A Lot of People Who Don’t Believe in Elections Are Running for Election

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We're taking a broad survey of the 2024 elections, starting with the many, many 2020 election deniers who are still in--and seeking--public office. How many of these people are still around, and how many are up for re-election? What kinds of threats to democracy are still built into the system and how could we do better? What would real reform look like, and what is it going to take to get there?

“The Story of Election Denial in America," ElectionDeniers. org
SCOTUS decision in FEC v. Cruz for Senate (2022)
“Interactive U.S. House Election Map,” 270towin. Com
“At least 30 election deniers and 2020 fake electors serving as Trump electors this year,” CNN (10/17/2024)
Fifth Circuit’s decision in Lamb v Wetzel (10/25/24)
“A Comprehensive Look at the Freedom to Vote Act,” Jonathan Diaz, Campaign Legal Center (9/17/21)

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0:00.0	So just a yes or no you still do not have a plan? I have concepts of a plan. That is a damning non-answer. I'm not trying to...
0:18.0	That is a damning non-answer. I'm not trying to make it about myself, your honor.
0:27.1	I'm just trying to show his bias toward the defendant.
0:30.5	Just don't make it about yourself. Something simple as a crack pipe, a use crack pipe.
0:37.0	The rules were that you got to
0:40.0	going to fact check. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:46.6	This is episode 1,081.
0:48.6	I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:49.6	That over there is real life lawyer, Matt Cameron.
0:52.0	How you doing, Matt? How many days is it now? Is it eight days,
0:56.4	nine days? Can I think about something else? Oh my God I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, just
1:01.1	feeling it. Yeah, I keep thinking it's going to be next week and I've been thinking that for a while I guess it is going to be next week though as of next week
1:07.0	The only advantage of being so busy I don't get to be alive or experience anything. I blinked and it's we're already it's over. For me it's like wow I can't believe it's already the election.
1:16.6	Like I thought it was 1997 still personally but.
1:19.1	Wow I wish I'd experienced this year. Men in Black is in theaters.
1:22.8	What a year, 97.
1:23.8	We're all having a great time.
1:24.8	Yeah.
1:25.8	Starting to feel that anxiety a little more.
1:27.4	You know, it's getting a little real.
1:28.6	It's also the recent polling has been not as fun to look at as maybe I try not to I don't want to make this
1:34.8	about me but this has a lot to do with what I'm going to be doing for the next four
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