Another part of the Democrats’ post-Election Day strategy taking shape?
Two predicates.
First, the power of the legacy media this election cycle lies not in who believes what they say, but in the ability to bring “themes” into the limelight. The media look for allies that can provide them with the proper hook, witness John Kelly’s Hitler comment that was reported in The Atlantic last week. The purpose of the article wasn’t to inject any new, credible information. Rather, it was to give an excuse for everyone to talk about Trump-as-Hitler (again).
The second is the Democrats’ upcoming reliance on the claim of “voter suppression” and other irregularities, to contest the presidential election result after Nov. 5th. This was part of John Podesta’s ploy to throw the table and deny Trump’s victory in the electoral college in “Game 3” of the Transition Integrity Project war game.
The Democrats have been playing the voter suppression card whenever and wherever possible, essentially claiming that any attempt to clean up voter rolls, have standards regarding ballot access, or have certain requirements for mail-in ballots (like, actually, the ballots actually have to arrive by Election Day) is akin to the return of the KKK. Think I’m exaggerating? In 2021 Georgia passed its Election Integrity Law which required the use of voter ID and tightened regulations on things like mail-in ballot requests and ballot drop boxes. All Hell broke loose. Joe Biden traveled to Georgia and called it “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” in part because it banned outside groups from offering water to voters waiting in line. Georgia was also sued by the Department of Justice, the ACLU, and the NAACP despite the fact that the new law made in-person voting more accessible, through longer early-voting periods and increased funding for more staff and locations.
Just as Hitler would have been confused by the Democrats’ calling Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally (that was festooned with Israeli flags) Nazi, Herman Talmadge would have been confused by his old friend Joe Biden’s characterizing a law that made it easier for blacks in Georgia to vote as “Jim Crow.”
Well, look what was reported in the Washington Post today: “Justice Dept. to Monitor Elections in 86 Counties, Most in Two Decades”
The Justice Department on Friday said it will send election monitors to 86 jurisdictions in 27 states on Tuesday, the most in two decades amid growing fears of improper partisan influence and voter suppression.
Wow. So, did Justice just plan on doing this at the last minute, or was it a coincidence that the Dems’ favorite talking point just got a breath of life on the Friday before Election Day? The full press release from Justice is here and the number of jurisdictions subject to in-person scrutiny is a 49% increase from 2020.
Taking a look at the list of 86 counties:
1) Of the 27 states on the list, all six swing states are represented (Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada).
2) Of the 86 counties being monitored, nearly 30% of them are in those six swing states.
3) Those swing state counties being monitored include the largest counties in each state.
Of the remaining 70% of counties being monitored, some of them are ridiculous. Loudoun, Prince William, and Prince George’s counties are not only some of the most liberal counties in the US (part of the DC metro area), but Prince George’s is the largest and one of the most affluent black-majority counties in the country. There are other mysterious inclusions on the list, such as Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and Queens. To my knowledge there has never been a hint of voter suppression or improper partisan influence in those places.
You get the feeling that many of the counties on the list are filler to hide the real targets, which are the larger counties in the swing states. I already wrote about the pre-built narratives of voter suppression and violence in Maricopa. Would you like to place bets that the sudden decision by Justice to monitor elections in key swing states won’t also uncover all sorts of “voting irregularities” for the media to pick up on and report after Election Day?
…the sudden decision by Justice to monitor elections in key swing states won’t also uncover all sorts of “voting irregularities” for the media to pick up on and report after Election Day?
Of course it will. Their problem is that few honest people and no Trump supporter will believe it.
I recall again the 1991 press conference in Russia during the failed coup when Russian reporters laughed at the coup leaders- and also the recent occasion here on a TV show I don’t watch when the audience laughed when a guest stated that the media was unbiased.
People know they are being lied to- repeatedly, relentlessly, and stupidly. At some point toleration of this will end and people will cease to obey to the regime that hates them.
