An organization founded by two prominent election deniers is recruiting ex-military and first responders to staff polling places during the midterm elections.
October 25, 2022, 12:59 PMMiami-Dade residents cast their ballots during the first day of early voting in Miami-Dade County at the Miami-County Hall in downtown Miami, on Oct. 24, 2022.Military planes dropping bombs, battleships at the ready, scores of soldiers marching in the streets -- and across the screen flashes the words, "Your country needs you once again."released by The America Project, an organization led by prominent election deniers Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock.
"AMERICA NEEDS YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER," read an October post on the group's Instagram account. "You took an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution. And defending it means ensuring election integrity.""This is the most important thing I think going on in America right now," Byrne said in a recent interview promoting the effort on a conservative internet show. "We're asking you to save the country again.
The group has also conducted poll worker "training" around the county, called "Operation Eagle's Wings," which is targeting key battleground states including Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. "Recruiting people based on lies is problematic, and to do that and then to add the militaristic 'we're at war' imagery, I think is inviting people to that process with the wrong perspective," Sean Morales-Doyle, acting director of voting rights at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, told ABC News.
And while Byrne says in some videos that the effort should be peaceful, Morales-Doyle warned that the images being used by the group project a different message. In addition to Byrne and Flynn, The America Project is staffed with several former Trump administration officials, according to documents. Emily Newman, who served as an adviser in the Trump administration, is listed as president of the group's board of directors, and another former Trump administration official, Tim Meisburger, was recently announced as the group's "election integrity director.
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