Gina Swoboda

  

Gina Swoboda is a far-Right, Ultra-MAGA extremist Republican formerly a staffer with two different Republican Arizona Secretaries of State, was hired in 2021 as  executive director of the right-wing, Christian advocacy group "Restoration Action", Election Day operations director for the Trump campaign in Arizona, serves as the "election integrity" coordinator for GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, and was vice chair of the Arizona Republican Party until Jan. 27, 2024 when she was selected to be the replacement for Jeff DeWit as the Chair of the Arizona Republican Party.
Republicans Sue To Purge At Least 500,000 People From Arizona’s Voter Rolls
"The leaders of the Arizona Republican Party and a conservative dark money group have filed a lawsuit alleging the state has not kept an accurate count of registered voters and asking a court to force elections officials to purge 500,000 Arizonans from the voter rolls." [ . . . ] "Four counties in Arizona have more registered voters than total voting-age citizens, the group’s suit says — Apache, La Paz, Navajo and Santa Cruz. The suit uses 2022 voter registration figures and data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The suit was filed by Scot Mussi, president of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club; Arizona GOP chair Gina Swoboda; and Steve Gaynor, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for Arizona secretary of state in 2018."
Jun. 10, 2024
How New Arizona GOP Chair Gina Swoboda’s Website Fuels Voter Fraud Activists
"Swoboda is a former organizer of Trump’s 2020 campaign in Arizona and the executive director of the Voter Reference Foundation, which runs an online project called VoteRef.com designed to be a resource for voter-fraud activists who want to inspect voter rolls. The database has been one of several systems used or promoted by conservative activists following several states’ decisions to leave the nonpartisan Electronic Registration Information Center in response to a right-wing, conspiracy-theory-driven pressure campaign. Voting-rights and privacy advocates have voiced concerns VoteRef could be used to compromise individual privacy, intimidate voters, cause mass cancellations of voting registrations, and inundate local election offices with burdensome, time-consuming, and inaccurate challenges. Records obtained by American Oversight and detailed in our recent in-depth report “The Campaign to Dismantle ERIC” show that information gleaned from VoteRef has fueled numerous voter challenges and fraud allegations, and people have voiced concerns about their personal information appearing on the platform."
Feb. 1, 2024
'I'm Wearing The Armor Of God': New Arizona GOP Chair Vows More Anti-Voting Lawsuits
The newly-elected Arizona Republican Party chair, Gina Swoboda, proudly told longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon on his "war room" show that the former president personally urged her to run for the position, reported KPNX's Brahm Resnik — and vowed to continue pushing lawsuits on his behalf to restrict access to voting in Arizona. "How can the Arizona GOP be dead broke in an election year with nine months to go?" asked Bannon. "They are," acknowledged Swoboda, saying that financial statements haven't been filed in the party for a year. "On the election side, we have to litigate, we have to litigate now, we have a lot of lawsuits going on, we have to get rid of the unmanned drop boxes, that judgment is imminent."
Jan. 29, 2024
Arizona GOP Names MAGA Voter-Challenge Activist Gina Swoboda New Chair
"The Arizona Republican Party elected Gina Swoboda its new chair on Saturday. Swoboda, the director of election day operations for former President Donald Trump in 2020, replaces Jeff DeWit, who resigned last week after being targeted by MAGA Senate candidate Kari Lake. Swoboda’s bid for state party chair was promoted by Lake and endorsed by Trump, Nick Fuentes ally state Sen. Wendy Rogers, and Arizona-based far-right activist Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA. Lake, who has never accepted her loss in the 2022 governor’s race, called Swoboda’s selection a “massive victory” for her campaign and for Trump’s, the Associated Press reported. Swoboda runs VoteRef.com, which is part of a network of MAGA movement projects to enable challenges to voters’ eligibility, which American Oversight reported in December “could be used not just to compromise individual privacy, but also to intimidate voters, cause mass cancellations of voting registrations, and inundate local elected officials with burdensome, time-consuming, and inaccurate challenges.” Swoboda’s efforts have been funded by far-right megadonor Richard Uihlein."
Jan. 29, 2024
Donald Trump And Kari Lake Endorse Election Integrity Leader Gina Swoboda For AZGOP Chair, Election Tomorrow
