犹他州共和党籍副州长正发出严厉警告，因为唐纳德·特朗普总统及其盟友正试图将他们的意愿强加于各州的选举系统。就像佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格和怀俄明州州长马克·戈登等共和党官员一样，犹他州副州长迪德雷·亨德森已经清醒地认识到特朗普旨在对选举系统发动类似威权主义接管的卑劣行径，并对此直言不讳。
Utah’s Republican lieutenant governor is issuing dire warnings as President Donald Trump and his allies seek to impose their will on states’ election systems. Much like GOP officials such as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson has been awakened to — and outspoken about — the depravity in Trump’s push to effectively launch an authoritarian-style takeover of the election system.
亨德森利用她的职务来揭穿这位总统及其同党成员散布关于选举欺诈的谎言，并且由于她像其他州官员一样抵制交出敏感选民信息的交出要求，她已被特朗普的司法部门立案调查。
Henderson has used her office to debunk lies that the president and other members of her party have promoted about election fraud, and she has been placed under investigation by Trump’s Justice Department as she — like other state officials — has resisted demands to hand over sensitive voter information.
在接受《犹他新闻快报》的新采访时，她表示联邦政府干预今年中期选举的努力——例如特朗普支持的《萨维法案》（SAVE Act）——是“卑鄙的”。她还驳斥了大规模选举 fraud（选举欺诈）是一个合法问题的观点，并补充道：政治是我们国家的一部分，但政治是分享理念、辩论理念、确保你这一方清楚表达你想做的事情。政治不应该通过篡改游戏规则来让某一方受益。这种情况绝不应该发生，这种政治手腕让我夜不能寐。
new interview with the Utah News Dispatch, she said federal efforts to intervene in this year’s midterm elections, such as with the Trump-backed SAVE Act are “despicable.”She also rebuked the notion that widespread voter fraud is a legitimate problem, adding: Politics is part of our country, but politics is sharing ideas, debating ideas, making sure that your side is articulating what you want to do. Politics should not be messing around with the rules of the game to benefit one side or another. That should never happen, and that gamesmanship keeps me up at night.
对于共和党在中期选举前推行《萨维法案》的做法，亨德森表示，“其目的就是剥夺人们的投票权，这太糟糕了。这不应该发生。这是卑鄙的。”她补充道：这很难，因为有那么多的力量——远比我强大、比立法机关强大、比我们州强大的力量——正试图搞砸我们选民的事情。我非常、非常严肃地对待犹他州人的投票权。它们是神圣的，应当受到保护，应当得到维护，不应为了政治目的而被胡乱篡改。
Of the GOP’s push to implement the SAVE Act before the midterms, Henderson said “the purpose of that is just to disenfranchise people, and that’s crappy. That should not happen. That’s despicable.”She added: It is hard because there are so many forces — forces much greater than me, greater than the Legislature, greater than our state — that are trying to muck things up for our voters. And I take Utahns’ voting rights very, very seriously. They are sacred, and they ought to be protected, and they ought to be preserved, and they shouldn’t be mucked around with for political purposes.
亨德森表示，联邦政府已经表明特朗普政府对事实不感兴趣：我们进行了一些调整和修改，没有出现很大的问题。不幸的是，这不是联邦政府想要听到的叙述。我很久以前就知道了，就像他们不想知道我们做得很好一样。他们不想知道事情进展顺利，因为这与大规模欺诈或无资格投票的人受到无情打击的说法背道而驰。
Henderson said the federal government has shown that the Trump administration isn’t interested in facts: We made a few tweaks and modifications, and there’s no big, huge problem. And that is not a narrative, unfortunately, that the federal government wanted to hear. I learned a long time ago that, like they don’t want to know that we’re doing things OK. They don’t want to know that things are going well, because it goes against a narrative that is being pounded relentlessly of mass fraud or ineligible people voting.
亨德森和其他几位直言不讳的保守派官员似乎正试图踩刹车，因为他们的政党更深地陷入独裁主义，并试图拖累国家。
It seems Henderson and a few other outspoken conservative officials are trying to hit the brakes as their party plunges deeper into authoritarianism — and tries to drag the nation with it.
犹他州共和党副州长表示，特朗普推动“胡闹”中期选举让她夜不能寐
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