POL November 3: The 2020 U.S. ELECTION DAY MAIN THREAD
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A full PUBLIC autopsy.
This inquiry cannot be hidden away while the investigators attempt to connect dots in the background - many chances for the "black hats" to corrupt such a "private" investigative endeavor, without the public breathing down the necks of the investigators the ENTIRE time - AND, the public will be of great assistance in resolving this Gordian Knot of a fraudulent election via crowd-sourcing commentary/alternative interpretations of every discovery point, fully exploring every nook and cranny/shadow area of what actually happened; the who, the why, the money, the political and corporate realms involved with names, the technology involved, and non-domestic and/or sovereign actors/entities involved.
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After the Most Corrupt Election in History, Apple CEO Tim Cook Thinks It's a Good Idea to Have People Vote from Their iPhones | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that it would be a good idea to have Americans vote from their iPhones. What could possibly go wrong?
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By Joe Hoft
Published April 11, 2021 at 10:10am
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that it would be a good idea to have Americans vote from their iPhones. What could possibly go wrong?
The 2020 election was the most corrupt and fraudulent in US history. The ramifications will impact the world for decades. Rather than investigate the numerous irregularities, determine what went wrong, hold criminals accountable, and fix the process for the future, Apple CEO Tim Cook believes voting should be done on iPhones in the future.
Anthony at We Love Trump reported:
Business Insider Tech reported on Cook’s thoughts:
One response was as follows:
The Ohio Secretary of State also responded:
Perhaps America should fix the last election first before working on voting from iPhones?
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It's Time For Americans to Wake Up - A House Operating Behind a Razor Wire Fence from the People Cannot Stand | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Guest post by Lawrence Sellin November 3, 2020 was not an election.
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It’s Time For Americans to Wake Up – A House Operating Behind a Razor Wire Fence from the People Cannot Stand
By Joe Hoft
Published April 11, 2021 at 9:30am
Guest post by Lawrence Sellin
November 3, 2020 was not an election. It was a coup executed by U.S. citizens, who are not Americans, aided and abetted by international financiers and hostile foreign powers.
Yes, there is now a clear distinction between Americans and those who simply possess U.S. citizenship.
Many of the latter are now in the process of destroying the United States of America from within.
If the usurpers are allowed to continue implementing their destructive policies, there will never again be a free and fair election in this country.
The 2020 election was stolen through massive and coordinated fraud by people who hate America.
It was an illegal seizure of power to create a permanent leftist, one-party, totalitarian state similar to that of their sponsor, the transnational criminal organization, the Chinese Communist Party.
Do not expect the current Republican Party to save the country.
They have already meekly capitulated to the coup plotters and will eventually follow the path of the Provisional Government of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which was forcibly crushed by the Communists.
There is no better recent example of Republican capitulation than Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), who underwent a “struggle session” imposed on national television by CNN, part of the Biden regime’s Ministry of Propaganda.
It was a sad, but highly revealing moment, which can be viewed here, starting at 0:45 through 2:17.
A “struggle session” is a form of public humiliation used by the Chinese Communist Party to shape public opinion, where an individual is forced to admit perceived “crimes” before a crowd of people.
Rep. Waltz’s potential crime was that he may not have accepted Joe Biden as president.
CNN’s demand to which Rep. Waltz eventually caved was “American voters fairly and squarely put Joe Biden in the White House.”
Remember, Rep. Waltz was a U.S. Army National Guard Special Forces officer, who served in Afghanistan.
If even he was too intimidated to state the obvious, that Biden is an illegitimate president, what can any patriotic American expect from a Republican Party that never opposes any Democrat excesses?
Make no mistake, an admission of electoral legitimacy is essential to the usurpers, which then legitimizes all their subsequent unconstitutional actions.
Like the 1773 Boston Tea Party, we must throw all Biden policies overboard.
We will not submit to a national “struggle session.”
The U.S. government is now hopelessly corrupt and completely separated from the American people.
Three years before the start of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln said a government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free — that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Likewise, a government separated from the American people will always function behind a razor wire fence.
Americans need to wake up.
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"The Election Wasn't Stolen, There Was a Judicial Process In Place" - Liz Cheney on Face the Nation | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Republican leader Liz Cheney was on Face the Nation this morning and she couldn’t have been more outrageous if she tried. There is nothing this woman offers to any one of the record-setting 75 million who voted for President Trump in November. She is the Democrats’ dream. Liz Cheney has no idea...
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“The Election Wasn’t Stolen, There Was a Judicial Process In Place” – Liz Cheney on Face the Nation
By Joe Hoft
Published April 11, 2021 at 2:05pm
Republican leader Liz Cheney was on Face the Nation this morning and she couldn’t have been more outrageous if she tried. There is nothing this woman offers to any one of the record-setting 75 million who voted for President Trump in November. She is the Democrats’ dream.
Liz Cheney has no idea how utterly toxic she is to the average American who voted for President Trump and saw the election stolen by leftist goons. She then claimed that there was a judicial process in place to review the election? Which one? What case that was never reviewed on its merits is she referring to?
After discounting Antifa’s efforts at the Capitol on January 6th and calling for an investigation into the events that day performed by the likes of her and the Democrats, Cheney shared:
7:24 min
Liz Cheney apparently believes that it’s no big deal there are more than 350,000 ballots in Georgia that were included in the 2020 Election results (most for Joe Biden no doubt) that are ineligible.
Cheney is apparently ok with vans dropping off tens of thousands of ballots at 4am in Detroit.
She also thinks it’s ok that Republicans were forcefully prevented from reviewing vote-counting in multiple cities across the country like Philadelphia.
Liz Cheney can’t be gone soon enough. She is toxic as she claims she stands for the party of hope. In reality, she stands with corrupt Democrats.
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Byrne, Pulitzer, Lindell, Others Bring Hope At Las Vegas Event Organized By We The People USA Alliance - CDM - Human Reporters • Not Machines
Byrne, Pulitzer, Lindell, Others Bring Hope At Las Vegas Event Organized By We The People USA Alliance. "Be Optimistic And Fight" Was The Message.
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Byrne, Pulitzer, Lindell, Others Bring Hope At Las Vegas Event Organized By We The People USA Alliance
by CD Media StaffApril 11, 202115625
We The People USA Alliance, Nevada Chapter put on a high-energy event yesterday which gave hope and optimism to patriots who understand the massive election fraud and coup which occured on Nov 3rd of last year.
Among a strong line-up of speakers was Mike Lindell, George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona, Jovan Pulitzer, and Patrick Byrne.
Papadopoulos enjoined the audience to not let the America First movement die.
“Don’t let them dispirit you. Don’t believe the lies. Do not be fearful. We have the numbers. We have the power!”
Jovan Pulitzer emphasized three points. “1. We had a glimpse of a president who cared about the American people. Our eyes were opened. 2. Covid showed us the government will take away freedoms and rights. Now we know how delicate those freedoms are. 3. This election made everyone realize what we would not face — our political system is trashed, crooked, rigged, not for the people.
America is tuned in!
“This is about warriors – you were chosen to be here, here for a reason, chosen to do this.”
Patrick Byrne started his comments with a Henry the 5th quote on fighting an overwhelming enemy, and focused on American exceptionalism.
“We have the evidence. There were 19 Chinese successful cyber attacks in which over 500k votes were switched for Biden and swung the election. We have it all and the confidence of a Methodist minister with four aces.”
Mike Lindell spoke via video call and told the audience to be optimistic, as all the information is coming out. “It will united America like never before!”
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[COMMENT: Can't say I didn't wonder.]
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If election fraud is fully exposed, here are two Constitutional ways to eject Biden-Harris without the Supreme Court
The massive, widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election appears to be in the process of finally being exposed. Several jurisdictions are making progress towards audits, and while we are not exactly hopeful that anything will come from it, one never knows. If awareness rises and calls come in for Biden-Harris to be replaced, here are two ways that could happen.
by JD Rucker
April 10, 2021
The vast majority of Trump-supporters who think (or know with a certainty) that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump have given up hope that the results can be corrected. We’re coming up on three months since Joe Biden was fraudulently inaugurated and became the current resident of the White House. Very few seem to be doing anything against this attack on our nation and the Constitution. Hope is practically non-existent for very obvious reasons.
In a HUGE WIN for We, the People, and for New Hampshire election integrity, the NH Senate voted 24-0 just minutes ago to concur with the House amended version of SB43.
This Bill was championed by Senator Bob Giuda and will validate election integrity in our state by mandating a forensic audit on Windham’s 11/3/20 general election ballots and voting machines as configured on November 3, 2020.
The forensic audit will determine the huge discrepancy between the election day results and subsequent recount of Windham’s November 3, 2020, State Rep. race where a difference of 1,363 total votes from just 10,006 ballots was uncovered.
Most who are still fighting election fraud are doing so to prepare for the 2022 election. There is a strong belief that if the fraud is not exposed and allowed to continue forward, then Republicans will never win major close elections again. We will have permanent Democratic rule in the House, Senate, and White House, which will eventually translate to the judiciary. Meanwhile, state and local elections will be dramatically affected as well.
Another example of success that has been and continues to be hard-fought is in Maricopa County, Arizona. According to The Gateway Pundit:
The national Democratic machine is in panic mode over the Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County ballot audit. On Tuesday, the Democrats sent in national fixer attorney Marc Elias’s firm Perkins Coie to throw around threats and make the audit go away.
The stakes are astronomical for the Dems, after all the November 3, 2020 election steal gained them the presidency and control of both houses. The swing states in which the 2020 election steal occurred are key to uncovering the truth and proving the fraud in the election and Arizona is one of those states.
The Constitution does not offer a direct remedy for a situation in which a presidential election is deemed fraudulent after-the-fact. The Supreme Court may use its wide powers to fix things, but that seems very unlikely even with a so-called “conservative” lean in five of the nine Justices. If we learned anything in the last year or so, it’s that we cannot and must not rely on government or the judiciary to make things happen. They are heading in the wrong direction across the board. This is a nation of free people who must stand up.
Before we get to the two ways that this election can be corrected, let’s look at one more example from Bannon’s War Room:
Rumble video on website 3:08 min
The reason that these and other efforts are so important is because for the Biden-Harris administration to be brought to an end quickly, We the People will have to demand it. Some will say that even if a majority of Americans call on Biden-Harris to step down in light of revelations of massive voter fraud and a stolen election, they will not do it. I’m not so sure. I believe that if enough people get involved, the White House will be forced to make the choice to either step down or preside over the nation’s implosion. As much as I do not believe in Joe Biden’s or Kamala Harris’ moral compasses, I cannot imagine they would want to be the decimators of the greatest nation in the world.
Impeachment is a process that takes too long and shouldn’t be necessary. If the people are made aware of the stolen election and call for a proper resolution, we should not have to go through the impeachment process twice – once for Biden and once for Harris. The demands of the people would be more resounding.
If this long-shot scenario plays out and Biden-Harris agree to step down, it must be done in one of two ways. Otherwise, we will have the unacceptable scenario of President Nancy Pelosi. One way is for Harris to step down first and for Biden to appoint Trump as Vice President before stepping down. This may seem like the most direct path, but the necessity for Senate confirmation makes it actually slower than the second option. The one benefit to this path would be to allow an easier transition for the Cabinet and other White House staff.
The second path seems longer on the surface, but it could actually be resolved more quickly. Pelosi would have to step down temporarily as Speaker of the House and Trump would be voted in by Congress. Constitutionally, there is no requirement for Speaker of the House to be a sitting member of Congress. These two actions could be done in under 48 hours.
Then, Biden and Harris step down. The Speaker of the House, second in the presidential line of succession, would be elevated to president and the process of replacing the White House staff could begin immediately.
Yes, all of this is so highly unlikely it’s probably not even worth mentioning. But we’re in desperate times right now, which means we must consider all possibilities. Moreover, it’s important to alert as many people as possible to the voter fraud, even at this late date, for the sake of future elections as well as the one we just had. Bible-believers know that God is omnipotent. His will supersedes all others. Nothing is impossible with Him.
Like Lloyd (Jim Carrey) said in Dumb and Dumber when faced with a near impossibility, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance!” I’m not saying that. False hope is as bad as no hope at all. But, one never knows.
If election fraud is fully exposed, here are two Constitutional ways to eject Biden-Harris without the Supreme Court
The vast majority of Trump-supporters who think (or know with a certainty) that the 2020 presidential election was stolen
noqreport.com
If election fraud is fully exposed, here are two Constitutional ways to eject Biden-Harris without the Supreme Court
The massive, widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election appears to be in the process of finally being exposed. Several jurisdictions are making progress towards audits, and while we are not exactly hopeful that anything will come from it, one never knows. If awareness rises and calls come in for Biden-Harris to be replaced, here are two ways that could happen.
by JD Rucker
April 10, 2021
The vast majority of Trump-supporters who think (or know with a certainty) that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump have given up hope that the results can be corrected. We’re coming up on three months since Joe Biden was fraudulently inaugurated and became the current resident of the White House. Very few seem to be doing anything against this attack on our nation and the Constitution. Hope is practically non-existent for very obvious reasons.
There have been some pieces of good news in the last couple of weeks that make it seem like there’s still a chance, albeit extremely slim, that cases can finally be adjudicated in courts and brought forth to the public eye despite coordinated efforts for five months by Democrats, mainstream media, Big Tech, and even many Republicans to hide the fraud that occurred. For example, Granite Grok reported:
In a HUGE WIN for We, the People, and for New Hampshire election integrity, the NH Senate voted 24-0 just minutes ago to concur with the House amended version of SB43.
