Among active election integrity groups, Marc Elias is a household name. He’s the Democrat super-lawyer and Russia hoax architect who used Covid as an excuse to rewrite election laws all across the country.
That includes Nevada, where he helped ensure the implementation of automatic mail-in balloting and vote harvesting. Now this pirate is working feverishly to protect his ill-gotten booty — and telling the truth certainly isn’t part of his game plan.
His Democracy Docket blog and podcast regularly skewer groups and organizations who are working to protect the security and integrity of our elections — including my group, Pigpen Project. And he’s at it again.
On Aug. 20, one of his bloggers, Matt Cohen, scribbled a post headlined: “These Right-Wing Groups Are Trying to Remove Millions of Voters Around the Country.” He starts off with:
In June, a nascent right-wing group in Nevada sent more than a thousand names to 10 county clerks and registrars in an attempt to get them purged from the state’s voter registration.
Yes, it’s true that we submitted more than 1,000 names of suspicious voters, but this wasn’t an attempt to get legitimate voters “purged” — a scare tactic word used to undermine our efforts — from the voter rolls.
The names were of voters who appear to have moved out of Nevada and re-registered in another state who, if true, simply should no longer be on Nevada’s voter rolls. All that our submissions did was trigger a verification postcard mailing from election officials to ensure
