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9/21/22 - Election Fraud: The Jig Is Up
There’s so much Democrats believe about elections that just ain’t so. They yap all the time about election deniers, but never seem to worry about the election deniers in their own party. The list of Democrat election deniers includes Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Al Gore, Senator Patty Murray, and countless others who questioned election results. One journalist compiled a list of 82 Democrat election deniers. Republican researchers found 150. So spare me the phony narrative about Republicans being election deniers.
And spare me the whole mythology Democrats have built up that election integrity laws are Republican attempts to suppress the vote. The fact of the matter is election integrity laws were passed in 2021 in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Iowa. Voter turnout went UP, not down, in all five states in subsequent elections compared to 2018.
The Democrats are bitter clingers when it comes to election denier and voter suppression mythology. This whole charade is meant to deflect attention away from Democrat attempts to rig elections. The Democrat Secretary of State in Michigan is in court trying to keep dead people on the voter rolls. You gotta ask yourself why she would want to do that. Because it makes it easier to steal elections. When the votes are counted, you have to match up fraudulent votes for Democrat candidates with records of voters who haven’t voted. The dirtier the voter rolls are, the easier it is to find people who haven’t voted - like dead people. The easier it is to commit election fraud.
But ordinary people have had enough of Democrat cheating. Ordinary people just want free and fair elections back, and they’re working hard to achieve it.
One group discovered how easy it is to forge signatures on mail-in ballots. Just circulate a petition - ‘Mr. President, Save the Whales’ - scan the signatures, and drop them into real mail-in ballots you grabbed from apartment buildings or got from your Democrat buddies who work for the Post Office. Automate the process and, viola!, you have thousands of fake ballots you can drop into any old drop box, which the Democrats justified creating in the name of preventing COVID transmission but, somehow, we still have. When the people who signed the petition go to vote, they’ll be told they already voted. Folks, that’s how easy it is to steal your vote and how loose the Democrats want our elections to be.
A citizens group in Florida examined voter rolls and found thousands of instances where people did not live at the stated address, many addresses that weren’t residences, and hundreds of dead people on the rolls.
An activist in Wisconsin brought a criminal complaint against a Milwaukee election official for setting up a tent in a back alley to accept ballots from cars, no questions asked and no poll watchers present.
Republican and conservative groups filed suit in Pennsylvania over Democrat counties contacting voters to cure defects in their mail-in ballots in violation of state law.
After an activist in East Lansing, Michigan found nonexistent addresses, votes from closed college dorms, and other problems with the voter rolls, the County Clerk and willing accomplices in the media tried to discredit the work. Not a good look, resisting the cleaning of voter rolls. Don’t you Democrats realize how suspicious you look when you do that?
You also look suspicious when you defy laws that require the appointment of an equal number of Republican and Democrat poll workers. Kalamazoo hired 132 Democrats but only 60 Republicans for the August primary despite more than enough Republican names being submitted for consideration. In Flint, the ratio was even worse. [details here]
Connect the dots and the picture is unmistakably clear: Democrats try to rig the game and steal elections. So forgive me when I look at Democrat election so-called ‘reform’ proposals and see attempts to rig elections on steroids. One proposal - recently rejected by the Arizona Supreme Court for failing to collect enough signatures to put it on the ballot - would have gutted voter ID, eliminated safeguards against noncitizen voting, removed constraints on mail-in balloting, and facilitated vote trafficking by political operatives. A similar super-scam is pending in Michigan.
The Democrats, predictably, claimed the Arizona court was “suppressing democracy”. That’s all the Democrats have - empty rhetoric. But the jig is up. We see right through you. And we’ll go right on challenging election results and passing election integrity laws until every election in this country is free and fair, again.
There’s so much Democrats believe about elections that just ain’t so. They yap all the time about election deniers, but never seem to worry about the election deniers in their own party. The list of Democrat election deniers includes Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Al Gore, Senator Patty Murray, and countless others who questioned election results. One journalist compiled a list of 82 Democrat election deniers. Republican researchers found 150. So spare me the phony narrative about Republicans being election deniers.
And spare me the whole mythology Democrats have built up that election integrity laws are Republican attempts to suppress the vote. The fact of the matter is election integrity laws were passed in 2021 in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Iowa. Voter turnout went UP, not down, in all five states in subsequent elections compared to 2018.
The Democrats are bitter clingers when it comes to election denier and voter suppression mythology. This whole charade is meant to deflect attention away from Democrat attempts to rig elections. The Democrat Secretary of State in Michigan is in court trying to keep dead people on the voter rolls. You gotta ask yourself why she would want to do that. Because it makes it easier to steal elections. When the votes are counted, you have to match up fraudulent votes for Democrat candidates with records of voters who haven’t voted. The dirtier the voter rolls are, the easier it is to find people who haven’t voted - like dead people. The easier it is to commit election fraud.
But ordinary people have had enough of Democrat cheating. Ordinary people just want free and fair elections back, and they’re working hard to achieve it.
One group discovered how easy it is to forge signatures on mail-in ballots. Just circulate a petition - ‘Mr. President, Save the Whales’ - scan the signatures, and drop them into real mail-in ballots you grabbed from apartment buildings or got from your Democrat buddies who work for the Post Office. Automate the process and, viola!, you have thousands of fake ballots you can drop into any old drop box, which the Democrats justified creating in the name of preventing COVID transmission but, somehow, we still have. When the people who signed the petition go to vote, they’ll be told they already voted. Folks, that’s how easy it is to steal your vote and how loose the Democrats want our elections to be.
A citizens group in Florida examined voter rolls and found thousands of instances where people did not live at the stated address, many addresses that weren’t residences, and hundreds of dead people on the rolls.
An activist in Wisconsin brought a criminal complaint against a Milwaukee election official for setting up a tent in a back alley to accept ballots from cars, no questions asked and no poll watchers present.
Republican and conservative groups filed suit in Pennsylvania over Democrat counties contacting voters to cure defects in their mail-in ballots in violation of state law.
After an activist in East Lansing, Michigan found nonexistent addresses, votes from closed college dorms, and other problems with the voter rolls, the County Clerk and willing accomplices in the media tried to discredit the work. Not a good look, resisting the cleaning of voter rolls. Don’t you Democrats realize how suspicious you look when you do that?
You also look suspicious when you defy laws that require the appointment of an equal number of Republican and Democrat poll workers. Kalamazoo hired 132 Democrats but only 60 Republicans for the August primary despite more than enough Republican names being submitted for consideration. In Flint, the ratio was even worse. [details here]
Connect the dots and the picture is unmistakably clear: Democrats try to rig the game and steal elections. So forgive me when I look at Democrat election so-called ‘reform’ proposals and see attempts to rig elections on steroids. One proposal - recently rejected by the Arizona Supreme Court for failing to collect enough signatures to put it on the ballot - would have gutted voter ID, eliminated safeguards against noncitizen voting, removed constraints on mail-in balloting, and facilitated vote trafficking by political operatives. A similar super-scam is pending in Michigan.
The Democrats, predictably, claimed the Arizona court was “suppressing democracy”. That’s all the Democrats have - empty rhetoric. But the jig is up. We see right through you. And we’ll go right on challenging election results and passing election integrity laws until every election in this country is free and fair, again.
9/8/22 - How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electronic Voting Machines
Strange stories about voting machines continue to surface in the news.
Voting machines in Rhode Island displayed the names of 2018 candidates in a 2022 election, and misspelled another candidate’s name. Voters who used the machines were disenfranchised.
In Alabama, voting machines in two counties accepted Xerox copies of ballots while the machines were being tested, and machines in seven precincts showed more votes than voters. Who programmed it to do that?
An Arizona Corporation Commissioner sent a letter to all election officials in the state asking that they stop using voting machines. He said the machines are unreliable and vulnerable to attack, citing the case of a hand recount revealing a 62 percent error rate in tabulation machines. Who programmed the tabulator so it couldn’t even add? Even simple hand-held calculators can add.
A New Mexico county refused to certify the results of a primary election this year because of distrust of machines, but was ordered by the state Supreme Court to do so.
Citizen investigators found machines flipped the results of 2020 Supreme Court Justice races in Michigan, throwing the Court to the Democrats. The investigators also found voting systems in two states had the easily cracked password ‘123456’ and had Microsoft SQL software in three states which is unnecessary and allows data to be manipulated.
If you find it hard to believe voting machines flip votes, listen to this: An official post-election audit in Kansas uncovered the fact that thumb drives inserted into voting machines during an election flipped votes from one candidate for county commissioner to another who was initially mistakenly declared the winner. The company said it was a programming error and, supposedly, no other races were affected. That was some error. Who sat down and wrote a computer program for the machines to flip votes? Doesn’t sound like an accident to me.
So what happens when there are questions about machine results but the Secretary of State gets to certify the results of his own election and declare himself the winner? It happened in Georgia where citizen investigators monitored the voting in one precinct and found Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger got 53 percent of the vote in the GOP primary, but the machines gave him 68 percent of the vote. That one is being contested with a request to look at the actual ballots.
Trust in elections will not be rebuilt until vote-flipping and other documented problems with voting machines get resolved and stories like these stop appearing. It doesn’t help that all of this is a black box and the machine manufacturers scream bloody murder about proprietary information whenever citizens want to look inside their machines to see what is really going on when things don’t add up. Top Democrats like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are on record expressing concerns about voting machines. Concerns from that side of the aisle about machines date back to at least 2003 but, nowadays, Democrats for the most part embrace voting machines and dismiss any questions that get asked as crazy-talk. Gee, I wonder why. The lady doth protest too much.
Strange stories about voting machines continue to surface in the news.
Voting machines in Rhode Island displayed the names of 2018 candidates in a 2022 election, and misspelled another candidate’s name. Voters who used the machines were disenfranchised.
In Alabama, voting machines in two counties accepted Xerox copies of ballots while the machines were being tested, and machines in seven precincts showed more votes than voters. Who programmed it to do that?
An Arizona Corporation Commissioner sent a letter to all election officials in the state asking that they stop using voting machines. He said the machines are unreliable and vulnerable to attack, citing the case of a hand recount revealing a 62 percent error rate in tabulation machines. Who programmed the tabulator so it couldn’t even add? Even simple hand-held calculators can add.
A New Mexico county refused to certify the results of a primary election this year because of distrust of machines, but was ordered by the state Supreme Court to do so.
Citizen investigators found machines flipped the results of 2020 Supreme Court Justice races in Michigan, throwing the Court to the Democrats. The investigators also found voting systems in two states had the easily cracked password ‘123456’ and had Microsoft SQL software in three states which is unnecessary and allows data to be manipulated.
If you find it hard to believe voting machines flip votes, listen to this: An official post-election audit in Kansas uncovered the fact that thumb drives inserted into voting machines during an election flipped votes from one candidate for county commissioner to another who was initially mistakenly declared the winner. The company said it was a programming error and, supposedly, no other races were affected. That was some error. Who sat down and wrote a computer program for the machines to flip votes? Doesn’t sound like an accident to me.
So what happens when there are questions about machine results but the Secretary of State gets to certify the results of his own election and declare himself the winner? It happened in Georgia where citizen investigators monitored the voting in one precinct and found Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger got 53 percent of the vote in the GOP primary, but the machines gave him 68 percent of the vote. That one is being contested with a request to look at the actual ballots.
Trust in elections will not be rebuilt until vote-flipping and other documented problems with voting machines get resolved and stories like these stop appearing. It doesn’t help that all of this is a black box and the machine manufacturers scream bloody murder about proprietary information whenever citizens want to look inside their machines to see what is really going on when things don’t add up. Top Democrats like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are on record expressing concerns about voting machines. Concerns from that side of the aisle about machines date back to at least 2003 but, nowadays, Democrats for the most part embrace voting machines and dismiss any questions that get asked as crazy-talk. Gee, I wonder why. The lady doth protest too much.
8/17/22 - Extremism In Defense of Election Integrity Is No Vice
Allow me to introduce you to the nation’s newest ‘domestic violent extremist’. The Republican Secretary of State of Louisiana issued directives to preserve 2020 election materials and to take the state out of ERIC, a Soros-funded voter roll maintenance operation which critics deride as a thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats. This Secretary of State must now be considered a ‘domestic violent extremist’ under new guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS whistleblower leaked an agency bulletin telling agents people who talk about ‘government overreach’ and ‘election fraud’ are possible ‘domestic violent extremists’ and a threat to law enforcement. You might call me a ‘domestic violent extremist’, too, because I’ve been talking about government overreach and election fraud since early Tea Party days, and I’m not going to stop, so come and get me.
There continue to be problems with our elections, and we in the grassroots are not going to stop on that front, either.
Mass mail-in voting causes chaos, as Jimmy Carter reported in 2005, but the practice will continue in some places in the 2022 elections. You mail out ballots to everyone on dirty voter rolls - including dead people and duplicate registrations - and you end up with millions of missing ballots some of which get stolen and voted by bad actors. Speaking of dirty voter rolls, a citizens group in Michigan found more than 22,000 active registrations for people who no longer live in the state and should be removed from the rolls.
Wisconsin lets anyone order an absentee ballot online, which is a recipe for fraud. A citizen tester got permission from several people to order ballots in their name and elections officials sent all the ballots to his address, no ID needed. It’s easy to see how this could be scaled up into major fraud.
Electronic voting machines failed a logic and accuracy test in a recent Colorado county recount. An elections official falsified machine certification records before an election in New Mexico. Certification problems have to be fairly common, because I know a grassroots activist who documented shady certification of electronic poll books in my state.
A poll challenger was thrown out of the big vote counting center in Detroit this month for asking too many questions and pointing out that various rules were not being followed. A similar problem occurred in the progressive prosecutor recall effort in Los Angeles this week. Elections officials threw out 27 percent of the ballot petition signatures, causing the petition to fail, whereas only 20 percent of signatures were deemed invalid in the Gavin Newsom recall last year. So something’s fishy, but election officials wouldn’t allow anyone to observe the process.
Voter fraud continues to be caught and prosecuted, although to a very limited extent relative to the amount of fraud that’s out there. South Carolina hasn’t had a voter fraud prosecution in 18 years, for example, but Wisconsin has 10 new cases for impersonating voters, voting twice in different states, and other fraudulent activities. A former police chief and a city councilman just pled guilty to buying votes in elections in Louisiana. Hmm... I wonder if the judge who took the plea is a domestic violent extremist like the Secretary of State.
Finally, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos squeaked by in his primary, then immediately fired the special counsel he had previously hired to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, bringing the investigation to an end. The special counsel had found, among other indicia of fraud, up to 100 percent voter turnout in nursing homes, which would include people with dementia. It’s too bad the investigation won’t be continuing because the Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes and you can bet they’ll keep right on doing it in future elections in Wisconsin and probably your state, as well.
The Speaker in Wisconsin is Republican. The GOP establishment across the nation, for some strange reason, is just not interested in uncovering election fraud. They must like losing. They will tell you their focus is on future elections, not past elections. This is what you typically get out of RINOs, even though there’s no way to fix the problems with future elections unless you understand what went wrong in the past. But Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat should show them they are an endangered species. My national RINO Hunt Team is on the case and we - and election integrity activists more generally - will not quit until we right the ship and restore free and fair elections in this country, whether the RINOs and the Democrats like it or not. DHS can’t lock us all up.
Allow me to introduce you to the nation’s newest ‘domestic violent extremist’. The Republican Secretary of State of Louisiana issued directives to preserve 2020 election materials and to take the state out of ERIC, a Soros-funded voter roll maintenance operation which critics deride as a thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats. This Secretary of State must now be considered a ‘domestic violent extremist’ under new guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS whistleblower leaked an agency bulletin telling agents people who talk about ‘government overreach’ and ‘election fraud’ are possible ‘domestic violent extremists’ and a threat to law enforcement. You might call me a ‘domestic violent extremist’, too, because I’ve been talking about government overreach and election fraud since early Tea Party days, and I’m not going to stop, so come and get me.
There continue to be problems with our elections, and we in the grassroots are not going to stop on that front, either.
Mass mail-in voting causes chaos, as Jimmy Carter reported in 2005, but the practice will continue in some places in the 2022 elections. You mail out ballots to everyone on dirty voter rolls - including dead people and duplicate registrations - and you end up with millions of missing ballots some of which get stolen and voted by bad actors. Speaking of dirty voter rolls, a citizens group in Michigan found more than 22,000 active registrations for people who no longer live in the state and should be removed from the rolls.
Wisconsin lets anyone order an absentee ballot online, which is a recipe for fraud. A citizen tester got permission from several people to order ballots in their name and elections officials sent all the ballots to his address, no ID needed. It’s easy to see how this could be scaled up into major fraud.
Electronic voting machines failed a logic and accuracy test in a recent Colorado county recount. An elections official falsified machine certification records before an election in New Mexico. Certification problems have to be fairly common, because I know a grassroots activist who documented shady certification of electronic poll books in my state.
A poll challenger was thrown out of the big vote counting center in Detroit this month for asking too many questions and pointing out that various rules were not being followed. A similar problem occurred in the progressive prosecutor recall effort in Los Angeles this week. Elections officials threw out 27 percent of the ballot petition signatures, causing the petition to fail, whereas only 20 percent of signatures were deemed invalid in the Gavin Newsom recall last year. So something’s fishy, but election officials wouldn’t allow anyone to observe the process.
Voter fraud continues to be caught and prosecuted, although to a very limited extent relative to the amount of fraud that’s out there. South Carolina hasn’t had a voter fraud prosecution in 18 years, for example, but Wisconsin has 10 new cases for impersonating voters, voting twice in different states, and other fraudulent activities. A former police chief and a city councilman just pled guilty to buying votes in elections in Louisiana. Hmm... I wonder if the judge who took the plea is a domestic violent extremist like the Secretary of State.
Finally, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos squeaked by in his primary, then immediately fired the special counsel he had previously hired to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, bringing the investigation to an end. The special counsel had found, among other indicia of fraud, up to 100 percent voter turnout in nursing homes, which would include people with dementia. It’s too bad the investigation won’t be continuing because the Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes and you can bet they’ll keep right on doing it in future elections in Wisconsin and probably your state, as well.
The Speaker in Wisconsin is Republican. The GOP establishment across the nation, for some strange reason, is just not interested in uncovering election fraud. They must like losing. They will tell you their focus is on future elections, not past elections. This is what you typically get out of RINOs, even though there’s no way to fix the problems with future elections unless you understand what went wrong in the past. But Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat should show them they are an endangered species. My national RINO Hunt Team is on the case and we - and election integrity activists more generally - will not quit until we right the ship and restore free and fair elections in this country, whether the RINOs and the Democrats like it or not. DHS can’t lock us all up.
7/26/22 - Election Integrity Professional Demolishes Guardian Hit Piece
Democrat-friendly media outlets are working overtime to discredit all efforts to achieve free and fair elections and to smear anyone involved in election integrity efforts. One of many such pathetic articles appeared in The Guardian, the left-wing British publication with a U.S. presence. The article drives the phony narrative that poll-watching and training for election integrity activists amounts to voter intimidation and is to be condemned.
The article specifically names Tim Meisburger, a member of my activist network devoted to achieving free and fair elections. Tim has spent 30 years observing overseas elections, culminating in his appointment as Director of the Center for Democracy Rights and Governance for the federal agency USAID. Tim is currently Director of the America Project’s election integrity program. The Guardian never asked him for his side of the story, so he wrote a letter to the editor demolishing the article, a letter which the Guardian has yet to publish. In the letter, Tim wrote:
This article is littered with “scare quotes”; a rhetorical device and cliché whose overuse reflects poorly on the professionalism of the author, and competence of his editor. Although this article is listed under “US news”, it is immediately clear that it is an opinion piece....
Early in the article Peter Stone ... plays the “Hitler” card, suggesting our leadership is pushing a “big lie”; a pejorative the left uses to refer to the opinion shared by many (according to recent polls, more than half of all Americans, including 30% of Democrats) that the 2020 election may have been affected by fraud....
As election and democracy professionals know, you cannot judge the legitimacy of an election by looking solely at what happens on election day, as many events can occur well before election day that affect the integrity of the election process....
... [U]ndisputed examples of incidents or programs that might give one cause to doubt the democratic legitimacy of the election include:
- Coordinated suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election
- Introduction of many new election procedures as a response to COVID 19 that universally weakened the security of the election process
- Widespread use of insecure mail-in ballots and drop boxes, paid for in many cases by donations from a partisan billionaire.
- The use of state officials and resources to turn out voters in predominately Democratic areas, again paid for by a partisan billionaire.
- Ballot mules geo-tracked and videoed collecting ballots from partisan organizations and then stuffing said ballots in drop boxes
- Observers being prevented (on video) from observing counting processes
- Poll workers (on video) sending observers home and stuffing ballot boxes in the middle of the night
- The suspiciously coordinated suspension of counting in battleground states, followed by markedly different results when counting is resumed
These and other incidents may not be enough to sway Peter, but they are certainly enough to create reasonable doubt for many people. For me, as an election professional, the prevention of effective observation alone is enough to declare that the integrity of the election cannot be verified; and if we were overseas monitoring an election in a developing country and saw that, we would condemn the process and call for new elections....
