Joe Biden’s Federal Election Commission pick is currently representing failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s nonprofit, as well as Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock’s church, in a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of Georgia’s 2018 election citing “unreliable” electronic voting machines.
According to a report by the Washington Free Beacon, in November 2018, Dara Lindenbaum “signed on to a federal legal complaint on behalf of Abrams’s Fair Fight Action” that “challenged the constitutionality of Georgia’s 2018 election, which saw Abrams lose to Republican governor Brian Kemp in a race she never conceded.” Warnock’s Ebenezer Baptist Church joined the suit in early 2019 prior to entering Georgia’s 2020 Senate race.
Despite many Democrats condemning criticism of election results and dismissing concerns over election integrity in the US as “conspiracy theories” in today’s political climate, the 2018 complaint accused Georgia of using “insecure and unreliable” electronic voting machines that “lack a paper trail” and “cannot be audited” further claiming that the machines even “switched” votes from Abrams to Kemp.
After 45th President Donald Trump began criticizing the use of electronic voting machines after the 2020 election, in December 2020, “Fair Fight and other plaintiffs amended the complaint” and removed assertions concerning “problematic voting machines,” the report states.
“If confirmed, Lindenbaum will mark a leftward shift for the commission, as she’ll replace Steve Walther, an independent. Lindenbaum has worked with numerous left-wing organizations, including Code Pink and UnidosUS, the Latino civil rights group formerly known as La Raza,” the Free Beacon wrote.
Jason Snead, the executive director of Honest Elections Project Action, said that Lindenbaum’s nomination is “troubling.”
“Undermining our election system is a serious problem, and we see the receipts of her deliberately trying to undermine our election process with spurious claims,” Snead said.
“Someone seeking a position on the powerful FEC should not be working to undercut public confidence in our elections by peddling unfounded conspiracies.”
Lindenbaum’s FEC nomination comes despite his strong denial of President Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was rife with mail-in ballot fraud, voting machine fraud, ballot harvesting, and other election discrepancies and irregularities.
Weeks before Biden nominated Lidenbaum, he recently stated that the former president “created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election” because “he sees his own interest as more important than his country’s interest.”
Still, just days later, Biden himself suggested the 2022 midterms could be “illegitimate” if Democrats fail to loosen election laws that conservatives say are designed to prevent voter fraud.
