Saturday, April 29, 2023

Day 910 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, California edition)

 
Meet the stars of the
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
 
Starring Shasta County (CA) Supervisor
Kevin Crye
HeadlineSouthern Poverty Law Center, 4/28/2023
Crye was elected last November, when he joined Patrick Jones and Chris Kelstrom to form a far-right majority on the Shasta County Board of Supervisors (SCBOS). 
Last month, the trio outvoted two other commissioners to terminate the county’s contract with Dominion Voting Systems, leaving the county with no settled process for voting, and forcing election officials to contemplate counting votes by hand.

Bob Bartelsmeyer
Cochise County AZ new election director
HeadlineThe Guardian, 4/25/2023
Bartelsmeyer, previously the elections director in smaller La Paz county, Arizona, posted multiple times on his Facebook page about the 2020 election, making false claims about Trump’s loss, widespread fraud and Dominion voting machines, according to reporting by Votebeat
One post he shared from 2020 said: “Please join me by posting: Trump legally won in a landslide.” He posted multiple times about then Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s lawsuits over the 2020 election. He also posted an image with a quote about how election fraud is “treason”.

Election Denier King Mike Lindell
MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year’s U.S. election. 
He called the challenge “Prove Mike Wrong.” 
On Wednesday, a private arbitration panel ruled that someone did. 
The panel said Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert and 63-year-old Trump voter from Nevada, was entitled to the $5 million payout.   
Zeidman had examined Lindell’s data and concluded that not only did it not prove voter fraud, it also had no connection to the 2020 election. He was the only expert who submitted a claim, arbitration records show.
 

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