START THE STEAL: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump

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Noah Shachtman
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EXCLUSIVE: Emails obtained by @RollingStone expose an attempt to retroactively hand Arizona to Donald Trump — and reveal top Trumpworld figures were complicit

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - NOVEMBER 07: Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in front of the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 7, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. The demonstration began at the State Capitol earlier in the day. News outlets project that Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the United States after a victory in Pennsylvania with Kamala Harris to be the...

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Start the Steal: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump
Exclusive emails expose an attempt to recertify the state as a victory for Donald Trump — and reveal top Trumpworld figures were complicit
6:06 PM · Jan 23, 2022

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maga-emails-arizona-trump-2020-election-1287447/

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The technology was complicated, but the plan was simple: Scan mail-in and absentee ballots in populous Maricopa County, remove the “invalid votes,” and recertify the state’s 2020 election count, surely declaring then-President Donald Trump the rightful winner.

This scheme to subvert the election outcome in Arizona is laid out in newly released emails obtained by Rolling Stone. Sent in early December 2020, the emails cover a critical moment when the post-election push by Trump and Republican allies to find fraud and overturn the presidential election was in full swing.

The emails show how a group of fringe election sleuths pressed state legislators on a plan to disrupt the 2020 election certification and potentially change the vote count in a battleground state that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency. The emails also reveal that several Trump advisers, including campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis and legal adviser Bernie Kerik, were included in the discussion.

But while the Trump campaign knew about this plotting, it was the obscure investigators and researchers, the emails show, who made the case directly to Arizona legislators about how to find supposed fraud and potentially use that evidence to challenge the outcome. Those outside investigators remain active in the growing movement to find fraud in the 2020 election. What’s more, one former state lawmaker included on the emails, Mark Finchem, is now running for secretary of state in Arizona. If Finchem wins, he would oversee Arizona’s elections.

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1. Kinda important

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2. Kick

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3. It's way past scary the lengths these fuckheads will go to ....

You would think there are enough sane Republicans to stop this shit. But when you've got Fakes News leading the charge, it keeps the marchers marching.