Not voter fraud, but... it's just more lies about election fraud. Nearly a year after the 2020 election, Arizona’s then-attorney general Mark Brnovich launched an investigation into voting in the state’s largest county that quickly consumed more than 10,000 hours of his staff ‘s time. Investigators prepared a report in March 2022 stating that virtually all claims of error and malfeasance were unfounded, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Brnovich, a Republican, kept it private. In April, the attorney general — who was running in the GOP primary for a U.S. Senate seat —released an “Interim Report” claiming that his office had discovered “serious vulnerabilities.” He left out edits from his own investigators refuting his assertions. His office then compiled an “Election Review Summary” in September that systematically refuted accusations of widespread fraud and made clear that none of the complaining parties — from state lawmakers to self-styled “election integrity” groups — had presented any evidence to support their claims. Brnovich left office last month without releasing the summary. That timeline emerges from documents released to The Post this week by Brnovich’s successor, Kris Mayes, a Democrat. She said she considered the taxpayer-funded investigation closed and, earlier this month, notified leaders on Maricopa County’s governing board that they were no longer in the state’s crosshairs. The records show how Brnovich used his office to further claims about voting in Maricopa County that his own staff considered inaccurate. They suggest that his administration privately disregarded fact-checks provided by state investigators while publicly promoting incomplete accounts of the office’s work. The innuendo and inaccuracies, circulated not just in the far reaches of the internet but with the imprimatur of the state’s attorney general, helped make Arizona an epicenter of distrust in the democratic process, eroding confidence not just in the 2020 vote but in subsequent elections.
This is more evidence that this wasn’t just asking questions or about satisfying voter integrity but that many officials and media pushing that the election was stolen or even questionable knew it wasn’t. Even as they were lobbing accusations of evidence being withheld they were withholding evidence that the election wasn’t fraudulent. They were feeding the very suspicions and lack of trust they claimed to combat and they knew it was baseless.
Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman's robocalls violated KKK Act: Judge (lawandcrime.com) Right-wing activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman’s robocalls targeting Black voters violated the Voting Rights Act and Ku Klux Klan Act — and the question isn’t close enough to require a jury, a federal judge ruled. “The Court recognizes that the free exchange of ideas on issues of public concern and the ability to engage in robust political discussion constitute the foundations of a democratic society,” Senior U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero wrote in a 111-page order on Wednesday. Marrero nonetheless found that the evidence “establishes that the neighborhoods that Defendants targeted were not accidental or random,” finding that a reasonable jury couldn’t escape the conclusion that the pair wanted to “deny the right to vote specifically to Black voters.” The ruling spells victory without a trial for The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), a civil rights group that sued Wohl and Burkman in the Southern District of New York before the 2020 presidential election. ... Wohl and Burkman have been tied to multiple political hoaxes targeting perceived rivals of former President Donald Trump, including then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Anthony Fauci, and ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Prosecutors, regulators and common citizens claimed the duo crossed a line with 85,000 robocalls, sent out nationally to such locations as New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Recorded by a woman identifying herself as “Tamika Taylor,” the robocalls largely targeted diverse regions with the false message that “if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants, and [will] be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debt.” Though Wohl and Burkman painted themselves as “goofballs and political hucksters with an irreverent sense of humor,” Judge Marrero rejected that the robocalls were “mere hyperbole.” “In addition to the specific harms that the call threatened, Defendants dressed the call with a veil of legitimacy to mislead its listeners into believing the statements made in the call were true,” Marrero added. “The Robocall framed Wohl and Burkman’s organization, Project 1599, as a ‘civil rights organization’ with a name reminiscent of the 1619 Project, an initiative of the New York Times that sought to recognize and commemorate the history of the first slave ship that carried enslaved Africans into the United States.” The stunt also led to criminal prosecution. In the Ohio case, Wohl and Burkman were sentenced to spend 500 hours registering voters living in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area. That was after they pleaded guilty to a felony count of telecommunications fraud. Another case in Michigan remains pending.
@Astrodome has actually been pretty sane lately. He seems to be more rational than the other folks here. He listens happy for him
The problem with all of this is that this absurd “steal the vote” campaign by Trump set a road map going forward. Politicians now know that there are enough idiots to make anything viable.
Agreed, every time someone loses now you can be sure it is followed up with "RIGGED ELECTION"..............when someone is indicted, now it's a "WITCHHUNT" No one is ever guilty, and no one ever loses, it's all a deep state hoax
Why is every MAGA interview now with a Karen who very poorly repeats conspiracy stuff while her chubby bearded boomer husband stands there and looks slightly lost?
With the way the polls look in the swing states (massive Trump leads), the Democrats' strategy of ballot harvesting and filling in ballots for registered non-voters will not be enough to swing it for Biden this time. It will be too obvious and too risky to execute at the numbers required to win. I shudder at what the Democrats will do to cheat this time -- they'll stop at nothing and will burn the country down before conceding that Trump won. They have already torched the reputation of the intel agencies and justice department in the last several years trying to "get Trump". Expect more desperate and short-sighted measures -- anything to keep power -- regardless of how bad it is for American institutions.
The maga is strong in this one, his magadom will not allow him to think for himself and will ignore all facts, like the 60 cases the gop brought up to show fraud and they lost them all.............y'all went like 60-0. Remember how they talked a big game and when they got in court all you could hear was crickets.....................and oh the fun we had watching his minions get indicted for pushing the lie, he does only hire the best.................sheep, sheep
