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12/14/22 - Arizona’s Election Stinks to High Heaven
Kari Lake is challenging the results of Arizona’s gubernatorial election in court. An Arizona judge set motion and hearing dates in the case to conclude by the end of this week, with any trial to end by December 22nd. This court - unlike so many others, including the U.S. Supreme Court - is actually going to look at the evidence of election irregularities. And, boy, is there a lot to look at in Arizona.
Kari Lake’s lawsuit points to massive printer-tabulator failures, unregistered voters casting ballots, thousands of mail-in and drop box ballots that did not satisfy signature verification requirements, hundreds of thousands of ballots lacking chain of custody verification, and 25,000 ballots added to vote totals after election day without any explanation. The margin of victory was 17,000 votes. Critics counter that voters who experienced machine problems still had their ballots counted separately later.
Kari Lake is asking the court to declare her the winner by throwing out illegal ballots or, in the alternative, to order a new election with Democrat candidate and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer who have conflicts of interests barred from administering the election.
Additional legal challenges have been filed by Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh, Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, and a state senator.
The legal challenges are only half the picture. Other irregularities have been alleged that paint a very disturbing picture:
I mentioned conflicts of interest. As Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs was overseeing her own election, leading some to ask whether she was barred by state law from doing so. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer started a dark money PAC to work against Kari Lake. Hobbs and Richer both colluded with the federal government to get social media platforms to take down posts critical of Hobbs.
Republicans were excluded from hand recounts in close races in Maricopa County.
There is video evidence of illegal ballot harvesting, with a number of mules dropping multiple ballots into drop boxes.
There is a good argument to be made that the problems with the tabulators suppressed the Republican vote on election day - perhaps by design - as people got tired of long lines at polling places and gave up.
There were other problems in addition to lack of chain of custody documentation for mail-in ballots at Maricopa County’s print vendor Runbeck Election Services. Employees were allowed to add ballots to the mix and nobody knows how many were added. The Runbecks contribute frequently to the Democrat Party, its candidates, and aligned PACs.
Problems with the voter rolls were also reported - thousands of changes made and new voters added after legal deadlines, voters supposedly living at business addresses, and people casting ballots from addresses different from where their ballots were sent.
Nobody can look at all this and say with a straight face this was a free and fair election. Kudos to Kari Lake and the others for bringing legal challenges to get to the bottom of it.
Kari Lake is challenging the results of Arizona’s gubernatorial election in court. An Arizona judge set motion and hearing dates in the case to conclude by the end of this week, with any trial to end by December 22nd. This court - unlike so many others, including the U.S. Supreme Court - is actually going to look at the evidence of election irregularities. And, boy, is there a lot to look at in Arizona.
Kari Lake’s lawsuit points to massive printer-tabulator failures, unregistered voters casting ballots, thousands of mail-in and drop box ballots that did not satisfy signature verification requirements, hundreds of thousands of ballots lacking chain of custody verification, and 25,000 ballots added to vote totals after election day without any explanation. The margin of victory was 17,000 votes. Critics counter that voters who experienced machine problems still had their ballots counted separately later.
Kari Lake is asking the court to declare her the winner by throwing out illegal ballots or, in the alternative, to order a new election with Democrat candidate and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer who have conflicts of interests barred from administering the election.
Additional legal challenges have been filed by Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh, Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, and a state senator.
The legal challenges are only half the picture. Other irregularities have been alleged that paint a very disturbing picture:
I mentioned conflicts of interest. As Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs was overseeing her own election, leading some to ask whether she was barred by state law from doing so. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer started a dark money PAC to work against Kari Lake. Hobbs and Richer both colluded with the federal government to get social media platforms to take down posts critical of Hobbs.
Republicans were excluded from hand recounts in close races in Maricopa County.
There is video evidence of illegal ballot harvesting, with a number of mules dropping multiple ballots into drop boxes.
There is a good argument to be made that the problems with the tabulators suppressed the Republican vote on election day - perhaps by design - as people got tired of long lines at polling places and gave up.
There were other problems in addition to lack of chain of custody documentation for mail-in ballots at Maricopa County’s print vendor Runbeck Election Services. Employees were allowed to add ballots to the mix and nobody knows how many were added. The Runbecks contribute frequently to the Democrat Party, its candidates, and aligned PACs.
Problems with the voter rolls were also reported - thousands of changes made and new voters added after legal deadlines, voters supposedly living at business addresses, and people casting ballots from addresses different from where their ballots were sent.
Nobody can look at all this and say with a straight face this was a free and fair election. Kudos to Kari Lake and the others for bringing legal challenges to get to the bottom of it.
11/18/22 - Taking Stock of Election Integrity Efforts
Believe what you like about the 2020 presidential election, but there’s no denying the widespread belief - even among Democrats - the election was stolen motivated a lot of people to work to tighten up future elections. The way I hear the story, donors poured $30 million dollars into election integrity efforts on the professional Right. You can add to that hundreds of citizen’s groups and thousands of individuals in the grassroots all working to secure elections like never before. So what do they have to show for all that treasure and effort?
A lot, actually. There were fewer reports of late night ballot drops and Republican poll watchers being blocked this time around. A Republican lawsuit forced Nevada and Arizona to offer poll-worker data to ensure both parties are equally represented at voting sites. Another Republican challenge struck down a New York law that would have added 900,000 noncitizens to the voter rolls. There was yet another court ruling upholding voter ID, something most Americans support. High voter turnout in Georgia put the nail in the coffin of the Democrat’s phony narrative new election integrity laws passed by Republicans in several states are voter suppression. Jim Crow 2.0? Hardly. It was all Democrat hogwash. Oh, and what happened to all that Republican violence and all those disruptive Republican election workers we were supposed to see on Election Day? It didn’t happen. It was just hogwash. You can put it right next to all the other Democrat hogwash. Now, left-wing organizations have to explain to their base why it didn’t happen and they’re saying it was because elections officials were ready for trouble. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
So there were some wins, but we still have miles to go before we can express confidence in our elections again. A number of suspicious things happened in the midterms. Ballots arrived after the legal deadline with no adequate explanation at the Detroit bureau of elections, reminiscent of the 2020 election. A Democrat candidate got 1,100 votes in a town in New Hampshire that only has 700 people - how does that happen?
