Column: After crying fraud, Republicans go silent when Nevada ally is charged with voting twice – By Mark Z. Barabak (Los Angeles Times) / Oct 26 2021
Days after the November 2020 election, Kirk Hartle appeared on Las Vegas television, his brow furrowed and voice tinged with disbelief.
Someone, he said, had intercepted the ballot mailed to his wife, Rosemarie, and cast it in her stead. Rosemarie Hartle died of breast cancer in 2017.
“That is pretty sickening to me, to be honest with you,” Hartle told KLAS-TV.
For President Trump, his campaign surrogates and their champions in the conservative media, it was an outrage and, they claimed, a mere hint of the widespread fraud that cost Trump not just Nevada’s six precious electoral votes but a second term in the White House.
