Frivolous GOP challenges of absentee ballots of overseas voters...

[IndyOp]

We have a Board of Election meeting in my county this Friday (11/17), about apparently frivolous GOP challenges to absentee ballots of citizens living overseas (see letter below!)

I would like to be able to connect this local event to a national GOP strategy - if the evidence is available.

Have there been other reports of this?

Can anyone direct me to the article Mark Crispin Miller and/or Greg Palast wrote about this suppression technique? I know one of them wrote that this was going to be on the rise.

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Hello -

I am writing to request that (your election integrity group) send someone to the
election board meeting on Friday November 17th at noon...

Several months ago at such a meeting the election board voted to discard my ballot,
and no one was present to watch this travesty. I want to avoid a repeat.

What has happened: D. (Republican partisan) challenged several overseas voters based on the fact that their ballots were at some point in the custody of an unknown factor. State law does not allow citizens to challenge the validity of a ballot for such reason (or you guys would presumably be doing this right now re: voting machines), but it does allow someone to swear out an affidavit challenging the voter himself. Since D. had no way to know anything at all about these voters (and in fact one of them is a friend of mine and is a legitimate voter), he perjured himself.

On November 17, the elections board will determine the final disposition of these challenged votes.

Also, I intend to lay some groundwork for the public humiliation of the local Republican party. I also intend to see D. behind bars (perjury = class D felony).

So, a farce for sure. Please attend!

Thanks, G.

:grr:

[mod mom]

1. I believe MCM covered the subject best (I believe it was Chapter 7-loaned

out my book) in Fooled Again.

[nicknameless]

2. Putting them behind bars is probably the only way to stop these cheats.

K&R

[nicknameless]

3. Does this include military ballots?