Constitutional sheriffs' want to be able to seize Dominion voting machines for 'investigation'

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/24/2106150/--Constitutional-sheriffs-want-to-be-able-to-seize-Dominion-voting-machines-for-investigation

The spread of the “constitutional sheriffs” movement—which claims that local county sheriffs are the supreme law of the land, capable of overruling federal and state laws, as well as prohibiting federal and state agencies from enforcing them—throughout rural American sheriff’s offices has often seemed like a quaint but localized problem: Sure, having set themselves up as laws unto themselves, they seem to always run their jurisdictions like private fiefdoms, but it doesn’t affect people outside those counties.

But we have in fact seen—notably in the case of Klickitat County, Washington’s “constitutional” sheriff, who undermined the entire state’s ability to regulate the hunting of endangered mountain lions—that in fact their actions can have broad consequences. That’s especially the case with Michigan “constitutional sheriff” Dar Leaf, who was exposed recently spearheading a broader effort to enlist other sheriffs in seizing voting machines from local election officials to ostensibly prove Donald Trump’s Big Lie about fraud in the 2020 vote.

The report from Matt Shuham at Talking Points Memo [paywalled] details how Leaf, the chief lawman in Barry County and one of the more prominent “constitutional sheriffs” in Michigan, had undertaken to seize at least one ballot tabulator in 2021. According to the county clerk, the machine was then disassembled in Detroit and then reassembled with its seal broken.

Leaf not only has vowed to continue “investigating” voting practices in Barry County. After he filed a lawsuit in December 2020 demanding the county’s voting machines be impounded that was swiftly laughed out of court, Shuham reports that Leaf embarked on an “investigation” of the machines by sending a deputy and a private investigator to grill township officials about their intricacies.

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[Lovie777]

1. RWer are nuts . .....

keep sanity alive.

[CentralMass]

2. Our Democracy is completely fucked.

[BlueIdaho]

3. Fucking County Sheriffs

Not a single one worth a shit.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. These idiots are sovereign citizen idiots who do not have this power

[malaise]

5. Constitutional sheriffs are MAGA terrorists with

A new title - the FBI should call them Lin for a talk or just raid the terrorists’ homes. This is more terrorism from Stone, Bannon and the Slobfather. Thanks

[SheltieLover]

6. Dominion machines must be unhackable because qpukes sure hate them

Pootin prob wants them to install a hackable chip...

[LiberalFighter]

7. They need to be personally responsible for cost to replace machines.

[2naSalit]

8. One of...

Asswipe Bundy's favorite clans. Sovereign citizens and all that claim this bullshit about sheriffs. It's 19th century shit.

These people are so stuck on changing the past to make themselves the righteous victors of some long forgotten dispute that they can't see the cliff they are about to fall over. That's why I call them zombies.

[bluestarone]

9. Comes down to having federal GUARDSMAN where needed

These assholes WILL take the machines for sure. That in itself would destroy our elections. THEY cannot succeed with their plan!

[usajumpedtheshark]

10. Defund sheriffs