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polling place where I worked March 3 |
Much of the article examines the work of organizer and
labor operative Mike Podhozer to lead the effort to keep the entire electoral
process under a kind of supervision. It
had started perhaps with a 2019 dinner in Mark Zuckerberg’s home.
There were enormous Zoom meetings with many operatives
throughout 2020, mainly to deal with the challenges that the pandemic could
present with normal voting in person legally. Obviously, Trump did not want to
see any changes that would lead to increases in turnout for black or other
minority voters (outside of his own base). A major problem was that poll work
is often done by elderly workers, who arguably could not work safely on Nov. 3
(I talked to Fairfax County about this and was told that persons over 70 need
not work). By and large, states are free
to change their rules on how voting works, as long as legislatures have authorized
election administrators to do so.
Other problems included the poll watchers. Republican poll watchers claimed that the
were kept away, and poll workers claim they were harassed by watchers not
wearing masks.
A particular threat was that in swing states,
officials might be “bullied” into letting Republican-controlled electors choose
the electors and override voters (all
part of “stop the steal”).
Tim Pool had a run-in with Twitter, not allowing a major
tweet to be retweeted or linked, as he stated the facts about the article. Cassandra Fairbanks was suspended for a day
on Twitter for posting a particular story about alleged fraudulent delivery of
ballots in Michigan, after the story had been ruled false. Her claim (however questionable) is on
Gateway Pundit (link, if you want to see it) and can be read online on Telegram. (She is also on Gab, which is down now.) Timcast IRL examines the matter with Jack Posobiec in this video.
But it is correct to say that a “cabal” did “fortify”
the election so that unusual maneuvers by Trump, leading to the insurrection,
could not change the result.
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