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Switching parties after being elected is election fraud. We need accountability--

Jim Justice (WV)
Jeff Van Drew (NJ)
Tricia Cotham (NC)
Mesha Mainor (GA)
Francis Thompson (LA)
Eric L. Johnson (TX)
02:49 PM - Sep 23, 2023
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Anton Brakhage
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I STRONGLY disagree with this.

Do some officials switch parties for frivolous and/or self-serving reasons? Yes. Do some deliberately run Trojan horse campaigns, intending to switch parties? Very likely, and that is deceiving the voters.

But switching parties is not inherently fraudulent.
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10:42 PM - Sep 23, 2023 (Edited)
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Anton Brakhage
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How many times have we wished that more Republicans would break with MAGA? But now we're going to call switching parties election fraud? "Its okay as long as it helps us"?

Calling it election fraud is just legally false- and muddies the waters around a very serious threat to our constitution.
10:46 PM - Sep 23, 2023
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Anton Brakhage
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Calls to criminalizing switching parties are just another in a long history of knee-jerk proposals to "fix" democracy by making it less democratic- in this case by legally requiring office-holders to put party fealty over all other considerations. Which is just as authoritarian as it sounds.
10:49 PM - Sep 23, 2023
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