#election officials

[saywhat-politics]

ICE has requested and obtained local voter data from election officials in Texas and North Carolina as part of a probe into alleged voter fraud.

ICE Digs Into Voter Files Ahead of Midterms

The agency has already obtained some voter data.

[gwydionmisha]

These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers

Nearly 70 pro-Trump conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election

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[uboat53]

People on the right may scream and yell about left-wing conspiracies but, every time you actually force government records open and see what officials are actually doing behind closed doors, you find right-wing conspiracies everywhere. It's almost as if they're trying to distract from their own behavior by accusing others.

Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result

Emails reveal Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, a group of officials and election deniers, coordinating in swing state

[spotlightstory]

Campaign of Fear

The people who administer U.S. elections – from poll workers and ballot counters to county clerks and secretaries of state – have endured a year of terroristic threats from supporters of former President Donald Trump, inspired by his false assertions of widespread fraud in the 2020 vote. The result, as Reuters chronicled in this agenda-setting series of reports, has been a campaign of intimidation that is stressing the foundation of American democracy.

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Election Denying Officials Who Refuse to Certify Election Results Could Face Prosecution

State and federal law may impose criminal consequences for officials who use their positions to refuse to certify lawful election results.

[intelligentchristianlady]

How to Steal Democracy

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Arizona. Republican legislators have passed a law taking away authority over election lawsuits from the secretary of state, who’s now a Democrat, and giving it to the attorney general, a Republican. Legislators are debating another bill that would allow them to revoke election certification “by majority vote at any time before the presidential inauguration.”

Georgia. Last year, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, helped stop Trump’s attempts to reverse the result. State legislators in Georgia have since weakened his powers, and a Trump-backed candidate is running to replace Raffensperger next year. Republicans have also passed a law that gives a commission they control the power to remove local election officials.

Michigan. Kristina Karamo, a Trump-endorsed candidate who has repeated the lie that the 2020 elections were fraudulent, is running for secretary of state, the office that oversees elections. (Republican candidates are running on similar messages in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere, according to ABC News.)

Pennsylvania. Republicans are trying to amend the state’s Constitution to make the secretary of state an elected position, rather than one that the governor appoints. Pennsylvania is also one of the states where Trump allies — like Stephen Lindemuth, who attended the Jan. 6 rally that turned into an attack on Congress — have won local races to oversee elections.

Wisconsin. Senator Ron Johnson is urging the Republican-controlled Legislature to take full control of federal elections. Doing so could remove the governor, currently a Democrat, from the process, and weaken the bipartisan state elections commission.

[gwydionmisha]

Election officials are hard at work to deliver fair, secure and accurate elections – despite a constant flow of attacks

The people who run US elections are, according to a scholar who studies them, politically neutral professionals who uphold the law with tran

Threats of Political Violence Are Distorting Reality

This month alone, authorities arrested a North Carolina man with a rifle and pistol after he allegedly threatened to harm FEMA workers respo