Roy Moore's "experts" are a conspiracy theorist and an anti-Semite
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee and extremist who lost the December 12 special senate election in Alabama, has filed a 鈥渧oter fraud"聽complaint聽in the state of Alabama and named an antisemite and conspiracy theorist as two of his voting "experts."
In his complaint Moore is asking for a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction and a new special election. Moore has backed his complaint with affidavits from what he claims are聽鈥渆xperts" in elections. One of those experts,聽Jim Condit, Jr., is an antisemite who has accused 鈥淶ionists鈥� of taking over the Catholic Church.
Condit ran for the Green Party ticket in Ohio鈥檚 8th Congressional District in 2016 and lost.聽He has charged that the Federal Reserve Bank is working to force聽the United States into a聽socialistic 鈥淣ew World Order,鈥� accused 鈥淶ionists鈥� of infiltrating the Vatican II conference of the聽1960s that renounced antisemitism in the Catholic Church and claimed that Israel planned to聽benefit from the 9/11 terror聽attacks.
A second 鈥渆xpert,鈥澛燫ichard Charnin, is a conspiracy theorist who has a blog where he posts his theories on the JFK assassination, the 2016 election and the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
He has posted on a monthly basis聽since the election spreading the theory that President Trump won the popular vote in the 2016 election. In a September 19 post Charnin wrote:
"There is evidence that millions of illegals probably voted in 2016鈥� According to Greg Palast, least one million Democratic minority voters were disenfranchised via Crosscheckwhich eliminated voters with duplicate names from voter rolls. He claims that 7 million minority voters were disenfranchised. There is evidence that George Soros , a Clinton backer, controls voting machines in 16 states. Election analyst Bev Harris has posted Fraction Magic, an algorithm used to flip votes on Central tabulators.鈥�
These connections aren鈥檛 surprising for Moore, who has elevated his own extreme beliefs above the law at virtually every level of public office he has held. Moore supports laws that would criminalize homosexuality, is a staunch proponent of the racist 鈥渂irtherism鈥� conspiracy, has advocated for religious tests targeting Muslim Americans, and has said that removing the amendments to the U.S. Constitution following the 10th Amendment 鈥� which includes the Equal Protection Clause and amendments that abolished slavery and enfranchised women 鈥� would 鈥渆liminate many problems鈥� in American society.
Voter fraud has become a repeated mantra in the Trump Administration. Trump聽appointed聽Kansas Secretary of State聽Kris Kobach, who moonlights as an attorney for the legal arm of the聽Federation for American Immigration Reform聽(FAIR), to serve as vice-chair of the聽commission to review claims of voter fraud.聽
Today, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has聽certified Doug Jones as winner of the special Senate election.
