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Fears mount that election deniers could disrupt vote count in US swing states (www.theguardian.com)

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At least 239 election deniers have signed up to Trump’s ‘election integrity’ conspiracy theories, survey finds

Fears are rising that the vote count in November’s presidential election could be disrupted as a result of the proliferation of Donald Trump’s lies about stolen elections and rampant voter fraud in the key swing states where the race for the White House will be decided.

A new survey of eight vital swing states reveals that at least 239 election deniers who have signed up to Trump’s “election integrity” conspiracy theories – including the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him – are actively engaged in electoral battles this year. The deniers are standing for congressional or state seats, holding Republican leadership positions, and overseeing elections on state and county election boards.

The report by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a watchdog group focusing on special interests distorting US democracy, reveals the extent of denial in the eight critical states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It shows that corrosive efforts to damage public confidence in elections have proliferated there despite the drubbing the election denial movement received in the 2022 midterms.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey. Hey - member, member in early January 2021 when trump was all like "I totally won, everone come destroy the Capitol for me!" and a bunch of Qanut hicks were, like, crying "sir! yes sir, sir!" And loaded up their bazookas and three-sided daggers and mall ninja shit and left work on a Wednesday to go to DC and perform The Stupidest Coup in History?

And member how everone saw that and was like "holy shit this motherfucker is calling for a coup right there in DC in front of little baby Jesus and everybody"?

And member how the corporate news was like "SOME fear that trump may be planning some sort of disruption, but the FBI trump controls says everything's fiiiine" member that?

And then, right, and then he's all up there in his little glass box with his gross high squeaky voice going "everyone kill! Attaaaaaaack!" and all the MAGA nutjob hicks are wagging their little guns going "hoo hooo hoo hoo we big" and member the corporate news was like "trump seems to be making some statements that DEMOCRATS feel are incendiary and THEY SAY there could be some trouble down at the Mill!"

Member all that goddamned obvious stupid fucked up shit?

Here we go again. This article is just one of many like it - "Maybe" "could" "Fears raise" "warning" etc. etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Here we go again. This article is just one of many like it - “Maybe” “could” “Fears raise” “warning” etc. etc.

A-fucking-men!

All this if if if is fucking insane!

I get they need to be "impartial" but there's no way in hell this is "if" or "maybe" it's fucking plan B! Plan A is just win of course, but this is their actual plan.

I'm normally a pessimistic person so take this with a grain of salt, but I have absolutely 0 hope that we actually win this. I'm 100% convinced the fix is already in.

Still vote! But I completely expect Trump to be handed the election...