The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 28, 2024

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You’re listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.

Our third segment on Protect Democracy’s “Deceive, Disrupt, Deny” report anticipates how bad actors will likely use bogus claims of widespread non citizen voting to justify obstructing election certification, nuisance litigation, and sham audits.

Ultimately it won’t work, due to newly clarified deadlines and responsibilities states and courts must meet under the Electoral Count Reform Act.  But in a close election, those delays will try to buy time for partisans to find flaws, diminish election confidence, and mobilize partisan activists to demand it be overturned.  

Since 2020, election deniers have been appointed and in some cases elected to election offices around the country.  In several U.S. counties, officials initially refused to certify the 2022 results.  The Brookings Institution identifies 15 counties Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada as of high or medium concern. 

Partisan legislatures or state election officials can also call for sham audits, as happened in 2020 in Arizona and Wisconsin, and lawsuits challenging the process and outcome are a certainty. 

The good news is that the Electoral Count Reform Act clarified the hard federal deadlines by which states must submit results and slates of electors.  More on that in our next report.   Find Protect Democracy’s full report at 

at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.  I’m Brian Beihl. 

Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

Protect Democracy – Deceive, Disrupt, Deny:  2024 election subversion strategies and how to defuse them
Brookings – The counties that may try not to certify the 2024 election
American Democracy Minute (2022) – Election Denier Chaos in Cochise County, Arizona
American Democracy Minute – (2022) – NM County Officials Refuse to Certify Primary Election with No Evidence
Brennan Center for Justice – What Georgia Tells Us About the 2024 Election Subversion Campaign

Groups Taking Action:
Protect Democracy, Campaign Legal Center, Brennan Center for Justice

Check Your Voter Registration:

• U.S. Election Assistance Commission – Register And Vote in Your State
• USA Vote Foundation – Registration, Eligibility, State Election Office Links
• Vote.Gov – Register to Vote in Your State
• Vote.Org – Check Your Registration to Vote
  
  

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Today’s Links:
Articles:  CNN-“New Mexico secretary of state sues county commission over refusal to certify primary results,”  AP-“GOP commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote,”  “Common Cause Denounces Otero County Commission’s Irresponsible Move to Not Certify Primary Election Results”  L
Organizations Taking Action:   League of Women Voters NM,  Common Cause New Mexico

You’re listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.

We reported earlier about the 11 townships in Michigan whose voting machines may have been tampered with by Big Lie activists.  Now to New Mexico, where Republican county officials have refused to certify their county’s June 7th state primary election, because they don’t trust their own state-tested Dominion voting machines. 

The Associated Press reports that the Otero County, New Mexico’s three-member county commission unanimously refused to certify the election, but cited no discrepancies.    Otero County Commissioner Vickie Marquardt was quoted by the AP saying, “When I certify stuff that I don’t know is right, I feel like I’m being dishonest because in my heart I don’t know if it is right.”  

The Otero County board is chaired by 2020 election denier and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin, who was recently convicted of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds during the January 6th insurrection.  

Dominion vote tabulating machines were alleged by conspiracy theorists to have been the source of widespread fraud during the 2020 election, an allegation which was quickly debunked and which spawned lawsuits against those spreading the disinformation.

The New Mexico Secretary of State requested a writ by the courts on June 15th to mandate that the vote be certified.  Maggie Toulouse Oliver said in an interview on MSNBC Wednesday that once the election is certified, recounts can proceed if warranted.

Links to more on this sordid tale and organizations where you can take action are at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org

Granny D said, “Democracy is not something we have, it’s something we DO.” 

For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.

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