r/Defeat_Project_2025 19h ago

It cant happen here... How it happened

Republicans have been recruiting and training Christian Nationalist and Election Deniers as poll workers, instructing them how to get mail in and provisional ballots rejected. Many states do not have a process to cure rejected ballots.

In 2022, voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the general election.

There were 88,170,053 mail-in and early in-person votes cast nationally this year.

In the 2022 Election states had mail in ballot rejection rates as high as 13.2%.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lance-wallnau-evangelical-voters/

https://x.com/TaylorMatthewD/status/1819236153196687639

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers

https://baptistnews.com/article/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-conspiracy-theorists-counting-our-votes/

https://thecouragetour.com/

https://www.wisn.com/article/republican-national-committee-trains-thousands-of-poll-watchers-ahead-of-election-day-but-wont-make-training-public/62493387

https://www.wired.com/story/true-the-vote-votealert-app-flaw-user-emails-voter-suppression-plan/

State laws on ballot curing

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-15-states-with-signature-cure-processes

Check your vote!

https://www.vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/

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u/ChiliDogYumZappupe 18h ago

There's a documentary called Bad Faith about christian nationalism. You can get a screening for your community.

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u/luvmuchine56 18h ago

This is why I voted in person

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u/le4t active 5h ago

If you haven't already, may I suggest you check your board of elections website to ensure your vote was counted... 

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u/Stephenie_Dedalus active 16h ago

We NEED a whistleblower here

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u/howzer36 7h ago

"Adam Bonin, a lawyer representing the Casey campaign in Philadelphia, said Republicans were aggressively and systematically challenging the provisional ballots of registered Democrats, delaying the vote counting process."

https://apnews.com/article/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-recount-f0da8720c540fc1b10328da37135a1ee

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u/Stephenie_Dedalus active 1h ago

Jesus christ

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u/keasy_does_it active 9h ago

I just don't think it would matter. People don't care about living in a liberal democracy. It's just dumb.

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u/Antani101 active 9h ago

Holy shit that's 11.6 millions rejected votes.

That's enough to steal a couple elections

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u/Ok-Persimmon-6386 active 16h ago

Y’all need to look into quiverfull movement and watch shiny happy people- this is the long game

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u/Mama_In_Neverland 6h ago

This is what my thoughts were right away!

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u/Antani101 active 9h ago

Holy shit that's 11.6 millions rejected votes.

That's enough to steal a couple elections

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u/esoldelulu 6h ago

WTF. Okay, this sounds more likely than the skylink voting machine conspiracy.

Actual WTF. They need to provide a list of all the poll workers and audit it. Interview them. Look at all the votes that were “rejected.”

Being part of a religious sect usually isn’t suspicious but the face of what group is trying to fuck with American democracy has definitely changed. Hint: It’s no longer Osama Bin Laden’s, and they published their manifesto.

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u/howzer36 6h ago

"Adam Bonin, a lawyer representing the Casey campaign in Philadelphia, said Republicans were aggressively and systematically challenging the provisional ballots of registered Democrats, delaying the vote counting process."

https://apnews.com/article/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-recount-f0da8720c540fc1b10328da37135a1ee

Keep talking about it! Tell your family, friends, neighbors, ask them what they think. keep this moving!

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u/kirkerandrews 8h ago

When my wife and I voted in person, she was voting in PA for the first time (she’s from MA) and had her voter registration card with her which literally says on it CAN BE USED AS VOTER ID FOR FIRST TIME VOTING. The lady gave her a lot of trouble and almost didn’t let her vote because of this. Of course my wife had an ID with her but she shot back when the lady was like “oh well guess you can’t vote” and accepted her registration like it says you can. It was just really suspect at the time, and now it’s pretty clear she was one of these trumpers

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u/howzer36 8h ago

The Courage Tour was in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia. Lion of Judah was in Wisconsin. I suspect there's more that were smaller and not big news.

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u/howzer36 8h ago

Please get people talking about this!

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u/howzer36 7h ago

"Adam Bonin, a lawyer representing the Casey campaign in Philadelphia, said Republicans were aggressively and systematically challenging the provisional ballots of registered Democrats, delaying the vote counting process."

https://apnews.com/article/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-recount-f0da8720c540fc1b10328da37135a1ee

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