In this Feb. 26, 2015 file photo, college students and abortion rights activists hold signs during a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, in Austin, Texas. The Supreme Court refused on Monday, June 29, 2015, to allow Texas to enforce restrictions that would force 10 abortion clinics to close. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) Eric Gay
GoDaddy to stop hosting Texas anti-abortion tip website
Website hosting service GoDaddy said Friday it would end services for the owner of a website that allows people to report suspected abortions, a result feared by the Left following a new Texas law that imposes bans on abortions after six weeks.
The law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which took effect Wednesday, gives enforcement to the hands of citizens, allowing them to sue anyone who provides or "aids or abets" an abortion later than the six-week period. Those who successfully sue an abortion provider are also entitled to $10,000.
“Last night, we informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and have 24 hours to move to a different provider,” the webpage hosting company said in a statement.
Texas Right to Life, the group that sponsored and owned the website, said it would put its webpage back up through a different host.
“Our IT team is already in process of transferring our assets to another provider, and we’ll have the site restored within 24-48 hours. Come back soon,” a spokeswoman for the group said in a statement to NBC News.
Many on the Left feared that websites such as prolifewhistleblower.com would emerge following the passage of Senate Bill 8, with Vice President Kamala Harris calling the measure "a bounty law" on Thursday, apparently referencing the provision allowing individuals to file suits against anyone who performs or who "aids and abets" an abortion. A lawsuit filed under this pretense can yield at least $10,000 in "statutory damages" per abortion.
However, abortion providers in Texas scored a small victory on Friday, when a judge granted a temporary restraining order that protected employees at Planned Parenthood clinics across the state from being sued by employees at Right to Life Texas.
The decision, made by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, does not mean the recent ban on abortions after six weeks will not go into effect but rather prevents anti-abortion activists from suing abortion clinics.
if the first word out of your mouth isnt AUDIT, you are the enemy
Election integrity was the esprit de corps behind the efforts of seven troubled citizens from Williamson County, TN. Their concerns over the November election motivated their actions–especially because Williamson County uses Dominion Voting machines.
Starting in January, they began to look at ways to make elections more secure in their county—with the hope that their efforts would someday be a blueprint for the state. The team calls itself the Williamson County Voters For Election Integrity (WCV).
Some of the team members wish to remain anonymous; therefore, some will be referenced by their function in the group.
The citizen team of businesspeople, a librarian, and IT professionals has taken a deep dive into every aspect of the voting process, end-to-end, pouring over materials, laws, and processes.
In May, they had the opportunity to meet Arizona’s state Rep. Mark Finchem for a few hours one evening. He had traveled to Tennessee for the express purpose of showing citizens that local action can change the way elections are run. He loaned them the watermarked, secure ballot he is now shopping in Arizona, which he calls the Arizona Ballot Integrity Project. It was a real turning point for the team.
One of the masterminds behind the Williamson County group, Kathy Harms, told UncoverDC that Finchem’s insights were critical. His input helped them fast-track their thought process and decision-making.
On Wednesday evening, with 9 months of inquiry and analysis under their belts, they held a public meeting in Franklin, TN, to show what they have found. First, they spoke about what they have done. Below, in slide one of the presentation, they demonstrate just how serious they were in their pursuit:
Reviewed reports about machines, ballots, voting processes, nullification of legislators and voting laws, court cases, Big Tech/media censorship
Evaluated affidavits, data presentations, documentaries, Dominion User manuals
Interviewed poll workers
Attended open meetings
Presented their findings to legislators, government officials, and the public
The goal in their undertaking is “to ensure that their county has in the future, a safer, more secure, comprehensive voting model that bolsters election integrity in Tennessee elections.” Their vision is to make their recommendations stick and model how elections should be run in all 95 counties.
They found several concerning vulnerabilities. They confirmed that the Dominion Voting Machines are vulnerable to hacking. They also confirmed that the security standards had been completely ignored. They explained that “current voting machines in Tennessee are required by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to only be certified up to 2005 security standards, criteria that were in place two years before the first smartphone was invented.”
Notably, the State Election Commission has committed to performing recertification on all five brands and versions of the machines used in Tennessee. The team noted, however, that recertification would not be enough to address what they have found. Frank Limpus, one of the team members, states:
A security risk evaluation absolutely needs to be done on both the precinct voting and registration equipment and measured against some form of the 2021 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG 2.0), first produced in 2002 by the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform established under the EAC. And the evaluation needs to be done by a bipartisan and independent citizen committee composed of data/internal/process control experts as well as IT/cybersecurity experts. This particular audit should be the compelling decision point on retaining or adding any voting machine vendor in Tennessee. Right now, it’s not.
Dominion/Security
They also found that legislators and government officials were overconfident in the audit process, which is weak and of very little material use. The team has found that many legislators and commissioners in Tennessee simply do not believe that Tennessean elections are at risk for fraud. Audits are not taken seriously in the state.
Harms and her team found that 70 percent of Tennessee counties cannot be audited properly because there are no paper ballots. The majority of Tennessee voting, they say, is done on Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines without paper ballots to verify the voter’s choices.
Counties with Paper Ballots/WVV
Blue triangles denote counties with paper ballots. Red denotes those that do not use paper ballots. 67 of 95 counties in Tennessee do not allow for a post-election audit of ballots.
The team confirmed that Ballot Marking Devices (BMD):
Can be hacked, misconfigured, or contain malware.
Create longer voting lines and are twice the cost of paper ballots.
Rely on voters detecting ballot error, yet only 5-7% of voters find and report errors.
Can show one thing on a screen and print something different
Voters do not trust BMD’s and do not want unnecessary technology in their elections.
An impressive part of their process was the detailed analysis of what they call “the front door” of election integrity—the data collection and maintenance of the voter rolls.
Dirty voter rolls have long been responsible for fraud in elections. A young, data-savvy librarian (MSLIS) with a decade of experience in libraries, information, and software development was in charge of that part of the project.
Among her recommendations were:
Check for transients, people moving in and out of the county more carefully
The change list maintenance program should be run annually
Develop better minimum voter registration software standards, checking for functionality
Data logic checks
Fraud detection and pattern analysis
Retain all refinement changes for two years
Look at county tax files and death records in county and compare to the Master Death File one level up
Look at Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for criminal records, names, citizenship status that would disqualify a voter.
The second step in the “front door” part of the voting process involves what happens with a voter at the polls. This is the step where precincts can more robustly secure the voter registration process. Things like–ensuring that voting takes place at precincts, not votingcenters, eliminating a need for an internet connection on the day-of-vote registration, and going offline where you can in the voting process to prevent hacking and security breaches.
One of the most important points in the presentation was highlighted by the librarian/data analyst. She spoke about the importance of Unique Non-Sequential Voter Registration IDs:
“From what I can see, Voter Registration IDs are assigned sequentially (e.g., everyone registering in 2021 are all one after the other when sorted by registration date) and have the potential to be reused (e.g., see a voter with newer registration date, but their Voter ID falls in sequence with groups of voters who registered several years before). This is poor design – both from a security perspective and a functional perspective.”
The team emphasized that local control of precinct data is critical. Voter centers are “not worth the risk that their convenience affords.”
“With all of the voter check-in online, it is vulnerable to hacking and real-time monitoring. [Nefarious actors] can do a lot with real-time monitoring. They can see how many people have voted, how many are left to vote, that’s a really important thing—as well as the specific people who did vote. That’s a lot of powerful data that can be used to understand who’s voting, how a precinct is voting, and to do targeted attacks.”
Some of their concerning findings on the voter rolls are pictured below:
Voter Roll/WCV
The librarian also stated that the absentee ballot process has to be tightened. She did not recommend completely removing voter registration software. However, she said, “it should not be online at all times.”
Secure Voter Registration/WCV
According to this group, a secure, randomized ID, watermarked-UV light-reactive ballot like the one proposed by Rep. Finchem is a critical piece in the quest for election integrity. And the ability to self-adjudicate a ballot rejected by a tabulator is key.
Current Dominion Optical scanners allow the voter to perform their own adjudication, eliminating tampering at that stage of the voting process. They recommended the cross-referencing of precinct tallies with county and state totals. It should be, they said, a secure process from beginning to end.
“Passwords managed by users must be unique, required change on first login, and if compromised. County election officials must “ensure sufficient resources/staff are trained to operate election system fully, without machine vendor presence or interaction with the system,” the team recommended.
Notably, in Williamson County, the Dominion employee was the only one trained to interact with the system, just as seen in multiple other instances across the country on November 3.
Election audits were under scrutiny by this team as well. In Tennessee, 70 percent of counties are not audited or auditable. Of those audited, the team says, only one of three process functions is examined. They recommended yearly audits of county election commissions.
The result of their research found that a good audit should, at a minimum, answer these questions:
Where does this project go next? Kathy Harms told UncoverDC that she hopes their hard work will be put to good use:
“The grassroots people want more confidence in our elections. We are going to be asking legislators and election commissioners to listen to their constituents and make the recommended changes.”
