POL November 3: The 2020 U.S. ELECTION DAY MAIN THREAD

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Arizona Secretary of State Hobbs Says Election Machines in Audit Should Never Be Used Again... and We Agree - No Election Machines Should Ever Be Used Again | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Arizona’s charming Secretary of State Katie Hobbs sent a letter today claiming the election machines that were audited by the Cyber Ninja team these past few weeks should never be used again. This is a good first step. We believe none of the machines should ever be used again and expect the...

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Arizona Secretary of State Hobbs Says Election Machines in Audit Should Never Be Used Again… and We Agree – No Election Machines Should Ever Be Used Again

By Joe Hoft
Published May 20, 2021 at 7:00pm

Arizona’s charming Secretary of State Katie Hobbs sent a letter today claiming the election machines that were audited by the Cyber Ninja team these past few weeks should never be used again.

This is a good first step. We believe none of the machines should ever be used again and expect the results of this audit to exemplify why this should be the case.

The charming Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, sent a letter tonight to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors claiming the voting machines audited by Cyber Ninja’s were tainted from their work. She recommends not using these machines in the future.

This equipment was accessed by amateur, uncertified “auditors” with zero transparency.

I support election integrity, and therefore can’t support the continued usage of these machines. https://t.co/pwjQjpnkWp
— Secretary Katie Hobbs (@SecretaryHobbs) May 20, 2021

We’ve said for some time that these voting machines should not be used until some basic controls are implemented which would make them more secure:



Yes, voting machines should never be used again.

 

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Dominion Responds After Pennsylvania Election Officials Report "Coding Error" With Voting Machines

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 - 02:30 PM
By Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Election officials in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, reported issues with voting equipment at polling places on Tuesday, prompting a response from Dominion Voting Systems saying that there was a ballot screen error regarding the viewing screen’s header.



A voter puts their ballot in the tabulation machine after voting in the 2020 general election as seen in a file photo. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

Dominion Voting Systems told The Epoch Times that “Luzerne County’s election director has confirmed that there is a ballot screen error that is confined to the header on the viewing screen of the machine, and that all ballots are printing correctly with the Republican header and the Republican primary election races.”

The firm then noted that Luzerne County officials have assured the public that “all ballots will be correctly counted,” adding: “We regret any confusion this has caused.”

It came after voters told PAHomepage and local officials that they reported incorrect labeling on electronic ballots in Luzerne County, located in the northeastern part of the state.

Luzerne County Director of Elections Bob Morgan told local media that coding on the Dominion Voting Systems machines triggered the problem.

According to some voters and officials, speaking to WNEP, when Republican voters approach the machine to vote, the introduction page says, “Official Democratic Ballot.” A polling place in Kingston Township confirmed to the news outlet that it was forced to pause voting on Tuesday due to the issue.

“We want to assure everybody that what happens is when you are a registered Republican, we have a specific code for that ballot. And once we punch that code in, even though the header says something like ‘Democratic ballot,’ it’s actually for the races that are in the Republican party,” Morgan said, adding that the votes will be counted correctly.

Matthew Vough, a Democrat running for a county council term, told the Times Leader that voters told him that his name didn’t appear on their ballot. He said that some Democrats got the Republican ballot.

“Who knows how many Democrats voted for Republican nominees? Who knows how many votes I lost as a result? This error didn’t just affect Republicans,” Vough said.

Vough added to the paper he would suggest that Luzerne County end its contract with Dominion during the next council meeting.

Morgan, meanwhile, explained to PAHomepage that “there is no evidence of any of this problem on the mail-in ballots which were produced from that file” and added that the county is “still working with Dominion to get an explanation as to how this coding error occurred. They were as surprised about it as we were.”

When asked if there was any way it was the fault of the county, Morgan said, “No.”
“We’re doing signs, we’ve contacted each of the judges of elections. We’ve asked them to place a sign at their voting place. We’re giving Republican voters the opportunity to vote by provisional or emergency ballot if they choose.”

 

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Trump supporter Vernon Jones vows Arizona-style 2020 election audit if he becomes Georgia governor

State GOP Rep. Vernon Jones said he would issue an election audit if elected as Georgia governor.

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Trump supporter Vernon Jones vows Arizona-style 2020 election audit if he becomes Georgia governor

State GOP Rep. Vernon Jones said he would issue an election audit if elected as Georgia governor.

By Nicholas Sherman
Updated: May 20, 2021 - 4:41pm

Trump supporter and Georgia GOP state Rep. Vernon Jones wants to replicate the 2020 election audit in Georgia in his home state.

Jones, who is posing a 2022 primary challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp, said he'd order such an audit if elected governor.

In Arizona, the state's GOP-led Senate is having an outside group conduct the audit in the state's populous Maricopa County.

Trump last year narrowly lost once-GOP-reliable Arizona and Georgia.

"Georgians still have questions about irregularities found in the 2020 election, and they deserve answers," Jones said Wednesday, according to CNN. "If Mr. Kemp refuses to demand an audit, then I will when I am elected to replace him."

 

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UPDATE: Democrats, Not Trump Supporters, Are the True Jan. 6 Insurrectionists

CommentaryUPDATE: Since I wrote this article, an astonishing 35 House Republicans broke with leader Kevin McCarthy and voted for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the events of Jan. 6—this even th...

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A large group of pro-Trump protesters stand on the east steps of the Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

UPDATE: Democrats, Not Trump Supporters, Are the True Jan. 6 Insurrectionists

Roger L. Simon

May 19, 2021 Updated: May 20, 2021

Commentary
UPDATE: Since I wrote this article, an astonishing 35 House Republicans broke with leader Kevin McCarthy and voted for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the events of Jan. 6—this even though the bill didn’t include or even so much as reference the ongoing violence of Antifa and Black Lives Matter that has dwarfed anything that happened at the U.S. Capitol that day. The hypocrisy of this vote stinks of Banana Republic politics. A list of the Republicans who voted for this monstrosity is at this link. They all deserve a rhino-plasty—that’s my new catchphrase for being primaried and kicked out of Republican politics. (They can keep their noses, just not their seats in Congress.)

If you were to stage an insurrection on the United States government, would you (a.) simultaneously attack the power grid at multiple points, turning out the lights across the country, or (b.) dress up like a horned Star Wars character at a comic book convention and enter the Capitol building—unarmed—as if it were Halloween?

You don’t have to be an experienced insurrectionist like the late Muammar Gaddafi—who was armed to the teeth during his, needless to say—to know the answer.

What occurred in Washington on Jan. 6 was about as far from an insurrection as I am from being a spaceman living on Mars.

Were those people stupid? Sure.

Were they juvenile? Rather.

But were they insurrectionists? You’ve got to be kidding.

And that’s leaving out the obvious detail. that the only person who got killed in this so-called insurrection was a Trump supporter shot by a Capitol policeman—we still don’t know who. Then there are the videos that show other Capitol police waving the demonstrators—including that “dangerous” Chewbacca guy—into the building as if it were a national holiday and they were rubbernecking tourists from Kansas.

In fact, these people were the true patriots, trying, in their clumsy way, to get their country back—or what they thought was their country.

The real insurrectionists are the people accusing them of insurrection. They, the accusers who are demanding a “commission” be formed to study this non-existent insurrection, are the ones taking over our country and imposing their will on the people.

And they’re doing this after an election that has never had its fairness investigated and about which no one can say—other than pronouncing an opinion as fact—who was victorious.
They have, as the courts would say, no standing.

So calling these demonstrators insurrectionists is projection taken to the nth power by our contemporary “liberals” and “progressives”—terms wrapped in scare quotes in this instance to prevent the continued desecration of the English language.

Speaking of the deliberate misuse of our language, these same modern liberals are people who likely grew up praising George Orwell’s prescience in “1984” and “Animal Farm,” but are now unaware that they have become true avatars of the former’s “Ministry of Truth,” all the while happily enacting roles in the latter.

They’re the new fascists “sans le savoir” and are busy giving quarter to their brother and sister totalitarians around the world while claiming the greatest danger to our country comes from the people they call “white extremists,” such as the misbegotten guy with the horns or the other “must-be-worse-than-a-serial-killer” goofball who had the temerity to put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk.

Never mind the genuinely violent maniacs running around Portland and Seattle, damaging as much as they can of persons and property for over a year and making those once-beautiful cities virtually unlivable. No one pays attention to them—especially Democrats. No one locks them up without bail for months.

In actuality, said maniacs as well as the Jan. 6 accusers; the Biden administration, whoever runs it; and their ever-so-willing cohorts in what we formerly might have called the Department of Justice are doing many things far worse for our country than those hapless clowns who entered the Capitol could have even conceived.

Now the administration—the same progressive thinkers who killed the Keystone pipeline from Canada minutes after inauguration, throwing tons of people out of work, dissing our Northern neighbor, and helping cause our recent gas shortages—announced they are lifting the sanctions on Russia’s controversial gas pipeline to Europe. This is a form of treason compounding utter stupidity.

Of course, these are the same repellent, tedious ideologues, such as Reps. Schiff and Nadler, who were nattering on endlessly—more accurately lying endlessly, as it turned out—about Trump’s supposed collusion with that same Russian government.

But there’s no sense rehashing that, because it’s already clear no one important will be prosecuted for this incredibly undemocratic crime against our nation and its people—government spying on a presidential campaign and then on the president, all based on fraudulent, forged documents out of Russian intelligence—the kind of thing Stalin’s NKVD would do, only our FBI is led by dreary, self-interested bureaucrats nowhere near as interesting or clever as Comrade Beria.

The Department of Justice and the FBI are bad enough, but things have gotten far worse. These same people are gutting our military in the pursuit of these “extremists,” opening the door wide for the renewed Axis of Evil—China, Russia, and Iran.

Xi Jinping—easily the most powerful man in the world at this point, with expansionist goals across the globe and out into space—must be laughing as the U.S. military continues its slide into “wokeness” in a most astonishingly self-destructive manner, as if the real problem for the United States was internal, not Communist China.

From Revolver: “On February 3, 2021, in the wake of the ‘deadly events’ of 1/6, Biden’s new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a 60-day stand-down and total purge of the U.S. military’s rampant, undefined ‘extremism’ problem. Though the details of this purge were always kept vague and framed in apolitical terms, it was immediately obvious the target would be MAGA—with the buzzword ‘extremism’ tagged onto various proxies for Trump supporters, conservatives, and opponents of globalism of all stripes.”

The man in charge of this “extra-governmental”—to avoid First Amendment conflicts—jihad is Bishop Garrison, senior adviser to the secretary of defense for diversity and inclusion, no less. Oh, mighty Orwell, where are you now?

So what exactly is a “white extremist,” this seditious prey they’re hunting? Someone should ask our attorney general to define what he meant when he said they were the greatest present threat to our country. But I’m sure no one will.

If you think I’m hard on the Democratic Party, well, I am. I can’t stand them. And I was once a Democrat.

Unfortunately, today’s Republican Party isn’t much better, as Tal Bachman tells us succinctly on American Greatness in his article “The Republican Party Sucks”.

With the exceptions of Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, none of them stood up for the Constitution and electoral fairness on Jan. 6.

And now these same cowards have to oppose the calls for this phony “commission.” It’s up to us to put as much pressure as possible to make sure they do.

 

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"It's Bullsh*t!" - AZ Democrat Senator Martin Quezada Loses It - Tells TGP Reporter He Wants to Get Rid of Voter ID - Says It's Harder for Minorities to Get a License to Vote --VIDEO | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

“IT’S COMPLETE BULLSH*T, ITS BULLSH*T” – AZ Dem.

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“It’s Bullsh*t!” – AZ Democrat Senator Martin Quezada Loses It – Tells TGP Reporter He Wants to Get Rid of Voter ID – Says It’s Harder for Minorities to Get a License to Vote –VIDEO

By Jordan Conradson
Published May 21, 2021 at 8:02am

“IT’S COMPLETE BULLSH*T, ITS BULLSH*T” – AZ Dem. Senator Martín Quezada throws a fit! Compares Arizona Senate Audit to Jim Crow voter suppression but can’t back it up when confronted.

The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson confronted Arizona Democratic Senator Martín Quezada on Thursday at the LUCHA ‘END the FILIBUSTER RALLY’ in Phoenix, Arizona.

This protest was meant “to send a big message to Senators Sinema and Kelly–Arizonans want them to eliminate the filibuster now so we can pass all of the popular legislation voters want.”.

These demands included a minimum wage hike, open borders, the green new deal, and the discarding of secure election laws, including voter ID.

When Quezada spoke, he used his platform to trash America’s audit as an attempt to suppress the vote of minorities. He said “This audit that they are doing of the MC Elections System is designed to do three things, spread fear, spread distrust, and spread LIES about what has happened so that they can then justify their voter suppression measures that they are pushing through the legislatures. Just like SB 1485”.

He told the crowd that the audit and the filibuster were part of a “systematic approach to suppressing your vote.”

His speech preceded the black pansexual* pastor, who demanded reparations and claimed that if it weren’t for black people, this country would not exist. White liberals, who made up more than half of the crowd, Loved it!

That’s when Gateway Pundit reporter Jordan Conradson confronted Senator Quezada on his speech against America’s Audit.

Jordan Conradson: Senator, You related the audit to Jim Crow laws and said it is an attempt to suppress the minority vote. How is that so?

Senator Quezada: Uhhh, you know what’s going on with the audit right now. It’s based on a lie.

Conradson: Oh, I know all about the audit. My name is Jordan Conradson. I’m with The Gateway Pundit. So you say it’s a lie, you said it’s to promote fear, to create fear. Are you not creating fear in the audit process?

Quezada: No, no. The audit’s already done that, because when it’s based on a lie, it’s completely non-factual.

Conradson: Hold on. Let me ask you this. Why won’t you just let the audit continue and prove that you’re right?

Quezada: Because that nonsense is like completely illogical. It’s complete bullsh*t because that’s like me saying like, Karen Fann is an alien. We need to check her medical records and if you believe that that’s true, you should let me do it so I can ensure that’s true. It’s bullsh*t.

Conradson: How is the possibility of a nonsecure election comparable to Karen Fann being an alien? That makes no sense.

