It’s a “real avalanche” which resembles a coordinated offensive, notes the Washington Post. “In recent weeks, supporters of Donald Trump across the country have flooded local election officials with requests for documents related to the 2020 presidential election.”
In some cases, these multiple requests have even begun to hinder “the electoral preparations for the November 8 midterm elections and in particular those of the early voting, which begins in October”, continues the daily.
From Wisconsin to North Carolina, via Kentucky and Texas, more than twenty states are affected by this avalanche of requests, most often relating to the statements of votes from the last election, and sometimes worded exactly the same way.
This administrative offensive undermines one of the principles “of the democratic system, according to which government authorities must be transparent and accountable”, explains the newspaper. Public information requests, whether from journalists or private citizens, are one of the pillars of the system that supporters of the former tenant of the White House are trying to undermine today.
“Sowing chaos”
“When we are asked for all possible and imaginable documents, it becomes impossible for us to do our job”, thus underlines, in the columns of the newspaper, Claire Woodall-Vogg, the director of the electoral commission of Milwaukee, in Wisconsin.
Many local officials are of the opinion that this is precisely what the supporters of the former president seek, who are pushed to act in this direction by a handful of personalities who continue to contest the victory of Joe Biden. . For local officials responsible for organizing the elections:
“These people are not really looking for information about the 2020 vote, but want to cause chaos in the organization of the election, which will then allow them to question the integrity of the administration in charge of the elections in the United States. .”