On December 10, 2020, the Voter Integrity Resolution was adopted by the Executive Committee of the Grand Traverse County Republican. We want to be very clear, the adoption of this resolution does not in any way, shape or form suggest any doubt from the Executive Committee regarding the accuracy and integrity of elections in Grand Traverse County. Instead, the resolution is an expression of solidarity with our brothers and sisters statewide who are demanding accountability and transparency in our elections and to send a unified message to the Michigan Legislature that these concerns must be addressed.
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE VOTER INTEGRITY RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan Legislature, pursuant to Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2 powers of the United States Constitution, is vested with the authority of administering, conducting, and certifying all elections and selections of Presidential Electors in the State of Michigan;
WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in McPherson v. Blacker (1892) that, “Whatever provisions may be made by statute, or by the state constitution, to choose electors by the people, there is no doubt of the right of the [state] legislature to resume the power at any time, for it can neither be taken away nor abdicated.” This plenary power was re-emphasized and specifically cited (as herein quoted from McPherson) in Bush v. Gore (2000);
WHEREAS, widespread loss of confidence in the integrity of the election process in the State of Michigan, and the U.S. at large, threatens the stability, and therefore ultimately, the peace of the State of Michigan and the U.S. Republic at large; and
WHEREAS, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee, pursuant to our bylaws are vested with the obligation of campaigning, organizing, and fighting for Republican candidates and causes up and down the ticket. Confidence in the integrity of those we have helped elect is being called into question as we observe blatant election fraud being tolerated by those who appear to lack courage and resolve in the face of corruption;
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature exercise its Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2 power to withhold the certifying of Michigan Electors to the Electoral College until such time as a full investigation into the widespread claims of election fraud have been completed and voter confidence in Michigan’s election integrity restored. Additionally, any claims to the contrary that the state legislature does not hold this power under current state law must be completely and utterly rejected out of hand according to the United States Supreme Court rulings in both McPherson v. Blacker (1892) and Bush v. Gore (2000);
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature immediately initiates, and conducts, a full third party independent forensic audit of all ballots with the purpose of ensuring the transparency and honesty of the 2020 election and that all illegal ballots are investigated and that perpetrators of election fraud be prosecuted to the full extent of the law;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature make every effort to restore confidence of the citizenry in Michigan’s election integrity, by conducting a full investigation into alleged claims of election fraud;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature bans the use of Dominion Voting System and Hardware because of various “glitches” and ranked choice voting glitches discovered in counties across the great State of Michigan and states across the Union. Furthermore, any and all Michigan voting hardware and software systems must be required by law to undergo independent annual, extensive, ethical hacking audits with the purpose of finding potential points of weaknesses and require those weaknesses to be resolved prior to the use of the equipment;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature mandate a third party, independent audit of the Michigan qualified voter file to be conducted annually with the purpose of removing all deceased voters, or voters who have moved out-of-state, from the qualified voter file;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature complete a random sampling audit of Republican-dominant and Democrat-dominant districts with the purpose of ensuring that chain of custody remains intact during election day operations;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature pass legislation further regulating County Boards of Canvassers, by requiring all poll books to balance and for voter turnout to be less than or equal to 100% of registered voters in order to be certified;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature pass legislation requiring precincts whose poll books and ballots do NOT balance without justification must automatically receive a third-party forensic audit conducted by a bi-partisan team funded at the expense of that precinct’s election workers who permitted the unjustified error to occur in the first place;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature pass legislation requiring absentee ballot applicants to appear in their local jurisdiction with their state issued identification to request a ballot;
Grand Traverse Republican Party passed a resolution to remove Dominion voting systems from their county?AND IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, we the Grand Traverse County Republican Committee demand that the Michigan Legislature count every single legal vote (as ascertained only after a full investigation and third-party forensic audit of Michigan’s ballots) that was cast in the 2020 general election;
THE RESOLUTION WAS DECLARED ADOPTED.
Sounds like more money to be made with the firm. Paid in advance.Haider Kazim is listed as an “equity partner” at the Cummings, McClorey, Davis, and Acho law firm. According to Matt DePerno, Mr. Kazim has withdrawn from the Antrim County case, but his law firm will continue to represent Antrim County.
Sergeant Cox later responded to us with this:This was brought to our attention by another media outlet. The article narrative is not accurate. While the maps do accurately represent our flights, both times were the aircraft was on police calls that had nothing to do with the events at the Veteran Memorial Coliseum. Please update your news story”.
The issue, as I see it, is that the MAGA populist Republican party policies are aligned against the "establishment" policies: American first trade v corporate globalism; domestic interests and defense v military imperialism; vibrant middle and entrepreneurial class v monetary and tax policies that benefit and protect the wealthy; closed borders and regulated immigration v. open borders. The two cannot share the same party and the establishment has been persistently working against the interests of the other, quashing policies on migration, health care, etc.McCarthy next.
