An assault on American voters is underway

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Pennsylvania governor’s voter registration change draws Trump’s ire in echo of 2020 election clashes

 

Donald Trump has a familiar target in his sights: Pennsylvania’s voting rules.

 

He never stopped attacking court decisions on mail-in ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic, falsely claiming it as a reason for his 2020 loss in the crucial battleground state. Now, the former Republican president is seizing on a decision by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro to bypass the Legislature and start automatic voter registration.

 

The blowback has echoes of the 2020 election, when Trump and his allies relentlessly criticized decisions by the state’s Democratic-majority Supreme Court. That included extending the deadline to receive mail-in ballots over warnings that the pandemic had slowed postal service deliveries.

 

Republicans have joined Trump in railing against Shapiro’s action, saying there are not enough safeguards to prevent minors or undocumented immigrants from registering. The Shapiro administration disputes that.

 

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Virginia election officials acknowledge voters mistakenly removed from rolls

 

Virginia State Police are changing what information gets reported to ELECT.
 

A spokesperson for the Virginia Department of Elections said Tuesday the state is working to resolve an issue that caused an unknown number of eligible voters to be removed from the state’s rolls. The move follows VPM News reporting that found people with probation violations lost their eligibility to vote under changes the department instituted over the last year.

 

ELECT spokesperson Andrea Gaines said state election officials were working with Virginia State Police to identify the names of people whose registration was “canceled in error,” a process she said began Tuesday. In an email, Gaines wrote that ELECT would then pass along those names to local registrars to immediately reinstate the voters.

 

“Whenever ELECT receives information about a problem with an individual’s registration, we work diligently to research and address the issue,” Gaines said. She did not provide a timeline for reinstating all of the affected voters.

 

The response marks a change in tone for the department and its leader, Commissioner Susan Beals. In a Sept. 22 email to state Sen. Scott Surovell (D–Fairfax), Beals defended the department's voter registration cancellations, saying it “strictly follows” state law.

 

Virginia is the only state in the U.S. where people convicted of any felony automatically lose their right to vote unless a governor restores it, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

 

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Civil rights leaders, advocacy groups join defense of Florida woman accused of voter fraud

 

Standing behind a podium and in front of the state attorney's office prosecuting her, 69-year-old Marsha Ervin held up the voter registration card the state gave her.

 

And arrested her for.

 

Less than two weeks before, Ervin had instead stood for a mugshot. Police knocked on her door just before 3 a.m. and arrested her for alleged voter fraud.

 

"When she woke up, she was completely surprised that they were telling her they had warrants for her arrest," said Tallahassee NAACP president Mutaqee Akbar, who's also Ervin's attorney.

 

"She was reliving a nightmare that she had lived five years ago, because she voted," said Akbar, who stood beside her at the beginning of a Tuesday afternoon press conference.

 

Ervin had been convicted of aggravated neglect of an elderly person in 2016 and released from prison in 2018. Her probation was supposed to end next month. Until then, she wasn't eligible to vote. But she did. Twice. Ervin says she thought she could.

 

Akbar and the group standing behind him called the arrest voter intimidation, pointing to all the other people arrested around the state following eligibility confusion. Most of them, like Ervin, are Black.

 

“For this to happen to her, what it really tells you [is] it can happen to any of us,” said renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who announced Monday evening that he was also representing Ervin. “This about instilling fear in people in our community, to say, 'Well, I don't want to get in any trouble, so I'm not going to come and vote.'

 

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Alarms sound over high turnover among election workers

 

Experts are sounding alarms just over a year out from November 2024 that the presidential election could suffer from chaos and confusion after high turnover of local election officials and workers in key states. 

 

Threats and scrutiny often linked to false claims of voter fraud have contributed to a surge of local election officials leaving their posts in recent years. The exodus could mean understaffed and inexperienced teams are left to grapple with continued conspiracies and misinformation surrounding the election process in 2024, with some running a high-stakes presidential election for the first time. 