This Bill was championed by Senator Bob Giuda and will validate election integrity in our state by mandating a forensic audit on Windham’s 11/3/20 general election ballots and voting machines as configured on November 3, 2020.
The forensic audit will determine the huge discrepancy between the election day results and subsequent recount of Windham’s November 3, 2020, State Rep. race where a difference of 1,363 total votes from just 10,006 ballots was uncovered.
Most who are still fighting election fraud are doing so to prepare for the 2022 election. There is a strong belief that if the fraud is not exposed and allowed to continue forward, then Republicans will never win major close elections again. We will have permanent Democratic rule in the House, Senate, and White House, which will eventually translate to the judiciary. Meanwhile, state and local elections will be dramatically affected as well.
Another example of success that has been and continues to be hard-fought is in Maricopa County, Arizona. According to The Gateway Pundit:
The national Democratic machine is in panic mode over the Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County ballot audit. On Tuesday, the Democrats sent in national fixer attorney Marc Elias’s firm Perkins Coie to throw around threats and make the audit go away.
The stakes are astronomical for the Dems, after all the November 3, 2020 election steal gained them the presidency and control of both houses. The swing states in which the 2020 election steal occurred are key to uncovering the truth and proving the fraud in the election and Arizona is one of those states.
The Constitution does not offer a direct remedy for a situation in which a presidential election is deemed fraudulent after-the-fact. The Supreme Court may use its wide powers to fix things, but that seems very unlikely even with a so-called “conservative” lean in five of the nine Justices. If we learned anything in the last year or so, it’s that we cannot and must not rely on government or the judiciary to make things happen. They are heading in the wrong direction across the board. This is a nation of free people who must stand up.
Before we get to the two ways that this election can be corrected, let’s look at one more example from Bannon’s War Room:
Rumble video on website 3:08 min
The reason that these and other efforts are so important is because for the Biden-Harris administration to be brought to an end quickly, We the People will have to demand it. Some will say that even if a majority of Americans call on Biden-Harris to step down in light of revelations of massive voter fraud and a stolen election, they will not do it. I’m not so sure. I believe that if enough people get involved, the White House will be forced to make the choice to either step down or preside over the nation’s implosion. As much as I do not believe in Joe Biden’s or Kamala Harris’ moral compasses, I cannot imagine they would want to be the decimators of the greatest nation in the world.
Impeachment is a process that takes too long and shouldn’t be necessary. If the people are made aware of the stolen election and call for a proper resolution, we should not have to go through the impeachment process twice – once for Biden and once for Harris. The demands of the people would be more resounding.
If this long-shot scenario plays out and Biden-Harris agree to step down, it must be done in one of two ways. Otherwise, we will have the unacceptable scenario of President Nancy Pelosi. One way is for Harris to step down first and for Biden to appoint Trump as Vice President before stepping down. This may seem like the most direct path, but the necessity for Senate confirmation makes it actually slower than the second option. The one benefit to this path would be to allow an easier transition for the Cabinet and other White House staff.
The second path seems longer on the surface, but it could actually be resolved more quickly. Pelosi would have to step down temporarily as Speaker of the House and Trump would be voted in by Congress. Constitutionally, there is no requirement for Speaker of the House to be a sitting member of Congress. These two actions could be done in under 48 hours.
Then, Biden and Harris step down. The Speaker of the House, second in the presidential line of succession, would be elevated to president and the process of replacing the White House staff could begin immediately.
Yes, all of this is so highly unlikely it’s probably not even worth mentioning. But we’re in desperate times right now, which means we must consider all possibilities. Moreover, it’s important to alert as many people as possible to the voter fraud, even at this late date, for the sake of future elections as well as the one we just had. Bible-believers know that God is omnipotent. His will supersedes all others. Nothing is impossible with Him.
Like Lloyd (Jim Carrey) said in Dumb and Dumber when faced with a near impossibility, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance!” I’m not saying that. False hope is as bad as no hope at all. But, one never knows.
From the above article:
Sorry, but I find this laughable. Those two would not step down if the country was totally burning all around them. Furthermore, they do not care if his nation is decimated...they are actually aiding and abetting the decimation.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Democrats' Attorney Marc Elias Has His Army of Radical Lawyers Ready to Threaten and Stop Any Election Audit in Maricopa County Arizona | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
The national Democratic machine is in panic mode over the Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County ballot audit.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Democrats’ Attorney Marc Elias Has His Army of Radical Lawyers Ready to Threaten and Stop Any Election Audit in Maricopa County Arizona
By Joe Hoft
Published April 11, 2021 at 7:15pm
The national Democratic machine is in panic mode over the Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County ballot audit. On Tuesday, the Democrats sent in national fixer attorney Marc Elias’s firm Perkins Coie to throw around threats and make the audit go away.
The stakes are astronomical for the Dems, after all the November 3, 2020 election steal gained them the presidency and control of Congress. The swing states in which the 2020 election steal occurred are key to uncovering the truth and proving the fraud in the election and Arizona is one of those states.
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Steve Bannon of the WarRoom Pandemic, Peter Navarro, who wrote an incredible three-part analysis explaining the 2020 election steal, The Navarro Report, and Mike Lindell, who co-produced and hosted two documentaries about the 2020 election steal, have all repeatedly stated ‘that if just one of these swing states fall, they’ll all fall like a house of cards.’
So, to prevent ‘this house of cards from falling’ and any election tampering and fraud being exposed, the Democratic hit team blew into Arizona, a top Democrat-run nonprofit at the helm, with three law firms in tow to shut this thing in Arizona down.
Mark Elias’s favorite hammer is a nonprofit. Low and behold, whom do we find deployed in the threat, via an e-letter to the AZ Senate’s four chosen audit firms but the “Protect Democracy Project,” a 501(c)(3) charity, which is required by law, more so than other types of nonprofits, to remain strictly nonpartisan. (This act doesn’t look non-partisan.)
Perkins Coie and Marc Elias, Hillary Clinton’s consigliere, were, responsible for the fabricated and discredited Steele Dossier which was a vicious, partisan attempt by the Democrats to remove Republican President Donald Trump from office.
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The Protect Democracy Project (PDP) nonprofit, which is in reality functioning as a weaponized, political tool of the Democrats, sicced not one, not two, but three law firms on the Arizona Senate’s audit teams: Perkins Coie and two Arizona firms, Coppersmith Brockelman, and Barton Mendez Soto. With a hefty $12.4 million in revenue as of 2019 and a whopping 72 staff members, many of whom are attorneys, the PDP is a rich and powerful nonprofit and can afford to engage the legal muscle needed to enforce the Democrat billionaire’s will.
Elias’s Four Pillars operation is responsible for gaming, manipulating, and controlling public perception, laws, and public policy across the United States in 2020, so as to implement absentee voting and vote-by-mail in time for the November 3rd election.
On a website called Democracy Docket, run by none other than founder Marc Elias, we find out what the Four Pillars to absentee voting are:
Notably, Four Pillars‘ lawfare included, in large part, the six swing states which, shockingly, all went for Biden together, late on the night of November 3-4, 2020, after Donald Trump had achieved clear victory in each of those states. All of these states, according to sworn witness affidavits, involved fraudulent absentee ballots, in some cases thousands and thousands of them.
You can search here through the active legal cases the Democracy Docket’s Four Pillars is still involved in however, unfortunately, their website has deleted all their previous cases. They are archived here, as of May 6, 2020.
It is impossible to determine who funds Elias’s Four Pillars. His Democracy Docket website lists itself as an LLC and it has a .com suffix, indicating it is likely not a not-for-profit enterprise. The website reveals little. Who knows how many millions these entities took in in order to cement the 2020 election win for the Democrats.
However, one of the Democracy Docket’s pages, TAKE ACTION!, states “Lawyers: We need your help now. The right to vote and to have it count-are being challenged like never before.” This webpage directs you to a brand new site called WE THE ACTION.
WE THE ACTION is nothing more than a trolling site to hook in eager Democrat-progressive attorneys, who want to “Join thousands of lawyers fighting for progress” and “put their skills to their best, highest use” to “protect our democracy.” It claims to have a “community of lawyers” which is 40,000+ strong!
40,000 lawyers mean there could be an average of 800 progressive lawyers in each state, ready to take up Marc Elias’s “election justice” call-to-action and ready to defend the Democrats’ absentee ballot schemes and scams, as well as any and all November 3-4, 2020 shocking late-night activities in those swing states!
Some of the nonprofits We The Action partners with are the most hardcore, far-left, socialist and, in some cases verging on anarchist, nonprofits in the United States: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR), John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, Fair Elections Center, Register 2 Vote, Let America Vote, Voter Protection Corps, Rock the Vote, Swing Left, NARAL, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Indivisible, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This Marc Elias operation is gigantic! MASSIVE, NATIONWIDE, WELL-FUNDED, EXPERTLY PLANNED & PROFESSIONALLY LINKED-UP, it is made up of a literal ARMY of righteously indignant, justice-seeking, Democrat activists secretly under his thumb!
With a marriage of earnest, “progressive” attorneys and well-funded, do-gooder nonprofits training social justice warriors and “Rent-a-Mobs” in every county across the United States, is it any wonder that there were not only enough not-for profit troops on the ground to assist with election day (and late night) absentee ballot and machine shenanigans and illicit activities in each swing state, but that there were also enough lawyers both before and after the election to defend the Democrats’ illicit and apparent illegal election and absentee ballot activities anywhere they were needed?
This army could and did stop any attempts at proving the fraud and the steal and securing a fair and honest election and they’re at it again in Maricopa County, Arizona!
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WTH Is This? Over 100 Top Corporate CEOs Join First-of-its-kind Call to Denounce Voter ID Laws | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
CEOs from several top 100 corporations joined the first-of-its-kind call this weekend to discuss how to respond to proposed changes in state voting laws.
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WTH Is This? Over 100 Top Corporate CEOs Join First-of-its-kind Call to Denounce Voter ID Laws
By Jim Hoft
Published April 11, 2021 at 9:51pm
CEOs from several top 100 corporations joined the first-of-its-kind call this weekend to discuss how to respond to proposed changes in state voting laws.
At issue was the recent Georgia voting law signed by Governor Kemp that makes it a requirement for voters to show a photo ID to vote.
Over 70% of Americans, including black Americans, support voter ID laws.
Participants included top leaders of airlines, media, law, investment.
Every country in the world — besides the US — requires a photo ID or similar document to vote.
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Nevada GOP Censures Secretary of State for Ignoring Voter Fraud and Certifying the 2020 Election in the State | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Joe Biden won Nevada in the 2020 election by 34,000 votes. There was much more corruption included in these numbers than the winning margin. Yesterday the Nevada Secretary of State was censured for her role in the state’s corrupt 2020 election results.
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Nevada GOP Censures Secretary of State for Ignoring Voter Fraud and Certifying the 2020 Election in the State
By Joe Hoft
Published April 12, 2021 at 7:45am
Joe Biden won Nevada in the 2020 election by 34,000 votes. There was much more corruption included in these numbers than the winning margin.
Yesterday the Nevada Secretary of State was censored for her role in the state’s corrupt 2020 election results.
The Palmeri Report noted last night:
The Nevada GOP censured Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske.
The AP reported:
Of course, the Nevada Secretary of State should have been censored on 42,000 counts. The 2020 Election in Nevada was stolen for Joe Biden and he’s how we know. For starters, there were over 42,000 people who voted more than once in Nevada:
Also, the signature system was basically turned off in the state. No signature verification was in place (note hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots were cast in the state). Anyone could fill out a signature for any ballot and no one checked the signature:
The Republicans had a solid case but then a corrupt judge discounted the evidence in the case (over 40 volumes) and he ruled against President Trump:
Yes, the Nevada Secretary of State should have stopped the steal in Nevada. Instead, she looked the other way.
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Zuckerberg group gave Detroit $7.4 million to 'dramatically' expand vote in city key to Biden win
The Center for Tech and Civic Life's donations to blue strongholds are attracting increased attention, controversy.
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Zuckerberg group gave Detroit $7.4 million to 'dramatically' expand vote in city key to Biden win
The Center for Tech and Civic Life's donations to blue strongholds are attracting increased attention, controversy.
Election workers with vote-by-mail ballots for the Washington presidential primary, Renton, Wash., March 10, 2020.
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By Natalia Mittelstadt and John Solomon
Updated: April 12, 2021 - 9:53am
The Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL), a voter advocacy group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, donated $7.4 million last year to Detroit to, among other things, "dramatically expand strategic voter education and outreach" in a blue city key to Joe Biden's 2020 election win, according to memos obtained by Just the News under an open records request.
Detroit received three grants in 2020 from CTCL for $200,000, $3,512,000, and $3,724,450, according to the records released under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act (F
The amount augmented by more than half the city's $13 million election budget, and dwarfed it the $6.3 million in grants that CTCL gave five Wisconsin cities, a series of donations that has generated accusations that private money was wrongly used to influence state and local election judges and administration.
The reach of Zuckerburg's money has created a backlash in some GOP states like Georgia and Arizona, where lawmakers have moved since November to ban private money from being donated to election administrators.
Phill Kline, head of the nonprofit Amistad Project, which has contested private financing of election administration in several states, said the Detroit memos show another instance in which Zuckerberg money was allowed to influence a key battleground during the 2020 election.