That would seem to be the takeaway from several recent headlines about the still-in-the-testing-phase technology. "Why self-driving cars could be going the way of the jetpack," read one headline in New Scientist magazine.
The suggestion here is that it's a possible technology and exists in some form. Still, because of difficulties, it has minimal commercial application.
A big reason for this concern is the investigation launched in August by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into the limited autopilot function of Tesla vehicles, which covers over 750,000 Teslas made since 2014.
Tesla Autopilot seems to have a problem with stopped emergency vehicles, and at least one case has allowed a car to plow right into one that was rendering assistance.
Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent a letter to the NHSTA calling for a "thorough investigation" in April after a fatal crash in Texas.
In August, the two members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee released another joint statement saying that the agency's investigation "should inform the agency's recommendations on fixes the company must implement to improve the safety of its automated driving and driver assistance technology and prevent future crashes."
Tesla has said the autopilot function is not meant for self-driving. The NHSTA affirmed that around the time it commenced its investigation. "No commercially available motor vehicles today are capable of driving themselves. Every available vehicle requires a human driver to be in control at all times," a spokesperson for the agency told the BBC.
Another reason for the concern is that those in charge of developing the technology openly admit that they're hitting some roadblocks to a broader rollout. For example, the Google self-driving car in development, which is the furthest along in terms of fully autonomous passenger vehicles, is the Waymo.
You cannot buy Waymo vehicles, but you can hail a driverless taxi in Phoenix, Arizona, if you have the right app. They will mostly get you to where you're going but occasionally encounter unexpected hang-ups.
For instance, regular Waymo rider JJ Ricks takes trips in the Phoenix area, films his travels, and uploads them to YouTube. A video posted in May showed the Waymo taxi getting stumped by traffic cones and blocking traffic for 15 minutes. Finally, a Waymo support person showed up and got out of the jam by switching the vehicle to manual.
The slow pace of innovation has led to the departure of Waymo's CEO, chief financial officer, and chief development officer this year.
However, a pair of policy analysts told the Washington Examiner that these kinds of setbacks do not mean that self-driving cars are, in any sense, over.
Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, said there's both a technology problem and a problem of scale.
"Computerized AI is still a long ways away from being able to see a moving object and determine, within a quarter of a second, if that object is a human baby or an animal or a plastic shopping bag blowing in the wind or some other kind of harmless thing," Davis said. "The human brain can do that easily and does so all the time while driving, but AI is still a long way from being able to do near-instantaneous object recognition in context and thus being able to make the decisions about how to steer the car."
There is a way to fix that, but there's also a policy problem.
"The way to get better is to do more experimenting, which means more test vehicles on the road under carefully monitored conditions," Davis told the Washington Examiner.
The policy problem is that the trial lawyer lobby, the American Association for Justice, had blessed language in a 2018 bill to make that possible but then reversed course, killed the bill, and created a yearslong legislative traffic jam.
Marc Scribner, a transportation policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, chalked talk of self-driving cars being "over" to the fact that "a lot of the public discussion of transportation technology is dominated by people who have backgrounds in the Silicon Valley technology world or tech policy world, not in transportation or transportation policy, so they tend to adopt unrealistic innovation time frames that might be realistic for the latest 'killer app' but not for transportation."
Scribner believes that there's "still plenty of reason to be optimistic about the long-term prospects of [self-driving] technology, even though the initial hype bubble has burst. There's also work that policymakers can begin today so they are adequately prepared for deployment in the future."
i think a ZOOM call where you hold up your ID would be better than absentee ballets. I tell Liz Harris, that we need a major pivot, not more wack-a-mole. Zoom call to replace absentee ballets would be just the ticket.
Arizona Audit
Chandler, Arizona is planning to test voting by cell phone.
The Chandler Mayor and City Council are moving forward with a mobile voting program that would allow voting by cell phone.
A Chandler resident told The Gateway Pundit “It’s concerning to everybody. A lot of us have concerns about the security of an election over the phone. We don’t really wanna be a test kitchen nationwide especially with the disaster of the last election.”
City council members approved a pilot program on Aug. 26 that would look into utilizing block-chain technology as a secure form of voting from anywhere that would allow more participation in election.
“This pilot program will help us identify the feasibility and interest of using this technology in future City elections, and Council believes this could enhance accessibility, increase voter participation and streamline the election process,” according to Mayor Kevin Hartke.
The concept would first be tested in a mock election later this year for a three-week period after the city’s bond election on Nov. 2.
State law prohibits voting by phone, so the Arizona Legislature would have to act to make this a reality on a larger scale.
One Arizona Legislator has already given a simple “No”.
Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke, who is either a raging RINO or a Democrat, released the following statement.
Aug. 25, 2021 | by: Mayor Kevin Hartke
August 23 Work Session Recap: Mobile Voting Pilot
At a recent Work Session, Council gave direction to staff to move forward with a mobile voting pilot program for a mock election. This program will utilize blockchain technology, offering a secure method of voting that enables citizens to vote from anywhere, with a goal of increasing participation in City elections.
Vice Mayor Mark Stewart has spearheaded this effort since 2019, meeting with County and State officials to discuss using blockchain to conduct elections in Arizona and researching the success other cities have seen in using blockchain for military and overseas voters. This pilot program will help us identify the feasibility and interest of using this technology in future City elections, and Council believes this could enhance accessibility, increase voter participation and streamline the election process.
If approved at the August 26 Council Meeting, this pilot program will run for a three-week period after the City’s November 2 bond election has concluded. Questions will mirror the bond election and will gauge interest in utilizing mobile voting in future elections.
As the community of innovation, we pursue smart, sustainable solutions that empower, engage and improve the quality of life for residents and that advance our efforts to meet the unique needs of the community.
To review the Work Session presentation and to learn more about how the mobile voting pilot program will work, view the Work Session Agenda.
Kamala Harris and the Dems have already agreed that people of color don’t know how to “find a Kinkos or office max” to scan their ID. Now, these people are asking them to understand blockchain technology?
Not only that, you can scan any document using a smartphone.
Voters are not experiment subjects.
Why do we continue to sacrifice security for convenience?
For our next item, there’s an interesting policy debate about the bias of big social media companies, with some conservatives abandoning their alleged pro-market sympathies and demanding regulation. Or even the use of counterproductive antitrust laws.
Libertarians, by contrast, have a very benign view of private companies.
Which makes them vulnerable to this kind of satire.
But when the debate shifts to defunding the police, libertarians have a more comprehensive attitude (by the way, this meme has a naughty word, so you have to click to see it).
This next item is very clever.
Libertarians are big on the idea of self-ownership, so…
Our final bit of satire touches a nerve with me because I worry a lot about a potential descent into Greek-style fiscal chaos (and, since the US is too big for a bailout, that presumably will be followed by social disarray).
So you can understand why this is my favorite bit of humor from today’s collection.
businesses do independent audits, so we welcome any, (never said by anyone in Maricopa)
With the anticipated release of the draft report of the Maricopa County forensic audit to the Senate team on Monday, two high profile Arizona officials have publicly submitted their “pre-rebuttals.” Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer hope to convince the public that “nobody stole Maricopa County’s election.”
“Despite the overwhelming evidence of a secure election and a complete lack of evidence to support claims of systemic fraud, there are those at the national, state, and local levels who dismiss the validity of these tests and refuse to accept the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Instead, they offer outlandish, unsubstantiated theories of fraud, perpetuating disinformation that continues to simultaneously undermine the results of a free and fair election and erode public confidence in the democratic process.
Embracing these conspiracy theories, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann pursued further review of the election in Maricopa County. Despite frequent references to this review as an audit, the exercise undertaken by the Arizona Senate’s Florida-based contractor, Cyber Ninjas, fails to meet industry standards for any credible audit, much less for an election audit. The Senate’s contractors demonstrated a lack of understanding of election processes and procedures both at a state and county level. This exercise is more accurately described as a partisan review of the 2020 General Election ballots in Maricopa County, the results of which are invalid and unreliable for a number of reasons, which are outlined in this report.”
Hobbs then goes on to “prove” that the state’s “multiple checks, reviews, and audits of the election confirmed the security and integrity of the process, as well as the accuracy of the results.”
Pre-election logic and accuracy testing, statistical post-election reviews, a post-election hand count “of ballots from 2% of the Election Day vote centers and 5,000 early ballots,” and additional post-election logic and accuracy as well as additional post-election audits “comprised of three separate audits” in February of the ballot tabulation equipment used in the 2020 election.
“Maricopa County officials concluded: ‘The combination of these findings, along with the pre- and post-election logic and accuracy tests performed by election officials, the post-election hand count performed by the political parties, and the many security protocols implemented by the Elections Department, confirm that Maricopa County’s Elections Department’s configuration and setup of the voting equipment and election management system provided an accurate counting of ballots and reporting of results,’” Hobbs wrote.