 

Richard Hasen, an election law expert and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, said he’s “quite worried” about the attrition of election officials and workers nationwide but argued it’s “not surprising” given the threats and harassment lobbed at many in the jobs. 

 

“Some of the language that’s been used against these officials has been really shocking,” Hasen said. “And why would you stay in a job that is high-stress to begin with, when you’re not going to be all that well-paid, and then to face this kind of abuse? People have to be really committed to democracy to want to stay in these jobs. And it’s asking a lot.”

 

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Sanctions stand for lawyers in frivolous 2020 election lawsuit

 

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that affirmed awarding sanctions against attorneys responsible for a frivolous lawsuit tied to the 2020 election.

 

The sanctions were awarded to various defendants, including the state of Michigan, Facebook, Dominion Voting Systems and the state of Pennsylvania were awarded as compensation for costs to respond to the frivolous suit, which falsely alleged the defendants had infringed on the right of American citizens’ right to vote for president.

 

The sanctions, which included $4,900 for the state of Michigan, were awarded by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. They were upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

 

“This ruling sends a resounding message: attorneys who neglected their oath to support the Constitution by taking part in election lawsuits based neither in fact nor reality not only undermined our legal system — they did irreparable harm to our election processes and will be held accountable,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.

 

In the order specifying the sanctions, U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter wrote that the attorneys who filed the suit “are experienced lawyers who should have known better. They need to take responsibility for their misconduct.”

 

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Another major lawsuit against Donald Trump assigned to Judge Chutkan

 

Former President Donald Trump has been in his own personal war against Judge Tanya Chutkan over his attacks on prosecutors, witnesses and others associated with his various cases. Chutkan shut down Trump with a narrow gag order requiring he keep quiet on the staff and witnesses in the case.

 

Now Trump will face off in another war with Chutkan. According to the Democracy Docket, the judge will oversee a new lawsuit against Trump and his campaign alleging they intentionally tried to disenfranchise Black voters, a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

 

Brought by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the suit alleges Trump's campaign and the Republican Party worked to disenfranchise the voters when they attempted to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

 

"On Nov. 28, 2022, a trial court issued an order that allowed the plaintiffs to amend their complaint and held that Trump is not absolutely immune," said Democracy Docket in a release when the case was announced. "Trump appealed the Nov. 28 order to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Litigation is ongoing."

 

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Georgia’s Voting Maps Are Struck Down

 

Republicans in Georgia violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing voting maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled on Thursday, ordering that new maps must be drawn in time for the 2024 elections.

 

Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia demanded that the state’s legislature move swiftly to draw new maps that provide an equitable level of representation for Black residents, who make up more than a third of the state’s population.

 

In the ruling, Judge Jones wrote that the court “will not allow another election cycle on redistricting plans” that had been found to be unlawful.

 

“Georgia has made great strides since 1965 towards equality in voting,” Judge Jones wrote, referring to a troubled history of racism and disregard for voting and civil rights. “However, the evidence before this court shows that Georgia has not reached the point where the political process has equal openness and equal opportunity for everyone.”

 

Georgia is one of several Southern states where Republicans are defending congressional maps that federal judges have said appear to discriminate against Black voters.

 

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On 1/23/2023 at 4:28 PM, China said:

A 23-Year-Old Mayor Tried Trump’s Stolen Election Playbook. Only It Worked.

A small Kansas town is reeling after a baby-faced 23-year-old manipulated procedural technicalities to reinstall himself as mayor in one night, seemingly taking a page from the playbook used by former President Donald Trump after he was voted out of office.

Only, this time, it worked.......

 

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coincidentally, i asked an AI generator to paint "most punch-able face", and got the same picture

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Wisconsin judge rules that GOP-controlled Senate's vote to fire top elections official had no effect

 

A vote by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate last month to fire the state's nonpartisan top elections official had no legal effect, and lawmakers are barred from ousting her while a lawsuit plays out, a Dane County judge ruled on Friday.

