Republican Voter Suppression Omnibus Thread

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If you scroll the thread a bit there’s a video where he still obviously has his hair and hasn’t lost any weight.

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Break out your "Broken Irony Meter" GIFs for this one.
Organizers of a Republican-backed Michigan petition to enact voter restrictions to combat would-be voter fraud missed the state's filing deadline on Wednesday after discovering tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures.
This latest fake-signature scandal comes only days after the two leading Republican candidates for governor were booted off the ballot.
Organizers had planned to submit the petition to the state by Wednesday's deadline but abruptly backed down after discovering that around 20,000 signatures were fraudulent. Organizer Jamie Roe insisted that the effort had gathered 435,000 signatures, more than the 340,047 required, but said the group did not submit the petition out of an "abundance of caution."

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Yeah, so this is bad.

Colorado Republican official accused after voting system passwords are leaked to right-wing site

A bizarre security breach of a rural Colorado county’s voting system has in a matter of days escalated into a criminal probe of the clerk’s office, a ban on the county’s existing election equipment, and heightened partisan divides over election-fraud claims.

Footage that showed passwords related to the county’s voting systems was surreptitiously recorded during a May security update and published last week on a far-right blog, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said Thursday. Griswold determined Mesa County cannot use its existing equipment for its November election.

Griswold alleged Mesa County Clerk Tina M. Peters (R) allowed the breach. A spokesperson for Mesa County confirmed a criminal probe headed by the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office was underway but said it was still in the early stages.

During a Thursday news conference, Griswold said Peters falsely passed off a man as a county employee and misled her office about his background check status. Days before the breach, she said Peters directed her staff to turn off the video surveillance of the voting machines, which she said has remained off until just recently.

“To be very clear; Mesa County Clerk and Recorder allowed a security breach and — by all evidence at this point — assisted it,” Griswold told reporters Thursday.

Peters did not respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment Thursday but released a statement earlier this week saying her constituents had voiced concerns about election integrity: “I have told them I will do everything in my power to protect their vote.”

Peters has spent the past several days in South Dakota at the “Cyber Symposium” held by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the most ardent allegers of election fraud. (Lindell is being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems, the company that manufactures Mesa County’s equipment.) In a keynote speech at the event Tuesday, Peters said Griswold’s investigation of her office was politically motivated.

“We would be a big jewel in our governor and our secretary of state’s crown to take over my office and control the way you vote,” Peters said, according to a recording of her speech.

The situation in Mesa County is the latest instance of how debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election continue to ripple through the country, down to the level of local politics.

Griswold on Thursday said her office’s investigation — separate from the criminal probe recently announced by Mesa County District Attorney David Rubinstein — was about integrity, not politics.

“I think it is extremely concerning that an elected official from the state of Colorado is actively working to undermine confidence and spread misinformation about our award-wining voting system,” Griswold said.

The security breach did not affect any past elections nor will it impact future ones, on account of the roughly 40 pieces of voting equipment being decertified, Griswold said. Mesa County will be responsible for the cost of completely replacing its election equipment by the end of the month or rely on hand-counted ballots.

Colorado is widely credited as having the gold-standard for election security after implementing virtually all of the recommended protocols following Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Larry Norden, who directs the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, said Colorado invests in risk-limiting audits, multifactor authentication and testing before and after elections to ensure accuracy.

“If there was a [security breach] they would catch it — but you don’t want to be in that situation if you don’t have to be,” Norden told The Post. “You prefer the systems work right the first time.”

Griswold said the leaked passwords can only be used on a physical piece of equipment in the Mesa County Clerk’s Office; various authentications and safeguards make it unlikely a random person with the passwords could have meddled with the machines.

“Nobody has the keys to the castle,” she said. She conceded that it was not implausible a “bad actor” who somehow had access to both the passwords and the physical machines could compromise the security of the equipment.

After Griswold’s office learned of the breach, her investigators found an unauthorized person had been allowed into the May meeting where the secure software update was taking place. By county rules, the seven attendees are restricted to state civil servants, county employees and representatives from Dominion Voting Systems, the equipment and software manufacturer.

Peters had previously pushed for the update, known as a trusted build, to be public, which Griswold rebuffed. Griswold said the man’s presence was a violation of the rules, which Peters helped him evade.

Matt Crane, a Republican who heads the County Clerks Association and formerly served as Arapahoe County Clerk, blasted the situation in Mesa County as a “solo, intentional and selfish act.”

“We’ve heard people say that this is heroic. To be clear. There is nothing heroic or honorable about what happened in Mesa County,” Crane said while standing alongside Griswold on Thursday.

Still, he called any calls for Peters’s resignation premature: “Ultimately, it’s up to the people of Mesa County.”