Turning to another subject, there is now something of a split among conservatives as to how to deal with the changes Democrats have brought to the election process in the last couple of years - what should we do going forward?
One school of thought holds the Democrats are winning elections because they have succeeded in gaming the system. People on this side of the debate point to Democrat victories in states that sent out over a million absentee ballots or states with permanent absentee ballot lists - ask for an absentee ballot once and you keep getting them in future elections. Having this many ballots floating around facilitates fraud and produced Democrat wins in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona. Republicans did better in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia where absentee voting rules are stricter. Swing states with same-day registration like Michigan and Wisconsin went blue in this election. Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia don’t have same-day registration and went red. This school of thought believes all went according to Democrat plan and that Republicans should work to reverse things like mail-in voting and drop boxes.
But a new school of thought holds Republicans should accept all these things are here to stay and should learn to adapt to the new environment. Republicans should become aggressive in ballot curing, ballot harvesting where legal, and encouraging mail-in voting to avoid Election Day glitches. Adherents to this school of thought attribute the Republicans flipping the U.S. House to aggressive Republican ballot curing and harvesting in California. Republican candidates in Arizona urged voters to make sure their ballots were counted and to cure them if they were not.
Call me old school, but I’m not convinced. I get suspicious whenever anyone tells me I should do what the Democrats want me to do. Look at Michigan - voters just approved a ballot initiative from the Democrat side that will loosen voter ID, institutionalize early voting, mandate the use of drop boxes, create a permanent absentee ballot list, narrow the ability of citizens to challenge elections, and allow private money to be used for election administration. As for the latter, it’s pretty clear the true purpose of private money is to allow Democrat election officials to engage in voter registration drives to sign up more Democrats to vote. The consequence of all these changes the Democrats wanted will be less secure elections in Michigan in the future.
That’s the Democrat plan and I, for one, am not going to go along with it. I will continue my work with other activists in my state to fight all the changes the Democrats have made to our elections process. The Democrats will not quit. They will continue to try to subvert our elections. We must continue to oppose them and keep working to right the ship.
11/17/22 - How to Cheat in the Next Election
It’s amazing how many ways Democrats have come up with to cheat in elections.
Ballot harvesters were caught on video stuffing drop boxes with stacks of ballots in Arizona, where ballot harvesting is illegal. It’s legal in Pennsylvania where Democrat election officials voted to allow harvesting of a hundred votes at a time in nursing homes. It may be legal, but I still call it cheating because Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes where many residents are no longer compos mentis.
One reason ballot harvesting is a bad idea is that it allows cheaters to pay people for their votes. A Texas man admitted a Democrat nominee paid him $200 for every fraudulent absentee ballot he could deliver in the 2016 election.
A Democrat poll worker in Indiana told voters how to vote and even pressed “straight Democrat” on a machine for one of them.
A group of unidentified men in black threw an independent poll challenger out of the big voting center in Detroit in the August primary for asking why a voting machine was apparently connected to the Internet. A court subsequently ruled the Secretary of State did not have authority to issue rules to allow poll challengers to be thrown out for asking too many questions.
Elections officials in St. Louis told volunteer poll workers not to enforce the state’s new photo ID law.
So excuse me for not taking Democrat election ‘reforms’ - so-called - at face value. The only reason Democrats want mail-in voting and refuse to clean the voter rolls is so they can cheat.
Voting by mail is a mess. Some ballots end up on the ground, others are sent to vacant lots. The number returned as undeliverable can run into the tens of thousands in any given county.
Because Democrats refuse to clean the voter rolls in many areas, ballots are sent to dead voters, people are sent duplicate ballots, and ballots are mailed to people who have moved away. Pennsylvania sent 240,000 ballots to voters for the 2022 election without verifying their identity. Michigan had 26,000 dead voters on the rolls last year. Minnesota had over 500 duplicates.
Why does it matter? Because you have to have dirty voter rolls to cheat. First, you have to grab a bunch of ballots floating around from mail-in voting, for example. But then you have to match up your fraudulently cast ballots with records of voters still on the rolls who are not going to vote this time, like dead people. You can’t do that very easily if the voter rolls are cleaned up.
Among other efforts to clean up voter rolls, there is a team working to identify phantom names and incorrect addresses on the rolls in Wisconsin and about 20 other states. This team is using fractal programming technology which starts with small batches but can be scaled up to millions of records quickly and inexpensively. The team will eventually be working in all 50 states.
It’s citizen-led efforts like this that will make cheating much harder and restore confidence in our elections, once again.
11/16/22 - The Boast in the Machine
Voting machines caused chaos in Maricopa County, Arizona on Election Day:
An election judge in a Republican area in the county believes the problems were intentional. The tabulators were set up for 19-inch ballots, but the ballots were 20 inches and rejected.
I wish I could tell you these were the only problems with machines in this year’s elections, but there were lots more.
Twenty-five thousand votes for a third-party candidate for U.S. Senate in New York disappeared overnight. This has not been explained, as far as I’m aware. Also in New York, identical election results were reported across multiple counties, with Democrats winning every time. How does that happen?
Voting machines went out of service in New Jersey and Texas.
Security features were found to be turned off in several voting machines in Georgia. This was discovered when a fraudulent ballot printed on looseleaf paper turned up. The machines are supposed to detect when the paper does not meet requirements. So who turned off the security features and why?