 

Administrator Meagan Wolfe will continue serving as head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission pending a decision on whether elections commissioners are legally required to appoint someone for the Senate to confirm, Judge Ann Pea**** said.

 

Senate Republicans voted in September to fire Wolfe, despite objections from Democrats and the Legislature's own nonpartisan attorneys, who said the Senate didn't have the authority to vote at that time.

 

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul sued to challenge that vote, and in court filings earlier this month, Republican legislative leaders changed course and claimed their vote to fire Wolfe was merely “symbolic” and had no legal effect. They also asked Pea**** to order the elections commission to appoint an administrator for the Senate to vote on.

 

“This injunction provides needed certainty and should resolve any confusion resulting from the Legislature’s actions,” Kaul said in a statement.

 

An attorney representing GOP legislative leaders in the lawsuit did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Friday.

 

The bipartisan elections commission deadlocked in June on a vote to reappoint Wolfe. The three Republican commissioners voted in favor, but the three Democrats abstained to block the nomination from going before the Senate. Actions by the commission require a four-vote majority.

 

GOP lawmakers have accused the Democratic elections commissioners of neglecting their duty by not voting, and the Senate retaliated by rejecting confirmation for Democratic Commissioner Joseph Czarnezki this month, effectively firing him. But Democrats argue the commission is not required to make an appointment and that Wolfe can stay in office indefinitely as a holdover under a recent Supreme Court ruling that Republicans have used to maintain control of policy boards.

 

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Sen. Josh Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United

 

More than a decade ago, President Obama scolded the Supreme Court for reversing “a century of law” and opening “the floodgates for special interest” to “spend without limit in our elections.”

 

It was during the State of the Union, and while the former president qualified his criticism by offering “all due deference to the separation of powers,” Justice Samuel Alito was caught on camera muttering an objection. Seated in the front of the House of Representatives, Alito seemed to say, “Not true.”

 

Meanwhile, Chief Justice John Roberts, who had employed a young lawyer from Missouri just two years prior, didn’t move a muscle.

 

Sen. Josh Hawley told RealClearPolitics that the episode “predates me,” but on the substance of the question, the senior Republican senator from Missouri, the same young lawyer who once clerked for Roberts on the high court, sides with Obama, not the conservative justices.

 

Albeit for very different reasons. “I am an originalist,” he said in a Monday interview, “and I don’t think you can make an originalist case for business corporations being treated like individuals when it comes to the right to political speech.”

 

Thirteen years removed from that exchange between Obama and the justices, Hawley plans to introduce legislation that would gut Citizens United v. FEC, RCP is first to report. “My goal is to get corporate money out of our politics,” he said. His aim is to stop “corporate influence” from “controlling our elections.”

 

This kind of rhetoric is not unusual. But it usually comes from Democrats.

 

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Sen. Josh Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United

 

More than a decade ago, President Obama scolded the Supreme Court for reversing “a century of law” and opening “the floodgates for special interest” to “spend without limit in our elections.”

 

It was during the State of the Union, and while the former president qualified his criticism by offering “all due deference to the separation of powers,” Justice Samuel Alito was caught on camera muttering an objection. Seated in the front of the House of Representatives, Alito seemed to say, “Not true.”

 

Meanwhile, Chief Justice John Roberts, who had employed a young lawyer from Missouri just two years prior, didn’t move a muscle.

 

Sen. Josh Hawley told RealClearPolitics that the episode “predates me,” but on the substance of the question, the senior Republican senator from Missouri, the same young lawyer who once clerked for Roberts on the high court, sides with Obama, not the conservative justices.

 

Albeit for very different reasons. “I am an originalist,” he said in a Monday interview, “and I don’t think you can make an originalist case for business corporations being treated like individuals when it comes to the right to political speech.”

 

Thirteen years removed from that exchange between Obama and the justices, Hawley plans to introduce legislation that would gut Citizens United v. FEC, RCP is first to report. “My goal is to get corporate money out of our politics,” he said. His aim is to stop “corporate influence” from “controlling our elections.”

