Posted on 10/23/2022 6:32:03 AM PDT by devane617
Atlanta’s U.S. attorney monitoring for voter interference or threats against election workers.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is providing this content as part of our public service mission. Learn more about supporting real journalism. As early voting is underway in Georgia’s first general election since the razor-thin 2020 presidential contest, law enforcement and election officials are watching for disruptions by radicalized individuals feeding off conspiracy theories and disproven allegations of fraud.
This year’s election could be at risk of threats, interference and misinformation that has been building over the last two years since the proliferation of stolen election claims by former President Donald Trump and his supporters has taken hold, experts say.
“We’re definitely concerned and prepared,” said Ben Popp, a researcher for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
Popp tracks extremist groups in the Southeast and said there are reasons to think the period leading up to and immediately following the midterm election could be disruptive. How and where that disruption might occur is more difficult to predict, he said.
“It’s largely election fraud narratives,” he said. “We haven’t really seen specific threats toward specific election workers, but the generalized rhetoric is there.”
Popp said the largest source of concern does not come from extremist groups like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers or fringe political ideologies like neo-Nazism. Instead, the growing concern has been individuals spurred to action by online far-right influencers warning a grand conspiracy is afoot by Democrats to steal the election, he said.
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If you dance, you pay the piper.
wy69
More far left conspiracy theories
You mean like claiming voter suppression when there is record turnout? That type of conspiracy theory?
So we're trotting out our 'narrative' so that their 'narrative' doesn't cause our fraud operation alot of unwanted attention.
But when the election is stolen from conservatives? All the thieves get is a dirty look.
And we wonder why America's been ceded to sin.
I’m more concerned turnout will be so heavy that certain election officials will be caught “unprepared” in certain republican districts & “run out of ballots”, etc.
“So we’re trotting out our ‘narrative’ so that their ‘narrative’ doesn’t cause our fraud operation alot of unwanted attention.”
And the AJC dutifully does its part.
I think there is a decent chance that the Democrats will just blatantly steal this election and the Republicans could go down to a ludicrous defeat.
Will we do anything? I doubt it.
And if we do anything, the authorities seem to be ready for us.
Election fraud deniers conspiring to hide the fraud.
#7 above is a real concern as I see it. to enough ballots or hardware problems in a very few select precincts.
I wish GOP districts would not report their results early. Hang on to them until the last minute.
All chimpouts, of any race, should be met with lethal force.
We will do what we always do. let the RATs cheat and throw blame on each other and then proclaim we will win next time.
That is why we are in this position now.
Is the FBI going to round up people who speak about election fraud in the next two weeks?
“We haven’t really seen specific threats toward specific election workers, but the generalized rhetoric is there.”
Creating a narrative out of thin air to justify an end result......I see it coming.
SMH
The Atlanta urinal was a propaganda rag as far back as when I was a kid growing up in N. GA back in the 60’s and 70’s
Yes just because there’s more votes than eligible registered voters doesn’t mean anyone cheated.
Yep, Tagline is still accurate.
All lawlessness must be met with lethal force. It'll take that to recover the Republic.
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