November 11, 2020, 8:37 am
As the people in President Trump’s camp continue to beg people to come forward with stories of potential voter fraud in hopes of finding literally any meaningful evidence they can present to the courts that continuously dismiss their baseless claims of fraud, some wild stories have been popping up.
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One Republican poll watcher in Michigan appears to have thrown out some strange accusations in the hope that something would stick, including the claim that she “experienced intimidation by poll workers wearing BLM face masks and another man of intimidating size with a BLM shirt on.”
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Jacqueline Zaplitny did not make much of an effort to explain how, exactly, she was intimidated by these people other than alleging they were “very closely following challengers, including myself, even though there was supposed to be social distancing going on.”
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Zaplitny’s accusation of “intimidation” based purely on size sounds far too similar to the claims police often use after shooting unarmed Black men — a comparison that’s difficult to avoid considering she mentions the poll workers’ Black Lives Matter apparel.
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Folks also pointed out that Zaplitny’s supposed frustration over these “intimidating” people “closely following” her despite social distancing rules not only contradicts the repeated Republican claims that nobody is allowed to get close enough to see what’s going on due to social distancing rules, but also ignores the very photo of herself she posted to Facebook.
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In the picture, Zaplitny herself can clearly be seen hovering closely over fellow poll workers — and without even wearing her mask correctly.
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Follow-up tweets from Ryan J. Reilly, the HuffPost reporter who originally shared Zaplitny’s complaints, include screenshots of her Facebook posts that paint her as an anti-BLM conspiracy theorist who watches the far-right One America News Network (OAN) and believes any government assistance during the pandemic is a sign of the Biblical end times.
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With people like Zaplitny sharing their ridiculous “voter fraud” stories to “help” the Trump campaign find a way to steal the election from President-elect Joe Biden, people may not even need to bother spamming the fraud hotline with prank calls.
*First Published: November 11, 2020, 8:37 am
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