Little Towns And The Big Lie Equals Bad News

Chris capper Liebenthal, The Daily Dot
Tue, 10/08/2024 - 5:50pm

Last May, I reported on two small, podunk towns in Wisconsin who decided to illegally remove their electronic voting equipment. They did so because some professional election denier came along and filled their little MAGA heads up with The Big Lie, especially how voting machines were being tampered with by space aliens with bamboo shoots or some other nonsense like that. Disability rights groups and the US DOJ came down on them like a ton of bricks. The Town of Lawrence was already in negotiations with the feds even before the lawsuits were filed.

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