The letter goes on from there and includes the inconvenient fact Meisburger left USAID at the end of President Trump’s term, not under a “cloud” as the article baselessly claimed.
That’s the rebuttal. Let’s see if the Guardian prints it. Don’t hold your breath. Open and honest debate, any more than free and fair elections, is not how the Democrats roll.
7/20/22 - Both Sides Raising the Stakes in Election Process
Georgia prosecutors are investigating all 16 Trump alternate electors in the 2020 election for alleged subversion of the Electoral College. Critics say the alternate electors were following the established constitutional process for challenging disputed elections.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are ramping up an effort to commandeer the election machinery by getting Democrats voted in as elections officials all across the country. This is a new $80 million effort and it’s patterned after George Soros’ multi-million effort to get left-wing Secretaries of State and out-of-control progressive prosecutors who won’t prosecute into office. The new effort is called ‘Clerk Work’ and it’s being spearheaded by the Run for Something PAC headed by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. The $80 million is coming from a Hillary Clinton-affiliated (c)(4), Chan Zuckerberg, LinkedIn, ActBlue, and others. This follows another recently announced $80 million Democrat effort - the Alliance for Election Excellence - to schmooze local elections officials and give them ‘advice’. One of the participants - the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life - teaches elections officials how to conspire with each other and the media. Which could explain the recent spate of stories about how elections officials feel, oh so threatened by those mean Republicans.
But Team Red is also raising the stakes in the election process. It was just announced a Constitutional Sheriffs association is teaming up with True the Vote to investigate election fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election and future elections. Obama’s IRS couldn’t kill True the Vote and the organization is fresh off a stunning success with its ‘2000 Mules’ documentary showing extensive ballot trafficking occurring at COVID-era drop boxes. Democrats LOVE those drop boxes and are trying to make them permanent, and now we know why.
The sheriffs’ initiative is raising money so law enforcement will have the resources to conduct surveillance of drop boxes, use artificial intelligence to analyze drop box video, and set up hotlines to report suspicious activity at drop boxes and polling places. The Democrats are freaking out at the prospect elections just might become more secure. You should read the hysterical Reuters article on the sheriff’s initiative. If you didn’t know any better, you would come away believing the sky is falling. Reuters is a hopelessly left-wing arm of the Democrat Party posing as honest brokers of the news. They are anything but.
Team Red is continuing to enjoy success in getting common-sense election reforms adopted at the state level. Missouri’s Governor recently signed a bill banning drop boxes and requiring voter ID which has been widely upheld in the courts. Even Stacey Abrams will tell you voter ID laws are not racist. The Democrats have lost the voter ID argument. It’s all over but the shouting and, boy, do they continue to shout. Missouri’s new law also stops indiscriminate mail-in voting and gets rid of electronic voting machines in 2024, requiring them to be ‘air-gapped’ from the Internet in the meantime. This is a great victory for election integrity.
In case you’re one of the few Americans remaining who still believe the 2020 elections were the ‘most secure’ ever, have I got news for you. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the use of drop boxes in the 2020 election was illegal and candidates are calling for the state’s 2020 election results to be decertified as a result. In Arizona, newly released video shows ballot mules forging signatures on ballot envelopes. Federal authorities have confirmed two Iranian nationals hacked into a state computer election system in the 2020 election. There was illegal ballot harvesting in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, not to mention dirty voter rolls, nursing home fraud, and over a dozen more documented problems with the 2020 election. None of this can seriously be disputed.
No wonder people are up in arms and demanding election integrity. Citizen efforts to clean up the voter rolls are underway in Michigan, Maryland, and elsewhere. Recent articles from Democrat-controlled media are howling about election integrity efforts from professional paid groups on the Right, but they miss the mark. It’s the grassroots efforts that will eventually return us to free and fair elections. Smear us all you want, but we know we’re right, and we’re not going away. So, get over it. Your days of cheating are coming to an end.
7/6/22 - Democrats Crank Up Propaganda Machine on Elections
You need to be aware the Democrats’ propaganda machine is cranked up to ‘hi’ on elections. They are mischaracterizing just about everything having to do with elections these days.
Let’s start with the claim Donald Trump tried to ‘overturn the election’ and is, therefore a ‘threat to democracy’. I say he pursued legal challenges under the constitutionally-prescribed process for contesting election results, nothing more. Isn’t that what you would do if you thought an election was stolen from you?
Under our system, which has been called “messy” and “deficient”, legal challenges are brought under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution having to do with the appointment of electors to the Electoral College. It is possible for rival sets of electors to be sent to Washington if state governors and legislatures don’t agree on the slate. The procedures go on from there to provide for challenges in the U.S. House and Senate to exclude electors from the Electoral College vote count. There were dueling electors in the contested election of 1876 and, in a challenge brought by Democrats, in Hawaii in 1960. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter led a challenge to Trump electors in 2016. Nobody accused the Democrats of trying to ‘overturn the election’ in those instances, did they? But that’s the propaganda we’re getting from the Democrats now and it’s escalated to the point where the Biden Justice Department is investigating Republicans involved in efforts to send alternate electors to Congress in the 2020 election. Trump forces also went to court and won on the merits in 22 out of 39 lawsuits brought contesting various aspects of that election.
So what, exactly, did Trump do? He pursued possibilities for alternate electors - just like Democrats before him - and brought cases in court, many of which he won. That’s it. No martial law, no calling out the army, nothing beyond legal processes. Democrats are twisting his efforts to convince you his efforts are something they are not.
Next, we turn to the claim that 2020 ‘election deniers’ are spreading ‘misinformation’ and pose a threat to future elections. The propaganda on this is very thin, turning quickly to reform efforts to improve future election integrity. The ‘election denier’ smear is intended to discredit legitimate efforts to enact voter ID laws which are routinely upheld by courts, curb the use of insecure mail-in voting which Democrat Jimmy Carter recognized is a problem, and get rid of things like dropboxes which only came in because of COVID but the Democrats have succeeded in making permanent in many states. If working for free and fair elections in the future is ‘election denial’, I’ll eat my hat.
The latest mischaracterization came when the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case testing the power of state legislatures to make laws regarding elections. To hear Democrats tell it, the conservative Supreme Court is poised to give unchecked power to state legislatures to shut out state governors and courts, favor their own party, and undermine democracy. You have to remember that Democrat elections officials approved dropboxes and mail-in voting in 2020, invoking emergency powers in the pandemic to do so, without permission from state lawmakers. If anyone is a threat to democracy in this situation, it’s unelected bureaucrats who worked overtime to help the Democrats 2020, not the duly elected state lawmakers. Moreover, a new government report shows how elections officials can work inside the system to threaten fair elections. That being the case, I don’t mind more oversight and stricter procedures mandated by state lawmakers who are the duly elected representatives of the people. Especially when Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution gives primary responsibility for elections to state legislatures. Moreover, it’s been reported that local and state elections officials are secretly meeting with Democrat funders and left-wing organizations to discuss future elections - no Republicans allowed. What’s that about? This is all from government documents and can’t be denied.
So, when the Democrat propaganda machine tries to convince you Republicans are working to unlawfully overturn the results of past elections and rig elections in the future, your first reaction should be ‘poppycock’, because that’s what it is.
6/28/22 - A Break in the Clouds in Noncitizen Voting
The New York Supreme Court struck down the New York City law which gave noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections. Only citizens can vote under the state’s constitution and statutory law, the court ruled.
There’s other good news on this subject, lately. Arizona passed a law requiring its Secretary of State to ask the federal Election Assistance Commission to include citizenship on the federal voter registration form for the state. The new law also requires county officials to check voter rolls against several databases to ensure residency and citizenship. Texas restarted its program to ask registered voters to confirm their citizenship last December. By January, 12,000 potential noncitizens on the rolls had been identified and 2,000 had been removed. A citizenship audit in Georgia led to the investigation of 1,600 noncitizens for unlawfully attempting to register to vote. A proposed constitutional amendment to ban noncitizen voting in Ohio passed the legislature and will be put to the voters on the November ballot.
Now for the bad news. Noncitizens voted in the San Francisco school board recall election in February. Two cities in Vermont approved noncitizen voting and the issue goes to the Burlington city council for the third time.
The Left just won’t quit on this. Some have speculated the reason is the Democrats are opening the borders in order to turn hordes of illegal aliens into faithful Democrat voters, thereby creating a permanent political majority for the Democrats.
I don’t need to speculate about motive. The facts are bad enough. Noncitizen voting dilutes the votes of citizens and normalizes illegal immigration. It also attacks the idea of U.S. citizenship, the argument being nobody should aspire to be a citizen of such a horrible rotten country. So there you have it. Open borders policies, removing the citizenship question from the census, and noncitizen voting make sense only if you hate America and you’re trying to destroy it. You may want to accommodate noncitizens and bend over backwards to make them feel good, but you can’t tell me why noncitizen voting is good for us citizens. That’s your burden, to convince me noncitizen voting is good for us. That’s the issue as I see it. Otherwise, I’m not interested.
The value of American citizenship - it’s like that old Joni Mitchell song, “you don't know what you've got Till it's gone.” Thank your lucky stars you’re an American citizen or can follow a legal process to become one. American citizenship makes life better in so many ways. Stop taking it for granted. You might think about that when you’re enjoying your 4th of July weekend.
6/16/22 - Voting Machines Continue to Destroy Confidence in Our Elections
Recent stories about electronic voting machines don’t exactly inspire confidence.
We start in Georgia where a handcount in a county Democratic primary showed the machines were off by thousands of votes. The third-place candidate noticed the machines showed zero votes for her in most precincts. The hand recount showed this candidate, supposedly in third place, had actually received the most votes. The Secretary of State’s office admitted making programming mistakes that affected the machine results. How do you mess up so badly your machines can’t even count and are off by thousands of votes? And why should we have to rely on candidates - maybe if they’re lucky - finding mistakes in order to get accurate results in our elections? You might recall voting machines showed Biden with a 3,000 vote lead in Antrim County, Michigan in the 2020 election, but a hand recount showed Trump had actually carried the county by 3,700 votes, a machine-induced discrepancy of nearly 7,000 votes. There are also reports that machines in Georgia this year awarded votes to a candidate who was not even on the ballot in one race and showed zero votes for a candidate who actually got nearly half the votes in another race. Like I said, electronic voting machines do not exactly inspire confidence.
A county commission in New Mexico had so little confidence in their machines they just voted to get rid of them before the next election. An audit in New Mexico had found that Dominion Voting machines could fill in ballots all by themselves. The same thing was found in New York. A Dominion executive was caught on video in 2020 explaining to elections officials how to alter votes with Dominion machines and, further, that the machines cannot tell fake ballots from real ballots. Don’t forget: the first court-ordered forensic examination of a Dominion Voting machine in Antrim County, Michigan showed the machine deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat election officials could then fill in any way they want. Feeling confident yet?
You shouldn’t. A federal cybersecurity agency found nine vulnerabilities with Dominion voting machines allowing hackers to enter and install malicious code. While the agency said it had no evidence this has actually occurred in any election, it did find that, once the code was inserted in one machine, it could spread to all the machines in a jurisdiction.
There are federal standards electronic voting machines are supposed to meet but, according to one analysis, not a single voting system testing lab was accredited for the 2020 election and only two are accredited today. The logical conclusion is most places have no idea whether their machines meet federal standards or not.
Then these manufacturers have the nerve to claim their machines are proprietary and can’t be opened up for inspection. Elections are the public’s business, but it takes a court order to get inside these machines. The black box lack of transparency alone is reason enough not to trust these machines, especially when it’s not disputed the same technology has been used to steal elections in Venezuela.
In French presidential elections, voters cast paper ballots that are counted by hand. There’s no possibility machines will all magically stop counting in key places in the middle of the night with the results the next morning the opposite of what they had been the night before. It’s hard to argue with counting paper ballots by hand instead of machine. It’s looking like that’s what it will take to restore confidence in our elections in this country.
6/15/22 - Election Fraud: Turn Over the Rocks and Watch the Bugs Scurry Underneath
A flood of new stories shows we have widespread problems with our elections. Let’s start with the individual cases:
A former Congressman pled guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for the Democrats in Pennsylvania elections from 2014 to 2018. A Republican councilwoman in New York pled guilty to submitting multiple absentee ballots in her reelection bid last year. A Democrat County Supervisor was indicted on 82 counts of false statements, procedural violations, forgery, and more in connection with an absentee ballot scheme in Virginia. Three women pled guilty to illegal ballot harvesting for the Democrats in Arizona in the 2020 primary election.
A city councilman in L.A. County and five others were charged with election fraud after arranging for nonresidents to vote in the city council election last year. A judge threw out the election results and declared the councilman’s opponent the winner in the race by three votes. So, yes, detecting election fraud can change the outcome of elections, despite what the Democrats claim.
These individual cases are just the tip of the iceberg of what’s wrong with our elections.
A legal foundation found more than 8,000 people are registered twice or more on New Jersey’s voter rolls. One voter appears on the rolls six times!
The citizens group amassing the evidence for the documentary ‘2000 Mules’ told Arizona’s lawmakers mules inserted ballots into drop boxes in the state an average of 21 times during the 2020 election.
How is such ballot trafficking possible? The group noted the problem starts with bloated voter rolls, which make fraud possible when ballots are mass-mailed to everyone on the rolls, including dead voters, people who have left the state, students who vote elsewhere, ballots sent to vacant lots, etc. That leaves a lot of ballots floating around out there that can be collected in apartment buildings and elsewhere, then cast illegally. See the problem?
A whistleblower told the filmmakers things are so bad in one Arizona town that voters are coerced into showing their ballots to controllers who demand they vote a certain way. People who want to run against the local machine are told they will be shot.
Another citizens group obtained official records showing 20,000 mail ballots were received after the legal deadline in Maricopa County, Arizona, enough to change the 2020 election results.
A citizen investigation based on government records found 36 percent of voter registrations in East Lansing, Michigan are inaccurate and 21 percent of ineligible voters cast ballots. Fifty ballots still get sent to a street that no longer exists. More than 1,700 votes were cast from dorms that were closed due to the pandemic at Michigan State University. Makes you wonder about other college towns, doesn’t it?
Another citizen investigation in Michigan led a Detroit official to admit ballots were received in the middle of the night in the 2020 election. He only admitted to 16,000 ballots arriving, but Michigan added 149,000 votes - 94 percent for Biden - the next morning. Nobody has explained where those votes came from. There is no good explanation.
Voters in Wisconsin are suing five cities in the state over the unlawful use of unmanned drop boxes in elections. The drop boxes, it is believed, are part of a thinly disguised, privately funded get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats run by government officials.
A citizens group in Georgia found 72 counties illegally destroyed drop box video surveillance tapes involving more than 180,000 ballots for the 2020 election. The group also found 56 counties illegally destroyed their electronic voting machine ballot images for the 2020 election in violation of state and federal requirements such records be preserved for at least 22 months.
Finally, a sheriff in Michigan is suing the Secretary of State, the state Attorney General, and the state police for interfering with his investigation into election fraud in the 2020 election. The sheriff alleges state officials confiscated documents, harassed his deputies, intimidated witnesses, and whisked away voting machines so they could not be examined. This should get interesting, because the sheriff has constitutional law enforcement powers independent of state officials.
Citizens and advocacy groups on the political Right are being criticized for taking an interest in election integrity. We’re being told we’re imagining things and being too aggressive. Our critics say the most ridiculous things like ‘there is no voter fraud’ and educating law enforcement on how to identify election fraud is somehow beyond the pale.
If we’re successful, we will return to free and fair elections in this country. If you’ve got a problem with that, I’ve got a problem with you.
5/13/22 - Biden Channeling Bismarck in Buying Votes
19th-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was very explicit about why he created the modern welfare state - to buy votes. Joe Biden is channeling Bismarck and attempting to do the same, as we can see from an executive order Biden issued in March.
The order directs government benefits agencies to submit plans to promote voter registration and turnout to help Democrats. If the Biden administration didn’t believe this would overwhelmingly benefit Democrats, they wouldn’t be doing it, would they? This is the new Zuckerbucks - a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats - except it will be done with government agencies and money instead of private funds. Call them ‘Bidenbucks’.
The order lines up with the recommendations of the far-Left activist group Demos. Two people from Demos are now in the White House.
The Biden administration won’t reveal the details of the agencies’ voter registration plans. What’s that about? What are they hiding? What don’t they want people to know about what they’re up to? Activist groups are using the Freedom of Information Act to attempt to find out.
This is what we know so far:
The order instructs agencies to use all means at their disposal to “engage with the public ... about how to register to vote, how to request a vote-by-mail ballot, and how to cast a ballot in upcoming elections....” HUD will conduct voter registration drives at public housing projects. HHS will launch a new voting access hub. The Agriculture Department will be looking for new voters in the food stamp program. Jailers will fish for new votes in federal prisons. The order pushes vote by mail which the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission noted 17 years ago is notoriously insecure. The order allows agencies to enlist the aid of outside third-party organizations, which you can take to mean Democrat activist groups working to boost Democrat turnout in key areas, just like what happened with Zuckerbucks in the 2020 election. Zuckerbucks, overwhelmingly, went to Democrat strongholds. In addition, the order pushes agencies to get their own employees out to vote - reliably Democrat - and to volunteer to work on elections - again, to help Democrats.
Since when is voter registration and turnout the business of the federal government? You can’t find boosting voter registration and turnout in agency mission statements.
On top of all this, Joe Biden’s budget proposal is asking for 15 billion more Bidenbucks to assist local election officials and goose the U.S. Postal Service to better accommodate voting-by-mail. This is Zuckerbucks all over again, except with government grants and 30 times as much money.
Some Republicans are trying to figure out how to fight all this. Nine House Republicans sent a letter to the White House demanding answers about the executive order’s constitutionality and statutory authority. Defunding the executive order if Republicans take back Congress and various legal theories are also under consideration.
So imagine if every person who receives food stamps, housing, Medicaid, and other government benefits registers to vote. Everyone has a right to vote, that’s not the issue. The federal government should not be putting its thumb on the scale in favor of one political party at the expense of all others. More importantly, as has been observed since ancient times, democracy ends when people discover they can vote themselves the Treasury - more votes leading to more government benefits to buy more votes in an endless cycle until the current system is destroyed. Joe Biden, and Bismarck before him, may not have realized this before issuing the executive order and ginning up the welfare state, but it’s that old saying, ‘It’s OK to be piggy, but hogs go to slaughter.’
5/12/22 - More Questions Arise About Electronic Voting Machines
There are two documentaries out now about the 2020 election you really should watch. The one getting all the attention is 2000 Mules which grossed over $1 million in its first 12 hours on Rumble. It presents cellphone geotracking evidence establishing an organized effort to stuff ballot dropboxes in the middle of the night in key swing states in the 2020 election. Such ballot harvesting is illegal in Georgia and several other states. See the movie, read the so-called fact-checkers and their critics, and decide for yourself whether the evidence presented persuades you this activity was enough by itself to change the outcome of the 2020 election. The other documentary is Rigged which discusses how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats in several key cities in the 2020 election, another Democrat dirty trick.
But, today, I want to talk to you about electronic voting machines because more investigations have been completed and the story just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
You might recall the results of the first court-ordered forensic examination of voting machines which took place in Antrim County, Michigan. The examination found the machines deliberately generated a 68 percent error rate right off the bat elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. A later forensic report found an algorithm that was used to shift votes in the 2020 election and 66,000 ballots not associated with registered voters recorded in nine counties. In addition, a machine was discovered to have a modem installed on its motherboard allowing the machine to connect to the Internet without wires. The same equipment is used in eight Michigan counties.
The scene shifted to Colorado in March when an examination of machine ballot images in Mesa County showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling a machine to essentially keep two sets of books. Moreover, the report found extensive destruction of machine logfiles which are critical to detecting intrusions, improper operations, and configuration changes that could alter the actual vote count. The independent examiners concluded “the machine secretly manipulated ballot data and destroyed critical records.” “[T]housands of ballots that had already been counted were secretly re-processed inside the voting machine, undetected by election officials.” The officials could no longer see the original results, only the changed results. The machine wirelessly connected to the Internet, which means it could be hacked from anywhere in the world. The manufacturer and the very partisan Democrat Colorado Secretary of State destroyed all the data on the hard drive despite federal law requiring it be preserved for 22 months. [More here.]
The questions don’t stop in Colorado and Michigan. In April, Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Election Commission admitted to Congress she put her name on a legal pleading alleging that the machines used in Georgia in 2018 were switching votes illegally from one candidate to another. The pleading was filed in support of Stacey Abrams’ claim the gubernatorial election was stolen from her. After Trump claimed machine irregularities cost him the 2020 election, the allegations about machine vote-switching in 2018 were removed from the pleading.
Finally, a U.S. Election Commission investigation into a municipal election in Tennessee in 2021 found the number of ballots tabulated by the machines did not match the number of ballots scanned due to the way the machines were programmed. This was attributed to an error in the software code, but this begs the question of how the machines could be officially certified for use in elections with erroneous code and such obviously erroneous results.
