THE MORNING RANT: Democrats & Media, Who Keep Advising There Will Not Be a Winner Announced on Election Night, Oppose Georgia Ballot Integrity Measure Because It Will Delay Election Results

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden “won” Georgia by less than 12,000 votes. By midnight on Election Night, Donald Trump seemed to have an insurmountable lead, but the ballot count in Atlanta was suddenly suspended due to a convenient water pipe leak. Absentee ballots were placed in waiting, and chaos ensued. Eventually enough Biden ballots were found, counted, and double-counted to put him barely over the top. Recounts showed discrepancies in multiple counties, including examples found of ballots being tabulated twice. Finally, after more than a month, Georgia’s “Republican” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger validated the results, with an implicit endorsement of all the machinations that were required to overturn Trump’s apparent election night victory.

Since then, pro-Trump Republicans who care about ballot integrity have gained a controlling majority of the Georgia State Election Board. They have implemented a new rule for the 2024 election requiring that before a precinct certifies its election results, the poll workers must conduct a hand count of ballots cast so as to verify that the number of actual paper ballots equals the number of ballots tabulated. To be clear, the poll workers are not tabulating votes, they are simply counting the number of ballots so as to prevent ballots from being scanned and tabulated more than once.

Democrats and the media are howling in protest, of course. For Kamala to win Georgia, they know it will take a solid dose of ballot fraud. Comically, however, they are pretending that their concern is that this will delay the reporting of election results. “Republican” Brad Raffensperger, who is in charge of elections, also opposes this new rule.

“Democrats sue to block new Georgia election rule requiring hand counting of ballots” [CBS – 9/30/2024]

The rule violates Georgia law for numerous reasons," the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Party of Georgia wrote in their complaint [The new rule does not violate Georgia law and is within the statutory authority of the Election Board – Buck], adding that it could introduce "uncertainty" into the effort to tally votes and delay certification of the state's election results.

This is especially funny, because the regime media is constantly putting out pieces advising us not to expect a winner on election night. Even more specifically, we are being advised not to believe our lying eyes if Trump has a big lead on election night. What they are hinting at is that election night will reveal how many more Kamala ballots must be tabulated after election night. Here is just one recent example from the NY Times:

“Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take Awhile”

For the second straight presidential election, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on election night and that early returns could give a false impression of who will ultimately prevail.

But waiting an hour or so to prevent the double-counting of ballots in Georgia is an unacceptable delay to these same people.

Just how common is the double counting of ballots in Georgia. It’s hard to know, because ballot fraud that is not caught is never documented. But there were indisputable examples of ballots being scanned more than once in the 2020 election, for which Fulton County election workers were reprimanded.

“Fulton County reprimanded for double-scanned ballots in 2020 recount” [Atlanta Journal Constitution - 5/07/2024]

The State Election Board reprimanded Fulton County and ordered an independent election monitor Tuesday, finding that the county likely scanned over 3,000 ballots twice during the recount of the 2020 presidential election.

This is where Democrats and the media tend to fall back on the term “not widespread” to refer to any ballot fraud that is uncovered, but if at least 3,000 ballots were scanned multiple times, and Biden won the state by less than 12,000 votes, I am not OK with this level of ballot fraud being tolerated, just because it is “not widespread.” And I assume there was much, much more ballot fraud that was not caught.

In fact, there were another 20,713 ballots cast for which there was no paper trail at all. And – big surprise - this was also in Fulton County.

“Missing 2020 poll tallies in Georgia don’t prove 20,713 votes never existed” [AP – 12/20/2023]

This story was brought to light by some conspiracy-theorist, election-deniers who were troubled that there were missing paper poll tapes from good ol’ Fulton County. The poll tapes are the only paper trail for these voting machines if the paper ballots are not hand counted. The Associated Press decided to do some “fact checking” on this claim, so they contacted – you guessed it - Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.

CLAIM: A public records request revealed that 20,713 votes that were included in the 2020 election night tally in Fulton County, Georgia, do not exist.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A complaint submitted to the Georgia State Election Board in July 2022 includes an email from Fulton County stating that ballot tabulator results, or poll tapes, printed on Election Day “do not exist” for 10 machines.

Oh. That seems noteworthy.

But poll tapes are just one part of the paper trail that documents the vote, which is also recorded on memory cards and in official statements released by Georgia counties.