A Democrat in Colorado was arrested for inserting a USB flash drive into a voting machine during a primary election in June. This is one way to get a machine to flip votes.
We keep hearing that voting machines don’t connect to the Internet and, thus, results can’t be tampered with from the outside, but the Colorado Secretary of State admitted in writing Dominion machines have Wi-Fi connectivity.
An audit in New Mexico last month found a 25 percent difference between machine counts and hand counts in a primary election.
In a Virginia county, it was found the number of votes recorded by scanners was different from the number of paper ballots dropping down into the box below. How does that happen?
None of this inspires confidence, especially when you hear things like Barack Obama saying in 2008 “I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.” Or a Dominion voting system executive caught on video explaining to election officials in 2020 how to use the machines to alter election results. Or the director of an electronic voting system company admitting that an entire election in Venezuela was stolen when a million votes were flipped in 2017.
No wonder some people want to get rid of the machines entirely and count paper ballots by hand again, like in France which doesn’t seem to have any trouble getting it done the same day. Short of that, machine certification standards could be tightened, elections officials could do a better job of selecting equipment that actually meets specifications, and machines could be tested more rigorously before elections. Whatever the solution, it’s clear the present state of affairs causes distrust in our elections and is, therefore, untenable.
11/15/22 - The Elections: Using the Perfect to Spur the Good
Yesterday, I told you about a set of problems that were identified and fixed in the run-up to the elections. Unfortunately, it’s a game of whack-a-mole. Plenty more problems arose in the 2022 cycle that need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again.
We start with the Arizona governor’s race, which media outlets have just called for the Democrat, Katie Hobbs. Problems with voting machines not working lead to long lines and wait times at one out of every five precincts. Critics said the best machines were sent to liberal districts, handing Republicans the short end of the stick. A judge refused to extend voting hours in Republican areas. Another problem: every mail-in ballot in Maricopa County - Arizona’s largest, near Phoenix - is sent from the post office to a printing company to be scanned before being taken to an election office. This takes 10-12 days, keeps elections officials from knowing how many ballots have been returned, and creates additional opportunities for fraud. The whole process could be taken in-house for a relatively small cost, begging the question: why all these extra hoops? All of these happenings in Maricopa County have been heavily criticized as unnecessary and not normal, things that don’t occur in other jurisdictions that manage to count their votes by Election Day.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation into malfeasance and possible criminal conduct in the Harris County elections near Houston. One of the problems cited is not enough ballots in Republican precincts. The problems in Harris County are long-standing, with the previous elections administrator resigning in March after it was discovered 10,000 ballots weren’t counted in the primary. The Texas Secretary of State has scheduled an audit of Harris County’s midterm elections results.
Funny how so many problems in our elections only affect Republicans. Do you think that’s an accident? Before you say I’m crazy, listen to this: An election worker in Philadelphia was caught on video inside a polling place telling an undercover journalist to “vote Democrat”. “I asked you to vote the ... Democrat down ballot because we’re trying to focus on, if the Democrats win, then at least they represent us,” the worker said. When the elections judge saw the video, he said, “That doesn’t look good.” Ya think?
I wish I could tell you that was the end of the problems last week, but we’re not even close:
More illegal electioneering took place in Philadelphia, with Democrat poll greeters not standing far enough away from the door at a polling place and Democrat candidate posters plastered on the building itself, all of which is illegal.
Also near Philadelphia, mail-in ballots were pre-processed without poll watchers present in violation of state law.
Republicans showed up to vote in Detroit, only to be told they already voted. This is an indication their identities were stolen and their ballots were fraudulently cast in their names.
Conservative Jewish voters in New York had to stand in line for hours, a problem not reported in liberal precincts.
All of this doesn’t even count apparent funny business with voting machines, which I’ll tell you about tomorrow.
But, for now, realize our elections process will never be perfect, there will always be holes and opportunities for fraud. The work will never be finished. All we can do is keep banging away, fix the holes we can, and go on to the next. We can strive for perfection, but we won’t ever achieve it. However, with enough effort, we can reach the point where things will be tight enough we can have confidence in our elections again, but only if enough people keep working at it.
11/14/22 - Election Problem Deniers, Take Note
Today, I start a series on problems with our election system. The election problem deniers will tell you ‘nothing to see here, move along,’ but there’s no shortage of undeniable problems.
Let’s start with stories about courts and government officials who rectified a number of problems in the days and weeks running up to the election.
The Delaware Supreme Court struck down no-fault absentee balloting and same-day voter registration because they violated the state constitution.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated the use of drop boxes which the state elections commission had instituted without authority.
Elections officials in Pennsylvania were allowing mail-in ballots returned with missing or incorrect dates on the envelope, but the state Supreme Court put a stop to it.
A Virginia judge ordered county election officials to follow state law and assign the main poll workers from different political parties in each precinct. I’m in touch with activists from all over the country and ‘party parity’, as it is called, remains a problem in many places.
Hmm... I detect a pattern here, so far. The problems I’ve mentioned came about because Democrats broke the law. They’re scofflaws.
That means they have a lot in common with people recently charged with voter fraud. Arizona indicted two people with illegal ballot harvesting last month. They collected ballots from early voters and put them in a drop box. That’s illegal in Arizona, but remains a problem in states like Virginia where the practice is legal. It’s a bad practice. Ballot harvesters have been known to pay people for votes, as in a ballot harvesting scheme just uncovered in Florida. Also, nothing prevents fraudsters from stealing mail ballots, say, from apartment building lobbies, filling them out themselves, and dropping them in a ballot box. There are too many loose ballots floating around before election day to think ballot harvesting is a good idea. Ballot harvesting is a Democrat idea. No wonder they don’t want to talk about it, or the unsecured drop boxes that enable ballot harvesting schemes. The Chester County Pennsylvania elections board settled a lawsuit by agreeing to secure their drop boxes after activist surveillance video showed people dropping multiple ballots into the boxes. Voters can only put their own ballot into the boxes, not ballots collected from others. The board agreed to put up cameras and staff the boxes.