"The records obtained in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan show the Zuckerberg monies were used to buy off government officials dictating the manner in which the election was conducted and using government to target Democrat strongholds to turn out the vote for Mr. Biden," Kline said. "Such action is wrong, unlawful and dramatically undermined the integrity of the 2020 election. We must not let a shadow government run our elections to the benefit of favored candidates and political parties."
CTCL and state recipients of money have defended the grants, saying the money helped carry out an election made more difficult by the pandemic.
"Election offices across the country not only reinvented their procedures so that voters could remain safe, but they also went above and beyond to ensure accessibility for voters with disabilities and historically disenfranchised communities," CTCL said in a post-mortem of the 2020 election.
CTCL's grant money to Detroit was shrouded in secrecy, with city officials declining initial requests to identify how and where it was spent, prompting Just the News to file the FOIA request. The records obtained late last week show the city received three tranches of money
The $200,000 grant, according to CTCL, was to "be used exclusively for the public purpose of planning and operationalizing safe and secure election administration in the City of Detroit."
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For the $3,512,000 grant, "The objective of the grant is to ensure safe election day voting and dramatically expand strategic voter education and outreach efforts. The funding allotted to the department will be utilized to provide assistance to voters with mail ballot requests, expand in-person early mail voting opportunities, utilize secure drop-boxes to facilitate the return of absentee ballots, and deploy additional technology to expedite and improve the accuracy of the mail ballot process," according to the Detroit Office of Development and Grants.
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In the $3.7 million grant, Detroit set aside $2.7 million "to increase pay for 8,000 poll workers," $961,000 for increasing "pay for election staff working at the Receiving/Verification Boards," and $350,000 "to procure an additional ten (10) high speed ballot counting machines for the absentee ballot operation."
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The $2.7 million set aside for 8,000 poll workers on Election Day, "assuming a 13 hour work day," according to the Detroit City Clerk, comes out to about $26 an hour.
In November, Just the News reported that Detroit had also approved a $1 million contract with William A. Phillips' "staffing firm P.I.E. Management, LLC to hire up to 2,000 workers to work the polls and staff the ballot counting machines," which paid poll workers "at least $50 per hour."
CTCL's donations to local election officials have spurred controversy, especially in the city of Green Bay, Wisc., where newly released documents show a total of $1.6 million in grant funding from CTCL helped empower a “grant mentor” who has worked for several Democratic Party candidates to gain access to boxes of absentee ballots before the election.
Recently released memos show the city clerk fumed at the arrangement. "I don't understand how people who don't have knowledge of the process can tell us how to manage the election," the clerk wrote in one memo.
Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin continue to investigate the arrangement, which some legal experts believe might have run afoul of Wisconsin law.
"What's critical to understand is how legally unauthorized all of this is," Erick Kaardal, an attorney for the Wisconsin Voters Alliance, recently told The Federalist.
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Detroit absentee ballot instructions conflict with witness testimony about irregularities
What actually happened with Detroit absentee ballots violated the city's official instructions, per witness affidavits and city records.
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Detroit absentee ballot instructions conflict with witness testimony about irregularities
What actually happened with Detroit absentee ballots violated the city's official instructions, per witness affidavits and city records.
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: April 12, 2021 - 9:13am
Newly obtained printed absentee ballot instructions for election workers in Detroit confirm that oral instructions described by a city election worker in a post-election sworn affidavit would have been egregious violations of city election rules.
The instructions, obtained by Just the News through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, were crystal clear concerning signature matching and ballot dating: Verification of signatures on absentee ballots was mandatory, and ballots were to be stamped with the date on which they are received.
Detroit election worker Jessy Jacob, a longtime city employee, testified in November that she was instructed by supervisors to ignore signatures on absentee ballots and to fraudulently backdate late-arriving absentee ballots to make them appear to be valid.
According to Detroit's absentee ballot instructions, signatures on the ballots were to be checked to see if they matched those on file. If a signature did not match, a letter would be sent to the voter "informing them that their returned ballot was rejected because the signature did not match our records."
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If there was no signature on the absentee ballot envelope, the instructions mandated this resolution: "A letter will be sent to the voter stating the ballot return envelope was unsigned. They will have the option to come into the office to sign their original ballot return envelope or they may sign the ballot return envelope (empty) sent with the letter and mail it."
But in her post-election affidavit, Jessy Jacob affirmed, "I was instructed not to look at any of the signatures on the absentee ballots, and I was instructed not to compare the signature on the absentee ballot with the signature on file." Just the News reported on Jacob's affidavit in November.
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According to the printed instructions provided to Detroit election workers, absentee ballots were to be date-stamped upon receipt with the day's date. Jacob, however, said in her affidavit that she was instructed by a supervisor to backdate absentee ballots arriving after Election Day as if they had arrived before.
"On November 4, 2020, I was instructed to improperly pre-date the absentee ballots receive date that were not in the [Qualified Voter File, or QVF] as if they had been received on or before November 3, 2020," Jacob said under oath. "I was told to alter the information in the QVF to falsely show that the absentee ballots had been received in time to be valid. I estimate that this was done to thousands of ballots."
Attorney Mark Foster, who has represented Jacob during this process, told Just the News that she lost her job as a result of filing her affidavit and that she had no incentive to lie, given that she was under penalty of perjury. He added that there were others who swore in their own affidavits that they were given the same improper instructions Jacob received.
Foster also said that thousands of ballots were left unlocked and unguarded for 48 hours, poll books were not balanced, and the total number of voters in Detroit, including how many absentee ballots were sent and received, has not been released.
The Detroit Department of Elections did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday.
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New Hampshire governor says he'll sign bill permitting audit of contested elections in Windham
Disparate counts have been found in the state’s town of Windham.
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New Hampshire governor says he'll sign bill permitting audit of contested elections in Windham
Disparate counts have been found in the state’s town of Windham.
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By Daniel Payne
Updated: April 10, 2021 - 9:23pm
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu intends to sign a bill authorizing the audit of voting machines in the town of Windham during the November 2020 elections.
At a press conferenceThursday, Sununu, a Republican, said he'll sign the legislature's SB-43, which he called "an audit of … the system in Windham."
The town has been at the center of dispute after a recount last year found that multiple candidates, Democrats and Republicans, had been shorted votes in the 2020 elections.
“I think they designed the bill very well,” he said of state lawmakers. "And I fully intend on signing it and moving forward as soon as we can."
AccuVote optical scanning machines were reportedly used in Windham. The bill reportedly calls for an extensive recount and forensic analysis of votes, which were counted by AccuVote optical scanning machines. The state has purportedly been using AccuVote for more than a quarter century.
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Nevada GOP censures Republican state official over allegations of 2020 voter fraud
"Regrettably, members of my own political party have decided to censure me simply because they are disappointed with the outcome of the 2020 election," Barbara Cegavske said.
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Nevada GOP censures Republican state official over allegations of 2020 voter fraud
"Regrettably, members of my own political party have decided to censure me simply because they are disappointed with the outcome of the 2020 election," Barbara Cegavske said.
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske in 2016
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By Alex Nitzberg
Updated: April 11, 2021 - 6:21pm
The Nevada Republican Party Central Committee on Saturday moved to censure Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske following allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. The vote was 126-112, according to The Nevada Independent.
Cegavske’s office previously has said that the state has received no evidence of “wide-spread” fraud in the 2020 election.
"During its meeting this weekend, the Nevada Republican Party had a healthy debate regarding November’s election and the role of our Secretary of State," Nevada GOP Executive Director Jessica Hanson said in a statement, according to the outlet.
"While the vote to censure Secretary Cegavske passed narrowly, what unites all Nevada Republicans is their commitment to ensure the Silver State has the safest and fairest elections in the country and the Nevada Republican Party will work day and night to turn this state into the model for election integrity," she said.
"The Nevada Republican Party holds our elected officials to a high standard. As such, today the party sent a clear message that our officials must work for the people and we demand that our representatives at all levels of government uphold their Oath of Office."
Cegavske countered on Sunday morning with a statement.
"Regrettably, members of my own political party have decided to censure me simply because they are disappointed with the outcome of the 2020 election," Cegavske said. "My job is to carry out the duties of my office as enacted by the Nevada Legislature, not carry water for the state GOP or put my thumb on the scale of democracy.
"Unfortunately, members of my own party continue to believe the 2020 general election was wrought with fraud - and that somehow I had a part in it - despite a complete lack of evidence to support that belief. Regardless of the censure vote today by the Nevada Republican Party Central Committee, I will continue in my efforts to oversee secure elections in Nevada and to restore confidence in our elections, confidence which has been destroyed by those falsely claiming the 2020 general election produced widespread fraud."
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Owner says the vote counts here at the Seacoast are done "optically."New Hampshire governor says he'll sign bill permitting audit of contested elections in Windham
Disparate counts have been found in the state’s town of Windham.
New Hampshire governor says he'll sign bill permitting audit of contested elections in Windham
Disparate counts have been found in the state’s town of Windham.
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By Daniel Payne
Updated: April 10, 2021 - 9:23pm
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu intends to sign a bill authorizing the audit of voting machines in the town of Windham during the November 2020 elections.
At a press conferenceThursday, Sununu, a Republican, said he'll sign the legislature's SB-43, which he called "an audit of … the system in Windham."
The town has been at the center of dispute after a recount last year found that multiple candidates, Democrats and Republicans, had been shorted votes in the 2020 elections.
“I think they designed the bill very well,” he said of state lawmakers. "And I fully intend on signing it and moving forward as soon as we can."
AccuVote optical scanning machines were reportedly used in Windham. The bill reportedly calls for an extensive recount and forensic analysis of votes, which were counted by AccuVote optical scanning machines. The state has purportedly been using AccuVote for more than a quarter century.
Of course, depending on how the reader is set, one could "bias" the vote totals.
It could be done as simply as giving any Republican a pencil stub - and a Democrat a flair type pen - who would detect the ruse?
Plus there was the issue of "mail-in ballot requests." Owner got in the mail two official looking request forms to be provided with mail-in ballots - one had pre-paid return mail to New Jersey, the other to Colorado. ( Go figure. I expect Owner took off the stamps and said "thank you" - probably to himself.)
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100 Top CEOs Plot To Punish States Which Pass 'Restrictive' Voting Laws
MONDAY, APR 12, 2021 - 09:25 AM
100 top CEOs and business leaders have agreed to band together and fight 'restrictive' voting laws designed to strengthen the integrity of elections, such as voter ID, after a weekend Zoom summit during which the CEOs threatened to withhold campaign contributions and punish states by pulling investments in factories, stadiums and other projects and endorsements.
Kenneth Chenault, left, a former chief executive of American Express, and Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of MerckAccording to Axios, the call included "a long list of business luminaries, including James Murdoch, Ken Chenault, Ken Frazier, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, and executives of Delta, United and American Airlines," which expanded on a March initiative by 72 black executives to oppose election legislation in Georgia deemed to suppress the vote (yet nobody can articulate how).
"CEOs who participated in a live poll indicated they will re-evaluate donations to candidates supporting bills that restrict voting rights and many would reconsider investments in states which act upon such proposals," read a post-summit statement.
According to the Journal, the initiative is also backed by AMC CEO Adam Aron, Estée Lauder Cos. director Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and CyberCore Technologies CEO Tina Kuhn. Twitter and CBS News leaders were also invited.
The weekend call built on a March effort by 72 black executives led by Chenault and Frazer, which itself was based in part on of the effort is based on a lie the mainstream media peddled about Georgia's voting law (SB 202) that voting hours would be restricted, when in fact they were expanded.
The Zoom call - which consisted of 90 CEOs and 30 other experts and aides - comes 10 days after Major League Baseball signaled its virtue by moving the All Star Game from Atlanta to one of the whitest cities in America.
In short, corporate America is making sweeping economic threats to states which pass laws designed to improve election integrity.
Meanwhile, GOP leaders including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have pushed back against the woke CEOs, accusing them of adhering to "cancel culture." McConnell also warned the CEOs not to become "a vehicle for far-left mobs."
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The Insurrection That Wasn't: Anti-MAGA January 6th Documentary Accidentally Vindicates Trump Supporters - Revolver News
Hoax-for-hire CIA and MI6 cutout Bellingcat produced a documentary on the Jan. 6th "insurrection that wasn't" that vindicates Trump.
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The Insurrection That Wasn’t: Anti-MAGA January 6th Documentary Accidentally Vindicates Trump Supporters
April 12, 2021 (3h ago)
One of the most important political themes Revolver covers is the complete weaponization of America’s national security apparatus against its own people — particularly Trump supporters.
Unfortunately, propaganda is no exception to this trend. The emergence and seeming ubiquity of so-called “disinformation” journalists represents the application of psychological and information warfare concepts domestically, in order to attack, censor, and pre-empt narratives contradicting the agenda of our corrupt ruling class.
Like many government functions, much of this psychological warfare portfolio has been outsourced to the private and civil society sector — NGOs such as the Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, and a little known but nefarious “hoax for hire” organization called Bellingcat.
This last group Bellingcat teamed up with NBC in what promised to be a bombshell expose of the evil and nefarious “Capitol Siege” of January 6th.
Revolver News’ Darren Beattie took to Twitter last night to watch this farce so you don’t have to.
