GOP access to voting equipment is wrong

This is a multi-state issue.

Newly obtained surveillance video shows a Georgia GOP county official and operatives working with a Trump attorney spent hours inside a restricted area of the Coffee County elections office on Jan. 7, 2021 — the same day its voting systems were breached.https://t.co/yWNxCsbUX2
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 20, 2022

NEW: GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announces he will replace election equipment in Coffee County, after members of a data firm hired by a Trump attorney accessed data from those machines.
— Blayne Alexander (@ReporterBlayne) September 23, 2022

Mike Lindell, the My Pillow chief executive and ally to former President Donald Trump, is under federal investigation for identity theft and for conspiring to damage a protected computer connected to a suspected voting equipment security breach in Colorado https://t.co/w7CBER4tvd pic.twitter.com/kmKIf0hZs5
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) September 21, 2022

Documents obtained by the Washington Post found a “secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more successful than previously reported,” included efforts in Michigan that have already come under scrutiny https://t.co/3FuOYr8SvO
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 17, 2022

“This previously unreported Michigan case is one of at least 17 incidents nationwide, including 11 in Michigan, in which Trump supporters gained or attempted to gain unauthorized access to voting equipment.”
Is it a coincidence that all are GOP attempts? https://t.co/cLBdu2f4Vi
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 7, 2022

Arizona’s Maricopa County will replace voting equipment that was turned over to a private contractor for a Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential election, concerned that the process compromised the security of the machines https://t.co/PBsfarGit5
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 29, 2021

Georgia State Elections Board reveals it has asked the FBI to participate in an ongoing criminal investigation into the voting system breach in Coffee County because of similarities between what happened there and incidents in other states https://t.co/vFlEiwai2H
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 28, 2022

Bad Republican election behavior

They don’t think the rules apply to them

Republican leaders in a Michigan county told election workers to “secretly” break the rules before primary https://t.co/ifunW5U43Y
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 7, 2022

CNN EXCLUSIVE: shocking new video obtained by @DrewGriffinCNN shows Republican leaders in Michigan training poll workers to **break the rules** so they can act as "undercover agents" during mid-term elections in November. pic.twitter.com/e8iHQ1GFLQ
— Nora Neus (@noraneus) September 8, 2022

A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows. https://t.co/8uhMGceAMT
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 6, 2022

Republican efforts to boost third-party spoiler candidates

I don’t approve of Democrats supporting Republicans they think they can beat but this is even worse.

Republicans in many states boosted numerous third-party candidates. Here's my earlier report on this epidemic of unreported election fraud https://t.co/RVz0YlcAEB
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) September 1, 2022

Front page of the Orlando Sentinel. Seminole County Republican Party Chair found guilty in a case of election fraud involving spoiler candidates meant to give GOP an advantage.

Is Ron DeSantis going to comment on this case of election fraud? pic.twitter.com/aB2k3VWvlR
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) September 2, 2022

Misleading Washington Post tweet on voting machines

Republicans have “worked the refs”. The Post should have said only Republicans are doing this.

It’s not a “national trend”. It’s a “national trend for the Republican Party”. Democrats aren’t doing this.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 15, 2022

Republican efforts to breach voting machines

After a Michigan GOP lawmaker requested voting machines from election clerks, it seems that the machines were handed to conservatives who tampered with them before returning them to election clerks. The scheme involved the GOP’s now nominee for AG! https://t.co/Yc9qp01C8X
— Taniel (@Taniel) August 9, 2022

ICYMI: Here's what we know so far of potential charges in a probe that involves GOP AG candidate Matt DePerno, Barry Co. Sheriff Dar Leaf and Rep. Daire Rendon (among several others) illegally seizing and analyzing voting machines in 2020. https://t.co/khikmag2fk
— Jordyn Hermani (🔈: "Herminnie") (@JordynHermani) August 15, 2022

"Altho the exact nature of connections b/twn efforts in different states to breach machines remains unclear, the situation in MI is similar to ones elsewhere in which …unauthorized investigators sought evidence of fraud by gaining access to voting eqpmt" https://t.co/60kITjG6rb
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 15, 2022

New: Forensic experts directed by Trump-allied lawyers copied sensitive data from election systems in Ga. as part of a multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader and more organized than was previously known https://t.co/TjsJz31oAq
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) August 15, 2022

Bad Washington Post tweet on Republican breach of voting machines

Only one party is doing this. The tweet should say so. The investigation in the article is excellent but it still doesn’t say that only Republicans are doing this.

It’s not a “national trend”. It’s a “national trend for the Republican Party”. Democrats aren’t doing this.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 15, 2022

Drop boxes do not cause election fraud

Just another Republican lie.

A new AP poll of election officials finds that the expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election "did not lead to any widespread problems," with "no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results." https://t.co/WnAq2TTxp7
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 18, 2022

America is left with a difficult choice: should we believe the AP's state-by-state queries of elections officials on the security of drop boxes or should we instead rely on D'Souza's secondhand claims from a guy who is known to invent fraud claims?https://t.co/hQE3MrrLLu
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 18, 2022

The Republican war on drop boxes continues.https://t.co/KvlnYXLslV
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 6, 2022

New York Times on “Stop the Steal”

For @NYTmag, I looked at the long arc of "Stop the Steal": its pre-2020 origins, and the new forms that the movement, broadly defined, has taken on since Jan. 6: https://t.co/YzvYFFt530
— Charles Homans (@chashomans) July 19, 2022

Blame Trump for his actions

I blame Trump, not the advisors. He chose to listen to them. He was told the truth (that he lost) repeatedly and chose not to accept it.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 12, 2022

Nothing will convince Big Lie believers of the truth

It has been over a year and a half since the 2020 election. There has been no evidence of significant fraud. Yet, 28% still think Trump won. This isn’t going to change. Nothing will convince the Trump cult that he lost. At least the majority knows what happened.

Which candidate do you think was the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election?

Joe Biden 65%
Donald Trump 28%

(New York Times/Siena College Poll, RV, 7/5-7/22)https://t.co/K3LiwFoewK
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) July 13, 2022

We have reached the apex of election-fraud debunking https://t.co/Jb6QL0FYgu
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) July 14, 2022

Politico-Morning Consult poll:

66% of voters say Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election

66% say Trump claimed the election was fraudulent without evidence

59% say Trump misled the public about the outcome of the election
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 13, 2022

Before the #January6thHearings began, 67% of Republicans thought the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump. And after 8 hearings? Down to 55%. (Reuters/Ipsos) Still ridiculously high but suggests the #January6Committee has had an effect even with Trump’s party.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) July 25, 2022