Newly released internal Twitter email documents reportedly now show that Arizona Governor-elect and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs apparently cooperated with former Twitter staffers last year by reporting accounts associated with alleged election disinformation in the hopes they would be censored by the tech giant.
Elon Musk released internal corporate messages through writer Matt Taibbi late last week, which have since revealed that the firm had previously suppressed conservatives at the request of the Democrat Party.
The communications director for Hobbs’ Secretary of State office emailed the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a 501 nonprofit cybersecurity organization, on January 7, 2021, saying they “flagged” an unidentified Twitter profile for review with the subject line “Election Related Misinformation.”
An unnamed employee from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a division of the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security, was also reportedly included in the email in question.
Unreal! Katie Hobbs’s office contacts Twitter to have posts removed! So, the democrat candidate, who ran the AZ election, censored her political opponents, disrupted Election Day votes, and then threatened counties with prosecution if they didn’t declare her the winner. pic.twitter.com/TWIgHHPqkd
— Christina Bobb (@christina_bobb) December 4, 2022
Hobbs beat Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in the 2022 midterm elections by less than one point, in what was a hotly contested and fought election.
Arizona authorities, including the state attorney general and chief justice, are now reportedly scheduled to recognize Hobbs as the Copper State’s 24th governor based on election results provided by the state’s local counties.
Lake, who has refused to concede to her opponent due to election fraud claims, branded the email releases a “conflict of interest, coercion, and corruption.”
She is apparently planning to sue Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county, next week in an attempt to reverse her election defeat.
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And so, we get a new class of “election deniers”. Whether or not the election was tampers with or not, there are things here that really need to be addressed:
1. The person who “won” was in the office responsible for overseeing the election.
2. The person who occupied the office was also running for office in the same election.
3. Ethically, the person who currently occupies the office should have recused herself from overseeing the election, and may have been required to do so — but did not.
4. One of the staff members of the state office also contributed, possibly heavily, to the campaign of the named “winner”.
This indicates that the person who “won” has a considerable conflict of interest in the administration of the election. Additionally, at least one of the staff members had “ethical lapses” concerning conduct with the election.
If the political parties were reversed, would there be any outcry about the election? I’d say you could bet on it. Will there be anything done to address the conduct in this election? Unfortunately, not likely.
“Democracy” isn’t dying here, it’s being murdered! The less that is done to correct these problems, the worse they will get. One last thing, we do not have a democracy here in this country. We never did. We have a republic, a representative democracy. If we ignore it too long, we may not have either!
Can’t edit a post awaiting moderation, not even to correct typos.
In the above, “tampers” should have been “tampered”.