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This Crisis Demands a Constitutional Analysis of Voting Machines Jeff Crouere

https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2020/12/06/this-crisis-demands-a-constitutional-analysis-of-voting-machines-n2581110

There are constitutional rules on how prisons are operated, how zoning laws must be drafted and what rights members of the LGBT community must be accorded; however, there are no rules regarding modern voting machines, as well as the hardware and software used to tabulate votes.

Clearly, some constitutional rules should apply to these machines because they control our most basic rights, which includes the right to vote and the right to have it counted honestly.

It must surely be considered unconstitutional for a municipality to utilize voting machines that allow poll workers to switch a vote if they thought a mistake was made. Poll workers cannot be allowed to hack into the machine’s hardware or software and reverse a vote just because they thought a voter hit the wrong button.

Consequently, the idea that there must be constitutional rules regarding both the hardware and the software used in voting machines is not far-fetched, and indeed, its implementation is now obviously long overdue.

Millions of Americans have been closely following the president’s legal challenges to the 2020 election. The reams of evidence the president’s team have compiled indicates severe problems with the hardware and software used to cast and count votes. The focus has been on several swing states, but the problems might be prevalent across the country.

It seems possible to not only change votes, but also to disregard votes and create large batches of phony votes out of thin air.

Our approach to election fraud is lunacy By Jay Latimer

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/our_approach_to_election_fraud_is_lunacy.html

Does no one really care about our country?

Nothing is more important to our rights as a citizen than being assured of a free and fair election.  If we can’t trust in our election process, are we really in a democracy or just a banana republic?

Tens of millions of Americans feel with good reason that the election is tainted.  There are hundreds of well documented anomalies including over a thousand affidavits stating under the penalty of perjury that significant irregularities occurred.

But we are relying on a skeleton crew of privately funded lawyers to try to get to the bottom of what by all accounts appears to be a massive fraud.  Why is this all-important effort left to a few brave souls and not the main focus of our government’s efforts?

Where is the Justice Department?  The FBI?  Why doesn’t the Defense Department do a review of military mail-in ballots that inexplicably went 100% for Joe Biden?

How about a forensic analysis of the tens of thousands of Biden-only mail-in ballots that weren’t folded and appeared to be on different paper?  Who rented the P.O. boxes used for tens of thousands of illegal voters in Georgia and other states?  Where is the investigation of postal officials who ordered carriers to throw away Trump mailings?  Why aren’t the poll workers who sent observers home and then illegally continued counting in the dark of the night arrested and charged?

More suspicious voting data arise in Virginia By Maker S. Mark

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/more_suspicious_voting_data_arise_in_virginia.html

There are many questions about the presidential election others have documented.  Virginia would seem to have been solidly blue.  Ms. Powell and others continue to insist they have evidence of something in the vote-counting in Virginia.  To further my personal mission to examine some of the data myself, I applied the same formulas to the Virginia JSON data that I utilized on the Pennsylvania data.

My goal is to find additional items that need to be questioned and audited in any state with discrepancies. I have calculations now that allow me to extract the vote total, the percentages to each candidate, and the timestamp in the JSON file.  I now have the ability to examine by hour or by minute the reported totals.  In Virginia, I found some items that I have to question.  I will continue to examine additional states throughout the weekend.

This is the first example of a data issue for Virginia.  We see the vote totals decrease twice over the space of 18 minutes.  The time stamps for the decrease are 05:12 and 05:30.  (Remember, this is the UTC time reported in the JSON files used by the MSM.)

Melissa Carone, Michigan election witness, becomes a ‘star’ By John Dietrich

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/melissa_carone_michigan_election_witness_becomes_a_star.html

Election witness Melissa Carone has had the courage to testify, and as a result, she is being held up to ridicule.

The Michigan House Oversight Committee hearings have provided some interesting information. Contrary to what Attorney General Bill Barr has stated (“to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”) and what the Associated Press has reported (“Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims”), there appears to be overwhelming evidence of fraud.  It is repeatedly asserted, “Claims of widespread voter fraud and accusations that Democrats engaged in a coordinated scheme to steal the election have been repeatedly debunked.”  The repetition does not necessarily make it true.

An extremely effective witness was Melissa Carone.  

Carone has been pilloried because she was not sufficiently obsequious when responding to our elite legislators.  It is claimed that she must have been drunk.  She appeared to be “slurring her words.”  Her past has been gone over with a fine-tooth comb.  She has a criminal history.  Everything is being done to discredit her except for an analysis of what she is alleging.  Her testimony is just dismissed.  