Hobbs then proceeded to disparage the Senate Republicans further, stating in a bolded heading that their “review” was “secretive and disorganized.” Under that heading, Hobbs supports the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ failure to respond to subpoenas. The board is under investigation by Attorney General Mark Brnovich at the request of Senate Whip Sonny Borelli. She also criticizes the auditors, led by Cyber Ninjas, for its lack of access and transparency—even though they have appeared several times in front of the Senate to discuss the audit—have encouraged bi-partisan participation in the audit, and plastered the arena with cameras that documented every step of the process taking place over the months the audit was housed in the Coliseum.
Hobbs also alleges lack of compliance with federal law stating, “the Senate, and its agents, including the contractors, failed to comply with the custodial duties to protect and maintain federal election materials”—all patently untrue.
Interestingly, the Maricopa Board of Supervisors (BOS) required that the auditors move all the materials to the coliseum despite Senate President Karen Fann wanting the machines and ballots to stay at the County’s facilities so that chain of custody issues would never come into question.
Hobbs’ letter dismantles every single step of the forensic audit process with painstaking detail, presumably to discredit any data that runs contrary to her beliefs about the results of the election. Richer’s 38-page open letter, addressing the Arizona Republicans, asks them to “build confidence” and “move forward.” He then proceeds to cite numerous Republicans and past Trump administration people who disagree with the premise that there was widespread fraud. In many places, he seems to parrot Hobbs’ list of election integrity measures. He also concludes that the data shows that “Trump’s loss was built on disaffected Republican voters.”
Richer also endeavors to prove that he is no RINO (Republican In Name Only), Communist, or Traitor, as “many in the Arizona Republican Party have called me.” He then continues to reminisce about his ninth-grade essay where he was asked “to write in support or opposition of public funding for the arts” and was the lone student to see how “stupid it was for the government to subsidize any private entertainment activity—after all, the government didn’t pay me to play Starcraft.” He continued, recounting how, “in college, [he] wore a black armband for a week when noted conservative economist and philosopher Milton Friedman died.”
He included text messages between himself and Fann arguing over who “put out” what tweet. Richer concluded that he is “driven by facts and logic, and the Stop the Steal movement has neither.” He decried the Cyber Ninjas team throughout, “highlighting the inappropriateness of the Ninjas’ audit.”
An appeals court on Thursday rejected the wishes of the Arizona Senate to keep its records secret. NBC News reported, acting presiding Judge Maria Elena Cruz wrote for the three-judge panel,
“Allowing the legislature to disregard the clear mandate of the (public records law) would undermine the integrity of the legislative process and discourage transparency, which contradicts the purpose of both the immunity doctrine and the (law).”
And in other Arizona news, Governor Ducey blocked federal money to schools mandating masks in the state on Friday. He also advocated earlier in the week for a parent’s right to “exercise choice when it comes to their child’s education and COVID-19 mitigation strategies.” The $163 million in grant funding“aims to boost per-pupil spending” for all “district and charter schools following all state laws and remaining open for in-person learning.”
Governor Ducey: "Our COVID-19 Educational Recovery Benefit will empower parents to exercise their choice when it comes to their child’s education and COVID-19 mitigation strategies."
On Wednesday, Ducey signed an Executive Order stipulating limitations on the government’s ability to require vaccinations for school attendance under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), reaffirming individual rights in the state.
A letter sent to governors all over the country by Secretary of Education Miguel Cordona prompted Ducey to say publicly that “the letter was weak and pathetic. Just like the Biden administration is weak and pathetic on the border, weak and pathetic on Afghanistan, weak and pathetic on the COVID response, and weak and pathetic on the attack on the Phoenix Police Department and Chief Jeri Williams.” The letter advocates for school districts’ rights to “voluntarily [adopt[ science-based strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19 that are aligned with the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”
On Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Raquel Rodriguez for election fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot. Each charge constitutes a felony under the Texas Election Code. James O’Keefe with Project Veritas, confronted Rodriguez last fall when he showed her their undercover video of her coercing and bribing voters to change their votes from Republican to Democrat. She said she was “asked to do that.” If convicted, Rodriguez could face up to 20 years in prison.
AG Paxton issued the following statement on Thursday:
“Many continue to claim that there’s no such thing as election fraud. We’ve always known that such a claim is false and misleading, and today we have additional hard evidence. This is a victory for election integrity, and a strong signal that anyone who attempts to defraud the people of Texas, deprive them of their vote, or undermine the integrity of elections will be brought to justice,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The shocking and blatantly illegal action documented by Project Veritas demonstrates a form of election fraud my office continually investigates and prosecutes. I am fiercely committed to ensuring the voting process is secure and fair throughout the state, and my office is prepared to assist any Texas county in combating this insidious, un-American form of fraud.”
A local news report in Austin, TX says that a 20-year sentence is unlikely, “In Texas, 150 people have been charged with voter fraud since 2004. 138 of those resulted in a guilty plea or jury conviction.” Most were settled with plea agreements, and only 24 spent “at least a day in jail.” The rest of the defendants “were given probation or pre-trial diversion deals.”
O’Keefe shared a letter on Twitter that Rodriguez had written after the release of the original video exposing her alleged criminal behavior. She says that she suspected something was amiss when approached by the Project Veritas undercover staff. Rodriguez said she “played along” with them because she suspected they were the ones committing crimes, and she wanted to “submit evidence to legal authorities.”
NEVER FORGET: Raquel Rodriguez actually had the audacity to write a letter following our release stating she was actually investigating @Project_Veritas and was 'playing along' in order to gather evidence against us…
Dr. Peter Navarro, the White House Trade and Manufacturing Director, issued a two-part report covered by UncoverDC on what he says was a “stolen election.” The report investigates evidence of widespread election fraud, including criminal acts like those allegedly committed by Rodriguez.
union goons (white males) stole the 2020 election. I will never again support thuggery.
FILE- In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, Myrtice Harris applies tape to a package before shipment at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore. Amazon’s announced Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, that it would raise its hourly minimum wage to $15. Those who already made $15 will get an extra dollar an hour when the change is made next month, but they will also lose two benefits they relied on: monthly bonuses that could top hundreds of dollars and a chance to own Amazon’s sky-rocketing stock, currently worth nearly $2,000. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
Amazon accused of compromising union efforts, workers explore new vote
A National Labor Relations Board official said on Monday that Amazon violated labor laws by exercising illegal influence over workers' votes during unionization efforts, recommending that the results of the company's unionization vote in Alabama be overturned.
The official recommended that the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union's complaints against Amazon be sustained due to evidence that the company was improperly distributing "vote no" materials while lobbying the influence of supervisors and managers on lower-level employees.
The official also criticized Amazon for its "unilateral decision to cause the United States Postal Service to install a generic unlabeled mail collection box less than 50 feet from the main entrance to its facility, at a location suggested by [Amazon] and immediately beneath the visible surveillance cameras mounted on [Amazon's] main entrance."
The location and bizarre design of the ballot collection box muddies the security of the election, and the union argues it may have convinced employees that they were being monitored.
The RWDSU celebrated the step toward a new election.
"The union had charged Amazon with illegal misconduct during the union vote in Bessemer, Alabama," the RWDSU said in a statement. "In a final step towards a formal decision, the Hearing Officer who presided over the case has determined that Amazon violated labor law; and is recommending that the Regional Director set aside the results of the election and direct a second election."
Throughout the run-up to the April election, the RWDSU complained that Amazon was suppressing pro-union sentiment and illegally threatening employees.
Now, with the sympathy of the NLRB, the RWDSU is hoping to overturn what they see as an illegitimate election.
"Workers endured an intensive anti-union campaign designed by Amazon to intimidate and interfere with their choice on whether or not to form a union," the RWDSU continued.
"Today’s recommendation is based on Amazon’s illegal tactics and shows how the company was willing to use any and all tactics, illegal or otherwise, to stop workers from forming a union," it said. "Workers now await a formal Decision on Objections from the Regional Director, which would include a Direction of a Second Election if the hearing officer’s recommendation is adopted."
"Amazon’s behavior throughout the election process was despicable. Amazon cheated, they got caught, and they are being held accountable," RWSDU President Stuart Appelbaum said.
Amazon has consistently denied intimidating or threatening its employees over the vote.
“Our employees had a chance to be heard during a noisy time when all types of voices were weighing into the national debate, and at the end of the day, they voted overwhelmingly in favor of a direct connection with their managers and the company," Amazon told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. "Their voice should be heard above all else, and we plan to appeal to ensure that happens.”
Immediately after Amazon employees voted against unionization, the company released a statement claiming that the election was a clear indication of staff's own disdain for unions.
"It’s easy to predict the union will say that Amazon won this election because we intimidated employees, but that’s not true," the tech giant said at the time. "Our employees heard far more anti-Amazon messages from the union, policymakers, and media outlets than they heard from us. And Amazon didn’t win — our employees made the choice to vote against joining a union."
"As has been our long-standing policy, the FBI will of course consider any tool that might be helpful to our partners," the agency said. "Please know that we will continue to do everything we can to help you consistent with our legal and policy constraints." (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) Eugene Hoshiko
Apple is opening a Pandora's box with its upcoming software update
Apple has announced it will install a program on iPhones in the United States that will persistently scan users' photos and flag those its algorithm believes to be related to child abuse.
