POLITICS
Republicans are Firing or Intimidating Local Election Officials
Their ultimate goal is to control the outcomes of elections
Today, I want to talk about a very serious issue — county election staffs. This was prompted by the wholesale resignation of the election staff of Buckingham County, Virginia. There is now no way in that county to register to vote or register a candidacy if you wish to run for office.
Buckingham county consistently votes Republican, but the terrible infection of election fraud claims reaches even into Republican strongholds. The result is local officials being driven from office, (falsely) accused of banning Republicans from serving on election staffs, allowing fraudulent ballots, and even accused of treason.
And all of this is the result of state legislatures gerrymandering voting maps after the 2020 census resulting in Republican supermajorities which then lead to Republican takeovers of local election boards.
While we have all been concerned about the effect of gerrymandering on the makeup of the Congress, we have overlooked the equally important effect of gerrymandering on local election officials.
Those election officials are the bedrock of our democracy. They are the ones who register voters…