Below are highlights of the hilarious twitter thread chronicling Bellingcat’s train wreck documentary in real-time:
Read the entire thread here:
Even without watching the documentary, one can gather from the thread how weak Bellingcat’s case is. Their evidence of an “insurrection” was so flimsy that they resorted to an interview with a Democrat Capitol Police officer who speculated about what “might have been” — that is, what might have been had the Capitol Police not ended the insurrection by shooting Ashli Babbitt in cold blood.
If the big conclusion is ominous speculation about what “might have been”, the hidden and embarrassing implication is there was a whole lot of nothing.
As to the disgraced “hoax for hire” organization Bellingcat itself, Revolver is just getting started. Those of you attuned to Steve Bannon’s War Room show will note Beattie’s initial exposure of this UK-based intel cutout and its role in the propaganda war against Trump supporters.
Rumble video on website 7:21 min
Stay tuned as always to Revolver News for much more on Bellingcat and other NGOs prosecuting the propaganda war against Trump supporters on behalf of our national security apparatus.
Again, if you thought the first War on Terror was dumb, dysfunctional, and unethical, wait until you get a load of War on Terror 2.0 starring you and the 74 million Americans who voted just like you.
Strap in and stay informed. It’s going to be a wild ride
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EXCLUSIVE: Voting Machine Systems Should Be Banned from US Elections Until the Highly Suspect "Adjudication Process" Is Defined and Corrected | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Since the 2020 election the American public learned that voting machines and the systems surrounding the machines have the ability to send ballots to adjudication. So what is ballot adjudication?
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EXCLUSIVE: Voting Machine Systems Should Be Banned from US Elections Until the Highly Suspect “Adjudication Process” Is Defined and Corrected
By Joe Hoft
Published April 12, 2021 at 11:29am
Since the 2020 election the American public learned that voting machines and the systems surrounding the machines have the ability to send ballots to adjudication.
So what is ballot adjudication?
According to Pursue Democracy.
So when an excess number of ballots are sent to adjudication, ballots can then be altered.
So when do ballots go to adjudication, who decides when the ballots go to adjudication and who then gets to “adjudicate” that ballot?
It is clear that controls need to be implemented to prevent fraud from occurring in these processes.
There has been much talk about voting machines used in the 2020 Election.
Many individuals (maybe rightly so) blamed the machines for the observed issues in the election. But was it the machines or the systems surrounding the machines that were the cause of material issues in the 2020 Election? It may be the systems that need to be addressed more than the machines, or it may be both. If issues are not addressed, the controls within the voting machines can become weapons for fraud.
Michigan
In Antrim County Michigan, Attorney Mathew Deperno noted that a setting in the voting machines in that county caused an excessive number of ballots to be forced to be reviewed through ‘adjudication’. What this means, is these ballots were sent somewhere to someone to review and determine the results of the election for these ballots.
We first noted this in this audit of Antrim County performed by Deperno. We reported after the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines by a group brought in by attorney Deperno, that the Dominion Voting machines there were assigned a 68.05% error rate. DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect the ballots in a folder, and, “The ballots are sent somewhere where people in another location can change the vote,” DePerno explained. The number of votes going to adjudication should be a fraction of this.
Nevada:
We next found voting machines that were set at around a 70% adjudication rate in Clark County, Nevada. The election officials there just happened to report that the county had a near 70% adjudication rate in that county. These ballots in this county, which encompasses Las Vegas, were also sent somewhere for ‘adjudication’ where someone determines the votes for these ballots. Again, this setting was way too high and God only knows who was ‘adjudicating’ these results.
Georgia:
In Georgia, we noticed that an individual can ‘adjudicate’ a ballot by him or herself and can even push through blank ballots into the system and record them as voting for whomever they want. Also, the adjudication system in Dominion provides no data (or audit trail) to show who did the adjudication on a ballot. This weakness needs to be addressed in the voting machine systems.
Controls need to be built to prevent adjudication settings greater than a fraction of a percent allowed in the machines. Also, controls need to be built to record the date and time and person who adjudicates ballots. In addition, the system should mandate that two people perform the adjudication and these individuals should be from different parties.
In Fulton County Georgia, however, they announced after the election that they needed to address over 100,000 ballots for adjudication. Jovan Pulitzer pointed out how this was 93.67% of the ballots there.
In front of the Georgia Senate, Jovan Pulitizer pointed out how the ‘bullseye’ in the ballots in Georgia was off for certain ballots in certain areas and when it is off, the ballots are identified as needing adjudication (see picture above and post below). The voting systems are programmed to send all ballots where the bullet or bullseye is off, to adjudication. So it may be the machines are doing what they are programmed to do, but the ballots were intentionally flawed to send certain ballots in certain districts to adjudication.
Going Forward:
Rudy Giuliani recognized the importance of this issue after the Antrim Country results were released. He called for immediate investigations of the machines used in the swing states across the country. Rudy was right again:
Republicans and concerned citizens in every state should demand a review of their results from the 2020 Election to determine the adjudication rates of their results and to determine whether the ballots that were adjudicated were adjudicated properly. A full forensic audit should be performed to determine the validity of all the ballots recorded in the state’s election.
In addition, controls need to be implemented to prevent excess adjudication from occurring in US elections.
Until then, voting machines should not be used in elections in the US.
The good news is that some Americans are learning from the 2020 election.
Antrim County has refused to use the Dominion voting machines in their upcoming May election:
This issue is very serious. If we don’t have free and fair elections in this country, we have nothing.
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100+ Corporate Leaders Meet To Plot Opposition To Election Security Measures: Report
By Ryan Saavedra
•Apr 11, 2021 DailyWire.com
More than 100 corporate leaders met this weekend to plot their opposition to voter integrity laws across the United States following false statements made by far-left activists and top politicians like Democrat President Joe Biden.
CBS News reported that leaders from American Airlines, United Airlines, Levi Strauss & Co., Walmart, ViacomCBS, Ariel Investments, LinkedIn, Twitter, AMC Theaters, and “others” were invited to the leftist event.
Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express Co., and Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co., reportedly urged others to join their pressure campaign by signing onto a statement that could be released as soon as this week.
“A statement could come early this week, the people said, and would build on one that 72 Black executives signed last month in the wake of changes to Georgia’s voting laws,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “Mr. Chenault told executives on the call that several leaders had signaled they would sign on, including executives at PepsiCo Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and Hess Corp., among others, according to the people.”
The report said that “plenty of companies” were “wary of wading into politically charged areas,” with one executive telling the newspaper that it was a “no-win situation from a corporate standpoint.”
The move comes after Major League Baseball caved to a pressure campaign and relocated their All-Star Game and Draft out of Atlanta following Biden saying that he would “strongly supported” the move. MLB relocated their game to a city that has substantially less racial diversity. The move will reportedly cost Atlanta more than $100 in revenue.
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Former President Donald Trump has since encouraged Americans to boycott companies that cave to the woke mob, saying that the numbers are not on the side of the far-left.
“For years the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them,” Trump said in a statement. “It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back—we have more people than they do—by far!”
“Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck,” Trump added. “Don’t go back to their products until they relent. We can play the game better than them.”
Trump said that the left boycotts and scares “companies into submission” and that people must “never submit” and “never give up” otherwise “the Radical Left will destroy our Country.”
[COMMENT: I wonder how much these A'HOLE's got out of the last three stimulus bills.]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Stunner — Do not purge the voter rolls…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state elections commission should not remove voters flagged as possibly having moved, something Democrats fought and co…
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved,
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Wisconsin Supreme Court says don’t purge voters from rolls
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, something conservatives have wanted done for nearly two years
Wisconsin Supreme Court says don’t purge voters from rollsBy SCOTT BAUERAssociated PressThe Associated PressMADISON, Wis.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, something Democrats fought and conservatives have wanted done for nearly two years.
The court’s 5-2 ruling means about 69,000 people on the list of likely movers will not have their voter registrations deactivated. When the lawsuit was first brought in 2019, about 234,000 were on the list. Of those who remain, none voted in the 2020 presidential election, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. No voters had their registrations deactivated while the legal fight was pending.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative advocacy group, argued that the state elections commission broke the law when it did not remove voters from the rolls who did not respond within 30 days to a mailing in 2019 indicating they had been identified as someone who potentially moved.
But the court said the job of removing voters from the rolls was up to local municipal elections officials, not the state commission. It ordered the case dismissed.
Two of the court’s conservative justices, Chief Justice Patience Roggensack and Justice Brian Hagedorn, joined with liberal justices Ann Walsh Bradley, Rebecca Dallet and Jill Karofsky in the majority. Hagedorn, who has sided with liberals in other high profile cases, wrote the majority opinion.
Justices Rebecca Bradley and Annette Ziegler dissented. The two Bradleys are not related.
The issue received a lot of attention before the presidential race.
Because voters who moved were concentrated in more Democratic areas of the state, liberals argued that the lawsuit was meant to lower turnout on their side.
Republicans countered that it was about reducing the likelihood of voter fraud and making sure that people who moved are not able to vote from their previous addresses.
President Joe Biden carried Wisconsin by fewer than 21,000 votes, an outcome that withstood a two-county recount brought by former President Donald Trump and numerous lawsuits.
A Ozaukee County circuit court judge ruled in 2019 that the voters identified as possibly having moved must be removed from the rolls immediately. A state appeals court overturned that in February 2020. The Supreme Court heard arguments on the case in September and issued its ruling Friday, just three days after the state’s spring election.
The court upheld the appeals court ruling and ordered the case dismissed.
The law requiring the voter registration database to be updated regularly places that duty on the state’s 1,850 municipal election clerks, and there is “no credible argument” that the state elections commission should do it, the divided court said.
Rick Esenberg, attorney for the conservative group that brought the lawsuit, had argued that state law clearly gives the elections commission the responsibility to maintain the voter list. Esenberg called the ruling a “disappointing setback for those who expect Wisconsin state agencies to follow the law.”
The dissenting justices said that the commission’s duty to maintain the voter registration database means that it is also responsible for ensuring that every law related to that list is carried out, whether the law specifically says that or not.
That interpretation of the law would be a “remarkable expansion of the Commission’s powers and responsibilities,” the majority wrote.
Esenberg called on the Republican-controlled Legislature to “fix the law” to explicitly require the commission to remove voters identified as possibly having moved.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul, who represented the elections commission, called the ruling “a clear win for Wisconsin voters.”
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe declined to comment immediately on the ruling, saying it was being analyzed.
The list of voters affected by the ruling has shrunk from about 234,000 to 69,000 for a variety of reasons, according to the elections commission. Based on a February memo, when the number stood at 71,000, 58% of the people originally on the list registered at a new address. Nearly 4% were inactivated by local clerks for a variety of reasons, including because they had died or moved. That left nearly 31% of the people originally identified as potential movers still on the list.
The commission is now considering sending mailings to voters who may have moved four times a year, rather than every two years, in order to more quickly flag those who may be registered at an old address.
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The story has been corrected to indicate that the Wisconsin Elections Commission said that no voters still on the list of likely movers voted in the 2020 presidential election, not the 2016 presidential election.
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Arizona Senate's Maricopa County Audit Is Now Scheduled to Kick Off April 22nd | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Lyle Rapacki is reporting from Arizona that the Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit is scheduled to kick off on April 22.
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Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County Audit Is Now Scheduled to Kick Off April 22nd
By Joe Hoft
Published April 12, 2021 at 7:43pm
Lyle Rapacki is reporting from Arizona that the Arizona Senate’s Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit is scheduled to kick off on April 22.
A video reporting Lyle’s news was created stating that the Maricopa County audit will kick off on April 22nd. The audit will cover the 2.1 million ballots in the county which is about 60% of all the ballots in the state. The audit will be performed in front of cameras. All participants are being reviewed for background checks now.
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This is good news for all who want to know whether the results in the 2020 Election in Arizona are valid.
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BREAKING: New Hampshire Governor SIGNS SB 43 INTO LAW! - Mandates Audit of Windham's Fraudulent 2020 Election Results! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
UPDATE— This is breaking news — via activist and reporter Ken Eyring at Granite Grok — The Windham Act SB 43 was SIGNED INTO LAW Today!
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BREAKING: New Hampshire Governor SIGNS SB 43 INTO LAW! – Mandates Audit of Windham’s Fraudulent 2020 Election Results!
By Jim Hoft
Published April 12, 2021 at 2:38pm
UPDATE— This is breaking news — via activist and reporter Ken Eyring at Granite Grok —
The Windham Act SB 43 was SIGNED INTO LAW Today!
Governor Chris Sununu signed the bill into law on Monday!
News : Governor Chris Sununu Signs SB 43 : Governor Chris Sununu Signs SB 43
From the Governor’s Desk:
The New Hampshire Senate voted 24-0 to pass the bill last Friday and sent it to Governor Sununu’s desk for signing.
New Hampshire lawmakers were scheduled to vote on the Windham Amendment SB43 this week.
And now it has passed the New Hampshire House and Senate.
Via Granite Grok:
Congratulations to Granite Grok, Senator Bob Giuda, activist Ken Eyring, and GOP official David Strang for their incredible leadership to get this bill passed and signed into law!
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Blackwell: American Exceptionalism in Crosshairs of Radical Left
The American people must oppose the Radical Left’s hostile takeover of our right to vote, and with it the death of American Exceptionalism.
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Blackwell–Beyond Election Integrity: American Exceptionalism in Crosshairs of Radical Left
Democrats’ Corrupt Politicians Act pending in the Senate is a frontal assault on our Constitution’s federalist recipe for freedom which has served our nation well for centuries, putting Congress in complete control of its own elections. The American people must oppose the Radical Left’s hostile takeover of our right to vote, and with it the death of American Exceptionalism.
