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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 05:35:40 JST Chuck Darwin

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   Any effort to challenge the election results will probably start at the local level.

   Just as there was in 2020, there’s likely to be a period of uncertainty after election day when votes are still being counted in key swing states.

   Two of those, 🔹Wisconsin and 🔹Pennsylvania, still do not allow election officials to begin to process mail-in ballots until election day.

   “I’m definitely concerned that you’re gonna have a lot of efforts to disturb the process of counting those votes, if we go into the late evening, early hours of the next day and all of that,”
   said Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University who specializes in election law.

   The observers amassed by Cleta Mitchell and the RNC could have a significant role.

   In 2020, chaotic confrontations at polling sites offered #misleading #evidence
   that Trump and allies used in their effort to try to overturn the election.

   Trump’s effort to challenge the election results in 🔹Arizona, for example, was undergirded by #affidavits from observers and poll watchers who falsely claimed they saw ballots being
   ❌ rejected because of the type of pen voters were using.

   In 🔹Georgia, Trump pointed to reports from observers in Atlanta falsely claiming they were
   ❌removed from the facility where mail-in ballots were counted.

   In 🔹Michigan, Trump’s team used as evidence an “incident report” from an election observer who falsely said she heard workers giving instructions to
   ❌ count a rejected ballot.

   Accusations of fraud may find a receptive audience at #county #boards responsible for certifying elections.

   Until 2020, no one gave much thought to these positions, sometimes filled by elected officials and other times by little-known party loyalists.

   In 2020, Trump’s campaign made a strong effort to try to ⚠️delay certification at the local and state level as part of his effort to overturn the election.

   In Wayne county, home of 🔹Detroit, Trump personally called two Republican canvassers on the board responsible for certifying the vote there. The two officials ⚠️briefly #refused to certify, then #reversed themselves and did.

   At the state level, Aaron Van Langevelde, a Republican on the state board of canvassers, faced ⚠️pressure not to certify the vote, but decided to anyway.

   In 🔹Wisconsin, Republicans nearly got the state supreme court to ⚠️block certification of the state’s election.

   In 🔹Arizona, Trump called the then governor, Doug Ducey, as he was certifying the vote amid a pressure campaign to ⚠️stop the certification of votes there.

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   #Brennan #Center #Protect #Democracy #Howell #HeritageFoundation #network #Bobb #poll #observers #Elias #Giuliani #Ellis #Powell

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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 05:35:39 JST Chuck Darwin

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   Since 2020, there have been at least 20 instances in eight states of election officials refusing to certify election results.

   The first red flag came in 2022, when county commissioners in 🔹Otero county, New Mexico, refused to certify the results of a primary election,
   citing vague concerns about voting equipment.

   The secretary of state eventually went to court to force the commissioners to certify the election.

   In July of this year, two Republicans on the county commission in 🔹Washoe county, Nevada
   – a key county in a battleground state
   – refused to certify its primary vote, setting off alarms.

   The commissioners who refused to certify eventually reversed themselves.

   Nevada’s secretary of state, Cisco #Aguilar, has since asked the state supreme court to clarify that county commissioners have an obligation to certify votes.

   Sometimes election officials who refuse to certify have pointed to mistakes that happened during the election, even though they did not affect the outcome.

   In other cases, like Adams’s in Georgia, officials have refused to certify to protest about what they view as unfair laws.

   While courts would probably force recalcitrant officials to certify the vote, significant damage could still be caused.

   “You can force certification through legal mechanisms, [but] those events tend to be like rocket fuel for conspiracy theories and misinformation and undermining confidence in the election.

   So there’s damage done even where certification is eventually forced,” said Berwick, the "Protect Democracy" lawyer.

   The #timeline for certifying the vote is important because,
   under federal law,
   👉states must have an official election result by 11 December,
   six days before the electoral college meets.

   💥Delaying certification efforts at the local level could put states at risk of missing that deadline.

   “If we get past that deadline, it opens up a lot of questions, like tricky legal questions and room for shenanigans,” Berwick said.

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   #misleading #evidence #affidavits #county #boards #refused #reversed #Brennan #Center #Protect #Democracy #Howell #HeritageFoundation #network #Bobb #poll #observers #Elias #Giuliani #Ellis #Powell

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   Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 02:39:49 JST Kim Perales

   #TFG doesn’t lose. The election deniers plan to stop a result right away if it looks like #Harris is winning. Goal: refuse to certify anywhere—even a county that TFG won—& prevent cert. in that state, which prevents cert. of the pres. election.

   In the swing states of AZ/GA/MI/NV/NC/PA at least 70 pro-Trump election conspiracists currently working as county #election officials who've questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results-.
   
   #USPol
   https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republicans-will-refuse-certify-harris-election

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   Charles Gaba (charlesgaba@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 05:31:56 JST Charles Gaba

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   Here's how I'm starting 2024 compared to the last 2 cycles.

   For the 2020 cycle I raised $6 million, with a *massive* surge happening after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away 6 weeks before the election.

   In 2022 I raised ~$1.3 million for the midterms.

   For 2024 I set my expectations lower than 2020 at $4 million, but so far I'm running well *ahead* of 4 years ago, a positive sign...