TX election official in county that went 81% for Trump targeted for not being Trumpy enough

[essentialsaltes]

“God’s will is being thwarted.” Even in solid Republican counties, hard-liners seek more partisan control of elections.
HOOD COUNTY — Michele Carew would seem an unlikely target of Donald Trump loyalists who have fixated their fury on the notion that the 2020 election was stolen from the former president.

The nonpartisan elections administrator in the staunchly Republican Hood County, just an hour southwest of Fort Worth, oversaw an election in which Trump got some 81% of the vote.

Yet over the past 10 months, Carew’s work has come under persistent attack from hard-line Republicans. They allege disloyalty and liberal bias at the root of her actions, from the time she denied a reporter with the fervently pro-Trump network One America News entrance to a training that was not open to the public to accusations, disputed by the Texas secretary of state’s office, that she is violating state law by using electronic machines that randomly number ballots.

Viewing her decisions as a litmus test of her loyalty to the Republican Party, they have demanded that Carew be fired or her position abolished and her duties transferred to an elected county clerk who has used social media to promote baseless allegations of widespread election fraud.

Carew’s case is particularly troublesome because it “smells of political bullying” and reflects a wider rift in Texas among different factions of the GOP that has grown more pronounced since the election, said Carlos Cascos, a Republican who served as secretary of state for two years under Gov. Greg Abbott before leaving in 2017.

“They’re in power, they get somewhat cocky and they start eating their own. That’s what I’m seeing happening with the Texas GOP,”

 

[Paulos23]

They want more control, more purity, and loyalty to the cause. It doesn't surprise me that they go after someone who is just following the rules as if they should bend over backward for them to show loyalty rather than honesty.

 

[spiritfilledjm]

Well, that is only a B-...

 

[cow451]

They want more control, more purity, and loyalty to the cause. It doesn't surprise me that they go after someone who is just following the rules as if they should bend over backward for them to show loyalty rather than honesty.

Sounds like something I read somewhere. Back when people read books....

 

[iluvatar5150]

81%?

 

[.Jeremiah.]

There is never ever “enough”, for people in evil.

Never enough control of the people, for the oppressors.

Never enough money for the greedy.

Never enough conquest for the adulterous.

 

[Desk trauma]

110% is 50% too little!

 

[essentialsaltes]

She has now resigned under the pressure, after surviving a 2-3 vote to fire her.

Trump Won The County In A Landslide. His Supporters Still Hounded The Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.

“When I started out, election administrators were appreciated and highly respected,” she said. “Now we are made out to be the bad guys.”

Critics accused Carew of harboring a secret liberal agenda and of violating a decades-old elections law, despite assurances from the Texas secretary of state that she was complying with Texas election rules.

In Hood County, the local GOP executive committee likewise issued warnings to Republican officials who defended Carew. In July, the committee threatened County Judge Ron Massingill with a social media campaign that would tell voters he was “incapable of providing them with free and fair elections” if he didn’t convene the county’s elections commission to discuss Carew’s termination.

 

[Strathos]

Obviously even a single vote for Biden has to be election fraud, because only Trump votes should count.