Trump lawyer John Eastman told prospective GOP poll watchers to create a record that could be used to fight election results—but to do so with “a smile.”
thinks so. The attorney, who drafted the memos that underpinned’s effort to overturn the 2020 election results, was recorded telling a group of prospective Republican poll watchers in New Mexico last week that they should monitor the voting process and create a record that could be used to attack the integrity of unfavorable results — but to do so “gingerly,” with “a smile.”
“Document what you’ve seen, raise the challenge, and [note] which of the judges on that election board decline to accept your challenge,” Eastman said October 19, according toby the watchdog group Documented and provided to media outlets. “Get it all written down,” continued Eastman, a key figure in the January 6 committee’s investigation into last year’s insurrection at the Capitol. “That then becomes the basis for an affidavit in a court challenge after the fact.
This approach — to manufacture a pretext for an election challenge — appears, on its face, to be less aggressive than, say, thewho have been observed in Arizona. But the idea, broadly speaking, is roughly the same: To gum up the electoral process and make it as painful as possible to cast, count, and certify votes.
on Eastman’s recent comments. “They’re going to start documenting stuff that is not wrongdoing and they might also intentionally misdocument something just for the sake of being able to hold up or not certify an election, which is terrifying,” Penniman continued, warning that Eastman’s call for partisans to seek out election board positions could produce a “potential nightmare we’ve never had to deal with before” in previous American elections.
In the two years since the 2020 election, Trump’s election lies have fueled a wave of anti-voting laws in states across the country, including in
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