from Wired (H/T T)
... This wasn’t an average get-together. Leaf and Mack were at a conference for the far-right Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA, a group described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-government organization with links to many other extremist groups. Constitutional sheriffs are actual elected sheriffs who also believe they are the ultimate legal power in their county, and that no federal or state authority can usurp their authority. They also believe that a sheriff’s power stems directly from the constitution, and that they can disregard any laws they deem unconstitutional—a belief that is not grounded in reality.
Leaf is on the board of the group; Mack is the founder. And there are hundreds of members around the country.
In
Las Vegas, Mack referred supporters and journalists to Leaf, who was,
he said, “doing more than anyone to uncover election interference” in
his role as sheriff.
A
staunch Trump supporter, Leaf has spent the last four years
investigating voter fraud in the 2020 federal election in Barry
County—even though Donald Trump won decisively there. He has attempted
to seize voting machines,
pushed wild conspiracies, and ultimately became the focus of state
investigations himself. In at least one case, Leaf appears to have
inspired an election official to refuse to verify a vote—an ominous
warning ahead of the 2024 US election...
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