On July 31, 2023, Andrew Weissman and Ryan Goodman, writing at Just Security, published an article predicting that the Special Counsel would charge Donald Trump with violating 18 U.S.C. §241 and 18 U.S. Code §1512 based on events on January 6, 2021-specifically, the electoral college vote count in the Senate.
Then-President Trump did speak and tweet that the vote count should be stopped.
On election night 2020, the networks reported various stoppages of the vote count in various swing states.
Most infamously, the lead election officials in the Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta seemed to have stopped their count when they sent other officials home on the specious justification of a non-existent water leak.
Surprisingly, before the election, secretaries of state from across America were already contemplating stopping vote counts.
In an October 2020 discussion held during an election night reporting roundtable, New Mexico's Maggie Toulouse Oliver informed the nation's other secretaries that she was planning in advance to stop the count to keep the vote-counter employees fresh, out of concern for "Humanity." Was her speech a tacit wink and a nod order to her fellow travelers? Was she the central authority figure coordinating the strange antics of election night? Amazingly, neither the statutes nor events at the conference have been raised in public, in print, in hearings, court proceedings.
The entire "Election denier" accusation, which still winds its way through the courts, stems from opposing a blatant crime committed on national television.
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