 

This kind of rhetoric is not unusual. But it usually comes from Democrats.

 

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Mitch McConnell warns GOP senators they’ll face ‘incoming’ if they back Hawley bill to limit corporate giving in campaigns

 

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

 

According to multiple sources familiar with the Tuesday lunch meeting, McConnell warned GOP senators that they could face “incoming” from the “center-right” if they signed onto Hawley’s bill. He also read off a list of senators who won their races amid heavy financial support from the Senate Leadership Fund, an outside group tied to the GOP leader that spends big on TV ads in battleground Senate races. On that list of senators: Hawley himself, according to sources familiar with the matter.

 

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I've read that The Devil's Dictionary defines "honest politician" as "one who stays bought".  

 

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‘This is not the 1980s’: Dominion Voting Systems and Sidney Powell are now brawling over ‘document dumps’ in testy battle over discovery in defamation lawsuit

 

Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems have responded at length to complaints by Sidney Powell about “document dumps” as the voting machine company and the “Kraken” lawyer wrangle over discovery protocol in the billion-dollar defamation case against her, the pro-Trump One America News Network (OAN), and others.

 

Dominion, which reached a blockbuster settlement in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News back in April, filed its opposition on Halloween to the discovery path forward proposed by Powell, OAN, former OAN host and Donald Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne.

 

Dominion asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., to reject the defendants’ joint discovery protocols proposal, arguing that they should not be incentivized to “gin up overbroad requests to force an opponent to weed out irrelevant material” in an effort to prove their never-proven claims that Dominion stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump and handed it to Joe Biden.

 

“[T]he defamatory statements Dominion is suing over overlap among Defendants. As a result, Defendants are each trying to prove the truth of those statements — most significantly that Dominion’s voting machines were used to rig the 2020 Presidential Election,” Dominion wrote. “Again, all Defendants are trying to prove those defenses with expansive requests for documents from Dominion’s files about Dominion’s operations, activities, and customers.”

 

Dominion, in bold and italics, emphasized that their “efficient” proposed discovery protocols are “just.” The voting technology company argued that complaints about a lack of a “relevance” review and a “secondary responsiveness review” of documents — i.e., complaints about “document dumps” or a “means to obscure and weaponize discovery” — fell flat:

 

Dominion, noting that defendants have made “763 very broad document requests sweeping in virtually all the company’s operations” (“‘Any documents concerning Dominion’s Election Services’ encompasses very nearly every document the company generates”), said that it has tailored its document production by “using custodians, search terms, and time periods to target documents likely to satisfy the 763 requests.”

 

“The lion’s share” of those documents, the plaintiff said, came from their defamation lawsuit against Fox.

 

“As shown in Dominion’s Motion, the entire Fox production is exactly what five Defendants explicitly requested,” the filing said.

 

And the production of documents should be enough, Dominion asserted, because it’s 2023, not the 1980s, so defendants can electronically sift through the material and review it themselves:

 

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Ex-Juab County clerk faces 8 charges accusing her of shredding election ballots

 

Eight criminal charges were filed Thursday against Juab County's former clerk/auditor accusing her of shredding ballots from the 2022 general election and placing ballots from the 2020 general election that were supposed to be preserved in an unsecured location.

 

Investigators say the ballots were supposed to be preserved because of pending lawsuits.

 

Alaina Elder Lofgran, 67, is charged in 4th District Court with willful neglect of duty, destroying or concealing ballots, and destroying public records, third-degree felonies; tampering with ballots, a class A misdemeanor; plus two counts of improper disposition of ballots and two counts of unofficial misconduct, class B misdemeanors.

 

Earlier this year, Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson asked the Utah Attorney General's Office to investigate Lofgran after current county officials reported potential election misconduct. A subpoena was served on March 6, but no other details were provided.

 

Henderson called the criminal charges "serious" on Thursday, but said there is no reason to believe Lofgran's actions affected the outcome of the election.

