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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeaked Docs From Far-Right Militias Show History of Voter Intimidation Plans
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A trove of leaked internal messages and documents from the militia American Patriots Three Percentalso known as AP3reveals how the group coordinated with election denial groups as part of a plan to conduct paramilitary surveillance of ballot boxes during the midterm elections in 2022.
This information was leaked to Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a nonprofit that says it publishes hacked and leaked documents in the public interest. The person behind these AP3 leaks is an individual who, according to their statement uploaded by DDoSecrets, infiltrated the militia and grew so alarmed by what they were seeing that they felt compelled to go public with the information ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
Election and federal officials have already voiced concern about possible voter intimidation this November, in part due to the proliferation of politically violent rhetoric and election denialism. Some right-wing groups have already committed to conducting surveillance of ballot boxes remotely using AI-driven cameras. And last month, a Homeland Security bulletin warned that domestic extremist groups could plan on sabotaging election infrastructure including ballot drop boxes.
Devin Burghart, president and executive director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, says that AP3s leaked plans for the 2022 midterms should be a warning for what may transpire next month. Baseless election denial conspiracies stoking armed militia surveillance of ballot drop boxes is a dangerous form of voter intimidation, Burghart tells WIRED. The expansion of the election denial, increased militia activity, and growing coordination between them, is cause for serious concern heading into November. Now with voter suppression groups like True the Vote and some GOP elected officials targeting drop boxes for vigilante activity, the situation should be raising alarms.
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Leaked Docs From Far-Right Militias Show History of Voter Intimidation Plans (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Saturday
OP
a kennedy
(31,723 posts)1. How do we stop stuff like this.....
Think. Again.
(16,634 posts)2. We should hire a competent Attorney General.