Today’s Links
Articles
Associated Press – Election conspiracies grip Nevada community, sowing distrust
Associated Press – Officials in Nevada county endorse hand count, paper ballots
Forbes – Court Lets Fox Lawsuit Move Forward—Here’s Where Dominion And Smartmatic’s Defamation Suits Stand Now
Groups Taking Action
Let Nevadans Vote Coalition, ACLU NV, Promoting Democracy’s List of Pro-Democracy Groups in NV
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We’re headed to the home of Area 51, Nye County, Nevada, where conspiracy theories of another type, election fraud, have driven out the county’s Republican chief election official.
The Associated Press reports that Sandra Merlino has stepped down from her post after over 20 years of service, citing the public’s persistent disbelief that elections have been conducted properly, and personal attacks by local election deniers.
Back in March, a special county commission meeting was organized by a group of citizens who, following the disinformation spread by President Donald Trump’s campaign legal team and others, called into question the security and accuracy of the Dominion Voting Systems tabulators used in the 2020 election. Out-of-state witnesses were brought in further seeding doubt, after which commission voted unanimously to count an estimated 20,000 ballots by hand for the June 2022 primary.
As with everywhere else in the country, no significant evidence of fraud or election hacking was ever found in Nye County. President Donald Trump was elected in Nye County with 69% of the vote.
On June 21, a state court in Delaware ruled that the defamation lawsuits against Fox News parent company Fox Corporation filed by Dominion Voting Systems and rival Smartmatic could move forward. Several other lawsuits are pending against former President Trump’s allies and other news organizations.
Read the AP story and get connected with the groups taking action at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.
Granny D said Democracy is not something we have, it’s something we DO. For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.