{"id":1959384,"date":"2023-06-28T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congratulations-to-americas-propaganda-press-for-discovering-election-oversight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:54:10","slug":"congratulations-to-americas-propaganda-press-for-discovering-election-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congratulations-to-americas-propaganda-press-for-discovering-election-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to America&#8217;s media for uncovering election oversight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongratulations-to-americas-propaganda-press-for-discovering-election-oversight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n        <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press (AP) and CNN deserve a round of applause.<\/strong> Not for spreading regime-approved propaganda or advancing conspiracies like the Trump-Russia collusion hoax for years, but for finally discovering how election oversight works.<\/p>\n<p>Both outlets published separate articles earlier this week warning of the looming threat of Republican-controlled legislatures exercising their constitutional authority to oversee and administer elections in their respective states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawmakers in several Republican-led states have been looking to exert more authority over state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-zuckerberg-broke-law-with-dropboxes\/\" title=\"Trump: Zuckerberg 'Broke Law' with Dropboxes\">local election offices<\/a>, claiming new powers that Democrats warn could be used to target left-leaning counties in future elections,\u201d the AP\u2019s Christina Cassidy fervently wrote. CNN\u2019s Fredreka Schouten and Shania Shelton employed the same talking point by referring to \u201ccritics\u201d instead of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Because as everyone knows, the party that casts its political opponents as existential threats to \u201cdemocracy\u201d is the most reliable and trustworthy arbiter when it comes to judging election laws.<\/p>\n<p>The articles\u2019 authors directed their fire toward the same GOP-controlled states, namely North Carolina and Texas. Regarding North Carolina \u2014 where Republicans hold veto-proof supermajorities in the legislature \u2014 both outlets attacked SB 749, a measure that would increase the number of members on the state election board from five to eight and allow General Assembly party leaders to appoint board members instead of the governor. Currently, state law stipulates that the governor must appoint board members from a list of nominees submitted by the heads of each of the two political parties and that no more than three members of the board \u201cshall be members of the same political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wondering why the AP and CNN appear so concerned about the measure, it\u2019s worth mentioning that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to Texas, both outlets have similarly targeted two recently-signed laws designed to clean up election misadministration in Harris County, an increasingly Democrat bastion that includes the city of Houston. While SB 1750 abolishes the elections administrator position in counties with a population greater than 3.5 million residents, SB 1933 allows the Texas secretary of state to \u201corder administrative oversight\u201d of local election offices if a complaint is filed against certain county officials and if there\u2019s reason to believe there\u2019s a recurring pattern of issues regarding election administration. The latter law only applies to counties with populations greater than 4 million residents.<\/p>\n<p>The AP and CNN also singled out Georgia and Wisconsin Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>For outlets seemingly so concerned about elections \u201cremain[ing] free of partisan manipulation,\u201d the AP and CNN couldn\u2019t be bothered to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congratulations-to-americas-propaganda-press-for-discovering-election-oversight\/\" title=\"Kudos to America's media for uncovering election oversight!\">publish similarly ominous articles warning<\/a> of Democrat states\u2019 respective election \u201ctakeover[s].\u201d Earlier this year, for example, CNN was more than happy to run an article by Schouten classifying Minnesota and Michigan Democrats\u2019 election bills \u2014 which included efforts to grant felons the ability to vote and broaden the use of leftist-backed, unsupervised voting practices \u2014 as a bid to \u201cexpand voting rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlets also neglected to mention the many ways in which entities such as the FBI, CIA, Big Tech companies, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eyeing-supreme-court-vacancy-left-wing-dark-money-group-pushes-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-top-appeals-court\/\" title=\"Eyeing Supreme Court Vacancy, Left-Wing Dark Money Group Pushes Ketanji Brown Jackson for Top Appeals Court\">left-wing nonprofits<\/a> (just to name a few) interfered in the 2020 election to benefit Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, legacy media aren\u2019t worried about \u201cpartisan\u201d election oversight. They\u2019re upset that Republican legislators are properly fulfilling their constitutional responsibility to administer and oversee elections within their states. Unless the corporate media\u2019s political allies are the ones managing election administration, any and every attempt to restore integrity to America\u2019s elections must be smeared and destroyed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP and CNN deserve praise for their recent articles on election oversight. Instead of promoting propaganda or conspiracy theories like the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, they focused on the potential impact of Republican-controlled legislatures exercising their constitutional authority. 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