Many things combine to create the magic we call “American Exceptionalism,” which at least since Ronald Reagan has been a hallmark of the Republican Party.
We continue to pursue and realize the vision to make America a “shining city upon a hill,” a biblical image that patriots have rooted deeply in the ethos of this great nation.
Thousands of years ago, Aristotle wrote of the never-ending dilemma of balancing the size and muscle of government with the need for individual liberty. Our Founders tackled that dilemma at the birth of our nation, writing our Constitution to put a harness on government.
Much of that exceptional magic is embedded in the provisions of our Constitution. People talk about our freedom to speak, or to live according to our faith, or to keep and bear arms. These and many other rights are found in the words of our Supreme Law.
Another ingredient of that greatness found both in our Constitution and in our traditions is the decentralization of power. This is called federalism: the balance of power between the federal government and the states. The Constitution assigns certain issues to the federal government and certain other issues to the states. Our Bill of Rights even includes a Tenth Amendment that makes it crystal clear to anyone who missed these not-to-subtle hints that if the Constitution doesn’t make a specific duty assignment, then it belongs to the states, not to Washington, DC.
Aside from being commanded by our Constitution, almost 250 years of history has proved federalism to be a great idea. Federalism has allowed our states to be the laboratories of democracy, where 50 states try different approaches to see which theories pushed by smart people turn out to be sheer genius, and others turn out to be duds.
Most ideas end up somewhere between, with plusses and minuses, so that some states prefer one approach, others choose another. Citizens can vote for candidates that promise to pursue the ideas those citizens think will reflect their local values and priorities, and if a citizen loses that fight but thinks the issue is important enough, that citizen can vote with their feet, moving to a state that better reflects what the voter thinks is important.
On some issues, both our Constitution and our traditions split that issue between both levels of government. The issue I’m most familiar with in that category is elections, having served both as a top state election official and a human rights ambassador and presidential election commissioner at the federal level.
The Constitution says most election matters belong to state legislatures, but empowers Congress to override certain aspects of elections if it so chooses. Our tradition is that states have the primary role in elections, and Congress is careful and narrow when passing laws that override those parts of the election process where the Constitution allows Congress to intervene.
The Corrupt Politicians Act – H.R. 1 in the House and S. 1 in the Senate – throws a bomb into the balance that federalism provides for elections. It tries to ram through a comprehensive federal takeover of elections, completely ousting states from this area of traditional state responsibility.
As I previously wrote for this news outlet, laws like Georgia’s S.B. 202 are designed to make it easier to vote but harder to cheat, while H.R. 1 does the opposite. (And as I expanded on that article when talking on Fox Business Network, Major League Baseball made a serious mistake in taking sides against Georgia’s election integrity law.)
This bill is around 800 pages of hostile takeover. It abolishes voter ID, both for registering to vote and for casting a ballot. It gets rid of almost every measure used to make sure that people are who they claim to be, live where they claim to live, and are qualified to vote – like automatically throwing every welfare recipient on the voter rolls, and allowing people to both register to vote and cast a ballot on Election Day.
The Corrupt Politicians Act takes all the chaos of mail-in voting, puts it on steroids, and makes it nationwide. It mandates multiple weeks of mail-in ballots floating all over every state, and empowers special interest groups to come to your home to “help” you fill out your ballot and then take it from you, promising of course to deliver it to your local election office.
Is anyone naive enough to think it would result in anything other than people voting for the “wrong” candidate to feel the pressure of these “helpers” to check the box for the “right” candidate? Or that any voter who stands by their principles to vote for the candidate of their choice, that the “helpers” will properly deliver that ballot only for the “right” candidate, while ballots for the “wrong” candidate will end up in a dumpster?
The Corrupt Politicians Act puts Congress 100 percent in charge of its own elections. The fox shouldn’t be the one in charge of guarding the henhouse, and the Constitution’s command of federalism in our elections shows the Founders didn’t trust any single group of politicians to guard their own entry visas in that manner.
The great Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” That quote is famous because it’s profoundly true.
Our constitutional republic might have its problems, but it’s the best thing going.
We are not a perfect Union, but we are perfectible. It has served us well for a quarter of a millennium, and we have continued to improve it over the years. Our federal system of government has forced our nation’s capital to compete with the states for the approval of voters, keeping an eye on each other, to the benefit of the citizens who must live under both levels of government.
The fact that this federal system plays out in elections – the machinery of our democratic republic itself – should cause us all to take a hard and skeptical look.
The marvel of our election system is something we should guard carefully, even jealously.
Congress should reject this assault on the Constitution’s safeguards of the democratic process. And state legislatures should continue to make it easy to vote, and hard to cheat.
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EXCLUSIVE: Attorney Matthew DePerno Sits with Jim Hoft and Patty McMurray in First Interview After Court Hearing on Antrim County Case (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
On Friday Michigan Attorney Matthew DePerno released his much anticipated Michigan Elections Forensics Report.
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EXCLUSIVE: Attorney Matthew DePerno Sits with Jim Hoft and Patty McMurray in First Interview After Court Hearing on Antrim County Case (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published April 13, 2021 at 7:30am
On Friday Michigan Attorney Matthew DePerno released his much anticipated Michigan Elections Forensics Report.
Among the findings DePerno announced that:
On Monday The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and Patty McMurray from 100% Fed Up interviewed Attorney Matthew DePerno after his court hearing earlier this afternoon.
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Arizona Also Adjudicated Thousands of Ballots (One Out of Eight) in 2020 Election - This Should Never Happen Again | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Yesterday we noted that the adjudication process was performed extensively in Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada and because there are inherent issues with this process, voting machines should be outlawed in every election until these issues are addressed. Today we uncovered evidence that this...
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Arizona Also Adjudicated Thousands of Ballots (One Out of Eight) in 2020 Election – This Should Never Happen Again
By Joe Hoft
Published April 13, 2021 at 9:57am
Yesterday we noted that the adjudication process was performed extensively in Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada and because there are inherent issues with this process, voting machines should be outlawed in every election until these issues are addressed.
Today we uncovered evidence that this process was also used on a material amount of ballots in Arizona.
We reported our concerns with the adjudication process in the voting systems used in the 2020 Election yesterday and suggested that these systems need to be outlawed until this process is fixed:
So what is ballot adjudication?
According to Pursue Democracy.
Ballot results can be altered in the adjudication process. It is clear that controls need to be implemented to prevent fraud from occurring in these processes.
There has been much talk about voting machines used in the 2020 Election. Many individuals (maybe rightly so) blamed the machines for the observed issues in the election. But was it the machines or the systems surrounding the machines that were the cause of material issues in the 2020 Election? It may be the systems that need to be addressed more than the machines, or it may be both. However, if issues are not addressed, the controls within the voting machines can become weapons for fraud.
We can now report that Arizona also had a huge percent of ballots that were adjudicated in the 2020 Election.
In the video of testimonies in Arizona below, we see three key witnesses who discuss the adjudication process in Maricopa County.
Jan Bryant (starts 6:35:47)
- “1 in 8 ballots were getting adjudicated” (6:48:04) equals 12.5%
- She worked 6 straight days & nights at MCTEC. She has an MBA/Project Mgmt background.
- Greg Wadinski (starts 7:03:34)
- “Overheard that 12% ballots were going to adjudication…” (7:10:40).
- MCTEC poll watcher (strong tech background).
- Linda Brickman (8:52:00)
- Moving names from the original ballot to the sample ballot some of those ballots were already completed (9:20:21)
- As soon as we entered a Trump ballot it defaulted to a Biden vote (9:02:15 & 9:14:36)…. Partisan staff took Trump voted ballots and entered his name as a write-in candidate, which got those ballots tossed.
- She worked four 8-10 hour days at MCTEC in several capacities. She’s also the GOP Chairwomen for Maricopa County
11:15;10 min
Going Forward:
Rudy Giuliani recognized the importance of this issue after the Antrim Country results were released. He called for immediate investigations of the machines used in the swing states across the country. Rudy was right again:
Republicans and concerned citizens in every state should demand a review of their results from the 2020 Election to determine the adjudication rates of their results and to determine whether the ballots that were adjudicated were adjudicated properly. A full forensic audit should be performed to determine the validity of all the ballots recorded in the states’ elections.
The systems should include audit trail functionality to ensure the names of the adjudicators are noted and the time stamp for when the ballots are adjudicated. The systems should mandate at least two adjudicators sign off on the adjudicated ballots (one from each party). Ballots should be prevented from being adjudicated if they are not adjudication by at least two reviewers.
In addition, controls need to be implemented to prevent excess adjudication from occurring in US elections. When one-eighth of the ballots are going to adjudication, counting should be stopped and alternative controls implemented.
Until these items are embedded in the process, voting machines should not be used in elections in the US.
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Georgia Judge Allowed Auditors to Move Ahead with Upcoming Audit Despite Raffensperger's Pleas(UPDATE) | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
The people in Georgia need to stand up and demand a valid forensic audit of Fulton County’s 2020 Election results!
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Crooked Raffensperger Got to Him – Georgia Judge Now Reportedly Preventing Access to Actual Ballots in Upcoming Audit
By Joe Hoft
Published April 13, 2021 at 10:21am
The people in Georgia need to stand up and demand a valid forensic audit of Fulton County’s 2020 Election results!
Where are the grassroots patriots like in Arizona we will stand up and demand the state perform a valid forensic audit of results from the 2020 Election in Fulton County?
Crooked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger last week petitioned a judge to not allow an audit of the actual ballots in Georgia from the 2020 election.
Today it looks like the judge is going to side with creepy Raffensperger. CD Media is reporting this morning:
The images only is what Raffensperger wanted. He knows that the real ballots will show widespread fraud in the election and is doing all he can to prevent access to the paper ballots. The paper ballots can be tested for paper type, ink type, and set up. Things the images cannot be tested for.
Let’s hope the judge changes his mind. Regardless the people in Georgia need to get together and stand up and demand real forensic audits of the entire state.
[COMMENT: Perhaps we all need to boycott Georgia until they turn this around.]
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Big Businesses Are Silent On California's Voter Intimidation Efforts
California lawmakers advanced legislation Monday that would require the names and addresses of those who sign recall petitions be made public.
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Big Businesses Are Silent On California’s Voter Intimidation Efforts
APRIL 13, 2021 By Tristan Justice
California lawmakers advanced legislation Monday that would require the names and addresses of those who signed recall petitions to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom become public.
The bill passed the California Senate Elections Committee by a 4-1 vote along party lines, with state Sen. Jim Nielsen, the lone Republican on the committee, voting against.
“There’s a concerted attempt to make recalling an elected official more difficult,” Nielsen wrote in a statement on Twitter. “They are doing everything to keep their jobs except input from the public. Elected officials must be responsive to their constituents.”
The bill to turn recall petitions into Soviet-style dissident lists signed by more than two million people now heads to the Senate Judiciary Committee for final approval before consideration by the full chamber.
Harmeet Dhillon, who runs a major San Francisco-based law firm and launched the Center for American Liberty, immediately threatened California lawmakers with legal action over the new legislation.
Major corporations, which fed hysteria over mild election reforms in Georgia with boycotts, have gone silent on California legislators in pursuit of actual voter intimidation.
In response to Republicans passing a new law in Georgia that expanded early voting and mandates ID for ballot access, Major League Baseball moved its lucrative all-star game worth $100 million in local revenue from the majority-black city of Atlanta to Denver, where less than 10 percent of the population is black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Social justice accomplished.
MLB did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s inquiries about whether it would condemn the California legislation.
More than 100 other companies condemned the slight electoral improvements in Georgia, fanning the flames of hysteria set by Democrats. This included President Joe Biden, who called the legislation “Jim Crow on steroids.”
“We believe every American should have a voice in our democracy and that voting should be safe and accessible to all voters,” says a joint statement from big businesses organized by Civic Alliance. In the context of accusations hurled by Democrats, that would mean free of intimidation. The response to California legislators pursuing actual intimidation to the benefit of the political consultant class, however, is radio silence.
Coca-Cola also released statements vilifying Georgia lawmakers over the new law.
“We want to be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation,” the soft-drink CEO James Quincey wrote in a statement. “Throughout Georgia’s legislative session we provided feedback to members of both legislative chambers and political parties, opposing measures in the bills that would diminish or deter access to voting.”
Coca-Cola also did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment on whether it engaged in the same state-level activism in California, given the company’s newfound interest in election law.
Privacy at the ballot box has been a fundamental pillar of U.S. free and fair elections since reforms of the late 19th century, and recall petitions demanding removal of an unpopular politician enjoy the same license in California.
Compelling petition lists to reveal names and addresses of signatories marks the greatest voter intimidation effort in decades, despite the gaslighting from Democrats such as Stacey Abrams. Corporations, however, seem uninterested.
Dobbin
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So how long before how you vote in the actual election is attached to your name?
I mean reprisal IS a political tool - in dictatorships.
This should immediately and without delay be contested in a court of law - for the same reason that the election that brought Newsom to office is by secret ballot.
Human right to leadership determination by a secret ballot of their peers is being violated.
No wait - contest is in a court of law isn't it?
Maybe that explains the omission?
Dobbin
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Does Rep. Steve Cohen Want to Start a War Over the Capitol Riot?