Democrats are still trying to hang on to changes made to the electoral process because of COVID, but a state judge ruled New York can no longer use COVID as an excuse for emergency rules and knocked down absentee voting rules that had been expanded during the pandemic. Fewer loose ballots floating around - sorry, Democrats.
For the Democrats to sustain their phony election denier and voter suppression narratives, they’re going to have to prove that all the courts, law enforcement and elections officials I mentioned here today are election deniers who are trying to suppress the vote. They’re all part of a vast conspiracy trying to deny people their civil rights. Good luck with that.
The correct analysis is the Democrats caused a bunch of problems, they won’t talk about the problems they themselves created, and they won’t fix them until forced to. Fine, they’re on notice: the process of fixing our elections has begun and we won’t stop until we are confident we have free and fair elections once again. Don’t mess with OUR right to vote.
10/20/22 - Deconstructing the ‘Election Denier’ Smear
The ‘election denier’ drumbeat is getting louder and more persistent. I’m seeing lots of scare stories now, three weeks out from Election Day - ‘don’t elect election deniers; they’re a threat to democracy.’ The Democrats must think their smear job and fearmongering are working, but I assure you, they’re not. Republicans are ready, and they have the better arguments.
Kari Lake got a question on the campaign trail about being an election denier. She whipped out a stack of pages listing all the Democrats who have denied election results since 2000. That would include Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton. One thinks she’s the Governor of Georgia and the other thinks she’s President. That’s just for starters. The Republican Party put together a list of 150 Democrat election deniers. The list includes Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Maxine Waters, and many, many more. You can watch a video that goes on for 12 minutes full of Democrats refusing to accept the results of elections they lost.
Another Republican candidate was ready for the smear. Democrat Senator Patty Murray of Washington state slammed her Republican opponent Tiffany Smiley for questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. But Smiley came right back, calling Murray a hypocrite who shouldn’t be lecturing anyone about democracy because Murray herself questioned the results of the 2004 presidential election. Murray had no response.
But the best answer to the election denier smear came from a congressional candidate in Virginia who was asked, “Do you believe the 2020 election was free, fair and untainted, and Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States?” Hung Cao responded: “Sir, Joe Biden is the president of the United States. If you don’t believe me, go to your gas pumps, or go to your grocery stores, and that’ll tell you who is.” Master stroke. Put the stupid Democrats in their place.
The Democrats huff and puff about Republicans pursuing the idea of alternative electors to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election. We now even have the spectacle of the FBI and Justice Department attempting to criminalize the effort and issuing grand jury subpoenas to the people involved. But let’s not forget challenges to presidential electors go all the way back to 1876 and it was the Democrats who challenged electors in 1960, 2000, and 2004. Nobody issued grand jury subpoenas then, nor should they have.
My own response to this election denier business is that just because they’re election deniers doesn’t mean they’re not right about needed reforms. Starting with cleaning the voter rolls, which is just common sense. I love to hear Democrats twist themselves all into knots defending the idea of leaving dead people on the rolls. Another common sense reform is voter ID, which is supported by most Americans of all stripes and has been upheld by just about every court that has looked at it, including one in Missouri just last week. The Democrat argument on voter ID is completely racist - that black people are too stupid to get a photo ID. I just heard about a state, I forget where, that sends out mobile vans to anyone who asks and gives them a photo ID on the spot, free of charge. The Democrats can jump up and down and scream all they want, but they really have no argument left. So, tell me how putting people in office who care about free and fair elections is a bad thing. You’re going to have to explain that one to me, because it doesn’t make any sense.
But a New York Times reporter and book author - Robert Draper - just called people like me ‘insincere’ in advocating reforms for future elections. People like me are just giving cover to the 2020 election deniers, because we won’t denounce them. Following this to its logical conclusion, we can never take steps to secure our elections ever again because that would always affirm the people who challenged the election results in 2020. Let’s see how well that logic holds up in the year 2120. Hey, whatever sells books.
Here’s what I denounce: Hypocritical Democrats who get hysterical about Republican election deniers but not those in their own party. Partisan government officials who attempt to criminalize alternate electors following the constitutional process for challenging presidential election results. And, most of all, anyone with phony narratives and smear tactics who stands between me and my vote counting just as much as anyone else’s in free and fair elections.
Believe what you like about the 2020 presidential election, but there’s no denying the widespread belief - even among Democrats - the election was stolen motivated a lot of people to work to tighten up future elections. The way I hear the story, donors poured $30 million dollars into election integrity efforts on the professional Right. You can add to that hundreds of citizen’s groups and thousands of individuals in the grassroots all working to secure elections like never before. So what do they have to show for all that treasure and effort?
A lot, actually. There were fewer reports of late night ballot drops and Republican poll watchers being blocked this time around. A Republican lawsuit forced Nevada and Arizona to offer poll-worker data to ensure both parties are equally represented at voting sites. Another Republican challenge struck down a New York law that would have added 900,000 noncitizens to the voter rolls. There was yet another court ruling upholding voter ID, something most Americans support. High voter turnout in Georgia put the nail in the coffin of the Democrat’s phony narrative new election integrity laws passed by Republicans in several states are voter suppression. Jim Crow 2.0? Hardly. It was all Democrat hogwash. Oh, and what happened to all that Republican violence and all those disruptive Republican election workers we were supposed to see on Election Day? It didn’t happen. It was just hogwash. You can put it right next to all the other Democrat hogwash. Now, left-wing organizations have to explain to their base why it didn’t happen and they’re saying it was because elections officials were ready for trouble. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
So there were some wins, but we still have miles to go before we can express confidence in our elections again. A number of suspicious things happened in the midterms. Ballots arrived after the legal deadline with no adequate explanation at the Detroit bureau of elections, reminiscent of the 2020 election. A Democrat candidate got 1,100 votes in a town in New Hampshire that only has 700 people - how does that happen?
