Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Day 807 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, New Mexico edition)

 
Meet the stars of the
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
 
New Mexico failed GOP candidate
Solomon Pena
Headline:  Santa Fe New Mexican, 1/16/2023
Pena, who has voiced support for former President Donald Trump in Twitter posts and called himself “the MAGA king,” previously was convicted of 19 felonies, including burglary, larceny, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and receiving stolen property. He spent almost seven years in prison.
H.O.T. GOvernment Lunatic
Harry Wait
Headline:  Urban Milwaukee, 1/15/2023 
Wait’s organization, HOT Government, has moved its operation toward the extensive filing of open records requests and an attempt to scrutinize each and every voter file within the statewide voter registration system looking for what they believe are fake voters. 
“So there’s a local group here that’s very active, Harry Wait being one of their leaders who’ve really been pretty steadfast in their critique of the work that the city does to make sure that people have access to the polls,” Mason says. “So I think that’s what’s different. I think there’s a group here that’s radicalized in a way that we’re not seeing in other parts of the state.”

Audit the Vote PA zombie
Headline:  New York Times, 1/15/2023
On the 797th day after the defeat of former President Donald J. Trump, a rural Pennsylvania county on Monday began a recount of ballots from Election Day 2020. 
Under pressure from conspiracy theorists and election deniers, 28 employees of Lycoming County counted — by hand — nearly 60,000 ballots. It took three days and an estimated 560 work hours, as the vote-counters ticked through paper ballots at long rows of tables in the county elections department in Williamsport, a place used to a different sort of nail-biter as the home of the Little League World Series. 
The results of Lycoming County’s hand recount — like earlier recounts of the 2020 election in Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona — revealed no evidence of fraud. The numbers reported more than two years ago were nearly identical to the numbers reported on Thursday. [emphasis added] 
Mr. Trump ended up with seven fewer votes than were recorded on voting machines in 2020.

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