BY TYLER O'NEIL APR 12, 2021 12:44 PM ET
Last week, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) showed just how desperate Democrats are to keep using the Capitol riot to silence their political opposition. He compared the January 6 attack on the Capitol to the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, the act of war that finally pushed the United States into World War II.
Yes, he compared a few people trespassing into the Capitol and stealing Nancy Pelosi’s rostrum to the 353 Japanese aircraft that damaged 8 U.S. battleships and sunk 4, killing 2,300 Americans and wounding 1,140. To call Cohen’s comparison insane would be an insult to the mentally ill.
To top it off, Cohen began his remarks by flubbing the history of Passover before proceeding to compare the Capitol riot to the Exodus from Egypt.
“We just celebrated Passover. Passover, Jewish people are instructed over two centuries to remember — uh, over 2,000 years — to remember that we were in bondage and we escaped and to remember that day and teach others about it,” Cohen said, apparently conflating the birth of Jesus with the Passover, which took place about 1,500 years beforehand.
“January 6 is a day like that. It’s a day that should be remembered in America because our democracy was at stake,” the representative argued.
“This was an attack on our democracy as much as Pearl Harbor was an attack on our country, and for people to suggest that it wasn’t that big of a deal, that it was just some folks who were demonstrating and protesting, and most of the people were just good people – they were mostly just fine citizens going up there to protest: malarkey,” Cohen continued.
“This was an attack on the United States Constitution. They wanted to upset the Electoral College and to make Donald Trump the president to eliminate people that stood in his way, which included the vice president, which included the Speaker of the House, and they wanted to intimidate Congress to support Ted Cruz’s position,” he added.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1380573220613595145
1:37 min
Cohen’s narrative is a huge pile of steaming… malarkey.
First off, the truly dangerous rioters and ringleaders of the Capitol riot did not “support Ted Cruz’s position.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called for a non-partisan commission to study election fraud in the 2020 election and then make a recommendation by January 20, 2021. The rioters wanted to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes, and they expected Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject the electors from contested states and declare Trump the winner.
Secondly, while many protesters did take part in the violent riot at the Capitol, most of the crowd on January 6 remained peaceful, as then-President Donald Trump asked them to do.
Many on the Left have used the violent rioters as an excuse to condemn the entire crowd, and then even implicate the Republicans who voted to contest the election results. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — which puts mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a “hate map” with the KKK — called on Congress to censure or expel every Republican who did so, claiming that these votes represented support for the lawless riot, even though elected Republicans loudly denounced the violence.
Most importantly, the Capitol riot was absolutely nothing like Pearl Harbor, and it is terrifying that Democrats think they can compare the two. Democrats have advocated for new legislation to fight domestic terrorism, and some of them have explicitly connected domestic terrorism to the political Right — even libertarians. Military “extremism” training appears to follow the SPLC’s playbook to demonize conservatives.
Ridiculous exaggerations like the one Cohen made pour fuel on the fire of partisan divisions and suggest that the Capitol riot was just the surface of a large and nefarious conspiracy to destroy democracy. In reality, the rioters were a loosely organized bunch whose cause went up in smoke when Trump conceded to Biden and left the Oval Office. Federal officials are rightly prosecuting the rioters, none of whom have been charged with possession of firearms in the Capitol.
If the Capitol riot was an “insurrection,” it was a most pathetic one.
NotTheBee’s Joel Abbott struck the right tone in mocking Cohen’s absurd comparison. He juxtaposed footage from January 6, 2021, and December 7, 1941. Notice the absence of bombs and explosions in the first video.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1347031398176223233
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By contrast, the Japanese dropped bombs on Americans, killing thousands.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1203331041680875520
1:53 min
The very notion of any comparison between these two events is utterly absurd, but it showcases the Democrats’ political strategy with the Capitol riot. While most Americans understand that the Capitol riot was a dark moment but not a lasting threat to America, Democrats attempt to exaggerate the event and use it to tar conservatives as a violent threat to the country.
Americans aren’t buying it, so Democrats are forced to resort to absurd hyperbole. Americans need to shame them into dropping this dangerous narrative.
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Donations Show Opposition To Voting Integrity Is About Helping Democrats
The modern democracy desired by Saturday’s participants is one our corporate and ivory tower overlords control, rather than the peons in red states.
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Campaign Donations Show Big Business Effort To Oppose Voting Integrity Is About Helping Democrats Win, Not ‘Democracy’
The modern democracy desired by Saturday’s participants is one our corporate and ivory tower overlords control, rather than the peons in red states.
By Margot Cleveland
APRIL 13, 2021
On Saturday, 100 big business leaders joined a Zoom call to plot a unified response to voting-integrity legislation pending in many states, similar to a law recently passed in Georgia. While billed as “non-partisan” efforts to defend voting rights and democracy, the players involved, their preferred policies, and the undemocratic pressure they seek to exert proves the virtual gathering was nothing of the sort.
CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe first confirmed the existence of the call on Saturday, identifying American Airlines, United, the Atlanta Falcons, Levi Strauss, Walmart, Viacom CBS, Twitter, LinkedIn, and AMC Theatres as participants. O’Keefe identified Yale Professor Jeff Sonnenfeld as helping organize “the confab.” Later, on its webpage, The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism disclosed that it had convened the meeting in partnership with Sonnenfeld’s Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and the Leadership Now Project.
The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism’s summary of the event quoted Sonnenfeld and other organizers, such as Daniella Ballou-Aares, CEO of the Leadership Now Project, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, chairwoman of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, and Meredith Sumpter, the CEO of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism. So, who are these organizations and their leaders?
The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism’s 23-page “Framework for Inclusive Capitalism” provides some insight of its positions that, in short, seek to transfuse leftist politics into American capitalism. With “valuable input” from the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and several academic institutions, and funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and others, the Coalition’s “Framework” focuses on everything from increasing the minimum wage to a “living wage” to changing state corporation laws and Securities and Exchange Commission regulations to alter corporations’ responsibility to shareholders, to instead inure to society and the environment. The Coalition also seeks to compensate executives, not based on stock performance but based on meeting “broader corporate goals,” particularly those that affect worker rewards and quality along race, ethnic, and gender lines.
Coalition chairwoman de Rothschild proves a solid booster for Democrats and the Democratic National Committee, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
While not as free-flowing with her money as de Rothschild, Sumpter’s political donations also find a home in the pockets of Democrats.
The Leadership Now Project, which markets itself as a “membership organization of business and thought leaders taking action to fix American Democracy,”
likewise holds left-wing views on politics and preferred candidates. For instance, before the 2020 election the organization highlighted its pick of 20 “New Leaders to Watch.” It consisted of 18 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and two candidates for the U.S. Senate. They were all Democrats.
Absent from the list was Michigan Senate candidate John James, an African-American business leader and veteran. It’s a strange omission for an organization that proclaimed “in selecting our candidates, we prioritized talent and diversity.”
But rest assured, The Leadership Now Project noted that while its list does not “currently include any Republicans,” the organization “look forward to endorsing other principled Republicans in the future.”
Democrat heavy gifting also appears in a search of contributions by Ballou-Aares, the cofounder and CEO of the Leadership Now Project:
More troubling than The Leadership Now Project’s one-sided promotion of political candidates who seem in line with the partisan views of its leaders is the organization’s warped view of “protecting our democracy.” In an executive summary, the organization claims a “specific agenda” to tackle “systemic racism” and “repair American democracy” by limiting voter ID laws, granting felons the right to vote, addressing purported discrimination and underrepresentation by the Electoral College, and preventing states from cleaning up voter rolls. The organization’s website proclaims ranked-choice voting a priority.
The real tell, though, is from The Leadership Now Project’s claim to prioritizing “innovation and ideas for a modern democracy,” to which Saturday’s virtual gathering gave meaning: The modern democracy desired by Saturday’s participants is one our corporate and ivory tower overlords control, rather than the peons in Georgia or the other red states. If the voters don’t see things the same way, they will be made to.
That brings us back to fellow organizer Sonnenfeld, who claimed “the gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisal for exercising their patriotic voices.” But two short weeks ago, it was Sonnenfeld levying threats to bring Georgia to heel, suggesting Google and Microsoft’s workforces reconsider recently announced regional offices in Atlanta in retaliation for the democratically elected state legislature’s passage of a mild voting integrity law.
So, it seems, the threats can only run one way: from the powerful boardrooms to the unwashed masses. Should the populace complain, they’ll be shown what real democracy means—unless we show them first by voting against policies that give these corporations outsized power.
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How Far Left Infiltrated Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It
A new coalition, Stop Corporate Tyranny, is taking strategic action to rid corporate America of the political influence of the far left.
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How Far Left Infiltrated Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It
Virginia Allen / @Virginia_Allen5 / April 13, 2021
Stop Corporate Tyranny is a new coalition on a mission to stop the far left from continuing to influence corporate America with a leftist political agenda. Pictured: A billboard in San Francisco pitches Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, which recently involved itself in a debate over a new election integrity law in Georgia. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The radical left has infiltrated corporate America and is using big business to promote a political agenda.
Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research and director of the Free Enterprise Project, is a member of a new coalition called Stop Corporate Tyranny.
Danhof joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the ways in which Stop Corporate Tyranny is working to end the left’s influence on American companies, and how you can be a part of the movement for change.
We also cover these stories:
- The National Guard will increase its presence in Minnesota after riots broke out following a police shooting outside Minneapolis.
- Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signs significant election reforms into law.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci says it’s possible to be infected with COVID-19 after receiving the vaccine.
“The Daily Signal Podcast” is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play, and Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts.
Virginia Allen: I am joined by Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise Project, general council for National Center for Public Policy Research, and a member of the brand new coalition called Stop Corporate Tyranny. Justin, thanks so much for being here.
Justin Danhof: Hey, thanks. It’s always a pleasure to talk with you, Virginia.
Allen: So today we are talking about the launch of the new conservative coalition website called Stop Corporate Tyranny. You are one of the leading voices of this coalition. So if you would just go ahead and explain what exactly this website is and what your mission is.
Danhof: Yeah, sure. So first, a little background is probably helpful for the audience. Directing the Free Enterprise Project for the last 10-plus years, we’ve been screaming from the rooftops to conservatives largely that: Pay attention, big business is no longer with us. Big business is advocating against traditional values, conservative values at a record pace.
Well, fast forward to last year for the very first time in the Gallup polling, Gallup does polling on cultural lanes every year, for the very first time ever big business was underwater with conservatives.
So we’ve been working for about a year-plus to try and build a coalition of conservatives that are willing to engage with big business and fight back against woke capital, fight back against companies that are taking actions that are anathema to conservative and traditional values. So, that’s how we’ve gotten to the point that conservatives are awake now.
I like to say we’re awakened to the woke and we want to do something about it. So, that’s what stopcorporatetyranny.org is all about. It’s a one-stop shop for a couple things.
First, it’s for education on [environmental, social, and governance] and woke because there’s a reason we got here. There’s a reason we got to a place where corporate America is the mouthpiece for the political left, where corporate America is the political muscle, in many instances, and the ones that are carrying the water for the political left.
And so first we let folks know how the heck we got here. And part of it is conservatives were asleep at the switch. Let’s be honest.
But we’re not just going to grouse about the problems, we are an engagement coalition and we want to engage the grassroots of America, the citizens out there who feel helpless to do anything about the cancel culture. They feel helpless against the woke mob, because it’s like trying to drink out of a water hose.
So we’re giving you tools that will allow you to directly engage with business leaders that are taking actions that offend your values. So that’s what the website’s for.
I’m super proud of the coalition. I’m proud that we have academics, authors, conservative movement thought leaders, former business folks. It’s a large and growing coalition and look, it’s desperately needed.
Open up any newspaper, turn on the news for five seconds, the lead everywhere seems to be big business joining with the left to do X, Y, Z, L, M, N, O, P, right? And so, it couldn’t be more timely.
And frankly, I pray that we’re just not too late. … The left’s march through the institutions obviously went through mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, many of our churches. Business is the most recent that they’ve been marching through. And let’s just hope that the closing gambit hasn’t closed.
Allen: Yeah, certainly. So if we go back 10 years, I think very few people expected corporations, whether it be Facebook or Coca-Cola, to take a policy position on different pieces of legislation. So what changed in America?
Danhof: Well, I call it the “tri-part takeover of corporate America.” And the easiest way to think about this is, think about how the left took over college campuses, and it’s the same exact paradigm. So when I say by tri-part, it was a top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in takeover. We’ll start with the top.
On American colleges, what did they do? They set up this thing called tenure. Well, tenure was supposed to be about academic freedom. Well, tenure turned into left’s blackball [of] conservative and traditional-minded professors from getting lifetime tenureship. And that’s how we’ve gotten to the point where there’s dozens of college campuses with zero Republican professors.
Well, it’s the same thing, the left realized, “Well, wait a minute, if we want to change corporate direction, let’s change out the leadership. Let’s change out the boards.” And so the left went about co-opting and, in some instances, straight up buying the search firms that large companies use to identify board members.
It’s gotten to the point that one year I was talking with the general counsel of one of the largest companies in America, because I filed a shareholder resolution, and I said, “Hey, my resolution was calling for diversity on their board of directors, but not diversity of skin surface characteristic, diversity of viewpoint.”
And the general council called me—and I never give away his name or the company that he works for—but he said, “Justin, you’re … over the target on a problem that you may not realize how big it is.”
“Well, how big is it?”
He said, “The search firms that companies my size use have all been co-opted by the left.” He said to me, “They’ll bring us 13 dyed-in-the-wool liberals for an open board seat before we’ll get somebody that we would even consider a moderate.”