What happens then? Presumably the regime starts shooting. Unlike in the last days of the Soviet Union- where the failing regime was unwilling to shoot people or at least unable to get soldiers to obey orders to shoot- I get the sense today that our regime is itching to kill on a grand scale and also has been striving to get a military that will obey orders to shoot Americans.
Larry Correia and Kurt Schlichter have both written about this topic and I’m not going to top them.
But my guess is that they’ll get away with a few times and then people will start shooting back.
Interesting times, etc.
Here is a question — What would have to happen for you to have confidence that published election results accurately reflected the votes of the citizens?
There are a few obvious things — like voting machine software being open-source; same evidence of identity for voting as is required for getting on a plane; and in-person voting only.
Other things could include simplifying the ballot — voting for Federal offices in one election; voting for State officials, bonds, etc in another election on another day. No more complex two-page ballots!
To get even more pointed, how about following what Norway does with tax returns, where they list on the internet every taxpayer’s name and the amount of tax he or she paid. We could list on the internet by Congressional District each citizen’s name and whether or not he or she voted.
Of course, none of that will ever happen. Our “democratic” government lies all the time; we know they lie; and they know we know they lie — but they will not stop lying.
Gavin,
That’s a great question. The President of AZ State Senate caught alot of “election denier” heat for paying for a hand count of Maricopa ballots in 2021 which provided more confidence for me in the process – it showed it was at least partially adiutable and that someone cared. Of course it doesn’t do anything regarding ballots that shouldn’t have gotten into the pool in the first place.
Your suggestion about online presentation of whether people have voted is interesting. Voter poll books are public information, campaign purchase them all the time, and that information released in certain jurisdictions can (or perhaps all) contain when you last voted.
For me, reverting back to in-person with very few exceptions. I could be persuaded to do early balloting but only as part of a trade for all in-person, I like the idea of election day. If there is a need for polling places or more money to reduce lines to increase access, then the state (like in Georgia) can kick in the money to provide it. However only in-person
If you want me to have complete restored confidence in the vote:
-must show ID to vote
-encourage a limited early voting period (no more than 10 days); discourage mail-in voting except for an acceptable excuse- and I mean real early voting, not this ridiculous “on-demand” method some states use
-all mail-in ballots must have a valid postmark and be received by Election Day
-hire a non-partisan auditing firm after the election. Choose a random sample of ballots large enough to be significant. Follow up on every ballot and track down the voters- were you eligible to vote? Did you vote at the time and place and by the method your ballot indicates? How did you vote? Does it match your ballot? They won’t match up 100% because people are idiots, but it should be pretty darn close. Anonymize and publish the audit results. Sure it will cost, but you did ask…
While most of momnotmom’s ideas are good, I beg, please stop this “auditing ballots” nonsense!!
People are already disturbed to find their voter registration and election participation are very often public records. NOBODY is going to or even should support making their actual ballot traceable to them individually, regardless of what safeguards are claimed. That is the very definition of the cure being worse than the disease.
The primary focus on election integrity should come in three forms.
1) only eligible voters should be registered to vote in a given jurisdiction by election day. That means no motor voter or same day registration, and voter rolls regularly cleared of non-voters.
2) only eligible registered voters should get ballots and as much as possible they should be distributed and collected in secure locations. No all mail elections. Absentee ballots pre-requested and for cause only. No mass mailing absentee requests by either government or non-governmental entities. No ‘drop boxes’ other than polling locations or US mail.
3) ballots should be, as much as possible, tabulated in the presence of the voter. No transporting ballots to mass tabulation centers. No ballot interpretation or ‘curing’ (wouldn’t be needed if voters could spoil and redo their ballots). Create paper ballots that can be checked by the voter and retained as a permanent election record.
the Ministry of Love call it by it’s proper name, is what is involved here, and it working hand and glove with Marc Elias, the architect of the archipelago of fraud, not only in 2020, but going back to reinbursing the cost of the Steele Dossier now the overseer here is the head of the
of the Civil Rights Division Kimberly Clarke, cop killer fan girl
The Australian (secret) ballot makes the process of casting a ballot irreversible. Retaining a paper ballot is only a way to delay that threshold. It adds the necessity of insuring the security of those ballots between when they are filled out and finally counted (cast into the pool). While it would provide some ways to correct miss-counts, it also introduces other ways to falsify the results such as ballot stuffing, substitution and simple theft or destruction.