We’ve been assured 2020 was the most secure election ever. We’ve been told there’s nothing to see here and to just move along. You can trust us and you can trust the machines. Sorry, not good enough. It’s not disputed this machine technology was used to steal elections in Venezuela. A machine software company CEO admitted it. All of the questions about electronic voting machines in the U.S. need to be answered, not shouted down.
I’ve said previously, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a new bag of tricks. It looks like they’re on their way to getting one and, tomorrow, I will tell you more about it.
Democrat-friendly media outlets are working overtime to discredit all efforts to achieve free and fair elections and to smear anyone involved in election integrity efforts. One of many such pathetic articles appeared in The Guardian, the left-wing British publication with a U.S. presence. The article drives the phony narrative that poll-watching and training for election integrity activists amounts to voter intimidation and is to be condemned.
The article specifically names Tim Meisburger, a member of my activist network devoted to achieving free and fair elections. Tim has spent 30 years observing overseas elections, culminating in his appointment as Director of the Center for Democracy Rights and Governance for the federal agency USAID. Tim is currently Director of the America Project’s election integrity program. The Guardian never asked him for his side of the story, so he wrote a letter to the editor demolishing the article, a letter which the Guardian has yet to publish. In the letter, Tim wrote:
This article is littered with “scare quotes”; a rhetorical device and cliché whose overuse reflects poorly on the professionalism of the author, and competence of his editor. Although this article is listed under “US news”, it is immediately clear that it is an opinion piece....
Early in the article Peter Stone ... plays the “Hitler” card, suggesting our leadership is pushing a “big lie”; a pejorative the left uses to refer to the opinion shared by many (according to recent polls, more than half of all Americans, including 30% of Democrats) that the 2020 election may have been affected by fraud....
As election and democracy professionals know, you cannot judge the legitimacy of an election by looking solely at what happens on election day, as many events can occur well before election day that affect the integrity of the election process....
... [U]ndisputed examples of incidents or programs that might give one cause to doubt the democratic legitimacy of the election include:
- Coordinated suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election
- Introduction of many new election procedures as a response to COVID 19 that universally weakened the security of the election process
- Widespread use of insecure mail-in ballots and drop boxes, paid for in many cases by donations from a partisan billionaire.
- The use of state officials and resources to turn out voters in predominately Democratic areas, again paid for by a partisan billionaire.
- Ballot mules geo-tracked and videoed collecting ballots from partisan organizations and then stuffing said ballots in drop boxes
- Observers being prevented (on video) from observing counting processes
- Poll workers (on video) sending observers home and stuffing ballot boxes in the middle of the night
- The suspiciously coordinated suspension of counting in battleground states, followed by markedly different results when counting is resumed
These and other incidents may not be enough to sway Peter, but they are certainly enough to create reasonable doubt for many people. For me, as an election professional, the prevention of effective observation alone is enough to declare that the integrity of the election cannot be verified; and if we were overseas monitoring an election in a developing country and saw that, we would condemn the process and call for new elections....
The letter goes on from there and includes the inconvenient fact Meisburger left USAID at the end of President Trump’s term, not under a “cloud” as the article baselessly claimed.
That’s the rebuttal. Let’s see if the Guardian prints it. Don’t hold your breath. Open and honest debate, any more than free and fair elections, is not how the Democrats roll.
7/20/22 - Both Sides Raising the Stakes in Election Process
Georgia prosecutors are investigating all 16 Trump alternate electors in the 2020 election for alleged subversion of the Electoral College. Critics say the alternate electors were following the established constitutional process for challenging disputed elections.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are ramping up an effort to commandeer the election machinery by getting Democrats voted in as elections officials all across the country. This is a new $80 million effort and it’s patterned after George Soros’ multi-million effort to get left-wing Secretaries of State and out-of-control progressive prosecutors who won’t prosecute into office. The new effort is called ‘Clerk Work’ and it’s being spearheaded by the Run for Something PAC headed by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. The $80 million is coming from a Hillary Clinton-affiliated (c)(4), Chan Zuckerberg, LinkedIn, ActBlue, and others. This follows another recently announced $80 million Democrat effort - the Alliance for Election Excellence - to schmooze local elections officials and give them ‘advice’. One of the participants - the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life - teaches elections officials how to conspire with each other and the media. Which could explain the recent spate of stories about how elections officials feel, oh so threatened by those mean Republicans.
But Team Red is also raising the stakes in the election process. It was just announced a Constitutional Sheriffs association is teaming up with True the Vote to investigate election fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election and future elections. Obama’s IRS couldn’t kill True the Vote and the organization is fresh off a stunning success with its ‘2000 Mules’ documentary showing extensive ballot trafficking occurring at COVID-era drop boxes. Democrats LOVE those drop boxes and are trying to make them permanent, and now we know why.
The sheriffs’ initiative is raising money so law enforcement will have the resources to conduct surveillance of drop boxes, use artificial intelligence to analyze drop box video, and set up hotlines to report suspicious activity at drop boxes and polling places. The Democrats are freaking out at the prospect elections just might become more secure. You should read the hysterical Reuters article on the sheriff’s initiative. If you didn’t know any better, you would come away believing the sky is falling. Reuters is a hopelessly left-wing arm of the Democrat Party posing as honest brokers of the news. They are anything but.
Team Red is continuing to enjoy success in getting common-sense election reforms adopted at the state level. Missouri’s Governor recently signed a bill banning drop boxes and requiring voter ID which has been widely upheld in the courts. Even Stacey Abrams will tell you voter ID laws are not racist. The Democrats have lost the voter ID argument. It’s all over but the shouting and, boy, do they continue to shout. Missouri’s new law also stops indiscriminate mail-in voting and gets rid of electronic voting machines in 2024, requiring them to be ‘air-gapped’ from the Internet in the meantime. This is a great victory for election integrity.
In case you’re one of the few Americans remaining who still believe the 2020 elections were the ‘most secure’ ever, have I got news for you. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the use of drop boxes in the 2020 election was illegal and candidates are calling for the state’s 2020 election results to be decertified as a result. In Arizona, newly released video shows ballot mules forging signatures on ballot envelopes. Federal authorities have confirmed two Iranian nationals hacked into a state computer election system in the 2020 election. There was illegal ballot harvesting in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, not to mention dirty voter rolls, nursing home fraud, and over a dozen more documented problems with the 2020 election. None of this can seriously be disputed.
No wonder people are up in arms and demanding election integrity. Citizen efforts to clean up the voter rolls are underway in Michigan, Maryland, and elsewhere. Recent articles from Democrat-controlled media are howling about election integrity efforts from professional paid groups on the Right, but they miss the mark. It’s the grassroots efforts that will eventually return us to free and fair elections. Smear us all you want, but we know we’re right, and we’re not going away. So, get over it. Your days of cheating are coming to an end.
7/6/22 - Democrats Crank Up Propaganda Machine on Elections
You need to be aware the Democrats’ propaganda machine is cranked up to ‘hi’ on elections. They are mischaracterizing just about everything having to do with elections these days.
Let’s start with the claim Donald Trump tried to ‘overturn the election’ and is, therefore a ‘threat to democracy’. I say he pursued legal challenges under the constitutionally-prescribed process for contesting election results, nothing more. Isn’t that what you would do if you thought an election was stolen from you?
Under our system, which has been called “messy” and “deficient”, legal challenges are brought under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution having to do with the appointment of electors to the Electoral College. It is possible for rival sets of electors to be sent to Washington if state governors and legislatures don’t agree on the slate. The procedures go on from there to provide for challenges in the U.S. House and Senate to exclude electors from the Electoral College vote count. There were dueling electors in the contested election of 1876 and, in a challenge brought by Democrats, in Hawaii in 1960. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter led a challenge to Trump electors in 2016. Nobody accused the Democrats of trying to ‘overturn the election’ in those instances, did they? But that’s the propaganda we’re getting from the Democrats now and it’s escalated to the point where the Biden Justice Department is investigating Republicans involved in efforts to send alternate electors to Congress in the 2020 election. Trump forces also went to court and won on the merits in 22 out of 39 lawsuits brought contesting various aspects of that election.
So what, exactly, did Trump do? He pursued possibilities for alternate electors - just like Democrats before him - and brought cases in court, many of which he won. That’s it. No martial law, no calling out the army, nothing beyond legal processes. Democrats are twisting his efforts to convince you his efforts are something they are not.
Next, we turn to the claim that 2020 ‘election deniers’ are spreading ‘misinformation’ and pose a threat to future elections. The propaganda on this is very thin, turning quickly to reform efforts to improve future election integrity. The ‘election denier’ smear is intended to discredit legitimate efforts to enact voter ID laws which are routinely upheld by courts, curb the use of insecure mail-in voting which Democrat Jimmy Carter recognized is a problem, and get rid of things like dropboxes which only came in because of COVID but the Democrats have succeeded in making permanent in many states. If working for free and fair elections in the future is ‘election denial’, I’ll eat my hat.
The latest mischaracterization came when the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case testing the power of state legislatures to make laws regarding elections. To hear Democrats tell it, the conservative Supreme Court is poised to give unchecked power to state legislatures to shut out state governors and courts, favor their own party, and undermine democracy. You have to remember that Democrat elections officials approved dropboxes and mail-in voting in 2020, invoking emergency powers in the pandemic to do so, without permission from state lawmakers. If anyone is a threat to democracy in this situation, it’s unelected bureaucrats who worked overtime to help the Democrats 2020, not the duly elected state lawmakers. Moreover, a new government report shows how elections officials can work inside the system to threaten fair elections. That being the case, I don’t mind more oversight and stricter procedures mandated by state lawmakers who are the duly elected representatives of the people. Especially when Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution gives primary responsibility for elections to state legislatures. Moreover, it’s been reported that local and state elections officials are secretly meeting with Democrat funders and left-wing organizations to discuss future elections - no Republicans allowed. What’s that about? This is all from government documents and can’t be denied.
So, when the Democrat propaganda machine tries to convince you Republicans are working to unlawfully overturn the results of past elections and rig elections in the future, your first reaction should be ‘poppycock’, because that’s what it is.
6/28/22 - A Break in the Clouds in Noncitizen Voting
The New York Supreme Court struck down the New York City law which gave noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections. Only citizens can vote under the state’s constitution and statutory law, the court ruled.
There’s other good news on this subject, lately. Arizona passed a law requiring its Secretary of State to ask the federal Election Assistance Commission to include citizenship on the federal voter registration form for the state. The new law also requires county officials to check voter rolls against several databases to ensure residency and citizenship. Texas restarted its program to ask registered voters to confirm their citizenship last December. By January, 12,000 potential noncitizens on the rolls had been identified and 2,000 had been removed. A citizenship audit in Georgia led to the investigation of 1,600 noncitizens for unlawfully attempting to register to vote. A proposed constitutional amendment to ban noncitizen voting in Ohio passed the legislature and will be put to the voters on the November ballot.
Now for the bad news. Noncitizens voted in the San Francisco school board recall election in February. Two cities in Vermont approved noncitizen voting and the issue goes to the Burlington city council for the third time.
The Left just won’t quit on this. Some have speculated the reason is the Democrats are opening the borders in order to turn hordes of illegal aliens into faithful Democrat voters, thereby creating a permanent political majority for the Democrats.
I don’t need to speculate about motive. The facts are bad enough. Noncitizen voting dilutes the votes of citizens and normalizes illegal immigration. It also attacks the idea of U.S. citizenship, the argument being nobody should aspire to be a citizen of such a horrible rotten country. So there you have it. Open borders policies, removing the citizenship question from the census, and noncitizen voting make sense only if you hate America and you’re trying to destroy it. You may want to accommodate noncitizens and bend over backwards to make them feel good, but you can’t tell me why noncitizen voting is good for us citizens. That’s your burden, to convince me noncitizen voting is good for us. That’s the issue as I see it. Otherwise, I’m not interested.
The value of American citizenship - it’s like that old Joni Mitchell song, “you don't know what you've got Till it's gone.” Thank your lucky stars you’re an American citizen or can follow a legal process to become one. American citizenship makes life better in so many ways. Stop taking it for granted. You might think about that when you’re enjoying your 4th of July weekend.
6/16/22 - Voting Machines Continue to Destroy Confidence in Our Elections
Recent stories about electronic voting machines don’t exactly inspire confidence.
We start in Georgia where a handcount in a county Democratic primary showed the machines were off by thousands of votes. The third-place candidate noticed the machines showed zero votes for her in most precincts. The hand recount showed this candidate, supposedly in third place, had actually received the most votes. The Secretary of State’s office admitted making programming mistakes that affected the machine results. How do you mess up so badly your machines can’t even count and are off by thousands of votes? And why should we have to rely on candidates - maybe if they’re lucky - finding mistakes in order to get accurate results in our elections? You might recall voting machines showed Biden with a 3,000 vote lead in Antrim County, Michigan in the 2020 election, but a hand recount showed Trump had actually carried the county by 3,700 votes, a machine-induced discrepancy of nearly 7,000 votes. There are also reports that machines in Georgia this year awarded votes to a candidate who was not even on the ballot in one race and showed zero votes for a candidate who actually got nearly half the votes in another race. Like I said, electronic voting machines do not exactly inspire confidence.
A county commission in New Mexico had so little confidence in their machines they just voted to get rid of them before the next election. An audit in New Mexico had found that Dominion Voting machines could fill in ballots all by themselves. The same thing was found in New York. A Dominion executive was caught on video in 2020 explaining to elections officials how to alter votes with Dominion machines and, further, that the machines cannot tell fake ballots from real ballots. Don’t forget: the first court-ordered forensic examination of a Dominion Voting machine in Antrim County, Michigan showed the machine deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat election officials could then fill in any way they want. Feeling confident yet?
You shouldn’t. A federal cybersecurity agency found nine vulnerabilities with Dominion voting machines allowing hackers to enter and install malicious code. While the agency said it had no evidence this has actually occurred in any election, it did find that, once the code was inserted in one machine, it could spread to all the machines in a jurisdiction.
There are federal standards electronic voting machines are supposed to meet but, according to one analysis, not a single voting system testing lab was accredited for the 2020 election and only two are accredited today. The logical conclusion is most places have no idea whether their machines meet federal standards or not.
Then these manufacturers have the nerve to claim their machines are proprietary and can’t be opened up for inspection. Elections are the public’s business, but it takes a court order to get inside these machines. The black box lack of transparency alone is reason enough not to trust these machines, especially when it’s not disputed the same technology has been used to steal elections in Venezuela.
In French presidential elections, voters cast paper ballots that are counted by hand. There’s no possibility machines will all magically stop counting in key places in the middle of the night with the results the next morning the opposite of what they had been the night before. It’s hard to argue with counting paper ballots by hand instead of machine. It’s looking like that’s what it will take to restore confidence in our elections in this country.
6/15/22 - Election Fraud: Turn Over the Rocks and Watch the Bugs Scurry Underneath
A flood of new stories shows we have widespread problems with our elections. Let’s start with the individual cases:
A former Congressman pled guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for the Democrats in Pennsylvania elections from 2014 to 2018. A Republican councilwoman in New York pled guilty to submitting multiple absentee ballots in her reelection bid last year. A Democrat County Supervisor was indicted on 82 counts of false statements, procedural violations, forgery, and more in connection with an absentee ballot scheme in Virginia. Three women pled guilty to illegal ballot harvesting for the Democrats in Arizona in the 2020 primary election.
A city councilman in L.A. County and five others were charged with election fraud after arranging for nonresidents to vote in the city council election last year. A judge threw out the election results and declared the councilman’s opponent the winner in the race by three votes. So, yes, detecting election fraud can change the outcome of elections, despite what the Democrats claim.
These individual cases are just the tip of the iceberg of what’s wrong with our elections.
A legal foundation found more than 8,000 people are registered twice or more on New Jersey’s voter rolls. One voter appears on the rolls six times!
The citizens group amassing the evidence for the documentary ‘2000 Mules’ told Arizona’s lawmakers mules inserted ballots into drop boxes in the state an average of 21 times during the 2020 election.
How is such ballot trafficking possible? The group noted the problem starts with bloated voter rolls, which make fraud possible when ballots are mass-mailed to everyone on the rolls, including dead voters, people who have left the state, students who vote elsewhere, ballots sent to vacant lots, etc. That leaves a lot of ballots floating around out there that can be collected in apartment buildings and elsewhere, then cast illegally. See the problem?
A whistleblower told the filmmakers things are so bad in one Arizona town that voters are coerced into showing their ballots to controllers who demand they vote a certain way. People who want to run against the local machine are told they will be shot.
Another citizens group obtained official records showing 20,000 mail ballots were received after the legal deadline in Maricopa County, Arizona, enough to change the 2020 election results.
A citizen investigation based on government records found 36 percent of voter registrations in East Lansing, Michigan are inaccurate and 21 percent of ineligible voters cast ballots. Fifty ballots still get sent to a street that no longer exists. More than 1,700 votes were cast from dorms that were closed due to the pandemic at Michigan State University. Makes you wonder about other college towns, doesn’t it?
Another citizen investigation in Michigan led a Detroit official to admit ballots were received in the middle of the night in the 2020 election. He only admitted to 16,000 ballots arriving, but Michigan added 149,000 votes - 94 percent for Biden - the next morning. Nobody has explained where those votes came from. There is no good explanation.
Voters in Wisconsin are suing five cities in the state over the unlawful use of unmanned drop boxes in elections. The drop boxes, it is believed, are part of a thinly disguised, privately funded get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats run by government officials.
A citizens group in Georgia found 72 counties illegally destroyed drop box video surveillance tapes involving more than 180,000 ballots for the 2020 election. The group also found 56 counties illegally destroyed their electronic voting machine ballot images for the 2020 election in violation of state and federal requirements such records be preserved for at least 22 months.
Finally, a sheriff in Michigan is suing the Secretary of State, the state Attorney General, and the state police for interfering with his investigation into election fraud in the 2020 election. The sheriff alleges state officials confiscated documents, harassed his deputies, intimidated witnesses, and whisked away voting machines so they could not be examined. This should get interesting, because the sheriff has constitutional law enforcement powers independent of state officials.
Citizens and advocacy groups on the political Right are being criticized for taking an interest in election integrity. We’re being told we’re imagining things and being too aggressive. Our critics say the most ridiculous things like ‘there is no voter fraud’ and educating law enforcement on how to identify election fraud is somehow beyond the pale.
If we’re successful, we will return to free and fair elections in this country. If you’ve got a problem with that, I’ve got a problem with you.
5/13/22 - Biden Channeling Bismarck in Buying Votes
19th-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was very explicit about why he created the modern welfare state - to buy votes. Joe Biden is channeling Bismarck and attempting to do the same, as we can see from an executive order Biden issued in March.
The order directs government benefits agencies to submit plans to promote voter registration and turnout to help Democrats. If the Biden administration didn’t believe this would overwhelmingly benefit Democrats, they wouldn’t be doing it, would they? This is the new Zuckerbucks - a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats - except it will be done with government agencies and money instead of private funds. Call them ‘Bidenbucks’.
The order lines up with the recommendations of the far-Left activist group Demos. Two people from Demos are now in the White House.
The Biden administration won’t reveal the details of the agencies’ voter registration plans. What’s that about? What are they hiding? What don’t they want people to know about what they’re up to? Activist groups are using the Freedom of Information Act to attempt to find out.
This is what we know so far:
The order instructs agencies to use all means at their disposal to “engage with the public ... about how to register to vote, how to request a vote-by-mail ballot, and how to cast a ballot in upcoming elections....” HUD will conduct voter registration drives at public housing projects. HHS will launch a new voting access hub. The Agriculture Department will be looking for new voters in the food stamp program. Jailers will fish for new votes in federal prisons. The order pushes vote by mail which the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission noted 17 years ago is notoriously insecure. The order allows agencies to enlist the aid of outside third-party organizations, which you can take to mean Democrat activist groups working to boost Democrat turnout in key areas, just like what happened with Zuckerbucks in the 2020 election. Zuckerbucks, overwhelmingly, went to Democrat strongholds. In addition, the order pushes agencies to get their own employees out to vote - reliably Democrat - and to volunteer to work on elections - again, to help Democrats.
Since when is voter registration and turnout the business of the federal government? You can’t find boosting voter registration and turnout in agency mission statements.
On top of all this, Joe Biden’s budget proposal is asking for 15 billion more Bidenbucks to assist local election officials and goose the U.S. Postal Service to better accommodate voting-by-mail. This is Zuckerbucks all over again, except with government grants and 30 times as much money.
Some Republicans are trying to figure out how to fight all this. Nine House Republicans sent a letter to the White House demanding answers about the executive order’s constitutionality and statutory authority. Defunding the executive order if Republicans take back Congress and various legal theories are also under consideration.
