Don’t go
insane. You can get mad, but don’t go mad.—Andrew Klavan
I was going to debrief our pretty good poll working experience, and then get on with the insanity. But this was too long. Let me just say, one of our new workers was pleasantly surprised; no one got angry all day. If you run things smoothly, you can avoid irritable voters—while preventing fraud.
There’s a long list of voting irregularities and outright
fraud in Harris County. Observing from afar, my lawyer son says, “Your County Clerk belongs in jail.”
But we’ll save that list for another day. Lawsuits are underway. But today, the
national election is more at issue.
President Donald Trump, Thursday press briefing
screenshot from here
Sharpie-Gate
One voter fraud situation I have personal knowledge of
is Sharpie-gate. We first heard of it from Mr. Spherical Model’s brother in
Arizona. There were polling places in multiple states that handed out Sharpie
permanent markers to use to mark paper ballots. Sharpies can bleed through, and
that causes problems for the optical readers. And the ballots get rejected.
A friend said online that, from now on, if it doesn’t come
from Reuters, she doesn’t want to hear it. No more news from friends’ Facebook posts or
blogs. While I question her choice of authoritative news, I offer my
anecdotal report anyway. When I mentioned this on a Facebook thread, I got
called out for spreading rumors from a friend’s Facebook post. But that’s not
what I was doing; I was sharing direct knowledge from an extended family
member, and I hadn't yet heard of it anywhere else. So to me it wasn’t rumor. More news came out later—so the attack guy
probably should have held his peace for a while.
My BIL took his marked absentee ballot to the polling place
and turned it in as his vote, and his counted; they have a place you can go to
online to check whether your vote is accounted for. His wife filled out her
ballot at the polling place, using the Sharpie marker provided by poll workers.
When she checked online, hers had been rejected. In addition, they have
multiple relatives around the state who had the same issue. Those in Democrat
areas had no problem; those in Republican areas had their votes rejected. It’s
a small sample, but enough to make them personally suspicious.
My SIL was able to cure her ballot (verify it and get it
counted) by Thursday morning, but at least three other relatives have not been
able to get theirs counted yet as I write this.
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| Arizona Republican officials give press briefing Thursday screenshot from here |
Arizona has a hotline for people to call and report when they have this problem. It looks like, at least for those complaining, they will eventually be able to cure their ballots. It just may take a while. And the expectation is that, eventually, Trump wins Arizona’s 11 electoral votes.
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Check your BALLOT STATUS HERE: https://my.arizona.vote/AbsenteeTracker.aspx
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IF it says “cancelled,” file a COMPLAINT HERE: https://www.azag.gov/criminal/eiu
Catherine Engelbrecht, on the True the Vote podcast, said
she first heard about the Sharpie problem from hotline reports out of
California, North Carolina, and Michigan. It was when the calls started coming
from Arizona, and then Nevada, that she realized it wasn’t an anomaly; it was
widespread. She said,
Now, there’s new details coming in on this. And as I said at
the top of this broadcast, this is raw, right, so we don’t have some of the
details that we will have throughout the day that will help glue some of this
together. But what we have been told is that there was a company, particularly
in Michigan, that was responsible for passing out Sharpies. That’s one data
point. Another data point, out of North Carolina was that some of the Republican
election workers—and you may have seen this in our Twitter feed late last
night—the authorities had the sheriffs called in on them, sheriff’s, law
enforcement called on them for trying to not use Sharpies, and using ballpoint
pens instead, because it wasn’t spoiling the ballots.
We’ll see how that turns out. But, yes, poll workers saw the
Sharpies were spoiling ballots, so they went and got ballpoint pens, and
someone called the cops on them—for making sure their voters’ votes were not
spoiled! I’d like to know who called the cops and what crime did they claim had
been perpetrated.
Mail-in Ballots
On Andrew Klavan’s show, he wryly headlined his post with this:
If only someone had predicted that mail-in voting would be a
chaotic mess!
Of course we knew this would be the outcome. The only
scenario that would not have worked out this way would have been a decisive,
unquestioned, fairly counted Biden win. We knew that wasn’t going to happen.
The multitudes at Trump rallies, compared to pathetically few at the purposely scarce
Biden appearances, told us that.
