BUT…BUT…THERE IS SUCH A THING AS VOTER FRAUD

As regular readers know,  over time I have put up a series of instances where there was overt voter fraud, using the sarcastic title “But…But…There’s No Such Thing As Voter Fraud”.

You can assume this one to be even more sarcastic.

Excerpted from an article in the Colorado Springs Gazette, via the Washington Examiner:

A group of Georgia voters and a Colorado-based watchdog organization filed a lawsuit late Monday asking a judge to overturn the results of last month’s 6th Congressional District special election and scrap the state’s voting system, Colorado Politics has learned.

The complaint, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges that state and local election officials ignored warnings for months that Georgia’s centralized election system — already known for potential security flaws and lacking a paper trail to verify results — had been compromised and left unprotected from intruders since at least last summer, casting doubt on Republican Karen Handel’s 3.8-point win over Democrat Jon Ossoff in the most expensive House race in the nation’s history.

The plaintiffs — including Colorado nonprofit Coalition for Good Governance and Georgia voters from both major political parties and a conservative third party — charge that recent revelations about a security hole on a computer server used to run Georgia elections only amplified longstanding concerns about the state’s antiquated voting equipment and its susceptibility to hackers.

“We are in a completely different environment of cybersecurity threats than when this equipment was purchased 15 years ago,” said election integrity activist Marilyn Marks, who heads the foundation spearheading the lawsuit and has been a persistent thorn in the side of Colorado election officials for years. (She recently moved to the East Coast for family reasons and changed the name of the nonprofit from the Rocky Mountain Foundation to Coalition for Good Governance.)

In Colorado, Marks led the charge on numerous complaints and legal challenges over voting matters — including one treat voted ballots as public records under the Colorado Open Records Act, a 2012 federal lawsuit to remove bar codes from Colorado ballots because of privacy concerns and another last year that sought to overturn the Colorado GOP’s delegate selection process to the Republican National Convention.

The Georgia lawsuit isn’t alleging the election system has been hacked, but computer security experts argue that the state’s voting equipment and computers have been at risk of intrusion for so long that election officials must assume they’ve been compromised. 

Interesting.

So Marilyn Marks, an “integrity activist” (how nice of media to give her that elevated non-title), who seems to surface far more when a Republican wins than a Democrat, is claiming that “the state’s voting equipment and computers have been at risk of intrusion for so long that election officials must assume they’ve been compromised.”

Maybe I’m just a bit dense, but that sure does look like one of the numerous ways in which voter fraud can be perpetrated.

Funny thing how that non-existent problem suddenly became a decisive factor when a Republican beats a Democrat in a nationally-watched house race.

What do I think of this effort – which won’t happen, incidentally – to unseat a Republican based on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud?

I’ll leave it to you to guess.