Flagged photos will then be reviewed by humans to determine if they violate any laws. Once implemented, the measure will affect roughly one-third of people in the U.S.
Although the goals of this initiative are noble, its implications are dire. We learned last month that the federal government is actively advising social media platforms on what constitutes disinformation, sometimes even going as far as to single out individual posts and users for removal. Bear in mind, many things branded disinformation throughout the pandemic have turned out to be true.
The question is, at what point does an administration abuse this power in the same way Biden's has been doing with social media? Inevitably, someone will demand that Apple similarly abuse this photo-flagging capability to target things other than child abuse — such as, say, the lab-leak theory of the coronavirus or a news story about Hunter Biden's corrupt behavior. Or what if a future Democratic administration could designate the promotion of firearms as a public health crisis and tap Apple to suppress the spread of firearm-related imagery through its devices?
Don't say it won't happen — just look at what's happening right now.
Today, you can get banned on social media for having a view heterodox to the liberal consensus — for example, that males are men. The logical next step for progressive social engineers is to deny people with such opinions access to more important things, such as mobile phones or even bank accounts.
Even if Apple’s policy were never expanded beyond its original scope (which is unlikely), innocent people would still need to be wary of it. Apple’s algorithm, as with all algorithms, will be prone to generating false positives. Do you want an intimate photo of yours, incorrectly identified as malicious by your phone, to be pawed and pored over by strangers checking it? That is a brazen invasion of personal privacy. Maybe that's just the price to pay in the fight against child predators, but surely the above-discussed possibilities of abuse diminish its acceptability.
Apple is a private corporation and, without a government willing to stand up for consumer privacy, it is free to do as it wishes. But that argument no longer holds up when Apple makes itself the handmaiden of the state. As it stands, the only remedy people have to fight this kind of encroachment is to vote with their pocketbooks. Do not reward Apple for giving bad actors another tool to silence their political opposition. Just buy an Android instead — you'll get a superior piece of tech that doesn't come (as much) with built in spyware.
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1. cnn puff piece on fraud. 7/2021 2. nyt puff piece on fraud. 8/2021 3. AP called Seth, said they will debunk 8/2021 As microsoft v. Linux, first they ignore you, then they mock you, then they attempt to destroy you.
Mike Lindell told Brannon Howse today that he is pulling MyPillow ads from the FOX News channel because they won’t air a new commercial promoting his upcoming Cyber Symposium and FrankSpeech website. “I hope this is worldwide news, I hope this goes everywhere,” he said and shared his “exact quote” to media buyers:
“You tell them I am canceling all ads, indefinitely and immediately, now.”
We last reported that Lindell had added a $5,000,000 cash reward to his Cyber Symposium for “any attendee who can prove that this cyber data is not valid data from the November 2020 election.”
He said the event would be televised and that he wants it to be “the most-watched event ever,” but it remains to be seen what platforms will allow him to advertise the event and where it will be broadcast. The new commercial intended to promote the Cyber Symposium to viewers who Lindell says have not gotten the reporting on it, or the 2020 election, that they deserve:
“I couldn’t believe it. I’ve been waiting 3 days. Actually, 3 and a half days to get an answer from FOX about this commercial. What’s the problem? We’re advertising the dates, and we’re advertising to come to FrankSpeech.com so the whole world can see all the packet captures, everything we’ve got for this election.
They have refused to run that commercial for our country. The most important commercial I’ve ever done in history. You talk about cancel culture. Shame on FOX News. Shame on them.
I’ve been saying for a couple of months now, where’s FOX? They don’t report about the 2020 election, all the stuff happening in Arizona, Michigan. What about the evidence that was brought to me on January 9th? They won’t talk about machines or vaccines. You know what, FOX News? You can do without My Pillow. We’re not going to be part of this cancel culture. I’m sick of it and tired of it. this is an attack on our First Amendment rights of free speech.”
It’s not the first time, Lindell said:
“Back in early 2017, when I went all-in for Donald Trump after I met him in the summer of ’16 in a private meeting. I went back to Minnesota, and I told the press. They called me a racist. Then the Better Business Bureau, another horrible outfit in our country, attacked me. From an A+ to an F at My Pillow. Then two companies denied the ads… [guess who]…FOX News and The View. Of all the stations in the country, FOX News canceled My Pillow for almost a month.
Any journalist, anybody that works for FOX, should be absolutely upset that they can’t be journalists anymore.
Their exact quote was, ‘We love Mike Lindell, we love My Pillow, but we are not going to run this ad because of pending litigation.’ All it was was an ad telling people to watch the Cyber Symposium at FrankSpeech.com on the 10th, 11th, and 12th. This is to help save our country, everybody. We all need to watch it, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican.“
Lindell joined War Room with Steve Bannon to discuss the ad and FOX’s refusal to air it.
He said that the ad had been submitted to CNN, MSNBC, NewsMax, OAN, “all of them,” but that FOX News “was the only one that came back and said ‘we are not going to run this ad.'” He also said he has a list “about two pages long of outlets to call back” and says, “everybody’s calling me now.” Networks that approve the ad will start airing it tomorrow.
Lindell said he spent $50 million on ads at FOX News last year.
Lindell and FOX both have ongoing lawsuits with Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic USA and have been sent cease and desist letters related to defamation claims.
“Dominion, Smartmatic, and these guys sue people so that journalists and news stations can’t do their job. I’m not putting up with it… that’s the sacrifice we’ll take at My Pillow.“
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Today Jovan Hutton Pulitzer just released a message related to the 2020 Election results in Michigan:
#MICHIGAN MICHIGAN LEGISLATORS I have been able to secure the verbal commitment from a private donor to fully fund my PKAD initial Forensic Audit of every ballot in Michigan voted in the 2020 General Election. #ScanTheBallots #KinematicArtifactDetection #JovanHuttonPulitzer
It’s time for the lawmakers in Michigan to stand up for freedom and free elections that are fraud-free. Since Michigan politicians claim the election was absent of fraud, they shouldn’t have any complaints in having the ballots from the election audited.
Look Ahead America (LAA) released the final version of their “Wisconsin Report“ Tuesday. LAA Executive Director Matt Braynard says the report demonstrates ~157,000 illegal ballots in Wisconsin, while the margin of victory in Wisconsin is currently tallied at around 20,000.
An LAA press release that came with the report reads:
“This report is the product of the Voter Integrity Project (“VIP”), part of Look Ahead America’s Research Group. It builds on and supplements the initial analysis conducted by the VIP late last year and establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that the deserved winner of Wisconsin is unknowable…
This report is the result of countless hours of work by our research volunteers under the leadership of our Research Director, Ian Camacho. For their help, I am truly grateful. I’m also grateful to the many donors to this project that funded the extraordinary data acquisition and processing costs.”
The report begins by noting that the Wisconsin analysis cost $98,573 and offers a contextual history of its creation:
“Given the close margins across many states, Matt Braynard and a team of researchers commenced the Voter Integrity Project to run several experimental analyses. The team designed these analyses in such a way so as to determine if illegal ballots were cast and, if so, whether that number significantly impacted the outcome of the election.”
The project identified seven “tranches of illegal ballots,” only four of which were analyzed due to “time, budget, and inability to access necessary government databases.”
Screenshot from the LAA Wisconsin Report
During the analysis of tranche one, early and absentee ballots were found to be cast in the names of voters who were illegally registered to an address that is not a residence, such as a post office or private mailbox. These ballots alone would not have affected the election result.
The second tranche had even more significant findings. A sampling of voters who claimed to be ‘Indefinitely Confined‘ for the first time was analyzed, but it was determined that a high percentage of them were not. It is noted that in a case challenging guidance issued by a local clerk, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled COVID is not a condition that justifies indefinite confinement status.
Out of a review of 309 cases of voters newly claiming indefinite confinement, LAA claims 165 were not indefinitely confined, 17 were indefinitely confined, and 127 were unconfirmed. That ratio of ~9.7 to 1, when applied to the 169,282 Wisconsin voters who claimed indefinite confinement for the first time in 2020, resulted in headlines that estimate 150,000+ voters are illegally registered.
The report further states:
“In one case, we found a voter who not only illegally claimed indefinite confinement but happened to be the wife of a state representative who famously claimed in the aftermath of the 2020 General Election that there was no widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin. When Matt Braynard publicized this discovery of an illegal vote status on his social media accounts, she immediately locked down and wiped her social media accounts. Fortunately, we kept the records and a redacted copy is available in Appendix A.”
Tranche three is a group of 6,207 voters who had filed “permanent, out of state changes of residency” with the U.S. Postal Service “more than a month prior to the 2020 General Election.” LAA says these were found by comparing voter rolls databases to USPS National Change of Address database.
Tranche four contains 765 voters that were shown to be registered in multiple states and registered in the other state after their registration date in Wisconsin.