 

The lieutenant governor said in a prepared statement the charges "reflect the heavy responsibility of county clerks to uphold election law. Public trust demands accountability of those who swear oaths to fulfill their duties with fidelity and then fail to do so.

 

"The 2022 election, administered by Ms. Lofrgran, was properly certified by the Juab County Commission. We have no reason to believe her actions affected its outcome."

 

According to the charging documents filed Thursday, Lofgran's role as county clerk required her to "deposit and lock ballots and election returns in a safe and secure place, preserve ballots for 22 months after the election or until the time has expired during which the ballots could be used in an election contest, and in the event of an election contest, 'keep the ballots and election returns unopened and unaltered until the contest is complete.'"

 

On March 19, 2022, about 16 months after the November 2020 general election, "a lawsuit was filed against Juab County and several other Utah counties. This lawsuit related to citizen requests for 2020 election records, including Juab County election records," the charges state.

 

In April 2022. Juab County was ordered by a judge to "preserve the election records associated with the 2020 general election until the resolution of the litigation," according to the charges. A judge dismissed that lawsuit in August 2022, but an appeal was filed by the plaintiffs

 

"The preservation order related to the 2020 election records was reissued in early fall of 2022 because of the appeal to the Utah Supreme Court," the charges state. "(Lofgran) knew she had to retain the material until the appeal was resolved by the Utah Supreme Court."

 

Just after the Nov. 8, 2022, general election, Lofgran "was observed placing the ballots from the 2022 general election in a shred bin," according to charging documents.

 

Approximately one week later, "a problem required that the ballots be recounted. The 2022 ballots were then pulled out of the shred bin." After the recount, the ballots were placed on a shelf in a large closet in the clerk's office, the court documents state. But around Thanksgiving 2022, Lofgran was observed putting the ballots in the shred bin again.

 

Lorgran told the deputy county clerk, "We don't need them anymore," and said the 2022 election reports had been completed, the charging documents allege. The bins were picked up by the shred company on Nov. 23 and Dec. 22, 2022.

 

The 4,795 ballots that were cast in Juab County and counted in the 2022 general election were not found, nor were any ballot envelopes. There was a total of 5,932 ballots cast in Juab County in the 2020 general election. Most of the 2020 general election ballots and envelopes were not found, according to charging documents.

 

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DeSantis Has Made Florida the Leading State for Voter Suppression

 

The book “Laboratories of Democracy” appeared in 1988, positing that individual states were poised to experiment with progressive policies that could transform the political landscape if adopted in other states or the national level.

 

A new edition might be called “Laboratories of Autocracy,” since Republican-run states these days are experimenting with ways to disenfranchise Democratic constituencies, stack the courts against progressive initiatives, and cement their control over this country one state at a time.

 

The dust cover could feature the smiling mug of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, the Republican presidential candidate who since the Black Lives Matter summer three years ago has pushed an ever-more-reactionary campaign against marginalized communities, not least at the voting booth.

 

“We trust Floridians to make the best decisions for themselves and that that should not be solely placed in the hands of the government—and that is what is happening under this particular administration,” says Jasmine Burney-Clark, founder of Equal Ground, a community organizing group.

 

“We also believe that this particular administration is obviously being run under authoritarian rules. It is the entry point for legislation that is seeping into state legislatures across the nation. It is the breeding ground for what could be possible when it comes to restrictions, not just in Florida but everywhere else,” she continued during a telephone interview.

“We’re trying to do our best to warn folks about what that possibility looks like under a DeSantis presidency.”

 

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DeSantis and the malleable Florida Legislature have cracked down on political protest, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ community, and women and trans men who might need abortions, among others.

 

He’s lashed out at progressive allies as well, including two elected state prosecutors he suspended from office over political differences involving abortion and trans rights. He even targeted The Walt Disney Co. over its mildest of rebukes over his “Don’t Say Gay” law, restricting even the mention of LGBTQ people in public schools.