It was very intentional what the left did. And that’s how we’ve gotten to the point where the top part of corporate America leans very much to the political left.
Now, the bottom-up takeover, this is, again, very akin to college campuses, and especially toward graduate schools where if you’re a conservative student and you know your grade is beholden to a professor that hates your worldview, why would you speak up? Why would you speak your truth? You don’t want to get canceled by your professor. You’re beholden to your professor for your grades.
And so many conservatives on college campuses self-sensor.
We’ve reached that point in corporate America. If you’re working at Coca-Cola these days, and you don’t want to go to the training that demands that you be less white if you’re a white person, you can’t speak up for fear of being canceled.
When I engage with the C-suite folks all across industries—this is not just Big Tech and Hollywood folks—I ask them, why do you take liberal position X, Y, and Z? It doesn’t matter. Why do you fund Planned Parenthood? Why did you oppose President [Donald] Trump’s orders on immigration and travel and anywhere in between? They all say the same thing. It’s like it buzzes in my ear.
They say, “Justin, that’s what our employees want us to do.”
And of course, that’s not true of the broad subset of all of their employees, but what’s happened is the woke employees, the ones who feel emboldened on college campuses, they feel emboldened at the workplace as well. They’ll demand the critical race theory trainings, they’ll demand the LGBT trainings, and things like this.
But yeah, conservatives are self-censoring all across business campuses, just like they are on college campuses.
Then, the outside-in, that’s the world that I live in. So we file things called shareholder resolutions because we saw a little over a decade ago, we looked at the landscape of corporate America and saw that any resolution on any social or policy issue that was being filed with the company was being filed by a left-wing organization.
And to this day, we’re still the only organization on the right that engages companies by buying up shares of their stock and offering shareholder resolutions.
If I put up a pie chart of the disparate amount of liberal money and liberal groups that are on this, you wouldn’t even see my sliver. So the left is still actively engaged as outside-in and as shareholder activists, that’s just one part of the outside-in.
Liberal groups also rate companies. And these companies then get beholden to these ratings to the point now that Fortune 500 companies, this would kind of blow your mind, Virginia, they have entire staffs, not just one or two people, but entire staffs at most Fortune 500 companies that their only job is to reply to [environmental, social, and governance] survey questions.
Now, we’re not sending in any questions from the right. So they’re only responding to and then changing corporate behavior from surveys and questionnaires by the left, and then the left uses those to rate companies. So again, they’re moving the needle and we’re not even playing the game.
Allen: Wow. And it sounds like fear plays a really big factor in this narrative because for the head of that business or corporation that maybe is more moderate, but he’s saying to you, “No, this is what my employees want.” It’s interesting that, as the head, he doesn’t feel comfortable standing his own ground on these issues, but feels like he really has to bend to what the far left is asking of him.
Danhof: Well, if you think about it, that’s why the left uses business so well, because it recognizes a couple of things.
First, businesses are more amenable to pressure than most politicians. Most politicians on the Hill, they live in a gerrymandered district. And so it’s very hard to get them to move off of issues. But companies, they literally have a fiduciary legal responsibility to their shareholders first of all. And they’ve all now announced that they’re going to have responsibilities to all sorts of stakeholders.
So that’s how we get to the point where we are in the state of Georgia right now, where the last count—that I haven’t had time to go through the whole list of—is that we have 1,119 companies that are somehow out opposing things like voter ID, … they’re opposing voter integrity.
Think about that. They are literally working to corrupt American elections, and that’s the stance we find corporate America in right now.
Allen: Justin, there’s obviously a lot of debates on Capitol Hill, for example, with the Equality Act. How does that usher into this conversation with corporations and big business?
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Danhof: Yeah. I think that, again, most folks, their mind might be blown by this, but do you realize 400 of the leading companies in the United States of America are pressing the leadership in Congress to pass the Equality Act, they’re lobbying for it, they back it completely?
Four hundred leading American companies want to end women’s sports as we know it and cancel religious freedom for Americans. Think about that.
This is, again, conservatives are now awake to this, but man, were we asleep at the switch for a very, very long time. And part of it is because of the lie of the, quote, “free market system.”
So many conservatives say, “Oh, well, the free market’s going to work itself out.”
Well, we don’t live in an Anne Grand novel. We live in more of a corporatocracy than a free market, where big business and big government [are] together teaming up. That’s the scariest proposition of all because the elite power with which that would wield to change the lives of everyday Americans.
So, yeah, I think that there’s a second problem with conservative instinct that has led us down this path. And that is, take any action that we don’t like—we can stick with Coca-Cola and their “be less white” training or their opposition to voter integrity in Georgia.
Conservatives instinctively say, “Well, I’m just going to boycott. I’m done with that company.” And they go on Facebook and they put up a post that their friends and their family all see that all agree with them anyway. And then three days later, they’re driving and they stop at a 7-Eleven, and they pick up a Diet Coke because the history of the conservative boycott of business that offends our value is a history of epic failures.
It’s never worked once. It’s not going to work next time, so just stop telling me you’re going to boycott because you’re just simply not. And even if you do on an individual level, guess what? Collectively, it’s not going to work.
So that’s a big problem, is that there’s this mindset out there that we can just—again, how many companies are on the wrong side of the issue in Georgia? As I said, last count, it’s nearing 1,200. So you’re telling me when you’re going shopping, you’re going to bring a list with you of those 1,200 products and brands and you’re going to sift through it when you’re at the grocery store? Good luck.
You need a team of individuals to help you with that, an entire team to help you with that boycott, if you want it to be successful. It’s just never going to happen. We can’t boycott our way out of the problem.
Allen: So then what are people like me then supposed to do? Because it does feel like, “OK, I vote with my dollars.”
And you mentioned Coca-Cola, obviously there’s kind of a firestorm going on right now in Atlanta as Major League Baseball has moved the All-Star Game and Coca-Cola came out against the new Georgia voting legislation. So, we’re hearing from different lawmakers that are saying, “Don’t buy Coke products.” But if that’s not the right response, what is the right response?
Danhof: Well, here’s the dirty little secret: The left doesn’t boycott either. The left engages. The answer in a single word is engagement.
You talked about voting. Well, there’s thousands of votes every year that take place and they’re at corporate annual shareholder meetings. They’re for boards of directors and shareholder proposals. And what happens at those is the equivalent of a red state election that goes blue every year because conservatives couldn’t be bothered to vote.
So if we all care about the vote for and voter integrity for political offices, we’re not even showing up to vote our dollars. So those are actual votes that take place for these woke board members that get 99% of the vote because the left has coalesced to make sure that their people vote with their money.
So at any given annual meeting, 30% to 40% of the vote, people don’t vote. And the evidence is very clear that those individuals and those broker non-votes, those are conservatives. Because if you look at the results of the elections for corporate leaders, for corporate shareholder proposals, there’s an outsized amount of liberal [environmental, social, and governance] proposals that receive record support.
I’ll give you one great example. Last year, there was a shareholder proposal filed by a far-left organization at Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting—Chevron, American energy company—that ask[ed] it to align its policies with the Paris climate accord. It got 53% of the vote.
Do 53% of Chevron’s shareholders really want to mothball the company and end it, which is of course what that would do? No. But the left got all of their people to get in there and vote. And conservatives just stayed home.
So there’s one great example of what we need to do. We need to take back the corporate ballot box. We need to engage that franchise. Because again, politics is downstream from culture.
We all get engaged in politics, but it’s downstream from culture. That’s why the left worked so hard to change the culture, because you don’t always need to change a politician to have real change and real impact.
And the other things are simple. So if you’re not an investor, what do you do? Well, guess what? There’s not just investor relations offices at all these companies, there’s this thing called customer relations.
If you’re truly going to individually boycott, OK, if that’s your values, I’m not going to tell anyone to go against their values, but call the company and let them know why you’re no longer engaging with their products or services.
Call customer relations and say, “Hey, by the way, I’m done with you and here’s why.” Email them. If you’re going to post on Facebook and you’re going to post on Twitter and that you still really want to do that, well, post on Coca-Cola’s Facebook page, tweet at them, don’t do it in silence because it’s not going to have any impact or any effect.
Allen: Yeah. Are there any examples of conservatives successfully getting a corporation or a big business to change their ways after they were kind of moving in that really progressive direction?
Danhof: Oh, absolutely. As the cancel culture bounds forward seemingly unabated, through shareholder resolutions and negotiations of those resolutions, I’ve got more than a dozen major companies that have changed their corporate policy, specifically their nondiscrimination policies, to say that “we won’t discriminate against any of our employees based on viewpoint.”
And so that’s put in there to protect the conservative employees who do want to speak their truth, that their company has agreed they won’t cancel them for just holding and espousing traditional or conservative values.
So, yeah, those are those protracted changes that benefit the culture and benefit, specifically, over the last check, 5.5 million American employees have that protection now based on just myself filing some shareholder resolutions.
Allen: So Stop Corporate Tyranny is providing some really practical ways that individuals can stand up and push back on this woke agenda. About every week, there will be a new action posted that individuals can take to be a part of the kind of movement or pushing back against big corporate tyranny. The latest action was to tell Facebook and Twitter to stay out of politics.
So explain a little bit more about these actions. How individuals can get involved? What is the time commitment, etc.?
Danhof: A couple of clicks. If you have time to go to Stop Corporate Tyranny, right in the middle of our website, you just click through and we’ve done all the work for you.
There’s just literally a button that says, “Take action now,” and you click it twice. And guess what? It populates an email to Mark Zuckerberg, to Joel Kaplan, to Jennifer Newstead—these are big leaders at Facebook—Sheryl Sandberg, the boards members of these companies.
We already tracked down, we already got all of their contact information. You don’t have to do anything. All you have to do is click through that you want to communicate with them, you’re outraged over the politicization of their platforms.
We’ve got the messaging in there for you. You can then tweet it and put it on Facebook so that your friends and family that you engage with on social media can see, “Hey, they just engaged with the companies, I guess I can, too.”
So, yeah, we’re giving you pre-populated social media posts that’ll help you. You can customize them if you want. But yeah, it’s super, super simple. And I don’t think folks know that it’s this easy to contact companies. You don’t have to just turn your disillusionment with woke business into despair. You can take action.
Allen: Yeah. And I think that avoiding despair is really the key. Are you optimistic that through the work of efforts like Stop Corporate Tyranny that we can turn this around and that America’s big corporations can actually return to at least just being neutral on these policy issues?
Danhof: Yeah. I’m very optimistic that companies can get back to neutral. If they’re hearing from the left constantly, and they start hearing from the right constantly, maybe, just maybe, some business leaders will decide to take the off-ramp in the middle.
Like, “OK, well, I can’t satisfy that group and that group, so why don’t I satisfy, I don’t know, my employees and my shareholders by focusing on our products and services and building out the best brand that we possibly can?”
But again, how do we do it? We approximate what the left did because they did [it] in plain sight. They gave us the roadmap. This is how you influence corporate America. It’s just up to conservatives to pick up a battle plan and engage and look, come to stopcorporatetyranny.org, we will make it very easy for you to engage companies. …
There’s any number of targets out there, as we’re all now well aware, of corporations that are taking actions and anathemas to our values. And they’re doing so at the behest of the political left because they’ve been there for so long and we just need to start engaging at the same level.
Danhof: Yeah. I think that, again, most folks, their mind might be blown by this, but do you realize 400 of the leading companies in the United States of America are pressing the leadership in Congress to pass the Equality Act, they’re lobbying for it, they back it completely?
Four hundred leading American companies want to end women’s sports as we know it and cancel religious freedom for Americans. Think about that.
This is, again, conservatives are now awake to this, but man, were we asleep at the switch for a very, very long time. And part of it is because of the lie of the, quote, “free market system.”
So many conservatives say, “Oh, well, the free market’s going to work itself out.”
Well, we don’t live in an Anne Grand novel. We live in more of a corporatocracy than a free market, where big business and big government [are] together teaming up. That’s the scariest proposition of all because the elite power with which that would wield to change the lives of everyday Americans.
So, yeah, I think that there’s a second problem with conservative instinct that has led us down this path. And that is, take any action that we don’t like—we can stick with Coca-Cola and their “be less white” training or their opposition to voter integrity in Georgia.
Conservatives instinctively say, “Well, I’m just going to boycott. I’m done with that company.” And they go on Facebook and they put up a post that their friends and their family all see that all agree with them anyway. And then three days later, they’re driving and they stop at a 7-Eleven, and they pick up a Diet Coke because the history of the conservative boycott of business that offends our value is a history of epic failures.
It’s never worked once. It’s not going to work next time, so just stop telling me you’re going to boycott because you’re just simply not. And even if you do on an individual level, guess what? Collectively, it’s not going to work.
So that’s a big problem, is that there’s this mindset out there that we can just—again, how many companies are on the wrong side of the issue in Georgia? As I said, last count, it’s nearing 1,200. So you’re telling me when you’re going shopping, you’re going to bring a list with you of those 1,200 products and brands and you’re going to sift through it when you’re at the grocery store? Good luck.
You need a team of individuals to help you with that, an entire team to help you with that boycott, if you want it to be successful. It’s just never going to happen. We can’t boycott our way out of the problem.
Allen: So then what are people like me then supposed to do? Because it does feel like, “OK, I vote with my dollars.”