It is really too bad that Congress doesn't have an actual wood shed. I can think of several who could visit out back and be visibly improved afterwards.
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“You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit,” Clyde said.“There was an undisciplined mob. And there were some who committed acts of vandalism. But let me be clear: There was no insurrection. And to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold-faced lie.”
Yeh, sometimes the software gets uppityCan you fix the strikethru?
Dear Chairman Sellers:
I am writing to seek your assistance and cooperation in the resolution of three (3) 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.
I. Ongoing Non-Compliance with the Legislative Subpoenas
The first issue concerns Maricopa County’s apparent intent to renege on its previous commitment to comply fully with the legislative subpoenas issued on January 13, 2021, which, as you know, Judge Thomason found were valid and enforceable.
To date, attorneys for Maricopa County have refused to produce virtual images of routers used in connection with the general election, relying on a conclusory and unsupported assertion that providing the routers would somehow “endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, their operations, or the protected health information and personal data of Maricopa County’s citizens.”If true, the fact that Maricopa County stores on its routers substantial quantities of citizens’ and employees’ highly sensitive personal information is an alarming indictment of the County’s lax data security practices, rather than of the legislative subpoenas.
Similarly, the County’s assertion that producing the internet routers for inspection would cost up to $6,000,000 seems at odds with Deputy County Attorney Joseph La Rue’s prior representation to Audit Liaison Ken Bennett that the routers already had been disconnected from the County’s network and were prepared for imminent delivery to the Senate.
Nevertheless, in an effort to resolve the dispute regarding production of the routers, we propose that agents of CyFIR, an experienced digital forensics firm and subcontractor of Cyber Ninjas, review virtual images of the relevant routers in Maricopa County facilities and in the presence of representatives of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Such an arrangement would permit Maricopa County to retain custody and monitor the review of router data while ensuring that the Senate may access the information it requires—and to which it is constitutionally entitled—to successfully complete its audit. The Senate has no interest in viewing or taking possession of any information that is unrelated to the administration of the 2020 general election.
Separately, Maricopa County has refused to provide the passwords necessary to access vote tabulation devices. Its attorneys’ insistence that the County does not have custody or control of this information is belied by the County’s conduct of its own audits, which, if they were as comprehensive as they purported to be, almost certainly would have entailed use of the passwords to examine the tabulation devices, and it strains credulity to posit that the County has no contractual right to obtain (i.e., control of) password information from Dominion.
II. Chain of Custody and Ballot Organization Anomalies
As the audit has progressed, the Senate’s contractors have become aware of apparent omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies relating to Maricopa County’s handling, organization, and storage of ballots. We hope you can assist us in understanding these issues, including specifically the following:
- The County has not provided any chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots.Does such documentation exist, and if so, will it be produced?
- The bags in which the ballots were stored are not sealed, although the audit team has found at the bottom of many boxes cut seals of the type that would have sealed a ballot bag. Why were these seals placed at the bottom of the boxes?
- Batches within a box are frequently separated by only a divider without any indication of the corresponding batch numbers. In some cases, the batch dividers are missing altogether. This lack of organization has significantly complicated and delayed the audit team’s ballot processing efforts. What are the County’s procedures for sorting, organizing, and packaging ballot batches?
- Most of the ballot boxes were sealed merely with regular tape and not secured by any kind of tamper-evident seal. Is that the County’s customary practice for storing ballots?
- The audit team has encountered a significant number of instances in which there is a disparity between the actual number of ballots contained in a batch and the total denoted on the pink report slip accompanying the batch. In most of these instances, the total on the pink report slip is greater than the number of ballots in the batch, although there are a few instances in which the total is lower. What are the reasons for these discrepancies? For your reference, please see several illustrative (i.e., not comprehensive) examples in the table below:
For your convenience, images of the corresponding pink report slips are attached in Exhibit A.
III. Deleted Databases
We have recently discovered that the entire “Database” directory from the D drive of the machine “EMSPrimary” has been deleted. This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, “Results Tally and Reporting,” is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election-related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed. Can you please advise as to why these folders were deleted, and whether there are any backups that may contain the deleted folders?
The image below shows the location of the files known to be deleted. In addition, the main database for “Results Tally and Reporting” is not present.
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I am hopeful that we can constructively resolve these issues and questions without recourse to additional subpoenas or other compulsory processes. To that end, I invite you and any other officers or employees of Maricopa County (to include officials in the Elections Department) who possess knowledge or information concerning the matters set forth above to a meeting at the Arizona State Capitol on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in Hearing Room 109. Chairman Petersen, former Secretary Bennett, and I will attend the meeting, which will be live-streamed to the public.
Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether you accept my invitation and, if so, which Maricopa County personnel will attend.
Thank you for your cooperation on these important issues of public concern.
When inspectors received the boxes of ballots where the audit was being performed, the tamper-proof tape was cut on the boxes and the number of ballots inside the boxes was not the same as what was reported by the County reporter, and what was turned over to the Senate don’t line up.
Tucker Carlson: Do you think there was widespread fraud in the last election?
Mollie Hemingway: I think what’s important – It’s important to think about what happened in general. If you want free and fair and transparent and accurate elections, in order to have free and fair and transparent elections you also have to have a media that is behaving responsibly. You need to no have a society that engages in censorship.
And Democrats cheated. They cheated a lot. They cheated in every way theyYou need to not have rules of voting that make it impossible to detect fraud. This is why people care so much about how the rules are set going in. And so we saw this throughout the campaign, they would send out ballots in some states where people were getting six or more ballots sent to their house. They’re also being told that this is an existential threat whether they can get rid of Donald Trump or not. And creating permission structures for doing things that are quite radical. It’s a very complex approach but it’s absolutely important.
This legislation I believe is the most radical legislation the Senate has considered in the nine years I’ve been here and it is the most dangerous legislation pending before the United States Congress.
I listened to the speeches this morning. I listened to Sen. [Chuck] Schumer’s speech where he recounted this country’s shameful history of Jim Crow laws. And he’s right. Jim Crow laws were bigoted, racist, and disenfranchised millions of people.
It is worth remembering that those Jim Crow laws were drafted by Democrats. They were implemented by Democrats and they kept Democrats in power.
Now today’s talking point repeated in the media is that was the Democrats of yesterday, not today. Well today, the Democrats are doing it again. This legislation—to use a phrase that has been popularized on the media recently—is Jim Crow 2.0. This legislation would disenfranchise millions of Americans.
Many of us are referring to this legislation as the “Corrupt Politicians Act” … Sen. Schumer talked about politicians picking their constituents. That’s what this legislation does. This legislation is designed to ensure that Democrats never lose another election.
This legislation would register millions of illegal aliens to vote. It is intended to do that.
Election integrity revelation: Detroit bragged that use of Zuckerberg funding ‘created a new normal’
The Department of Elections reported that what it was most proud of in its allocation of its $7.4 million grant was that it "allowed us to hire more quality staff because we were able to pay them more."justthenews.com
Election integrity revelation: Detroit bragged that use of Zuckerberg funding ‘created a new normal’
The Department of Elections reported that what it was most proud of in its allocation of its $7.4 million grant was that it "allowed us to hire more quality staff because we were able to pay them more."
By Natalia Mittelstad
Updated: May 12, 2021 - 11:51pm
In Detroit's report on the $7.4 million in grants it received from the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL), a voter advocacy organization funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the city said that a new normal had been created with how the election was run in 2020.
"We created a new expectation for the public, because we significantly increased the number of ways [a] voter can vote," reported the city's Department of Elections in the CTCL grant report, obtained by Just the News through a Freedom of Information Act request.
"We have created a new normal in terms of how voters expect to vote in the City of Detroit," reads the report. "The funding structure established must be preserved for future elections. We are requesting grant funds for the current year."
The grant reporting form includes a questionnaire. One of the questions is: "What did you do with the CTCL COVID-19 Response grant funds that you're most proud of?"
Detroit responded that the grant funds "allowed us to hire more quality staff because we were able to pay them more."
The city reported that more than three-quarters of its CTCL grant money ($5.6 million of $7.4 million) was spent on the category "Poll worker recruitment funds, hazard pay, and/or training expenses."
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In response to a question asking what Detroit would be able to do if its annual election budget was permanently doubled, the report said, "We are requesting additional Grant Fund assistance for the 2021 election cycle."
According to the grant report, Detroit spent $160,000 on ballot drop boxes and $200,000 on non-partisan voter education. While the total of all three CTCL grants was $7,436,450, the report from Detroit rounded it up to $7,440,000 in its allocation of funds.
Chain of custody is required in elections in many states, if not all, to ensure that ballots counted in an election are properly administered and handled in a manner that there are no questions about the validity of the ballot. Every move the ballot makes is recorded and authorized.In criminal and civil law, the term “chain of custody” refers to the order in which items of evidence have been handled during the investigation of a case. Proving that an item has been properly handled through an unbroken chain of custody is required for it to be legally considered as evidence in court. While often unnoticed outside the courthouse, proper chain of custody has been a crucial factor in high-profile cases, such as the 1994 murder trial of former professional football star O.J. Simpson.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1392639353315233793Dr. Kelli Ward: The Democrat plan for reengineering our country starts with open borders and open elections. Forget the rules, anyone can enter our country illegally, and if you ask for voter identification or try to stop phony mail-in ballots from being counted, or try to stop those dead people from voting, well, that is what those Democrats call voter suppression. And at this very moment, while the hand-counting of ballots continues, there’s a lot happening behind the scenes and legal action is imminent… And now Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer has revealed in a letter to voters that he learned that prior to his term a breach of voter identification information occurred last election cycle and is now being investigated by law enforcement. If I were a Democrat I think I’d be in a frenzy myself.
