Anonymous ID: 9d0430 Nov. 19, 2021, 4:53 p.m. No.15039443   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9467 >>9693 >>9917

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawyer-who-tried-to-overturn-trump-s-2020-loss-appointed-to-a-u-s-election-board/ar-AAQUS7D

 

Lawyer who tried to overturn Trump's 2020 loss appointed to a U.S. election board

By Alexandra Ulmer - 4h ago

 

In January, lawyer Cleta Mitchell joined a phone call with then-President Donald Trump as he pressured Georgia's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat in the state, playing an important role in Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 results.

 

Nearly a year later, the longtime conservative has been appointed to the advisory board of a federal agency with a mission to help states conduct secure elections.

 

Her surprise appointment to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's (EAC) Board of Advisors shows how once-fringe "election integrity" activists are trying to gain footholds in U.S. institutions in the run up to next year's congressional elections. And it illustrates Trump's continued dominance over his party as Mitchell and other backers of his stolen-election falsehoods win support from powerful Republicans in Congress.

 

Mitchell, part of a small network of Republican lawyers who have for decades pushed the idea that U.S. elections are vulnerable to rampant fraud, left her partnership at law firm Foley & Lardner days after the Georgia phone call. She has since been focused on championing "election integrity" as chairwoman of the conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). She began work at the EAC advisory board on Nov. 3.

 

Research by election lawyers shows voter fraud in the United States is rare, despite what Trump and his allies have claimed about voting in 2016, 2018 and 2020.