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ROME, Ga. The interim election supervisor took a seat all the way to one side of the meeting room, her back against the wood-paneled wall, a position near the police officers and a few steps from an exit. Knowing what was about to happen, Vanessa Waddell raised her cellphone and began recording.
She zoomed in on the county commissioners who were about to name a new election board, sweeping away a system based on civic-minded volunteers and mutual trust and replacing it with one controlled by people claiming that fraud had corrupted the 2020 presidential election. She panned around the room and here were the people whod been pushing to oust the old system, believing that the corruption had seeped all the way down to their very own election office, casting Waddell as a pawn in a conspiracy stretching to China. And now she noticed someone new, a young man in grease-stained boots, and she wondered whether he might be the one whod sent her an email that had read in part: Well make the Boston bombings look like childs play at the poll sites in this county. Youve been warned. We will end you all.
The meeting was called to order.
Will you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? said one of the commissioners, and as they got down to approving each of the new members of the Floyd County Board of Elections, one more incremental revolution was underway in America, revealing how the norms and machinery of democracy are being upended more than a year after Donald Trump tried to overturn the results of the presidential election.
In this case, the setting was a swath of northwest Georgia that was mostly White, mostly Republican and known for its love of guns, church and sending to Congress one of the most radicalized U.S. politicians in recent memory, Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was a place that until recently might have been dismissed as representing only the extremes of what politics could be in America. But now the extreme was becoming the norm, and the norm was what was happening under a patched-up rotunda in the wishfully named county seat of Rome.
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'Gutted' (what it's like to watch democracy disappear in one Georgia district) (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Kicking for visibility
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)2. MGT's district?
Democrats shouldn't even be considering that sort of cesspool. Her brand of filth doesn't just float to the surface.
brer cat
(24,401 posts)3. It's a very red district.
I don't know what their problem was.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)4. They want America to be like Russia as much as possible