So imagine if every person who receives food stamps, housing, Medicaid, and other government benefits registers to vote. Everyone has a right to vote, that’s not the issue. The federal government should not be putting its thumb on the scale in favor of one political party at the expense of all others. More importantly, as has been observed since ancient times, democracy ends when people discover they can vote themselves the Treasury - more votes leading to more government benefits to buy more votes in an endless cycle until the current system is destroyed. Joe Biden, and Bismarck before him, may not have realized this before issuing the executive order and ginning up the welfare state, but it’s that old saying, ‘It’s OK to be piggy, but hogs go to slaughter.’
5/12/22 - More Questions Arise About Electronic Voting Machines
There are two documentaries out now about the 2020 election you really should watch. The one getting all the attention is 2000 Mules which grossed over $1 million in its first 12 hours on Rumble. It presents cellphone geotracking evidence establishing an organized effort to stuff ballot dropboxes in the middle of the night in key swing states in the 2020 election. Such ballot harvesting is illegal in Georgia and several other states. See the movie, read the so-called fact-checkers and their critics, and decide for yourself whether the evidence presented persuades you this activity was enough by itself to change the outcome of the 2020 election. The other documentary is Rigged which discusses how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats in several key cities in the 2020 election, another Democrat dirty trick.
But, today, I want to talk to you about electronic voting machines because more investigations have been completed and the story just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
You might recall the results of the first court-ordered forensic examination of voting machines which took place in Antrim County, Michigan. The examination found the machines deliberately generated a 68 percent error rate right off the bat elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. A later forensic report found an algorithm that was used to shift votes in the 2020 election and 66,000 ballots not associated with registered voters recorded in nine counties. In addition, a machine was discovered to have a modem installed on its motherboard allowing the machine to connect to the Internet without wires. The same equipment is used in eight Michigan counties.
The scene shifted to Colorado in March when an examination of machine ballot images in Mesa County showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling a machine to essentially keep two sets of books. Moreover, the report found extensive destruction of machine logfiles which are critical to detecting intrusions, improper operations, and configuration changes that could alter the actual vote count. The independent examiners concluded “the machine secretly manipulated ballot data and destroyed critical records.” “[T]housands of ballots that had already been counted were secretly re-processed inside the voting machine, undetected by election officials.” The officials could no longer see the original results, only the changed results. The machine wirelessly connected to the Internet, which means it could be hacked from anywhere in the world. The manufacturer and the very partisan Democrat Colorado Secretary of State destroyed all the data on the hard drive despite federal law requiring it be preserved for 22 months. [More here.]
The questions don’t stop in Colorado and Michigan. In April, Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Election Commission admitted to Congress she put her name on a legal pleading alleging that the machines used in Georgia in 2018 were switching votes illegally from one candidate to another. The pleading was filed in support of Stacey Abrams’ claim the gubernatorial election was stolen from her. After Trump claimed machine irregularities cost him the 2020 election, the allegations about machine vote-switching in 2018 were removed from the pleading.
Finally, a U.S. Election Commission investigation into a municipal election in Tennessee in 2021 found the number of ballots tabulated by the machines did not match the number of ballots scanned due to the way the machines were programmed. This was attributed to an error in the software code, but this begs the question of how the machines could be officially certified for use in elections with erroneous code and such obviously erroneous results.
We’ve been assured 2020 was the most secure election ever. We’ve been told there’s nothing to see here and to just move along. You can trust us and you can trust the machines. Sorry, not good enough. It’s not disputed this machine technology was used to steal elections in Venezuela. A machine software company CEO admitted it. All of the questions about electronic voting machines in the U.S. need to be answered, not shouted down.
I’ve said previously, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a new bag of tricks. It looks like they’re on their way to getting one and, tomorrow, I will tell you more about it.
4/6/22 - How to Steal an Election
Today, I’m going to tell you how to steal an election. Everything I’m about to tell you comes from recent documented findings about problems with the 2020 elections.
If I wanted to steal an election, one thing I would do is engage in ballot harvesting, which is illegal in many places. A citizens’ group found, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, perhaps 7 percent of ballots put in drop boxes were in batches, not single ballots, and therefore illegal. If you extrapolate this out across the country, it could have been 5 million illegal votes in the 2020 election. A Wisconsin state senator filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city of Racine is currently intentionally ignoring the law and court rulings by allowing people to return ballots for other voters. The problem with ballot harvesting is you don’t know the circumstances under which the ballots were obtained, perhaps fraudulently or under pressure, or maybe they are completely made up, you just don’t know. Doesn’t sound like a free and fair election to me.
In fact, there’s surveillance video and cellphone evidence in Georgia of 2,000 mules dumping multiple ballots into drop boxes while wearing latex gloves and disguises in 2020. Not only that, they stopped off at Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and Democrat offices between runs where, it is thought, they picked up the ballots. Does that sound like a free and fair election to you? Before you answer ‘yes’, you should know an official investigation is ongoing.
Another thing I would do to steal an election is make sure the voter rolls were as dirty as possible. There’s been an awful lot of resistance in recent years from elections officials who just do not want to clean up the rolls. For example, 60,000 voters on North Carolina’s rolls are dead, registered twice, or enrolled in another state, according to a new public interest law firm report. If you’re going to steal an election, you need dirty voter rolls to supply names of real registered voters who haven’t voted to which to assign all the fake votes you generate, so things tally and look kosher at the end.
Speaking of fake votes, remember the truck driver who courageously stepped forward and told the nation he had hauled 288,000 suspicious ballots from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election? The U.S. Postal Service still refuses to release its investigative report on the matter. What’s up with that?
If I wanted to steal an election, I’d get a billionaire friend of mine to dump $400 million into thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drives for Democrats. Mark Zuckerberg did that in the 2020 election, with just enough money going to Republican areas so that the people involved in the effort could think they had covered themselves. But the chickens are coming home to roost. Milwaukee city officials have just been accused of election bribery in accepting grants from a Mark Zuckerberg-funded organization, according to a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The Zuckerbucks story isn’t over, not by a long shot.
Another thing I would do is rig the machines. You might recall that a court-ordered forensic audit of electronic voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan found the machines deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat. What’s that about? More recently, an examination of machine ballot images in Colorado showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling the machines to essentially keep two sets of books. The examiners further found the numbers did not add up and the log files were overwritten, not accidentally but extensively. No wonder people want to go back to paper ballots and laws have been passed in some states to keep the machines from connecting to the Internet.
There’s lots more I would do: count absentee ballots anyway even though the signatures don’t match what’s on file; get felons to vote illegally; and get school administrators to sweep student records to find more votes for Democrat candidates.
After I did all these things, I would turn around and claim we just had the most secure election ever. The bigger the lie, the more believable it is, that’s Propaganda 101.
All kidding aside, we on the grassroots political Right are not going to let the 2020 election go. We are not going to just ‘move along’. We want all the documented problems run to ground and fixed. The way I hear the story, $20 to $30 million dollars has come from big donors on the Right to fix these problems. That’s buying an awful lot of vigilance now and new efforts from the professional Right to ensure election integrity cross my desk several times a day. So, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a whole new bag of tricks. And we’re watching - closely - so good luck with that.
Today, I’m going to tell you how to steal an election. Everything I’m about to tell you comes from recent documented findings about problems with the 2020 elections.
If I wanted to steal an election, one thing I would do is engage in ballot harvesting, which is illegal in many places. A citizens’ group found, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, perhaps 7 percent of ballots put in drop boxes were in batches, not single ballots, and therefore illegal. If you extrapolate this out across the country, it could have been 5 million illegal votes in the 2020 election. A Wisconsin state senator filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city of Racine is currently intentionally ignoring the law and court rulings by allowing people to return ballots for other voters. The problem with ballot harvesting is you don’t know the circumstances under which the ballots were obtained, perhaps fraudulently or under pressure, or maybe they are completely made up, you just don’t know. Doesn’t sound like a free and fair election to me.
In fact, there’s surveillance video and cellphone evidence in Georgia of 2,000 mules dumping multiple ballots into drop boxes while wearing latex gloves and disguises in 2020. Not only that, they stopped off at Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and Democrat offices between runs where, it is thought, they picked up the ballots. Does that sound like a free and fair election to you? Before you answer ‘yes’, you should know an official investigation is ongoing.
Another thing I would do to steal an election is make sure the voter rolls were as dirty as possible. There’s been an awful lot of resistance in recent years from elections officials who just do not want to clean up the rolls. For example, 60,000 voters on North Carolina’s rolls are dead, registered twice, or enrolled in another state, according to a new public interest law firm report. If you’re going to steal an election, you need dirty voter rolls to supply names of real registered voters who haven’t voted to which to assign all the fake votes you generate, so things tally and look kosher at the end.
Speaking of fake votes, remember the truck driver who courageously stepped forward and told the nation he had hauled 288,000 suspicious ballots from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election? The U.S. Postal Service still refuses to release its investigative report on the matter. What’s up with that?
If I wanted to steal an election, I’d get a billionaire friend of mine to dump $400 million into thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drives for Democrats. Mark Zuckerberg did that in the 2020 election, with just enough money going to Republican areas so that the people involved in the effort could think they had covered themselves. But the chickens are coming home to roost. Milwaukee city officials have just been accused of election bribery in accepting grants from a Mark Zuckerberg-funded organization, according to a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The Zuckerbucks story isn’t over, not by a long shot.
Another thing I would do is rig the machines. You might recall that a court-ordered forensic audit of electronic voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan found the machines deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat. What’s that about? More recently, an examination of machine ballot images in Colorado showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling the machines to essentially keep two sets of books. The examiners further found the numbers did not add up and the log files were overwritten, not accidentally but extensively. No wonder people want to go back to paper ballots and laws have been passed in some states to keep the machines from connecting to the Internet.
There’s lots more I would do: count absentee ballots anyway even though the signatures don’t match what’s on file; get felons to vote illegally; and get school administrators to sweep student records to find more votes for Democrat candidates.
After I did all these things, I would turn around and claim we just had the most secure election ever. The bigger the lie, the more believable it is, that’s Propaganda 101.
All kidding aside, we on the grassroots political Right are not going to let the 2020 election go. We are not going to just ‘move along’. We want all the documented problems run to ground and fixed. The way I hear the story, $20 to $30 million dollars has come from big donors on the Right to fix these problems. That’s buying an awful lot of vigilance now and new efforts from the professional Right to ensure election integrity cross my desk several times a day. So, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a whole new bag of tricks. And we’re watching - closely - so good luck with that.
3/17/22 - The Problems with Our Elections Won’t Fix Themselves
Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos admitted there was widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election in a meeting yesterday, but claimed the state legislature does not have the power to decertify the results. “I think there was widespread fraud,” Vos said, “and I think we are going to see more and more data that comes out” as the investigation continues. The investigation in Wisconsin has already found potential illegality in the way elections officials directed private money to boost turnout in Democrat areas. The investigation also found signs of election fraud in nursing homes.
Meanwhile, lots of things have happened in recent weeks undermining claims the 2020 election was the fairest and most secure ever. Here is a sampling of stories indicating we still have a long way to go to get our election system back in order:
A citizens group in Georgia found election results in 2020 were electronically manipulated using a cloud computing scheme. An audit by the Georgia Secretary of State found more than 2,000 noncitizens tried to register to vote.
An Arizona woman pleaded guilty to ballot trafficking in the 2020 primary election. A Senate study in Arizona found that 200,000 mail ballots with invalid signatures were counted in 2020. The Arizona Republican Party sued Arizona’s Secretary of State to stop the unconstitutional use of drop boxes and no-excuse mail-in voting.
A Michigan elections official was charged with ballot tampering in the August 2020 primary election. A nursing home employee in Michigan was sent to jail for forging signatures of mentally disabled residents on absentee ballot applications. A lawsuit accuses Michigan’s Secretary of State of illegally using private money to increase Democrat turnout in the 2020 election.
A citizens group in Tennessee found chain of custody and other problems, and say elections officials are ignoring their complaints.
A state court ruled mail-in voting in Pennsylvania is unconstitutional because it was instituted by statute instead of an amendment to the state’s constitution. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated mail-in voting temporarily, pending further litigation.
A suit in Delaware alleges a statute allowing early voting violates the state’s constitution.
North Carolina removed 430,000 inactive voters from the rolls to settle a lawsuit. Out-of-date voter rolls are an issue all across the country, with elections officials resisting efforts to clean them up.
That’s enough for now, but know there are further reports around the country of foreigners hacking into state election systems, illegal ballot harvesting, illegal drop boxes, double-scanning of ballots, voter ID requirements being ignored, and more nursing home fraud, among other things.
What do Democrats do in the face of all these problems? They resist doing anything about them, like it was a religion or something. Illinois broke federal law by refusing to give a voter integrity group access to the state’s voter rolls, a federal court ruled. National Democrats are going after 111 Republican lawyers in 26 states who challenged various aspects of the 2020 election, despite the fact many challenges were successful. Meanwhile, the January 6th Committee is targeting Republicans who have donated money to election integrity efforts.
Given this odd behavior, you’d think Democrats are trying to steal elections and intimidate anybody who tries to stop them. And you’d be right. So now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country. Let’s get these problems cleaned up, so we can get back to free and fair elections and have confidence in our election system once more.
Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos admitted there was widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election in a meeting yesterday, but claimed the state legislature does not have the power to decertify the results. “I think there was widespread fraud,” Vos said, “and I think we are going to see more and more data that comes out” as the investigation continues. The investigation in Wisconsin has already found potential illegality in the way elections officials directed private money to boost turnout in Democrat areas. The investigation also found signs of election fraud in nursing homes.
Meanwhile, lots of things have happened in recent weeks undermining claims the 2020 election was the fairest and most secure ever. Here is a sampling of stories indicating we still have a long way to go to get our election system back in order:
A citizens group in Georgia found election results in 2020 were electronically manipulated using a cloud computing scheme. An audit by the Georgia Secretary of State found more than 2,000 noncitizens tried to register to vote.
An Arizona woman pleaded guilty to ballot trafficking in the 2020 primary election. A Senate study in Arizona found that 200,000 mail ballots with invalid signatures were counted in 2020. The Arizona Republican Party sued Arizona’s Secretary of State to stop the unconstitutional use of drop boxes and no-excuse mail-in voting.
A Michigan elections official was charged with ballot tampering in the August 2020 primary election. A nursing home employee in Michigan was sent to jail for forging signatures of mentally disabled residents on absentee ballot applications. A lawsuit accuses Michigan’s Secretary of State of illegally using private money to increase Democrat turnout in the 2020 election.
A citizens group in Tennessee found chain of custody and other problems, and say elections officials are ignoring their complaints.
A state court ruled mail-in voting in Pennsylvania is unconstitutional because it was instituted by statute instead of an amendment to the state’s constitution. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated mail-in voting temporarily, pending further litigation.
A suit in Delaware alleges a statute allowing early voting violates the state’s constitution.
North Carolina removed 430,000 inactive voters from the rolls to settle a lawsuit. Out-of-date voter rolls are an issue all across the country, with elections officials resisting efforts to clean them up.
That’s enough for now, but know there are further reports around the country of foreigners hacking into state election systems, illegal ballot harvesting, illegal drop boxes, double-scanning of ballots, voter ID requirements being ignored, and more nursing home fraud, among other things.
What do Democrats do in the face of all these problems? They resist doing anything about them, like it was a religion or something. Illinois broke federal law by refusing to give a voter integrity group access to the state’s voter rolls, a federal court ruled. National Democrats are going after 111 Republican lawyers in 26 states who challenged various aspects of the 2020 election, despite the fact many challenges were successful. Meanwhile, the January 6th Committee is targeting Republicans who have donated money to election integrity efforts.
Given this odd behavior, you’d think Democrats are trying to steal elections and intimidate anybody who tries to stop them. And you’d be right. So now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country. Let’s get these problems cleaned up, so we can get back to free and fair elections and have confidence in our election system once more.
3/2/22 - Big Problems Documented in Wisconsin 2020 Election
A major new report on election fraud in Wisconsin is a complete rebuke to those who claimed the 2020 election was the fairest and most secure ever. The report found “numerous questionable and unlawful actions” by multiple actors. The investigation is from the official Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel. The lead investigator is a former state Supreme Court justice who advised the state legislature to “take a hard look” at decertifying the 2020 results that declared Joe Biden the winner.
According to the report, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg broke election bribery laws by funneling nearly $9 million to get-out-the-vote efforts in Democratic strongholds in the 2020 election. Zuckerberg funded the Center for Tech and Civic Life - CTCL - which gave out grants, supposedly for “safe and secure election administration”, but the money actually illicitly went to increasing turnout in “communities of color” in five heavily Democratic cities. CTCL also gave the cities money to locate ballot drop boxes in “targeted neighborhoods” in violation of state law. Election officials in those five cities broke the law by partisan campaigning and also by not treating all voters the same, a “bedrock principle” of election law.
The Democrats had nothing substantive to say in response to these allegations, merely calling the report a “clown show”. No, here’s the clown show: Democrats ignoring the evidence and giving every appearance of wanting to steal elections.
The Zuckerberg money worked as intended. The report also found 95 to 100 percent voter turnout in 91 nursing homes in the five Democrat-controlled cities which received Zuckerberg money. The Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes. I know, I’ve done the research. There are videotaped depositions in Wisconsin, now, of family members saying their senior loved ones are mentally incompetent and haven’t voted in years, meaning government-hired, so-called ‘navigators’ voted for them. Want to guess who they voted for?
Another Democrat said the Supreme Court justice was just dishing out “crazy conspiracy theory”, but this Democrat also failed to come to grips with any of the evidence. Just because you want to stick your head in the sand and ignore the evidence like an ostrich doesn’t mean the evidence is not there. Joe Biden said earlier this week Republicans are trying to keep black votes from counting at all, which may play to the crazy Democrat base but is crazy on its face.
Name-calling and hollow, empty rhetoric - this is all the Democrats have. They’re pathetic.
Democrats, you have a choice to make. Do you want to stand for democracy, like you keep saying you do? Or do you want to be corrupt gangsters who make war on democracy by stealing elections? If you can’t get your party to obey election law, I advise you to walk away.
A major new report on election fraud in Wisconsin is a complete rebuke to those who claimed the 2020 election was the fairest and most secure ever. The report found “numerous questionable and unlawful actions” by multiple actors. The investigation is from the official Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel. The lead investigator is a former state Supreme Court justice who advised the state legislature to “take a hard look” at decertifying the 2020 results that declared Joe Biden the winner.
According to the report, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg broke election bribery laws by funneling nearly $9 million to get-out-the-vote efforts in Democratic strongholds in the 2020 election. Zuckerberg funded the Center for Tech and Civic Life - CTCL - which gave out grants, supposedly for “safe and secure election administration”, but the money actually illicitly went to increasing turnout in “communities of color” in five heavily Democratic cities. CTCL also gave the cities money to locate ballot drop boxes in “targeted neighborhoods” in violation of state law. Election officials in those five cities broke the law by partisan campaigning and also by not treating all voters the same, a “bedrock principle” of election law.
The Democrats had nothing substantive to say in response to these allegations, merely calling the report a “clown show”. No, here’s the clown show: Democrats ignoring the evidence and giving every appearance of wanting to steal elections.
The Zuckerberg money worked as intended. The report also found 95 to 100 percent voter turnout in 91 nursing homes in the five Democrat-controlled cities which received Zuckerberg money. The Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes. I know, I’ve done the research. There are videotaped depositions in Wisconsin, now, of family members saying their senior loved ones are mentally incompetent and haven’t voted in years, meaning government-hired, so-called ‘navigators’ voted for them. Want to guess who they voted for?
Another Democrat said the Supreme Court justice was just dishing out “crazy conspiracy theory”, but this Democrat also failed to come to grips with any of the evidence. Just because you want to stick your head in the sand and ignore the evidence like an ostrich doesn’t mean the evidence is not there. Joe Biden said earlier this week Republicans are trying to keep black votes from counting at all, which may play to the crazy Democrat base but is crazy on its face.
Name-calling and hollow, empty rhetoric - this is all the Democrats have. They’re pathetic.
Democrats, you have a choice to make. Do you want to stand for democracy, like you keep saying you do? Or do you want to be corrupt gangsters who make war on democracy by stealing elections? If you can’t get your party to obey election law, I advise you to walk away.
2/16/22 - The Big Lie Is ‘There Is No Election Fraud’
Yesterday, 204 legislators from various states called for a 50-state election audit, decertification of results where indicated, and possible convening of the U.S. House of Representatives to reconsider the 2020 election. Even if you believe anyone still questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race is telling a Big Lie or tilting at windmills, there are plenty of reasons to conclude we have a long way to go before most Americans will agree our elections are free, fair, and honest.
Georgia authorities opened an investigation into illegal ballot harvesting in the 2020 and subsequent Senate run-off elections. This followed reports there are videos of hundreds of ballot harvesters dropping tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes in the middle of the night all across the state. A ballot harvester admitted being paid $45,000 to illegally stuff drop boxes with ballots under cover of darkness. Former Georgia Senator David Perdue sued Fulton County officials for scanning absentee ballots multiple times and other voting irregularities affecting the outcome of the 2020 election.
