Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections

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One of the more chilling things about Mastriano is his win wouldn't just mean an election denier as Gov: He also gets to appoint a secretary of state.

Sooo we wanted to know what in the world that'd mean to Pennsylvania, & oh boy there's chaos potential:

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Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections
Secretaries of state have historically flown under the radar in Pennsylvania, but if Mastriano became governor, the election denier would appoint someone to the role who could try to block the...
7:56 AM · Aug 15, 2022

https://boltsmag.org/mastriano-secretary-of-state-pick-disrupt-pennsylvania-elections/


Doug Mastriano is a Donald Trump loyalist, and an ardent proponent of the former president’s baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election. He was outside the capitol on Jan. 6th, brought supporters to D.C. that day, and has been subpoenaed by the congressional committee investigating the riots. Now, Mastriano is also the GOP nominee in Pennsylvania’s governor’s race in November. His victory would hand over control of a large swing state to a hard right election denier in the lead-up to the next presidential race.

“He has revealed the Deceit, Corruption, and outright Theft of the 2020 Presidential Election, and will do something about it,” Trump said of Mastriano when he endorsed him in May.

A centerpiece of Mastriano’s promise to revamp the state’s election system is to flex the governor’s authority to choose Pennsylvania’s secretary of state.

“As governor, I get to appoint the secretary of state. And I have a voting reform-minded individual who’s been traveling the nation and knows voting reform extremely well,” Mastriano told Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for Trump, in an April interview. “That individual has agreed to be my secretary of state.”

Mastriano rarely talks to the news media and mostly conducts interviews in far right venues, where his narrative about the 2020 election will not be questioned. As such, he has not publicly named the person he would name for secretary of state, though reporting from HuffPost and the Philadelphia Inquirer revealed some possible contenders among his like-minded allies. Mastriano’s campaign did not respond to an interview request for this article.

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[onecaliberal]

1. Good thing he will be not be elected.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. This is a radicalized Republican party plan, not just Mastriano.

[modrepub]

3. If By Chance He Wins

Whatever harebrained scheme he's plotting will be tied up in court for years. Dems currently have a majority of court seats in the PA supreme court. I'd also wager the Republican judges would have a hard time supporting anything that blatantly is against the state constitution.

[peggysue2]

4. Should not come as a surprise

The man has said exactly this out loud, in public and with a triumphant tone to his voice. This is what he plans. This is what he's planned all along. It's not about who or how many vote; it's all about who counts the votes.

Mastriano is a true nightmare on many fronts--anti-democratic, unAmerican, a proud fascist ready to take the reins of Pennsylvania, forever.

Which is why he cannot and will not win.

When a man tells you who he is?

You know the rest.