Saturday, June 22, 2024

NYT BEFORE the stolen election!-----Aug. 17, 2020---Opinion | If Trump Cheats in the 2020 Election, Activists Are Ready - The New York Times

Opinion | If Trump Cheats in the 2020 Election, Activists Are Ready - The New York Times:
  • Election sabotage needs to be met with the largest protests yet.
"This summer, a bipartisan group of former government officials, political professionals, lawyers and journalists held a series of war game exercises about how the 2020 election might go wrong. 
Convened by the law professor Rosa Brooks and the historian Nils Gilman, it was called the Transition Integrity Project, and the results were alarming.
  • “We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November’s elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape,” said a resulting report. President Trump, it said, “is likely to contest the result by both legal and extralegal means.”..
  • So a coalition of progressive groups, as well as some anti-authoritarian conservative ones, is organizing under the rubric Protect the Results to get people into the streets if Trump tries to cheat in November. 
  • “It’s a pretty massive effort that’s underway,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, which is part of the coalition. Activists all over the country, he said, are “really gearing up for this fight.”...

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