Mr. Lawfare Marc Elias: Make It Illegal to Film Poll Workers Caught in Election Fraud

Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers

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I have previously warned that right-wing vigilantism is the greatest threat to free and fair elections this November. This includes mass voter challenges, disinformation campaigns aimed at misleading voters and, sadly, targeting election officials and voters for intimidation and harassment.

Republicans know that this November they will lose the popular vote for president by millions of votes. Their only strategy to overcome this deficit is to make it harder to vote and easier to cheat. That is why former President Donald Trump’s senior advisor who now effectively runs the Republican National Committee, Chris LaCivita, recently insisted that “the RNC’s new posture as it relates to litigation is much more offensive and much less defensive.”

Suing to add obstacles to vote and to purge voters is the kind of Republicans playing offense that all too many people now accept as normal. Suing to empower vigilantes to harass voters and election officials is just the next logical step for a desperate campaign without any moral compass.

I fear that even this won’t be the worst we will see. A political party that shamelessly spreads election denialism is capable of worse. A candidate that praises the Jan. 6 insurrectionists and refers to the criminally convicted as “hostages” is capable of much worse. We must be prepared.

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Yeah, you read that right - catching crooked poll workers in the act: Filming them blocking windows with pizza boxes; discarding lawfully-cast ballots; pulling suitcases of ballots from under table skirts after hours and after opposition poll watchers have been sent home for the night; scanning and rescanning the same stacks of ballots repeatedly - all of those things are okay. It's the documentation of that election fraud activity that known shitbag Marc Elias is seeking to classify as "harassment of election workers".

Shorter:

Election fraud = Good

Catching crooks in the act of stealing elections = bad