WarRoom Battleground EP 587: Citizens Of GA Declare Election State of Emergency
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Summary
Trump praises the members of the Georgia State Election Board for all the great work they have done for him since the 2020 election, but they have been replaced with election deniers and Trump superfans who have been installed since then. They have also stocked county election boards throughout the U.S. with Election Deniers and trump superfans, and they are now pushing through a new rule in the state of Georgia that will allow any county official at the county level to refuse to certify election results in that county or delay the certification of election results there.
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this is what you're fighting for i mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the authoritarians
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get total control and total power because this is just like in arizona this is just like in georgia
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it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations
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this is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is the fight
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all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your host
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stephen k bannon i don't know if you've heard but the georgia state election board is in a very
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positive way this is a very positive thing marjorie they're on fire they're doing a great job three
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rick jeffries and janelle king three people are all pit bulls fighting for honesty transparency and
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victory they're fighting are they here where are they where are they where are they thank you
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thank you wow thank you wow what a job where are you are you're here wow thank you
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these people who trump is shouting out by name you've never heard any of these names before right
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these people he's shouting out by name at least one of those people is apparently there at the rally
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waving back at him and he's acknowledging her the reason you've never heard of these people is
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because they have a job that's supposed to be an obscure technocratic job
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they are members of the georgia state elections board
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he describes them as three pit bulls fighting for victory
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and he calls them out by name and he thanks them and he praises them and he points out at least one
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of them who's there in person at the front row of his rally he says they're doing a great job they are
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georgia state elections board is not supposed to be the kind of entity that has its members shouted out
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at a candidate's rally for all they're doing to assure the victory of that candidate
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right the state elections board is responsible for administering elections for in the words of
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georgia state statutes they're responsible for conducting quote fair legal and orderly elections
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for the state of georgia and here is trump shouting them out by name for all the great work they're doing for him
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since the 2020 election in which trump tried mightily and failed to overturn the results of the presidential election in georgia
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since a georgia grand jury indicted him and multiple co-defendants on multiple felonies including rico charges
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for trying to overturn the election in contravention of law
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georgia republicans have since replaced the membership of the georgia state board of elections
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so that it's now stocked with election deniers and trump superfans who trump is now shouting out by name
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at his rallies while they sit in the front row and wave back at him
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they have also stocked election deniers and trump superfans on county election boards throughout the state of georgia
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but why is that important these elections officials who are doing the kinds of jobs that shouldn't make them famous
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why is it important that they're election deniers and trump superfans that have been installed since trump
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tried and failed to overturn the results of the last election
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well those county elections officials in multiple counties in multiple swing states
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since 2020 they have refused to certify local election results dozens of times
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right the state election board members who trump shouted out at his rally this weekend
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they're now pushing through a new rule in the state of georgia
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give them the leeway to refuse to certify election results in that county
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or at least to delay the certification of election results in that county
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and why does that matter because no matter how people vote in a particular state
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right no matter who gets the most votes in a particular state
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election results get tallied locally and then they get certified by each county
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that's how we get official election results from each state
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if individual counties whether they're big counties or small counties
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even little rural really trumpy counties with almost no people in them
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if counties refuse to certify their county level results
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the idea is that will stop the state from being able to certify its results
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because they won't have official results from every county
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it'll stop them from being able to certify statewide results
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or at least delay the certification of statewide results
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it will serve as sort of smoke to tell the public
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that there must be something wrong in the election
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and maybe emergency measures of some kind are going to be necessary
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which prevents the normal allocation of electors
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better than they like their chances with voters
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good evening and welcome to war room battleground
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katherine you guys have been working tirelessly
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give us the rundown about what went on yesterday
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and all americans should be really really proud of
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and they were presenting to a state election board
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and in fact the last clip that you just showed there
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or this new ruling that standards can be changed
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that was a first motion approved by the republican
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i mean yesterday we saw people on both sides of the aisle
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and that's what they were there standing in unison about
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i'm just i'm happy to see the citizens of georgia
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the citizens of georgia declared a state of emergency
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and then going forward into the next presidential election
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well i mean i think that you know i love i love that
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turn of phrase i think that they're spot on with it
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and and i hope other states will consider doing likewise
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but of course it's a citizen call for a state of emergency
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the impact there though is is nonetheless important
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so what you're going to see now moving forward in georgia
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you will have the ability to have poll watchers
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you will have as we heard there in the last part of that clip
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the authority given to election work election administrators
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to support their process as late as they need to
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in order to in in terms of the uh the data that's coming into them
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in order that they may stand uh solidly around their certifications
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and i just think it's these are the kind of initiatives
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that bolster transparency and integrity and confidence
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so it's it's uh it's a new day in georgia and and hopefully
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in our case for the projects that we were doing
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you couldn't get all the video that you needed from the drop boxes
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let's just hope we have said goodbye to those days
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in addition to the uh poll watchers and tabulation centers
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they also passed a rule regarding reasonable inquiry
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talk about what that means for the future of elections
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well you know as we saw across the country in 2020
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similarly in in voters bringing challenges to records
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there's not a clearly defined or as clearly as would be useful
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that will give everybody an opportunity to have their say
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i think have left the state in a much better place
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and i just pray that it has ripples across the country
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who are in facilities like this across the country
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who often often just get left out of the process
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how can they get involved in that voter training
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administration in Minnesota has gone far beyond that