A man threatened to send “20 strong men” to forcefully remove the Pennsylvania-backed school board members who wear masks. He blamed fraud for his recent election failure.
Steve Lynch was a Republican candidate but failed to run for the chief executive of Northampton County. In the November 2 election, he lost to the current Democrat Lamont McClure by more than 7,700 votes.
According to the “Morning News”, since the election, Lynch and his supporters have been “haunting” the Northampton County Courthouse in an attempt to supervise the official handling of votes. In the court, a bipartisan team counts each ballot and corrects errors for final certification. The public can watch.
However, in the last 13 minutes, the public Facebook In the video, Lynch declares that “election integrity does not exist.” He said that the “flatters” who handled the ballots under the guidance of McClure and Democratic election officials made the ballots unsafe, manipulated the vote count and calculated errors. Fill in the ballot.
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He also said that “almost no one showed up” to the court to help him investigate potential fraud. He told his audience to send their “back end to the court” by 9 am the next morning.
“What happened in this election office is a scam. It’s a scam. They have zero ethics in this office. This government is fundamentally corrupt,” Lynch said in the video. “We do not obey your tyranny, whether it is medical tyranny, election integrity, or general tyranny.”
Matt Munsey, chairman of the Northampton County Democracy Committee, told The Morning Post that people who have never witnessed the voting process may suspect non-existent wrongdoing. Observers for the first time may misunderstand the procedures or problematic methods that are actually supervised and approved by the bipartisan monitoring team.
Lynch had previously made headlines at a rally on August 29, when he threatened to force the removal of state school board officials who supported the school’s regulations on wearing masks.
“I’m going in with 20 strong men,” Lynch told the crowd. “I want to talk to the school board. I want to give them a choice. They can leave or be dismissed. Then, we will replace them with nine parents, and we are voting against the requirement to wear masks that night.”
According to the “Daily Beast” report, he later stated that his comments were not intended to threaten anyone with “physical violence.”
Lynch’s campaign tried to remove many restrictions related to the pandemic. He also opposed the COVID-19 vaccination requirements. His previous Facebook posts compared mainstream media to deceptive brainwashers and propagandists.
His provocative rhetoric style and allegations of voter fraud put him on par with the former Republican president Donald TrumpHe also claimed that the election was lost due to voter fraud. This position has not been confirmed by any actual evidence.