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| I know this was a misspeak, but we heard him say it and not correct it. image found here |
One of the main points of contention is the counting of
mail-in ballots. This is a new thing, special for this election. And they’re
ripe for fraud; they’re missing most of the safeguards of in-person voting.
Yes, there are a few states who do it relatively
successfully. They have a process in place, with years to have worked out
issues. In particular, they clear out their voter rolls completely every
two-year election cycle. People have to re-register or they do not get a ballot,
and their registration includes their signature. They have a system of
identifying that the enclosed ballot belongs to the registered voter who
received it. (Still, I hear reports of people I know who have gone to the polls
in person only to find that someone else had already voted in their name.)
There’s nevertheless a span of time when the ballot is “in
the mail” and could be tampered with, or “lost.” So it will never be as secure
as in-person. There’s also no way to have observers verify that the voter
wasn’t intimidated or coerced or influenced as they filled out their ballot.
That’s why absentee ballots are typically a last resort way of voting, reserved
for those who cannot make it to the polling place in person—not on election day
nor during early voting. It’s a courtesy for elderly voters and for active
military, so it’s usually a small, manageable number that are not likely to
sway an election.
But the places that do mass mail-in successfully do not send
out ballots to people who have long since moved, or died, or never existed, or never registered in the first place. In our county, where the county clerk printed
ballot applications to send out to every voter (because he couldn’t get away
with sending actual ballots to uncleared voter rolls) spent millions on the
printing, and then was prevented by law from sending them out to people who had
not requested them. Still, he sent probably a million. Some households got several
ballots more than the number of people living there.
President Trump warned about this months ahead of time. And
the experience of many places in primary and runoff votes showed they could
not—maybe ever—determine the outcome of the election in a timely and just
manner. The sudden use of mail-in ballots—especially without the legislature
putting safeguards in place—is dangerous and probably illegal.
The news media use President Trump’s warning against him,
saying he’s stirring up lack of trust in the process.
Not so. There is a fairly simple solution to lack of trust:
transparency. You have observers from both parties view every interaction with
every ballot, and work together to determine the eligibility of each vote.
But that’s not what we’re seeing. We’re seeing Democrats
thwart the observation. Purposely. Intentionally. Breaking the law by denying
access. (See video here from the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan.)
The Democrats are acting like people trying to steal the
election—with the added bonus of causing loss of trust in the system.
The President is resolute. I’m glad to see it. And he
explains it well. This isn’t about him or any other particular candidate winning;
it’s about us, the American voters, having our votes counted accurately.
Democrats keep saying “Count every vote.” Republicans are
saying “Count every legal vote.” It echoes the immigration fight: “The
Republicans hate immigrants,” versus the truth: “Republicans welcome legal
immigrants.”
Let me put it this way, every illegal vote that is counted
disenfranchises a legal vote. Notice which party is intent on disenfranchising voters.
Fox News screenshot, found here
The Suspicious Six
So, the Sharpie states seem to be among the suspicious six:
Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. [Other states,
including New York, used Sharpies, maybe without issues. I’m wondering about
differences in the paper used, or in the optical scanners.] All six have
Democrats in charge of voting. All six had President Trump leading or quickly
gaining—until around 3:00 AM (Eastern?) Wednesday morning. Then they stopped
counting. For several hours.
I can’t emphasize enough how odd this is. You don’t stop the
counting in the middle of the process. Ever. For any reason. I think it was
Georgia that claimed their pause had to do with a pipe that burst—far away
from the counting location and having no effect on it. Hmm. I’m unaware of any
rational explanation from any location. Then, when they opened up again,
suddenly there were huge Biden gains. As though they had just happened to come
upon some surprise boxloads of votes, all of which went to Biden.
I found this on Facebook, an unofficial news source, but I
think it’s well stated, by Jan N. Freeland:
How come the people processing the ballots suddenly couldn't
process anymore ballots at the same exact time in the same states in different
time zones? Did they all have their break times synched with each other across
the USA? Did they all have to go home at the same exact time? Why, for hours,
weren't any of these missing ballots being tallied up?
One thing you learn when investigating is that coincidences
need to be carefully examined, in the event of multiple coincidences happening
at the same time, which points to a non-coincidence.
What we are seeing now is a carefully orchestrated backup
plan; it is far too planned out to be a coincidence.