 

“I would probably describe it as one of the most volatile states, given that every single civil rights issue is up for grabs in our Legislature,” Burney-Clark said. “We are actively working to hold onto democracy as our state is working actively to weaken the rights we have as Floridians.”

 

As might be expected, Floridians aren’t taking this lying down, which means litigation, which forced the Legislature this year to appropriate more than $16 million to cover the governor’s legal bills.

 

In elections litigation alone, the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition sued the state in federal court in Miami alleging the state has erected barriers to felons hoping to regain their voting rights under 2018’s Amendment 4, which the organization sponsored.

 

Separate litigation alleges the state’s voter registration form lacks eligibility requirements for those with criminal convictions and “creates confusion, impedes the organizations’ voter registration activities and puts people in danger of criminal penalties.”

 

Additional legislation over the past three years provides criminal penalties for people who submit absentee ballots on behalf of nonfamily members or provide food or water for people waiting in line to vote, although some of its worst aspects have been enjoined.

 

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If Louisiana's 5th circuit says the GOP got it wrong, it must be pretty egregious because their decisions are highly conservative.

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On 12/1/2022 at 9:04 AM, China said:

Second key Tina Peters deputy pleads guilty, agrees to testify against the indicted Mesa County clerk

 

Asecond key former deputy to indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters pleaded guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from a breach of the county’s election system last year, agreeing as part of a deal with prosecutors to testify against Peters in her upcoming trial.

 

Sandra Brown, Mesa County’s former elections manager, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, and one misdemeanor count of official misconduct. 

 

As part of the plea, Brown agreed to cooperate with authorities in their investigation into Peters. If she doesn’t honor the cooperation agreement, the original charges against her — including conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, a felony — will be reinstated.

 

In exchange, Brown will avoid a prison sentence and can only be ordered jailed for a maximum of 30 days. She will be sentenced at a later date to a two-year deferred judgment, which means that as long as she doesn’t break any laws during that time, she won’t be subject to additional penalties.

 

A 15-page arrest warrant for Brown, who was arrested in July, alleged she misrepresented to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office who would be attending a sensitive election system software update in May 2021. An email included in the document shows Brown messaging state elections officials to let them know that Gerald Wood would be attending the update, when in fact, according to authorities, he was never going to be there.

 

Investigators allege that Wood’s identity was stolen by Peters, a Republican, to surreptitiously get another man, Conan Hayes, a former pro surfer and election conspiracy theorist, into the Dominion Voting Systems software update. 

 

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Indicted Colorado clerk at center of MyPillow CEO’s 2020 election conspiracy movie sues Merrick Garland to shut down federal probe, says she was just asking questions

 

A former Republican clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, indicted in 2022 for official misconduct connected to her ill-fated attempt to prove that Dominion Voting Systems and its electronic voting machines stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in federal court against state officials and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, claiming she’s being persecuted for asking questions about the “legitimacy” of President Joe Biden’s election.

 

Tina Peters is suing Garland, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D), and Mesa County District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein in attempt to shut down both the looming state prosecution and a federal investigation, the latter of which revealed her to be a “subject” — along with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — of an identity theft, intentional damage to a protected computer, and conspiracy probe.

 

Peters, who was featured in the Lindell-funded 2020 election conspiracy movie “[S]election Code,” is accused at the state level of tampering with election equipment, attempting to influence public servants, and engaging in official misconduct by allowing an unauthorized third party to make copies of voting machine hard drives, leading “confidential digital images” of county Dominion equipment and passwords to be “published on the internet.”

 

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District Colorado by attorney John Case, seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction in a bid to block the state and the feds from “conducting and proceeding with criminal proceedings, including investigations and prosecutions” until Peters’ claims make their way through court.

 

Peters argued that the state prosecution and distinct but related federal grand jury probe amount to violations of her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, by unlawfully retaliating against her for “exercising her freedom of speech, freedom of association, and her right to petition the government for the redress of grievances,” and by punishing her for “efforts to comply with federal law governing the maintenance of election records[.]”

 

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