As a result of these findings, the report claims that the true total number of illegal ballots that a full audit would find is in excess of the margin of victory and that voter integrity reforms are in order. The report’s conclusion lists a series of recommendations for such reforms:
Encrypted, machine-readable thumbprint authentication of absentee ballots.
“Public Voter List Hygiene” —Mandatory cleaning of voter rolls that ensures the list of registered voters only contains legal voters.
Ban on “black box” voting equipment; requiring machines with open-source software design if any are used at all.
Appointment of a “Citizens Elections Supervisory Committee” that grants similar access of an election director to representatives of various political parties and non-partisan organizations.
Creation and funding for a “Voter Fraud” division under the State Attorney General that codifies standing for investigations.
Disallowing targeted contributions to election operations by private individuals and corporations.
We have reported on the similar “Georgia Report“ produced by LAA and their efforts to identify attempts to reintroduce portions of the infamous election reform omnibus H.R.1 into state legislatures within other new bills. We also reported when LAA initiated a major election integrity lawsuit against the Ohio Elections board for closed-door meetings about Dominion contracts.
UncoverDC has reported extensively on election integrity issues in Wisconsin, including Representative Janel Brandtjen’s May 25 promise to initiate requests for information needed to add a ‘comprehensive forensic examination’ to the ongoing review of the 2020 General election results.
Six states, five of them under total Democratic control, have imposed power consumption regulations on personal computers that effectively ban the sale of some high-end gaming PCs.
Seasoned gamers understand that pre-built computers are grossly overpriced and that building their own from components is more cost-effective (and often results in a higher-quality product). So far, the sale of computer parts hasn’t been affected because legislators are oblivious, but don't get complacent — they may eventually figure it out.
Moreover, these regulations make little sense in the states where they have been enacted. Washington state, for instance, gets 78% of its power from renewable sources (mostly hydroelectric). With energy production already so clean, individual power consumption restrictions do nothing for the environment. Their sole purpose is to enforce adherence to leftist orthodoxy.
The ultimate goal of laws such as these is to limit the activities of regular people as a means to achieve abstract climate milestones that may not even be necessary, such as the ban on new gas-powered vehicles that California and Massachusetts are aiming for by 2035. And if the liberals are willing to take our cars, there is nothing to suggest they won’t eventually pull out all the stops and go after our gaming rigs, too.
Even though there are legitimate concerns about the well-being of our environment, liberals tend to take their policy responses too far. With a growing contingent of conservatives putting forward more sensible, measured responses to climate change, the public, and gamers especially, have options.
Today is an amazing show, with an introduction into the state of things, a bit more information about the Arizona and Georgia voter integrity situation, and an interview with the amazing Senator Sonny Borrelli.
Please make sure to read the show notes, and share this interview everywhere! We have to support brave representatives like Senator Borrelli and the rest of the AZ audit team.
The final results of the forensic audit in Windham, NH, were quietly delivered to the New Hampshire Department of Justice by the Forensic Audit Team on July 13, 2021. The audit, which came to a close on May 27, was replete with controversy and left many Windham voters feeling frustrated, disenfranchised, and apprehensive that the final audit report would offer a thorough and unbiased analysis. Indeed, the final report remained in line with the auditors’ position before the critical event got underway. Ultimately, the auditors “found no basis to believe that the miscounts found in Windham indicate a pattern of partisan bias or a failed election.” The SoS and AG will prepare their own report on the audit and any resulting recommendations.
— Harri "scofield" Hursti (@HarriHursti) July 13, 2021
The Backstory on the Forensic Audit in Windham
As reported by UncoverDC, the audit came to life following Democratic state representative candidate Kristi St. Laurent’s request for a recount after losing by 24 votes. The recount results showed the four Republican candidates, each gaining approximately 300 votes. St. Laurent lost 99 votes on the recount, while her three fellow Democrat candidates gained 21, 28, and 18. The recount was appealed to the NH Ballot Law Commission, which held a public hearing and then voted unanimously to uphold the election of the four Republican candidates but requested an investigation by the AG’s office, which led to the passage of SB43, mandating the audit.
Windham’s Board of Selectmen chose the three auditors, NH’s Attorney General (AG) and the Secretary of State (SoS), who selected Mark Lindeman, Harri Hursti, and Philip Stark. Prior to Windham’s audit, all three publicly declared there was no credible evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.
As the audit progressed, the auditors blamed ballot folds from a folding machine borrowed from the Dept. of Motor Vehicles due to COVID-19 as the cause of issues with absentee ballots. They were quick to point out it was an issue isolated to Windham, with no statewide implications despite the fact Phillip Stark described an astonishing error rate ranging from 25% to 72% due to ballot folding. This conclusion didn’t sit well with the voters of Windham.
When the audit wrapped up at the end of May, the team had dwindled from three to one, with computer programmer and voting machine hacker Harri Hursti managing the audit by himself. Hursti, who remarked that worries over him working alone were unwarranted due to the security cameras, opened the voting machines and examined them forensically by himself. The day after the audit was over, Marilyn Todd of the NH Voter Integrity Group spotted highly questionable activity on photographs she had taken of voting machine tapes, raising questions about whether the machines and memory cards had been tampered with, as well as additional concerns over the role of Jeff Silvestro of LHS Associates in New England’s elections.
The Windham audit livestream was off again from 6:30 – 8:30 this morning.
Local resident Lisa Mazur confronts the auditors about it and much more!
In an interview with local station WMUR immediately after the conclusion of the audit, Hursti said the exhaustive investigation exposed no evidence of wrongdoing or manipulation of the voting machines in Windham. Hursti commented that he was perplexed by the influx of question-raising videos created around the auditors’ work, adding:
“Nothing today is showing evidence of fraud. Nothing today is showing evidence of digital manipulation of the machines. Right now, this seems to be a case of a perfect storm where so many things happened in order to have this discrepancy. It’s amazing how much disinformation and dishonest reporting has been spreading, especially last night. I need to have a second beer when watching those.”
Windham vote auditor @HarriHursti, summing things up after two weeks of exhaustive & careful investigation: "Nothing today is showing evidence of fraud. Nothing today is showing evidence of digital manipulation of the machines." @WAuditors#NHPolitics via @AdamSextonWMURpic.twitter.com/XlYysQ5N0r
The overall findings of the final New Hampshire SB 43 Forensic Audit Report conclude that the discrepancy between election night totals and the recounts in Windham can be attributed to “unforeseen consequences and misfortune.” The report blamed the vote count differences for the candidates—specifically St. Laurent—on “harried election officials,” and the folding machine borrowed to fold ballots, as well as how they were “ironed” after being folded. Ballot “ironing” occurs typically with a coin or a scissors handle and is done to further flatten the ballot. Describing the fold debacle as an isolated incident exclusive to Windham, they insist there is no reason to believe the folding machine was adjusted to create the ballot fold problem. The report points out that the 402-page New Hampshire Election Procedure Manual contains no instructions on folding (or not folding) absentee ballots.
Many people are asking questions about timing marks alignment. See page 56. We superimposed all ballots and the timing marks aligning. We superimposed the ballots in smaller groups to root out small number of bad scans. Timing marks are good. @WAuditorshttps://t.co/GA9CCFLkb2
— Harri "scofield" Hursti (@HarriHursti) July 13, 2021
The report explains that after “having accounted for why so many ballots were folded through St. Laurent’s vote target,” the auditor’s next step was to experiment with four “test decks of 75 absentee (scored) ballots apiece.” Two of the test decks were unfolded, and the other two were folded and “ironed” to “match the folds from November.” Two of Windham’s four AccuVote machines were used to count the test decks: the “school” machine, which was least accurate in the complete tabulation, and “machine 2,” which was used to tabulate the majority of absentee ballots on election day.
According to the audit report, which suggests state officials consider not sending out folded absentee ballots in the future, the difference between the two sets of experimental results for folded ballots “is most likely due to differences in how the ballots were “ironed,” or some other difference between the test decks—not to the difference between overvotes and erroneous votes.” The report continues:
That said, our test procedure was not designed to closely estimate the likely error rate for absentee ballots counted on Election Day. We could not hope to reconstruct exactly how the Windham ballots were ironed (although the microscopic comparison indicates that we are not far off), nor the effects of being mailed, flattened during voting, refolded, mailed again, opened, and perhaps manually flattened before being scanned.
Meanwhile, despite the predictable final results of the forensic audit, voters from Windham and across New Hampshire are undeterred in their crusade for Election Integrity. Last week, the Government Integrity Project had a massive win in the town of Danville. The group united together and used their voices to flip the balance of the Danville Select Board from progressive to conservative. With just a few weeks to organize and run a campaign, the group picked a write-in candidate to oppose a select board member—who is also a school board member—who, not long ago, had a Sunday School teacher arrested at a school board meeting for not wearing a mask, despite her medical exemption. Lisa Mazur said of the victory:
“We are over the moon! This is how our civil rights process should work. We The People used our voices and it was a beautiful thing to be a part of and watch! The election of Scott Borucki flipped the composition of the Danville Select Board from progressive to conservative. That is the true meaning of success!”