So the process of insuring an honest election will always come down to designing a process that works and then having people that carry out that process properly. This is the way it used to work most places. The process was intended to make the election integrity and transparency as certain as possible. Equating any attempt to verify voters with suppression is the exact opposite of promoting election integrity.
Wanna make elections 100% trustworthy and above board?
Offer $5k rewards per incident for the reporting of fraud.
All voter rolls are cleared, make everyone register again. Motor Voter is killed en toto. So is the Voting Rights Act; voting is not a right.
To register you have to take your butt down to the county office, in person, with state issued photo ID, which must match the person presenting it. Military is allowed to vote absentee, that is it. They must show DoD ID along with state issued ID to register as absentee.
Everyone votes in person, on one day.
No election machine shall have any capability of doing anything more than counting optronic scantron ballots, and spitting out a count ON PAPER. Ballots are kept grouped by machine. This count on paper must match ballot count, or the entire precinct’s ballot are assumed tainted, and are thrown out.
Any violation of chain of custody means the ballots in question are assumed tainted, and thrown out.
All polling places are 100% video taped, at all times, and every camera streamed to the internet.
Lastly, anyone currently receiving cash remittance from the government, at ANY level, is barred from voting until such time as they are no longer receiving such cash remittances. Allowing such people to vote is a conflict of interest. This would apply to me, as I am retired military.
I want voting to be difficult, and require some effort and thought to do it. I want to weed out the dumb, stupid, the feeble minded, and the people who vote for their paycheck.
I was working on another piece regarding the use of symbols in politics. “Voter suppression” is an unfortunate part of our history but the manner in which it is used today is more of a symbol fashioned as a weapon.
There is always a structural trade off between ease of voting and protection against fraud. The solution to that dilemma lies in social and cultural norms, what are the obligations and expectations of citizenship. The problem today is that notions of citizenship or civic duty, if not outright ridiculed, are thought that different parts of the population are capable of handling those aspects differently. That is some parts of society are capable of exercising proper agency to register to vote, but not others
Going back to 2021 when Georgia implemented its Election Integrity Act imposing certain requirements on voters (ID, modest registration restrictions for absentee…) it was raked over the coals by all the usual suspects as implementing as the 21st Century Jim Crow. However polling, especially on voter ID, showed popular support across race and sex for the Act’s provisions. In fact turnout is higher than ever in Georgia
Voter suppression, while part of the historical record, is not what it was and today exists more of a symbolic “bloody shirt” to be used for partisan purposes including Justice. The previous post regarding Maricopa with poorly trained workers and faulty equipment could also been as voter suppression as the case in Buck County, PA when making people stand in line for 6 hours – but those aren’t the people the voter-suppression people are looking for.
It looks like if the DOJ bothers to show up, they will be kept out of the polling places in Florida, Arkansas and Texas:
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/gop-led-states-federal-poll-monitors-voting-locations/story?id=115356555
The question is just what these observers are supposed to do. Given this administration and the revealed proclivities of this DOJ, my bet is intimidation. I wonder if any provocations are also being planned to give them something to “observe”. At the same time, three of the counties in Texas being blessed were Dallas, Bexar(San Antonio) and Harris(Houston). All three solidly Democratic.
Here’s Article II of the Constitution that covers the Presidency:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript#2
There is a steady cadence of events between the election and the Inauguration that leaves for either accepting the results from each state or dienfranchising an entire state. No time for any sort of re-vote.
Allow the steal (full stop)