chimera wrote on Oct 12
th, 2022 at 10:42am:
January 6 criminals deserve respect.
'The head of a US coalition of election deniers standing for secretary of state positions in key battleground states has made the most explicit threat yet that they will use their powers, should they win in November, to subvert democracy and force a return of Donald Trump to the White House. Secretaries of state act as the top election officials, and as such can shape how federal elections, including presidential ones, are conducted. Theoretically, they could send pro-Trump slates of electors to Congress even were the former president to lose in their states, turning the result on its head.
Marchant pushed for fake Trump electors to be sent from Nevada to Congress to try and subvert the 2020 results. In January, he was asked whether he might try to do the same in 2024, and replied: “That is very possible, yes.”
“If we get all of our secretaries of state elected around the country like this, we take our country back,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/10/republican-jim-marchant-nevada-t... No, dear, if you get all your secretaries of state elected around the country like that, any dodgy electors they send in will get turfed by the inevitable legal challenges and, in many states, criminally charged.
The idea that you can undermine democracy by rigging the system is a last ditch act of a party that's become so into the game it's lost the very point of the game.
These tricks are untested not just because everybody's always been nice and played by the rules. They're also untested because they're illegal.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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