In other words, there is NOT a paper trail, just digital results, along with the “official statements” of the unquestionably honest Georgia county officials. (By the way, should I even be surprised that a journalist writing about “paper trails” doesn’t know what the term means?)

The more I read about Brad Raffensperger, the more I realize this man couldn’t be trusted to competently administer the petty cash drawer at a small church, much less run a statewide election, and his cavalier indifference toward ballot integrity is an actual threat to democracy. Listen to these nuggets of wisdom from Raffensperger’s spokesman Mike Hassinger regarding the missing paper trail for these 20,000 votes:

• “Poll tapes are not supposed to go missing, but precincts are managed by human beings who sometimes make mistakes.”

• “If you lose your receipt, it doesn’t mean you didn’t get groceries. “

• “I would find it a little suspicious if every poll tape were exactly where it was supposed to be. That would be too good to be true.”

That fraud-friendly attitude from Raffensperger’s office is exactly why the new ballot-counting control measure is so desperately needed. By the way, even this AP “fact check” notes that there were double-counted ballots in 2020.

A 2023 state review of Fulton County’s 2020 audit found errors and inconsistencies in the vote count, including some double counting of ballots. But the errors weren’t enough to alter the election results, the AP has reported.

Unlike Democrats, the media, and Brad Raffensperger, I am not OK with Democrat ballot fraud so long as it isn’t “enough to alter election results.” One fraudulent ballot is enough to steal an election.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:00 AM (IB6XK)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

3 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at October 04, 2024 11:01 AM (HumJm)

4 Criminals.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 04, 2024 11:01 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Pennsylvania will be weeks behind to make up and beat the Trump votes

Posted by: Skip at October 04, 2024 11:01 AM (HumJm)

6 I like the notion of predominantly red areas of the state saying that they'll wait for the blue strongholds to finish counting first.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 04, 2024 11:02 AM (lXCUP)

7 Willowed, but tangentially related:

So, regarding the current state of elections, I saw an interesting statistic regarding early voting (including Vote by Mail) in VA.

So far in 2024, VA Democrats are down 5.5% in turnout relative to 2020. Makes sense. Early voting, including by mail, was huge in 2020.

VA Republicans, though, are down only 2.7%. Half as much.

It really, really feels like Republicans are actually more motivated to vote after their president was removed from power through cheating, hounded with lawfare, and literally shot than Democrats who saw their primary votes cast aside in favor of a brown woman who had been the least popular VP ever and couldn't even make it to Iowa in the 2020 primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

8 Every word they say is a lie

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 04, 2024 11:03 AM (JMAcK)

9 Fulton County now includes Wisconsin, Arizona Pennsylvania and Nevada.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 04, 2024 11:03 AM (x0n13)

10 I doubt we will "know" who won until sometime during the weekend after the election. Gotta give the democrats time to fake up all of the ballots they will need to win.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 04, 2024 11:03 AM (QNSds)

11 I keep feeling like we are gonna be disappointed again.. Hard as it is to believe with two blithering idiots running on the Dem. side .

Posted by: It's me donna at October 04, 2024 11:04 AM (IyPmt)

12 Every word they say is a lie
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 04, 2024

***
Including "a," "an," and "the"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 11:04 AM (J2vNu)

13 I keep feeling like we are gonna be disappointed again.. Hard as it is to believe with two blithering idiots running on the Dem. side .
Posted by: It's me donna at October 04, 2024 11:04 AM (IyPmt)

I'm more a blithering knucklehead ...

Posted by: Pedo Tim Walz at October 04, 2024 11:05 AM (OguvZ)

14 "I found 300,000 votes for Commie-La in this burning EV!"

Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:05 AM (UnA8+)

15 If you can't show your receipt, you can't return what you bought. This used to be axiomatic. Now, vendors don't mind taking the hit, just to keep a customer, and especially if you have some credit card transaction on file to show you at least bought *something* from them.