Turning to another subject, there is now something of a split among conservatives as to how to deal with the changes Democrats have brought to the election process in the last couple of years - what should we do going forward?
One school of thought holds the Democrats are winning elections because they have succeeded in gaming the system. People on this side of the debate point to Democrat victories in states that sent out over a million absentee ballots or states with permanent absentee ballot lists - ask for an absentee ballot once and you keep getting them in future elections. Having this many ballots floating around facilitates fraud and produced Democrat wins in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona. Republicans did better in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia where absentee voting rules are stricter. Swing states with same-day registration like Michigan and Wisconsin went blue in this election. Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia don’t have same-day registration and went red. This school of thought believes all went according to Democrat plan and that Republicans should work to reverse things like mail-in voting and drop boxes.
But a new school of thought holds Republicans should accept all these things are here to stay and should learn to adapt to the new environment. Republicans should become aggressive in ballot curing, ballot harvesting where legal, and encouraging mail-in voting to avoid Election Day glitches. Adherents to this school of thought attribute the Republicans flipping the U.S. House to aggressive Republican ballot curing and harvesting in California. Republican candidates in Arizona urged voters to make sure their ballots were counted and to cure them if they were not.
Call me old school, but I’m not convinced. I get suspicious whenever anyone tells me I should do what the Democrats want me to do. Look at Michigan - voters just approved a ballot initiative from the Democrat side that will loosen voter ID, institutionalize early voting, mandate the use of drop boxes, create a permanent absentee ballot list, narrow the ability of citizens to challenge elections, and allow private money to be used for election administration. As for the latter, it’s pretty clear the true purpose of private money is to allow Democrat election officials to engage in voter registration drives to sign up more Democrats to vote. The consequence of all these changes the Democrats wanted will be less secure elections in Michigan in the future.
That’s the Democrat plan and I, for one, am not going to go along with it. I will continue my work with other activists in my state to fight all the changes the Democrats have made to our elections process. The Democrats will not quit. They will continue to try to subvert our elections. We must continue to oppose them and keep working to right the ship.
11/17/22 - How to Cheat in the Next Election
It’s amazing how many ways Democrats have come up with to cheat in elections.
Ballot harvesters were caught on video stuffing drop boxes with stacks of ballots in Arizona, where ballot harvesting is illegal. It’s legal in Pennsylvania where Democrat election officials voted to allow harvesting of a hundred votes at a time in nursing homes. It may be legal, but I still call it cheating because Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes where many residents are no longer compos mentis.
One reason ballot harvesting is a bad idea is that it allows cheaters to pay people for their votes. A Texas man admitted a Democrat nominee paid him $200 for every fraudulent absentee ballot he could deliver in the 2016 election.
A Democrat poll worker in Indiana told voters how to vote and even pressed “straight Democrat” on a machine for one of them.
A group of unidentified men in black threw an independent poll challenger out of the big voting center in Detroit in the August primary for asking why a voting machine was apparently connected to the Internet. A court subsequently ruled the Secretary of State did not have authority to issue rules to allow poll challengers to be thrown out for asking too many questions.
Elections officials in St. Louis told volunteer poll workers not to enforce the state’s new photo ID law.
So excuse me for not taking Democrat election ‘reforms’ - so-called - at face value. The only reason Democrats want mail-in voting and refuse to clean the voter rolls is so they can cheat.
Voting by mail is a mess. Some ballots end up on the ground, others are sent to vacant lots. The number returned as undeliverable can run into the tens of thousands in any given county.
Because Democrats refuse to clean the voter rolls in many areas, ballots are sent to dead voters, people are sent duplicate ballots, and ballots are mailed to people who have moved away. Pennsylvania sent 240,000 ballots to voters for the 2022 election without verifying their identity. Michigan had 26,000 dead voters on the rolls last year. Minnesota had over 500 duplicates.
Why does it matter? Because you have to have dirty voter rolls to cheat. First, you have to grab a bunch of ballots floating around from mail-in voting, for example. But then you have to match up your fraudulently cast ballots with records of voters still on the rolls who are not going to vote this time, like dead people. You can’t do that very easily if the voter rolls are cleaned up.
Among other efforts to clean up voter rolls, there is a team working to identify phantom names and incorrect addresses on the rolls in Wisconsin and about 20 other states. This team is using fractal programming technology which starts with small batches but can be scaled up to millions of records quickly and inexpensively. The team will eventually be working in all 50 states.
It’s citizen-led efforts like this that will make cheating much harder and restore confidence in our elections, once again.
11/16/22 - The Boast in the Machine
Voting machines caused chaos in Maricopa County, Arizona on Election Day:
- "Maricopa County was absolutely insane," [a voter] said. "I mean, I woke up to messages everywhere about, you know, this polling location is closed, people are in line, they're kicking them out, this polling location is closed, whatever."
We "got in line, I got my ballot, filled it out, went to the machines, and it was rejected," she continued. "Then they said, 'Go over to the other machine,' it was rejected.... And finally, after about 10 times, we spoiled it.... And finally, my third ballot and about, you know, five or six times they finally accepted it.... And that was happening all around me.
An election judge in a Republican area in the county believes the problems were intentional. The tabulators were set up for 19-inch ballots, but the ballots were 20 inches and rejected.
I wish I could tell you these were the only problems with machines in this year’s elections, but there were lots more.
Twenty-five thousand votes for a third-party candidate for U.S. Senate in New York disappeared overnight. This has not been explained, as far as I’m aware. Also in New York, identical election results were reported across multiple counties, with Democrats winning every time. How does that happen?
Voting machines went out of service in New Jersey and Texas.
