tom grzyb

High Level Michigan Republican under investigation for tampering with voting machines

cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/ma…

the Michigan State Police and the attorney general's office have been investigating a series of voting machine breaches that took place in several counties around the state last year. According to the documents released Monday, that probe has led investigators to Kalamazoo-based lawyer Matthew DePerno

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tom grzyb

in reply to tom grzyb • 3 years ago • •

This news shows another instance of an interesting pattern, where Republicans have been accusing Democrats of doing the very things that they themselves are doing. I can imagine several reasons the Republicans might do this.

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tom grzyb

in reply to tom grzyb • 3 years ago • •

The first reason would be along the lines of "if we are doing it, they must be doing it"

Another reason would be, if the Republicans' illegal activities ever surface, the accusations are already softened by the previous bogus charges they had been spraying around against the Democrats.

A third reason might be similar to the second - they wish to "normalize" such behavior as "simply part of politics".

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Hans van Zijst

in reply to tom grzyb • 3 years ago • •

So Trump had a point after all: there actually was fraud...

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tom grzyb

in reply to tom grzyb • 3 years ago • •

Something happened there - what the effect was is not known. What is known is that the Republicans have no respect for democracy, nor honesty, nor few if any of the norms we associate with "goodness".