Quezada: Uh, well, cuz if you look at each and every one of the audits that have been done, that have proved that the election is complete and secure. The audits have already been done multiple times, multiple lawsuits, all of that has proven that the election was completely secure.

And even their own audit firm can’t get their shit together so this is a fraudulent firm, they’re collecting money from dark money sources. They can’t get their shit together. They’re tripping over themselves trying to make it look good.

Or maybe, just maybe they’re tripping over the hurdles put in place by MC officials, Secretary Hobbs, and the DOJ in their desperate attempts to hide the results.

Conradson: Alright, so you avoided my original question. How does this suppress the minority vote? Or are you just using race, using the race card?

Quezada: So, I’ll tell you why. What they’re doing is they’re trying to, just like I said up there, they’re trying to create a sense of fear. They’re trying to create a sense of distrust to JUSTIFY all of those voter suppression measures that they’re pushing right now.

Conradson: Voter suppression like what? Like ID to vote?

Quezada: Exactly. Yep. 100%.

Conradson: So, you think that minorities can’t get a driver’s license as easily as a white person can?

Quezada: I’m all done here.

Conradson: No, answer my questions. Do you think that minorities can’t get a driver’s license as easily as a white person can?

Quezada: Calm down. You’re nervous your Hands are Shaking, go get a glass of water and we’ll talk after that.

Conradson: No, Listen up, I have water. Why don’t you answer my question? What voter suppression laws are currently trying to go through the senate?

Quezada: The one that was just signed. There’s multiple other ones 1713, 1485, 1713, all of the ones that Sen. Kelly Townsend are sponsoring, all of the ones that Sen. Mesnard are sponsoring, all of the ones that Sen. Ugenti Rita are sponsoring.

Conradson: So how about this, do you think it is harder for a black person or a minority to get an ID to vote?

Quezada: I’ve already, I’ve answered, I’ve answered both, I’ve answered your questions.

Conradson: You do? (think it is harder for a black person or a minority to get an ID to vote)

Quezada: Yes.

Conradson: You think it is harder for a minority to get to vote.

Quezada: Ok you’re all done.

Conradson: Alright thank you. I see you’re not going to answer my questions.
The poor guy, he was stumbling over his words with aggressive language. Does he think that minorities can’t get an ID? Does he think they’re stupid?

This guy is not the brightest and I’m sure he’ll hear it from Dem leadership for opening his vulgar mouth.

*Pansexual – not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.

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BREAKING: Suspicious Package with "Unidentified White Powder" Sent to Arizona GOP Senate Leader's Office | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

The Arizona Department of Public Safety was called to investigate a suspicious package sent to the office of Arizona Senate Leader Karen Fann.

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BREAKING: Suspicious Package with “Unidentified White Powder” Sent to Arizona GOP Senate Leader’s Office

By Jim Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 9:28am

The Arizona Department of Public Safety was called to investigate a suspicious package sent to the office of Arizona Senate Leader Karen Fann.

An aide to the senator opened a letter with an unidentified white powder inside on Wednesday when authorities were called.

This took place as the Senate’s audit of the 2020 election continues. Vote counting and inspections will continue next week.

Senator Fann is leading efforts to audit the controversial 2020 election results in Maricopa County.

Democrats are fighting to stop the audit and continue to attack the Republican State Senators.

Newsweek reported:

The Department of Public Safety made a visit to Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann’s office Wednesday to investigate reports of an “unidentified white powder” that arrived at the office in a mailed letter.

An aide in the Senate President’s office opened a letter addressed to Fann at about 4:30 pm on Wednesday, and saw a “small amount of substance” inside the letter, according to Mike Philipsen, Director of Communications for the Senate GOP.

Philipsen also said that DPS sent a hazardous materials team to the senate at about 6:30 pm on the same day to run tests.

In an email on Thursday, Philipsen wrote that on Wednesday, “an assistant in President Fann’s office opened a letter addressed to the President. A small amount of substance was observed from the mailing…Out of an abundance of caution, the assistant contacted the Department of Public Safety, and its Hazmat team was alerted.”

DPS Public Information Officer Bart Graves confirmed in an email to Newsweek that, “on May 19 at approximately 1629 hours, DPS responded to the Arizona State Senate in response to a suspicious package call. The package was secured by DPS Hazardous Materials Response Unit and submitted to the DPS Crime Lab. Investigation continues regarding the package.”

 

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"How Do You Govern When You Lost?" - President Trump Weighs in On Arizona Audit Findings and Future State Audits (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

President Trump joined Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo on Thursday to discuss the election, Jan 6th commission, 2022, 2024 and the radical far-left Biden administration.

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“How Do You Govern When You Lost?” – President Trump Weighs in On Arizona Audit Findings and Future State Audits (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 10:11am

President Trump joined Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo on Thursday to discuss the election, Jan 6th commission, 2022, 2024 and the radical far-left Biden administration.

** The full 21-minute-long interview is here.

The 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump

The fmr president talks with Pags about the election, Jan 6th commission, 2022, 2024 and the radical policies of the Biden administration.

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President Trump weighed in on the ongoing forensic audit in Arizona and the audits to follow.

President Donald Trump: “So let’s say that numerous of these states come, starting with Arizona – but there will be others and many of them are looking at it very, very powerfully right now. And many of them are Republican legislatures. So let’s say that’s happening. It’s gonna be a very interesting time in our country. It’s going to be a very interesting time. You understand what that means. Because it will be, I mean – How do you govern when you lost? How do you govern when you lost? So we’ll have to see. I say let’s first, number one up is Arizona. And that is going to be according to what they say in the next four weeks. Let’s see what happens.”

Via The Storm Has Arrived.
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UPDATE: Georgia Judge Orders 145,000 Absentee Ballots from Fulton County to Be Scanned to Determine Legitimacy -- Case Revolves Around Explosive Dec. Report from Gateway Pundit | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Today a judge in Georgia ruled that the audit in Fulton County, Georgia, must go on. This leads back to The Gateway Pundit reporting in early December where we identified ballots being counted two and three times.

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UPDATE: Georgia Judge Orders 145,000 Absentee Ballots from Fulton County to Be Scanned to Determine Legitimacy — Case Revolves Around Explosive Dec. Report from Gateway Pundit

By Joe Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 12:34pm

Today a judge in Georgia ruled that the audit in Fulton County, Georgia, must go on. This leads back to The Gateway Pundit reporting in early December where we identified ballots being counted two and three times.

The Gateway Pundit first reported back on December 4th.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported today:

Georgia is headed for another audit of its presidential election results after a judge agreed to unseal more than 145,000 Fulton County absentee ballots Friday.

The details and timing of the audit must still be determined. But the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the county want to scan and examine the ballots to determine whether they are legitimate.


At a hearing Friday, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero made clear the ballots must remain in the custody of Fulton election officials. That could prevent the kind of allegations of mishandling ballots and improper procedures that have dogged an audit of ballots in Arizona in recent weeks.

The latest Georgia audit cannot change the election results, which were certified months ago and have already been confirmed by multiple recounts. But the plaintiffs say an examination of ballots would get to the bottom of what they see as suspicious activity at State Farm Arena on election night and pave the way for more accurate elections in the future.

Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler welcomed the audit in a statement issued Friday.

We nailed it in Georgia. We identified in the video below that the same ballots were pushed through voting machines two and three times.

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President Trump retweeted this story (but this was taken down by Twitter.) No wonder there were so many duplicates in the sample obtained from the auditors in Georgia.

This was not an isolated incident in Georgia — Several internet sleuths found Georgia election officials scanned the same batch of ballots five different times in a row in Fulton County, Georgia at State Farm Arena on November 3, 2020.

 

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Gabe Sterling Tried to Tell Us Stuffing Ballots 2 and 3 times in Voting Machines in Atlanta on Election Night was Fine - A Georgia Judge Today Disagreed | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

e Sterling played a key role in the Georgia election sham. He was hired and rehired and rehired again all for a specific purpose. He is now beginning to feel the heat.

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Gabe Sterling Tried to Tell Us Stuffing Ballots 2 and 3 times in Voting Machines in Atlanta on Election Night was Fine – A Georgia Judge Today Disagreed

By Joe Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 1:45pm

Gabe Sterling played a key role in the Georgia election sham. He was hired and rehired and rehired again all for a specific purpose. He is now beginning to feel the heat.

In late April Gabriel Sterling (R), Georgia’s former Statewide Voting System Implementation Manager, spoke out against the audit in Arizona.

This “audit” in Arizona is another step in undermining confidence in elections. This process is neither transparent nor, likely, legal. Any “findings” will be highly suspect now that chain of custody has been violated by partisan actors. https://t.co/40yKdcVI4S
— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) April 27, 2021

Why did an election official in Georgia, thousands of miles away from Maricopa County in Arizona, open his mouth, and attack what is the most comprehensive, detailed, multi-faceted, detailed, and transparent forensic elections’ audit, the first of its kind in American history?

Because Gabe Sterling knew Georgia was next.

Today a judge in Georgia ordered that an audit of Georgia’s Fulton county absentee ballots move forward because based on an initial sample 21% of the ballots reviewed being duplicates.

Remember, Sterling was the guy, that Statewide Voting System Implementation Manager, who was specifically hired to work side-by-side with Dominion Voting Systems in every Georgia county, implementing Georgia’s brand new 30,000 unit, $107 million system, purchased in July 2019. Under Project Manager Sterling, that $107M paycheck to Dominion rose to $133M, “after Sterling negotiated the purchase of thousands of additional voting machines, scanners and voter check-in tablets,” according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But some individuals have concerns with Sterling and Secretary of State Raffensperger.

Attorney Lin Wood, formerly of Georgia, tore open the country’s eyes when he sent out a series of tweets on December 5, 2020, a month after the November 3 election (Wood’s tweets are no longer available as his Twitter account was suspended):

There are traitors in our midst. @GaSecofState & @GabrielSterling are guilty of aiding & abetting foreign interference in our national election.

Brad & Gabriel are on the payroll of Communist China. Follow the money. Connect the dots.
Brad & Gabriel are traitors.
Lock them up.
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 5, 2020

Wood is renowned for pulling no punches. He’s a nationally famous defamation attorney and since no lawsuits have been filed against him by Raffensperger or Sterling, that we know of, we have every reason to believe he is simply speaking the truth.

Gabe Sterling was hired for his job as the SoS COO (Chief Operations Officer) by Raffensperger shortly after he was elected SoS in November 2018, filling the spot left vacant by Brian Kemp (R), who moved up to become Georgia’s governor. The COO is in charge of budgetary, human resources, and administrative operations for the Secretary of State’s office.

After this Sterling was moved to a contract employee and then on January 1 of this year was moved to COO and CFO of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. This was noted in our post below:


So, who is this guy Gabe Sterling?

Well, Lin wood elaborated some more:

Why does @GabrielSterling not have GA government email? He is Voting System Implementation Manager for GA. Runs show for @GaSecofState.

Gabriel’s gmail address is NOT subject to GA Open Records Act. Straight out of Hillary Clinton playbook. P.S. Hillary is a Communist too.
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 5, 2020

Earlier on, in November, Lin Wood had raised the red flag about Sterling and $10+M:

Hey, @GabrielSterling, you don’t have State of GA email??? How does your company, Sterling Innovative, make money? Did you or your company receive any of this $10+M grant? Implementation Manager??? What do you do except go on TV to deny the clear voting fraud in GA?#FightBack pic.twitter.com/01oSKXOjmB

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) November 24, 2020

We can summarize that Sterling had a gmail account so everything Sterling as a state employee sent and received via any private email account escaped the public’s scrutiny and would remain a secret. If the public submits an Open Records Act request of his emails – its right, by law – it will get nothing back because a private email account falls outside the legal scope of such a request. This clearly must go against some state ethics law.

We know that the use of a private email account was Hillary Clinton’s favorite technique for evading public disclosure and hiding her illicit activities.

On Sterling’s Twitter account, he is now referring to himself as COO/CFO for the Georgia Secretary of State, contradicting the state of Georgia’s employee directory. Usually, the positions of COO and CFO are held by two entirely different people. What’s up here and why the contradictory job titles?

Furthermore, at some point in 2020 Sterling was being referred to as Georgia’s Statewide Voting System Implementation Manager. The Atlanta Journal revealed that Sterling’s contract expired on December 31, 2020 at which point he returned to his previous state job at the SoS’s office as COO.Therefore, Sterling was still the point person with Dominion for the state of Georgia and the SoS’s office throughout the November election.

Why did Raffensperger shift Sterling from being a state employee in November 2019 – his COO, a job Sterling had held for less than a year – and immediately insert him back into the system as an independent contractor, the Statewide Voting System Implementation Manager, just so Sterling could specifically work as a contractor with Dominion, rollout their new $133M system and then work side-by-side with Dominion staff during and after the Nov. 3 election, all during the period November 2019 – December 31, 2020, and then stick Sterling back on the state payroll as COO (or COO/CFO) on Jan. 01, 2021?!

This is a gigantic red flag in anybody’s book, given the egregious reports of election and voter fraud throughout Georgia in the 2020 election:

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In a December 7, 2020, New York Times interview of Sterling by Michael Barbaro,Barbaro asked Sterling to “describe your job and how that job fits into the Georgia election system.” Sterling replied:

…it was decided we need to move to a paper-based system. And my job was really to kind of herd the cats of launching a system across 159 counties of a brand new technology with a lot more pieces and parts with a paper ballot component and get it all done.

And we were trying— we were struggling to find any project manager for this. Every engineering firm, every company we went to, basically, we could have paid them half a million dollars, and they said— the lawyer’s like, nope, reputational risk is too high. I mean, we get one lawsuit, then we lose the money and we lose the power of our brand.

So we couldn’t get anybody to do it. And finally, internally, they said, Gabe, you’ve been running this thing for, essentially, a year anyway. You know all the ins and outs.

It’s too late to get somebody new, so why don’t we get somebody hired to do your other stuff as a contractor and you go on to be the project manager for this? And that’s how I became the voting system implementation manager.

Barbaro clarified:

And your job working from within Georgia’s office of the Secretary of State was essentially to be the guy that made sure everything was in place and that it all worked?

