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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 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 18, 2023

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