This year, the Washington Post and Politico published reports that appeared to purposely compare Republicans ‘ questioning of disputed elections to violent election-related threats, a strategy used to support the growing use of the armed Department of Justice’s vote meddling.
In a part published on Tuesday, Philip Bump of The Post began with four remarkable tales about threats against election workers, about the “ongoing violent menace of election denialism.” He blatantly lays the blame for these risks on the fact that” Trump and his friends vigorously promote the idea either that scams occurred or that it might own.”
Bump warned that troubled people would take Trump’s worries about election integrity “dangerously seriously,” adding that there would be no reason for them to protest results “aside from the fact that Trump and his supporters made a concerted effort to make such results appear vague and suspicious.”
Also, in a piece all about “election- related threats”, Politico’s Josh Gerstein wedged in a comment about how a Trump- Trump “rematch may stir up emotions especially among Americans who erroneously believe the 2020 election was stolen”.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments on the DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force, which allegedly helps address an alleged “increase in dangers against poll workers, leaders, and individuals that followed the 2020 election, were inspiration for both of these statements.
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The message is clear: We ca n’t let anyone ask questions about the flaws in our election administration because someone else might use it as an excuse for bad behavior.
By the way, it’s the same absurd argument that the Biden DOJ is making against Trump for his discourse on January 6. The then-president addressed supporters who would” soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” in a speech in which he claimed the 2020 election was” stolen.” The Court has charged Trump with restriction of an established moving because some of those followers entered the Capitol tower as Congress sat in the election certifying process.
The First Amendment’s free speech provision prohibits the criminalization of for speech. Communist activists want to categorize speech as assault itself, from correct pronouns to genuine concerns about election administration.
Over the course of 2020, there are genuine issues to be had.
Bump claims that those who questioned the results of the 2020 election have no “identified a process by which” the alleged scam” could have happened in a practical impression.”
First of all, whether or not allegations of election fraud are true or false does n’t matter in terms of the First Amendment; speech ca n’t be legally protected. Next, in 2020, there were a lot of instances of dubious election administration.
There were poll problems, such as in Fulton County, Georgia. The State Election Board mandated oversight of the state’s upcoming elections by an independent track just last week after it was revealed that Fulton County scanned more than 3, 000 vote half during its tell of the 2020 presidential vote. Janice Johnston, a board member, added at the hearing that there are 380, 761 unaltered ballot images from the 2020 Election Day machine count. Four years after two Republican Fulton County Elections Board members voted not to certify the results due to concerns about how the county was conducting its election, the results were released.
The widespread use of ballot drop boxes in places like Wisconsin was another irregularity in the 2020 election. In a 2022 decision, the Wisconsin Elections Commission unilaterally amended the election laws, as the Supreme Court of Wisconsin had done in 2020. Contrary to state law that mandated that absentee ballots be mailed by the elector to the municipal clerk in person, the Wisconsin Elections Commission issued guidance expanding ballot drop boxes.
After Democrats managed to win the majority of the bench last year, leftist election meddler Marc Elias recently challenged the ruling.
Then there’s Pennsylvania, where the courts ruled this year that unelected bureaucrats were wrong to accept thousands of mail that was erroneously dated or undated.
Or consider Arizona, where the number of voters who cast ballots on the federal ballot, or the ballot provided to voters who ca n’t provide citizenship, exceeded Biden’s margin of victory.
To register to vote in state elections in Arizona, you must present documentary proof of citizenship. If a voter failed to show their citizenship while applying through state registration, a 2018 consent decree required the state to register them as “federal only” voters.
About 1,700 people in Arizona, a border state grappling with widespread illegal immigration, cast ballots using a federal-only ballot during the 2018 midterm elections. That number ballooned to 11, 600 in 2020, according to AZ Free News. Biden won the state by 10, 457 votes.
The Federalist’s election correspondent, Brianna Lyman.