In defense of Carone’s critics, she does sound like a “valley girl.”  This is a dialect that frequently reveals a lack of seriousness.  However, a close review of her testimony does not suggest that she lacks intelligence.  It also does not reveal any slurred speech.  At the 6:49 point of the video Carone had to assist Rep. Cynthia Johnson find the word “oath.”  Perhaps Rep. Johnson had been drinking.  Carone’s major failing was that she was not sufficiently humble.

The chair of the committee, Matt Hall, asked her, “But why is that we’re not having more people come forward?”  Her response explains why so few people have come forward: “I’ll tell you why.  My life has been destroyed.  My life has been completely destroyed because of this.  I’ve lost family. I’ve lost friends. I’ve been threatened.  My kids have been threatened.  I’ve had to move.  I’ve had to change my phone number.  I’ve had to get rid of social media.  Nobody wants to come forward.  They’re getting threatened. Their lives are getting ruined.  I can’t even get an actual job anymore because Democrats like to ruin your lives.”  She is not the only person to allege intimidation.  

Citizen Website Calls for Fair Election By Don Tran

https://www.theepochtimes.com/citizen-website-calls-for-fair-election_3605984.html

Shortly after Election Day, a citizen coalition launched a website Every Legal Vote.

The website is uncovering incidents of fraud and their impact on the 2020 election.

Host of the Economic War Room and co-founder of Every Legal Vote, Kevin Freeman, says they don’t ask for donations.

According to Freeman, Every Legal Vote has been getting thousands of reports from people who saw that election integrity was compromised.

Everyday voters who witnessed unusual circumstances stepped forward, along with MIT statisticians, who found there was no logic behind the voting data.

Freeman said there will be a new report coming out soon showing the questionable method in which Dominion Voting Systems tabulated votes.

“It’s not the normal common-sense way that’d you say, ‘Oh, here’s a vote for Trump, we’ll count one here. Here’s a vote for Biden, we’ll count one there.’ It is a very complex, convoluted way for them to record votes, and yet it leaves open the possibility of changing votes from one candidate to another,” said Freeman.

Some of the reports have not been made public on their website because some people are afraid of retribution and some need to be reviewed by legal teams.

Freeman is asking for patience and for people to understand there could be nefarious groups trying to manipulate the U.S. election system.

Trump Proposes ‘Landmark Election Reform’ and Overhaul of Election Security Systems By Allen Zhong

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-proposes-landmark-election-reform-and-overhaul-of-election-security-systems_3606426.html

President Donald Trump said he plans to pass landmark election reforms along with a comprehensive overhaul of election security systems in the United States after the upcoming Georgia runoff race.

“After we win [the U.S. Senate], we need to pass landmark election reform including voter ID, residency verification, … citizenship confirmation,” he said. “They want to say, ‘He doesn’t have to be a citizen.’ You’ve got to see who’s voting.”

“It’s a disgrace that in 2020, no state in America even makes any real attempt to verify that those who cast ballots by mail are eligible and lawfully registered voters. The evidence of fraud is overwhelming,” he added.

In the November general election, widespread incidents of irregularities and alleged fraud have been reported, including where votes were cast in the name of dead people, across state lines, ballots backdated, and “glitches” caused by human error that switched Trump votes to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, rejection rates for mail-in ballots have been uncharacteristically low despite the record-breaking number of the mail-in ballots sent out by state officials citing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Etsy Bans MAGA Knitter Hats for ‘Harmful Misinformation’ By Catherine Smith

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/04/etsy-blacklists-maga-knit-hats-for-harmful-misinformation/

Many of the Antifa-themed listings are still available as of this article’s publication, Breitbart reported.

E-commerce platform Etsy that sells handmade, vintage items and craft supplies, says it is stamping out “harmful misinformation… from knitters making MAGA-themed beanies, according to Breitbart.

“Conservative author and activist Michelle Malkin reported that Etsy user “Deplorable Knitter” had her beanie hats bearing the “Stop the Steal” slogan, a Republican rallying cry against voter fraud, banned from the platform,” Breitbart reports.

“Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes crafters AGAIN. My friend Deplorable Knitter told me her #StopTheSteal hats have been banned on Etsy,” said Malkin in a tweet.

The hats are still available for purchase via Deplorable Knitter’s Instagram page.

Malkin, a self confirmed crocheter, wrote, “Here’s the email notification from Etsy: ‘Certain types of content are not appropriate for the Etsy marketplace. This includes content that promotes or endorses harmful misinformation, including items that can obstruct election integrity.’”

