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I've been avoiding reading nearly everything political for months now, probably since January, but for some reason I read this one. It was really interesting, and a few things surprised me. It's a report written by a Republican that came down pretty hard on some other Republicans.

"He didn’t stop there. Galvanized by the shameless grifting he’d encountered during the course of his investigation, McBroom stunned his GOP colleagues by referring to Michigan’s attorney general for possible prosecution “those who have been utilizing misleading and false information about Antrim County to raise money or publicity for their own ends."

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Interesting but irrelevant he is still Republican and he will fall in line with the Party and chairman Trump.

Here's a response that suggests McBroom might be the one who is misleading people:

https://letsfixstuff.org/2021/06/mi-senate-2020-election-rep...

I read until: "Does it seem odd to you that the same people who stated there was no evidence of election fraud are now championing the cause of statutory improvements to our election system? "

That's just typical conspiracy theory bullshit language...

No Sherlock, the people just did an in depth analysis of the election system, they would be highly qualified to champion improvements to systemic problems with the system.

Just because there are systemic issues does not mean that there was election fraud. In fact I know one systemic problem with the election system in many states, the disproportionate hurdles towards black, young and poor voters. Funnily I highly doubt the writer would call this election fraud.

You should have kept reading. In my life, I've never seen anything that ugly. Yikes!!

It is just the tiniest bit weird that McBroom is simultaneously pointing out the absence of election fraud, and making it clear that it was a deliberate lie to think that there was any to begin with, while simultaneously toeing the party line on measures that are nominally about election fraud.

The answer, if course, is that they're not really about election fraud at all, but about voter suppression. It's disappointing that he sees how much of this is coming from dishonest sources and then supporting another dishonest measure, but unfortunately not exactly surprising.

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