Peters, who was elected in 2018, survived a 2020 recall effort. She is up for reelection in 2022.
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Guess who's going to jail.

Judge orders arrest of indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for bond violations

A judge Thursday ordered indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to be arrested for violating the conditions of her bond by traveling to Las Vegas this week without first notifying the court and prosecutors.

Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew David Barrett issued a warrant for Peters’ arrest and for her to be held in jail pending a hearing. He also revoked her $25,000 cash bond.

Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein on Wednesday asked Barrett to revoke Peters’ bond because she is prohibited from leaving Colorado without court approval.

Peters was in Las Vegas on Tuesday to attend a Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association conference. Additionally, Peters signed a notarized letter to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Monday seeking a recount of the Republican primary for secretary of state, which Peters lost. The letter was notarized by a notary in Clark County, Nevada.

Rubinstein agreed to let Peters travel out of state while she was running for secretary of state after Peters’ attorney, Harvey Steinberg, said that she needed to do so as part of her bid for higher office.

Peters’ travels in recent months included a trip to the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, the resort owned by former President Donald Trump.

But Rubinstein filed a motion on Monday asking Barrett to require that any out-of-state travel by Peters be approved.

“Ms. Peters has lost the election and is no longer a candidate,” Rubinstein wrote in a court motion this week. “The people believe that Ms. Peters needs to be treated like all other criminal defendants on bond and needs to file a motion asking for a modification of her bond conditions, and get permission from the court prior to traveling. Ms. Peters has less motivation to appear in court now that she is no longer a candidate. Additionally, she has evidenced through her travel prior to the election that she has the means to flee if she wants to.”

Barrett agreed to prohibit Peters from traveling out of state without court approval pending a hearing on the matter.

Steinberg didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment, but he filed a motion Thursday afternoon saying it was an oversight on his part that the court wasn’t made aware of Peters’ travel to Las Vegas and failure to comply with the order on Monday requiring that she get permission before traveling out of state.

“If she knew that the court prohibited her travel, she would not have publicized that she was in Las Vegas,” Steinberg wrote in his motion, which seeks to quash the arrest warrant.

Peters also told a reporter for KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that she submitted her itinerary to her attorney and said Rubinstein was engaged in a “vicious retaliatory attack” for her criticism of his handling of a drug case.

Peters was indicted in March on 10 counts, including allegations of attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation. The charges stem from a security breach of her county’s election system.

Mesa County Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley and the former Mesa County elections manager, Sandra Brown, have also been charged in the case.

Peters, an election conspiracy theorist, says she is innocent and the prosecution against her is politically motivated.

Peters is among a slate of Republican 2020 election deniers who lost their primary bids in Colorado last month.
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Tuckerfan · Aug 2, 2022

So about that voter fraud evidence you said you had, sheriff...

Johnson County sheriff claimed he got 200 tips of election fraud. A records request yielded only one

Few outside Sheriff Calvin Hayden's office appear to know what he and his department are investigating.
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office has said that since last fall it has received more than 200 tips from people claiming they were victims of or witnesses to fraudulent activity in local elections.

Yet the office has produced only one offense report related to any alleged violations of Kansas election laws since 2020.

“It is the Sheriff’s Office’s statutory obligation to investigate any criminal claim that comes to our office and submit our findings to the District Attorney’s Office,” the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on July 19.

So far, the Johnson County District Attorney has received no cases from the sheriff.

“This office has not been involved in this investigation and nothing has been submitted to our office for review,” said Melody Webb, a spokeswoman for Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe.

The same goes for the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office, the agency responsible for overseeing elections in the state. It said this week that it had received no inquiries from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

Neither have four of the largest police departments in Kansas — Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa and Shawnee. All said they had received no reports about election-related crimes in the last two years.

With less than a week before a primary election in which voters will decide, among other things, whether Kansans continue to have a constitutional right to an abortion, Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden, a Republican, has said several times that he’s investigating election fraud. But he’s explained little about the nature of his investigation.

He gave his most expansive remarks in Las Vegas earlier this month at a convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a group that claims to have supreme authority in county government, above that of local, state and federal officials. The group has called for law enforcement to investigate the 2020 presidential election results due to election fraud, a claim that has been debunked repeatedly.

“In these meetings, people started talking about the election issues and I thought, yeah, yeah you know, OK, because I always took for granted that the elections were OK. Then the presidential election came and there was this big overturn and in Johnson County… our guys, our election staff, was done at 8:30 at night. It was done,” Hayden said at the convention.

“And President Trump did not carry our county — first time since 1914 that Johnson County didn’t vote Republican. Yeah, so it’s kinda interesting.”

Hayden, who is serving his second term as sheriff, referred to his own election victory in 2020.

“In fact, you’re looking at a guy — I got 260,000 votes and I got more than both presidential candidates and I’m way downballot,” Hayden said. “And that bothers me.”