Sterling responded “Yes.” It also appears this news reporter at the NYT helped Sterling with obfuscating his independent contractor status. It took the Dec. 29 AJC article to finally get those facts on the table.

Well, that doesn’t explain the fact that Sterling also runs an LLC called Sterling Innovative Solutions and he provided this company’s private email address in an April 15, 2020 letter to the Federal Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) when it awarded the state of Georgia $10,875,912 for Covid-19-related election expenses.

This federal EAC $10.8+M contract has absolutely nothing to do with the rollout of Dominion Voting Systems’ machines, Sterling’s contracted job!

Who actually took possession of that almost $11M? What did it buy and who spent it? A sum that huge could have done a lot for “election integrity” of the wrong sort in the hands of, to use Lin Wood’s words, “traitors in our midst” Raffensperger and Sterling.
Something’s very, very fishy here.

A court might uphold the right of citizens of Georgia in granting an Open Records Act request for anything and everything related to Georgia elections through this email address, sterlinginnovative@gmail.com, since it was utilized by Sterling, on the record, while he was clearly conducting official state of Georgia business, to seal the deal on a $10.8+ million grant award with the federal government.

According to the LA Times,”By 1992, at the age of 21, Gabriel Sterling was helping direct President George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign in Georgia.” That explains a lot. He’s got the right kind of Republican connections, if you’re not a Trump & Make American Great Again supporter.

What’s especially noteworthy about Sterling is that he also appears to be the SoS office’s point person with the cabal of activist, Democrat-controlled nonprofit, “nonpartisan charities,” with groups like the far-left ACLU, All Voting is Local, the LWV and Common Cause, whose social justice warriors rouse their radical, grassroots’ troops to force the implementation of things like ballot harvesting, ID-less voting, absentee ballots for everyone, early voting, and drivers licenses for illegal aliens.

There are lots of anomalies and questions related to Gabe Sterling. Perhaps Lin Wood sums them all up in one post which exemplifies why Sterling is afraid:

Why does @GabrielSterling tell us that we have lying eyes? The video shows rampant fraud. Why does old Gabriel deny the truth of the video? Bu the way, the video lens eye does not lie. Gabriel does. To be clear, Gabriel is a liar. And a traitor. https://t.co/zbwK3ZlI4O

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 5, 2020

This incident is why the audit in Fulton County is moving forward today:

 

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Breaking: Georgia Judge Calls for Forensic Audit of Fulton County Ballots After Large Discrepancies Found in Ballot Batches | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Georgia Judge Amero granted the motion to unseal the ballots, but will only allow the Fulton County employees themselves to audit or scan the ballots to a 600dpi uncompressed resolution.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Breaking: Georgia Judge Calls for Forensic Audit of Fulton County Ballots After Large Discrepancies Found in Ballot Batches

By Jim Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 10:49am

Chief Judge Brian Amero

Henry County, Georgia Chief Judge Brian J. Amero ordered Fulton County ballots unsealed in a hearing on Friday.

The judge ordered the parties to appear at the ballot storage location at 10 AM on May 28th. The November 2020 ballots will be scanned at 600 dpi or higher.


CD Media is reporting on today’s hearing.

In an ongoing hearing, Henry County, GA judge, the Honorable Brian J. Amero may give access to the plaintiffs (VoterGA.org, Garland Favorito, and another plaintiff) to the physical mail-in ballots in Fulton County, which could show massive election fraud in GA during the 2020 presidential election cycle, and the follow-on runoff that decided control of the U.S. Senate for the Democrat Party, leading to full control of the American government.

In the hearing, lawyers for VoterGA.org described large discrepancies (21%) between the number of ballot batches reported by the GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who certified the election, and the number of ballot batches actually provided by court-ordered access in the previous April hearing in the case.

GA SoS Raffensperger Amicus Brief Denying Election Fraud Doesn’t Hold Water, Is Riddled With Deceit

VoterGA.org has been examining the ballot images at a low resolution since the hearing in April, and declared they need the actual physical ballots to understand the number of counterfeit ballots certified.

There is much more here at CD Media.

UPDATE from Greater Georgia organization.

 

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Arizona's Top Elections Official Claims Machines Being Audited May Have Been "Compromised"... By Auditors

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 - 03:39 PM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Arizona’s secretary of state on Thursday warned the state’s largest county not to try to use election machines that are being audited or she would decertify the equipment.

“I have grave concerns regarding the security and integrity of these machines, given that the chain of custody, a critical security tenet, has been compromised and election officials do not know what was done to the machines while under Cyber Ninjas’ control,” Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to Maricopa County officials.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs removes a mask as she speaks to members of Arizona's Electoral College prior to them casting their votes in Phoenix, Ariz., on Dec. 14, 2020. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
Auditors hired by the Arizona Senate, including Cyber Ninjas, have been reviewing over 2 million ballots cast and 385 tabulators used in the 2020 election, along with other materials.
Auditors have said they’re following strict forensics protocols.

“We don’t turn on a system if it’s delivered to us in a powered-off state. We remove the hard drives, we perform forensics imaging with write blocks to prevent any changes to those hard drives, and we produce a bit for bit forensics copy of that particular drive,” Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, the company leading the technology component of the audit, told Arizona senators in a meeting this week.

Ken Bennett, the former Republican Arizona secretary of state who is serving as the liaison for the state Senate for the audit, added that immediately upon receiving the machines on April 21, the equipment and ballots were placed into locked cages and have been under armed guard the entire time since.

“We have not had any breaches of the cages where the ballots or the machines have been kept,” he said.

But Hobbs alleged that it is unclear what security procedures, if any, were put into place to secure the machines.

“Indeed, our expert observers, as well as multiple news reports, have noted troubling security lapses. And Cyber Ninjas has failed to provide full transparency into what they did with the equipment,” she wrote to Maricopa County officials.

“The lack of physical security and transparency means we cannot be certain who accessed the voting equipment and what might have been done to them,” she added.

There are no comprehensive methods to fully rehabilitate compromised equipment, meaning the county “should acquire new machines to ensure secure and accurate elections” moving forward, Hobbs said.

If the county chooses to re-deploy the subpoenaed equipment for use in future elections, Hobbs’ office may consider moving to decertify it.


Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Ariz., on May 6, 2021. (Matt York/AP Photo/Pool)

Before the audit started, Arizona Republican Senate President Karen Fann signed a document that provided indemnification to Maricopa County against third-party claims of any damages occurring to materials the county gave over to auditors.

Representatives for the audit team, Arizona Senate Republicans, and Maricopa County did not immediately return overnight requests for comment.

A county Elections Department spokesperson told news outlets that the department was “working with our attorneys on next steps, costs and what will be needed to ensure only certified equipment is used in Maricopa County.”

“We will not use any of the returned tabulation equipment unless the county, state and vendor are confident that there is no malicious hardware or software installed on the devices,” the county added.

The county is reviewing Hobbs’ letter, a county spokesperson also said.

Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors in June of 2019 approved a three-year contract to lease election equipment from Dominion Voting Systems through July 2022. The contract was worth $6.1 million.

According to Hobbs, her concerns don’t involve the Dominion voting system, which remains certified for use in Arizona, nor any election equipment that was not turned over to auditors.

 

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Georgia Judge Decides To Unseal 2020 Absentee Ballots In Fulton County For Review

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 - 01:00 PM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A judge in Georgia on Friday ruled to unseal absentee ballots submitted in the 2020 presidential election.


Employees of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections process ballots in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 4, 2020. (Brandon Bell/Reuters)

Petitioners in an ongoing case will be able to go to where the ballots are stored in Fulton County, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero said at the conclusion of a hearing.

Amero plans to issue an order soon that will set forth protocols governing the scanning and inspection, which will be done by county workers while petitioners and their experts observe.

A group of voters filed a petition last year asking for a forensic inspection of mail-in ballots that were sent in for the 2020 election. The petition alleged an abnormal vote increase for Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and an abnormal reduction in President Donald Trump’s tabulation, among other alleged abnormalities.

Amero allowed the petitioners in March access to scanned images of the ballots, but attorneys for the petitioners argued in court that the resolution, 200 dots per inch (DPI), was too low to perform proper analysis.

The petitioners asked for images at 600 DPI or higher, and access to the ballots themselves.

David Sawyer, a forensics expert, testified for the petitioners. He said he identified a discrepancy in the number of batches that were received by petitioners and the number that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office listed as having been examined in a risk-limiting audit.

He told the judge that direct access to ballots would be best “because that’s the original evidence, and that’s the best evidence.”

Lawyers for Fulton County and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, argued that letting the petitioners examine the ballots outside of the presence of county workers would violate federal law. They also said a “citizen audit” wasn’t provided for in state law. If the judge allowed such an audit, he should pick the auditing team or allow the parties to reach an agreement on which firms should do the audit, they added.

Amero assured them he was largely of the same mind.

“I have no inclination at all to release these ballots to anyone other than the clerk or the county,” he said.

But he pushed back on the notion that petitioners did not have the ability to get better scans of the ballots or visually inspect them.

“That seems to be something that they have the authority and the right to do,” he said.'

“I have never seen in this case a motion to dismiss from anyone for any reason and in the absence of considering things in that way then this does take the form of a civil case where there is some discovery” under state law, he said.

The parties are scheduled to meet at the Fulton County ballot storage location on May 28.
A spokesman for Raffensperger declined to comment. The county did not return an inquiry. Raffensperger, who asked the judge last month not to grant petitioners access to the physical ballots, will have a representative present next week.

 

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Georgia judge allows Fulton County absentee ballots to be unsealed, reviewed first hand

A group of voters filed a petition last year asking for a forensic inspection of mail-in ballots

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Georgia judge allows Fulton County absentee ballots to be unsealed, reviewed first hand

A group of voters filed a petition last year asking for a forensic inspection of mail-in ballots

By Joseph Weber
Updated: May 21, 2021 - 2:33pm

A Georgia superior court judge ruled Friday that absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election can be unsealed – a win for petitioners in case allowing them to go to where the ballots are stored in Fulton County.

Henry County Superior Judge Brian Amero said in the ruling that he’ll issue an order soon to lay out the process for the scanning and inspection of the ballots, which will be done by county workers while petitioners and their experts observe, according to the Epoch Times.

A group of voters filed a petition last year asking for a forensic inspection of mail-in ballots – alleged such abnormalities as an abnormally high total of them for the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, and the Republican incumbent, Donald Trump.

Amero allowed the petitioners in March access to scanned images of the ballots, but attorneys for the petitioners argued in court that the resolution was too low to perform proper analysis and needed to see them first hand, The Times also reports.

Forensics expert David Sawyer told the court that he had identified a discrepancy in the number of ballot batches received from the Dominion Voting Systems software, compared to the number Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office listed as having been examined in an audit.

“From day one I have encouraged Georgians with concerns about the election in their counties to pursue those claims through legal avenues," Raffensperger said in a statement from his office to Just the News. "Fulton County has a long standing history of election mismanagement that has understandably weakened voters’ faith in its system. Allowing this audit provides another layer of transparency and citizen engagement."

 

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Corporate Leaders Reportedly Targeting Election Integrity Efforts

Corporate leaders are targeting Republican election integrity efforts behind the scenes, hoping to shift the political dial in their favor.

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Corporate Leaders Reportedly Targeting Election Integrity Efforts Behind the Scenes
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HANNAH BLEAU21 May 202182

Corporate leaders are targeting Republican election integrity efforts behind the scenes, hoping to shift the political dial in their favor by convincing lawmakers to reject basic election integrity laws in the future.

Corporate opposition to basic election integrity efforts came center stage following Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signing Georgia’s election integrity bill into law. Opposition came full force, as prominent leftists continued to mischaracterize the measure as suppressive and racist. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), for example, falsely described Georgia’s S.B. 202 as an “illegal voter suppression law,” despite the fact it actually expanded ballot access in several ways.

Prominent Democrats have since jumped aboard, advancing the false narrative such state election integrity efforts are relics of the Jim Crow era. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and President Joe Biden used that language, specifically.

Following the passage of Georgia’s election law, a group of prominent black business leaders wrote a letter, urging corporations to fight back, urging them to “use their clout, money, and lobbyists to sway the debate with lawmakers.”

Many corporations have heeded to those cries. Coca-Cola and Delta spoke out against Georgia’s election law, specifically, and in April, hundreds of companies, including Starbucks, Amazon, and Netflix, signed a letter signaling their opposition to state election integrity efforts — efforts that include basic voter ID measures, which a majority of Americans support.

But now, according to CNBC, corporate leaders are embracing a different approach, taking their attacks “behind the scenes”:

Since the outcry earlier this year over the passage of Georgia’s new voting law, which critics say unfairly targets minorities, many executives and companies are now airing out their concerns in private, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. Some executives have said they are concerned that the laws could hurt their employees.

…

Some people who spoke with CNBC declined to be named in this article in a bid to avoid retribution. Others declined to be named since these efforts are in progress and details have yet to be made public.
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One of the campaigns at the state level involves pressuring NCAA leaders to come out with a forceful response to voting laws being introduced in Texas, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Another features a legion of corporate attorneys responding to voting laws being crafted in Pennsylvania.

Corporate leaders are also hoping to convince lawmakers to support H.R. 1, or the “For the People Act,” which would effectively nationalize U.S. elections, stripping states of their ability to implement basic election integrity measures.

“There is some real behind the scene work to try to get corporations that decided, ‘Hey, taking on Republican leaders publicly isn’t the best tactic,’ and decided working with lobbyists behind the scenes to get rid of some of these provisions is a better path,” former NBC executive Tom Rogers said, according to CNBC, which reported that Rogers “has been in touch with executives involved in the effort.”

The behind-the-scenes efforts come as Republican legislatures continue to pass measures to secure the integrity of elections in their respective states.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed an election integrity bill into law earlier this month, which implements a number of additional safeguards to protect elections from possible malfeasance. That includes limits on ballot drop boxes, bans on ballot harvesting, and enhanced voter ID requirements.

However, DeSantis was not immune to left-wing criticism, with Democrats resurrecting the false comparisons to the Jim Crow era. Democrat state Rep. Omari Hardy actually described the measure as “the revival of Jim Crow in this state whether the sponsors admit it or not.”

Recent surveys show that a majority of likely voters, including a majority of black voters, do not consider basic voter identification laws discriminatory.

