Reading about Cathy Latham on this fundraising website, she seems to have had a good reputation as a teacher, a church member and a Mom (according to the write-up by her daughter). I believe it. (Full disclosure: my husband is a retired teacher.
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I really don’t think that any of these lower level people who have been indicted got into this thinking they were committing a crime initially. I think most are basically decent people who, in their MAGA fervor, were misled by the Sydney Powells, the Rudy Giulianis, the John Eastmans, the Jenna Ellises…attorneys all...who convinced them that the election was stolen from Donald Trump by means of the voting machines, and that the only recourse was a new batch of electors and gaining access to the corrupt voting machines.
They willingly gave their common sense, ethics and morals over to keeping Donald Trump in the White House. They were duped in a way, but they must have known deep down that what they were doing was wrong and illegal. Surely a longtime teacher of U.S. History and Economics like Cathy Latham was not dumb or naive about the electoral system with which she willfully attempted to interfere.
And the tragedy is that Cathy Latham’s misplaced loyalty to Trump is not reciprocated. She will receive no help or recognition from him. Her reputation and retirement is in shambles. She may serve time in prison. And for what? In service of Donald J. Trump and The Big Lie. What a waste.
JMO
We have people here who think like that. (And yes, to our surprise some are public school teachers)
The day Trump was indicated, someone on a neighborhood app wanted to know how to assure, that not only his vote was counted, but it counted for who he voted for.
People tried explaining to no avail.
The fact is, except for the fact that there is a record that you showed up to vote, once you check in, your ballot is completely, "divorced" from your name. It is separate. There is no name attached to it.
Well, he wanted names attached to the ballot. No anonymous voting.
Even then, this was not an assurance that the vote went to his candidate.
There are people here who want to open up/break into the the tabulators and obtain their source code and also want to inspect the ballots and make sure that the tabulator and the ballots show the same result. (Basically a hand count)
But even then, they don't trust the people who are counting the ballots.
So, they want to count the ballots themselves.
Even before Trump there were many people like this.
They are extremely suspicious of government.
Part of living in a civil society is that we delegate this to other people. There are rules and laws that keep the process. (We have traffic rules, dog leash rules, hazardous code rules etc)
It's OK to be suspicious, but people often forget that in the quest for "my rights", they are often neglecting "others' rights". It's basically selfish.
ETA: This type of thinking was going on before Trump. We have rules and people feel the rules don't apply to them.
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