The New York Times recently published a must-read investigation into right-wing activist efforts to organize county sheriffs for the purpose of challenging the electoral system based on 2020 election rigging disinformation. So far these efforts are relatively small, but they’re more worrisome for what they could grow into: a powerful tool for delegitimizing the voting system, and even a basis for police units to become right-wing paramilitaries instead of enforcers of the law.
It’s yet another sign of the right’s efforts to seriously organize and mobilize to destroy the integrity of the electoral process.
According to the Times, two conservative sheriffs’ groups — Protect America Now and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association — have already joined this agenda.
This is not quite an emergency yet, but it is deeply troubling, because it’s yet another sign of the right’s efforts to seriously organize and mobilize to destroy the integrity of the electoral process. It’s one thing to make noise about not trusting elections as an individual. It’s another thing to band together with others and think up strategies for meddling in them. And to have powerful law enforcement officials as the people banding together means that this could spiral well beyond a typical symbolic show of dissent.
Per the Times, three sheriffs affiliated with these groups, from Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin, have butted heads with election officials when the sheriffs pursued...
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