 

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Lawmakers Promise Legal Action After Pennsylvania Primary Election Irregularities - UncoverDC

PA State Rep. Lewis: "This is not a conspiracy theory, this is what occurred today in a PA county. Thankfully they caught it and took action."

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Lawmakers Promise Legal Action After Pennsylvania Primary Election Irregularities
May 20, 2021

UncoverDC reported previously that Pennsylvania officials released a summary of comprehensive hearings about the Nov. 3 election that State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove called “…one of, if not the most, comprehensive reviews any state has undertaken.”

Election integrity concerns from that election and more from Pennsylvania’s Tuesday, May 18 primary have prompted promise of legislative action. On Election night, Grove said, “significant voting issues reported in counties across the Commonwealth [show] our Election Code is in dire need of significant reform… This is why we will be advancing election reform measures in the coming weeks,” Today May 20, Grove stated, “Pennsylvania’s election law is rife with fatal flaws, all of which must be fixed so voter confidence in the process is restored and they have faith in the election results. Some of those flaws again reared their heads during the 2021 Primary Election.”

One such flaw is that voting machines in Luzerne County displayed a welcome header to all voters, irrespective of party, that said “Official Democratic Ballot” before casting their votes.

Local Dudley Snyder told Scranton ABC affiliate WNEP, “There was considerable confusion. They refer to it as miscoding. It’s hard to imagine how something like that slips by people…If a coding error can get the name wrong name at the top, how do you know there aren’t coding errors that can screw up the cast, the counting of the ballots themselves?”

Luzerne County uses Dominion Imagecast X voting machines. Dominion responded to PAHomePage Eyewitness News with a statement that Luzerne County Director of Elections Bob Morgan had confirmed the error “is confined to the header on the viewing screen of the machine,” that “all ballots are printing correctly,” and that “all ballots will be correctly counted.”

Still, Republican Congressional candidate Jim Bognet called DoE Morgan “a partisan Democrat hack whose previous job was a political appointee of Pelosi lapdog Matt Cartwright.”

Cartwright was Bognet’s victorious opponent in Tuesday’s election for a seat in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District. Bognet responded to the loss by saying, “The administration of today’s election in Luzerne County was a fiasco. On yet another Election Day, inexcusable mistakes have been made that cause voters to question the integrity of our voting process. from unacceptable delays in opening the polls to mislabeling Republican ballots as Democrat ballots, Luzerne County’s Election Day is again a laughingstock. This must be fixed. The first step is firing Bob Morgan…”




After the error was found, Republican and Democratic Party officials quickly met on election day at the Luzerne County Courthouse. They reached an agreement to publicly announce that voters should still turn out and they can receive paper ballots if they wish. They agreed that machines would be impounded to increase the likelihood that evidence is preserved for any forensic audit conducted in the future, but not until voting was completed.

Despite the screen error being the most publicized of the PA primary election irregularities, it is not the only one with lawmakers speaking out. Pennsylvania Representative Mike Jones commented on reports of Republican ballot outages by saying, “Thank you to everyone who has been messaging me about polling places (nearly 60 of them across the county at last check) running out of Republican ballot. I have not yet heard of anyone running out of Democrat ballots, but the message is the same.”

PA State Representative Andrew Lewis

Pennsylvania State Representative Andrew Lewis posted about another issue that kept Republican ballots from scanning. “This is not a conspiracy theory, this is what factually occurred today in an entire PA county. Thankfully they caught it and took action—a judge has granted an injunction requiring a hand vote count in these precincts.” Lewis described ballots that were incorrectly printed and so did not scan properly in Lancaster county. “Enough is enough, PA. Every election official responsible for these errors all the way up the chain needs to be fired. Heads need to roll.”

Lewis also hinted at coming legal solutions, “We have been drafting legislation in the State Government committee to restore and safeguard the integrity of our elections. And I better not hear a PEEP from “progressives” and bureaucrats in opposition when we introduce these bills. I’m beyond pissed off that election issues in PA are this blatant, and yet voters who are being actively disenfranchised, discriminated against, and turned away at the polls are still not taken seriously. This needs to be fixed NOW.”

Lewis has been advocating for election reforms in Pennsylvania, including stricter proof of citizenship and voter identification by photo ID while providing a free photo ID to anyone who attests to financial need. He wants to disallow absentee ballots from being counted after election day and continuously update voter rolls to remove dead people and ineligible voters, saying a recent lawsuit showed over 21,000 deceased voters still on the rolls. He also calls for a way for citizens to petition for a hand recount of paper ballots and ensuring a paper trail for all elections so that citizens have a “bulletproof, definitive election count.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1382787086701432843

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2:15 min

Audit the Vote PA (ATVPA) has asked for comments from Pennsylvania voters that detail any issues experienced during the May 18 primary. Comments already received include reports of voters being told to use black Sharpie pens, which are known to produce higher adjudication rates, voting machines and barcodes not working for Republican voters only, and precincts that ran out of Republican ballots as early as 2 pm.

UncoverDC has reported on AuditTheVotePA.com and their efforts to secure an investigative audit of ballots and an independent forensic audit of all electronic voting machines along with signature verification and recounts for the Nov. 3 elections. These measures are meant to resolve questions and allegations by ATVPA, including 15,000 mail-in ballots sent out of state, 78,000 ‘phantom votes,’ the scrubbing of the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) system data hub, and alleged $10M contract to a Zuckerberg linked company.

That petition is now approaching 40,000 signatures. ATVPA is also presenting an event called The Truth about PA’s 2020 Election with Dr. Frank, who was featured in Mike Lindell‘s “Scientific Proof” on May 23 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. An election day email from Audit the Vote PA Co-Founder Toni Shuppe addressed to Senators and posted to Telegram shows focus on these recent primary elections as well. The letter states, “We told you this wasn’t going away… Voter integrity is not a Democrat or Republican issue. It is an American citizen issue.”

 

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Joe Scarborough (completely) loses it on air…

Joe is highly triggered by the Arizona Audit. Here’s the full clip

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Joe Scarborough (completely) loses it on air…
Posted by Kane on May 21, 2021 1:53 pm

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1395689496377704451

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1395689496377704451
1:40 min
Joe is highly triggered by the Arizona Audit.

View: https://youtu.be/TwI4j3FM9U4
9:30 min
Here’s the full clip

 

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Pentagon: National Guard troops to leave DC this week

The 2,149 National Guard troops will return home this week after there were no further requests from the Department of Defense to extend the mission.

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Pentagon: National Guard troops to leave DC this week

The 2,149 National Guard troops will return home this week after there were no further requests from the Department of Defense to extend the mission.

Video on website .37 min

Author: Jonathan Franklin (WUSA9), Nick Boykin (WUSA9)
Published: 5:00 PM EDT May 20, 2021
Updated: 6:24 PM EDT May 20, 2021

WASHINGTON — After approximately four months with a presence in the District, the National Guard will end its deployment in D.C. on Sunday, May 23.

The 2,149 National Guard troops will return home this week after there were no further requests from the Department of Defense (DoD) to extend the mission supporting the Capitol mission.

"The Capitol Police have not requested the Guard to stay past May 23. Once the mission concludes, D.C. National Guard will return to normal operations and the out-of-state Guard members will return to their home station,” Capt. Chelsi B. Johnson with D.C. National Guard Public Affairs said in a statement to WUSA9.

View: https://youtu.be/cAjFP3s3na0
1:23 min

Previously, the DoD granted U.S. Capitol Police's request to keep National Guard troops around Capitol Hill past the March 12 deadline put in place after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III approved the request by the U.S. Capitol Police for continued National Guard support through May 23, according to a March 9 news statement from a DoD spokesperson.

View: https://youtu.be/83wgYO2D7bU
18:44 min

The decision to keep troops in the District until May 23 emphasized concerns about the ongoing threat of violence at the Capitol, just four months after rioters breached the building in violence that left five people dead. Law enforcement has continued to remain in a heightened security posture in response to intelligence suggesting previous possible threats to the Capitol by different militia groups.

"The U.S. Capitol Police is extremely grateful for the Department of Defense’s continued commitment to support our critical mission to protect Congress. The National Guard has played a critical role in the Department’s enhanced security posture. We thank the Guard and the Department of Defense for their partnership," said the U.S. Capitol Police in a previous statement to WUSA9.

The Guard's deployment to the Capitol has been troubled. Early on, Guard members were briefly forced to take rest breaks and meals in a nearby cold garage, sparking outrage within the Biden administration. Officials quickly found new spaces within Congressional buildings for the on-duty breaks.

View: https://youtu.be/NBH8dEbGDrM
1:52 min

in addition, Guard members complained of bad food, including some who said they became sick.

Back on March 8, Chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that about 50 Guard troops had been treated for gastrointestinal issues, out of the 26,000 that deployed to Washington. He said six sought outpatient medical treatment, while the rest were treated at aid stations set up for the Capitol Hill mission.

Kirby said that Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, visited the troops several times a week and ate with them to ensure that they were getting good food.

U.S. military officials have said the cost of deploying about 26,000 Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol from shortly after the Jan. 6 riot was close to $500 million. There was no cost estimate released for the rest of the troops' duration in D.C.

The costs include housing, transportation, salaries, benefits and other essentials.

 

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January 6th Commission, or Wrongthink Inquisition? | Opinion
MUHAMMAD SHEHADA MAY 21, 2021

The contemplated January 6th Commission has little to do with January 6th and most everything to do with railroading the tens of millions of Trump voters represented by the tens of thousands of peaceful protesters in Washington that day, whose views the Ruling Class has ignored and whose interests it has undermined.

It is part of a continued, rolling effort to exploit the inexcusable, pathetic and disgraceful actions of several hundred people to further the narrative that up to half the country constitutes would-be or potential domestic terrorists, justify the pervasive use of Ruling Class power to pursue them and, in the near term, hang the events around the necks of Republicans to retain and augment political power.

This should have been blindingly clear since the prospect of such a commission was first raised.

If it wasn't, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made it blatantly obvious when he recently quipped: "Republicans can let their constituents know: Are they on the side of truth, or do they want to cover up for the insurrectionists and for Donald Trump?"

This rhetoric should have proven the death knell of the exercise, but several dozen GOP House members evidently did not see it for what it was. There are two possible explanations. One is that they did not "know what time it is"—that their political opponents care not for a good-faith, sober fact-finding mission, aimed at securing liberty and justice for all in defense of our republic, but rather seek to rout them and punish their constituents. The other is that they did not believe it worth making the case to said constituents that the proposed commission is not only a needless and nakedly partisan component of a broader political onslaught, but downright chilling on its own ostensible terms.

House Democrats evidently do not believe such efforts might boomerang on them—nor do they seem to care about the long-term consequences to liberty and justice of the actions they are now taking.

Set aside the bevy of other congressional probes examining the various aspects of January 6, 2021. Set aside, more importantly, the dubious narrative the January 6th Commission seeks to feed: That what transpired that day constituted an armed, murderous insurrection, if not coup, aimed at overthrowing "democracy" by Trumpism personified—proof of a scourge of right-wing violent extremism that poses the greatest threat of all to the homeland, thereby justifying a whole-of-society War on Domestic Terror.

The text of the bill itself should make Americans of all political stripes shudder.

Yes, the bill hypes as a "domestic terrorist attack" an event in which, mercifully, the sole person killed was a protester shot by Capitol Police, the majority of those charged were hit with essentially trumped-up trespassing offenses and none of those charged were carrying firearms.

Julie Kelly's dogged reporting at American Greatness has compellingly laid waste to this narrative, which the Department of Justice's own prosecutorial struggles help confirm as disingenuous.

Yes, the bill casts as a threat to "the peaceful transfer of power" the exploits of characters like "QAnon Shaman."

Yes, the bill elevates January 6 over the murderous and destructive 1619 Riots, and related violence, that took place across the country over the last year, including attacks on federal buildings and police stations. This is rank hypocrisy.

U.S. Capitol behind waving American flags Samuel Corum/Getty Images

But perhaps most disturbing is this: The proposed commission is to be charged with investigating and reporting upon, in part, "the influencing factors that fomented such [an] attack on American representative democracy while engaged in a constitutional process." In pursuit of this effort, it "may secure directly from any Federal department or agency information, including any underlying information that may be in the possession of the intelligence community, that is necessary to enable it to carry out its purposes and functions."

The danger herein is obvious. This commission would give partisans the ability to use the full powers of the federal government to investigate their wrongthinking political foes. "Influencing factors that fomented such [an] attack" are, of course, virtually limitless. Are you a politician who dared question the legitimacy of any aspect whatsoever of the 2020 presidential election? Are you a think tank that pointed out any of the anomalies in that contest? Are you a law firm that litigated against state executives and administrators who made election law over and above state legislatures themselves? Are you a media organization that printed stories covering these themes, or a social media maven who promoted them? Why would we assume anything other than all of the above, and more, would end up in the commission's crosshairs?

We have witnessed more than four years of weaponization of a hyper-politicized national security, intelligence and law enforcement apparatus at its highest levels, targeting their greatest perceived foe in President Trump, the agenda he put forth and, ultimately, the sovereign citizens he represented. Why would anyone have confidence that vesting a commission like this with such awesome power would not be abused to the nth degree?

Looked at from a purely political perspective, would Democrats ever be complicit in vesting an equivalent Republican-led commission with such powers?

The January 6th Commission is a test of America's understanding of the stakes. That the leaders of the Republican establishment understood this to be a sign of political overreach is reassuring, and hopefully it will end the effort. But the point that must be internalized is that this is about more than just combating another partisan Kabuki exercise aimed at the midterm elections. It is about more than mere differences over scope or process. This is about a large percentage of America's purported leaders continuing to leverage January 6 to maximum effect to chill, silence and stifle approximately half of the country—and to do so, for many, due to simply questioning some of the extraordinary, ostensibly pandemic-driven election measures implemented during 2020 that Democrats now wish to make permanent.

The contemplated commission must be seen, narrowly, against a backdrop of the crumbling nature of the narrative that what transpired on January 6 was on the level of Pearl Harbor or 9/11; the apparent mistreatment—even recognized by the likes of Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL)—of many of those in pretrial detention, who, often without prior criminal records or commensurate charges, are languishing in prison, sometimes in solitary confinement; and the efforts by the authorities to conceal the 14,000 hours of footage from the Capitol around the events of that fateful afternoon.

