In 2021, a federal judge in Michigan sanctioned Sidney Powell and her merry band of dipshit lawyers for docketing bogus evidence that they had not bothered to verify in their desperate effort to overturn the results of the presidential election.
“It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an allegedly fraudulent election,” Judge Linda Parker seethed. “It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed, without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what happened here.”
Powell and her team got dinged for spamming the docket with gobbledygook “evidence” of fraud, such as an affidavit about an unusually cheerful couple handing packages to the UPS guy and accounts of voters casting in-person ballots after voting by mail — something which was entirely legal.
Republicans are now gearing up to do exactly the same thing, with vigilantes aiming to DO UR OWN RESEARCH their way into proving that there are millions of illegal votes being cast. Here’s Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC setting up an online repository for GOTCHAS.
Safe and Secure Elections are essential to having a functioning Republic.
We have started an 핏 Community dedicated to sharing potential instances of voter fraud and irregularities that Americans are experiencing in the 2024 Election.
Share what you see while voting here
— America (@america) October 22, 2024
And one of the first entrants in this game is a guy named Cliff Maloney, who left a group called Young Americans for Liberty under dubious circumstances three years ago. Maloney is now running something called “The Pennsylvania Chase,” door-knocking to turnout Republicans. And last week he posted what he figured was big news: a convent with 53 registered voters!
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BREAKING: a member of the PA CHASE discovered an address in Erie, PA today where 53 voters are registered.
Turns out it’s the Benedictine Sisters of Erie and NO ONE lives there.
We knocked on the door because a Republican mail-in ballot is unreturned.
Our attorney’s are… pic.twitter.com/ZFNtfXyOUW
— Cliff Maloney (@Maloney) October 22, 2024
When it was pointed out to him that convents tend to have multiple individuals residing at the same address, he insisted that no, it was the children who are confused.
“Now the commies are coming in claiming that ‘nuns live there’ or ‘you idiot just google it’ WRONG,” he huffed. “Our team leader spoke to the one person there and they claimed ‘NO ONE LIVES HERE.'”
The Benedictine Sisters of Erie, who do indeed have a robust online presence, responded that they “take no issue with knocking on doors to increase citizen participation in elections” but, they do object to “claiming false information as true in an effort to discredit differing views or affiliations.”
“We want to call Cliff Maloney to account for his blatantly false post that accuses our sisters of fraud. We do live at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery and a simple web search would alert him to our active presence in a number of ministries in Erie,” Sister Stephanie Schmidt, prioress, said in a statement published online. “We also want to alert those who subscribe to X and other social media platforms to be vigilant and seek additional information before accepting these posts as truth.”
And then, when reporters from the Washington Post knocked on the door, the prioress invited them in to take pictures of the sisters — who really do live there! — at chapel.
The nuns insist that no such interaction with a door knocker ever took place, but Maloney is still unwilling to back down.
“If the 53 people registered at this address are legal voters… then I encourage them to participate in their right to vote,” he sulked last night. “Right now, we’ve got our team continuing to analyze the situation.”
All of which is hilarious, or would be if millions of people hadn’t seen Maloney’s original post and believed it. These nitwits are already trying to convince their supporters that there are millions of “illegal” voters, if only they can ferret them out. And no matter what these women do to “prove” that they actually exist, it will never be enough for Maloney and his ilk to concede that they got it wrong.
Odds that the nuns from Erie wind up in an affidavit filed by some Kraken-addled idiot in Pennsylvania court: 100 percent.
A GOP operative accused a monastery of voter fraud. Nuns fought back. [WaPo]
Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast.