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They Are Coming for Our Free Elections
Promising integrity, what they really mean is that some of us will have our voices silenced
The primaries are over and what awaits us the day after election days is either a massive sigh of relief or holy shit, we are doomed.
In four swing states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada Trumpist election deniers have won their primaries and will advance to the general election against Democratic candidates.
Running in a year in which G.O.P. voters are energized by fierce disapproval of President Biden, these newly minted Republican nominees for secretary of state and governor have taken positions that could threaten the nation’s traditions of nonpartisan elections administration, acceptance of election results, and orderly transfers of power (G.O.P. Election Deniers Could Oversee Voting).
The four winners in question have all been very on-the-record about how they believe Donald Trump was cheated out of his rightfully-won second term. They have also let it be known that should they gain power, then changes will be a-coming.
The nominees in question, if they win, will fill the positions of either governor or secretary of state. They will have the power to influence how millions of Americans both vote and how the…