Hayden didn’t tell the crowd that he ran unopposed in 2020, unlike the presidential candidates.

Few outside the sheriff’s office appear to know what Hayden and his department are investigating.

“Our office has received voter questions about the administrative process and concerns about fraud in Johnson County,” Whitney Tempel, a spokesman for the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office, said in an email. “Every inquiry our office receives is reviewed and investigated. Thus far, no evidence of fraud has been found.”

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office was asked again this week if it could describe the nature of the tips it has received about alleged election fraud or whether any of more than 200 tips it said it has received could be substantiated. Through a spokesperson, the sheriff’s office declined to answer.

The Midwest Newsroom filed a Kansas Open Records Act request for copies of the first page of any Kansas Standard Offense Report taken by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office regarding alleged election-related crimes since 2020.

Law enforcement in Kansas fills out such offense reports to document reports of crimes. The first page of Kansas Standard Offense Reports, which contain basic information such as the date an incident took place, its location, the nature of an alleged offense and its victim or witnesses, is a public record. Subsequent pages, which list suspects and a description of how the alleged crime was committed, is not a public record.

In response, a records supervisor in the sheriff’s office provided one report and said a review turned up no other reports since 2020.

The lone report, dated July 20, lists the Johnson County Election Office as the location of an alleged violation of a Kansas law that makes it illegal to attempt to change, alter or destroy any vote cast by paper ballot or electronic machine.

Reached by phone, a 71-year-old Olathe woman listed as the victim of the alleged violation said she and her husband were casting an early vote on July 19. She declined to provide specifics about the incident.

“I don’t know what happened, if it was just an accident,” she said before declining to discuss the matter further.

Hayden’s office and Johnson County officials, through their spokespeople, declined to discuss the incident.

The Midwest Newsroom asked why the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office only had one offense report related to alleged violations of election laws after claiming it received more than 200 tips of such violations.

A sheriff’s spokeswoman said not every case generates a Kansas Standard Offense Report. When the Midwest Newsroom asked for copies of policies in the sheriff’s office dictating when standard offense reports should be taken, the spokeswoman said there was no such policy.

The Midwest Newsroom reported earlier this month on a private July 5 meeting held among Hayden, his deputies and Johnson County Election Office officials to discuss election issues.

At the meeting, Hayden offered to involve law enforcement in election duties, according to a memo written by Johnson County’s chief counsel memorializing the discussion. That included having sheriff’s deputies pick up ballots from ballot drop boxes and having deputies present when votes were counted.

Hayden also asked why ballot drop boxes were available at public libraries in the 2020 elections and whether election officials would eliminate them in upcoming elections.

In a letter to Hayden, Johnson County’s chief legal counsel, Peg Trent, said she was concerned he was trying to meddle in an election.

“As we discussed, my concern is that these requests give the appearance that the Sheriff’s office is attempting to interfere with an election and to direct a duly authorized election official as to how an election will be conducted,” Trent wrote.

Hayden later disputed Trent’s characterizations, but he declined to provide specifics.
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tafkats · Aug 2, 2022

Republican lies ... in other news, water is wet.

Tuckerfan · Aug 20, 2022

When even SCOTUS says your voting laws are racist...

Supreme Court temporarily blocks Georgia law, ruling it harms Black voters

The Supreme Court sided with Georgia voters on Friday and reinstated a federal judge's ruling that the current system disadvantages Black voters in violation of a federal civil rights law, according to court documents.

Why it matters: It forced this year's election for the state's Public Service Commission to be postponed so that a new system could be created for electing commissioners, according to court documents.

The big picture: The ruling was a rare example of the conservative Supreme Court siding with voters over state officials, CNN writes.

Typically, the courts refuse to make late changes to state election procedures even if those changes are necessary to address "illegal infringements of the right to vote," the New York Times writes.
But, but, but: But the exception was based on an unusual concession from state officials and may not have larger implications, the Times added.

Lawyers for Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state, had promised not to raise the Purcell principle, which discourages federal court actions that would disrupt election planning close to an election, if they lost.
Details: The Public Service Commission, which regulates public utilities in the state, has five commission seats and each commissioner must reside in a specific district.

Black voters are a majority in one district, and voters from that area sued, saying that electing commissioners in state-wide elections violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting their power to elect candidates of their choice.
“If everyone in the United States got to vote on who Georgia’s U.S. senators would be, I don’t think anyone would think that the system was fair to Georgians," Judge Robin Rosenbaum wrote in a dissent in a previous ruling.
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Tuckerfan · Aug 24, 2022

Far right sheriffs team up with election deniers. https://boltsmag.org/true-the-vote-sheriffs/

Tuckerfan · Aug 25, 2022

Gov. Brian Kemp fights subpoena in Georgia election probe

MikeH92467 · Aug 25, 2022

Fox big guns are slated for depositions in Dominion Libel case.

