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High Level Michigan Republican under investigation for tampering with voting machines


https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/matthew-deperno-michigan-attorney-general/index.html

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
in reply to tom grzyb

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.
in reply to tom grzyb

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".
in reply to tom grzyb

So Trump had a point after all: there actually was fraud...
in reply to tom grzyb

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".
in reply to tom grzyb

I've noticed that we often accuse others of our own sins.
in reply to tom grzyb

That's along with reason #1 - they must be doing this (even more-so than I am).
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