Friday, November 06, 2020

An Echo of QAnon

Ronna McDaniel's vague accusations of irregularities are annoying. If she has complaints, she should state them clearly! 

The campaigns have appointed observers of the vote-counting process. Self-appointed observers busting through the doors are trespassing and need to be bounced by security personnel. 

I think McDaniel's statement shows the effect of QAnon on Republican rhetoric. Keep the accusations mysterious, vague, and ominous. She seems to think that being asked to provide specific accusations shows a perverse mentality in the questioner, like being asked to provide clinical descriptions of pedophilia. Nevertheless, lawyers can only really work with specific allegations. It is irresponsible to remain vague:

McDaniel said the party had discovered the same software was being used in dozens of other counties across the state, but did not provide any evidence such an issue had cropped up elsewhere. She referenced a glitch in a separate county that wrongly decided a local race but was also corrected, but likewise did not allege any specific instances of fraud in the county, which Biden carried by 14 points.
She repeatedly accused the leaders of Democratic-run counties of booting Republican observers from watching votes be counted, referencing chaos at a Detroit convention center being used to tally votes, and called the Democratic secretary of state "dishonest" for contending an equal number of Democratic and Republican poll watchers had been asked to leave due to a lack of space.
And she accused a Detroit election worker telling colleagues to change the date on mail-in ballots, allegations that were refuted in court this week.
On Fox News, she described “hundreds of witnesses who talk about being disenfranchised and being removed from counting centers as election workers cheered as they were removed,” saying the party had been filing lawsuits and alleging that such moves were “systematic.”
“The fact that we were there has allowed us to show what happens when person after person in Detroit was removed. If you left to go to the bathroom you weren't allowed back in. I'm not hearing this from reports or hearsay or the internet,” she argued. “I know these people.”

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