In Bid for Control of Elections, Trump Loyalists Face Few Obstacles

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Bill Kristol
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“I am frustrated that at this point, after we all witnessed what happened on Jan. 6, there isn’t more of a sense of urgency. We all have to band together and say, ‘Never again’—as opposed to, ‘Well, maybe it will happen again, and maybe we’ll be ready.’”
A pro-Trump mob, galvanized by Donald J. Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020, stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.

In Bid for Control of Elections, Trump Loyalists Face Few Obstacles
A movement animated by Donald J. Trump’s 2020 election lies is turning its attention to 2022 and beyond.
nytimes.com
6:06 PM · Dec 11, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/politics/trust-in-elections-trump-democracy.html

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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — When thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington on Jan. 6 for the Stop the Steal rally that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol, one of them was a pastor and substitute teacher from Elizabethtown, Pa., named Stephen Lindemuth.

Mr. Lindemuth had traveled with a religious group from Elizabethtown to join in protesting the certification of Joseph R. Biden’s victory. In a Facebook post three days later, he complained that “Media coverage has focused solely on the negative aspect of the day’s events,” and said he had been in Washington simply “standing for the truth to be heard.”

Shortly after, he declared his candidacy for judge of elections, a local Pennsylvania office that administers polling on Election Day, in the local jurisdiction of Mount Joy Township.

Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of political activists who, galvanized by Donald J. Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020, have begun seeking offices supervising the election systems that they believe robbed Mr. Trump of a second term. According to a May Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than 60 percent of Republicans now believe the 2020 election was stolen.

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1. I am frustrated that at this point.