Rep. Ken Buck (Colorado) was right in his refusal to support the two leading candidates for Speaker of the House today because both have continued to claim Trump won the election of 2020. The Big Lie is the unproven, unevidenced BS promoted by epic poor loser Donald Trump and his MAGA movement that the election was stolen. Ken Buck Says He Refused To Vote For GOP Speaker Candidates Due To 2020 Election Lies (yahoo.com) (Ken Buck, R-CO)
Three years have passed since 2020 and in spite of every effort made, no evidence has emerged to support the Big Lie. All voters need to know where the House Speaker of their party still stands on the issue. It is a litmus test of who in Congress is the most extreme MAGA supporter or who is not. So far as their constituents are concerned, polls show three years after the 2020 elections, 70% of Republicans still think the election was stolen. CNN Poll: Percentage of Republicans who think Biden's 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70% | CNN Politics
Conspiracy theories take root in ignorance, and the best antidote to such political strategies is educating voters on how their vote integrity is protected by the new technology and other measures. The education campaign by election officials is now being conducted in advance of the 2024 elections in Colorado.. Residents invited to observe election machine 'integrity checks,' new ballot box technology | Election Coverage | gazette.com It is worth the effort, even if the only educated are those in the media This can be helpful provided media reports what they learned whenever the Big Lie rears its ugly head again. As a former elections official years ago in Denver, I, too, had to catch up with the intricate use of modern technology and practices in Colorado in 2020, and frankly, I had to dig and dig to find much on the subject. Education of the public of how the process works is sorely needed.
One reassuring thing I learned in catching up with the election system was in Colorado, new technology is backed up by old-school paper ballots (dropped off or mailed in) so that any "forensic audit" or recounts have the evidence to give a definitive count. Other states also have their methods. So far, after every attempt by those who claim the election of 2020 was stolen across the US, after innumerable recounts of stacks of paper ballots, audits, and findings by judges who were appointed by both recent and past ideological and official parties, no evidence has turned up that would have changed the result of the 2020 election. Period.
Colorado has become the epicenter of election controversies. Colorado Republicans and independent voters were the ones who filed a law suit that aims to knock Trump off the 2024 ballot . The state has had three years of controversy with an election denier leading the state GOP, one Trump loyal county clerk convicted of a crime of tampering the election machinery, and even a candidate for county clerk suspected of being an election denier who still got elected and is now occupying the office in charge of counting votes..(Grand County MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Is an election denier a candidate for county clerk in Colorado? Suspicions validated (Mesa County).Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to home detention and community service in obstruction case (nbcnews.com) . Colorado GOP selects combative, election-denying new leader | AP News
This next segment is also reproduced as a separate blog post on 10/13/2023 This persistent belief the 2020 election was stolen is a danger to democracy. Perpetuation of the Big Lie is central to the anti-democracy strategy to destroy faith in the democratic process and then use what they themselves had sabotaged and undermined to replace it with an autocrat who makes sure their MAGAs win by whatever means necessary, including replacing the Department of Justice with loyalists.
There are advocates in the MAGA movement, such as Steve Bannon, who see creating chaos as part of the strategy to replace democracy with a strong leader autocrat he favors that would empower MAGA movement to rule over those they disdain,. Claiming democracy does not work is dependent on their convincing the MAGA movement that it does not work for them at the ballot box. They have been very successful since 70% of Republicans still think the election was stolen. The ability of all citizens to choose their leaders via the ballot is the most central and fundamental characteristic of a democracy. .https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/07/politics/steve-bannon-us-democracy and faith in its integrity is essential. Keeping the Big Lie going is how the MAGA anti democracy radicals are trying to damage that faith in order to give a rationale for replacing democracy with a form of dictatorship (by Trump) instead..
What is now even more critical at stake in 2024 is an election of Trump who does not even support the Constitution, evidenced by the claim by his attorneys that Trump is not sworn to defend it. Trump tells court he had no duty to 'support' the Constitution as president (msn.com) This lawsuit centers on Trump's failure to support the constitution on January 6. Trump's frightening comment was revealed by the lawsuit against Trump brought by GOP and independent Colorado citizens seeking to disqualify Trump from being on the Colorado ballot in 2024. The 14th Amendment plan to disqualify Trump, explained - BBC News The Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, named in the suit, plans to "see the suit through" . Colorado secretary of state calls Trump a ‘liar,’ vows to see ballot lawsuit through | The Hill Trump's refusal to support the Constitution is consistent with earlier statements that he wanted to terminate or suspend the Constitution and his advocacy of political violence instead of ballots. . Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post | CNN Politics
This persistent belief the 2020 election was stolen is a danger to democracy. Perpetuation of the Big Lie is central to the anti-democracy strategy to destroy faith in the democratic process and then use what they themselves had sabotaged and undermined to replace it with an autocrat who makes sure their MAGAs win by whatever means necessary, including replacing the Department of Justice with loyalists.
There are advocates in the MAGA movement, such as Steve Bannon, who see creating chaos as part of the strategy to replace democracy with a strong leader autocrat he favors that would empower MAGA movement to rule over those they disdain,. Claiming democracy does not work is dependent on their convincing the MAGA movement that it does not work for them at the ballot box. They have been very successful since 70% of Republicans still think the election was stolen. The ability of all citizens to choose their leaders via the ballot is the most central and fundamental characteristic of a democracy. .https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/07/politics/steve-bannon-us-democracy and faith in its integrity is essential. Keeping the Big Lie going is how the MAGA anti democracy radicals are trying to damage that faith in order to give a rationale for replacing democracy with a form of dictatorship (by Trump) instead..
What is now even more critical at stake in 2024 is an election of Trump who does not even support the Constitution, evidenced by the claim by his attorneys that Trump is not sworn to defend it. Trump tells court he had no duty to 'support' the Constitution as president (msn.com) This lawsuit centers on Trump's failure to support the constitution on January 6. Trump's frightening comment was revealed by the lawsuit against Trump brought by GOP and independent Colorado citizens seeking to disqualify Trump from being on the Colorado ballot in 2024. The 14th Amendment plan to disqualify Trump, explained - BBC News The Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, named in the suit, plans to "see the suit through" . Colorado secretary of state calls Trump a ‘liar,’ vows to see ballot lawsuit through | The Hill Trump's refusal to support the Constitution is consistent with earlier statements that he wanted to terminate or suspend the Constitution and his advocacy of political violence instead of ballots. . Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post | CNN Politics
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