Sen. Joe Manchin is breaking with Democrats and throwing his weight behind a more measured voting rights bill in lieu of the sweeping Democratic voting reform bill that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has labeled a top priority of the caucus.
The Democrat from West Virginia told ABC News exclusively that he intends to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a more narrowly tailored piece of voting rights legislation that he said he believes could muster bipartisan support even as voting legislation is becoming a flash point between the two parties.
The final version also tied at 9-9, which means the Senate would have to get a majority just to bring it out of committee for consideration. That makes Manchin’s opposition all but decisive, but Manchin points out that it wasn’t going to pass anyway:“I believe Democrats and Republicans feel very strongly about protecting the ballot boxes allowing people to protect the right to vote making it accessible making it fair and making it secure and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, if we apply that to all 50 states and territories, it’s something that can be done — it should be done,” Manchin told ABC News congressional correspondent Rachel Scott. “It could be done bipartisan to start getting confidence back in our system.”
Senators this week held an hours-long, dramatic mark-up of the Democrat-led For the People Act. Democrats are set to meet Thursday to talk about the 800-page measure, which would set national standards that aim to expand access to voting. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has vowed to bring the legislation to the floor of the Senate.
Manchin told ABC News, however, that the mark-up showed him that the bill could not garner the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate and go to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
That was the dirty little secret behind the Democrats’ demagoguery on this bill. It never had enough support to pass the Senate, which is why progressives attempted to smear Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema as racists for protecting the filibuster. The truth behind HR1 and SB1 is that they are radical proposals designed to federalize elections and roll back popular regulations like voter ID. It’s a federal power grab, almost as egregious as Republican attempts to challenge and block certified election results from the states on January 6th.“No matter what was brought up it was partisan vote, 9-9,” Manchin said, referencing the Senate Rules Committee’s even split on the legislation. “This is one of the most — I think — important things that we can do to try to bring our country back together and if we do it in a partisan way, it’s not going to be successful, I believe.”
This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, “Results Tally and Reporting,” is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election-related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed. Can you please advise as to why these folders were deleted, and whether there are any backups that may contain the deleted folders?
Here is a tweet with the files deleted noted:The image below shows the location of the files known to be deleted. In addition, the main database for “Results Tally and Reporting” is not present.
The senator also demanded an explanation for two other major issues that have arisen in the course of the Senate’s ongoing audit.This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, “Results Tally and Reporting,” is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed. Can you please advise as to why these folders were deleted, and whether there are any backups that may contain the deleted folders?
To date, attorneys for Maricopa County have refused to produce virtual images of routers used in connection with the general election, relying on a conclusory and unsupported assertion that providing the routers would somehow “endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, their operations, or the protected health information and personal data of Maricopa County’s citizens.”If true, the fact that Maricopa County stores on its routers substantial quantities of citizens’ and employees’ highly sensitive personal information is an alarming indictment of the County’s lax data security practices, rather than of the legislative subpoenas.
Similarly, the County’s assertion that producing the internet routers for inspection would cost up to $6,000,000 seems at odds with Deputy County Attorney Joseph La Rue’s prior representation to Audit Liaison Ken Bennett that the routers already had been disconnected from the County’s network and were prepared for imminent delivery to the Senate.
Nevertheless, in an effort to resolve the dispute regarding production of the routers, we propose that agents of CyFIR, an experienced digital forensics firm and subcontractor of Cyber Ninjas, review virtual images of the relevant routers in Maricopa County facilities and in the presence of representatives of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Such an arrangement would permit Maricopa County to retain custody and monitor the review of router data, while ensuring that the Senate may access the information it requires—and to which it is constitutionally entitled—to successfully complete its audit. The Senate has no interest in viewing or taking possession of any information that is unrelated to the administration of the 2020 general election.
Fann also voiced concern over “anomalies” observed in the chain of custody of ballots.Separately, Maricopa County has refused to provide the passwords necessary to access vote tabulation devices. Its attorneys’ insistence that the County does not have custody or control of this information is belied by the County’s conduct of its own audits, which, if they were as comprehensive as they purported to be, almost certainly would have entailed use of the passwords to examine the tabulation devices, and it strains credulity to posit that the County has no contractual right to obtain (i.e., control of) password information from Dominion.