Elections are not supposed to work that way. There's no "I'm sure it's fine" or "it will all even out". Voting is the proxy for violent overthrow. Voting is the thing we agree to do instead of arming up and installing our leader of choice by force. You don't yadda yadda something like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:06 AM (DDGz9)

16 The "winner" of the "election" won't be known until the lawsuits have been settled.

Sometime in 2037. Until then... stay the course.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 04, 2024 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)

17 Willard:

I'm considering donating to Samaritan's Purse for their work in NC and elsewhere. Hannity has a link to them on his site.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

Wolfus, I hit them up this morning. My NC sister says they are doing good work.
Posted by: RI Red at October 04, 2024 11:00 AM (OKniM)

Posted by: RI Red at October 04, 2024 11:07 AM (OKniM)

18 "Hebephrenic" ("young mind" or "childish mind") was one of the subdivisions under schizophrenia. What do they call it now?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024
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I dunno, I think they just stopped splitting it up that way for diagnosis. I wasn't interested enough to follow up, and who knows if it changed back.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024

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Kindltot, they lump it now under "disorganized" schizophrenia. "Catatonic" and "paranoid" schizophrenia are still mentioned, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

19 I want to donate money to samaritains purse specifically earmarked to fund the army of lawyers they're going to need when the IRS comes after them, as we all know they will.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:08 AM (DDGz9)

20 But the errors weren’t enough to alter the election results, the AP has reported.

What they're saying is that the stuff we found is the small stuff.

Posted by: t-bird at October 04, 2024 11:09 AM (hKf3k)

21 It really, really feels like Republicans are actually more motivated to vote after their president was removed from power through cheating, hounded with lawfare, and literally shot than Democrats who saw their primary votes cast aside in favor of a brown woman who had been the least popular VP ever and couldn't even make it to Iowa in the 2020 primary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think Trump easily cost himself 1% of the vote in 2020 not encouraging people to engage in early voting.

I understand his reasoning, but it really was shooting himself in the foot.

I'd love to have early voting outlawed, but until it is, you get your people to put their ballot in as soon as possible.

Posted by: Blago at October 04, 2024 11:09 AM (hRJ3c)

22 I'm considering donating to Samaritan's Purse for their work in NC and elsewhere. Hannity has a link to them on his site.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024
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Wolfus, I hit them up this morning. My NC sister says they are doing good work.
Posted by: RI Red at October 04, 2024

***
I need to decide which credit card to put it on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 11:09 AM (J2vNu)

23 And remember folks: nobody in the country had any standing in the courts to challenge any of this.

But the Supreme Court thinks Mexico might have standing to sue US gun companies.

Swirl that one around in your coffee mugs for a while.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 04, 2024 11:09 AM (Ij2uN)

24 The Jerk-Hoff's incandescent new masculinity will star-struck so many pretty young ladies that GA will be a lock for his puta "wife."

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 04, 2024 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

25 In my more solipsistic moments, I wonder if the world is throwing all this sh*t at me to see what it takes for me to break bad.
Latest is fema and .gov response to disaster.

Posted by: RI Red at October 04, 2024 11:10 AM (OKniM)

26 The way Ratshitburger is so desperate to NOT investigate or prevent vote fraud forces only one conclusion:
He's dirtier than a pig in a waller on a hot summer day.

Him and his little fag boy Sterling. The Democrats own those two.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 04, 2024 11:12 AM (Qlpv5)

27 If your voting precinct can handle the volume of votes it's getting, then your precinct is too big. The solution isn't chicanery and obfuscation. The solution is you split up the precincts until they're small enough for a small team of people to handle methodically and transparently.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:12 AM (DDGz9)

28 If the dems can't do it with vote count fraud, they'll do it with lawfare. We'll be very lucky to know who won the election by January 20th.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 04, 2024 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)

29 Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:12 AM (DDGz9)

Let's not be silly now.

DNC

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 04, 2024 11:14 AM (4XwPj)

30 Oh we understand just fine, these democommies need time to trickfcuk the numbers. Again.

Posted by: Eromero at October 04, 2024 11:14 AM (o2ZRX)

31 >>So, regarding the current state of elections, I saw an interesting statistic regarding early voting (including Vote by Mail) in VA.

There are a few election geeks on Twitter who have been tracking early results in both NC and PA. Red counties are doing much better and blue counties worse in both states so far.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)

32 WOW!
I just got back from a three-week hiking/camping trip across Death Valley! It's a really fun place,, I recommend everyone give it a try! So,,, have I missed anything?

