Meet the stars of the
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
Karen Taylor
Co-Founder of Audit the Vote PA
Headline: WESA, 11/5/2022
She and her co-founder Karen Taylor also insist “something went awry in 2020,” despite evidence to the contrary. A banner message scrawled across the top of Audit the Vote’s site urges visitors to help them “Expose the Fraud” – though there is no evidence Pennsylvania’s election system allows for widespread ballot fraud or malfeasance. Many of its claims have been refuted by the Department of State.
Neither Shuppe nor Taylor agreed to an interview for this piece.
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“But when that didn’t happen, I had about a 24- to 48-hour pity party,” she said. “And then, because of a class we had took [sic] Karen and I had learned just enough about our rights to be mildly dangerous.”
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Toni Shuppe
Co-Founder of Audit the Vote PA
Headline: WESA, 11/5/2022
Video taken from the rally shows a woman wearing a white T-shirt and ball cap being introduced and taking the stage. Before she starts her speech, she surveys the crowd:
“Does anybody in this room think that Donald J. Trump was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania?” asks Toni Shuppe.
The crowd roared in agreement – even though mandated county and state-administered audits determined Joe Biden won that year’s contest by 80,000 votes. Multiple experts of both parties and even two Trump-appointed federal judges all concluded the election system that produced that result was fair and secure.
Shuppe is a mother of three who co-founded Audit the Vote PA, a group that describes itself on its website as “non-partisan” and “advocating for our right to a free and fair election” in Pennsylvania.
TY Bodden GOP candidate
Wisconsin 59th Assembly District
Headline: Wisconsin Watch, 11/2/2022
The Legislature’s most vocal election denier, Rep. Tim Ramthun, R-Campbellsport, left office to run unsuccessfully for governor. Ty Bodden, the Republican running unopposed in Ramthun’s district, lists first on his campaign’s issues web page: “Secure our elections, eliminate any chance of election fraud and restore trust in our election process.”
GOP candidate Angie Sapik
Wisconsin 73rd Assembly District
Headline: Wisconsin Watch, 11/2/2022
Scrub-a-dub-dub
Nowhere does Sapik mention debunked claims of widespread 2020 election fraud or even the more sanitized party line about “election integrity.” Yet in thousands of now-deleted tweets, Sapik spewed profanities, endorsed political violence, embraced 2020 election conspiracies, supported the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection and even denounced her own Republican Party, describing it as “a thing of the past” split between “RINOs and true Patriots.” [emphasis added]
Far-right provocateur
Dinesh "shoobydoo" D'Souza
Headline: Barron's, 10/29/2022
The film energizing them is far-right commentator Dinesh D'Souza’s "2000 Mules." It advanced the conspiracy theory that ballot-trafficking "mules" smuggled fraudulent votes into the boxes to swing the presidency to Joe Biden.
Reached by AFP, D'Souza defended his production and its sticking power -- and said those surveilling ballot boxes are "patriots, who are worried about fraud this time around."
Legal challenges to organizations spearheading the ballot watching arose after Arizona's secretary of state referred several voter intimidation complaints to law enforcement, including one from a voter claiming they were accused of "being a mule."
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