This does NOT appear Right on face value….
Look’s like a pure political muscle down by Republicans on a place they KNOW will vote Democratic in the future…
But.?…
To be fair though?
It seems that Georgia country HAS had issues in the past….
The Georgia State Board of Elections plans to appoint a review panel this week as part of a process that could lead to a takeover of elections in the state’s most populous county under a provision in the state’s sweeping new election law.
Republican lawmakers cited the new law when they asked the state board last month to appoint the performance review board to investigate Fulton County’s handling of elections. The board plans to appoint the panel during its meeting Wednesday.
The heavily Democratic county includes most of the city of Atlanta and is home to about 11% of the state’s active registered voters. Former President Donald Trump fixated on the county after his narrow loss last year in Georgia, pushing unfounded claims of fraud as evidence the election was stolen from him.
The GOP lawmakers seeking the review say they are concerned about sloppiness in the administration of the county’s elections and want a review board to assess whether local officials have been complying with state voting laws and regulations.
Democrats and voting rights activists have said the new takeover provision in state law leaves the door open for political interference in the electoral process and could allow suppression of votes. They’ve said the county conducted a successful election last year and the review is unnecessary….
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Fulton County has a long history of election problems and has been a favorite punching bag for Republicans. The county’s primary election last year was marred by problems, including hourslong lines and absentee ballots that were requested and never received.
County officials acknowledged the problems, but said many of the most serious issues were related to the coronavirus pandemic. They spent millions of dollars and made changes ahead of the general election in November to ensure a smoother performance. An independent monitor was also appointed as part of a consent order reached entered into by the county and the State Election Board.
Some might talk about this being the death knell for Abrams and Warnock. But Democratic margins in vote sink counties like Fulton, DeKalb, and Clayton have actually seen Republican GAINS at the margins in the Trump era. It’s Suburban counties like Cobb, Gwinnett, Henry, and Newton that tip the state across the knife’s edge for the D’s.
This also is not the first time the state has intervened into county affairs. See DeKalb County around 2014. I don’t know enough about either situation to have an opinion, but I’m not any more or less optimistic or pessimistic because of this.
The linked piece spoke about previous problem’s in Fulton County ….
I believe the DA down there WAS Working on a Trump voter interference case…
But there has been no media follow up on that
There will be no case.
Yes I’m quite sure that the Georgia Republican thieves ,who did their best to steal that states votes for Donald Trump ,are “concerned” about the so called “problems” in Fulton County.
What a crock!
You want to know the “problem?”
Too many Black people voting!
This whole election “reform” in Georgia was at the behest of a one,Donald Trump and his stooges there.
To pretend that there is any legitimacy to anything done by the Georgia Republican Party in regards to elections and voting is to approve of Trumps attempted theft of the election.
(CNN) Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D,) on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of appointing a new official to supervise elections in rural Mesa County, where federal and local authorities are investigating a security breach that included the leak of voting system passwords.
Soon after, however, the county’s Republican three-member board of commissioners voted to reject Griswold’s appointment, saying she had overstepped her authority, and is attempting to install an elections supervisor of its own, setting up a likely legal fight.
Griswold has leveled serious allegations against Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, a conservative Republican, including accusing her of aiding a leak of closely guarded voting machine logins that ended up on a QAnon-affiliated Telegram channel. Peters, who did not respond to CNN interview requests, has accused Griswold of seeking to engineer a takeover of her office.
Griswold on Tuesday night gave Mesa County Treasurer Sheila Reiner the authority to oversee election functions and appointed a three-person advisory committee to help Reiner with her duties.
“The people of Mesa County deserve safe and secure elections,” Griswold said in a statement Tuesday. “I am confident that with these appointments, voters in Mesa will be able to exercise their constitutional right to have their voices heard in our democracy.”
But in a special meeting on Tuesday evening, Mesa County commissioners voted 3-0 to reject Griswold’s appointment of an elections supervisor and advisory committee and instead appointed their own elections supervisor, former Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams….
By Paul P. Murphy and Fredreka Schouten, CNN
Updated 12:26 AM ET, Wed August 18, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/politics/fbi-voting-machine-colorado/index.html
Republicans trying to cheat at voting?
Color me shocked!
In a unanimous vote, Maricopa County’s Republican-led board of supervisors has decided to serve notice to the Arizona state Senate that it may file a lawsuit if the legislature does not come up with $2.8 million to cover the cost of replacing election equipment “compromised” by a partisan, third-party review of the 2020 election.
“We should never be in the position that we are in, having to procure new equipment for upcoming elections,” Steve Gallardo, the board’s lone Democrat, said at a meeting on Wednesday. “What has happened over the last eight months or so has just been an injustice and has really hurt the reputation and credibility of not only our elections department but our democracy.”…
Charles Davis, Business Insider
Wed, August 18, 2021, 5:05 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/cyber-ninjas-audit-maricopa-county-210514656.html
Hmmmm?
Pay for for screwing up their machines , eh?
Republicans against Stupid Republican Senate lawmakers…..
An ally of former President Donald Trump who has been trying to bring an Arizona-style “forensic audit” to Pennsylvania says he’s been thwarted by “the powers that be.”
Earlier this summer, Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano sent letters to three Pennsylvania counties demanding materials related to the 2020 election. That came after the lawmaker endorsed a campaign led by QAnon conspiracy theorists to pursue a statewide “audit” over claims that China rigged the election for President Joe Biden – a campaign thus far rejected by Pennsylvania’s GOP leaders.
Biden won Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes in what state and national officials, including those who worked for the Trump administration, described as an election that was “the most secure in American history.”
In a video streamed on Facebook, Mastriano indicated Thursday that Republican leaders were standing in the way of his go-it-alone audit and blocking him from issuing subpoenas to elections officials in York, Philadelphia, and Tioga counties, all of whom have refused to comply with his previous requests. Local radio station WHYY suggested he needs quorum for his committee to meet.
“The powers that be made sure that didn’t happen,” Mastriano said in the video, as reported by the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Mastriano is chair of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, which has subpoena power but does not oversee elections, the newspaper noted.
“I would say we’re not in a very good spot right now,” the lawmaker said in the video, which has since been deleted. “I put my name out there to get it done and I’ve been stopped for the time being.”
Mastriano – who paid for buses to bring protesters to Washington, DC, on January 6 – added that he had “burned a lot of bridges,” but also asserted that this latest obstacle was only a “momentary impediment.”…
by Charles Davis, Business Insider
Thu, August 19, 2021, 5:27 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/doug-mastriano-trump-republican-pennsylvania-212715956.html
¶ Perhaps James could set up a standing or semi-standing thread or category or tag-line on the lines of “Open Thread”
or “Stupid Politician” to gather together all these challenges, recount, audits, takeovers and election thefts around the county (Ariz, Ga, Colo, Pa, etc.)
Of course DSD…..
Please let me know what should be set up…..
The remnant’s of the Trump attempted take over are petering out……
And enacting costs……
In money and jail time
Good!
I’m probably less knowledgeable and technically adept than you, so I’m not sure what to suggest or how one might do it.
But, maybe it’s possible (with your technical consultant at Gelfand Design) to set up standing pages, just like Open Threads, for Stupid Politician (semi-permanent) and Election Challenge (good while there’s such a constant flow), that don’t sink below newer pages until comments become numerous enough to set up newer Stupid Pol or Election Steal pages.