Tales like these we heard this week about 41 senior residents in Raleigh County who’ve voted constantly in each election in each election 12 months over the previous 50 years are heartwarming and inspiring. They definitely have our admiration, each final one among them.
Likewise, seeing college students at space excessive colleges line as much as register to vote, as they did this previous Tuesday on Nationwide Voter Registration Day, confirms our religion in them and in the way forward for democracy.
However, sadly, right here in West Virginia, elections are being administered by a secretary of state who continues to insinuate that the presidential election of 2020 is eternally tainted by irregularities – opposite to what the overwhelming physique of proof clearly states.
Mac Warner is aware of higher. Or at the least he ought to.
Again in December 2020, at a Cease the Steal rally outdoors the West Virginia State Capitol, as a warm-up to the violent Jan. 6 riot at our nation’s Capitol, Warner stated that there wasn’t sufficient time to evaluate Donald Trump’s allegations of fraud within the 2020 election, although William Barr, the U.S. legal professional normal, disputed the president’s persistent, baseless claims, and stated that the U.S. Justice Division – which had performed an investigation – had uncovered no proof of widespread voter fraud that will change the result of the 2020 election.
Barr stated that U.S. attorneys and FBI brokers had been working to comply with up particular complaints and data they’d acquired, however “so far, we now have not seen fraud on a scale that might have affected a distinct consequence within the election.”
Regardless, Warner, sitting out right here in West Virginia, as much as his elbows in counting fewer than 800,000 votes, was capable of decide from afar that voting irregularities in states the place thousands and thousands of votes have been forged – all of them favoring Joe Biden – have been working, to at least one diploma or one other, outdoors acknowledged administrative procedures, outdoors the regulation and, as such, the need of the individuals may very well be if not needs to be put aside.
“We’re saying merely that the election itself was so fouled up that it must go to Congress,” Warner stated.
Effectively, Trump and his allies proceeded to file 62 lawsuits in state and federal courts looking for to overturn election ends in states the president misplaced; 61 of these failed.
Some circumstances have been dismissed for lack of standing and others based mostly on the deserves of the allegations of voter fraud. Selections have been handed down by each Democratic-appointed and Republican-appointed judges – together with federal judges tapped by Trump.
However that wasn’t the tip of it. Supreme courts in Arizona, Nevada and Arizona every rejected or declined to listen to the president’s appeals to overturn ends in these states, whereas supreme courts in each Pennsylvania and Michigan denied a number of lawsuits.
However, sure, we’re speculated to consider Mac Warner, somebody who has made his prejudices crystal clear.
Cease the Steal? Actually, Mac?
Whereas he desires to argue electoral process, we’re involved that he’s the elected official whose very job is to instill confidence and religion within the system that has served this nation simply effective for the reason that very Structure was written and permitted.
We will’t assist however take into consideration these of us right here in Raleigh County who’ve proven up religiously, one election after one other, with no considered whether or not or not some elected official had the ability to put aside their vote.
They definitely by no means misplaced religion in our electoral course of.
Why did Warner?
