MAGA took “Witch hunt!” as a directive
After hearing Dear Leader cry “Witch hunt!” again and again during his White House tenure, the Children of the Con are now themselves hunting witches. They took his accusation as a directive.
PHOENIX — The report landed in the Arizona secretary of state’s online portal Monday night, around dinnertime. It contained an urgent message.
“There’s a group of people hanging out near the ballot dropbox filming and photographing my wife and I as we approached the dropbox and accusing us of being a mule,” said the report, which was written by a voter in the Phoenix suburbs and obtained by The Washington Post. “They took … photographs of our license plate and of us and then followed us out the parking lot in one of their cars continuing to film.”
The Guardian adds this background: “In Arizona, voters can only drop off ballots for themselves, people in their households or families, or people they’re providing care for. Other states don’t ban so-called ballot harvesting. The practice became illegal in Arizona in 2016.”
Voting by drop box is perfectly legal and non-suspicious. Except to these witch hunters:
It’s not enough to them that ballot harvesting is illegal. The drop box “monitors” have appointed themselves vigilante enforcers. And in doing so it appear they are engaging in something equally illegal: harassing voters.
We’ve seen it here in years past. A black man with a 15-passenger van ferrying black voters to the polls had his license tag photographed. His white harrassers accused him of doing something illegal. He didn’t stop. He must have taken hundreds to the polls. Someone else may not have persisted.
The Post again on events in Arizona:
By Wednesday, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D), who oversees elections here, referred the matter to the U.S. Justice Department and the Arizona attorney general. A spokesperson for the Justice Department confirmed on Thursday that it received the referral but declined to comment.
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Though unobtrusive and few in number here, the drop boxes have become a symbol of mistrust in American elections among supporters of former president Donald Trump.
Trump and his allies nationally and in Arizona have urged supporters to monitor outdoor drop boxes, intended to serve as safe and convenient tools to deposit ballots.
A spokesperson for Arizona’s attorney general recommended voters who feel threatened should call the police.
And then call Marc Elias.