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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 2, 2023

[thread] U.S. electoral fraud

Voting in North Carolina faces changes w. Republican-backed bill
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197252802/north-carolina-voting-legislation

* General Assembly GOP supermajority poised to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of elections bill
* Cooper: nothing to do w. election security; everything to do w. Republicans keeping & gaining power"

NCSB747: https://web.archive.org/web/20230831223618/https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/s747
Cooper, veto msg: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2023/7138/0/S747-BILL-NBC-11326

#GOP #ElectoralFraud #NorthCarolina #gerrymandering #neofascism #democracy #voting #NCSB747

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 3, 2023

Addendum 1

DeSantis Florida redistricting map is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197452442/desantis-florida-redistricting-map-gerrymandering-unconstitutional

* redistricting plan pushed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) violates FL constitution
* prohibited f. being used for any future U.S. congressional elections state judge ruled
* diminishes ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick representatives of their choice

#GOP #ElectoralFraud #Florida #DeSantis #gerrymandering #neofascism #democracy #voting #BLM #SystemicRacism

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Addendum 2

1/3 States Have an Election Denier Overseeing Elections
Movement to subvert American democracy far f. dead
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/one-third-states-election-denier-governor-attorney-general-secretary

*23 election deniers, 17 states serve as governor, attorney general, or secretary of state

@robertcotter
Election Denier Landscape: Election Deniers weaken free & fair elections
https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/resources/electiondeniers

#GOP #ElectoralFraud #GOPmenace #ElectionDenial #neofascism #democracy #voting #disinformation #Trumpism #Trump #DeSantis #LarryElder #democracy

New report: One-third of states have an election denier overseeing elections

The movement to subvert American democracy is far from dead.

Mother Jones

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 10

[electoral fraud] Bait and switch: Newly elected Democratic defections to U.S. Republican Party

Comment: sad that this needs to be threaded ... 😡

Party switching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_switching
* change in political party affiliation of partisan public figure
* usually one currently holding elected office

#USpol #ElectoralFraud #deception #disinformation #corruption #SelfInterest
#PoliticalCorruption #PartyDefections #PartySwitching #opportunists
#GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump2 #fascism

Party switching - Wikipedia

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 10

Political defectors: Tricia Cotham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricia_Cotham

* American politician (R-NC), lobbyist, former schoolteacher
* N.C. House of Representatives
* elected 2022 as Democrat
* campaigned on a trad. Democratic platform
* voted for abortion rights

* Apr 2023 defected to GOP
* supermajority to N.C. House Republicans
* cast deciding vote to restrict abortion

#USpol #ElectoralFraud #PoliticalCorruption
#TriciaCotham #PartyDefections #PartySwitching
#GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump2 #fascism

Tricia Cotham - Wikipedia

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 10

Political defector Susan Valdes: Florida lawmaker switches to GOP shortly after winning election as Democrat
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/10/florida-lawmaker-abruptly-switches-to-shortly-after-winning-as-democrat

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/12/09/hillsborough-democrat-susan-valdes-switches-republican-party

* state Rep. Susan Valdes (R-FL)
* defected f. Democrat Party
* bolsters GOP lg-ever majority in FL House Rep.
* elevated own needs above needs of district

Susan Valdes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Valdes

#USpol #ElectoralFraud #deception #PoliticalCorruption
#SusanValdes #PartyDefections #PartySwitching
#GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump2 #fascism

Florida lawmaker abruptly switches to GOP shortly after winning election as Democrat

"It is sad that she has elevated her own needs above the needs of her district," Democrat says.

Salon.com

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 10

Political defector Tano Tijerina: Webb County, Texas' top elected official switches to Republican Party
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/10/texas-webb-county-judge-tano-tijerina-republican

* elected as Democrat nearly decade ago as top executive of border county that includes Laredo
* among many border counties that Trump won in Nov 2024

#USpol #ElectoralFraud #deception #PoliticalCorruption #opportunists
#TanoTijerina #PartyDefections #PartySwitching
#GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump2 #fascism