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HExX4sU6pgE

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at October 04, 2024 11:15 AM (5hfjS)

33 The rule violates Georgia law for numerous reasons," the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Party of Georgia wrote in their complaint [The new rule does not violate Georgia law and is within the statutory authority of the Election Board – Buck], adding that it could introduce "uncertainty" into the effort to tally votes and delay certification of the state's election results.

Ah yes, verifying the quantity, whether it be inventory or computer hash tabulations, naturally ADDS UNCERTAINTY into the process. I must have skipped class that day in Auditing and Computer Programming.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 04, 2024 11:16 AM (Aqu9a)

34 This is actually pretty big since it limits them to pre-election and election day fraud with substantial logistical costs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 04, 2024 11:16 AM (eYoxG)

35 I believe the scientific term is "jiggery-fuckery".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:17 AM (DDGz9)

36 I suspect the demmies will go all-in and cheat on par with Saddam Hussein's 2002 presidential referendum when every registered Iraqi voter voted 'yes' for him. That's when things get spicy, IMHO.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:17 AM (RMjVS)

37 There are a few election geeks on Twitter who have been tracking early results in both NC and PA. Red counties are doing much better and blue counties worse in both states so far.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Good to hear.

It probably is coming down to GA, NC and PA.

I feel good about the first 2, it's PA that always worries me.

Posted by: Blago at October 04, 2024 11:17 AM (wMRY8)

38 forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

39 31 >>So, regarding the current state of elections, I saw an interesting statistic regarding early voting (including Vote by Mail) in VA.

There are a few election geeks on Twitter who have been tracking early results in both NC and PA. Red counties are doing much better and blue counties worse in both states so far.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)

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I'm following some of them (though I do Twitter wrong in that I cycle through profiles instead of letting the feed work. I think this is actually doing Twitter right).

I'm always a bit suspicious of drawing too many conclusions from something like an increase in proportion of R requests for ballots in PA compared to D. Lots of explanations in every direction to say why.

But the turnout numbers from VA felt incontrovertible in ways that the rest of the numbers weren't. You don't have to think that D's will always vote early or by mail. You don't have to think that R's are suddenly embracing early voting. D's being down more than R's in turnout in VA, by a factor of 2, is illuminating and hard to spin in any way except as bad for Democrats overall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

40 38 forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (x0n13)

41 Just hit up Samaritan's Purse with a donation. Hope it helps somebody.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

42 Posted by: RI Red at October 04, 2024 11:10 AM (OKniM)

What does breaking bad mean? I know there was a series by that name, but that was about a man who becomes a meth dealer to support his family, wasn't it? You weren't thinking of doing that, were you?

Don't break bad. Just stay the nice guy you are and perhaps take a break from news.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (MQJVv)

43
Mailed our check off to Samaritan's Purse on Monday.

I guess the state of North Carolina will have to pay for all the repairs to state roads and bridges and the Feds the interstate roads.

I wonder how the homeowners with insurance are going to fare with flood damage and/or destroyed homes?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (RKVpM)

44 I think the steal is already baked in. The malfeasance going on in North Carolina tells me no one is afraid of an investigation by an incoming Trump administration.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (WPL6O)

45 Does North Korea have elections?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (63Dwl)

46 25
‘ I wonder if the world is throwing all this sh*t at me to see what it takes for me to break bad. ’

I wonder the same thing.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (jbnUc)

47 I kind of wonder why we aren't seeing much of Dave in FL. here. Did he get burned out?

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (QB+5g)

48 25 In my more solipsistic moments, I wonder if the world is throwing all this sh*t at me to see what it takes for me to break bad.

obviously not the case, because you are a figment of my imagination.

Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (sGtp+)

49 Him and his little fag boy Sterling. The Democrats own those two.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 04, 2024

***
I was NOT named for him!

Posted by: Wolfus's Black Cat Stirling at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (J2vNu)

50 I believe the scientific term is "jiggery-fuckery".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:17 AM (DDGz9)

This. Insider jargon at that!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (Aqu9a)

51 43 I wonder how the homeowners with insurance are going to fare with flood damage and/or destroyed homes?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (RKVpM)

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Most won't have flood insurance, so flooding won't be covered and they'll be screwed.

Others have stopped paying home insurance all together because they have owned the homes outright for years and it's no longer a requirement. They'll be screwed.