President Trump Persevered Trump’s policies and results over the past four years have been truly great. By Alex Zemek

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/05/president-trump-persevered/

Eleven days before Christmas, on December 14, the Electoral College is set to meet to determine whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump has the requisite 270 electoral votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Against steep odds, I pray, along with some 74 million others, that a constitutional path still exists for Trump’s victory.  Regardless of the outcome, however, the accomplishments that have been achieved during Trump’s first term are noteworthy and worthy of reflection. 

Even though the Left and the Washington swamp never gave him a fair shake, fabricated stories against him, and sought to use the U.S. intelligence apparatus to entrap him, President Trump persevered.

While the biased media will never acknowledge it, Trump’s decisive action to address the threat of the coronavirus saved many lives. Five weeks before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, Trump had already imposed the travel restriction on China to slow the spread and buy critical time for researchers to learn more about this novel virus. The Obama-Biden Administration had left the strategic reserve of medical equipment bare, but Trump used his authority and connections with companies such as MyPillow and GE to have them retool factory machines to manufacture masks and ventilators. 

On average, it takes a decade to manufacture a vaccine for a virus. Trump’s “Warp Speed” initiative unleashed the power of American ingenuity and a vaccine was approved and ready for initial public distribution in about 10 months. It was not socialized medicine in France or Norway that produced the vaccine, but the systems of the United States. 

We can already guess what slanders the liberal academics will write about Trump in the history books, but three things for which he should be praised, in addition to decimating ISIS, historic Middle East peace deals, and spurring tremendous economic growth, are: confronting Communist China, standing for the sanctity of life, and being unapologetically pro-American.

The Burden of Proof by Roger Kimball

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/05/the-burden-of-proof/

The faith in fairness has been shattered beyond recovery, and the assumption of anything like a shared consensus seems more and more like a naïve pretense when it isn’t just a cynical hustings gambit.

Many people, including some good friends, believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election fair and square. 

Many others—and I place myself among them—believe that something is rotten in the state of Denmark, or, to be more specific, in the cities of Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, not to mention Maricopa County, Arizona. I think what happened was so rotten that I regard the election as illegitimate. 

What proof, you might ask, do I have? 

Quite a lot, in fact, and I’ll get to some of it in a moment. First, I want you to behold the evolution of the Narrative about voter fraud in the 2020 election. At first, the memo came down and said, “There was no voter fraud.” 

On November 12, for example, the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a “Joint Statement From Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & The Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees” that “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” That’s from an official U.S. government entity—so game over, right? 

Not quite. The CIA and the FBI are also official government entities. Do you trust them? 

Anyway, stray ballots started turning up, analysis revealed massive statistical anomalies in voter turnout, the size and timing of votes for Joe Biden, and other irregularities. There were troubling videos of Democratic vote counters pulling out hidden suitcases of ballots after they kicked the GOP observers out of the room, for example. Another seemed to show one Democratic worker surreptitiously hand a thumb drive to another minutes before a massive influx of votes appeared for Joe Biden. There have been scores of affidavits attesting to voter fraud and scarifying testimony from witnesses who reminded their questioners that they made their statements under penalty of perjury. 

Weakling Squish Romney Pimps the Democrats’ COVID-19 Lies By Stephen Kruiser

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/12/05/weakling-squish-romney-pimps-the-democrats-covid-19-lies-n1192552

Mittens McMullin Ocasio-Romney-Cortez is at it again. This Trump-hating blight on the Republican party is back for another one of his “Aren’t I just the prettiest girl in the room?” eye-batting attention grabs in front of the mainstream media.

CNN:

Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Mitt Romney on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump’s leadership — or lack thereof — during the deadly coronavirus pandemic as “a great human tragedy.”

“Well, this hasn’t been the focus of his rhetoric, apparently, and I think it’s a great human tragedy, without question,” Romney told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” when asked where Trump’s leadership is as the President focuses on other issues amid the worsening pandemic.

“The extraordinary loss of life is heartbreaking — and in some respects unnecessary. Not all respects, but we’ve relaxed our standards as individuals,” added Romney, who represents Utah. “Some states haven’t had mask mandates, and from Washington we have not had a constant, consistent plan and plea for people to wear masks, to social-distance, to take all the measures that would reduce the spread of this disease.”

Since this was a CNN appearance Romney’s horrible hot take here pretty much translates to: “Won’t you please, PLEASE like me?” What’s most pathetic about it is that this could have been scripted by the Democratic National Committee. Had Willard said this before November 3rd it would have been an in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign.