Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who is leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 election, compared the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief after the newspaper and other outlets reported that Gableman had backed off from calling on city officials to testify in his probe. Gableman directed his comments to a Journal Sentinel story in which one of his own aides said city officials will not be required to sit for interviews about last year’s election. The interviews were requested under subpoenas issued to city officials across five cities this month. “What they’re doing over at the Journal would make Joseph Goebbels blush,” Gableman told Dan O’Donnell, the host of a conservative talk show on WISN-AM. “What they’re doing over at the Journal would make Joseph Goebbels blush,” Gableman told Dan O’Donnell, the host of a conservative talk show on WISN-AM. Goebbels served as Hitler’s propaganda minister during the Nazi regime. An antisemite pivotal in creating Hitler’s cult of personality, Goebbels helped mastermind the most infamous moments of Hitler’s rule, from book-burnings and rallies to Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Germany’s Jewish community.
North Carolina Republicans aren’t fooling anyone with dig at Durham County elections | Raleigh News & Observer
Despite Republicans’ claims over the last year, instances of voter fraud are incredibly rare. Maybe North Carolina Republicans haven’t gotten the memo. On Thursday, state representative Jeff McNeely (R-Iredell) and a handful of other Republican state House members who call themselves “the Freedom Caucus” said they would select one of North Carolina’s 100 counties to inspect their voting machines and determine whether they were connected to the internet during the 2020 election. They “randomly selected” Durham County — a Democratic stronghold with large Black and Latino populations. To this point, Republican state lawmakers in North Carolina have mostly resisted participating in sowing doubts about elections, unlike their colleagues in other states. Such talk threatens to undermine confidence in future elections, when the reality is that multiple safeguards ensure that elections are secure and accurate. The State Board of Elections randomly audited 200 North Carolina precincts from both the 2020 Election Day and early voting, and found only 13 precincts had discrepancies between human and machine counts; each of these precincts had three or less votes affected.
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