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The Midterm Election is Here. So Are the Groups Intent on Stealing It.
Midterm election voting is underway, and the republican party is fulfilling its promise to confuse, frustrate, circumvent, and complicate the electoral process in an attempt to swing ballots in its favor.
We can’t say we weren’t warned.
Two years ago, election deniers were hanging their hopes on statewide audits, like the farce perpetrated in Maricopa County, Arizona that confirmed — again — Joe Biden was the undisputed winner over Trump.
Just because they failed doesn’t mean they were going away.
Right-wing vigilante groups have been spending the past two years mobilizing.
Since the last presidential election, threats to poll workers have spiked as right-wing Donald Trump supporters targeted their animosity toward those they baselessly felt were helping to “steal votes” from Trump.
Now they’ve expanded the conspiracy to “votes being stolen” from all republican candidates.
