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Response to your May 12, 2021 letter to Chairman Sellers [pdf]

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38 pointsEvanAnderson8 comments

I find that American society as a whole is surprisingly complacent to the fact that a coup was attempted on January 6, 2021, to the fact that a majority of the Republican House voted to invalidate a free & fair election with the intent to steal it.

The charade happening in Arizona is just the latest of many attacks on democracy that Republicans are currently engaged in, and far from the last. The intent is clear.

If this is not stopped, and soon, the future of the country we live in is at risk.

How is this not the most major news reported on every website? Does democracy die in indifference?

> Does democracy die in indifference?

No, it dies when you have a (de facto) two-party system and a Senate structured the way ours is, and one of those two parties has a constituency that favors coups while benefitting from aforementioned Senate structure to have a great deal of power. Same constituency is also very resistant to any media that might try to convince them coups are a bad idea.

That's what may kill (our) democracy: anti-democratic coups being pretty damn popular. Not indifference.

>How is this not the most major news reported on every website?

It was! And there are regularly articles on the subject, both opinion and news.

There are two sides to the story.

(1) Fair Election There was a fair election conducted and Joe Biden won fair & square. Any irregularities were typical, and any disregard for election law, or the consitution, was merely incidental due to trying circumstances (covid 19)

(2) Unfair Election There was an unfair election and Joe Biden won via cheating. The irregularities were atypical, and the disregard for election law, or the constituion were evidence of malfeasance

Many states are not contentious, being solidly blue or red. It is battleground places like NH, GA, AZ, VA, NC, and a few others where one party contends there is smoke, evidence of a fire. The other party contends there is no smoke, and this is just problems of conducting an election during a pandemic.

From a cybersecurity perspective, we have known for a long time there are huge security issues with voting machines. It is unfortunate that this election took a presidential election and several contended down-ballot elections to become a national issue.

It’s been stopped at every turn. This letter, for example, is good evidence of that. We are not at risk.

Anecdotally, the few people I know who were excited leading up to 1/6 are resigned to complaining about Biden as they would about any Democratic Party President.

For anyone else that isn't american, or hasn't been following the news much here is an article describing what this letter is about:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/14/arizona-elec...

The name of the

    Vice Chairman
    Supervisor, District 3
    Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

might be encouraging to the conspiracy theorists.

Damn, he's not even trying to hide it anymore.

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