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The state of Georgia has election integrity on its mind as multiple parties push for hearings and investigations of alleged fraud in the 2020 General Election. Several of the cases involve Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero. On Monday, Mike Daugherty’s lawsuit on the January Senate run-off election will be heard by Judge Amero.
As reported by UncoverDC, Mike Daugherty filed the lawsuit in January asking for the run-off to be nullified because of the alleged election fraud in Georgia. Judge Amero granted a motion to unseal and inspect Fulton County Absentee Ballots from the 2020 election.
BREAKING: Judge Brian Amero has granted a motion to unseal and inspect Fulton County Absentee Ballots from the 2020 election.
This is a big step toward restoring transparency and confidence in our elections.
The complaint that sought to examine 147,000 absentee ballots was filed by nine Georgia voters who alleged that “counterfeit ballots were counted and some ballots were counted multiple times in Fulton County.” The effort was led by attorneys Bob Cheeley and Todd Harding who argued, “that their client’s rights were violated because fraud led to a dilution of their votes and that similar violations will likely happen in future elections.”
On June 24, Judge Amero “left in placea previous order requiring the county to produce digital images of absentee ballots and other election records that are public documents under the Georgia Open Records Act.” Amero dismissed some parts of the case. The Cheeley lawsuit is also the case from which the subpoenas were issued for testimony from Ruby Freeman and daughter Shaye for their alleged part in the famous late election night suitcases of ballots caper. Those depositions were delayed on June 10.
Daugherty Senate Run-off Lawsuit
Originally filed in Fulton County, Daugherty moved the case to Henry county for strategic reasons. Daugherty made plans to file the case in November because it is extraordinarily difficult to get courts to hear election cases because of their reluctance to interfere in the business of the people. In an interview on the John Frederick’s show on Thursday, Daugherty explained his thinking:
“As we have witnessed, election law is very difficult to adjudicate and enforce around the country. You essentially have days, not weeks not months, to bring your case and I think that’s because the judiciary does not want everyone suing the heck out of each other. Still then, [who’s ever] elected ends up having their time all in court fighting frivolous litigation lawsuits…we had the luxury of the runoff because…essentially you have five days from when it’s certified [to file].”
The case is not a federal case, nor is it about Trump. Daugherty explained that he has been laying low since January because he wanted to allow cases like Garland Favorito’s to work through the system to bring evidence to light. Daugherty explained:
“[The reason] this case is such a big deal is because if we win, we go back to red in the Senate. We don’t believe that Purdue should even have had a run-off and we really don’t believe either one [should have had one]…the point is, regardless, we want transparency and we want the law followed.”
“I really think the senate’s red at a minimum,” Daugherty continued, “I’m appalled at people that just want us to whistle past the graveyard. We got out of Fulton County and got Judge Amero because when you sue a county, the judges in that county have to refer the case up, but this case isn’t about just Fulton County. We’ve sued Coffee County, we’ve sued DeKalb county, and, just yesterday, we added Cobb County.”
The suit has garnered the attention of the big guns law firm Perkins Coie; attention Daugherty wears as a badge of honor. “Perkins Coie parachuted into our case, so we know that it’s serious to them.” Daugherty declared that his objective on Monday is to “avoid a motion to dismiss and to keep it within the four corners of the law.” Daugherty has been adamant that he does not want to politicize the case.
Daugherty will move on Monday to have the law firm removed from the case because they have been sanctioned in a Federal court in Texas for failure to disclose a previous denial in a “straight-ticket voting” case.
Daugherty is moving to have them removed from the case bc they have been sanctioned by the Federal Court in TX.
The case will be heard Monday afternoon in Judge Amero's court.
Daugherty believes that the runoff should be done over. Georgia has shown multiple irregularities and violations of election law. In early July, reporting by The Federalist showed that “more than 10,300 illegal votes were cast in Georgia in the November 2020 general election—a number that will continue to rise over the next several months, potentially exceeding the 12,670 votes that separated Joe Biden and Donald Trump.”
The irony is that, per reporting by Margot Cleveland of the Federalist on Friday, Georgia voters had attempted to present to:
“Fulton County officials in July of 2020 a list of 16,000 voters on the voting roll for the county who no longer lived in the county. Ray Smith III, who represented the state House caucus in these efforts, told me that at first, the county ignored the request and then officials claimed they were too busy to address the challenges before the election.”
“Smith then filed suit against Fulton County, and presented the court with evidence establishing the registered voters had permanently moved, including, among other things, affidavits from the current residents at the addresses of the registered voters that attested, under oath, the person registered to vote at that address did not live there. But in September of 2020, the judge who heard the case ruled it was too close to the election to resolve the challenges.”
Other Ongoing Georgia Election Integrity Business
On Thursday, Senator Burt Jones formally requested an investigation by the Georgia Senate “into the numerous and documented failures of Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger leading up to the November 2020 election.” It is rumored, Jones is prepared to jump into the race for lieutenant governor with former President Trump’s announcement that he would not endorse Senator Butch Miller because of his “refusal to work with other Senate Republicans on voter fraud and other irregularities in the state.”
Today, I called for the Senate Government Oversight Committee to investigate Secretary of State Raffensperger’s numerous documented failures during the 2020 election.
Fulton County, GA Chairman Robb Pitts “fired back” at SoS Raffensberger over his call for Pitts to resign from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.
“I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that within Fulton County, Georgia, there was no hanky panky whatsoever with respect to the recent election,” Chairman Pitts said. “I challenge anyone from the president of the united states, his office representatives, secretary of state of state of Georgia’s office to come forward with any proof they have that would contradict what I’m saying. I’ve said before and I’ll say again here today as loudly as I can, either put up or shut up.”
On Thursday, GA House Speaker David Ralston called for an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation into the election fraud in Georgia. Friday’s Georgia Record reminded readers that “this is the same Speaker Ralston who prevented a special session from being called during November’s coup.”
Tucker Carlson’s July 14 show highlighted “meaningful voter fraud” in Fulton County, Georgia, referencing Garland Favorito’s VoterGA findings, good news for those who are concerned with election integrity since Fox News has been relatively quiet about the November 2020 election since its now-famous reluctance to call the Arizona election on November 3. Carlson shows footage of a woman allegedly rerunning ballots through a tabulation machine in Fulton County, bolstering Favorito’s claims in his press conference of duplicate ballots being counted.
Everything we have alleged for so looking is now becoming common knowledge.
SoS Raffensberger has adamantly contended that there was no fraud in Cobb County as allegedly evidenced by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations signature audit of absentee ballots completed in December. The sampling audit was the first of its kind in Georgia. However, Dr. Kandiss Taylor, who is running for Governor, contends there is significant fraud in the County.
At 34 minutes in the interview below, Taylor speaks about the Cobb County election, among other things. She uses the Georgia SoS website to explain that “there are only 703 batch sheets published [from the risk-limiting audit]. The batch sheets should be the same number as the audit board batch sheets. They are not. There are still 4493 batch sheets missing. That means 253,663 ballots are missing or not documented in the audit,” according to her interpretation of the data on the website.
Taylor has been working on securing a full forensic audit for the state. On her Facebook page, Taylor has taken a deep dive into the publicly released ballot images and showed evidence of scanning the same ballot multiple times. She served Governor Kemp in person to demand a forensic audit in Fulton and Chatham counties. Taylor says she just wants every “legal voter to vote one time.”
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A new press release posted by Garland Favorito of VoterGA unveils “stunning claims” of election fraud that have been added to a 27-page amended complaint filed by VoterGA on June 13. The claims allege “new evidence from public records that show Fulton County’s hand count audit of the November 3rd, 2020 election was riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.”
Favorito was a Fulton County tabulation observer for the 2020 General Election. He asserts having detected an abnormal 20,000 vote increase for candidate Joe Biden and an “apparent abnormal reduction” in votes for Donald J. Trump.
Using ballot images from Fulton County that were made public after Favorito and the other petitioners won a court order on April 13, the team now claims to reveal astounding error rates and falsified audit tally sheets, among other irregularities.
“The team’s analysis revealed that 923 of 1539 mail-in ballot batch files contained votes incorrectly reported in Fulton’s official November 3rd, 2020 results. These inaccuracies are due to discrepancies in votes for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and total votes cast compared to their reported audit totals for respective batches. Thus, the error reporting rate in Fulton’s hand count audit is a whopping 60%.”
Illicit votes were found because of “at least 36 batches of mail-in ballots with 4,255 total extra votes” that were redundantly added to Fulton county audit counts.
Per the press release, the falsified audit tally sheets contained “fabricated vote totals for their respective batches.”
Fulton County/Falsified Tally SheetsFulton County Falsified Tally Sheets
100,000 tally sheets were missing until February, way “after the results were published for the full hand count conducted by the office of the Secretary of State.”DropBox forms were missing, as reported by Laura Baigert, a Star-News network investigative reporter. About 5000 ballots still do not have proof of chain of custody.
