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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

The Democrats are laughing at our infighting. The 2018 California midterms led the way on their effective ballot harvesting. For the life of me, I can not figure out how Republican leadership acts like it doesn't exist. Until we do the same, we have no chance. It doesn't matter who we put up. Our party ignorance on the harvesting feels deliberate on some level. In 2020, Democrats had to shut down the states to pull if off. This time, they didn't have to. By 2024, the operation will be seamless. What is going on on our side?????

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Regarding elections, I will say that the local GOP people need to start holding their own GOP leadership accountable.

I helped “count” mail in and early ballots at my county count location Tuesday. “Count” because all we were doing was checking for clerk initials and matching precinct locations on the ballots. Machines were doing the counting.

Anyway, we had apparently an estimated 70,000 ballots. Not sorted or organized by precinct. Yay {not} for being a vote center county where precinct level voting is passé and too inconvenient. {Because freedom is always convenient.}. Do you realize that if we needed a hand recount of a precinct-level vote, or township level - say for school board, or a tax referendum, or a Precinct Committeemen - who is realistically going to sift through 70,000 unorganized ballots to find the few that belong to the particular precincts in question. I mean, I think we have hundred of precincts in our county??

And our local GOP appears to not mind this.

Our local GOP has been “keeping an eye on” the Konnech scandal.

When I actually ran into the GOP appointee to our election board at the count center, and asked for her email to discuss some concerns about the primaries, she replied that she had already seen my email and the issues were just that I wasn’t experienced working the polls. I pointed out that lack of bipartisan presence at voter checkin was not a matter of experience or education. And that, why, yes, I *had* brought it up to my inspector, but he didn’t care. Crickets from her. No concern, no outrage, no anything. As far as the broken printers, which also had nothing to do with my lack of experience or education, well, she said, that’s why we have the Inspector Hotline and mechanics. She was utterly unconcerned about the inconvenience to voters (even though the tag line for the county election board is something like easy and fast. Or something. I mean, convenience is the whole reason for vote centers, and vote centers are why we can’t have paper ballots....).

We have got to hold our county GOP people accountable. Go to the monthly meetings. Attend the election board meetings. Run for Precinct Committeeman (I hear it’s an easy job.). Call them and offer to help. Do something.

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