Don't stop paying home insurance just because you don't have a mortgage anymore. Also, see if you can get flood insurance. Water rising a couple of feet and destroying your floors won't get covered any other way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

52 Georgia was the final keystone the their 2020 fraud:
Republican governor and SoS.

By compromising those two enough to get them to refuse to investigate, that put the thinnest veneer of legitimacy on all the fraud.
"See, even in red GA with a Republican gov and SoS, Trump lost!!"

It was that implicit claim--that even Republicans said Trump lost--that undergirded every post-election dismissal, both in the courts and the media.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 04, 2024 11:21 AM (Qlpv5)

53 This video was posted on SmallDeadAnimals.

Chilling how FEMA is handling this disaster.

https://x.com/angelanashtn/status/1842023887191581140

Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (JkA2a)

54
I kind of wonder why we aren't seeing much of Dave in FL. here. Did he get burned out?

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM

I think he has a job issue, perhaps a transfer. I follow him on Twitter and not much new there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (RKVpM)

55 Does North Korea have elections?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (63Dwl)

Yes, and they're just what you'd expect from the worst totalitarian regime currently on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_North_Korea

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (RMjVS)

56 obviously not the case, because you are a figment of my imagination.
Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (sGtp+)

In a solipsistic world, you can be the brain, or you can be the vat. Or I guess you could be the goop in the vat that the brain is bobbing around in. But I guess the goop is part of the goop + vat system that we simply refer to as all being "the vat". Because you can't have a brain in a vat without goop. That would just be stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (DDGz9)

57 But the turnout numbers from VA felt incontrovertible in ways that the rest of the numbers weren't. You don't have to think that D's will always vote early or by mail. You don't have to think that R's are suddenly embracing early voting. D's being down more than R's in turnout in VA, by a factor of 2, is illuminating and hard to spin in any way except as bad for Democrats overall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
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[Hysterical laughter]

-- Dominion

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

58 44 I think the steal is already baked in. The malfeasance going on in North Carolina tells me no one is afraid of an investigation by an incoming Trump administration.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (WPL6O)

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NC removed 10% of its voting rolls in the past year. Over 700,000 errant entries. The 2020 election was decided by 70,000 votes.

I think all polling on NC is deeply, deeply wrong. NC is going to suddenly be almost as red as SC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

59 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 11:23 AM (RozVk)

60 forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

Number two, Sir!

Posted by: Pvt. Pinkley at October 04, 2024 11:23 AM (Aqu9a)

61 57 [Hysterical laughter]

-- Dominion
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

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True.

There will be nothing stopping an urban center from saying they have 100,000 more votes than voters other than the will of the courts to take up a case.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

62 NC removed 10% of its voting rolls in the past year. Over 700,000 errant entries. The 2020 election was decided by 70,000 votes.

Western NC removed 50% of it's voters in under a week.
IYKWIMAIKTYD

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:24 AM (IB6XK)

63 Captain's Journal: The Hurricane Helene Hall of Shame

https://tinyurl.com/4fa8h28p

Via Instapundit.

Not a recommended read if you suffer from high blood pressure.

I will say it again and again. You do not hate the government enough.

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 11:24 AM (RozVk)

64 forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

Number two, Sir!
Posted by: Pvt. Pinkley

Number 6 Dance.
Posted by: Taggart

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:25 AM (IB6XK)

65 What does breaking bad mean?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (MQJVv)

You have it right, except you don't exactly have to sell meth to break bad.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:25 AM (i24o9)

66 31
‘ Red counties are doing much better and blue counties worse in both states so far’

How are ‘better’ and ‘worse’ measured in this context?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 04, 2024 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

67 Thanks /0,

I forgot he was getting the "Hero" treatment at work.

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:26 AM (QB+5g)

68 In my more solipsistic moments, I wonder if the world is throwing all this sh*t at me to see what it takes for me to break bad.
Posted by: RI Red at October 04, 2024 11:10 AM (OKniM)

In my more slapstick moments, I trip and somersault over the ottoman as I rush to greet my guests.

Posted by: Rob Petrie at October 04, 2024 11:26 AM (OguvZ)

69 62 Western NC removed 50% of it's voters in under a week.
IYKWIMAIKTYD
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:24 AM (IB6XK)

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Most of them from deep blue Asheville.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

70 When politics is dumb and boring, nobody really cares who is in office all that much, so the Uniparty can rig elections to their heart's content. Even when caught red handed, it's all "yeah, politics is corrupt, whatever, who cares".