In Michigan, a watchdog group found thousands of unverified ballots were counted in Detroit and, further, election officials there intimidated and blocked Republican election observers from doing their jobs.
In Pennsylvania, whistleblower video showed government officials throwing ballots into a trash can, disposing of machine tapes, and discussing getting rid of electronic election equipment even though they knew it would be a felony. [watch video here] The information came in the context of a lawsuit that alleges thousands of ballots were shredded and the data accompanying the act was deliberately erased before it had to be released under a document request.
In Wisconsin, an investigation found the number of illegal votes cast in the 2020 election was greater than Joe Biden’s margin of victory. Lack of voter ID was among the problems cited. A state lawmaker presented the findings of another team that uncovered 1.5 million illegal voter registrations, 155,000 suspected fake voters, and 50,000 illegally cast ballots.
In Arizona, Verity Vote found there was no documented chain of custody for 740,000 ballots cast in Maricopa County. Also, files were deleted from the election server before being handed over to the state senate under a subpoena. People were caught in the act on video. In Pima County, a witness testified there were 6 times as many military ballots than usual. They lacked chain of custody and went 95 percent for one candidate. Similar testimony was given in Michigan and Georgia where suspicious military ballots all or nearly all went for Biden, suggesting organized fraud involving multiple states.
In Texas, the Secretary of State’s Phase One investigation found 700,000 invalid voter registrations were in place during the 2020 election, providing the vector for fraud to take place. The number included nearly 12,000 noncitizens, almost 450,000 dead voters still on the rolls, and over 200,000 duplicate registrations
As if all this were not enough, federal government data show 15 million mail ballots disappeared in the 2020 election. Who knows where they went, but surely many were sent to vacant lots or the wrong address. So here we have the deadly combination of mass mail balloting with voter rolls that haven’t been cleaned in years. What could go wrong?
These are only the most recent revelations. Half the country believes the 2020 election was stolen. Now you know some of the reasons why. And it doesn’t inspire confidence when you hear things like the Wisconsin Election Commission recently enacting a rule allowing local officials to write in required missing information on ballot envelopes, which surely must be contrary to state law or should be.
If you don’t want half the country believing future elections are stolen, you’re going to have to do better than all of this mess, way better. So stop yapping about the Big Lie and voter suppression and start worrying about the basics of free and fair elections so the rest of us don’t have to worry about you and whether you have evil intent.
Yesterday, 204 legislators from various states called for a 50-state election audit, decertification of results where indicated, and possible convening of the U.S. House of Representatives to reconsider the 2020 election. Even if you believe anyone still questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race is telling a Big Lie or tilting at windmills, there are plenty of reasons to conclude we have a long way to go before most Americans will agree our elections are free, fair, and honest.
Georgia authorities opened an investigation into illegal ballot harvesting in the 2020 and subsequent Senate run-off elections. This followed reports there are videos of hundreds of ballot harvesters dropping tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes in the middle of the night all across the state. A ballot harvester admitted being paid $45,000 to illegally stuff drop boxes with ballots under cover of darkness. Former Georgia Senator David Perdue sued Fulton County officials for scanning absentee ballots multiple times and other voting irregularities affecting the outcome of the 2020 election.
In Michigan, a watchdog group found thousands of unverified ballots were counted in Detroit and, further, election officials there intimidated and blocked Republican election observers from doing their jobs.
In Pennsylvania, whistleblower video showed government officials throwing ballots into a trash can, disposing of machine tapes, and discussing getting rid of electronic election equipment even though they knew it would be a felony. [watch video here] The information came in the context of a lawsuit that alleges thousands of ballots were shredded and the data accompanying the act was deliberately erased before it had to be released under a document request.
In Wisconsin, an investigation found the number of illegal votes cast in the 2020 election was greater than Joe Biden’s margin of victory. Lack of voter ID was among the problems cited. A state lawmaker presented the findings of another team that uncovered 1.5 million illegal voter registrations, 155,000 suspected fake voters, and 50,000 illegally cast ballots.
In Arizona, Verity Vote found there was no documented chain of custody for 740,000 ballots cast in Maricopa County. Also, files were deleted from the election server before being handed over to the state senate under a subpoena. People were caught in the act on video. In Pima County, a witness testified there were 6 times as many military ballots than usual. They lacked chain of custody and went 95 percent for one candidate. Similar testimony was given in Michigan and Georgia where suspicious military ballots all or nearly all went for Biden, suggesting organized fraud involving multiple states.
In Texas, the Secretary of State’s Phase One investigation found 700,000 invalid voter registrations were in place during the 2020 election, providing the vector for fraud to take place. The number included nearly 12,000 noncitizens, almost 450,000 dead voters still on the rolls, and over 200,000 duplicate registrations
As if all this were not enough, federal government data show 15 million mail ballots disappeared in the 2020 election. Who knows where they went, but surely many were sent to vacant lots or the wrong address. So here we have the deadly combination of mass mail balloting with voter rolls that haven’t been cleaned in years. What could go wrong?
These are only the most recent revelations. Half the country believes the 2020 election was stolen. Now you know some of the reasons why. And it doesn’t inspire confidence when you hear things like the Wisconsin Election Commission recently enacting a rule allowing local officials to write in required missing information on ballot envelopes, which surely must be contrary to state law or should be.
If you don’t want half the country believing future elections are stolen, you’re going to have to do better than all of this mess, way better. So stop yapping about the Big Lie and voter suppression and start worrying about the basics of free and fair elections so the rest of us don’t have to worry about you and whether you have evil intent.
1/11/22 - Joe Biden’s Crocodile Tears About Voting Rights
Joe Biden is in Atlanta today to shed crocodile tears about voting rights. Georgia is the place where Democrat ballot harvesters were caught on video illegally stuffing tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes across the state in the middle of the night in the 2020 and Senate runoff elections. One of them admitted being paid $45,000 for his illegal activity. So spare me the crocodile tears and phony rhetoric about voter suppression.
I can hear Joe Biden’s speech now:
January 6th was an insurrection even though nobody’s been charged with insurrection. Every day is January 6th now because the mean old Republicans want voter ID, which polls show most Americans including minorities support. The mean old Republicans and Donald Trump are a threat to democracy, even though it is we Democrats who are the true threat to democracy because we want illegal aliens to overrun the country, noncitizens to vote like we just got passed in New York City, and prosecutors to ignore duly elected state legislatures and refuse to prosecute crimes the legislatures enacted and duly elected governors signed into law. We need federal voting rights legislation to counteract the mean old Republicans’ voter suppression laws and we need it now. We have to break the filibuster rule to get it done, even though Chuck Schumer and myself have spoken glowingly about the filibuster in the past. Chuck even said getting rid of the filibuster would be ‘doomsday for democracy’. Forget we said all that; that was then, this is now. Upcoming elections will not be fair because the mean old Republicans are already conspiring to steal them and install fascist dictatorship forever, even though it’s we Democrats who harbor dreams of being in power to the end of time and will stop at nothing to steal elections to stay there. Even if we have to spin phony narratives about January 6th to get federal control over every election in the country from here on out. Forget the problems in the 2020 election; we’ve changed the subject, January 6th is all that matters now. We created those problems in 2020, but WE ARE THE SOLUTION.
The truth is the voting rights legislation the Democrats want is really a federal takeover of elections. They want to make it so that no state or locality can ever insist on voter ID again, no state can ever get rid of drop boxes, and no state can ever stop liberal billionaires from funding Democrat get-out-the-vote drives in the name of providing financial help for the official business of election administration. This is a recipe for mischief and disaster. It’s also unconstitutional. The Constitution gives most of the power to oversee elections to the states.
The Democrats call any questioning of the 2020 election ‘the big lie’. But there are lots of unanswered questions about what happened - Why did officials turn elections over to private liberal groups in Wisconsin? Why were Republican poll watchers thrown out of the vote counting center in Detroit? Why can’t we inspect the machines? Why is evidence being destroyed where investigations are taking place?
There are still plenty of problems with election integrity - voter ID not required in many places, dead people on the voter rolls, noncitizens registered and voting, loosey-goosey same-day registration, lack of signature verification on absentee ballots, the list goes on.
But here’s the biggest problem with the Democrats’ whole approach. I was at the Washington Monument on January 6th watching Trump speak. There were about a million people there that day to say they had no confidence in the 2020 election. A handful of ignoramuses broke the law that day at the Capitol Building. But if you federalize elections, as the Democrats want to do, you will guarantee lots of people will have no confidence in elections going forward. If you’re going to make it impossible through federal law to check voter ID, or clean the voter rolls, or get rid of drop boxes, elections will be less secure than ever and you will guarantee great masses of people will be deeply suspicious of the outcome of every election in the future. Institutionalize these things and every day will be January 6th, in the sense a sizeable portion of the electorate will have no confidence in our elections, whatsoever. Break the filibuster, pass this by the slimmest of majorities, and ram federal control over elections down our throats and see what you get. What you are attempting is horribly divisive. It will never be accepted by a strong majority of the American people and you will have no end of trouble. Efforts to reverse your takeover will never end. Now sit there with a straight face and tell me that will be good for our democracy.
Joe Biden is in Atlanta today to shed crocodile tears about voting rights. Georgia is the place where Democrat ballot harvesters were caught on video illegally stuffing tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes across the state in the middle of the night in the 2020 and Senate runoff elections. One of them admitted being paid $45,000 for his illegal activity. So spare me the crocodile tears and phony rhetoric about voter suppression.
I can hear Joe Biden’s speech now:
January 6th was an insurrection even though nobody’s been charged with insurrection. Every day is January 6th now because the mean old Republicans want voter ID, which polls show most Americans including minorities support. The mean old Republicans and Donald Trump are a threat to democracy, even though it is we Democrats who are the true threat to democracy because we want illegal aliens to overrun the country, noncitizens to vote like we just got passed in New York City, and prosecutors to ignore duly elected state legislatures and refuse to prosecute crimes the legislatures enacted and duly elected governors signed into law. We need federal voting rights legislation to counteract the mean old Republicans’ voter suppression laws and we need it now. We have to break the filibuster rule to get it done, even though Chuck Schumer and myself have spoken glowingly about the filibuster in the past. Chuck even said getting rid of the filibuster would be ‘doomsday for democracy’. Forget we said all that; that was then, this is now. Upcoming elections will not be fair because the mean old Republicans are already conspiring to steal them and install fascist dictatorship forever, even though it’s we Democrats who harbor dreams of being in power to the end of time and will stop at nothing to steal elections to stay there. Even if we have to spin phony narratives about January 6th to get federal control over every election in the country from here on out. Forget the problems in the 2020 election; we’ve changed the subject, January 6th is all that matters now. We created those problems in 2020, but WE ARE THE SOLUTION.
The truth is the voting rights legislation the Democrats want is really a federal takeover of elections. They want to make it so that no state or locality can ever insist on voter ID again, no state can ever get rid of drop boxes, and no state can ever stop liberal billionaires from funding Democrat get-out-the-vote drives in the name of providing financial help for the official business of election administration. This is a recipe for mischief and disaster. It’s also unconstitutional. The Constitution gives most of the power to oversee elections to the states.
The Democrats call any questioning of the 2020 election ‘the big lie’. But there are lots of unanswered questions about what happened - Why did officials turn elections over to private liberal groups in Wisconsin? Why were Republican poll watchers thrown out of the vote counting center in Detroit? Why can’t we inspect the machines? Why is evidence being destroyed where investigations are taking place?
There are still plenty of problems with election integrity - voter ID not required in many places, dead people on the voter rolls, noncitizens registered and voting, loosey-goosey same-day registration, lack of signature verification on absentee ballots, the list goes on.
But here’s the biggest problem with the Democrats’ whole approach. I was at the Washington Monument on January 6th watching Trump speak. There were about a million people there that day to say they had no confidence in the 2020 election. A handful of ignoramuses broke the law that day at the Capitol Building. But if you federalize elections, as the Democrats want to do, you will guarantee lots of people will have no confidence in elections going forward. If you’re going to make it impossible through federal law to check voter ID, or clean the voter rolls, or get rid of drop boxes, elections will be less secure than ever and you will guarantee great masses of people will be deeply suspicious of the outcome of every election in the future. Institutionalize these things and every day will be January 6th, in the sense a sizeable portion of the electorate will have no confidence in our elections, whatsoever. Break the filibuster, pass this by the slimmest of majorities, and ram federal control over elections down our throats and see what you get. What you are attempting is horribly divisive. It will never be accepted by a strong majority of the American people and you will have no end of trouble. Efforts to reverse your takeover will never end. Now sit there with a straight face and tell me that will be good for our democracy.
11/4/21 - Noncitizen Voting Is a ‘Thing’ But It Shouldn’t Be
Gotta love those undercover journalists at Project Veritas. This time, they got a poll worker in New Jersey to issue a ballot to a journalist posing as an Irish citizen who was not registered to vote in the state nor did he have U.S. citizenship. The poll worker was caught in an undercover video saying all of this didn’t matter; other people would figure it out later.
This comes against a trend of growing sentiment to allow noncitizens to vote in U.S. elections. Cities in California, Maryland, and Vermont allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. They followed Chicago which first allowed noncitizens to vote in some school elections in 1989. Articles are popping up to the effect there’s no good reason not to allow noncitizens to vote and proposals to allow them to vote in local elections are pending in D.C., New York City, Illinois, and Massachusetts.
The Leftists pushing this argue there are many noncitizens living among us, they pay taxes, so they should be allowed to vote. There shouldn’t be taxation without representation.
I say nobody put a gun to these people’s heads to come here. They figured they would be better off giving up voting in their own country and emigrating to America for a better life without voting. They knew what the deal was, they freely chose to give up voting in their own countries and, therefore, they should not be allowed to vote here. Some took steps to become U.S. citizens and gained voting rights, but the rest did not. They are less committed to America and should not have any say in what happens here. Why should their voting rights be more important to us than they are to them? The truth is their voting rights are only important to Leftists who are playing cynical power games with what they perceive to be safe votes for Democrats. The immigrants are just pawns in this game.
As for the aliens who are here illegally, there is absolutely no reason to reward them with the benefits of U.S. citizenship when they broke our laws to get here. Frankly, I don’t want people who have no respect for the rule of law voting in our elections.
I never claimed, as have some others, that noncitizens are voting unlawfully in great numbers. But it does happen. Last summer, Ohio’s elections chief asked the state attorney general to investigate 117 noncitizens for illegally registering to vote or actually voting in the 2020 election. Nineteen noncitizens were charged with unlawful voting in North Carolina last year, and four more were turned over for criminal prosecution in Georgia earlier this year. I am glad to see these efforts to deter noncitizens from voting in our elections. I was also happy to see the 2018 House resolution against noncitizen voting declaring “that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.” I support the Republican court challenge to noncitizen voting in Vermont under that state’s constitution, as well as the recent rejections of noncitizen voting in Colorado, Florida, North Dakota, and Alabama.
To me, the importance of the issue lies not in the number of noncitizens unlawfully voting, but in the ongoing devaluation of U.S. citizenship. Here’s what’s down the road of saying citizenship is no longer important: the Visigoths overran the northern border and sacked Rome. I’m not saying that will happen overnight in America, but the people mindlessly parroting the Left’s support for noncitizen voting better get a grip. Bad stuff will happen when you start believing America is a horrible rotten place and it isn’t important to have a country, anymore.
Here’s what else lies ahead: the Left never quits. Noncitizen voting in municipal elections today, noncitizen voting for federal offices and president tomorrow. You can count on the Left to keep pushing for and expanding noncitizen voting and for the corollary that citizenship isn’t important, so the only way to deal with the Left’s mapped out psychological warfare is to head it off at the pass now, before it gains any more momentum.
Gotta love those undercover journalists at Project Veritas. This time, they got a poll worker in New Jersey to issue a ballot to a journalist posing as an Irish citizen who was not registered to vote in the state nor did he have U.S. citizenship. The poll worker was caught in an undercover video saying all of this didn’t matter; other people would figure it out later.
This comes against a trend of growing sentiment to allow noncitizens to vote in U.S. elections. Cities in California, Maryland, and Vermont allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. They followed Chicago which first allowed noncitizens to vote in some school elections in 1989. Articles are popping up to the effect there’s no good reason not to allow noncitizens to vote and proposals to allow them to vote in local elections are pending in D.C., New York City, Illinois, and Massachusetts.
The Leftists pushing this argue there are many noncitizens living among us, they pay taxes, so they should be allowed to vote. There shouldn’t be taxation without representation.
I say nobody put a gun to these people’s heads to come here. They figured they would be better off giving up voting in their own country and emigrating to America for a better life without voting. They knew what the deal was, they freely chose to give up voting in their own countries and, therefore, they should not be allowed to vote here. Some took steps to become U.S. citizens and gained voting rights, but the rest did not. They are less committed to America and should not have any say in what happens here. Why should their voting rights be more important to us than they are to them? The truth is their voting rights are only important to Leftists who are playing cynical power games with what they perceive to be safe votes for Democrats. The immigrants are just pawns in this game.
As for the aliens who are here illegally, there is absolutely no reason to reward them with the benefits of U.S. citizenship when they broke our laws to get here. Frankly, I don’t want people who have no respect for the rule of law voting in our elections.
I never claimed, as have some others, that noncitizens are voting unlawfully in great numbers. But it does happen. Last summer, Ohio’s elections chief asked the state attorney general to investigate 117 noncitizens for illegally registering to vote or actually voting in the 2020 election. Nineteen noncitizens were charged with unlawful voting in North Carolina last year, and four more were turned over for criminal prosecution in Georgia earlier this year. I am glad to see these efforts to deter noncitizens from voting in our elections. I was also happy to see the 2018 House resolution against noncitizen voting declaring “that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.” I support the Republican court challenge to noncitizen voting in Vermont under that state’s constitution, as well as the recent rejections of noncitizen voting in Colorado, Florida, North Dakota, and Alabama.
To me, the importance of the issue lies not in the number of noncitizens unlawfully voting, but in the ongoing devaluation of U.S. citizenship. Here’s what’s down the road of saying citizenship is no longer important: the Visigoths overran the northern border and sacked Rome. I’m not saying that will happen overnight in America, but the people mindlessly parroting the Left’s support for noncitizen voting better get a grip. Bad stuff will happen when you start believing America is a horrible rotten place and it isn’t important to have a country, anymore.
Here’s what else lies ahead: the Left never quits. Noncitizen voting in municipal elections today, noncitizen voting for federal offices and president tomorrow. You can count on the Left to keep pushing for and expanding noncitizen voting and for the corollary that citizenship isn’t important, so the only way to deal with the Left’s mapped out psychological warfare is to head it off at the pass now, before it gains any more momentum.
11/3/21 - Dems Lock Up the Alzheimer's Vote
The Racine, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office recently accused the state election commission of violating the law when it instructed local election officials not to send government-employed poll workers to nursing homes to assist residents with voting in the 2020 election. The commission cited COVID, and mandated the use of absentee ballots, instead.
Much has been made of the fact the Sheriff is a Trump-supporting Republican but, before you dismiss his allegations out of hand, you should know the Democrats have been committing voter fraud in nursing homes for decades, so the Sheriff has real cause for concern. I know; I’ve done the research.
Here are some examples: A New Jersey court threw out election results in a 2015 city council race because the local Democrat chairwoman had engaged in pervasive and far-reaching voter fraud in nursing homes. myCentralJersey.com In another instance, a social worker in Texas was charged last year with 134 counts of election fraud for registering 67 nursing home patients without their permission and forging their signatures on voter registration documents.
Democratic operatives zero in on mentally incapacitated seniors in an attempt to lock up the Alzheimer’s vote. A long-time election integrity activist in Virginia was told about one case involving an elderly woman who was put in a facility because she could no longer tell fact from fiction and was embezzled out of $40,000. Her daughter got wind that her mother was at a Democrat voter registration ‘ice cream social’ in the facility. “The woman really challenged the staff,” the activist said. “‘You’re not protecting her. She needs to be protected, like I’m paying you for. You know she isn’t capable of making these decisions,’” he paraphrased the daughter as saying.
One Democrat trick is, “Registering patients or residents either without their knowledge or against their will.” Another is, “Applying for an absentee ballot either without the person’s knowledge or against such person’s will and inserting their organization as a ‘voting assistant’ on the absentee ballot, again without the voter’s consent.” A Democrat operative in Virginia asked a local voter registrar for blanket authority to fill out absentee ballot requests for nursing home residents and to take possession of all the blank ballots until the Democrat Party could schedule a ‘Voting Day’ and harvest a whole bunch of votes for Democrats from nursing home residents with dementia in one fell swoop.
As usual, the Democrats dismiss stories like this as just ‘anecdotes’, not scientific proof. I don’t need scientific proof or a mountain of data to know there’s a big problem here. What decides the case for me is that I sent all my accusations to the Democratic Party of Virginia in 2016 and there was no response.
I lay out more of my case against the Democrats on my website and also give you suggestions on how you can protect your loved ones from the despicable predatory Democrats who have been trying to steal elections by harvesting votes from demented nursing home residents for decades.
