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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.
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.
2/25/21 - Electronic Voting Machines Can Be Used to Steal Elections
Today, I’m back to the subject of electronic voting machines. I did not focus on what supposedly happened in Germany, Italy, Spain, or China in the presidential election. I focused on Antrim County, Michigan where the only forensic examination of a machine used in the 2020 election was ordered by a court. The very first finding the forensic examiners made was that the machine, at the very outset, deliberately and by design, created a 68 percent error rate that elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted.
That’s not a machine that counts votes. That’s something else.
The news since then has not gotten any better.
A hand recount in a New Hampshire town showed Dominion machines cheated every Republican candidate out of roughly 300 votes. The same machines are used in 85 percent of all the towns in the state.
Data scientists testified in a Georgia Senate hearing in December that 30,000 votes were taken away from Trump and 12,000 more were switched to Biden through electronic voting machines. Another witness in the hearing debunked the notion electronic voting machines are not connected to the Internet, testifying his team was at that very moment inside a county machine, sending and receiving data.
A 2006 study found that Diebold machines can steal votes with little risk of detection.
The acting CIO of the federal agency responsible for certifying electronic voting machines worked for Dominion for 10 years. That may not prove anything by itself, but it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
There are also accusations several foreign countries, including China, interfered in the 2020 election through electronic voting machines. Democrats don’t seem to be scrambling to get to the bottom of that one.
Finally, Ireland and the Netherlands stopped using electronic voting machines years ago after finding them unreliable and unable to produce accurate results.
So what does all this mean? Half the country no longer has confidence in our elections. It’s pretty clear these machines don’t count votes, but allow election officials to make up any results they want. It’s also clear questions about foreign interference have not been answered. The best answer for these machines I’ve heard so far is to require open source software. The volunteer developers will be from all across the political spectrum and keep each other honest. But I’m hearing more and more calls to scrap the machines altogether and go back to paper ballots. There are at least a hundred new election integrity projects that have sprung up around the county, and you can bet we’re going to hear a whole lot more about these machines before it’s all over.
Today, I’m back to the subject of electronic voting machines. I did not focus on what supposedly happened in Germany, Italy, Spain, or China in the presidential election. I focused on Antrim County, Michigan where the only forensic examination of a machine used in the 2020 election was ordered by a court. The very first finding the forensic examiners made was that the machine, at the very outset, deliberately and by design, created a 68 percent error rate that elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted.
That’s not a machine that counts votes. That’s something else.
The news since then has not gotten any better.
A hand recount in a New Hampshire town showed Dominion machines cheated every Republican candidate out of roughly 300 votes. The same machines are used in 85 percent of all the towns in the state.
Data scientists testified in a Georgia Senate hearing in December that 30,000 votes were taken away from Trump and 12,000 more were switched to Biden through electronic voting machines. Another witness in the hearing debunked the notion electronic voting machines are not connected to the Internet, testifying his team was at that very moment inside a county machine, sending and receiving data.
A 2006 study found that Diebold machines can steal votes with little risk of detection.
The acting CIO of the federal agency responsible for certifying electronic voting machines worked for Dominion for 10 years. That may not prove anything by itself, but it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
There are also accusations several foreign countries, including China, interfered in the 2020 election through electronic voting machines. Democrats don’t seem to be scrambling to get to the bottom of that one.
Finally, Ireland and the Netherlands stopped using electronic voting machines years ago after finding them unreliable and unable to produce accurate results.
So what does all this mean? Half the country no longer has confidence in our elections. It’s pretty clear these machines don’t count votes, but allow election officials to make up any results they want. It’s also clear questions about foreign interference have not been answered. The best answer for these machines I’ve heard so far is to require open source software. The volunteer developers will be from all across the political spectrum and keep each other honest. But I’m hearing more and more calls to scrap the machines altogether and go back to paper ballots. There are at least a hundred new election integrity projects that have sprung up around the county, and you can bet we’re going to hear a whole lot more about these machines before it’s all over.
2/21/21 - DeSantis Proposals, Enforcement Actions, Innocent Explanations
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposals would ban mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting, guarantee election observers can watch the vote count
Michigan removes 177,000 inactive voters from the voter rolls in late January to settle litigation filed a year ago
Georgia election board refers 35 election violations for criminal prosecution; two involve minority voter registration efforts
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia offer innocent explanations for election fraud claims, e.g., the claim ‘Detroit turnout was 139% of registered voters’ when official turnout was 51%
Resource - Here Is The Evidence crowdsourcing website aggregates publicly available evidence that would be admissible in court, e.g., 42,248 voters voted twice in Nevada
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposals would ban mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting, guarantee election observers can watch the vote count
Michigan removes 177,000 inactive voters from the voter rolls in late January to settle litigation filed a year ago
Georgia election board refers 35 election violations for criminal prosecution; two involve minority voter registration efforts
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia offer innocent explanations for election fraud claims, e.g., the claim ‘Detroit turnout was 139% of registered voters’ when official turnout was 51%
Resource - Here Is The Evidence crowdsourcing website aggregates publicly available evidence that would be admissible in court, e.g., 42,248 voters voted twice in Nevada
2/7/21 - Evidence, Court Rulings, & Fighting H.R.1
Resource:
2020 Presidential Election Lawsuits Related to Election Integrity - parties, issue, disposition, etc.
http://wiseenergy.org/Energy/Election/2020_Election_Cases.htm
Action Alert from Heritage Action:
H.R. 1 — Pelosi is planning a vote on H.R. 1 in February. This is the first battle in the fight to defend free and fair elections in our country. The bill is designed to rig the election system in favor of Democratic politicians by undermining America’s electoral process. Call your representative and tell them to “Vote NO on H.R. 1.”
News Round-Up:
Resource:
2020 Presidential Election Lawsuits Related to Election Integrity - parties, issue, disposition, etc.
http://wiseenergy.org/Energy/Election/2020_Election_Cases.htm
Action Alert from Heritage Action:
H.R. 1 — Pelosi is planning a vote on H.R. 1 in February. This is the first battle in the fight to defend free and fair elections in our country. The bill is designed to rig the election system in favor of Democratic politicians by undermining America’s electoral process. Call your representative and tell them to “Vote NO on H.R. 1.”
News Round-Up:
- My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell’s video is going around like crazy - Absolute Proof: Exposing Election Fraud and the Theft of America by Enemies Foreign and Domestic https://michaeljlindell.com
- Sen. Rand Paul spars with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on evidence of election fraud
- Virginia state court rules counting ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal