Election experts say that, if you really think there's any thing fishy, that's the first thing you'd raise money for. And... you guessed it. Other than paying for one or two democratic counties (for chump change, basically), he instead just pocketed all those chumps' money. Kind of sad.

    But anyway, on this New Mexico topic, and what's coming our way next time we try to have a national election:
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    Brazen lying matters. Intentionally destroying commonly held facts also matters.
     
  5. Blatz

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    Most of the trump cult members around me are not reasonable people. I'm in a small rural town and there were a fairly large collection of dumbasses who truly believed Obama was actively trying to lock them (conservatives) up in a Fema camp located in a closed Walmart in Livingston, Tx. The intelligent conservatives played stupid and egged it on like a couple here do.


    But this is no surprise.
     
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    I've noticed this here as well (rural GA). I honestly prefer their ignorance to the people I know up north who say they know Trump is lying/bad for democracy but don't care because they want lower taxes
     
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    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...rt-step-gop-commission-refuses-cert-rcna33684

    New Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a GOP county commission to certify primary election results after the panel refused to do so, citing concerns with voting machines.

    Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon issued an order compelling the Otero County Commission to certify the results of its June 7 election by Friday.

    fwiw, his sentencing date in a DC court, is also this Friday
     
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    I live one county over from Otero and Cuoy and his merry band of idiots. There are a lot of Trumpsters in all the rural areas.
     
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    How is that not criminal fraud?

    @MojoMan your diarrhea of cartoons doing work
     
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    When conservatives b**** about why moderates/liberals/leftists keep on bringing up Jan 6 and the "big lie" it's because Trump set a standard for a constant stream of one party never accepting the results. Peaceful transition of power is something Americans took for granted for decades. I think that era is about to be over.
     
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    We are literally watching democracy die.
     
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    At the hands of the detached from reality GOP.
     
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