There were areas where, in entire townships, only single
digits of votes went to Trump—in areas where he won last time. I defy you to
find a voter who went for Trump last time but not this time. Let alone an
entire township. It doesn’t happen. It’s such a statistical anomaly that you
can say it cannot happen—except by voter fraud. Incidentally, during the
2000 Florida recount there were entire precincts without a single Bush
vote—except for some spoiled ballots that got thrown out. So, yes, we’ve seen
this before.
Also consider this, from Joy Pullman at The Federalist:
It would be mystifying if Republicans won more seats in the
House, retained the Senate, and picked up state legislative seats, all while
the same voters voted against Trump. Trump has solidified his support among
Republican voters and enjoys a massive approval rating from them he didn’t have
in 2016, and expanded his coalition to more working-class and minority voters
this year. This is not a blue wave year. This is a year that the blue wave of
2018 appears to be receding.
Yet we are supposed to believe the same media-Democrat
complex that fed us wildly erroneous polls all year, and runs false information
operations on us about coronavirus, the Russia hoax, and everything else they
can use to steal power, that this blue wave’s evaporation did not at all affect
the top of the ticket?
Something is amiss.
tweet from Mollie Hemingway
The Lawsuits
Our new State Republican Executive Committeewoman, Deborah
Kelting Fife, was one of the original members of Catherine Engelbrecht’s True
the Vote team. They’re the ones that taught me poll watching and ballot
security law, back in 2010. Deborah says that Catherine
has offered assistance in reconciling votes across the
Nation. Without going into detail, it would be a very simple process to
electronically determine the number of times people voted, deceased votes, or
felons, or illegals, or people that have moved out of the State, etc.
Trump wants to count every LEGAL ballot.
I know True the Vote is not the only group. If you have
evidence of voter fraud issues or irregularities, here are some places to
report:
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True the Vote Election Integrity Hotline or 855-702-0702
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Jay Sekulow, ACLJ Election Hotline
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Trump/Pence, Defend Your Ballot
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Brandon Straka, #StopTheSteal
Rudy Giuliani said this about the President’s lawsuits:
When these mail-in ballots that you know are highly
suspicious anyway, this form of balloting has always been considered the most
prone to fraud—that’s according to the New York Times when it didn’t
apply to candidate President Trump—well, we were supposed to be allowed by law
to observe the counting of the ballots. Now, observe means, to any
intelligent person, being able to look at it. The way that it’s interpreted by
the Democrat crooked machine of Philadelphia is that the observers can be 20 or
30 feet away, never able to see the ballot itself. Never able to see if it was
properly postmarked, properly addressed, properly signed on the outside—all the
things that often lead to disqualification of ballots, or make it easy to dump
50,000 totally fraudulent ballots, because they’re not observed. This went on
for 20 hours. While all of you thought there was some kind of legitimate count
going on here in Philadelphia, it was totally illegitimate.
Does it make a difference? It wouldn’t if people were
honest. So, yes, it makes a difference. For example, in Wisconsin, the location
of at least one of the President’s lawsuits, after a pause in counting suddenly
120,000 ballots show up. We have no way of knowing from where, or whether
they’re legitimate at all. Because observers weren’t allowed to observe. That’s
where they’re putting boards on windows so spectators can’t even look in.
According to Catherine Engelbrecht, even Democrat observers
around the country are calling in to complain that no one is allowed to observe.
Backroom shenanigans are being carried out. Vote counts aren’t just showing
gradual rises, they’re showing vertical rises in favor of Biden. That doesn’t
happen.
image found here
My Plan
Don’t give up on our beloved 233-year experiment in
self-rule; our constitutional republic is a gift from God, worth preserving,
whatever the cost.
Pray hard. Pray for God’s intervention in this darkness that
is too heavy for us to bear alone.
Pray that every single incident of voter fraud is uncovered
and made known—with consequences to follow. Pray for President Trump, and Vice
President Pence, and their families. Pray for those working to uncover the
voter fraud and bring it to light.
Pray that those who vote another way will see the corruption
on their side and realize it doesn’t represent their beliefs; welcome them when
they break away.
When you get up off your knees, take action. Spread the
word. Volunteer. Bear one another’s burdens. And be of good cheer. Whatever
comes, God’s plans will include you and your choice to serve Him.
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