Oh, by the way, if you Democrats change your mind and want to dispute anything I wrote on my website on this subject, give it your best shot.
9/21/21 - Arizona Election Report Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
A grassroots canvassing project found 173,000 votes in Maricopa County, Arizona were discarded and 96,000 were cast by someone other than the true voter. The 2020 presidential election in Arizona was decided by just 10,000 votes. Gateway Pundit Grassroots Canvass Report While the report does not prove election fraud, it does indicate serious problems with the election process that enable fraud to occur.
Dedicated volunteers went door-to-door verifying registration and other voter information. Most of the residents voted by mail but, somehow, their votes were not reported or counted. As for the 96,000 cast in the wrong name, current residents said in many instances the people had moved away. The report also found many mail-in votes cast from vacant lots, votes recorded from residents who had not actually voted, and other problems.
The report recommends doing away with mail-in voting entirely. Before you dismiss this as the ravings of wild-eyed lunatics, you should know that a bipartisan commission headed up by Jimmy Carter and James Baker recommended the same thing in 2005. The commission recommended other common sense reforms like voter ID - which today is supported by most voters; no ballot harvesting by third parties - outlawed today in some states; and cleaning up the voter rolls by removing dead voters, etc. - which is about as common sense as you can get.
Half the country thinks the 2020 election was stolen. I can’t get to the bottom of that here today, but I can tell you a lot of problems need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again. The problems in the 2020 election prompted a great flurry of activity and brought many worried people into the political process for the first time. The Arizona canvassing project is just one of hundreds of projects to shore up our elections underway all across the country. Activists are gathered into statewide networks and multistate teams. State networks are underway in Virginia and Michigan with my help. Activities include pushing for forensic audits, finding and training poll watchers and election officers, and focusing on absentee and mail-in ballot counting during the entire election season, not just election day.
All of these efforts are to be applauded. Efforts to stop them, like the audit in Arizona - the results of which are expected soon - should be viewed with suspicion. Why did the Democrats try so hard to stop the audit in Arizona? What’s that about? There’s only one reason to oppose audits and common sense election reforms like voter ID - you’re trying to steal elections.
Thankfully, a lot of people have woken up and are working very hard to prevent that. Some years ago, a Tea Party friend of mine took a look at Virginia’s election code. He quit after he found a hundred ways cheating could occur. So all the holes will never be plugged and you can bet the Democrats will always come up with new ones in every future election. This is where my personal efforts are devoted these days - to providing an early warning system of how the Democrats and their friends on the Left will try to game future elections. More on that another day but, for now, any well-intentioned person will recognize we are all better off if we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
The Racine, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office recently accused the state election commission of violating the law when it instructed local election officials not to send government-employed poll workers to nursing homes to assist residents with voting in the 2020 election. The commission cited COVID, and mandated the use of absentee ballots, instead.
Much has been made of the fact the Sheriff is a Trump-supporting Republican but, before you dismiss his allegations out of hand, you should know the Democrats have been committing voter fraud in nursing homes for decades, so the Sheriff has real cause for concern. I know; I’ve done the research.
Here are some examples: A New Jersey court threw out election results in a 2015 city council race because the local Democrat chairwoman had engaged in pervasive and far-reaching voter fraud in nursing homes. myCentralJersey.com In another instance, a social worker in Texas was charged last year with 134 counts of election fraud for registering 67 nursing home patients without their permission and forging their signatures on voter registration documents.
Democratic operatives zero in on mentally incapacitated seniors in an attempt to lock up the Alzheimer’s vote. A long-time election integrity activist in Virginia was told about one case involving an elderly woman who was put in a facility because she could no longer tell fact from fiction and was embezzled out of $40,000. Her daughter got wind that her mother was at a Democrat voter registration ‘ice cream social’ in the facility. “The woman really challenged the staff,” the activist said. “‘You’re not protecting her. She needs to be protected, like I’m paying you for. You know she isn’t capable of making these decisions,’” he paraphrased the daughter as saying.
One Democrat trick is, “Registering patients or residents either without their knowledge or against their will.” Another is, “Applying for an absentee ballot either without the person’s knowledge or against such person’s will and inserting their organization as a ‘voting assistant’ on the absentee ballot, again without the voter’s consent.” A Democrat operative in Virginia asked a local voter registrar for blanket authority to fill out absentee ballot requests for nursing home residents and to take possession of all the blank ballots until the Democrat Party could schedule a ‘Voting Day’ and harvest a whole bunch of votes for Democrats from nursing home residents with dementia in one fell swoop.
As usual, the Democrats dismiss stories like this as just ‘anecdotes’, not scientific proof. I don’t need scientific proof or a mountain of data to know there’s a big problem here. What decides the case for me is that I sent all my accusations to the Democratic Party of Virginia in 2016 and there was no response.
I lay out more of my case against the Democrats on my website and also give you suggestions on how you can protect your loved ones from the despicable predatory Democrats who have been trying to steal elections by harvesting votes from demented nursing home residents for decades.
Oh, by the way, if you Democrats change your mind and want to dispute anything I wrote on my website on this subject, give it your best shot.
9/21/21 - Arizona Election Report Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
A grassroots canvassing project found 173,000 votes in Maricopa County, Arizona were discarded and 96,000 were cast by someone other than the true voter. The 2020 presidential election in Arizona was decided by just 10,000 votes. Gateway Pundit Grassroots Canvass Report While the report does not prove election fraud, it does indicate serious problems with the election process that enable fraud to occur.
Dedicated volunteers went door-to-door verifying registration and other voter information. Most of the residents voted by mail but, somehow, their votes were not reported or counted. As for the 96,000 cast in the wrong name, current residents said in many instances the people had moved away. The report also found many mail-in votes cast from vacant lots, votes recorded from residents who had not actually voted, and other problems.
The report recommends doing away with mail-in voting entirely. Before you dismiss this as the ravings of wild-eyed lunatics, you should know that a bipartisan commission headed up by Jimmy Carter and James Baker recommended the same thing in 2005. The commission recommended other common sense reforms like voter ID - which today is supported by most voters; no ballot harvesting by third parties - outlawed today in some states; and cleaning up the voter rolls by removing dead voters, etc. - which is about as common sense as you can get.
Half the country thinks the 2020 election was stolen. I can’t get to the bottom of that here today, but I can tell you a lot of problems need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again. The problems in the 2020 election prompted a great flurry of activity and brought many worried people into the political process for the first time. The Arizona canvassing project is just one of hundreds of projects to shore up our elections underway all across the country. Activists are gathered into statewide networks and multistate teams. State networks are underway in Virginia and Michigan with my help. Activities include pushing for forensic audits, finding and training poll watchers and election officers, and focusing on absentee and mail-in ballot counting during the entire election season, not just election day.
All of these efforts are to be applauded. Efforts to stop them, like the audit in Arizona - the results of which are expected soon - should be viewed with suspicion. Why did the Democrats try so hard to stop the audit in Arizona? What’s that about? There’s only one reason to oppose audits and common sense election reforms like voter ID - you’re trying to steal elections.
Thankfully, a lot of people have woken up and are working very hard to prevent that. Some years ago, a Tea Party friend of mine took a look at Virginia’s election code. He quit after he found a hundred ways cheating could occur. So all the holes will never be plugged and you can bet the Democrats will always come up with new ones in every future election. This is where my personal efforts are devoted these days - to providing an early warning system of how the Democrats and their friends on the Left will try to game future elections. More on that another day but, for now, any well-intentioned person will recognize we are all better off if we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
7/29/21 - More Counters to the Phony Voter Suppression Narrative
So many phony narratives, so little time. Today, I summarize the best counters to the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative I’ve seen recently.
The winner hands down is we need to make it ‘easy to vote and hard to cheat’. I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t. Shortly after I heard it, it popped up everywhere in my circles. A clear thought sticks like a hatchet in the brain. Some years ago, I talked to a Democrat lawyer who kept saying we need to make it easy for people to vote. Fine, but that’s only half the story. Election integrity matters, unless you want to live in a banana republic where ‘El Commandante’ routinely gets reelected with 99 percent of a completely fake vote. Many people have observed that it’s still easier to vote in states where Republicans have passed new election integrity laws than in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, except now it’s harder to cheat and that’s a good thing.
A close runner-up is the Democrats’ capitulation on the ‘voter ID is racist’ thing. It was a stupid argument to begin with. Democrats were essentially telling minorities they were too stupid to get an ID. Great message, sure to win friends and influence people. Finally, after a chorus of voices on the Right began to call Democrats out for this insane argument, Democrats started to back-pedal. Stacey Abrams and other Democrats finally admitted voter ID is not racist. Other Democrats fell all over themselves claiming they never said voter ID was racist in the first place when they were on record saying it was. The Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania now supports voter ID. Delicious. If that part of the voter suppression narrative is now admitted to be bogus, what does that say about the rest of garbage coming out of Democrats’ mouths?
Well, let’s just see. ‘The Republicans’ election laws are the new Jim Crow.’ Here we have hysterical, over-the-top rhetoric that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Jim Crow was segregation - separate water fountains for blacks and all that. In the voting context, it meant poll taxes and literacy tests before you could register to vote. That was real voter suppression. And what are the Republicans trying to do today? Things like return election procedures back to pre-COVID normal. If that’s segregation, I’ll eat my hat. No, these are common sense measures like not allowing so many unmonitored, unsupervised drop boxes all over the place funded by private money that just happens to be 100 percent Democrat. I can’t think of a better way to get El Commandante reelected with 99 percent of the vote, can you?
How about this one - ‘there is no voter fraud’. Well, if you don’t bring prosecutions, you can run around claiming there is no voter fraud. An activist in South Carolina recently told me the last voter fraud prosecution there was in 2008. Do you really think there hasn’t been any voter fraud in South Carolina in the last 13 years? Contrast that with Texas where 155 people have been convicted of voter fraud since 2005. If you still think there is no voter fraud, I would refer you to the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud database which catalogues over 1,300 proven instances of voter fraud and almost as many criminal convictions.
It’s really funny to hear Democrats pooh-pooh voter fraud, then scream about it when it happens to them. One recent example is the 2020 municipal election in Paterson, New Jersey. The Democrat mayor praised a court-ordered do-over because the original election was “fraught with fraud”. Four people were charged with criminal voter fraud in the original all-mail-in election. The concerns about fraud included bundles of ballots being sent to the same mailbox (hundreds in one case), signatures that didn’t match the voter signatures on file, people who never received a ballot being listed as having voted, and large numbers of ballots being left out in the open instead of being delivered to mailboxes. Political operatives were even raiding mailboxes to steal the ballots.
I will return to this subject in future commentaries, and keep ripping the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative apart until there’s nothing left.
7/8/21 - Kagan Parrots Voter Suppression Line
It’s worth taking a moment to demolish Justice Kagan’s dissent in the recent Supreme Court case upholding Arizona’s new election integrity laws. I freely confess to you I have not read the dissent or the Court’s opinion. What follows is based on an article in the Guardian lambasting the Court and praising what it called Kagan’s “scorching” dissenting opinion. Presumably, the article puts Kagan’s best foot forward.
Kagan’s views track the bogus Left-wing voter suppression narrative from start to finish. She calls this an age of voting rights retrenchment with several states passing laws to deprive minorities of equal access to the ballot. She calls it a “perilous moment” for democracy and the Court’s opinion “tragic”. In this, she doesn’t sound a whole lot different from the head of a Latino pressure group who said the Court’s decision in this case is “woefully disconnected from social and historical reality” and the Court’s opinion offers nothing more than right-wing sound bites.
Let’s get some perspective here. The Arizona laws in question simply require voters to show up at the right precinct and restrict pressure groups like unions from collecting and turning in big batches of absentee ballots, an activity that invites voter fraud. Somehow, these common sense measures are supposed to be disproportionately burdensome for minorities. In other words, minorities are too stupid to show up at the right precinct or turn in their absentee ballots by themselves. That’s racist. Anyone who believes it, is paternalistic and a racist. Let’s compare these measures to actual voter suppression in America’s past. Early Supreme Court decisions knocked down poll taxes and literacy tests. Blacks were kept from voting entirely if they couldn’t pay the tax or read. Now all anyone is asked to do in Arizona is show up at the right precinct or complete the absentee ballot process themselves. You cannot reasonably equate these requirements with poll taxes and literacy tests. The difference is night and day and no amount of hyperventilating about poor, pitiful minorities can cover up that fact.
Kagan also says states that ban handing out water to people waiting in line to vote are discriminating because minority precincts have longer lines. There’s only one problem with this: no state has banned food and water in line. People are free to bring their own. The restrictions on third parties handing out food and water are meant to address the situations that have arisen of pressure groups handing out bottles of water with ‘Vote Democrat’ printed on them in violation of common sense rules against haranguing voters or buying their votes with gifts. Stupid stuff like this is why the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative is falling apart with Stacey Abrams now saying that requiring voter ID is not necessarily racist and other Democrats denying they ever said it was.
Kagan also complains the Court’s opinion didn’t meet her quota for mentioning the term ‘Native American’ enough times. Give me a break.
She also rails against states imposing new restrictions on voting by mail. In the first place, mass mail-in voting generally didn’t exist before COVID. In light of all the problems that arose with mass mail-in voting in a lot of places in the 2020 election, returning to pre-COVD rules makes eminent good sense. In some states, secretaries of state took it upon themselves to change the rules and allow mass mail-in voting on their own motion, and state legislatures are properly reasserting their authority. The left-wing bureaucrats are getting their wings clipped and deservedly so.
Kagan wants to undo a 2013 Supreme Court case and reimpose preclearance on southern states - requiring them to beg Washington for every little change they want to make to their election rules. That case said supervision had gone on long enough - 50 years - and the circumstances justifying preclearance had all evaporated. But Kagan claims voter suppression continues in those states today. Of course she does. That’s what the phony voter suppression narrative requires, the same bogus narrative that claims voter ID laws, which are supported by most minorities surveyed, are the new Jim Crow.
The truth is the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative is falling apart and they’re running scared. They’ve shown us who they are. They’ve shown us they don’t care about fair and honest elections. They’ve shown us they’ll knock down every election safeguard they can and pull every trick in the book to cheat. They’ve shown us they only care about power and, worst of all, they’ve shown us they will deliberately use minorities as pawns to cover up how badly they lust for it.
6/2/21 - Election Law Preclearance Is Unnecessary
Once again, the Left is out with a new argument and it’s crickets from the professional Right. I used to send alerts to people I know on the professional Right asking them to counter new arguments, but I never got any response, so I gave up years ago. So there’s just me here and this is my first stab at preclearance, the argument that the federal government needs to directly supervise elections in the states again.
Yesterday, Joe Biden put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of efforts to undermine election safeguards. I hope she does as good a job on this as she’s doing on the southern border, which she’s also in charge of. Actually, the appointment is interesting for the new preclearance argument because Kamala Harris argued for preclearance of state abortion laws when she was campaigning for president. She wanted the federal government to control what abortion laws states could and, more importantly, could not enact, so I have no doubt she will push for preclearance in the election law context, as well. Never let anyone be free when you can use the federal government to control them, right?
The idea of preclearance comes from provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which forced states and counties with a history of discrimination to get preclearance from the U.S. Justice Department to make changes in their election procedures. The Feds blocked 86 measures in several states under voting rights preclearance.
But in 2013, the Supreme Court knocked down part of the voting rights preclearance scheme. The Court found that the formula used to determine whether states were still discriminating against minority voters were out of date and the Justice Department was acting like nothing had changed in the last 50 years when it clearly had. As applied, preclearance had become unconstitutional, violating the Tenth Amendment. [Shelby County v. Holder, 2013]
However, the Supreme Court did not say preclearance itself is unconstitutional or against the Tenth Amendment. Instead, it said Congress can mandate preclearance anew under “exceptional conditions”. Literacy tests and poll taxes were the “exceptional conditions” justifying preclearance initially.
Today, Senator Joe Manchin wants preclearance for the entire country. He’s not alone. [here at 47:34l] But other liberals see this as a bridge too far, “tilting the scale too much in favor of federal control.” [here and here at 48:15]. However, this is the first problem with the preclearance argument. The Left will always want to expand preclearance, even if there’s no factual predicate for it, and they won’t stop until elections everywhere are under the control of the U.S. Justice Department. How do I know this? Because this is what the Left always does, this is who they are. It’s all a big game to them and they never stop. So no matter how much sense preclearance might make in specific situations, I’m opposed because the tendency of the Left is always to seek more and more control.
A witness at a congressional hearing took a different approach. [at 26:26] The witness started out heavy on narrative - making conclusory references to “voter suppression”, “devastating attacks” on minority voting rights, threats to democracy, and other vague notions. Then the witness gave a handful of specific examples she said could have been fixed by preclearance, such as no early voting on one black campus. However, all of the examples she gave were ameliorated through new legislation or court action. None of them would have justified a complete federal takeover by any stretch of the imagination. The witness went on to say there’s a need for a prophylactic remedy, to get out ahead of discrimination against minority voters before an election. But that doesn’t explain why plaintiffs can’t negotiate, seek injunctions in court before elections, or work through their Secretary of State offices which made lots of changes to election procedures in many states before the 2020 elections.
Try as they might, the Left will never convince me that any present-day problem rises to the level of poll taxes, literacy tests, simply refusing to register black people to vote outright, or any of the other barriers to minority voting that justified preclearance ages ago. To the extent there are legitimate grievances, careful analysis will reveal there are other remedies, making federal takeovers completely unnecessary. Preclearance is a heavy-handed solution in search of correspondingly grave outrages it will never find in modern times.
So many phony narratives, so little time. Today, I summarize the best counters to the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative I’ve seen recently.
The winner hands down is we need to make it ‘easy to vote and hard to cheat’. I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t. Shortly after I heard it, it popped up everywhere in my circles. A clear thought sticks like a hatchet in the brain. Some years ago, I talked to a Democrat lawyer who kept saying we need to make it easy for people to vote. Fine, but that’s only half the story. Election integrity matters, unless you want to live in a banana republic where ‘El Commandante’ routinely gets reelected with 99 percent of a completely fake vote. Many people have observed that it’s still easier to vote in states where Republicans have passed new election integrity laws than in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, except now it’s harder to cheat and that’s a good thing.
A close runner-up is the Democrats’ capitulation on the ‘voter ID is racist’ thing. It was a stupid argument to begin with. Democrats were essentially telling minorities they were too stupid to get an ID. Great message, sure to win friends and influence people. Finally, after a chorus of voices on the Right began to call Democrats out for this insane argument, Democrats started to back-pedal. Stacey Abrams and other Democrats finally admitted voter ID is not racist. Other Democrats fell all over themselves claiming they never said voter ID was racist in the first place when they were on record saying it was. The Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania now supports voter ID. Delicious. If that part of the voter suppression narrative is now admitted to be bogus, what does that say about the rest of garbage coming out of Democrats’ mouths?
Well, let’s just see. ‘The Republicans’ election laws are the new Jim Crow.’ Here we have hysterical, over-the-top rhetoric that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Jim Crow was segregation - separate water fountains for blacks and all that. In the voting context, it meant poll taxes and literacy tests before you could register to vote. That was real voter suppression. And what are the Republicans trying to do today? Things like return election procedures back to pre-COVID normal. If that’s segregation, I’ll eat my hat. No, these are common sense measures like not allowing so many unmonitored, unsupervised drop boxes all over the place funded by private money that just happens to be 100 percent Democrat. I can’t think of a better way to get El Commandante reelected with 99 percent of the vote, can you?
How about this one - ‘there is no voter fraud’. Well, if you don’t bring prosecutions, you can run around claiming there is no voter fraud. An activist in South Carolina recently told me the last voter fraud prosecution there was in 2008. Do you really think there hasn’t been any voter fraud in South Carolina in the last 13 years? Contrast that with Texas where 155 people have been convicted of voter fraud since 2005. If you still think there is no voter fraud, I would refer you to the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud database which catalogues over 1,300 proven instances of voter fraud and almost as many criminal convictions.
It’s really funny to hear Democrats pooh-pooh voter fraud, then scream about it when it happens to them. One recent example is the 2020 municipal election in Paterson, New Jersey. The Democrat mayor praised a court-ordered do-over because the original election was “fraught with fraud”. Four people were charged with criminal voter fraud in the original all-mail-in election. The concerns about fraud included bundles of ballots being sent to the same mailbox (hundreds in one case), signatures that didn’t match the voter signatures on file, people who never received a ballot being listed as having voted, and large numbers of ballots being left out in the open instead of being delivered to mailboxes. Political operatives were even raiding mailboxes to steal the ballots.
I will return to this subject in future commentaries, and keep ripping the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative apart until there’s nothing left.
7/8/21 - Kagan Parrots Voter Suppression Line
It’s worth taking a moment to demolish Justice Kagan’s dissent in the recent Supreme Court case upholding Arizona’s new election integrity laws. I freely confess to you I have not read the dissent or the Court’s opinion. What follows is based on an article in the Guardian lambasting the Court and praising what it called Kagan’s “scorching” dissenting opinion. Presumably, the article puts Kagan’s best foot forward.
