The Republican Party is still targeting elections officials with violence-provoking hoaxes
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There are two things to know about the Republican Party's organized attack on non-corrupt secretaries of state and other state election officials. The first is that it is resulting in more chaos in more places than you might think. The second is that it is woThe Republican Party is still targeting elections officials with violence-provoking hoaxes
There are two things to know about the Republican Party's organized attack on non-corrupt secretaries of state and other state election officials. The first is that it is resulting in more chaos in more places than you might think. The second is that it is working. It is having exactly the effects Republican lawmakers and party leaders intended when they grabbed hold of Donald Trump's absolutely false hoaxes claiming a random and varying assortment of supposed election plots against him. A CNN rundown of just some of the vitriol and death threats being directed at numerous secretaries of state, all of whom committed the alleged sins of not furthering Trump's hoax or not magically «finding» new Trump votes after Trump demanded they do so, included the following: «I'm really jonzing to see your purple face after you've been hanged,» wrote an emailer to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. «I am a hunter—and I think you should be hunted,» a woman told Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in a voicemail. For Republican Party officials, elected and not, this was the expected and desired outcome. Read more