More broadly, the effort must be seen in context of the use of the Capitol Riot to deplatform dissenters on social media and entire social media platforms themselves, target conservative media, mandate Wokeism in the national security and intelligence bureaucracies and vastly expand their powers to pursue Americans—including by means of non-governmental proxies—in ways that dramatically threaten civil liberties. And this is all without proponents ever making any effort to demonstrate the size, scope and extent of the undefined "extremist" threat allegedly justifying it.

Call it the Capitol Riot Inquisition.

 

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FULL Digital Audit of ALL Absentee Ballots in Corrupt Fulton County Ordered by Judge . . . ⋆ The Liberty Daily

If you love the news, check out The Liberty Daily's homepage. The dominoes may be falling a bit faster than many anticipated in the coming weeks as efforts to expose massive, widespread voter fraud had a huge win today in court. Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ordered a full...

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FULL Digital Audit of ALL Absentee Ballots in Corrupt Fulton County Ordered by Judge . . .
By J.D. Rucker • May. 21, 2021

The dominoes may be falling a bit faster than many anticipated in the coming weeks as efforts to expose massive, widespread voter fraud had a huge win today in court. Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ordered a full digital audit of absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, a place that many Trump supporters believe is the epicenter of election fraud that stole the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.

Creative Destruction Media has been covering the hearing all morning and broke the story:

In an ongoing hearing, Henry County, GA judge, the Honorable Brian J. Amero may give access to the plaintiffs (VoterGA.org, Garland Favorito, and another plaintiff) to the physical mail-in ballots in Fulton County, which could show massive election fraud in GA during the 2020 presidential election cycle, and the follow-on runoff that decided control of the U.S. Senate for the Democrat Party, leading to full control of the American government.

In the hearing, lawyers for VoterGA.org described large discrepancies (21%) between the number of ballot batches reported by the GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who certified the election, and the number of ballot batches actually provided by court-ordered access in the previous April hearing in the case.

VoterGA.org has been examining the ballot images at a low resolution since the hearing in April, and declared they need the actual physical ballots to understand the number of counterfeit ballots certified.

Fulton County attorneys pushed for a sampling of the ballots instead of access to all of the ballots. They particularly objected to access to physical ballots.

Fulton County attorneys also objected to expert witnesses testifying the number of ballot batches certified by Secretary of State Raffensperger in the previous ‘risk limiting audit’ were significantly different from the actual number of ballot image batches that were provided by state and county officials in court-ordered discovery in April.

Despite objections by attorneys for Fulton County, the judge ordered all of the absentee ballots to be unsealed. Parties to appear at ballot storage location 10am May 28th. Ballots will be scanned at 600 dpi or higher. Protocol to be determined.

The previous audit at a much lower resolution bore fruit as major discrepancies and statistical anomalies were found. At the heart of the shenanigans is none other than “Republican” Secretary of State Raffensperger who has obstructed investigations into 2020 voter fraud from the beginning. His fingerprints are all over this, but for the first time since the election it appears there is hope that the truth can come out.

If voter fraud is discovered through this full digital audit, it will call into question the razor-thin margin by which Biden “won” the election at the last minute. It will also shine a bright spotlight on Raffensperger and others who have been apparently complicit in not only covering up the fraud but possibly in perpetrating it in the first place.

Greater Georgia released a statement approving of the judge’s decision. This is pertinent because the Chairwoman of the group is former Senator Kelly Loeffler. If voter fraud is found in this election, it’s almost certain the election that she lost will also be scrutinized. She and David Perdue both lost to Democrats in the Georgia runoff, handing control of the United States Senate to the Democrats:



According to The Epoch Times:

David Sawyer, a forensics expert, testified for the petitioners. He said he identified a discrepancy in the number of batches that were received by petitioners and the number that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office listed as having been examined in a risk-limiting audit.

He told the judge that direct access to ballots would be best “because that’s the original evidence, and that’s the best evidence.”

It’s never a good idea for patriots to get their hopes up about the 2020 election. Correcting it is still a longshot, but we’re a bit closer today than we were yesterday, so there’s still hope.

 

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Interesting pix since the photographer obviously did a "field of view crop" to eliminate the fencing.

Owner says "Good fences make good neighbors." In this case I'd be fine with the fence - if only they would limit their lawmaking and taxation to THEIR side of the fence.

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CAUGHT: Joe Scarborough Suffers COMPLETE MELTDOWN Over Arizona Audit -- Tells Americans to Leave the Country and Be Replaced by Migrants! (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Crazy Joe Scarborough suffered a complete meltdown on MSNBC Friday morning over the Arizona Forensic Audit of the Maricopa County ballots and voting machines.

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CAUGHT: Joe Scarborough Suffers COMPLETE MELTDOWN Over Arizona Audit — Tells Americans to Leave the Country and Be Replaced by Migrants! (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 4:06pm

Crazy Joe Scarborough suffered a complete meltdown on MSNBC Friday morning over the Arizona Forensic Audit of the Maricopa County ballots and voting machines.

Democrats on Friday were running with the latest lie by Secretary of State Katie Hobbs that the Dominion Voting Machines were ruined because of the audit team’s investigation. She has absolutely no proof of this but she’s desperate and so she had to say something.

Joe Scarborough said the quiet part out loud.

He wants Americans to be replaced by migrants!

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Breaking: Maricopa County's Attorney Office Writes Senate Leader Karen Fann - Requests ALL DOCUMENTS Regarding Deleted Election Database Directory | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

This was just announced– It appears the Maricopa County Attorney will weaponize her office and use it for a possible investigation of cyber forensics of America’s Audit cyber team.

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Breaking: Maricopa County’s Attorney Office Writes Senate Leader Karen Fann – Requests ALL DOCUMENTS Regarding Deleted Election Database Directory

By Jim Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 6:19pm

This was just announced–

It appears the Maricopa County Attorney will weaponize her office and use it for a possible investigation of cyber forensics of America’s Audit cyber team.

Maricopa County officials have fought tooth-and-nail to prevent the Arizona Senate Audit from taking place. They have stalled the process at every turn.

On Friday they threatened the audit team with legal action.

What are they so scared of?

Local news KTAR broke the story on Friday evening.

Maricopa County officials are threatening Karen Fann and using bogus media reports to go after the audit team.

The far left mainstream media INCORRECTLY reported this week that the audit team backtracked on accusations of a missing database directory.

The audit team later came out and refuted the junk media reports.

The FILE DIRECTORY WAS DELETED! And they were able to restore it!



So the fake news was wrong again.

And, the Maricopa County Attorney used their false reports to threaten Senate Leader Karen Fann.

They sure are desperate!

Why is that?

Here is Maricopa County letter to Karen Fann:

Litigation Hold Letter to S… by Danny Shapiro (Scribd doc on website)

 

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"This the Nature of Communism - They Want to Force the Lie" - Historian Doug Wead Goes Off on Democrats Over Jan. 6 Lies (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Doug Wead, is a historian, New York Times bestselling author, and advisor to two American presidents.

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“This the Nature of Communism – They Want to Force the Lie” – Historian Doug Wead Goes Off on Democrats Over Jan. 6 Lies (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published May 21, 2021 at 8:36pm

Doug Wead, is a historian, New York Times bestselling author, and advisor to two American presidents.

On Friday Doug Wead joined author and presidential historian Craig Shirley on Greg Kelly Tonight to discuss the Democrats’ latest attempts to rewrite history with their dishonest talking points on the January 6 protest and riot at the US Capitol.

Democrats and their fake news cohorts are labeling the Jan 6 protests where three Trump supporters died and another was shot dead as the worst attack on the US Capitol since the War of 1812.

This is of course a complete lie.

Here is a list of several violent bombings and shootings inside the US Capitol in the last century:

In 1915 a Cornell University professor, Frank Holt, blew up the Senate’s reception area with a suitcase filled with three sticks of dynamite.

In March 1954 Puerto Rican nationalists shot five US Representatives from the balcony of the House of Representatives.

In March 1971 the Weather Underground bombed the men’ washroom in the Senate chamber.

In November 1983 a bomb planted just outside the Senate did not lead to any casualties, but it did blow out a wall.

In 1998 a lunatic went into the US Capitol and murdered two officers, Detective John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut.

On Friday night historian Doug Wead called the left’s distortion and lies about Jan. 6 pure Marxism.

Democrats know they are lying but keep repeating this same lie.

Doug Wead: They’re not stupid. They still persist in saying it. This is something that Marxism does. And you’ve heard me say several times on your show, refer to the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell where the protagonist is brought in a little room and he’s grilled and he’s told 2 +2 = 5. And he’s forced to repeat this and say it even though he knows it isn’t even true. This is the nature of communism and socialism. They want to force the lie and they want you to believe the lie.

Via Greg Kelly Tonight:
Rumble video on website 6:47 min

 

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Ashli Babbitt's Family Suing Capitol Police For Fatal Jan. 6 Shooting

The family of Ashli Babbitt is suing the U.S. Capitol Police for more than $10 million for shooting and killing her during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

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Ashli Babbitt’s Family Suing Capitol Police For Fatal Jan. 6 Shooting

MAY 21, 2021 By Jordan Davidson

Ashli Babbitt’s family is suing the U.S. Capitol Police for more than $10 million for shooting and killing her during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“Right now, we have no accountability — zero accountability — they give no explanation to justify the shooting and they do not even identify the officer. That is what they do in autocratic countries, not in the United States,” Maryland attorney Terrell N. Roberts III told the Washington Times.

The 35-year-old Air Force veteran was shot with a round from an anonymous officer’s “service pistol” in the Capitol building after she attempted to climb through a broken glass door in the hallway near the Speaker’s Lobby. Babbitt received aid in the Capitol from a Capitol Police emergency response team before she was transported to the Washington Hospital Center where she later died.

The family plans to sue the law enforcement agency under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows for monetary compensation if “a personal injury or death, caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of a Government employee while acting within the scope of his or her office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”

The unnamed officer who shot Babbitt but did not receive any charges will also be sued by the family, the Washington Times reported.

“The purpose of the case is to hold the police officer and the Capitol Police accountable for violating Ashli Babbitt’s constitutional right — that is the purpose,” Roberts said, noting that he is “reviewing video of the shooting that was captured by private citizens using their iPhones.”

Roberts also expressed frustration that legislators — including those that voted for the partisan, power-grab Jan. 6 Commission — have not demanded further information or answers from the law enforcement agency.

“If we call ourselves a free people, you would think that Congress would be the first to demand transparency of its own police agency but you don’t hear that,” Roberts explained.

 

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Former DOJ lawyer urges Arizona Senate: Resist ‘non-existent federal authority’ over election audit

His election integrity group says DOJ "exaggerates" and mischaracterizes federal law, hides its own track record in court.

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Former DOJ lawyer urges Arizona Senate: Resist ‘non-existent federal authority’ over election audit

His election integrity group says DOJ "exaggerates" and mischaracterizes federal law, hides its own track record in court.

By Greg Piper
Updated: May 21, 2021 - 11:54pm

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is not moving to shut down the Arizona Senate's audit of Maricopa County's 2020 general election — yet.

A former lawyer in the division's Voting Section wants to keep it that way, urging Senate President Karen Fann to resist the "non-existent federal authority" asserted by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela Karlan earlier this month.

"Conducting an audit of a past election does not violate the Voting Rights Act or any other federal election law," J. Christian Adams wrote May 7 as president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group. (PILF didn't post the letter until May 17.)

The Supreme Court in 2013 threw out the Justice Department's "pre-clearance" requirement for state voting law changes, and it could greenlight further limitations in a briefed case about Arizona restrictions on provisional and absentee ballots.

Adams worked on voting rights cases in the George W. Bush administration. His letter to Fann is dripping with contempt for Karlan, whom he accuses of false claims about his own work and "partisan enforcement of the law."

This week, four House Republicans accused Karlan of trying to intimidate Fann and "cribbing" her talking points from "Leftist groups" that demanded federal intervention in the audit last month.

Florida's Matt Gaetz, Arizona's Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, and Georgia's Marjorie Taylor Greene may have been spooked by Fann's disclosure that the Senate had previously shelved a plan opposed by Karlan: canvassing voters in precincts with a "high number of anomalies."

It's unclear what effect Karlan's warning letter has had on the audit, whether DOJ will take further action, or if the two sides have even communicated in the past two weeks.

Media contacts for the department and Fann's office have not responded to Just the News queries this week, including a request Friday for DOJ's response to the letter from House Republicans.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, ramped up the pressure on Fann Thursday by urging Maricopa County to buy new voting machines because Fann's hired auditors, led by Cyber Ninjas, had allegedly compromised current machines. Such a purchase would likely cost the county millions.

Karlan's May 5 letter first floated the charge that state and local elections officials had lost "ultimate control" over ballots, elections systems and materials, and that contractors were not "adequately" safeguarding them during the audit.

The DOJ official also alleged that Cyber Ninjas' stated plan to "knock on doors" to verify valid voters lived there, and canvass areas with suspicious voting patterns, may constitute voter intimidation and could single out minority voters.

Fann's May 7 response scolded Karlan for singling out the Senate's hired contractors when Maricopa County itself also hired its own to handle "the very materials at issue in the audit."

The Senate president laid out the high security protocols at the audit site, which are personally overseen by former Secretary of State Ken Bennett and livestreamed 24 hours a day. She's not aware of "any significant security breach" since ballots were delivered.

But Fann said the planned voter canvass had been put off before Karlan's letter and would not be carried out unless deemed necessary to the audit. Canvassers would not target voters or precincts by race or other protected categories, wear anything that could be confused for law enforcement, or imply that voters were under investigation and must answer questions.

Adams' letter to Fann on behalf of the Public Interest Legal Foundation warned her that Karlan is not "engaging in a normal exercise of federal power under federal voting law."

The DOJ official has "refused to correct" verifiably false scholarship from 2009 that claimed the Bush administration failed to bring any Voting Rights Act cases to protect racial minorities in five of its eight years. Adams pointed to his own writing refuting Karlan's claims.

