As this year’s dangerously close election draws nearer, Republicans in a wide array of states are already trying to upend the ballot count and throw the country into chaos.
The fiercest fight is in Georgia, one of the most pivotal battleground states. On Friday, the Board of Elections ordered all ballots cast on Election Day to be hand-counted, which experts say will delay the count and throw the postelection period into disarray.
And earlier this week, a joint report from The Guardian and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington revealed emails between a network of Georgia county election officials in the state strategizing to help Donald Trump win.
The scheming includes communications from David Hancock, a member of the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections, and Janice Johnston, a member of Georgia’s MAGA-leaning State Election Board, with the Tea Party Patriots and the Election Integrity Network, a group founded by former Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell.
Writing in her Civil Discourse blog, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance said the emails show that Georgia’s Election Integrity Coalition is drawing up "a recipe for a coup."
And this effort is happening in multiple states as we speak.
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