{"id":133794,"date":"2024-08-12T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133794"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:40:51","slug":"trumps-focus-on-georgia-election-board-raises-fears-for-november-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133794","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trump\u2019s focus on Georgia election board raises fears for November vote&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/08\/trump-georgia-election-board-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;To election administrators, democracy advocates and Georgia political figures \u2014 including some Republicans \u2014 Trump\u2019s comments were unsettling: The board\u2019s work is supposed to be done outside the fray of politics, and Trump\u2019s words suggested that if he loses the state, he would again mount\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote\/2021\/01\/03\/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a pressure campaign<\/a>\u00a0on the officials responsible for fairly and impartially overseeing elections, just as he did during his failed attempt to overturn his loss in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Georgia, a critical swing state, there\u2019s a difference between now and then. Since May, an unambiguously pro-Trump majority has controlled the state election board. And it got to work this week approving a raft of new rules that critics say could void valid votes, place onerous burdens on overtaxed election workers and potentially delay the certification of results.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;To election administrators, democracy advocates and Georgia political figures \u2014 including some Republicans \u2014 Trump\u2019s comments were unsettling: The board\u2019s work is supposed to be done outside the fray of politics, and Trump\u2019s words suggested that if he loses the state, he would again mount\u00a0a pressure campaign\u00a0on the officials responsible for fairly and impartially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133795,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133794\/revisions\/133795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}