Karlan not only ignored an Arizona court that upheld the legislative subpoenas to Maricopa County, but also "exaggerates" Justice Department authority over states by mischaracterizing a federal law that is "investigatory in nature."

In the "entire history of the Civil Rights Division," DOJ has never investigated an election audit "because its past leadership has understood it has no legal authority to do so," Adams wrote.
Karlan's invocation of Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act is "absurd and implausible" because it would classify intimidation as retroactive against voters who have "long since voted," he said.

DOJ has performed poorly in court when it tried to bring Section 11(b) claims for much worse alleged conduct, including when "armed and uniformed" members of the New Black Panther Party "stalked a polling place," the lawyer said.

 

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Exclusive—Sen. Tom Cotton: The Democrats’ H.R.1 Would Permanently Rig Our Elections

While Biden’s border crisis spirals out of control, Democrats in Congress are pushing an elections bill called the “For the People Act” (or H.R.1) that would shred critical safeguards on our elections, allowing individuals to vote without providing any hard proof of who they are or even whether...

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Exclusive—Sen. Tom Cotton: The Democrats’ H.R.1 Would Permanently Rig Our Elections
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President Biden is presiding over a disaster at our southern border, as waves of illegal immigrants surge into our country, overwhelming law enforcement. While Biden’s border crisis spirals out of control, Democrats in Congress are pushing an elections bill called the “For the People Act” (or H.R.1) that would shred critical safeguards on our elections, allowing individuals to vote without providing any hard proof of who they are or even whether they are legally allowed to be in our country.

It’s hardly a coincidence that Democrats are ignoring the Biden border crisis while weakening our election laws. The For the People Act might as well have been tailormade to encourage voter fraud and ensure Democrats rule the Swamp for generations to come.

The bill would federalize our elections so that states have little control over how voting proceeds within their jurisdiction. Red states like Arkansas and Florida would no longer be able to take extra precautions to ensure the integrity of their elections. Instead, election law would be dictated from Washington, D.C. in uniform—and uniformly terrible—fashion.

For example, the bill would invalidate states’ voter ID laws, which require individuals to present valid photo identification, such as a driver’s license, in order to vote. Democrats and their allies in the media like to pretend that voter ID laws are “racist,” just as they pretend that every policy and person they oppose is racist. Thankfully, the American people see through this smear.

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, three-quarters of American voters support photo ID requirements, including nearly 70 percent of black voters.

If the Democrats’ election bill passes, voters would only need to self-certify that they are who they claim to be in order to vote. That means an illegal immigrant or disenfranchised felon could walk up to a polling place, make up a name, and cast a ballot, unchallenged and undetected. They could then go to every other polling place in the area and do the same thing. That’s a recipe for disaster that would encourage voter fraud on a massive scale.

The Democrats’ bill would also make permanent many of the vote-by-mail expansions that were rushed through as emergency measures during the pandemic. The free-for-all of ballot harvesting and mail-in-voting during the 2020 elections caused many Americans to have doubts and suspicions about the integrity of the vote. Shredding limitations on mail-in ballots in all future elections will only convince more voters that the electoral process is rigged and that their votes do not count. Responsible politicians should be trying to assuage voters’ fears by implementing adequate safeguards on our elections. Like electoral arsonists, the Democrats are instead pouring fuel on the fire by eliminating even the most basic protections against fraud.

Finally, the Democrats’ election bill would create a slush fund to funnel public money to political campaigns. This provision would give $6 of public funds to certain candidates for every $1 they raise from grassroots donors; it would also give some voters cash vouchers to spend on candidates of their choosing. This system will inevitably be abused by fraudsters and dishonest partisans. Congress should be investing in our military or the border wall— we could even try to pay off the federal debt that is hanging over the heads of our children like the sword of Damocles. Instead, the Democrats want some of that money to go to politicians—that’s pure pork for the powerful.

This bill is called the “For the People Act.” The right question to ask is: which people? It’s clear that the Democrats didn’t have the American people as a whole in mind when drafting this bill. This is a partisan bill intended to secure cynical political advantage for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

Apparently, Democrats agree with President Trump that fraud benefits their party. That is the only explanation for this bill. Republicans must stop it.

Tom Cotton is a U.S. senator from Arkansas.

 

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Court Cases Won, Regarding Election Fraud and Why Discussing Them Is Taboo | | Express Digest

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Court Cases Won, Regarding Election Fraud and Why Discussing Them Is Taboo

Washington, DC: One story headline reads “The Myth of Voter Fraud”. Other headlines read “Study Finds No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud” but the verdict is still out for 70% of American citizens. What is currently catching the attention of American voters is the courts have ruled and they have overwhelmingly ruled in favor of conservative Americans.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ELECTION FRAUD

First, it is important to understand what is considered election fraud. There are many ways for criminals to steal votes and change the outcome of an election. These include (per The Heritage Foundation):

Impersonation fraud at the polls: Voting in the name of other legitimate voters and voters who have died, moved away or lost their right to vote because they are felons, but remain registered.

False registrations: Voting under fraudulent voter registrations that either use a phony name and a real or fake address or claim residence in a particular jurisdiction where the registered voter does not actually live and is not entitled to vote.

Duplicate voting: Registering in multiple locations and voting in the same election in more than one jurisdiction or state.

Fraudulent use of absentee ballots: Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter, or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.

Buying votes: Paying voters to cast either an in-person or absentee ballot for a particular candidate.

Illegal “assistance” at the polls: Forcing or intimidating voters—particularly the elderly, disabled, illiterate, and those for whom English is a second language—to vote for particular candidates while supposedly providing them with “assistance.”

Ineligible voting: Illegal registration and voting by individuals who are not U.S. citizens, are convicted felons or are otherwise not eligible to vote.

Altering the vote count: Changing the actual vote count either in a precinct or at the central location where votes are counted.

Ballot petition fraud: Forging the signatures of registered voters on the ballot petitions that must be filed with election officials in some states for a candidate or issue to be listed on the official ballot.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE – 66% OF THE JUDGES RULED THERE WAS ELECTION FRAUD FOUND!

Most social media claims election cases are not valid, but it is more the cases not being heard than the cases being legally adjudicated. 2020 Election Fraud Cases Shows 81 Cases Total, 30 Still Active – And NOT ONE SINGLE COURT Has Allowed Evidence to be Argued. No evidence allowed to be shown is a problem for American voters, since the courts being not even willing to hear the argument seems to prove the argument of election fraud happening in the first place.

The Gateway Pundit argues “When looking at the number of cases related to the 2020 Presidential election that was decided on merits, there were only 21 cases decided so far. Of these cases, President Trump won 14. The President won 14 of 21 cases decided on merits which is two-thirds of the cases. What the media doesn’t tell you and omits from their reporting is their greatest lie.”

There are still 25 cases to be decided related to the 2020 election.

HISTORY-MAKING AUDITS

All eyes are on Maricopa County, Arizona at the moment and there are questions piling up by the minute such as “How Could Election Officials Not Have The Passwords To The Servers?” To combat the bad press and lingering integrity questions, Democrats have sent in Hillary/Perkins Coie’s lawyer to Maricopa who is there undoubtedly to stop the audit, however, the Republican Senate-backed audit has legal standing and the historic audit is underway. 2.1 million ballots are being audited in Maricopa County, Arizona and the firebrand marking this new type of history-making election audit is pioneering technology inventor Jovan Hutton Pulitzer. (see photo for details)

The Daily Beast printed factually incorrect information regarding Pulitzer and his career, did have to acknowledge in a recent article that he has “the people” behind his demand for election transparency through his new technology for audits. “We want the best people to perform the audit, and if what Jovan has is going to give us what we need is the best, then we want Jovan,” Busch, the chairwoman of We the People AZ Alliance, told The Daily Beast.”

 

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Voter Integrity Is the New Voting System Upgrade

New York, NY The whole world is watching as the United States of America undertakes the most comprehensive election audits

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Voter Integrity Is the New Voting System Upgrade

by james vince
May 20, 2021


Voting System Upgrade

New York, NY
The whole world is watching as the United States of America undertakes the most comprehensive election audits in the history of the country. Before the 2020 general election it seems very few American citizens paid attention to the significant issues surrounding America voting machines and systems, yet when for the first time in history the counting of ballots on the evening of the Presidential election stopped – citizens took notice and are now starting to look very closely.

From November 2020 through March of 2021 most social media platforms blocked any user postings daring to talk about election fraud or voter fraud. This social media move to censor free speech across supposedly free platforms has most Americans enraged. This rage has now turned into a brand-new social movement of its own. Election Integrity.

From 1970 through 1989 (then again in 1990-1992) a radical book on voter and election fraud came out titled VOTESCAM: The Stealing of America by James M and Kenneth P Collier. In their book, the brothers pointed out numerous voting machine problems, most identical to the ones being talked about and litigated currently as a result of the 2020 general election.

WHY HAS SO MUCH TIME HAS PASSED?
Back then, when the election fraud was documented, the Colliers were both shunned and blackballed by the media of the day. Ironically, in an eerily similar fashion as social media and news media these days. None of the media would allow the brothers on the media airways and print to show their audited results. Even with documented sources, testimonials, affidavits and physical audits, the entire fiasco of the election fraud was called a myth or outright fabrication.

votescam

“Votescam asserts the unthinkable. It is a strange and frightening true detective story. It contains fact, film, documents, and visions seldom seen by the public. It is troubling look at the corruption of the American vote that most Americans cannot bear to believe is even partly true.

The authors assert, and back it up with daring reporting, that your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by preprogrammed computers—which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail.
In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote.” Barnard L. Collier, New York City, 1992

A DEBCLE FOR DECADES WILL NOW BE UPGRADED
American citizens have taken to the streets to demand total election integrity and they are heralding one technology pioneer as the man for the job, Jovan Hutton Pulitzer. “I am joined by a modern-day

Benjamin Franklin. Jovan Hutton Pulitzer is a world-renowned entrepreneur, inventor, and most importantly, a PATRIOT. Jovan holds HUNDREDS of patents on technology used by billions of people around the world.

He is also the chief authority on kinematic artifact scanning. He can detect a myriad of different forms of fraud on any piece of paper. This includes ELECTION BALLOTS. Meet the most feared expert in the world that every corrupt politician is trying to stop. Our country’s future hangs in the balance” was the opening line from Professor David K. Clements recent podcast.

Most American voters became acquainted with the reclusive technology pioneer when he was asked to speak at a Senate Sub-Committee hearing for Election Integrity in Georgia.

A recent article from the Vision Times stated, “Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, an inventor and Board Member of the Gold Institute for International Strategists, says any type of machine-readable code is the basis of his portfolio of 200 patents listed on his Stanford Curriculum Vitae. Pulitzer says almost every manufacturer in the world licenses his patents, except for ‘Huawei out of China. They don’t license it. They just use it.’ His technology is on 12 billion devices globally. Pulitzer made it clear that his concerns with the election were non-partisan: ‘We want to know if these ballots are authentic or counterfeit. We want to make sure every vote is verified. This is not about President Donald J. Trump or President-Elect Joe Biden. This is about: are we still a country where your vote matters? One person one vote.”

 

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BREAKING: GA JUDGE ALLOWS FURTHER SCAN OF MAIL-IN BALLOT INSPECTION IN FULTON COUNTY...GROUND ZERO OF ELECTION FRAUD...CASE COULD FLIP PRESIDENTIAL CERTIFICATION - CDM - Human Reporters • Not Machines

BREAKING: GA JUDGE ALLOWS FURTHER SCAN OF PHYSICAL MAIL-IN BALLOT INSPECTION IN FULTON COUNTY...GROUND ZERO OF ELECTION FRAUD.

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BREAKING: GA JUDGE ALLOWS FURTHER SCAN OF MAIL-IN BALLOT INSPECTION IN FULTON COUNTY…GROUND ZERO OF ELECTION FRAUD…CASE COULD FLIP PRESIDENTIAL CERTIFICATION

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‘A LARGE NUMBER OF BALLOTS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN COUNTED TWICE’

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This story is developing…
UPDATE 1115 EST – Judge orders ballots unsealed. Parties to appear at ballot storage location 10am May 28th. Ballots will be scanned at 600 dpi or higher. Protocol to be determined.
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In an ongoing hearing, Henry County, GA judge, the Honorable Brian J. Amero may give access to the plaintiffs (VoterGA.org, Garland Favorito, and another plaintiff) to the physical mail-in ballots in Fulton County, which could show massive election fraud in GA during the 2020 presidential election cycle, and the follow-on runoff that decided control of the U.S. Senate for the Democrat Party, leading to full control of the American government.

In the hearing, lawyers for VoterGA.org described large discrepancies (21%) between the number of ballot batches reported by the GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who certified the election, and the number of ballot batches actually provided by court-ordered access in the previous April hearing in the case.

GA SoS Raffensperger Amicus Brief Denying Election Fraud Doesn’t Hold Water, Is Riddled With Deceit

VoterGA.org has been examining the ballot images at a low resolution since the hearing in April, and declared they need the actual physical ballots to understand the number of counterfeit ballots certified.

Fulton County attorneys pushed for a sampling of the ballots instead of access to all of the ballots. They particularly objected to access to physical ballots.

Fulton County attorneys also objected to expert witnesses testifying the number of ballot batches certified by Secretary of State Raffensperger in the previous ‘risk limiting audit’ were significantly different from the actual number of ballot image batches that were provided by state and county officials in court-ordered discovery in April.

Shockingly, attorneys for Fulton County declared ‘the county has no control over its election tablulation process.’

“A high number of ballots appear to have been counted twice,” declared the expert witness. There was an error rate in the batch data of 21%”

The ‘risk limiting audits’ conducted previously in the state of GA by SoS Raffensperger were shown in today’s hearing to be severely compromised.

The GA Attorney General’s office testified citizens have no right to audit the vote.

The results of ballot analysis in this case could show the U.S. Senate, and the presidency of the United States, were fraudulently certified.

Rumble video on website 17:17 min Interview with Garland Favarito

 

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Maricopa County Is Now Doing the Unheard of by Intimidating the Senate and Its Auditors with Possible Lawsuit Should They Complete Their Legal and Proper Audit | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

As reported previously the Arizona Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) are doing all they can to prevent a real audit of the results from the 2020 Election in their county. The County now is doing the unheard of – They are intimidating the auditors and volunteers who are helping while...

