For nearly 12 hours today the Latah County Clerk’s Office has recounted more than 18,000 ballots. The checks have been thorough. The Secretary of State has been on site with his crew overseeing the process. Local Law Enforcement was onsight. The entire event has been open to the public.
The results? On election night I won with 11,388. After the recount? I won with 12,434.
I am pleading with Latah County Democrats who have spread wild conspiracies, undermined faith in our elections, refused to concede, threatened lawsuits, tried to get the entire election overturned (no that is not legal), and repeatedly trashed our hardworking election officials, to please stop.
When the Clerk’s Office tried to call some of these Democrats to inform them of the process going forward and how they could be involved, do you know how they responded? They yelled. They demanded. And then they hung up. That was rude. Afterward, one candidate in particular spent the next 48 hours threatening and demanding to be installed into office.
It is not lost on me that some folks completely misunderstood my humor today about "insurrections", “the most secure election in American history”, and “election denial”. If you don’t recall these were the very terms lobbed at Republicans who had questions about electoral processes in 2020. Now, 6 years later Democrats had questions. Crazy how that works.
But we had a process, we followed it, and Republicans won with even more votes (thank you). Please respect it. Accept it. Move on.
Asking questions, auditing elections, and yes sometimes even recounts is a normal part of the American process to ensure faith and integrity of our elections. Perhaps moving forward Democrats will be willing to support strengthening that process? I will be happy to work with them on it. But first, they must admit they lost and were not what the voters wanted.
I had one Democrat tell me yesterday “I don’t care what the people want, I care what is best for them.” As if we can’t decide that for ourselves?
God Bless America and God Bless the Latah County Election Workers who stood up for our all American process even when they were under attack for it.
by:
Comments