Peroutka “warriors” assembled at the Giant parking lot on Saturday, July 29. Armed with a “rock solid plan of attack” and list of targeted addresses, they would promote Peroutka’s candidacy as they confirmed Talbot County voters’ existence and eligibility to vote.
The success of such an effort in “42 other states” implied a slam-dunk here. According to the Peroutka campaign, “Maryland is the most corrupt state in the entire country in regards to election fraud.” Considering also that it could be “this or turning in your right to vote,” twenty-four warriors signed on to canvass for Michael Peroutka, Republican candidate for Maryland Attorney General.
A highly recommended “SOS Report” on Rumble emphasized that more of us have voted, but avoided mentioning the number of eligible registered voters in Maryland or the fact that voter participation is up nationwide.
Maryland’s eligible registered voting population was 4,109,762 in 2020. The SOS reported 3,066,945 voters and referenced 2,998,874 as “Voter History.” The 68,071 more of us that voted are portrayed as “Missing Voters” buzzed by an angel of death.
Suggesting that even half that number were voters that had assumed the identities of dead people is a stretch, but it could explain how one might possibly believe Maryland is rife with election fraud.
According to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative site, just seven cases of voter fraud have been prosecuted in Maryland over the past decade. Not every case is discovered, adjudicated in court, and covered in the media; but claims of thousands of dead people voting have been thoroughly debunked.
The Maryland Board of Elections provides statewide registration lists to qualified registered Maryland voters. These can be checked for compatibility with other public records. They could also be made into lists for canvassing. Peroutka warriors carried out most of their mission in the town of Easton.
CNN News has reminded us of Peroutka’s 9/11 conspiracy theories. He’s suggested that the hijacked planes hitting the World Trade Center did not cause the buildings to collapse. An “elite bureaucrat” had more likely planted demolition devices, and those who died in the plane that hit the Pentagon may have been killed elsewhere.
Peroutka’s campaign coordinator confirmed only that Maryland’s “primary election results demonstrate that Maryland Republicans are dissatisfied with their current leadership.”
Governor Hogan responded more succinctly, “These disgusting lies don’t belong in our party.” And he tweeted,” We know who was responsible for 9/11. Blaming our country for al-Qaeda’s atrocities is an insult to the memory of the thousands of innocent Americans and brave responders that died that day.”
We haven’t heard reports of the warriors’ findings in Talbot County, but Arizona has announced the results of yet another election audit. The last one, months long in duration, discovered more votes for Biden. This one yielded evidence of one deceased person voting.
According to election security officials at the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), records requests have become “voluminous and daunting” across our nation since the 2020 election. Local election officials are also struggling to recruit and retain administrators at a time when workers are being harassed and receiving death threats. Hundreds of hostile messages have been documented.
We might recall that President Trump, faced with more mail-in ballots during Covid, feared “levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” With this observation in mind, it can’t be too surprising that over 60 court cases challenging the results of our 2020 election have since been either lost or dismissed.
Scores of recounts nationwide have yielded no evidence of voter fraud that could possibly have impacted the results of our 2020 election, and Trump has more recently suggested, “No one has gotten to the bottom of 9/11.”
Let’s not be too surprised if even more of our eligible registered voters exercise their right to vote in 2022.
Carol Voyles is a graphic designer/illustrator who retired to the Eastern Shore and became interested in politics. She serves as communications chair for the Talbot County Democratic Forum and lives in Easton.
Vincent De Sanctis says
Carol Voyles opinion piece about the so-called election frauds nationwide with Maryland’s election system being labeled the “most corrupt” confirms Hitler’s assertion that if you tell a big lie and repeat it people will believe.
The Republican candidate for governor is basing his campaign on the thoughts of one of history’s most evil human beings and on the unrelenting false assertions of former president Donald Trump.
Having served as an election judge for the past several election cycles I can assure the public that those who serve both Democrats and Republicans do so with diligence and adherence to proper procedures.
Those who make these outlandish assertions do so out of ignorance (have they ever worked in an election?) or willful disregard for the truth. Unfortunately the big lie has spread like cancer. It is a pandemic that has severely damaged our democracy. Shame on Mr. Peroutka for using such dishonesty as a basis for his candidacy.
Michael Davis says
Peroutka was a member of a white supremacist organization and is a neo-Confederate candidate. Yet enough Republicans in Maryland felt he should be our AG. He is also a Christian Nationalist – which has nothing to do with Jesus – which is about white political power.
Reasonable Republicans are now saying their party is headed toward fascism. Mussolini is a role model for the new Republican Party according to some former Republicans. Peroutka certainly fits that description as he gathered brown shirt thugs under the name of warriors.
Reasonable people should stop being respectful of fascist Republicans. They need to be called out for what they are, and patriotic Americans need to do everything they can do to defeat them. If not, they will destroy our democracy. That is not hyperbole.
Charles Barranco says
Ms Voyles,
Thank for your well written article. Every voter should read it!
Possibly the recent judgment of $45 million in punitive damages and $4.1 million in compensatory damages, against Alex Jones, for calling Sandy Hook a Hoax, will give pause to conspiracy theorists. Unfortunately, the Republican base will never get it, because they don’t read or form their own opinions. Like the GOP in Congress, they are sheep with mob mentality; Just follow the leader.