Security features were found to be turned off in several voting machines in Georgia. This was discovered when a fraudulent ballot printed on looseleaf paper turned up. The machines are supposed to detect when the paper does not meet requirements. So who turned off the security features and why?
A Democrat in Colorado was arrested for inserting a USB flash drive into a voting machine during a primary election in June. This is one way to get a machine to flip votes.
We keep hearing that voting machines don’t connect to the Internet and, thus, results can’t be tampered with from the outside, but the Colorado Secretary of State admitted in writing Dominion machines have Wi-Fi connectivity.
An audit in New Mexico last month found a 25 percent difference between machine counts and hand counts in a primary election.
In a Virginia county, it was found the number of votes recorded by scanners was different from the number of paper ballots dropping down into the box below. How does that happen?
None of this inspires confidence, especially when you hear things like Barack Obama saying in 2008 “I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.” Or a Dominion voting system executive caught on video explaining to election officials in 2020 how to use the machines to alter election results. Or the director of an electronic voting system company admitting that an entire election in Venezuela was stolen when a million votes were flipped in 2017.
No wonder some people want to get rid of the machines entirely and count paper ballots by hand again, like in France which doesn’t seem to have any trouble getting it done the same day. Short of that, machine certification standards could be tightened, elections officials could do a better job of selecting equipment that actually meets specifications, and machines could be tested more rigorously before elections. Whatever the solution, it’s clear the present state of affairs causes distrust in our elections and is, therefore, untenable.
11/15/22 - The Elections: Using the Perfect to Spur the Good
Yesterday, I told you about a set of problems that were identified and fixed in the run-up to the elections. Unfortunately, it’s a game of whack-a-mole. Plenty more problems arose in the 2022 cycle that need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again.
We start with the Arizona governor’s race, which media outlets have just called for the Democrat, Katie Hobbs. Problems with voting machines not working lead to long lines and wait times at one out of every five precincts. Critics said the best machines were sent to liberal districts, handing Republicans the short end of the stick. A judge refused to extend voting hours in Republican areas. Another problem: every mail-in ballot in Maricopa County - Arizona’s largest, near Phoenix - is sent from the post office to a printing company to be scanned before being taken to an election office. This takes 10-12 days, keeps elections officials from knowing how many ballots have been returned, and creates additional opportunities for fraud. The whole process could be taken in-house for a relatively small cost, begging the question: why all these extra hoops? All of these happenings in Maricopa County have been heavily criticized as unnecessary and not normal, things that don’t occur in other jurisdictions that manage to count their votes by Election Day.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation into malfeasance and possible criminal conduct in the Harris County elections near Houston. One of the problems cited is not enough ballots in Republican precincts. The problems in Harris County are long-standing, with the previous elections administrator resigning in March after it was discovered 10,000 ballots weren’t counted in the primary. The Texas Secretary of State has scheduled an audit of Harris County’s midterm elections results.
Funny how so many problems in our elections only affect Republicans. Do you think that’s an accident? Before you say I’m crazy, listen to this: An election worker in Philadelphia was caught on video inside a polling place telling an undercover journalist to “vote Democrat”. “I asked you to vote the ... Democrat down ballot because we’re trying to focus on, if the Democrats win, then at least they represent us,” the worker said. When the elections judge saw the video, he said, “That doesn’t look good.” Ya think?
I wish I could tell you that was the end of the problems last week, but we’re not even close:
More illegal electioneering took place in Philadelphia, with Democrat poll greeters not standing far enough away from the door at a polling place and Democrat candidate posters plastered on the building itself, all of which is illegal.
Also near Philadelphia, mail-in ballots were pre-processed without poll watchers present in violation of state law.
Republicans showed up to vote in Detroit, only to be told they already voted. This is an indication their identities were stolen and their ballots were fraudulently cast in their names.
Conservative Jewish voters in New York had to stand in line for hours, a problem not reported in liberal precincts.
All of this doesn’t even count apparent funny business with voting machines, which I’ll tell you about tomorrow.
But, for now, realize our elections process will never be perfect, there will always be holes and opportunities for fraud. The work will never be finished. All we can do is keep banging away, fix the holes we can, and go on to the next. We can strive for perfection, but we won’t ever achieve it. However, with enough effort, we can reach the point where things will be tight enough we can have confidence in our elections again, but only if enough people keep working at it.
11/14/22 - Election Problem Deniers, Take Note
Today, I start a series on problems with our election system. The election problem deniers will tell you ‘nothing to see here, move along,’ but there’s no shortage of undeniable problems.
Let’s start with stories about courts and government officials who rectified a number of problems in the days and weeks running up to the election.
The Delaware Supreme Court struck down no-fault absentee balloting and same-day voter registration because they violated the state constitution.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated the use of drop boxes which the state elections commission had instituted without authority.
Elections officials in Pennsylvania were allowing mail-in ballots returned with missing or incorrect dates on the envelope, but the state Supreme Court put a stop to it.
A Virginia judge ordered county election officials to follow state law and assign the main poll workers from different political parties in each precinct. I’m in touch with activists from all over the country and ‘party parity’, as it is called, remains a problem in many places.
Hmm... I detect a pattern here, so far. The problems I’ve mentioned came about because Democrats broke the law. They’re scofflaws.
That means they have a lot in common with people recently charged with voter fraud. Arizona indicted two people with illegal ballot harvesting last month. They collected ballots from early voters and put them in a drop box. That’s illegal in Arizona, but remains a problem in states like Virginia where the practice is legal. It’s a bad practice. Ballot harvesters have been known to pay people for votes, as in a ballot harvesting scheme just uncovered in Florida. Also, nothing prevents fraudsters from stealing mail ballots, say, from apartment building lobbies, filling them out themselves, and dropping them in a ballot box. There are too many loose ballots floating around before election day to think ballot harvesting is a good idea. Ballot harvesting is a Democrat idea. No wonder they don’t want to talk about it, or the unsecured drop boxes that enable ballot harvesting schemes. The Chester County Pennsylvania elections board settled a lawsuit by agreeing to secure their drop boxes after activist surveillance video showed people dropping multiple ballots into the boxes. Voters can only put their own ballot into the boxes, not ballots collected from others. The board agreed to put up cameras and staff the boxes.
