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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA County Elections Director Stood Up to Locals Who Believe the Voting System Is Rigged. They Pushed
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-election-denial-voting-surryOn a Saturday in late March, the woman who runs elections in the rural hills of Surry County, North Carolina, was pulling another weekend shift preparing for the upcoming primary, when she began to hear on the other side of her wall the thunder of impassioned speeches. She was dismayed that the voices were questioning the election shed overseen in 2020 and implying that corrupted voting machines had helped steal it. She also believed it was no coincidence that the Surry County GOP convention the highlight of which was a lecture from a nationally prominent proponent of the stolen-election myth was taking place in a public meeting room right next to her office.
The elections director, 47-year-old Michella Huff, whod lived in the county since high school and knew many voters by name, considered it ludicrous that anyone could think the election had been rigged in Surry County. Donald Trump had received upward of 70% of the roughly 36,000 votes cast. Huff, a registered Republican for most of her adult life, had personally certified the vote.
Yet people had begun approaching Huff in church recently, saying things like, I know you didnt do anything, but that election was stolen. In February, a longtime acquaintance of Huffs cornered her in a bluegrass music store and berated her with complaints rooted in conspiracy theories. Huff started limiting her trips to town, even doing her grocery order online. I didnt want to have to deal with that, she said of the election backlash. But it was hard to live in partial hiding. Im not that kind of person. Im a people person.
Unbeknownst to Huff, a national network of election deniers had been making inroads in Surry County, on the fringe of Appalachia. In early 2022, several members of the Surry County GOP had attended a training, put on by North Carolina Audit Force, which describes itself as a group that forms grassroots coalitions to reveal election irregularities. There, they were taught to canvass for election fraud by door-knocking to check for inaccuracies in public records, such as if a different person lived at an address than was listed on voter rolls. Discrepancies, canvassers claim, can indicate fraud though experts say that canvassers often misinterpret normal imperfections in difficult-to-maintain voter lists, such as someone failing to update their address when moving. By early March, canvassers were crisscrossing Surry County, following walk books put together by data analysts associated with North Carolina Audit Force, who mapped routes for efficiency.
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A County Elections Director Stood Up to Locals Who Believe the Voting System Is Rigged. They Pushed (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2022
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Maraya1969
(22,504 posts)1. If someone tells me that the election was rigged again I am going to offer $1,000 for one piece
of actual evidence of wide spread fraud. Just one fucking piece of evidence. I've had the argument before but it was recently that I decided what I would do for the next time.
It is the safest bet I can make.
republianmushroom
(13,703 posts)2. I like it
Takket
(21,632 posts)3. "check for inaccuracies in public records, such as if a different person lived at an address"
yeah... that's what is on the official papers........ but what they are really taught is to intimidate and frighten people they think "look like" a Democrat into not voting. BTW "look like a democrat" means you are something other than a lily white person wearing a cross around your neck.