Kagan’s views track the bogus Left-wing voter suppression narrative from start to finish. She calls this an age of voting rights retrenchment with several states passing laws to deprive minorities of equal access to the ballot. She calls it a “perilous moment” for democracy and the Court’s opinion “tragic”. In this, she doesn’t sound a whole lot different from the head of a Latino pressure group who said the Court’s decision in this case is “woefully disconnected from social and historical reality” and the Court’s opinion offers nothing more than right-wing sound bites.
Let’s get some perspective here. The Arizona laws in question simply require voters to show up at the right precinct and restrict pressure groups like unions from collecting and turning in big batches of absentee ballots, an activity that invites voter fraud. Somehow, these common sense measures are supposed to be disproportionately burdensome for minorities. In other words, minorities are too stupid to show up at the right precinct or turn in their absentee ballots by themselves. That’s racist. Anyone who believes it, is paternalistic and a racist. Let’s compare these measures to actual voter suppression in America’s past. Early Supreme Court decisions knocked down poll taxes and literacy tests. Blacks were kept from voting entirely if they couldn’t pay the tax or read. Now all anyone is asked to do in Arizona is show up at the right precinct or complete the absentee ballot process themselves. You cannot reasonably equate these requirements with poll taxes and literacy tests. The difference is night and day and no amount of hyperventilating about poor, pitiful minorities can cover up that fact.
Kagan also says states that ban handing out water to people waiting in line to vote are discriminating because minority precincts have longer lines. There’s only one problem with this: no state has banned food and water in line. People are free to bring their own. The restrictions on third parties handing out food and water are meant to address the situations that have arisen of pressure groups handing out bottles of water with ‘Vote Democrat’ printed on them in violation of common sense rules against haranguing voters or buying their votes with gifts. Stupid stuff like this is why the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative is falling apart with Stacey Abrams now saying that requiring voter ID is not necessarily racist and other Democrats denying they ever said it was.
Kagan also complains the Court’s opinion didn’t meet her quota for mentioning the term ‘Native American’ enough times. Give me a break.
She also rails against states imposing new restrictions on voting by mail. In the first place, mass mail-in voting generally didn’t exist before COVID. In light of all the problems that arose with mass mail-in voting in a lot of places in the 2020 election, returning to pre-COVD rules makes eminent good sense. In some states, secretaries of state took it upon themselves to change the rules and allow mass mail-in voting on their own motion, and state legislatures are properly reasserting their authority. The left-wing bureaucrats are getting their wings clipped and deservedly so.
Kagan wants to undo a 2013 Supreme Court case and reimpose preclearance on southern states - requiring them to beg Washington for every little change they want to make to their election rules. That case said supervision had gone on long enough - 50 years - and the circumstances justifying preclearance had all evaporated. But Kagan claims voter suppression continues in those states today. Of course she does. That’s what the phony voter suppression narrative requires, the same bogus narrative that claims voter ID laws, which are supported by most minorities surveyed, are the new Jim Crow.
The truth is the Democrats’ phony voter suppression narrative is falling apart and they’re running scared. They’ve shown us who they are. They’ve shown us they don’t care about fair and honest elections. They’ve shown us they’ll knock down every election safeguard they can and pull every trick in the book to cheat. They’ve shown us they only care about power and, worst of all, they’ve shown us they will deliberately use minorities as pawns to cover up how badly they lust for it.
6/2/21 - Election Law Preclearance Is Unnecessary
Once again, the Left is out with a new argument and it’s crickets from the professional Right. I used to send alerts to people I know on the professional Right asking them to counter new arguments, but I never got any response, so I gave up years ago. So there’s just me here and this is my first stab at preclearance, the argument that the federal government needs to directly supervise elections in the states again.
Yesterday, Joe Biden put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of efforts to undermine election safeguards. I hope she does as good a job on this as she’s doing on the southern border, which she’s also in charge of. Actually, the appointment is interesting for the new preclearance argument because Kamala Harris argued for preclearance of state abortion laws when she was campaigning for president. She wanted the federal government to control what abortion laws states could and, more importantly, could not enact, so I have no doubt she will push for preclearance in the election law context, as well. Never let anyone be free when you can use the federal government to control them, right?
The idea of preclearance comes from provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which forced states and counties with a history of discrimination to get preclearance from the U.S. Justice Department to make changes in their election procedures. The Feds blocked 86 measures in several states under voting rights preclearance.
But in 2013, the Supreme Court knocked down part of the voting rights preclearance scheme. The Court found that the formula used to determine whether states were still discriminating against minority voters were out of date and the Justice Department was acting like nothing had changed in the last 50 years when it clearly had. As applied, preclearance had become unconstitutional, violating the Tenth Amendment. [Shelby County v. Holder, 2013]
However, the Supreme Court did not say preclearance itself is unconstitutional or against the Tenth Amendment. Instead, it said Congress can mandate preclearance anew under “exceptional conditions”. Literacy tests and poll taxes were the “exceptional conditions” justifying preclearance initially.
Today, Senator Joe Manchin wants preclearance for the entire country. He’s not alone. [here at 47:34l] But other liberals see this as a bridge too far, “tilting the scale too much in favor of federal control.” [here and here at 48:15]. However, this is the first problem with the preclearance argument. The Left will always want to expand preclearance, even if there’s no factual predicate for it, and they won’t stop until elections everywhere are under the control of the U.S. Justice Department. How do I know this? Because this is what the Left always does, this is who they are. It’s all a big game to them and they never stop. So no matter how much sense preclearance might make in specific situations, I’m opposed because the tendency of the Left is always to seek more and more control.
A witness at a congressional hearing took a different approach. [at 26:26] The witness started out heavy on narrative - making conclusory references to “voter suppression”, “devastating attacks” on minority voting rights, threats to democracy, and other vague notions. Then the witness gave a handful of specific examples she said could have been fixed by preclearance, such as no early voting on one black campus. However, all of the examples she gave were ameliorated through new legislation or court action. None of them would have justified a complete federal takeover by any stretch of the imagination. The witness went on to say there’s a need for a prophylactic remedy, to get out ahead of discrimination against minority voters before an election. But that doesn’t explain why plaintiffs can’t negotiate, seek injunctions in court before elections, or work through their Secretary of State offices which made lots of changes to election procedures in many states before the 2020 elections.
Try as they might, the Left will never convince me that any present-day problem rises to the level of poll taxes, literacy tests, simply refusing to register black people to vote outright, or any of the other barriers to minority voting that justified preclearance ages ago. To the extent there are legitimate grievances, careful analysis will reveal there are other remedies, making federal takeovers completely unnecessary. Preclearance is a heavy-handed solution in search of correspondingly grave outrages it will never find in modern times.
5/12/21 - Marc Elias Falling Down on the Job
Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias was on NPR last night talking about the lawsuit he filed against Florida’s new election reform law nine minutes after Governor DeSantis signed it.
Elias wrapped himself in the flag - “if people are put to the question of, should people vote, should people's vote be counted, should we have consent of the governed, that people will answer the question, yes.” Reminds me of the time the famous Mayor Daley of Chicago said, “we must reach higher and higher platitudes together.” ‘Consent of the governed’ - that’s a good one. Elias left out apple pie and motherhood. If Democrats were really concerned about the consent of the governed, their prosecutors in blue states would be going all out to investigate credible allegations of voter fraud, but they don’t. Investigations and prosecutions are few and far between, allowing the Democrats to get away with their phony narrative ‘there is no voter fraud’. No investigations, no prosecutions, no voter fraud. See how this works?
Elias trotted out the Democrats’ threadbare, timeworn false voter suppression narrative. They’ve been claiming for years Republicans try to suppress minority votes, but they never say how. They just make conclusory declarations, like insisting voter ID suppresses the vote. OK, but how? Tell us how. They never tell us how. Never mind that minority voting doesn’t go down where voter ID is implemented. Never mind that most of Stacey Abrams’ voter suppression case in Georgia got thrown out of court for being bogus (AJC), and she now admits voter ID is not racist per se. Elias didn’t say one word last night about how, exactly, it is that Republicans suppress the vote. It was one conclusory declaration after another. All you have to do when you hear somebody doing that is say to yourself ‘I don’t believe you’ and the fairy dust they’re sprinkling can’t put you in a spell.
If you want to see real voter suppression, just look at the history of the Democrat Party - poll taxes, literacy tests, simply refusing to register blacks to vote - these are all Democrat tricks.
Elias claimed Republican states are passing voter suppression laws because they’ve bought Donald Trump’s ‘big lie’ the 2020 election was stolen. He doesn’t know that; he’s just speculating about motive. I can see state legislators voting for reforms because they want to make it harder to cheat. Nothing wrong with that, is there? There’s only one reason to oppose common sense election safeguards like voter ID and that’s because you want to steal elections.
Finally, Elias said, “the federal law set minimum standards for our military voters to receive absentee ballots.” What he didn’t tell you is Democrats do their best not to count those military votes because they know most of them are for Republicans.
All in all, a pretty lame performance from Elias last night. Democrats have been relying on the phony voter suppression narrative so long, they’ve gotten mentally lazy. They need some new shtick. People are starting to see right through their current bag of tricks.
4/27/21 - Election Reforms We Can All Get Behind
An independent team of experts has issued 30 recommendations to ensure free and fair elections. [Full report here.] Some are just common sense, and many could be supported by Americans of every political stripe unless, of course, your intent is to steal elections.
One recommendation is to require voter ID. Even Stacey Abrams now admits voter ID is not necessarily racist. She told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month that she supports voter ID laws, depending on how they’re written, and noted that 35 states already have them.
Other common sense measures recommended by the experts include not changing the rules within 180 days of the election, not allowing deficient ballots or envelopes to be fixed through alteration, maintaining chain of custody for all ballots for 22 months so election contests can be decided, and removing ineligible voters from the rolls annually.
Other recommendations would roll back the supposedly temporary measures adopted in the pandemic. The experts recommend no drop boxes and favor in-person early voting for three weeks, instead. Absentee balloting would go back to needing a good reason, instead of becoming a de facto substitute for early voting. Election observers from political parties would be assured complete access to the process, not effectively shut out like they were in several places in the 2020 election, supposedly because of the pandemic.
Other recommendations are directed at shutting down known avenues for fraud. Ballot harvesting would be prohibited, for example. State and local governments could not accept private money to stage elections. Private money became a real problem in the 2020 election where in Green Bay, for example, the entire election was turned over to private contractors and run by a Democrat Party operative.
The experts make two recommendations aimed at allowing genuine election contests. Citizens and state legislatures would have standing to challenge election results in court. I don’t know that’s the best answer for election contests, but it sure beats what happened in 2020, with courts first saying challengers were too early, and then later saying challengers were too late, in filing their contests.
As for electronic voting machines, the experts recommend making it illegal to allow them to be connected to the Internet. There were many claims in the 2020 elections that domestic and foreign agents tampered with machine results through the Internet, severely undermining confidence in the election. Other experts are recommending open source software for the machines, or doing away with the machines altogether and returning to paper ballots as other countries have done. Keep your eye on this one. Something will be done about the machines before this is all over.
Finally, the experts recommend tightening the rules preventing noncitizens from voting in our elections. I’ve never claimed, as some have, this occurs in great numbers. But I’m all in favor of preventing noncitizen voting because American citizenship should mean something, and every noncitizen vote wipes out a citizen vote, which shouldn’t be happening at all.
There are other reform ideas circulating the experts did not mention, like numbered ballots which make a lot of sense to me. Numbered ballots would prevent middle-of-the-night drops of fake ballots from out of state or China. But even though the experts’ recommendations are not complete, they are a good starting point for states currently considering reforming their voting laws.
4/12/21 - Election Integrity Advocates Racking Up Victories
There’s some good news on the election integrity front.
The forensic examination of voting machines in Michigan is continuing. You may recall that the forensic examiners earlier found the machines in Antrim County deliberately generated a 68 percent error rate elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. In a new report, a forensic examiner announced he had discovered an algorithm in Michigan machines that was used to shift votes in the 2020 election. Further, he found over 66,000 ballots not associated with a registered voter were recorded in nine counties. In addition, a machine was discovered to have a modem installed on its motherboard allowing the machine to connect to the Internet without visible wires or other apparent means. The same equipment is used in eight Michigan counties. Remember, we heard repeatedly after the election that voting machines don’t connect to the Internet. Now there is hard evidence at least some of them do.
What is it the Democrats don’t want us to know about what transpired on the Internet on election day? What are they hiding? It’s interesting that another forensic investigator, working in other states, reports he was offered $10 million to just walk away. Somebody’s getting nervous. The forensic examination story is continuing in Michigan, so we should learn more over time.
The good news doesn’t stop there.
You might recall that, last month, a court found that the Democrat Secretary of State in Michigan violated the law when she loosened the signature verification requirements for absentee ballots without a formal rule or legislative authorization.
Wyoming’s Governor signed a bill requiring voter ID at the polls and for in-person early voting. Democrats can jump up and down about Jim Crow all they want, but voter ID is just common sense and everybody knows it.
Speaking of jumping up and down, Stacey Abrams is known for that, but large parts of her lawsuit alleging infringement of voting rights in the 2018 Georgia election was thrown out of court. AJC Running around yelling ‘voter suppression’ is easy. Proving it in court is quite a different matter.
Pennsylvania agreed to remove dead voters from the rolls to settle a lawsuit. Well, duh. Why such resistance to common-sense election safeguards? Because Democrats are trying to steal elections, that’s why.
Finally, a $160 billion class action lawsuit has been filed against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, and others over irregularities in the 2020 elections. Unhappy voters are invited to join the lawsuit.
That’s it for now but, as you can see, this story isn’t over, not by a longshot.
4/7/21 - The Left Doubles Down on Georgia Election Law and Loses
I can’t believe it. The Left actually doubled down on its war of words over the Georgia election reform law. It’s that old saying, if you can’t argue the facts, pound the table.
Let’s start with demolishing Joe Biden, first. There he goes again, comparing the new Georgia voter ID law to Jim Crow. I defy anyone to tell me how the Georgia law is anything like Jim Crow. What are Jim Crow laws? They were laws that racially segregated the South after the Civil War. Blacks couldn’t sit at white lunch counters, drink from white water fountains, or use other whites-only public facilities. To say requiring all voters to show ID is anything remotely like Jim Crow is the mother of all false equivalencies. Of course minority voters can get IDs; most already have one. The rest can get free government-issued non-driver IDs in many states. To say blacks aren’t capable of getting IDs like other people is blatantly racist. The comparison to Jim Crow is so outlandish, it exposes the emptiness of the Left’s rhetoric. They can’t make their case so they seek refuge in hyperbole, the last refuge of the morally bankrupt.
A fact check by the liberal BBC found, contrary to the Left’s claims, the Georgia law does not prevent voting after work, does not prevent ‘Souls to the Polls’ early voting on Sunday, and does not prevent election officials from handing out water to people standing in line. Further, the law institutionalizes drop boxes for early voting. Drop boxes didn’t exist before the pandemic.
A completely unbalanced story from the leftist Guardian repeats the lie the Georgia law prevents all water from being handed out to voters in line. The Guardian goes on to mischaracterize election integrity measures as blatantly racist voter suppression. Limiting early voting, removing ineligible voters from the rolls, and tightening requirements for absentee voting are all portrayed as attempts to keep minorities from voting. No, they are aimed at shutting down proven avenues of election fraud. Fraud has been known to occur with every one of these things and reformers are right to try to get a grip on the situation. Calling these things racist just doesn’t cut it. It’s no longer acceptable to have dead people voting, or more precisely, allowing fraudsters to use dead people’s names to vote. Why would anybody want that possibility to continue to exist? There’s only one reason the Left wants to strip away election safeguards like scrubbing the voter rolls, and that’s to steal elections.
Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver drew comparisons between the election laws in Georgia and Colorado. Georgia’s Governor said the move doesn’t make sense given that Georgia allows more days of early voting than Colorado does. NPR went through both sets of laws. It acknowledged both states have restrictions on early voting and both require voter ID in some instances. It went on to praise Colorado’s vote-by-mail approach as superior to Georgia’s traditional emphasis on voting in person. 99.3 percent of Colorado voters use mailboxes or dropboxes. But in praising Colorado’s mail-in approach and criticizing tighter restrictions in Georgia, NPR misses the forest for the trees. The forest is all the problems with universal mail-in balloting in the 2020 election NPR does not even mention:
NPR isn’t telling you any of this. It’s true election laws are tighter in Georgia than Colorado with its loosey-goosey mail-in approach. You can call me a racist, but I sure hope they are.
Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias was on NPR last night talking about the lawsuit he filed against Florida’s new election reform law nine minutes after Governor DeSantis signed it.
Elias wrapped himself in the flag - “if people are put to the question of, should people vote, should people's vote be counted, should we have consent of the governed, that people will answer the question, yes.” Reminds me of the time the famous Mayor Daley of Chicago said, “we must reach higher and higher platitudes together.” ‘Consent of the governed’ - that’s a good one. Elias left out apple pie and motherhood. If Democrats were really concerned about the consent of the governed, their prosecutors in blue states would be going all out to investigate credible allegations of voter fraud, but they don’t. Investigations and prosecutions are few and far between, allowing the Democrats to get away with their phony narrative ‘there is no voter fraud’. No investigations, no prosecutions, no voter fraud. See how this works?
Elias trotted out the Democrats’ threadbare, timeworn false voter suppression narrative. They’ve been claiming for years Republicans try to suppress minority votes, but they never say how. They just make conclusory declarations, like insisting voter ID suppresses the vote. OK, but how? Tell us how. They never tell us how. Never mind that minority voting doesn’t go down where voter ID is implemented. Never mind that most of Stacey Abrams’ voter suppression case in Georgia got thrown out of court for being bogus (AJC), and she now admits voter ID is not racist per se. Elias didn’t say one word last night about how, exactly, it is that Republicans suppress the vote. It was one conclusory declaration after another. All you have to do when you hear somebody doing that is say to yourself ‘I don’t believe you’ and the fairy dust they’re sprinkling can’t put you in a spell.
If you want to see real voter suppression, just look at the history of the Democrat Party - poll taxes, literacy tests, simply refusing to register blacks to vote - these are all Democrat tricks.
Elias claimed Republican states are passing voter suppression laws because they’ve bought Donald Trump’s ‘big lie’ the 2020 election was stolen. He doesn’t know that; he’s just speculating about motive. I can see state legislators voting for reforms because they want to make it harder to cheat. Nothing wrong with that, is there? There’s only one reason to oppose common sense election safeguards like voter ID and that’s because you want to steal elections.
Finally, Elias said, “the federal law set minimum standards for our military voters to receive absentee ballots.” What he didn’t tell you is Democrats do their best not to count those military votes because they know most of them are for Republicans.
All in all, a pretty lame performance from Elias last night. Democrats have been relying on the phony voter suppression narrative so long, they’ve gotten mentally lazy. They need some new shtick. People are starting to see right through their current bag of tricks.
4/27/21 - Election Reforms We Can All Get Behind
An independent team of experts has issued 30 recommendations to ensure free and fair elections. [Full report here.] Some are just common sense, and many could be supported by Americans of every political stripe unless, of course, your intent is to steal elections.
One recommendation is to require voter ID. Even Stacey Abrams now admits voter ID is not necessarily racist. She told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month that she supports voter ID laws, depending on how they’re written, and noted that 35 states already have them.
Other common sense measures recommended by the experts include not changing the rules within 180 days of the election, not allowing deficient ballots or envelopes to be fixed through alteration, maintaining chain of custody for all ballots for 22 months so election contests can be decided, and removing ineligible voters from the rolls annually.
Other recommendations would roll back the supposedly temporary measures adopted in the pandemic. The experts recommend no drop boxes and favor in-person early voting for three weeks, instead. Absentee balloting would go back to needing a good reason, instead of becoming a de facto substitute for early voting. Election observers from political parties would be assured complete access to the process, not effectively shut out like they were in several places in the 2020 election, supposedly because of the pandemic.
Other recommendations are directed at shutting down known avenues for fraud. Ballot harvesting would be prohibited, for example. State and local governments could not accept private money to stage elections. Private money became a real problem in the 2020 election where in Green Bay, for example, the entire election was turned over to private contractors and run by a Democrat Party operative.
The experts make two recommendations aimed at allowing genuine election contests. Citizens and state legislatures would have standing to challenge election results in court. I don’t know that’s the best answer for election contests, but it sure beats what happened in 2020, with courts first saying challengers were too early, and then later saying challengers were too late, in filing their contests.
As for electronic voting machines, the experts recommend making it illegal to allow them to be connected to the Internet. There were many claims in the 2020 elections that domestic and foreign agents tampered with machine results through the Internet, severely undermining confidence in the election. Other experts are recommending open source software for the machines, or doing away with the machines altogether and returning to paper ballots as other countries have done. Keep your eye on this one. Something will be done about the machines before this is all over.
Finally, the experts recommend tightening the rules preventing noncitizens from voting in our elections. I’ve never claimed, as some have, this occurs in great numbers. But I’m all in favor of preventing noncitizen voting because American citizenship should mean something, and every noncitizen vote wipes out a citizen vote, which shouldn’t be happening at all.
