An ugly GOP election scam in Michigan unmasks a big right-wing lie

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Leaked video shows GOP leaders in Michigan urging poll watchers to break local rules in the quest to show voter fraud. The justification? Dems inevitably cheat. This is the reverse-justification scam that drives the entire right wing assault on democracy.

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Opinion | An ugly GOP election scam in Michigan unmasks a big right-wing lie
How Trump loyalists have turned "election integrity" into a justification for right wing chicanery.
9:14 AM · Sep 9, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/michigan-republican-party-trump-2020-election-lie/

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Of all the lies that Donald Trump loyalists have told this cycle, perhaps the most disgusting one is this: Their designs on our election system are motivated by nothing more than pure, angelic concerns about “election integrity.”

This is brought to mind by a troubling story out of Michigan. CNN reports that GOP leaders in one county are explicitly urging poll workers and other volunteers to break election rules at polling places in the quest to identify Democratic vote fraud in action.

Here’s what’s really ugly about this saga: These Republicans aren’t just urging rule-breaking at the polls. They’re also justifying it by claiming in advance that Democrats are the real cheaters, per CNN, thus prefabricating a phony rationale for their own chicanery.

This self-justifying ruse — Democrats will inevitably cheat, so pretty much anything goes to set things right — is absolutely foundational to right-wing efforts to corrupt democracy across the board, including laying the groundwork to steal future elections.

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1. More radical MAGA Republican "projection."

They accuse others of what they themselves are doing.

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2. K&R