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Maricopa County Is Now Doing the Unheard of by Intimidating the Senate and Its Auditors with Possible Lawsuit Should They Complete Their Legal and Proper Audit

By Joe Hoft
Published May 22, 2021 at 7:20am

As reported previously the Arizona Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) are doing all they can to prevent a real audit of the results from the 2020 Election in their county.

The County now is doing the unheard of – They are intimidating the auditors and volunteers who are helping while the audit is ongoing in their county.

It appears the Maricopa County Attorney has weaponized her office and is using it for a possible investigation of the auditors. The Senate should immediately fire back and ask the attorney, the MCBOS and their attorneys, and the corrupt Democrat ‘non-profits’ to preserve the same items as they are being asked to save.

Maricopa County officials have fought tooth-and-nail to prevent the Arizona Senate Audit from taking place. They have stalled the process at every turn.

On Friday they threatened the audit team with legal action.



This is unprecedented. The County is trying to intimidate those who are involved in the audit from completing their mission.

Maricopa County’s actions are now very possibly illegal.

As an international auditor, I have performed hundreds of audits around the world in numerous countries and

1. I have never seen an audit harassed and now threatened with a lawsuit should the auditors determine to continue their work through fruition.
2. I also have never seen an audit that is more transparent with video from nine separate cameras displaying the actions in the audit 24 hours a day.

The MCBOS sure are desperate!

Why is that?

Here is Maricopa County letter to Karen Fann: ( Scribd doc on website)

 

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Radio Host John Fredericks on GA Audit: "I Can't Overestimate How Big an Opportunity This is - What Happened in Atlanta Is Bigger Potentially than Arizona" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Georgia radio host John Fredericks joined Steve Bannon on Friday following the news that Henry County, Georgia Chief Judge Brian J.

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Radio Host John Fredericks on GA Audit: “I Can’t Overestimate How Big an Opportunity This is – What Happened in Atlanta Is Bigger Potentially than Arizona” (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published May 22, 2021 at 8:35am

Georgia radio host John Fredericks joined Steve Bannon on Friday following the news that Henry County, Georgia Chief Judge Brian J. Amero ordered Fulton County ballots unsealed in a hearing on Friday.

The judge ordered the parties to appear at the ballot storage location at 10 AM on May 28th. The November 2020 absentee ballots will be scanned at 600 dpi or higher.



Friday on The War Room john Fredericks told Steve Bannon that this is potentially bigger than what is going on in Arizona.

John Fredericks: I can’t overestimate how big an opportunity this is to find the fraud and stop the steal and get to the bottom of this. What happened today in Henry County by Judge Amero is bigger potentially than what is going on in Arizona, Steve… We have four affidavits that say somewhere up to 28,000 to 30,000 ballots are counterfeit.
Via The War Room and The Storm Has Arrived:

Rumble video on website 3:58 min

 

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Sidney Powell Weighs in on Georgia Audit: 145,000 Absentee Ballots, 106,000 Adjudicated Ballots, Video of Multiple Scannings of Same Ballots and Nine Witnesses of Suspected Fake Ballots! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

On Friday Henry County Georgia Chief Judge Brian J.

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Sidney Powell Weighs in on Georgia Audit: 145,000 Absentee Ballots, 106,000 Adjudicated Ballots, Video of Multiple Scannings of Same Ballots and Nine Witnesses of Suspected Fake Ballots!

By Jim Hoft
Published May 22, 2021 at 9:05am

On Friday Henry County Georgia Chief Judge Brian J. Amero ordered Fulton County absentee ballots unsealed and inspected by auditors.

On Friday night Attorney Sidney Powell posted this on Telegram:

With a GA judge ordering the audit of 145,000 mail-in ballots in Fulton County it is important to remember how events transpired on Nov. 3.

There were over 106,000 ballots adjudicated in Fulton County, an enormous number!
Video footage shows everyone cleared out of the State Farm Arena on election night, but 4-people stayed behind & continued to count ballots in private from around 10:30 pm until 1:00 am.

As The Gateway Pundit first reported in December 2020 — This included scanning the same sets of ballots multiple times.



In GA, Biden received 98% of a 23,487 batch of votes at 12:18 am.

The largest and most anomalous vote update happened at 1:34 am on Nov. 4, with 136,155 votes going to Biden and 29,115 votes going to Trump.

And there’s more from several witnesses:

Claims made by six hand count auditors in the Civil Action allege they had observed:

1. three boxes containing I00% Biden ballots and three boxes containing 98% + Biden ballots
2. ballots that were not marked with a writing instrument but appeared to be marked with toner
3. ballots that were different in the stock or paper used to other ballot papers
4. ballots that were not creased
5. nine unsecured ballot bags

Additionally it was claimed that an Open Records Request to inspect the ballots while in the custody of the Fulton County Elections Board was not responded to in accordance with but contrary to state law.

A statistical analysis of 8,954 vote updates, categorized this specific 1:34 am update as one of the top four most anomalous in the country.

There are nine witness affidavits testifying to stacks of unusual mail-in ballots with “pristine sheets, no creases, and perfect bubbles” that went “all for Biden”.

 

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Disgusting: Politifact Hack Putterman Gaslights Public - Argues Video of Capitol Police Giving Protesters OK to Enter Capitol Is Not What It Seems | The Gateway Pundit | by Kari Donovan

Consider the following article by The Gateway Pundit.

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Disgusting: Politifact Hack Putterman Gaslights Public – Argues Video of Capitol Police Giving Protesters OK to Enter Capitol Is Not What It Seems

By Kari Donovan
Published May 22, 2021 at 9:45am

Consider the following article by The Gateway Pundit. It is compelling information that could dismantle the powerful political narrative around the events of Jan. 6th at the US Capitol.

The narrative Politifact prefers is their own. It is the same narrative that politicians are using to punish the powerless people of the United States, exactly something that journalism in America was designed to expose.

That is until “Journalism” schools became propaganda machines and turned it all around against the citizens, and further weaponized their political powers to shut down political opposition.

This week, led by radical far-left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with the push by DC to grant politicians more unique powers for themselves to investigate their political opponents, it is especially telling to see Politifact partner with DC and establish itself as the gatekeeper to the truth.

TGP covered the story of a video that had gone viral, which showed evidence that the DC narrative of Jan. 6th, being pushed by numerous media outlets over the last 4 months, was not accurate:



Then later this past week The Gateway Pundit posted several more video clips of police allowing protesters into the US Capitol on January 6.



But, Samantha Putterman, of Politifact, with the lowest of possible journalist integrity, reported on the same video writing, “Clip of Capitol police speaking with rioters doesn’t prove mob was given OK to enter building.”

That is what is called an “opinion.” And she is entitled to her opinion, but who gave this very young woman the right to dictate the freedoms of other Americans? That is a mighty responsibility and one she clearly does not respect. Note that Putterman can not cite any evidence to support her claim. In fact, she is reckless with her power and authority over what Americans are allowed to read.

Putterman wrote:

“Bloggers and social media users are describing the 44-second clip as evidence that pro-Trump rioters were given permission to enter the U.S. Capitol that day, and that the violence depicted in several other photos and videos is the work of Democrats.”

Notice the demeaning language. “Bloggers,” as if anyone else writing about the video, has lower journalistic standards than Putterman and Politifact themselves. Putterman has designated the people in the video as “pro-Trump rioters” without interviewing one person about who they voted for, without looking up anyone’s voter registration, and by labeling the, albeit confusing footage, as with inflammatory language, calling it “riot.”

Putterman can not site anyone she spoke to who was at the event.

That is very convenient for Politifact, who also, according to Putternman’s article, share a special and unique relationship with Facebook to control the content, to misdirect readers, and control the narrative.

“The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.).” Putterman wrote.

Politifact has a great deal of power to deny Americans our Civil Liberties by claiming to be “fact checkers” when in fact, it is clear that they are fundraising on pushing a political agenda. Look at their page. The first thing readers are greeted with is a place to donate.

Consider the name “Politifact,” does that sound like they had politics on their minds?

What is the Poynter Institute that owns Politifact? According to sources: “The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization.” And they have partners called “Media Wise.”

Media Wise is described at Poytner.com as:

“Our mission at MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online. We teach people key digital literacy skills to spot misinformation and disinformation so they can make decisions based on facts, not fiction. We believe that when facts prevail, democracy wins.”

Media Wise has “Ambassadors,” and they happen to be employees of far-left leading media groups:

Remember, this is a non-profit system of media, some might call it collusion, one that is not only shaping public opinion by crushing their competition, they are also in charge of public policy about who gets to speak online about important issues. They are also setting the tone of what is acceptable to speak about in public.

The left uses non-profits to respond to crises and emergencies (many of which they created themselves), which always seem to result in a loss of liberty for Americans when you begin to study the left’s tactics. It is the perfect system to create a crisis, respond to a crisis, control the population, and get paid by taxpayers and unaccountable “charitable donors” and appear to be heroic all at the same time.

The authority and access Politifact has over American’s were granted to them by unelected bureaucrats, who happen to have control of the internet, which was granted to them by politicians. Many of the powers of the Politifact media system direct ties to powerful political institutions. Convenient, right?

The reason Americans put up with this type of usurpation is that we have no other choice. It is a perfect utopia for the left, whose ultimate goal is control and dominance over the American population.

If America is going to have investigations into the actions of free Americans, let’s start with the fact-checkers. They are easy to find.

 

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Judge Orders Audit of 145,000 Absentee Ballots in Fulton County, Georgia

A Georgia judge is allowing officials to audit roughly 145,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County in the 2020 election.

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Judge Orders Audit of 145,000 Absentee Ballots in Fulton County, Georgia
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A Georgia judge is allowing officials to audit roughly 145,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County in the 2020 election, attempting to ensure the integrity and security of the state’s elections.

The audit will allow for the examination of signatures on the ballots to ensure that they are legitimate, according to a George Star News report.

“Voter confidence in our election system is the bedrock of our republic. Unfortunately, inconsistencies in Fulton County’s November 2020 absentee ballots cast serious doubt on voters’ faith in our elections,” former Sen. Kelly Loeffler said in a statement.

Georgia residents have been particularly concerned about Fulton County.

Files provided by county officials show there are no chain of custody documents — absentee ballot transfer forms — for 385 out of the 1,591 dropbox collections that took place in Fulton County between September 24, 2020, and November 3, 2020, the Georgia Star News reports.
Meanwhile, Arizona’s Maricopa County is undergoing a complete forensic audit of the November 2020 election after the state’s Senate Republicans expressed their desire to ensure the legitimacy of the votes.

The audit in Arizona, however, has been met with relentless resistance. In early May, officials held back materials subpoenaed by the state legislature, claiming that submitting them would create a security risk for both law enforcement and federal agencies.

The Arizona state Senate claimed Maricopa County election officials then tampered with election records just days before the equipment was delivered to the Arizona Senate, the Georgia Star News reports.

Last week, the president of the Arizona State Senate asked the chairman of the Maricopa Board of Supervisors to address “three serious issues that have arisen in the course of the Senate’s ongoing audit of the returns of the November 3, 2020 general election in Maricopa County.”

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors later refused the invitation to meet with the Arizona State Senate to discuss how to resolve the issues.

Unlike the audit in Arizona, however, the Fulton County ballots in Georgia will not be transferred to an independent third party for examination, as Superior Court Judge Brian Amero has ruled that the ballots must remain with Fulton County officials, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The case is Favorito v. Coons, No. 2020CV343938 in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.

 

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Steve Bannon Goes On a Tear! "Wisconsin Will Be the Easiest to Prove - They're in a Full Panic!" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Steve Bannon went on a tear Saturday morning on The War Room.

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Steve Bannon Goes On a Tear! “Wisconsin Will Be the Easiest to Prove – They’re in a Full Panic!” (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published May 22, 2021 at 2:10pm

Steve Bannon went on a tear Saturday morning on The War Room.

Bannon called out the left for their “complete panic” over the ongoing forensic audits.

According to Steve, Wisconsin will be the easiest to prove!

Steve Bannon: Wisconsin’s the easiest to prove. My point on this right now is the Associated Press, The Hill, MSNBC, they are all in a panic, ladies and gentlemen! They’re in a full panic! They have seen what Michael Patrick Leahy’s reporting has done in Georgia. They see what the judge did in Georgia. They see the patriot’s progress on the Concord Bridge of the convention center in Arizona. They see what’s happening behind the scenes in Pennsylvania. They see the talk that’s going down in Michigan… So, now in Wisconsin, they do not talk about the indefinitely confined. That’s where the clerks stole it and the early voting scandal!

For the record, as we reported in February — Wisconsin’s ‘Indefinitely Confined’ Voter Status Excludes Requirement for Voter IDs – 265,000 Ballots Cast in 2020 Election

Rumble video on website 4:12 min
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U.S. seizes $90,000 from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot

U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.

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U.S. seizes $90,000 from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot
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Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.

Prosecutors also have filed additional criminal charges against the man, John Earle Sullivan, a self-described political activist who is accused of entering the Capitol building and participating in the riot, the filings unsealed on Thursday showed.

Sullivan now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges, related to the riot. Sullivan's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prosecutors have charged more than 440 people in connection with the attack in which Trump supporters stormed the Capitol after he gave a speech to them repeating his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud. The mob smashed windows, fought police and sent lawmakers into hiding. Five people died.

Many participants, including Sullivan, posted their actions on social media. read more
According to the court filings, Sullivan portrayed himself as an independent journalist who was reporting on the chaos, but actually encouraged other participants to "burn" the building and engage in violence.

Sullivan recorded video of the confrontation between rioters and police just outside the U.S. House of Representatives chamber that included the shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt and, according to court filings, boasted to an unnamed witness that "my footage is worth like a million of dollars, millions of dollars."

Sullivan sold that footage to several news outlets for a total of $90,000, according to a seizure warrant. The news outlets were redacted from the warrant.

According to media reports, Sullivan participated in Black Lives Matter protests last year. Other Black Lives Matter activists in his home state have disavowed him.