Democrats are still trying to hang on to changes made to the electoral process because of COVID, but a state judge ruled New York can no longer use COVID as an excuse for emergency rules and knocked down absentee voting rules that had been expanded during the pandemic. Fewer loose ballots floating around - sorry, Democrats.
For the Democrats to sustain their phony election denier and voter suppression narratives, they’re going to have to prove that all the courts, law enforcement and elections officials I mentioned here today are election deniers who are trying to suppress the vote. They’re all part of a vast conspiracy trying to deny people their civil rights. Good luck with that.
The correct analysis is the Democrats caused a bunch of problems, they won’t talk about the problems they themselves created, and they won’t fix them until forced to. Fine, they’re on notice: the process of fixing our elections has begun and we won’t stop until we are confident we have free and fair elections once again. Don’t mess with OUR right to vote.
10/20/22 - Deconstructing the ‘Election Denier’ Smear
The ‘election denier’ drumbeat is getting louder and more persistent. I’m seeing lots of scare stories now, three weeks out from Election Day - ‘don’t elect election deniers; they’re a threat to democracy.’ The Democrats must think their smear job and fearmongering are working, but I assure you, they’re not. Republicans are ready, and they have the better arguments.
Kari Lake got a question on the campaign trail about being an election denier. She whipped out a stack of pages listing all the Democrats who have denied election results since 2000. That would include Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton. One thinks she’s the Governor of Georgia and the other thinks she’s President. That’s just for starters. The Republican Party put together a list of 150 Democrat election deniers. The list includes Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Maxine Waters, and many, many more. You can watch a video that goes on for 12 minutes full of Democrats refusing to accept the results of elections they lost.
Another Republican candidate was ready for the smear. Democrat Senator Patty Murray of Washington state slammed her Republican opponent Tiffany Smiley for questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. But Smiley came right back, calling Murray a hypocrite who shouldn’t be lecturing anyone about democracy because Murray herself questioned the results of the 2004 presidential election. Murray had no response.
But the best answer to the election denier smear came from a congressional candidate in Virginia who was asked, “Do you believe the 2020 election was free, fair and untainted, and Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States?” Hung Cao responded: “Sir, Joe Biden is the president of the United States. If you don’t believe me, go to your gas pumps, or go to your grocery stores, and that’ll tell you who is.” Master stroke. Put the stupid Democrats in their place.
The Democrats huff and puff about Republicans pursuing the idea of alternative electors to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election. We now even have the spectacle of the FBI and Justice Department attempting to criminalize the effort and issuing grand jury subpoenas to the people involved. But let’s not forget challenges to presidential electors go all the way back to 1876 and it was the Democrats who challenged electors in 1960, 2000, and 2004. Nobody issued grand jury subpoenas then, nor should they have.
My own response to this election denier business is that just because they’re election deniers doesn’t mean they’re not right about needed reforms. Starting with cleaning the voter rolls, which is just common sense. I love to hear Democrats twist themselves all into knots defending the idea of leaving dead people on the rolls. Another common sense reform is voter ID, which is supported by most Americans of all stripes and has been upheld by just about every court that has looked at it, including one in Missouri just last week. The Democrat argument on voter ID is completely racist - that black people are too stupid to get a photo ID. I just heard about a state, I forget where, that sends out mobile vans to anyone who asks and gives them a photo ID on the spot, free of charge. The Democrats can jump up and down and scream all they want, but they really have no argument left. So, tell me how putting people in office who care about free and fair elections is a bad thing. You’re going to have to explain that one to me, because it doesn’t make any sense.
But a New York Times reporter and book author - Robert Draper - just called people like me ‘insincere’ in advocating reforms for future elections. People like me are just giving cover to the 2020 election deniers, because we won’t denounce them. Following this to its logical conclusion, we can never take steps to secure our elections ever again because that would always affirm the people who challenged the election results in 2020. Let’s see how well that logic holds up in the year 2120. Hey, whatever sells books.
Here’s what I denounce: Hypocritical Democrats who get hysterical about Republican election deniers but not those in their own party. Partisan government officials who attempt to criminalize alternate electors following the constitutional process for challenging presidential election results. And, most of all, anyone with phony narratives and smear tactics who stands between me and my vote counting just as much as anyone else’s in free and fair elections.
10/6/22 - Election Integrity Whack-a-Mole
Our elections are a mess and they won’t be fixed any time soon. Some recent stories will show you what I mean.
The use of private money to enable government election workers to conduct get-out-the-vote drives for the Democrats was heavily criticized in the 2020 election. The use of Zuckerbucks, as they are known, has been outlawed in some states, as a result. But elections officials in Milwaukee are back at it, using money tied to new Democrat donors and partnering with a Democrat activist group to get out the vote for Democrats this time around. The Wisconsin Republican Party has sued.
Then there’s the perennial problem of dirty voter rolls, which the Democrats resist fixing at every turn. Federal law requires states to maintain accurate lists, but many do not. Several counties in Minnesota have just been sued for failing to remove duplicate registrations from their rolls. In New York, more than 3 million voters - almost one out of four - lack a driver’s license or Social Security number to prove their identity. This results in duplicate registrations which can facilitate fraud. Cheaters need actual extra voter records of people who don’t vote in order to cast phony ballots in their name. So who the heck are these unidentified people and should they really be on the rolls?
