WSB-TV in Atlanta
A Florida attorney is at the center of a new state investigation after elections officials say he recently attempted to register to vote in Georgia and instructed other Florida Republicans on how to do it .
Price told the group he’s moving to his brother’s address in Hiram, Georgia in order to register to vote in the January runoff. He repeats and spells and his brother’s name and address, as members of the group jot it down. They can be heard mumbling the address in the background while some write.
“We can truly register at that address?” one woman asks.
“Sure,” Price answers, adding they have to plan to show a move, suggesting they have mail sent there.
The video was posted on YouTube, then deleted, but an enterprising reporter had already made a copy. When she contacted Price, he of course went to Republican deflection #1: “I was joking”. Except he wasn’t, he actually did register at his brother’s address. Then he went with Republican deflection #2: “I was only demonstrating how easy it is to commit fraud”.
Donald Trump, who for some reason known only unto one of Lovecraft’s more insane deities is found believable by Republican voters, has cried “Fraud” over and over and over. So now Republicans feel they have to cheat in order to counterbalance the cheating they are sure Democrats are doing.
Ergo, anyone who has tolerated Trump’s lies, or found them amusing — this is how democracy dies. Not to thunderous applause, but in craven silence. The self-fulfilling prophecy has been screamed into the wind.