A Republican election clerk vs. Trump die-hards in a world of lies - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "I believe in my bones that we have to protect the integrity of our process, but if I'm recalled because of all this, I'll survive," she said.
54% : Trump won the county with 82% of the vote despite losing Nevada.
54% : Why don't I get my basic right to know what is happening with the recall?""You are just here to witness," Elgan said again.
52% : She had served as the clerk without controversy for two decades as an elected Republican, and she flew a flag at her own home that read: "Trump 2024 -- Take America Back."
48% : "The whole idea for Cindy and the rest of them is to cripple Trump," Zakas said.
47% : A career in public education had taught her to be skeptical of big government systems.
40% : She came to believe, along with millions of others, that COVID was a creation of the federal government used to manipulate the public and steal elections; that two doses of the vaccine would make men infertile; that Trump had been anointed to lead a "government cleansing"; that fighting had already begun in underground military tunnels; that Trump's election in 2024 was preordained by God; that he would return to power with loads of gold collected from other countries that had capitulated to his power; that, during his next term, Americans would have free electricity, zero income tax and "medbeds" powered by a secret technology that could harness natural energy to heal diseases and extend human life; and that the only thing standing in the way of this future was a deep state so malicious and vast that its roots extended all the way into tiny Esmeralda County.
39% : And most of all she continued to listen to Trump as his election denialism intensified.
36% : "The reality is Trump lost," she eventually concluded.
35% : They accused her of being paid off by Dominion and skimming votes away from Trump, and even though their allegations came with no evidence, they wanted her recalled from office before the next presidential election in November.
34% : Jim Hindle, the new clerk in Storey County, was awaiting a felony trial for allegedly trying to sign over Nevada's six electoral votes to Trump in 2020, and now he oversaw election integrity in 2024.
20% : "She had tried finding easier ways to upend the county's voting system after the 2020 election, when Trump lost Nevada by more than 33,000 votes and his campaign protested the result.
15% : "Donald Trump won after you account for fraud and irregularities," one of his lawyers said at the time, and even though Nevada found no evidence of widespread fraud and the courts dismissed Trump's lawsuits, Zakas decided to do her own digging.

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