There were also “200 Fulton County mail-in ballot images containing votes not included in the hand count audit.” There is also evidence that batches of ballots were scanned in several times, contrary to what voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling has been saying.
— Heather Mullins – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) (@TalkMullins) July 13, 2021
Other Georgia Counties are also being reported for irregularities. Cobb County reported a “total of 7,705 missing votes in the county” per the Gateway Pundit (TGP) on June 7.
The votes are missing because the Cobb County elections director failed to provide the “missing tabulation tapes from two advanced voting precincts that support the election certification results to the auditing team. Because this Election Director has already overwritten the memory cards, the missing tabulation tapes cannot be recreated.”
The election was certified without the tabulation tape records.
Cobb County/Tabulation Tapes Missing/TGP
Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Kandiss Taylor has reported having identified over 168,000 ballots in Cobb County, Georgia missing “required chain of custody documentation,” per reporting by TGP. Taylor claims that there is “sufficient evidence of process violations and malfeasance that would be adequate to place in doubt the results of the presidential election.”
Taylor referenced a report from Cobb County written by the Tennessee Star in December. She also released new information claiming that the Cobb County “Elections Director had data drives with election data taken to a separate location and printed tabulation tapes from a different machine.”
As reported by TGP, Taylor stated the following:
Press Release/Via TGP/Kandiss Taylor
Taylor appeared with Marcus Dee to expose election integrity issues in Georgia and called for a full forensic audit in the state.
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of course I cant find it now, but 7/12/2021 rumble had an excellent interview with Powell by a guy called TheProfessor.
NOTE TO READER: Notwithstanding the attention the Washington Post has lavished on me of late (e.g., their recent piece “Inside the shadow reality world promoting the lie that the presidential election was stolen”, June 24, 2021, on top of numerous other mentions since the election), the WaPo has declined to practice “right-of-response journalism” and publish this. So I will, here.
I welcome Washington Post’s recent exercise in Election Fraud Denial, “Inside the ‘shadow reality world’ promoting the lie that the presidential election was stolen”. It displays the same fallacy marring legacy media (and for that matter, the education of humanities majors under 40): “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so” (as Twain put it). Thus from the headline forward it leaves an honest reader asking, “But why do you assert this?” Yet it is ably-reported and well-written, and has budged the permitted narrative a few inches towards truth. In addition, Emma Brown was courteous, professional, and a pleasure to work with, and that is rare these days.
Here are three places where Emma has inched towards the truth.
· Rather than strictly adhering to the Party Line (≈ Byrne claims the election was stolen but experts dismiss his accusations), Emma distinguishes herself merely by noting that I reply that the experts’ dismissals are “facile bromides” that do not account for the data. For the courageous act of conveying that simple claim, Emma stands head-and-shoulders above her contemporaries in the world of, “investigative journalism”.
· There is information in the article that others have not dared to print. For example, that I did not vote for Trump (and am neither “pro-Trump” nor an “avid Trump supporter” as others have framed it); that the notorious December 18 meeting in the Oval office was about persuading Trump to “investigate voting machines in key counties” (and not about seizing voting machines across the nation as others have written); that the revelation of data that makes me confident the election was stolen has already discretely occurred in Exhibit 12 of Mike Lindell’s recent lawsuit.
· Ms. Brown’s description of me includes the word “journalist”. Given that my anti-corruption writings on DeepCapture from 2005-2008 won global Internet awards for being both the best writing on Corruption and Business Investigative Journalism in the USA, I think it is reasonable. Still, it is a well-received olive branch.
It’s not much, but it’s a start (one has to grade on a curve dealing with legacy media). With little fanfare, Emma has buried such nuggets for those following closely. Someday, these will be seen as small acts of bravery in the midst of the temporary triumph of Orwellianism in America.
Now to the fallacy animating the piece: it practices argument-by-assertion. The claim that the election was rigged is dismissed as a “lie”, a “falsehood”, “baseless” and “disinformation”… and that is just the title plus the first four sentences! (Is this starting to same strange to anyone else who did not grow up on Pravda?) No attempt is made to deal with such issues as November 3’s tabulation pauses, adjudication rates, cellular modems, and so on and so forth. Nor is any attempt made to explain why election integrity is a “right-wing” issue. In that respect, WaPo serves the same weak tea as its competitors.
Rather than deal with these misses individually I will just say, “See the movie” or “Read the book” (also named The Deep Rig, which the WaPo has curiously omitted). And I will remind your readers of some history.
In 2005-2008 I came out criticizing another institution whose rigorous governance was assumed by all proper-thinking people: the settlement system underlying our capital markets. I claimed that fault-tolerances within that system were being exploited by a constellation of hedge funds which (coupled with then little-known “expert networks”) was engaged in a market manipulation-insider trading regime that was corrupting our capital markets and destabilizing the system, and that the SEC was either asleep at the switch or in bed with Wall Street (popularizing the then-arcane terms “regulatory capture” and “deep capture”).
Then as now, the Yuck-yucks went to work chortling, deriding, and obfuscating my claims. For many normal people, their clearest piece of evidence that I was correct was in the way that the mainstream press violated then-existing precepts of journalistic fair play in their efforts to dissuade the public from considering my claims regarding settlement failures, latent derivative risk, and regulatory capture. CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Herb Greenberg spent three consecutive afternoons leading a parade of guests to parrot, Patrick Byrne is crazy yes don’t you think he’s crazy? We think he’s so crazy too. Up next: another guest to tell you that Patrick Byrne is crazy. A columnist at the New York Times “Joe Nocera” went so frothing about me for so long that another journalist there (an honest one with whom I had previously worked) called to tell me, “I want you to know that the word we use these days on the floor is, ‘surreal’. We say that it is ‘surreal’ that we are working for the New York Times while it is publishing these crazy hit pieces on you.”
In fact, the Yuck-yucks got so carried away in their chortling and high-fiving that they forgot that at the end of the day, the cards do the talking. So from 2005-2008 I kept at it, knowing I was correct and thus enjoying the experience of having so much vituperation slung at me, chuckling as I watched the yuck-yucks build the pot at the center of the table. They set aside normal journalist ethics as they slid into the pot all their credibility-chips, then their pocket money, and finally their car keys, by setting aside all conventions of journalistic honesty to dissuade the public from understanding or heeding my claims. NY Post (for folks who move their lips when they read People magazine), Fortune (sort of an Entertainment Weekly! for crony capitalists), Wall Street Journal, New York Times (of course)… As I recall, the only two major news organizations in the USA who sat that hand out were the New Yorker and the Washington Post.
In 2008 things started to unravel, regulators passed emergency measures to stop the settlement issues I had been warning about and that they had claimed were impossible, and on October 23 Greenspan went before Congress to name “settlement” as among the three causes of the crisis, along with fraud and securitization (e.g., Madoff and Mortgage Backed Securities).
Subsequent mainstream media analyses generally focused only on fraud and securitization. Still, the credibility-bet paid off. Much was public: “These days, when people talk of Byrne, the word ‘vindication’ comes up a lot,” wrote the AP in August, 2008. In the last week of 2008 a Wall Street Journal piece appeared in which the writer included me in a list of the five people who deserved credit for seeing it coming (among the other four were Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Rabini): “2008 Lookback: Best Calls of the Year” [WSJ]. Charles Gasparino, a serious and honest financial journalist, both noted my prescience in his subsequent book on the 2008 crisis and later mocked his co-stars on CNBC, saying, “Patrick Byrne was Right All Along [deepcapture.com]”.
For the following decade the yuck-yucks who had slid their chips into the pot had almost nothing to say about me. Herb Greenberg, who had once obsessed publicly about the varying times I took to answer his emails, went silent. Jim Cramer was taunted by colleagues for his refusal even to dare use my name on air. The rest of the financial press fell similarly silent for over a decade. It has only been in the last 24 months that two media organs have gotten engaged on me: the New Yorker and the Washington Post. The two who did not lose their credibility-chips to me in 2008.
So here we are again, with pieces such as this recent article, which notwithstanding the incremental improvements Ms. Brown has brought to the issue, still engages in Election Fraud Denial. It seems that some are forgetting that this hand is not going to be won by seeing who can work the words “false” and “baseless” into an article more times, but by (for example) looking at ballots in Maricopa, Arizona.
So bet big, Yuck-yucks. I’m probably bluffing this time. Bet your new cars, your second homes in Rehobeth, your wife’s jewelry. For that matter, bet your wives, bet your mistresses, bet your girlfriends. Bet your children, and bet your honor as Americans in front of your children.
I can already give you my reply: I call. When this hand is over I will again be shown to have been correct, industrial-scale fraud will be revealed in an institution that the public trusted and the mainstream media blithely defended, and two empty spots on my lodgepole will have their scalps.
This is what critical race theory does to kids & look how the mother approves! pic.twitter.com/Q4W0TdP9Pq — ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) July 8, 2021 There is zero doubt about the political leanings of this family.
A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.
