Does the GOP’s Concern About ‘Election Integrity’ Mean Anything?

So, my sister who is an attorney, just sent me a feed from X-Twitter about the new legal team that has been installed at the RNC. And the two lawyers — Charlie Spies and Christina Bobb — hold completely contrary views on whether the 2020 election was honest and fair.

Spies, who has been around D.C. for more than twenty years, was booed lustily at the 2021 CPAC meeting when he said there was no evidence that voting machines were rigged. Two years ago, at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which was considering a new voting procedure for the District of Columbia that would allegedly ensure a fair vote, Spies spoke at length about the need for ‘election integrity’ but in recounting multiple instances where ballots were lost or misplaced, somehow the issue of voting machines never was addressed.

I suspect the fact that Dominion Voting Systems won a $787 million defamation lawsuit against Fox over the way that Fox claimed Dominion’s voting machinery was rigged against Trump was a good enough reason for Spies to go before a GOP-controlled House Committee in 2023 and talk about voter integrity but somehow forget what he said about the issue which got him verbally assaulted at the CPAC meeting in 2021.