And you mentioned Coca-Cola, obviously there’s kind of a firestorm going on right now in Atlanta as Major League Baseball has moved the All-Star Game and Coca-Cola came out against the new Georgia voting legislation. So, we’re hearing from different lawmakers that are saying, “Don’t buy Coke products.” But if that’s not the right response, what is the right response?
Danhof: Well, here’s the dirty little secret: The left doesn’t boycott either. The left engages. The answer in a single word is engagement.
You talked about voting. Well, there’s thousands of votes every year that take place and they’re at corporate annual shareholder meetings. They’re for boards of directors and shareholder proposals. And what happens at those is the equivalent of a red state election that goes blue every year because conservatives couldn’t be bothered to vote.
So if we all care about the vote for and voter integrity for political offices, we’re not even showing up to vote our dollars. So those are actual votes that take place for these woke board members that get 99% of the vote because the left has coalesced to make sure that their people vote with their money.
So at any given annual meeting, 30% to 40% of the vote, people don’t vote. And the evidence is very clear that those individuals and those broker non-votes, those are conservatives. Because if you look at the results of the elections for corporate leaders, for corporate shareholder proposals, there’s an outsized amount of liberal [environmental, social, and governance] proposals that receive record support.
I’ll give you one great example. Last year, there was a shareholder proposal filed by a far-left organization at Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting—Chevron, American energy company—that ask[ed] it to align its policies with the Paris climate accord. It got 53% of the vote.
Do 53% of Chevron’s shareholders really want to mothball the company and end it, which is of course what that would do? No. But the left got all of their people to get in there and vote. And conservatives just stayed home.
So there’s one great example of what we need to do. We need to take back the corporate ballot box. We need to engage that franchise. Because again, politics is downstream from culture.
We all get engaged in politics, but it’s downstream from culture. That’s why the left worked so hard to change the culture, because you don’t always need to change a politician to have real change and real impact.
And the other things are simple. So if you’re not an investor, what do you do? Well, guess what? There’s not just investor relations offices at all these companies, there’s this thing called customer relations.
If you’re truly going to individually boycott, OK, if that’s your values, I’m not going to tell anyone to go against their values, but call the company and let them know why you’re no longer engaging with their products or services.
Call customer relations and say, “Hey, by the way, I’m done with you and here’s why.” Email them. If you’re going to post on Facebook and you’re going to post on Twitter and that you still really want to do that, well, post on Coca-Cola’s Facebook page, tweet at them, don’t do it in silence because it’s not going to have any impact or any effect.
Allen: Yeah. Are there any examples of conservatives successfully getting a corporation or a big business to change their ways after they were kind of moving in that really progressive direction?
Danhof: Oh, absolutely. As the cancel culture bounds forward seemingly unabated, through shareholder resolutions and negotiations of those resolutions, I’ve got more than a dozen major companies that have changed their corporate policy, specifically their nondiscrimination policies, to say that “we won’t discriminate against any of our employees based on viewpoint.”
And so that’s put in there to protect the conservative employees who do want to speak their truth, that their company has agreed they won’t cancel them for just holding and espousing traditional or conservative values.
So, yeah, those are those protracted changes that benefit the culture and benefit, specifically, over the last check, 5.5 million American employees have that protection now based on just myself filing some shareholder resolutions.
Allen: So Stop Corporate Tyranny is providing some really practical ways that individuals can stand up and push back on this woke agenda. About every week, there will be a new action posted that individuals can take to be a part of the kind of movement or pushing back against big corporate tyranny. The latest action was to tell Facebook and Twitter to stay out of politics.
So explain a little bit more about these actions. How individuals can get involved? What is the time commitment, etc.?
Danhof: A couple of clicks. If you have time to go to Stop Corporate Tyranny, right in the middle of our website, you just click through and we’ve done all the work for you.
There’s just literally a button that says, “Take action now,” and you click it twice. And guess what? It populates an email to Mark Zuckerberg, to Joel Kaplan, to Jennifer Newstead—these are big leaders at Facebook—Sheryl Sandberg, the boards members of these companies.
We already tracked down, we already got all of their contact information. You don’t have to do anything. All you have to do is click through that you want to communicate with them, you’re outraged over the politicization of their platforms.
We’ve got the messaging in there for you. You can then tweet it and put it on Facebook so that your friends and family that you engage with on social media can see, “Hey, they just engaged with the companies, I guess I can, too.”
So, yeah, we’re giving you pre-populated social media posts that’ll help you. You can customize them if you want. But yeah, it’s super, super simple. And I don’t think folks know that it’s this easy to contact companies. You don’t have to just turn your disillusionment with woke business into despair. You can take action.
Allen: Yeah. And I think that avoiding despair is really the key. Are you optimistic that through the work of efforts like Stop Corporate Tyranny that we can turn this around and that America’s big corporations can actually return to at least just being neutral on these policy issues?
Danhof: Yeah. I’m very optimistic that companies can get back to neutral. If they’re hearing from the left constantly, and they start hearing from the right constantly, maybe, just maybe, some business leaders will decide to take the off-ramp in the middle.
Like, “OK, well, I can’t satisfy that group and that group, so why don’t I satisfy, I don’t know, my employees and my shareholders by focusing on our products and services and building out the best brand that we possibly can?”
But again, how do we do it? We approximate what the left did because they did [it] in plain sight. They gave us the roadmap. This is how you influence corporate America. It’s just up to conservatives to pick up a battle plan and engage and look, come to stopcorporatetyranny.org, we will make it very easy for you to engage companies. …
There’s any number of targets out there, as we’re all now well aware, of corporations that are taking actions and anathemas to our values. And they’re doing so at the behest of the political left because they’ve been there for so long and we just need to start engaging at the same level.
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Americans Aren't Stupid: Most Americans Still Believe Democrats and Biden Cheated to Win 2020 Election | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Democrat election ‘games’: Late-night Atlanta, Detroit TCF Democrat ballot drop and blocking GOP Observers in every swing state.
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Americans Aren’t Stupid: Most Americans Still Believe Democrats and Biden Cheated to Win 2020 Election
By Jim Hoft
Published April 13, 2021 at 2:19pm
Democrat election ‘games’: Late-night Atlanta, Detroit TCF Democrat ballot drop and blocking GOP Observers in every swing state.
Americans aren’t stupid.
A majority of Americans believe cheating likely affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Via Rasmussen Reports:
Most voters say it’s more important to prevent cheating in elections than to make it easier to vote and, by more than a two-to-one margin, they reject claims that voter ID laws are discriminatory.
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UPDATE: Judge In Fulton County, GA Hearing Prevents Scanning Of Actual Ballots...Until Images Reviewed First - CDM - Human Reporters • Not Machines
BREAKING: Judge In Fulton County, GA Hearing Is Going To Prevent Scanning Of Actual Ballots...Someone Got To Him.
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UPDATE: Judge In Fulton County, GA Hearing Prevents Scanning Of Actual Ballots…Until Images Reviewed First
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This story is developing…more information will be released as obtained
UPDATE 1038 EST – Judge saying if after looking at images if everyone can narrow plans within 30 days. He gave them 5 days to produce electronic files.
Update 1035 EST – They just severed case.
UPDATE 1030 EST – Plaintiff attorney Harding more effective than attorney Cheeley. He is making argument that we just want to see how many, if any, counterfeit ballots. They want the ballot images ALSO so they can see if there are images that are duplicates.
UPDATE 1025 EST — Plaintiffs just asked to sever cases. Petitioners to be given the images only right now.
Attorney Harding represents the other plaintiff.
Fulton County now objecting to “biased” former poll managers and any out of state experts.
Secretary of State believes images are enough.
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CDMedia is monitoring the hearing in Henry County, GA between Fulton County election officials and VoterGA.org, which is pushing for access to actual ballots used on Nov 3rd as witnesses testified under oath that thousands of ballots were counterfeit, not creased, and had not been mailed.
It looks like Judge Brian J Amero, Henry County Superior Court is going to rule that VoterGA can only scan images of the ballots and not the actual ballots themselves, and therefore VoterGA will not be able to detect the counterfeit ballots.
From our reporter:
VoterGA arguing that if images were machine created and if ballots were used multiple times.
Tabulation is not the point of VoterGA case therefore SoS and FC arguments are not relevant.
Jovan Pulitzer says the microscopic artifacts left by folding or the printing can be seen in his process.
VoterGA attorney made a good analogy. Photocopy of a counterfeit 100 bill to determine if counterfeit is ridiculous.
Judge buying argument that step 1 is to look only at images and only after reviewing those would he rule on getting actual ballots.
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Wall Street, Corporations Team Up with Soros-Funded Group to Pressure States Against Election Reforms
Multinational corporations are teaming up with the Brennan Justice Center to pressure states against reforms to their voting laws.
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Wall Street, Corporations Team Up with Soros-Funded Group to Pressure States Against Election Reforms
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Wall Street firms, multinational corporations, and giant law firms are teaming up with the Brennan Justice Center, which is heavily funded by billionaire George Soros, to pressure states against reforms to their election process.
After Georgia lawmakers passed sweeping reform legislation to protect the state’s elections, including requiring photo identification to vote, corporate executives have blasted the move and many are suggesting they will boycott the state by moving business elsewhere.
Now, Fortune 500 corporate executives, Wall Street firms, and attorneys at some of the nation’s largest law offices are reportedly working with the left-wing Brennan Justice Center to pressure state lawmakers from passing similar election reforms.
The corporate coalition is seeking to sue states for passing such reforms while also threatening to pull their business endeavors from states that do pass reforms.
The New York Times reports:
Over the weekend, more than 100 corporate executives discussed in a meeting the importance for them of publicly opposing election reform legislation like Georgia’s. The meeting included executives from credit card company American Express, pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., and clothing company Levi Strauss & Co., among others.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), head of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), has been lobbying GOP leaders to cut ties with corporations and Wall Street in favor of protecting working and middle class interests against the encroachment of concentrated corporate power.
The Brennan Justice Center is targeting state lawmakers in Georgia, Texas, New Hampshire, Florida, Michigan, and Arizona whom they claim are promoting “voter suppressive bills” with provisions that require voter ID for those voting via absentee ballot, prohibiting the mass unsolicited mailout of ballots, and increasing fines for state officials who refuse to clean up voter rolls.
The group rakes in millions every year from Soros, corporate interests, big banks, and other left-wing organizations. In 2019, the last year for which financial data is available, the Brennan Justice Center’s most high-profile donors included Soros’s Open Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Bank of America, the Tides Foundation, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Comcast NBCUniversal.
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13 States Sue Biden Administration, Demand Ability to Cut Taxes - The Georgia Star News
Thirteen states sued President Joe Biden’s administration over an American Rescue Plan provision prohibiting...
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Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger’s Office Explains Taking More than $5 Million from Mark Zuckerberg Group for State’s 2020 Presidential Election
April 13, 2021 Chris Butler
A group directly linked to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated nearly $5.6 million to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office last year.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (pictured above, left) spent that money on the 2020 presidential election.
That Zuckerberg-linked group, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), donated the money. With it, Raffensperger and his staff carried out a variety of tasks, according to the CEIR website.
The Georgia Star News contacted Raffensperger’s communications staff Monday for comment. Raffensperger Spokesman Walter Jones, in his emailed response, took a dig at this publication.
“Any grant or funding source, as allowed by Georgia law, has enabled this and local elections offices to combat disinformation similar to recent articles published by this outlet that undermine the confidence of Georgia voters,” Jones said referring to the events of last year.
The Georgia Star News did not debut until November 2020, and only after Election Day.
As Breitbart News reported, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $419 million to two non-profit groups that provided controversial private funding to state, county, and municipal governments for election administration in the 2020 presidential election. $350 million of Zuckerberg’s money went to the Center for Technology and Civic Life, which spent at least $24 million in key Georgia counties. $69 million went to the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which privately funded state level operations through Secretary of State offices in 23 states, including $13 million in Pennsylvania, $11 million in Michigan, $5.6 million in Georgia, and $4 million in Arizona – four key battleground states that U.S. President Joe Biden narrowly won.
Jones did not specifically describe how Raffensperger spent the money — but the CEIR website did.
“Georgia used CEIR grant funds in both the November general election and January runoff election to encourage voters to apply for a ballot online,” the CEIR website said.
“This approach sped up the process for both voters and election officials while also making it easier to track application status. Georgia also used the funds to counteract disinformation, issuing public service announcements warning voters of disinformation and encouraging them to report fraud to the Secretary of State hotline.”
In a follow-up comment, Jones added, “Having the Secretary of State’s office accept this funding and distribute the benefits fairly around the state — rather than having donations go to the donor’s preferred county elections boards — was endorsed by the Republican legislature as part of SB 202.”
According to the CEIR website, group members initiated a Voter Education Grant Program “to provide nonpartisan, accurate, and official voting information to the public.” The website said the COVID-19 pandemic increased demand for this service.
“Due to the generous support of Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CEIR awarded every state the entire amount each requested,” the CEIR website said.
“In total, we provided states nearly $65 million, which they used to bolster their voter education efforts in a variety of ways.”
Raffensperger announced the partnership with CEIR in a press release. The press release is undated. Members of Raffensperger’s staff presumably published it last year. In that press release, Raffensperger praised the CEIR staff as “the greatest minds that the country has to offer” and, because of that, he said Georgia could have a secure and reliable paper-ballot system.
CEIR Executive Director David Becker (pictured above, right) has a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from the University of Berkeley in California. Becker also serves as CBS News’ election law expert, according to his LinkedIn page.