"Donald Trump and Kari Lake announced their endorsement Friday of the Voter Reference Foundation’s Gina Swoboda for Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) chair." [ . . . ] "Team Trump, an official account on X for Trump, posted, “President Trump just spoke to Gina Swoboda and offered his full support and endorsement of her for next Arizona GOP Chair." [ . . . ] "The endorsements were soon followed by others: Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ-02), State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa), State Senator Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff), State Senator Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek), State Senator Justine Wadsack (R-Tucson), State Representative Joseph Chaplik (R-Scottsdale), State Representative Austin Smith (R-Surprise), former AZGOP chair Kelli Ward, former Maricopa County GOP Chair and Turning Point COO Tyler Bowyer, Republican attorney Harmeet Dhillon, and the Arizona Freedom Caucus."
Jan. 27, 2024
Restoration Of America
"Restoration of America (formerly registered as Restoration Action) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization founded in 2015 with the stated mission to "promote the common good and general welfare of the people of the United States by advocating in favor of policy changes with a goal of restoring individual peace, national security, and individual freedom in America".[1] It was founded by Doug Truax, an unelected candidate in the 2014 Illinois U.S. Senate primary. Restoration Action's website boasts that Traux "nearly pulled off a massive upset" in that election, and that he "learned important lessons along the way. He formed Restoration Action/PAC with those lessons in mind."[2] Restoration Action parents Restoration PAC. According to the website, Traux's "organizations exist solely to get things done in the fight to preserve our way of life." The organization is a right-wing, Christian advocacy group. It believes that "in our current era, our nation's most significant threats are twofold: internally-- the elite, Marxist neo-liberals and, externally-- Communist China". They aim to "defend our nation by electing like-minded leaders and by creating organizations and campaigns that promote fully transparent elections, economic freedom, limited government, military superiority, secure borders, rule of law, and the sanctity of life"." [ . . . ] "Republican Gina Swoboda was hired in 2021 as Restoration Action's executive director, earning a $108,750 salary. Swoboda was an official for the Trump campaign, is vice chair of the Arizona Republican Party, and serves as the "election integrity" coordinator for GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Swoboda is also spearheading the effort to combat the Arizona gubernatorial race, which Lake lost, on the grounds of a "broken election system"."
Nov. 29, 2023
Inside The Billionaire-Backed ‘Hub For Election Denial’
"Right-wing megadonor Dick Uihlein has been funneling tens of millions of dollars to election deniers, but a previously unreported IRS filing shows he has also teamed up with one. According to its 2021 annual IRS filing, the Uihlein-backed dark money nonprofit Restoration Action Inc. hired Arizona Republican Gina Swoboda as an executive director last year, paying her $108,750 in salary. Swoboda, a former Trump campaign official and the vice chair of the Arizona Republican Party, is now leading a misguided charge against the ballot count in that state on behalf of GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake."
Nov. 28, 2022
Billionaire-Backed Group Enlists Trump-Supporting Citizens To Hunt For Voter Fraud Using Discredited Techniques
"Swoboda then served as Election Day operations director for the Trump campaign in Arizona, according to a sworn court affidavit she gave in Arizona in November 2020 as part of Trump’s legal challenge to election results there. She described how she took complaints from people who thought poll workers allowed defective ballots to be submitted, in what later became known as “SharpieGate.” (Votes made with a Sharpie do count, the state said.)"
Mar. 7, 2022
"Save Arizona Elections Workshop with Gina Swoboda and Merissa Hamilton, presented by FreedomWorks Freedom Teams & Voter Reference Foundation"
Sep. 22, 2022
GOP Feud Fuels Official’s Resignation Amid Vote Fraud Claims
"Chornenky got a call from Gina Swoboda, a former staffer with two different Arizona secretaries of state who had just taken a job as the state Election Day director for the Trump campaign. Chornenky said while they had been friendly in the past and their initial interactions were neutral, Swoboda eventually asked that the county party hand over the responsibility of recruiting, training and deploying poll observers to the Trump campaign. “The problem with that is the authorization to be a poll observer is the exclusive purview of the county party,” DiCarlo said. State laws give the authority to designate representatives or challengers at polling places to parties’ county chairs. Chornenky, not sure if she could abdicate her responsibilities, refused. Then the pressure began"
Nov. 27, 2020
  

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