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Rep. Phil Lyman shall be a featured speaker at a Colorado occasion specializing in “the massive lie” that the 2020 election was marred by rampant fraud.
Lyman is talking on the “Election vs. Choice” occasion in Grand Junction. He’ll be joined by a number of different distinguished figures who’ve embraced election fraud conspiracy theories, together with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell.
“I’ll be specializing in the checklist of the explanation why I believe Utah’s elections are susceptible to manipulation and fraud,” Lyman defined Wednesday.
Lyman factors to the state’s use of common mail-in balloting as an avenue for fraud. Through the 2020 session, Lyman unsuccessfully sponsored laws to eliminate most mail-in voting in Utah.
“My complete motivation is the reality. I’m fairly good at seeing by BS on each side of any query,” Lyman mentioned.
Final summer season, Lyman attended Lindell’s election fraud cyber symposium together with former Utah Rep. Steve Christiansen.
Friday’s occasion is organized by Tina Peters, the clerk and recorder in Mesa County, Colorado, who has been barred from overseeing elections as a result of she’s going through a number of felony prices for allegedly tampering with voting tools. Peters, a candidate for secretary of state in Colorado, has alleged with out proof that voting machines in her county have been rigged in opposition to Republican candidates.
Lindell has been a near-tireless promoter of the baseless idea that Donald Trump’s loss in 2020 resulted from voting machine manipulation.
“All I do is spend tens of tens of millions of {dollars} attempting to assist our nation. However you don’t care in regards to the reality,” Lindell mentioned throughout a cellphone dialog on Wednesday. “The proof is there. You’ll be able to’t deny it.”
Lindell has been a vocal champion of Peters. Throughout an April go to to Colorado, he claimed he had spent $800,000 on her authorized protection. Lindell and Peters have been each audio system at Donald Trump’s latest marketing campaign rally in Casper, Wyoming.
Lindell is at the moment funding a documentary about Peters and her debunked claims from former journalist-turned right-wing provocateur Lara Logan.
“Folks need the reality. Individuals are eager for the reality. However you may’t deal with the reality. You guys (the media) are disgusting. Everybody on this nation is aware of this election was stolen, and we don’t need these things to occur once more. We wish these machines gone,” Lindell mentioned.
He plans to launch Logan’s documentary, titled “Choice Code,” free of charge on his web site in August.
Peters can be scheduled to talk at Friday’s occasion.
Becoming a member of Lyman and Lindell on Friday are different fringe far-right personalities.
Joel Oltmann, the host of the Conservative Day by day podcast, is the occasion’s grasp of ceremonies. He has referred to as for the mass execution of political figures and has ties to militia teams.
One other speaker, information analyst Jeff O’Donnell, authored a debunked report that Peters and her supporters declare is proof of election machine hacking. O’Donnell, identified on-line as “the Lone Raccoon,” spoke at a pair of election fraud conspiracy occasions in South Jordan and St. George in March.
One other speaker from the Utah election conspiracy occasions, former Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom Justice Michael Gabelman, can be on Friday’s schedule.
Utahns Jenn Orten and Sophie Anderson, identified on-line as “Two Purple Tablets,” are additionally scheduled to talk. The 2 are at the moment suing a number of Utah counties to acquire digital voting information they are saying accommodates proof of rampant fraud in Utah’s elections. Anderson, Orten, Lyman and Peters all spoke at a QAnon-driven convention in Salt Lake Metropolis final yr.
Different audio system at Friday’s occasion embrace Mark Finchem, a candidate for Secretary of State in Arizona who’s a member of the Oath Keepers Militia.