[Sullivan is that black ANTIFA guy]

 

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January 6th Commission is Coming … Here’s How MAGA Can Use it To Beat Dems at Their Own Game - Revolver News

There is no need for fear. It's time for the MAGA movement to embrace the January 6th commission and use it to get out the truth.

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January 6th Commission is Coming … Here’s How MAGA Can Use it To Beat Dems at Their Own Game

May 20, 2021 (2d ago)

A 9/11-style committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol incursion may be imminent.

The House passed a bill Wednesday authorizing a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 pro-Trump assault on the U.S. Capitol, but the proposal could stall in the Senate after GOP leaders in Congress and former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to reject it.
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The legislation was the product of negotiations between the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Democrat Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, and the panel’s top-ranking Republican, John Katko of New York. Modeled on the probe carried out by the 9/11 Commission following the 2001 terrorist attacks, the panel would have five members appointed by Democratic leaders and five by Republican leaders, with shared responsibility for issuing subpoenas.

“I strongly believe this is a fair and necessary legislation,” Mr. Katko said before the vote Wednesday. “I encourage all members, Republicans and Democrats alike, to put down their swords for once, just for once, and support this bill.” [WSJ]

Despite the heroic opposition of figures like Matt Gaetz, and the less heroic but still welcome opposition of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 35 House Republicans joined with the Democrats Wednesday to approve the commission’s creation. The measure now goes to the Senate. If ten Senate Republicans defect (or if Democrats decide to trash the filibuster for this), the commission will happen.

American patriots are justifiably wary of creating this kind of commission. Revolver itself has previously warned about the dangers it could pose. Merely by existing, it would legitimize insane comparisons with past American events, like the Kennedy assassination or 9/11 (the attempt to brand it as “1/6” does the same). Plus, anything that Liz Cheney is smugly celebrating on Twitter should give cause for alarm.

But American patriots do not need to panic. Properly handled, a January 6 Commission can be used to vindicate American patriots and embarrass their enemies.

The first step to making sure the commission is handled properly is not to focus on the wrong things. In his show Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson made the case that this commission will only be legitimate if it also investigates the looting and mayhem caused by Antifa and Black Lives Matter over the past year. This has been a common line, so common that even Kevin McCarthy embraced it in his Tuesday statement.

[T]he renewed focus by Democrats to now stand up an additional commission ignores the political violence that has struck American cities, a Republican Congressional baseball practice, and, most recently, the deadly attack on Capitol Police on April 2, 2021. The presence of this political violence in American society cannot be tolerated and it cannot be overlooked. I have communicated this to our Democrat colleagues for months and its omission is deeply concerning. [Office of Kevin McCarthy]

We at Revolver have tremendous respect for Tucker Carlson. The desire to shine more attention on the mass violence perpetrated by Antifa and BLM with the often-explicit endorsement of America’s ruling regime is understandable. But in the case of a January 6 investigation, Revolver sees such a demand as misguided.

Pairing a January 6 investigation with an inquiry into the mass riots of last summer implicitly accepts the establishment’s framing of events.
First, it concedes that January 6 by itself was equal in importance to months of rioting and looting which caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in damage. It admits that the so-called “insurrection” at the Capitol was a crisis on par with million of Americans being terrorized while their leaders pulled back the police and abandoned them to their fate. It equates an event of (accidental or deliberate) poor police crowd control with a months-long operation that was cynically stoked by the left’s institutions to tear apart the country, degrade institutions, hoard power to themselves, and of course eject President Trump from office.

This framing should not be conceded. January 6 and the Summer of BLM are not equivalent. The BLM riots were vastly worse. They should absolutely be investigated and investigated separately.

Revolver and other reporters have thoroughly trashed the original, bogus, self-serving narrative of what happened on January 6th. There was no “insurrection,” no “assault on our democracy,” at least not from MAGA protestors. Far from being bludgeoned to death, as The New York Times sensationally claimed, Officer Brian Sicknick suffered no injuries in the riot and died of a stroke. The only lethal violence was from an unnamed officer, firing through the neck of unarmed patriot Ashli Babbitt. The whirlwind of lies spun up around January 6 from the first minutes after it happened amount to a “MAGA blood libel”.

Only the silence and cowardice of Republican leaders can stop the above case from being made directly to the American public. The January 6 commission would be an opportunity to change that. And it will be easiest to do that if the commission does not squander energy on the riots of 2020. If BLM and Antifa are included within the commission’s purview, then the temptation will be too strong for the Republican members to focus entirely on that, and simply try to beat Democrats in an outrage contest. That would be a mistake.

Instead, a commission narrowly focused on the events of January 6 would give Republicans a chance to aggressively probe at the power structures of the Globalist American Empire.

They could bring in D.C. medical examiner Francisco Diaz and find out why it took him three months to issue a report on Officer Sicknick’s cause of death. They could demand that the FBI come forward to testify about its half-baked investigation of the Capitol “MAGA pipe bomber” for whom DNA and cell phone evidence apparently does not exist. Capitol Police aren’t subject to FOIA requests, but a specially empowered committee could demand whatever it wants, like all the video footage of January 6 that they are refusing to release.

In fact, the committee would also be empowered to specifically request the underlying intelligence that American intelligence agencies use to perform their work.

The FBI, DOJ, DHS, NSA, DoD, and other agencies in the alphabet soup of the federal government are overwhelmingly staffed by, controlled by, and loyal to the Globalist American Empire.

The FBI is all but openly bragging about using unprecedented surveillance technology to hunt down and crush glorified trespassers:

The federal documents provide a rare view of the ways investigators exploit the digital fingerprints nearly everyone leaves behind in an era of pervasive surveillance and constant online connection. They illustrate the power law enforcement now has to hunt down suspects by studying the contours of faces, the movements of vehicles and even conversations with friends and spouses. [Washington Post]

When the Mueller investigation tried to launch a politically-motivated take down of President Trump for “collusion,” it instead blundered into revealing the biases and criminal behavior of the agents doing the investigating. The same sort of own-goal is possible with January 6, if aggressive investigators send out the right subpoenas. These investigators could also probe the rapid, coordinated mass censorship wave that was launched within hours of the Capitol breach — a totalitarian crackdown that censored Parler, the U.S. president, and countless others.

For that matter, the Commission could be used to probe the killing of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Trump supporter who was the only person actually killed at the Capitol.

Or how about using the Commission platform to ask why there was such lax, even non-existent security at the Capitol that day? Who ordered the lax security and why? What foreknowledge, if any, did the Government have about an upcoming protest that might require some security?

Posted January 5, 2021

By all indications, Capitol Police actually welcomed protesters into the Capitol.

Properly handled, a full commission on the Capitol incursion can be a tremendous boon for America First conservatives, nationalists, and supporters of President Trump. A wisely-managed commission would make it clear that January 6 was fundamentally non-violent, and that from the very beginning the entire incident has been manipulated by corrupt authorities to serve as a blood libel against American patriots and justify stripping them (and all Americans) of their basic liberties.

But there is no need to stop there.

[Read rest of article on website: January 6th Commission is Coming … Here’s How MAGA Can Use it To Beat Dems at Their Own Game - Revolver]

 

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EXCLUSIVE: "It Was A Farce", Interview With GA Recount Eyewitness Who Wants a Real Hand Audit | The Gateway Pundit | by Kari Donovan

The people of Georgia are not happy about the lack of transparency in the 2020 Presidential election or with the Nov.

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EXCLUSIVE: “It Was A Farce”, Interview With GA Recount Eyewitness Who Wants a Real Hand Audit

By Kari Donovan
Published May 22, 2021 at 3:51pm

The people of Georgia are not happy about the lack of transparency in the 2020 Presidential election or with the Nov. 27th recount in Georgia, and they want a hand audit that is more than just counting papers. The people of Georgia are demanding more transparency. The proof of this claim is readily available. GWP brings you another story of election irregularities from an eyewitness.

A woman, who has to remain anonymous to readers due to cancel culture, provided me with official GOP and state of Georgia documents proving she witnessed the recount of ballots in Dekalb, Georgia as a volunteer with the Georgia GOP.

She was sent the following validation of the recount process, which she says the election workers did not abide by, treating her and other workers as an annoyance. Even though she was allowed to be there by law, validated by the party to be on the scene, she said the election workers were hostile and refused to allow the watchers to be involved, keeping them 8 feet or more away from the ballot counting.

GA Training Materials – Recount https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/GA-Training-Materials-Recount.pdf

SOS Recount Procedures https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/SOS-Recount-Procedures.pdf

“During the recount of the 2020 Presidential Election workers were just counting the numbers of ballots, the pieces of paper, and I think they were counting stacks of papers more than once. We were told we were not allowed to get close enough to see details of what they were doing,” the eyewitness said. “Me and two other ladies kept getting pushed back and they both had the same reaction I had about it, like we were just wasting our time.”

“I am convinced something is very strong with the election, I want some answers,” she told me. “I am not a Republican, but I volunteered with the GOP because I was so mad about the election and I wanted to do something,” she said.

HER EXPERIENCE
The following is a complete and unedited statement from her about her experience:
” I have never been involved in politics or a “member” of any other party organization before. When I saw the Nov 3rd election go awry in the early morning hours, alarm bells were ringing loudly. The media is so dishonest that I didn’t know what to believe, but I wanted to get involved. I didn’t know how so like most I watched the chaos and sat by. Then when I heard about the recount I figured there must be a way to get involved. I Googled GA GOP recount and found a website to volunteer. I live in a very small town so I knew whatever recount happened here would just be silly.

So, I decided to volunteer where potential issues may be found, and I asked for the Atlanta area and was assigned to Dekalb County. It is approximately 2.5-3 hours from me depending on traffic.

I took the day off November 27th and without telling anyone, even my family I headed up for the recount.

I arrived when I was told to. I had to leave all my belongings in my car, even my cell phone. When I went inside they checked my temperature and I had to wear a mask. We had been given letters of approval from the SOS office that I presented to a lady at the check-in table. I received a name tag that each time I left the building had to be returned and then picked back up.

It was a huge building like an empty department store. There was a visitor viewing area roped off with tape. I was allowed inside the recount area where there were about 15-20 tables set up. 3-4 people at each table with a computer and a scanner.

One table had multiple monitors which looked like video surveillance. As I started to wander around and observe, any time I got within 6-8 feet of a table I was told to back up. At that distance, no ballots could be looked at and it was impossible to see what the computers were displaying before during, and after each scanned batch.

We had been told absentee should be completed prior to other ballots but only one table was doing absentee the others were doing computer-generated ballots. They were a different size. I think I didn’t push the boundaries because of the virus, not that I was worried but some people at that time were weird about it. I should have been more aggressive, I regret that.

I located a poll worker and asked her what was being done at each table.

She said they were counting the number of ballots. I asked if they were comparing the candidate votes to what the machine count was and she said no. She said they were just making sure that there were 100 ballots in each batch. I asked her to repeat that and then asked what the point of counting paper was. She said they wanted to make sure the number of votes matched the number of ballots. We had been told the votes would be counted not the ballots.

3 things that really annoyed me were 1. I absolutely was not allowed close enough to even figure out what they were doing for myself without being told to back up. 2. the workers were within a 2-foot distance of each other so I knew my imposed distance was not related to the pandemic. 3. All of the poll workers at the tables at one time or another had their phones out using them right by the ballots and I was unable to document it because my phone was in the car.

I spoke to others who had been monitors that day and the day before and they expressed the same frustrations. None of us felt like our presence was needed or worthwhile because really we were useless. In my opinion, it was a time-wasting sham and I felt like Raffensberger and crew knew that. It was so obvious that the whole thing was just for show.

Nothing would be accomplished counting paper but they would tell everyone that they had done two recounts so there was no way there was a fraud. And so they did. It really was a joke. It’s why people like me do not usually get involved, I mean we can’t make a difference so why bother.

As our country literally goes to shit we sit by and let it happen. I have friends who never see the news and they are happy in their ignorance. I want to scream and make a change but have no idea how. I think conservatives are too polite and it is time we got loud and let everyone know that they have been lied to and things are really bad. But what difference does it make? I think we have to reach out and white people need to connect with our neighbors of color and vice versa to let the world know we are NOT divided. We are all equal and the swamp is wrong.

I think, from what I hear in GA that it wouldn’t hurt to have a hand audit. There are so many questions that I think voters would feel better to know once and for all if the vote was rigged. We hear that counties do not have a chain of custody for drop-off ballots and we all saw them stop counting in the middle of the vote count. It’s that nagging thought that it might be a problem.

When Kemp did not call a special session on the original vote, me and many others felt like we weren’t being heard. I think an audit would lead to more voter participation in the next election.
I am not a conspiracy theorist at all but I am intelligent and I know that the election was tampered with I’m just not sure how.

 

[marsh]

BREAKING: New "Fold Effect" Finding in New Hampshire -- Could Impact Entire State Results in New Hampshire and Possibly Three Other States | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Earlier today, auditors in Windham, New Hampshire started testing if “folds in ballots” impacted the vote counts in the 2020 election.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

BREAKING: New “Fold Effect” Finding in New Hampshire — Could Impact Entire State Results in New Hampshire and Possibly Three Other States

By Jim Hoft
Published May 22, 2021 at 5:05pm

Earlier today, auditors in Windham, New Hampshire started testing if “folds in ballots” impacted the vote counts in the 2020 election.

If this is true then this could impact the entire state of New Hampshire.

** The Palmieri Report first reported on this earlier today.

The recount of the votes was very close to the hand recount from November 12.
That means the voting machines are confirmed to be unreliable.

Jeff Silvestro is the President of LHS Associates, Inc.
LHS programs the voting machines in at least 4 New England States.
Silvestro has visited the audit multiple days since the recount and analysis.

If the machines are found unreliable this new evidence could affect elections in at least 4 New England states.
Heather Mullins from Real America’s Voice reported on this development.

BREAKING!!
WINDHAM: Hand recount finished & #’s very closely match the hand recount #’s done on Nov 12. Windham voting machine election results are confirmed to be unreliable. @WAuditors still investigating causes & contributing factors. @RealAmVoice #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/Gc8hAkrenK
— Heather Mullins – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) (@TalkMullins) May 21, 2021

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