The Wisconsin Elections Commission told election workers they can fill in missing information to complete absentee ballots, then count them, even though state law requires the voter be contacted to cure the ballot. This prompted a lawsuit which the Democratic National Committee is seeking to join to have the law declared voter suppression. That’s a head scratcher. Why would the Democrats want to count incomplete absentee ballots that could well be fraudulent?
More Democrat funny business with absentee ballots took place in New Hampshire where the state Democratic Party was mailing out absentee ballot applications to 39 towns. The applications inaccurately claimed the voters had requested them and the return addresses were either wrong or were for entities that didn’t even exist. Voters were being disenfranchised and the state Attorney General ordered the Democratic Party to cease and desist.
Then there’s outright fraud. A former Democrat congressman in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 30 months for orchestrating schemes to stuff ballot boxes for Democrat candidates for several years. He admitted to bribing a Democrat elections official to add votes to Democrat candidate totals. Four people in North Carolina pled guilty for their role in absentee ballot fraud in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The scheme involved collecting blank or incomplete absentee ballots, filling in candidate choices, and forging the voter’s signature. More cases are pending.
A federal judge upheld Georgia’s new election integrity laws, including voter ID and citizenship checks. Stacey Abrams had been going around for years claiming Georgia’s laws are voter suppression. The judge disagreed. The case is also notable because here we have yet another court upholding voter ID, which is only common sense and another head-scratcher as to why the Democrats would oppose it. You gotta ask yourself why the Democrats keep trying to do away with voter ID. They used to say they want everyone to vote, but that’s so absurd you haven’t heard that line out of them for awhile.
A citizens group in Michigan sent the Democrat City Clerk in Flint a letter demanding she comply with a state law requiring party parity in the number of election inspectors. Flint has 92 percent Democrat inspectors and only 6 percent Republican. The City Clerk resigned rather than comply with the law. The same group filed a complaint to get the state out of ERIC, a supposed multistate voter roll maintenance operation which is actually a thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats. The state turns over confidential voter information to ERIC, which may not even be legal, thus outsourcing a core government function - maintaining the voter rolls - to a black box that won’t answer questions or file annual reports which is funded by Democrat-aligned money. Something’s wrong with this picture.
There are a thousand holes to be plugged before we can say with confidence our elections are secure. It’s a never-ending process of whack-a-mole, especially with the Democrats hell-bent on poking new holes at every opportunity. But we have no choice; we have to keep banging away at it. So don’t get mad at the Democrats’ election shenanigans, get involved.
Our elections are a mess and they won’t be fixed any time soon. Some recent stories will show you what I mean.
The use of private money to enable government election workers to conduct get-out-the-vote drives for the Democrats was heavily criticized in the 2020 election. The use of Zuckerbucks, as they are known, has been outlawed in some states, as a result. But elections officials in Milwaukee are back at it, using money tied to new Democrat donors and partnering with a Democrat activist group to get out the vote for Democrats this time around. The Wisconsin Republican Party has sued.
Then there’s the perennial problem of dirty voter rolls, which the Democrats resist fixing at every turn. Federal law requires states to maintain accurate lists, but many do not. Several counties in Minnesota have just been sued for failing to remove duplicate registrations from their rolls. In New York, more than 3 million voters - almost one out of four - lack a driver’s license or Social Security number to prove their identity. This results in duplicate registrations which can facilitate fraud. Cheaters need actual extra voter records of people who don’t vote in order to cast phony ballots in their name. So who the heck are these unidentified people and should they really be on the rolls?
The Wisconsin Elections Commission told election workers they can fill in missing information to complete absentee ballots, then count them, even though state law requires the voter be contacted to cure the ballot. This prompted a lawsuit which the Democratic National Committee is seeking to join to have the law declared voter suppression. That’s a head scratcher. Why would the Democrats want to count incomplete absentee ballots that could well be fraudulent?
More Democrat funny business with absentee ballots took place in New Hampshire where the state Democratic Party was mailing out absentee ballot applications to 39 towns. The applications inaccurately claimed the voters had requested them and the return addresses were either wrong or were for entities that didn’t even exist. Voters were being disenfranchised and the state Attorney General ordered the Democratic Party to cease and desist.
Then there’s outright fraud. A former Democrat congressman in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 30 months for orchestrating schemes to stuff ballot boxes for Democrat candidates for several years. He admitted to bribing a Democrat elections official to add votes to Democrat candidate totals. Four people in North Carolina pled guilty for their role in absentee ballot fraud in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The scheme involved collecting blank or incomplete absentee ballots, filling in candidate choices, and forging the voter’s signature. More cases are pending.
A federal judge upheld Georgia’s new election integrity laws, including voter ID and citizenship checks. Stacey Abrams had been going around for years claiming Georgia’s laws are voter suppression. The judge disagreed. The case is also notable because here we have yet another court upholding voter ID, which is only common sense and another head-scratcher as to why the Democrats would oppose it. You gotta ask yourself why the Democrats keep trying to do away with voter ID. They used to say they want everyone to vote, but that’s so absurd you haven’t heard that line out of them for awhile.
A citizens group in Michigan sent the Democrat City Clerk in Flint a letter demanding she comply with a state law requiring party parity in the number of election inspectors. Flint has 92 percent Democrat inspectors and only 6 percent Republican. The City Clerk resigned rather than comply with the law. The same group filed a complaint to get the state out of ERIC, a supposed multistate voter roll maintenance operation which is actually a thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats. The state turns over confidential voter information to ERIC, which may not even be legal, thus outsourcing a core government function - maintaining the voter rolls - to a black box that won’t answer questions or file annual reports which is funded by Democrat-aligned money. Something’s wrong with this picture.
There are a thousand holes to be plugged before we can say with confidence our elections are secure. It’s a never-ending process of whack-a-mole, especially with the Democrats hell-bent on poking new holes at every opportunity. But we have no choice; we have to keep banging away at it. So don’t get mad at the Democrats’ election shenanigans, get involved.
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.