There are other reform ideas circulating the experts did not mention, like numbered ballots which make a lot of sense to me. Numbered ballots would prevent middle-of-the-night drops of fake ballots from out of state or China. But even though the experts’ recommendations are not complete, they are a good starting point for states currently considering reforming their voting laws.
4/12/21 - Election Integrity Advocates Racking Up Victories
There’s some good news on the election integrity front.
The forensic examination of voting machines in Michigan is continuing. You may recall that the forensic examiners earlier found the machines in Antrim County deliberately generated a 68 percent error rate elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. In a new report, a forensic examiner announced he had discovered an algorithm in Michigan machines that was used to shift votes in the 2020 election. Further, he found over 66,000 ballots not associated with a registered voter were recorded in nine counties. In addition, a machine was discovered to have a modem installed on its motherboard allowing the machine to connect to the Internet without visible wires or other apparent means. The same equipment is used in eight Michigan counties. Remember, we heard repeatedly after the election that voting machines don’t connect to the Internet. Now there is hard evidence at least some of them do.
What is it the Democrats don’t want us to know about what transpired on the Internet on election day? What are they hiding? It’s interesting that another forensic investigator, working in other states, reports he was offered $10 million to just walk away. Somebody’s getting nervous. The forensic examination story is continuing in Michigan, so we should learn more over time.
The good news doesn’t stop there.
You might recall that, last month, a court found that the Democrat Secretary of State in Michigan violated the law when she loosened the signature verification requirements for absentee ballots without a formal rule or legislative authorization.
Wyoming’s Governor signed a bill requiring voter ID at the polls and for in-person early voting. Democrats can jump up and down about Jim Crow all they want, but voter ID is just common sense and everybody knows it.
Speaking of jumping up and down, Stacey Abrams is known for that, but large parts of her lawsuit alleging infringement of voting rights in the 2018 Georgia election was thrown out of court. AJC Running around yelling ‘voter suppression’ is easy. Proving it in court is quite a different matter.
Pennsylvania agreed to remove dead voters from the rolls to settle a lawsuit. Well, duh. Why such resistance to common-sense election safeguards? Because Democrats are trying to steal elections, that’s why.
Finally, a $160 billion class action lawsuit has been filed against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, and others over irregularities in the 2020 elections. Unhappy voters are invited to join the lawsuit.
That’s it for now but, as you can see, this story isn’t over, not by a longshot.
4/7/21 - The Left Doubles Down on Georgia Election Law and Loses
I can’t believe it. The Left actually doubled down on its war of words over the Georgia election reform law. It’s that old saying, if you can’t argue the facts, pound the table.
Let’s start with demolishing Joe Biden, first. There he goes again, comparing the new Georgia voter ID law to Jim Crow. I defy anyone to tell me how the Georgia law is anything like Jim Crow. What are Jim Crow laws? They were laws that racially segregated the South after the Civil War. Blacks couldn’t sit at white lunch counters, drink from white water fountains, or use other whites-only public facilities. To say requiring all voters to show ID is anything remotely like Jim Crow is the mother of all false equivalencies. Of course minority voters can get IDs; most already have one. The rest can get free government-issued non-driver IDs in many states. To say blacks aren’t capable of getting IDs like other people is blatantly racist. The comparison to Jim Crow is so outlandish, it exposes the emptiness of the Left’s rhetoric. They can’t make their case so they seek refuge in hyperbole, the last refuge of the morally bankrupt.
A fact check by the liberal BBC found, contrary to the Left’s claims, the Georgia law does not prevent voting after work, does not prevent ‘Souls to the Polls’ early voting on Sunday, and does not prevent election officials from handing out water to people standing in line. Further, the law institutionalizes drop boxes for early voting. Drop boxes didn’t exist before the pandemic.
A completely unbalanced story from the leftist Guardian repeats the lie the Georgia law prevents all water from being handed out to voters in line. The Guardian goes on to mischaracterize election integrity measures as blatantly racist voter suppression. Limiting early voting, removing ineligible voters from the rolls, and tightening requirements for absentee voting are all portrayed as attempts to keep minorities from voting. No, they are aimed at shutting down proven avenues of election fraud. Fraud has been known to occur with every one of these things and reformers are right to try to get a grip on the situation. Calling these things racist just doesn’t cut it. It’s no longer acceptable to have dead people voting, or more precisely, allowing fraudsters to use dead people’s names to vote. Why would anybody want that possibility to continue to exist? There’s only one reason the Left wants to strip away election safeguards like scrubbing the voter rolls, and that’s to steal elections.
Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver drew comparisons between the election laws in Georgia and Colorado. Georgia’s Governor said the move doesn’t make sense given that Georgia allows more days of early voting than Colorado does. NPR went through both sets of laws. It acknowledged both states have restrictions on early voting and both require voter ID in some instances. It went on to praise Colorado’s vote-by-mail approach as superior to Georgia’s traditional emphasis on voting in person. 99.3 percent of Colorado voters use mailboxes or dropboxes. But in praising Colorado’s mail-in approach and criticizing tighter restrictions in Georgia, NPR misses the forest for the trees. The forest is all the problems with universal mail-in balloting in the 2020 election NPR does not even mention:
- An audit in Missoula, Montana showed 7 percent of all mail-in ballots were missing the envelope, signature, or date
- 12,000 more mail-in ballots were returned in Pennsylvania than were officially sent out
- Also in Pennsylvania, 100,000 absentee and mail-in ballots were returned one day after, the same day, and even before they were supposedly sent out
- 25,000 nursing home residents in Pennsylvania requested mail-in ballots at the exact same time, suggesting extensive ballot harvesting
- 100,000 mail-in ballots were backdated and delivered after the election in Wisconsin
- Nevada’s largest county sent more than 200,000 mail-in ballots to outdated addresses in the 2020 primary election, which were returned ‘undeliverable’.
- signature verification thresholds were set so low in Nevada, almost every mail-in ballot was accepted
- a postal worker alleged an anti-Trump postmaster illegally ordered employees to back-date mail-in ballots so they could be counted
- A Democrat operative admitted to rigging elections in New Jersey with fake mail-in ballots and leading teams to commit voter fraud for years
- A New Jersey judge invalidated an entire election and ordered a new election for Paterson City Council due to pervasive mail-in voter fraud
NPR isn’t telling you any of this. It’s true election laws are tighter in Georgia than Colorado with its loosey-goosey mail-in approach. You can call me a racist, but I sure hope they are.
3/30/21 - The Left’s Phony Voter Suppression Narrative is Wearing Thin
It’s nice to see people on the political Right finally taking on the Left’s phony voter suppression narrative. The narrative has been out there for at least ten years and it’s making less and less sense by the day.
Senator Pat Toomey pointed out it’s a false narrative to say black people are not capable of getting voter ID. They get ID to drive a car and get on airplanes. “We’re not going to be cowed by being called racist over policy that has nothing to do with race,” he said.
Radio host Mark Levin observed the people calling for a vaccine passport are the same people who oppose voter ID. (3/29/21 show)
Congressman Mo Brooks said it’s racist to suggest whites, Asians, and Hispanics have no problem getting IDs, but somehow blacks need to be protected in this regard. The attitude “that somehow or another African Americans are inferior and unable to do what other races are doing” is racist, he said.
Black civil rights attorney Leo Terrell agrees. “I’m offended by anyone who tries to play the race card to protect me because I’m black,” he said. Anyone who tries to compare Georgia’s new voter ID requirement for absentee balloting to Jim Crow laws is way off base, he said. Jim Crow does not exist and voter ID requirements do not segregate by race. “I find it offensive for anyone to say that black people have a problem getting an identification card, a driver’s license, voter ID. You look at every demographic, everyone supports voter ID because we want to make sure that the people are the right person. Election integrity is to make sure we don’t have fraudulent voting,” Terrell said. He also pointed out that the long voting lines the Democrats complain about are in Democrat districts and the new Georgia law addresses them.
Phill Kline, director of the Amistad election integrity project, said private financing of elections by Mark Zuckerberg and others amounts to the government trying to increase the turnout of particular demographics, which is every bit as objectionable as targeting blacks to suppress their votes would be.
If these arguments don’t convince you, maybe facts will.
A watchdog report found that private money mixed up in administering public elections drove up Democrat turnout and may have swung Arizona to Biden. This is one reason a lot of people want to prohibit state and local governments from taking private money to administer elections.
The heavily Democratic town of Missoula, Montana had all mail-in balloting in the 2020 election. An audit showed that 7 percent were counted illegally because they were missing the envelope, signature, or dates, or had some other irregularity. That’s what happens when you strip away election safeguards for supposedly good reasons.
A court in Michigan ruled last week that 177,000 voter registrations were outdated and ordered them removed from the voter rolls. Too bad this didn’t happen before the 2020 election like it was supposed to.
Another court in Michigan ruled the Secretary of State unlawfully directed city clerks to ignore signature matching requirements on absentee ballots in the 2020 election.
Trying to keep ineligible voters on the rolls, ignoring signature requirements, and counting defective mail-in ballots - these things are being done, not to help minorities, but to help the Democrats steal elections and grab power, plain and simple. To deny this is reality suppression.
3/10/21 - Iowa Restores Important Election Safeguards
Lots of legislative proposals to promote election integrity have popped up in lots of states - 200 bills in 43 states, by one count - but it appears Iowa is first out of the gate with a new law signed on Monday.
The new law shortens early voting from 29 to 20 days. It requires most ballots to be received by Election Day, not noon the next Monday.
The new law also places restrictions on absentee voting. Election officials cannot send out absentee request forms unsolicited, and absentee ballots must now be returned by the voter, a family member, or a caregiver - not ballot harvesters hired by the Democrat Party or its minions.
The new law also removes voters from the voter rolls if they miss an election or don’t report a change in address.
The Democrats’ canned response to common sense election safeguards is ‘voter suppression’ - provisions like these make it harder for people to vote. To which my answer is, well, duh! Of course we want to make it harder for people who are not qualified to vote in our elections. There are good reasons for each and every one of the safeguards commonly used to secure elections. Requiring an ID makes it harder for people to buy beer, but we don’t want 12-year-olds buying beer. Requiring a Real ID makes it harder for people to get on an airplane, but we don’t want to raise the risk of terrorism by allowing people who are not who they say they are to fly. Requiring voter ID makes it harder to vote, but we don’t want dead people or noncitizens voting.
There’s only one reason the Democrats want to strip away all the safeguards - they want to steal elections and impose one-party rule forever. There’s only one reason Democrats want to make mail-in voting permanent everywhere - they want to cheat and are trying to exploit the pandemic to get their way. The Democrats want their ballot harvesters to be able to return absentee ballots, not because it will help minority voters, but because it will help the Democrats steal elections.
Loosey-goosey mail-in voting is no longer acceptable. Allowing Democrat ballot harvesters to traffic in absentee ballots is no longer acceptable. Leaving dead voters on the rolls is no longer acceptable. Each and every one of these things is a vector for election fraud.
If working to restore common sense safeguards to elections is voter suppression, I’ll eat my hat. Election integrity is a good message for everybody. Iowa just plugged some of the holes in its voting system, but there are lot’s more, there and everywhere. But if we’re going to restore confidence in our elections, this is the direction we need to be headed. Thank you, Iowa, for showing the way.
It’s nice to see people on the political Right finally taking on the Left’s phony voter suppression narrative. The narrative has been out there for at least ten years and it’s making less and less sense by the day.
Senator Pat Toomey pointed out it’s a false narrative to say black people are not capable of getting voter ID. They get ID to drive a car and get on airplanes. “We’re not going to be cowed by being called racist over policy that has nothing to do with race,” he said.
Radio host Mark Levin observed the people calling for a vaccine passport are the same people who oppose voter ID. (3/29/21 show)
Congressman Mo Brooks said it’s racist to suggest whites, Asians, and Hispanics have no problem getting IDs, but somehow blacks need to be protected in this regard. The attitude “that somehow or another African Americans are inferior and unable to do what other races are doing” is racist, he said.
Black civil rights attorney Leo Terrell agrees. “I’m offended by anyone who tries to play the race card to protect me because I’m black,” he said. Anyone who tries to compare Georgia’s new voter ID requirement for absentee balloting to Jim Crow laws is way off base, he said. Jim Crow does not exist and voter ID requirements do not segregate by race. “I find it offensive for anyone to say that black people have a problem getting an identification card, a driver’s license, voter ID. You look at every demographic, everyone supports voter ID because we want to make sure that the people are the right person. Election integrity is to make sure we don’t have fraudulent voting,” Terrell said. He also pointed out that the long voting lines the Democrats complain about are in Democrat districts and the new Georgia law addresses them.
Phill Kline, director of the Amistad election integrity project, said private financing of elections by Mark Zuckerberg and others amounts to the government trying to increase the turnout of particular demographics, which is every bit as objectionable as targeting blacks to suppress their votes would be.
If these arguments don’t convince you, maybe facts will.
A watchdog report found that private money mixed up in administering public elections drove up Democrat turnout and may have swung Arizona to Biden. This is one reason a lot of people want to prohibit state and local governments from taking private money to administer elections.
The heavily Democratic town of Missoula, Montana had all mail-in balloting in the 2020 election. An audit showed that 7 percent were counted illegally because they were missing the envelope, signature, or dates, or had some other irregularity. That’s what happens when you strip away election safeguards for supposedly good reasons.
A court in Michigan ruled last week that 177,000 voter registrations were outdated and ordered them removed from the voter rolls. Too bad this didn’t happen before the 2020 election like it was supposed to.
Another court in Michigan ruled the Secretary of State unlawfully directed city clerks to ignore signature matching requirements on absentee ballots in the 2020 election.
Trying to keep ineligible voters on the rolls, ignoring signature requirements, and counting defective mail-in ballots - these things are being done, not to help minorities, but to help the Democrats steal elections and grab power, plain and simple. To deny this is reality suppression.
3/10/21 - Iowa Restores Important Election Safeguards
Lots of legislative proposals to promote election integrity have popped up in lots of states - 200 bills in 43 states, by one count - but it appears Iowa is first out of the gate with a new law signed on Monday.
The new law shortens early voting from 29 to 20 days. It requires most ballots to be received by Election Day, not noon the next Monday.
The new law also places restrictions on absentee voting. Election officials cannot send out absentee request forms unsolicited, and absentee ballots must now be returned by the voter, a family member, or a caregiver - not ballot harvesters hired by the Democrat Party or its minions.
The new law also removes voters from the voter rolls if they miss an election or don’t report a change in address.
The Democrats’ canned response to common sense election safeguards is ‘voter suppression’ - provisions like these make it harder for people to vote. To which my answer is, well, duh! Of course we want to make it harder for people who are not qualified to vote in our elections. There are good reasons for each and every one of the safeguards commonly used to secure elections. Requiring an ID makes it harder for people to buy beer, but we don’t want 12-year-olds buying beer. Requiring a Real ID makes it harder for people to get on an airplane, but we don’t want to raise the risk of terrorism by allowing people who are not who they say they are to fly. Requiring voter ID makes it harder to vote, but we don’t want dead people or noncitizens voting.
There’s only one reason the Democrats want to strip away all the safeguards - they want to steal elections and impose one-party rule forever. There’s only one reason Democrats want to make mail-in voting permanent everywhere - they want to cheat and are trying to exploit the pandemic to get their way. The Democrats want their ballot harvesters to be able to return absentee ballots, not because it will help minority voters, but because it will help the Democrats steal elections.
Loosey-goosey mail-in voting is no longer acceptable. Allowing Democrat ballot harvesters to traffic in absentee ballots is no longer acceptable. Leaving dead voters on the rolls is no longer acceptable. Each and every one of these things is a vector for election fraud.
If working to restore common sense safeguards to elections is voter suppression, I’ll eat my hat. Election integrity is a good message for everybody. Iowa just plugged some of the holes in its voting system, but there are lot’s more, there and everywhere. But if we’re going to restore confidence in our elections, this is the direction we need to be headed. Thank you, Iowa, for showing the way.
3/1/21 - The Voter Suppression Narrative Has Run Its Course
NPR ran a story over the weekend about how Republicans are trying to pass laws in several states to make it harder to vote. The story is a masterpiece of left-wing propaganda, but is easily deconstructed.
The story cites how those mean Republicans want to reduce early voting, limit voting by mail, change the rules for drop boxes, and strengthen voter ID requirements for absentee ballots. Oh, the horror! The story goes on to impugn the motives of anyone who wants election integrity: they must be racist or afraid because the nation is becoming non-white.
There’s always something artificial in the arguments the Left makes. They hope you will overlook the obvious. In this case, it’s obvious that things like mail-in balloting, drop boxes, and early voting only came about because of the pandemic. Many of the reforms being sought merely seek to restore the status quo ante before these emergency election procedures were adopted, emergency procedures the Democrats are now trying to make permanent.
Here’s how the story should have been written: Republicans in many states are attempting to restore confidence in the elections. They seek to reverse emergency voting measures adopted in the pandemic that raised many questions about election integrity, such as chaotic mail-in balloting and unmonitored drop boxes.
There’s only one reason the Democrats want to strip away election safeguards permanently - they want to steal elections. They place the race card to silence anyone who dares to talk about election integrity - another favorite parlor trick of the Left. It’s funny how Democrats dismiss voter fraud, until it happens to them. There are plenty of examples of Democrat-on-Democrat voter fraud and the losing Democrat candidate screaming bloody murder about it.
The Left’s voter suppression narrative - out there doing its thing for the last 10 years - has just about run its course. It’s no longer acceptable not to require an ID to vote. It’s no longer acceptable not to match signatures on absentee ballots. It’s no longer acceptable not to have numbered ballots, so middle-of-the-night ballot dumps from out of state or China are no longer possible. It’s no longer acceptable to have voting machines that are deliberately designed to generate 68 percent error rates that elections officials can fill in any way they want, as happened in Antrim County, Michigan. It’s no longer acceptable to shut out Republicans from observing the election process. And it’s no longer acceptable to smear as racist half the country that wants the election safeguards stripped away in the pandemic to be restored.
These things are no longer acceptable. The Democrats are on notice. The Right is mobilizing to restore election integrity. There must be a hundred new election integrity projects that have sprung up around the country. We will not stop until safeguards have been restored and American citizens can have confidence in their elections once again. As for being afraid of the changing demographics of the country, the only color important here is gray, as in gray matter - how people think and whether the American Idea of freedom and individual rights will endure, and whether our Republic will endure regardless of who’s living here. Election integrity is a good message for everybody.
NPR ran a story over the weekend about how Republicans are trying to pass laws in several states to make it harder to vote. The story is a masterpiece of left-wing propaganda, but is easily deconstructed.
The story cites how those mean Republicans want to reduce early voting, limit voting by mail, change the rules for drop boxes, and strengthen voter ID requirements for absentee ballots. Oh, the horror! The story goes on to impugn the motives of anyone who wants election integrity: they must be racist or afraid because the nation is becoming non-white.
There’s always something artificial in the arguments the Left makes. They hope you will overlook the obvious. In this case, it’s obvious that things like mail-in balloting, drop boxes, and early voting only came about because of the pandemic. Many of the reforms being sought merely seek to restore the status quo ante before these emergency election procedures were adopted, emergency procedures the Democrats are now trying to make permanent.
Here’s how the story should have been written: Republicans in many states are attempting to restore confidence in the elections. They seek to reverse emergency voting measures adopted in the pandemic that raised many questions about election integrity, such as chaotic mail-in balloting and unmonitored drop boxes.
There’s only one reason the Democrats want to strip away election safeguards permanently - they want to steal elections. They place the race card to silence anyone who dares to talk about election integrity - another favorite parlor trick of the Left. It’s funny how Democrats dismiss voter fraud, until it happens to them. There are plenty of examples of Democrat-on-Democrat voter fraud and the losing Democrat candidate screaming bloody murder about it.
The Left’s voter suppression narrative - out there doing its thing for the last 10 years - has just about run its course. It’s no longer acceptable not to require an ID to vote. It’s no longer acceptable not to match signatures on absentee ballots. It’s no longer acceptable not to have numbered ballots, so middle-of-the-night ballot dumps from out of state or China are no longer possible. It’s no longer acceptable to have voting machines that are deliberately designed to generate 68 percent error rates that elections officials can fill in any way they want, as happened in Antrim County, Michigan. It’s no longer acceptable to shut out Republicans from observing the election process. And it’s no longer acceptable to smear as racist half the country that wants the election safeguards stripped away in the pandemic to be restored.
These things are no longer acceptable. The Democrats are on notice. The Right is mobilizing to restore election integrity. There must be a hundred new election integrity projects that have sprung up around the country. We will not stop until safeguards have been restored and American citizens can have confidence in their elections once again. As for being afraid of the changing demographics of the country, the only color important here is gray, as in gray matter - how people think and whether the American Idea of freedom and individual rights will endure, and whether our Republic will endure regardless of who’s living here. Election integrity is a good message for everybody.