MikeH92467 · Aug 29, 2022

Florida's election stormtroopers make their first arrests. But, there's a problem...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a spectacle out of the round of arrests made by his election police force earlier this month, jailing 20 people on charges of voter fraud and promising more prosecutions to come. At least one target was dragged to jail in his underwear by a SWAT team at 6 a.m. But it turns out that the individuals ensnared in DeSantis’ dragnet had no idea that they could not lawfully vote. The governor’s own appointees flubbed their legal duty to stop them from registering. And because of their sloppy errors, all 20 defendants may well be acquitted of crimes they did not intend to commit.

DeSantis’ misadventure traces back to Amendment 4, the ballot initiative that was supposed to restore voting rights to most people who had completed sentences for felony convictions. (Those convicted of murder and sex offenses were excluded.) Floridians overwhelmingly approved the constitutional amendment in 2018. Yet DeSantis and his fellow Republicans promptly sabotaged the amendment by enacting an unnavigable, incomprehensible system for individuals who wished to regain their right to vote. The state refused to establish a coherent process for people convicted of felonies to learn they are eligible to cast a ballot. Many Floridians with disqualifying convictions, including the defendants arrested this month, are therefore unaware that amendment 4 does not apply to them.

But they did not reach this conclusion on their own. As Politico’s Matt Dixon has reported, these defendants were told by Florida officials that they were legally permitted to vote. And because they believed these officials, they now face up to five years in prison for the crime of voter fraud.

In affidavits and media interviews, defendants share the same tragic story: They filled out a voter registration card; their county election office approved it, telling them they could vote; they cast a ballot in 2020; and now they are charged with a felony offense.

But wait, it gets better!

The head of the election police, a DeSantis appointee, explicitly told local election supervisors that they were not at fault, contradicting the governor’s claims.

Tuckerfan · Sep 23, 2022

Gravy SEALs to watch over drop boxes in AZ.

I like this suggested response

50 bucks to the first guy dressed up like Hamburglar tiptoeing to a ballot drop box with a big overstuffed sack labeled "DEAD PEOPLE BALLOTS" draped over his shoulder
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Tuckerfan · Sep 25, 2022

Someone posted this on Facebook and asked if the guy fell out of a window.

Tuckerfan · Oct 4, 2022

AL GOP chairman used a fake ID to vote.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/alabama-gop-chairman-made-the-photo-id-he-used-to-vote.html

tafkats · Oct 4, 2022

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AL GOP chairman used a fake ID to vote.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/alabama-gop-chairman-made-the-photo-id-he-used-to-vote.html
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That article is a hilarious read.

The dancing around the question of the apparently meaningless barcode is especially golden.

Tuckerfan · Oct 6, 2022

Election Software CEO Arrested Over Suspected Poll Worker Data Theft

Damar · Oct 6, 2022

tafkats said: ↑

Tuckerfan said: ↑

AL GOP chairman used a fake ID to vote.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/alabama-gop-chairman-made-the-photo-id-he-used-to-vote.html
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That article is a hilarious read.

The dancing around the question of the apparently meaningless barcode is especially golden.
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I’m always amused how people who are total nobodies always have access to state officials in places like Alabama.

Also, this is my first acquaintance with the Great Seal of Alabama. Funny how it also prominently displays Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee, in case you weren’t familiar with where Alabama is located.

Tererune · Oct 7, 2022

Tuckerfan said: ↑

Election Software CEO Arrested Over Suspected Poll Worker Data Theft
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I read that and it looks like some LA DA is making a resume for the Qtarded right.

matthunter · Oct 17, 2022

Here we go... DeSantis is making it easier to vote for counties hit by Hurricane Ian. But ONLY red-voting counties.

Tuckerfan · Oct 22, 2022

Tuckerfan · Nov 1, 2022

https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1587423666303897601?s=46&t=gGZrpfFdcjBH95qORImezQ

matthunter · Nov 1, 2022

Demiurge · Nov 1, 2022

After campaigning on election 'integrity' VA Gov Youngkin's administration has absolutely botched new voter registration, finding nearly 150,000 new registrations that weren't forwarded due to a 'technical glitch' at the DMV for the 'motor voter' program.

Guess where the majority of these registrations occurred? Yep, in predominately minority dense areas.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

And 'election reform' for the GOP is just voter suppression with the extra step of actually bothering to lie about it first so you can pacify the suburban moms who need their evil couched in different terms so they can feel righteous when they are told by their church to vote for the GOP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/31/virginia-motor-voter-glitch/

Ancalagon · Nov 1, 2022

They are just broadcasting it now.

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1587500436491325441?s=46&t=7TzGQX0ditfuhPsPyVApKA

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