Mapping the counties with election officials who are also pro-Trump election deniers
Election Officials Who Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers
Thousands of local election officials will certify the election results in their counties. Among those election officials are scores of Donald Trump supporters 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.
In the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, Rolling Stone and American Doom identified at least 70 pro-Trump election conspiracists currently working as county election officials who have questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results.- Rolling Stone
Where are these counties? Who are the pro-Trump election deniers who are also election officials? Check this map. The darker the color of a county, the more such election deniers there are. Zoom into the map for county details.
“70 pro-Trump election deniers work as election officials in swing states. They sit poised to aid in Trump’s efforts to call into question — and let’s face it — overturn the November election. Most likely, they’ll do this by refusing to certify election results in their counties, which has become an increasing practice among pro-Trump local election officials like the ones featured in this investigation.
What began as an attempt to simply chronicle the election officials who support Trump’s election lies has morphed into the tracking of what I’m calling the certification refusal movement — dozens and potentially hundreds or thousands of local election officials who may decide not to certify local results in November, thus prompting vote-counting chaos that will spread outward like a virus into possible violence and unrest.” — American Doom
The BIG Lie
MAGA election conspiracy theories
Trump and his sycophants have promoted election conspiracy theories in the past four years, election certification has become one of the more pervasive, and legitimate, concerns of the upcoming election. What happens when rogue county and local election officials who refuse to certify their jurisdiction’s election results?
Election certification is the process by which election officials basically affirm that the tabulation and canvassing of an election is complete and that the results are accurate. As the U.S Election Assistance Commission explains, after the canvassing process, election officials will certify the election results through different methods: through a local board, a chief election official or through canvassing boards.
“Voters should be rest assured that if they see an attempt to refuse to certify an election in their jurisdiction, that does not mean that there was a problem with the elections,” Lauren Miller Karalunas, a counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice said. “There are processes in place to make sure that certification ultimately will happen in a timely fashion and that their vote will be counted.” — Democracy Docket
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