The prosperity church tradition of Name it and claim it comes into view:
In another sign of the lingering unrest over President Donald Trump’s election loss, an Arizona group sent the National Archives in Washington, D.C., notarized documents last week intended to deliver, wrongly, the state’s 11 electoral votes for him.
Copies of the documents obtained by The Arizona Republic show a group that claimed to represent the “sovereign citizens of the Great State of Arizona” submitted signed papers casting votes for what they want: a second term for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Mesa resident Lori Osiecki, 62, helped created a facsimile of the “certificate of ascertainment” that is submitted to formally cast each state’s electoral votes as part of an effort to prevent what she views as the fraudulent theft of the election.
“We seated before the legislators here. We already turned it in. We beat them to the game,” she said. [azcentral]
Maybe Osiecki thinks this’ll work. If she is a prosperity church member, this may feel very logical to her.
I think she’s just another dumb amateur, although she could be in early dementia.
And, as the article suggests, I think she just committed … wait for it … voter fraud, if of an unusual sort.
In any case, it’s another example of right wing fringe loonies on the loose. It might not be a bad idea to round them up and give them a couple of years in the hoose-gow. Get their attention. Although if they played it as martyrs, then they wouldn’t have to learn. They’d get their attention and not feel reprimanded.