The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. He said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya, using its network-management package as a conduit to spread the ransomware through cloud-service providers. Other researchers agreed with Hammond’s assessment.
“Kaseya handles large enterprise all the way to small businesses globally, so ultimately, (this) has the potential to spread to any size or scale business,” Hammond said in a direct message on Twitter. “This is a colossal and devastating supply chain attack.”
It was not immediately clear how many Kaseya customers might be affected or who they might be. Kaseya urged customers in a statement on its website to immediately shut down servers running the affected software. It said the attack was limited to a “small number” of its customers.
Hammond of Huntress said he was aware of four managed-services providers — companies that host IT infrastructure for multiple customers — being hit by the ransomware, which encrypts networks until the victims pay off attackers. He said thousand of computers were hit.
“We currently have three Huntress partners who are impacted with roughly 200 businesses that have been encrypted,” Hammond said.
Cyberattacks are becoming the norm in Biden’s America.
In May ransomware hackers targeted the Colonial Pipeline and the world’s largest meat supplier.
Ransomware hackers shut down the Colonial Pipeline, creating gas lines and shortages in Southeastern states.
One-fifth of US beef production was wiped out after JBS paused processing at five of its biggest beef plants which manage a total of 22,500 cattle per day.
Joe Biden’s message to criminals around the world: The US is too weak to stop cyberattacks so go ahead and hack our infrastructure.
We are joined today by Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, who has IMPORTANT information to share about Michigan and the “forensic” audit they are claiming they want to do. We spend the show talking about that and the letter from Michigan House Representative Daire Rendon.
Also, please don’t forget to check out the movie “The Deep Rig” streaming live now.
We will be back this Wednesday with more Dark to Light!
In February, the state legislature ordered the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau to complete an audit of Wisconsin’s 2020 General Election. The scope of the audit includes a review of the “performance and methodology of each WI electoral jurisdiction’s voting system and its error rate, including absentee voting” and the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC)’s “handling of compliance review complaints against election officials” as well as “Administrators’ and municipal clerks’ compliance with Wisconsin’s elections laws.” There is an expected completion date of fall 2021.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos recently gave additional authority to subpoena witnesses and hired retired Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) to investigate credible tips of election irregularities. Vos stated he hired the LEO’s because he “noted the controversy surrounding the Maricopa audit” and “wanted to prevent a similar situation from unfolding in Wisconsin.” Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was appointed to oversee the LEOs.
The local Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Vos “understands Biden is president and there is no way to redo the election.” Even though Biden won Wisconsin by less than 1%, Vos stated, “We need to have a lot of due diligence looking into the concerns that people have about the election, but nothing’s going to change.” WI State Journal reported Vos as saying, “A sizable chunk of people believe the election was illegitimate. And democracy cannot flourish if both sides don’t believe in the end both sides had a fair shot.”
Donald Trump issued a statement on June 25 regarding the WI audit and its leadership:
“Wisconsin Republican leaders Robin Vos, Chris Kapenga, and Devin LeMahieu, are working hard to cover up election corruption in Wisconsin. They are actively trying to prevent a Forensic Audit of the election results, especially those which took place in Milwaukee, one of the most corrupt election locales in the country. Don’t fall for their lies! These REPUBLICAN “leaders” need to step up and support the people who elected them by providing them a full forensic investigation. If they don’t, I have little doubt that they will be primaried and quickly run out of office.”
Kapenga responded to Trump in a letter. He began by noting that it is an honor to be publicly named by a United States President, and told Trump “…The power of your pen to mine is like Thor’s hammer to a Bobby pin.” Kapenga went on to say:
“Nevertheless, I need to correct your false claim against me.“
“…Your recent press release stating that I am responsible for holding up a forensic audit of the Wisconsin elections… could not be further from the truth… long before your press release, I called the auditor in charge of the election audit that is taking place in Wisconsin and requested a forensic component to the audit… This leads me back to your press release. It is false, and I don’t appreciate it being done before calling me and finding out the truth.”
Trump has not mentioned the subject in subsequent statements on his website donaldjtrump.com/news.
Nonprofit groups like the Mark Zuckerburg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) have also been a part of the ongoing investigations and legislative hearings. These nonprofits have given grant money to influence the way elections are run in major metropolitan areas of Wisconsin. The Journal Sentinel reported money from CTCL went to over 200 municipalities across the state, including over $6 million to its five largest.
Vos was reported as saying the investigation needs more signed affidavits from witnesses of election day observations and says the investigators have both subpoena power and power to grant immunity, though no power to bring criminal charges. He added:
“If we have independent investigators go out and find the data and clearly show why the election laws need to be changed, I think Gov. Evers will be forced to listen. And if for some reason he doesn’t, then we will have a fact-base to show the electorate … that we need to change the guy… if he’s not willing to listen to the facts.”
Wisconsin Audit Telegram Channel
UncoverDC has reported on the bills in the WI legislature that aim to change state election law. Some have passed and will soon be up for consideration by Governor Tony Evers. Evers is expected to veto the bills and has said he will not sign legislation that makes it harder to vote. One has been signed by Evers, however, resulting in some increase in transparency for WEC meeting minutes.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit against the WEC to invalidate its advice on the use of ballot drop boxes. The suit asks the court to clarify that absentee ballots in WI can only be cast through U.S. mail or delivered in person to the municipal clerk, saying unstaffed, temporary drop boxes are not a “municipal clerk” as the law requires. The case is summarized here.
In Mueller v. Jacobs, the plaintiff was represented by Amos Center for Justice and Liberty and sought an injunction preventing certification of the election, saying Mueller’s “fundamental right to vote and have a safe, free, secure, and transparent election was compromised and tainted.” Similar to the WILL suit above, the argument was that the use of the ballot boxes was based on an interpretation of a law that was illegal. As Amos Center states on their website, “Wisconsin Supreme Court Denied Mueller’s Petition… however, the three minority justices joined in the following dissent: ‘This court cannot continue to shirk its institutional responsibilities to the people [of] Wisconsin.‘”
Mueller v. Jacobs was the case in which the notorious Perkins Coie attorney Marc Elias intervened on behalf of the DNC and cited Vos and fellow Republican Scott Fitzgerald:
“Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald publicly emphasized that they ‘wholeheartedly support… use’ of ‘authorized drop boxes’ [as] especially appropriate for emergency use during the COVID-19 global pandemic.”
Of note, WI State Representatives Janel Brandtjen, Rachael Cabral-Guevera, Dave Murphy, and Chuck Wichgers visited the Maricopa County, Arizona audit in June to learn best practices.
The U.S. Air Force unveiled a weapon this month designed to take out hundreds of drones at once with barely a sound.
The Tactical High Power Operational Responder uses a beam of energy to scramble the electronics inside hundreds of drones at once.
“This unique system allows base defense forces to stop [unmanned aerial system] attacks at long range before they threaten critical infrastructure,” the Air Force Research Lab said in a June 16 animated video.
Increasingly sophisticated drones are becoming more threatening in the hands of enemy militaries as attack and surveillance capabilities grow, the Air Force said in the video. THOR is more effective than small arms and more efficient than heavy arms, which are currently used against drones.
When THOR identifies a target, it shoots a beam of microwaves in less than a second, providing an instant effect on the drones.
The system is different from a laser, which shoots a beam capable of destroying one drone, according to the Air Force. Instead, THOR’s utilization of high-powered microwaves allows it to scuttle swarms of unmanned aerial systems.
“THOR completely stows in a 20-foot shipping container which can easily be transported in a C-130. The system can be set up by as few as two people within three hours and operates from ground power,” according to the video’s narration.
The first prototype was unveiled in 2019 in New Mexico. It costs about $15 million to develop, and each system costs $10 million to produce.
Some bases have taken steps to defend themselves from drones while THOR is still in its prototype stage.
Troops at al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar received quad-copters in May to protect the base from enemy surveillance and attack drones.
Rhodes College in Tennessee has announced that they will be charging unvaccinated students $1,500 per semester to “cover the costs of mandatory testing.”
The college announced the new policy in a in a letter on June 8.
“In anticipation of FDA approval, we are strongly recommending all students be vaccinated this summer in order to not prevent or delay your return to campus in August,” the letter states. “Immediately following FDA approval, students will be required to be vaccinated to access campus. Upon returning to campus non-vaccinated students will be charged a $1500 per semester Health & Safety fee to cover the costs of mandatory testing as outlined below.”
It continues on to say that “until FDA approval, the college is not requiring, but strongly recommending full vaccination for any individual who comes to campus. Additionally, Flu vaccines will continue to be required this fall.”
All students should submit their vaccination cards by August 1, 2021 to avoid the hefty fee.
Rhodes College Vice President for Student Life Meghan Weyant toldWREG3 that they “believe a campus-wide commitment to vaccination will really allow us to do our part in getting our students back on campus for the academic experience that we know they so much want.”
Weyant claimed that the school has not received any push back regarding the policy.
“The response has been positive,” she said. “Students want to be back on campus.”
MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT
R+7 swing from 2020
