At least 70 pro-Trump conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election Day.
comes in November, it will be up to thousands of local election officials to certify election results in their counties. Among those election officials are scores ofsupporters who believe his lies and conspiracies about stolen elections — and will be in prime position to act on those beliefs to try to aid his campaign in November.
“At this moment there are NO guidelines on what is required to certify an election in Georgia,” Hancock wrote on his Facebook page in late May. “But some of us are working to change that. Stand by.”and American Doom compiled its list of election denying election officials by culling media reports about refusals to certify results and other denialist behavior — and by searching the social media profiles of hundreds of election officials in the six swing states.
Days after the 2020 election, Walter Nowosad, a commissioner in Douglas County, Nevada, shared an article in which disgraced Trump lawyer Sidney Powell claimed that Trump’s legal team had found evidence of voter fraud that could overturn the election results in multiple states. “Someone’s hand has been discovered in the cookie jar,” wrote Nowosad.
Many of the election deniers discovered in this investigation share their zeal for Trump on social media platforms like Facebook, where they frequently express their belief in election lies amid screeds on the broader right-wing ecosystem of conspiracies. “This election is not about two different men,” read a meme shared by Kellogg, the election canvasser in Michigan’s Muskegon County. “It is about two completely different America’s . Choose wisely.”
On July 16, Andriola and Clark finally came around, voting with the board’s two Democrats to certify the results of the election, which had taken place more than a month before. Herman still voted against certification. Also in Pennsylvania, Northampton County commissioner Scott Hough refused to certify results of a local general election in 2023 after being encouraged to do so by the county GOP chair. Trump won Northampton County in 2016 but lost it in 2020.
In late April, Centre and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania held up certification over ongoing court battles waged by Republicans regarding mail-in ballots. Both are swing counties, and Luzerne is home to election deniers Harry Haas and Alyssa Fusaro, a county councilor and election board member, respectively. Haas has posted on his Facebook page about election conspiracies, including writing in Nov. 2020 that there are “many arguments to suggest this election was stolen.
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