Despite Potter County going 70% for former President Donald Trump in 2020, GOP leaders there are raising unfounded claims of election irregularities and fraud. Potter County GOP chair Dan Rogers wants to reintroduce hand-marked, paper ballots for people voting in the March 2022 Republican primary, despite warnings from statewide election officials that this change could actually increase the risk of voter fraud. Rogers also wants to run his own election, rather than relying on county officials to do it.
Jessica Huseman has been reporting on this for VoteBeat.org, an online publication dedicated to reporting on elections and voting in the U.S. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
Texas Standard: First, why does the Potter County Republican Party want to conduct their own election in the 2022 Republican primary?
Jessica Huseman: The chairman of the party, Dan Rogers, has said that his voters do not trust the machines or the central count system that Potter County uses. He hasn’t presented any survey data to back that up, but that is what he claims.
Does this have anything to do with President Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election he claims was stolen from him?
Absolutely, it does. A few weeks ago, they had a presentation from Jeff Zink, who is running for Congress in Arizona and believes that the Arizona audit was, for example, manipulated and that the CyberNinjas audit...
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