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'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice

The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship

#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/

‘Georgia Is Our Laboratory’: Inside Trump’s Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

Rolling Stone
Jun 12, 2024 at 1:57pmWeb
Show threadNonilexJun 12, 2024

Over the past 4 yrs, #Trump-loving elements of the #Georgia #GOP have wielded that advantage in a crusade to convert discredited #election #ConspiracyTheories into policies well ahead of #Election Day 2024. It is an alarmingly anti-democratic experiment that Trumpland & much of the GOP hope to take national.

"Georgia is our laboratory," a source close to Trump tells Rolling Stone. "If you can get this up & running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole."

Show threadNonilexJun 12, 2024

In 2020, top #Georgia #Republicans such as Gov #BrianKemp & Sec of State #BradRaffensperger managed to block Trump's attempts to illegally overturn the #election results. Kemp earned #Trump's fury by refusing to use what the then-president called “emergency powers" to stop the certification of Joe #Biden's victory. In an infamous Jan 2021 phone call that helped lead to Trump's #indictment in #FultonCounty, Raffensperger rebuffed the president's demands to "find" him votes.

#law

Show threadNonilexJun 12, 2024

But ever since President #Biden's inauguration, #conservative activists & policymakers in #Georgia have tried to bypass #Raffensperger & worked diligently to turn Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into public #policy.

As #Trump has continued to lie that the #2020election was "stolen" & "rigged", Trump & his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit.

#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #BidenHarris2024

Show threadNonilexJun 12, 2024

… #MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating #election ofcls, employing #legal dirty tricks, & ousting #Republican ofcls & appointees who haven't been initiated into the cult of #Trump.

Republican operatives have remade #Georgia's state election board, exec branch, Legislature, & legal ecosystems, all in Trump's image. #Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges…turbocharged w/a new #ElectionLaw.

Show threadNonilexJun 12, 2024

#Conservative activists heckle #election ofcls on a regular basis w/ #ConspiracyTheories Trump birthed, & an indicted election denier -now the state's lt gov- pushes Trump's agenda…

#Trump sits atop the sprawling network, receiving updates on progress from pol advisers & other #MAGA acolytes.

#Lawyers close to Trump are already preparing for TFG to claim #fraud in #Georgia & challenge the results…-even in the event that he wins just to prove a point about imaginary "fraud" in Democratic areas.

Show threadKimota94Jun 12, 2024
@Nonilex A quick reminder that it’s literally impossible to steal votes with voting machines that produce paper ballots, like the ones used in all 7 swing states in 2020. Why? Because you can do hand recounts and compare those totals to the vote tallies reported by the machines. Unless Trump voters were stupid enough to, en masse, fail to notice that their Trump vote was changed to Biden on their paper ballot, then their vote wasn’t changed… as proven by the hand recounts.
Show threadKevin LeecasterJun 12, 2024
@Nonilex
We've got to turn out this fall in such large numbers that it's #TooBigToRig
Show threadKimota94Jun 12, 2024
@Nonilex A quick reminder that it’s literally impossible to steal votes with voting machines that produce paper ballots, like the ones used in all 7 swing states in 2020. Why? Because you can do hand recounts and compare those totals to the vote tallies reported by the machines. Unless Trump voters were stupid enough to, en masse, fail to notice that their Trump vote was changed to Biden on their paper ballot, then their vote wasn’t changed… as proven by the hand recounts.
Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Jun 12, 2024

@Nonilex

Here is where the danger is best understood! He could steal it. that would be the absolute worst disaster of our lifetimes.

Show threadsandywb14Jun 12, 2024
@Nonilex 😡