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70 Republican Election Officials in Swing States Preparing ‘Not to Certify’ Results in November
The unending MAGA nightmare promises to push the country into another crisis if Trump loses in November.
This is what a liar looks like in Michigan. In 2020, Meshawn Maddock was not an election official but tried to pass as one so she and her husband, an elected Republican representative of the state, could push not to certify the results. The plan was to send fraudulent results to Washington, claiming that Trump had won the presidency. She was arrested.
Republicans won’t need to revert to such ridiculous and clumsy efforts after the 2024 election. Currently, 70 election officials are working in the states that will determine the next presidential outcome who are rabid election deniers. They consider Joe Biden to be an illegitimate president and that Donald Trump was cheated out of his victory. Their mission in the next election is not to accept any results that don’t have Donald Trump as the winner.
At least 70 pro–Donald Trump election denialists are working as election officials in key swing states, according to a report published Monday from Rolling Stone and the right-wing extremism research newsletter American Doom.