But you can't simultaneously make an election a referendum on the end of life as we know it, and also expect the population to keep not giving a fuck about election fraud.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:27 AM (DDGz9)

71 In my more slapstick moments, I trip and somersault over the ottoman as I rush to greet my guests.
Posted by: Rob Petrie at October 04, 2024 11:26 AM (OguvZ)

Except for when you side-step the ottoman, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:27 AM (DDGz9)

72 IIRC the "acts of God" rider has been removed from most homeowner's insurance policies. It it's not specifically spelled out in your particular policy then it's not covered.

This is basically what our two homeowner's insurance policies have become.

But if you want X, Y or Z coverage they're more than willing to insure it... for a price.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 04, 2024 11:28 AM (Q4IgG)

73 61 True.

There will be nothing stopping an urban center from saying they have 100,000 more votes than voters other than the will of the courts to take up a case.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

"It's a Tax."

--Judas Roberts

Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:28 AM (UnA8+)

74 64 forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

Number two, Sir!
Posted by: Pvt. Pinkley

Number 6 Dance.
Posted by: Taggart

red five standing by

Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:28 AM (sGtp+)

75 >>I'm always a bit suspicious of drawing too many conclusions from something like an increase in proportion of R requests for ballots in PA compared to D. Lots of explanations in every direction to say why.

I'm suspicious of everything other than what I can see with my own two eyes. The enthusiasm for Trump/Vance has never been higher including when he won in 2020 which we all know he did. The only enthusiasm for Harris/Knucklehead is in the media. They are reduced to busing in paid supporters for their small, unenthusiastic rallies.

If you turn down the media propaganda this isn't a close race. It comes down to what it has always been about, can Trump/Vance beat the cheat. Some of the structural advantages Biden had in 2020 like mass mail in voting and the virus fallout the media put 100% on Trump don't exist this year. Worse, Harris has a record and it is one of almost unparalleled failure across the board and we haven't come close to hearing the totality of the fallout from the hurricane.

The uniparty will cheat. We all know that. The only question is will they be able to cheat enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:28 AM (LkLld)

76 obviously not the case, because you are a figment of my imagination.
Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (sGtp+)

In a solipsistic world, you can be the brain, or you can be the vat. Or I guess you could be the goop in the vat that the brain is bobbing around in. But I guess the goop is part of the goop + vat system that we simply refer to as all being "the vat". Because you can't have a brain in a vat without goop. That would just be stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Sez you. Saline works just fine.

Posted by: Brother Tim, totes not a dolphin brain in a jar at October 04, 2024 11:29 AM (OUMaO)

77 I want a blow out election. A landslide so yuge that the demoncrats are left in the fetal position whimpering, "please make it stop". A complete repudiation of, not just Harris and Walz, but of all demoncrats and their destructive policies everywhere. I want greasy Newsome to be hiding under his bed muttering" I don't want to do this anymore. It's not fun now.". I want progressives going dark and silent out of fear that they will be hunted for their stupidity. I want millions of illegal invaders rushing back across the border so fast it creates a wind vortex. I want the uniparty creatures in the House and Senate to be stark white pale, trembling, and horrified by the knowledge that they have been rejected and neutered. I want those Palestine protesters crawling through the shrubbery, praying no one sees them. I want Trump to destroy it all.

I want to hear the silence roar.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 04, 2024 11:29 AM (4XwPj)

78
North Carolina Resident: "I'd like to apply for a mortgage to replace the home I lost."

Banker: "And how much are you going to put down, 5%, 10%?"

North Carolina Resident: "Oh, heavens no, $750.00 dollars.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:30 AM (RKVpM)

79 But you can't simultaneously make an election a referendum on the end of life as we know it, and also expect the population to keep not giving a fuck about election fraud.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:27 AM (DDGz9)

I believe the regime doesn't understand the level of spiciness that a second stolen election will unleash from a populace already fed up with four years of the most blatantly anti-American governance ever.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:30 AM (RMjVS)

80 And on the topic of breaking bad, there is a wide berth between breaking bad and being a jerk, who takes everything the left or government drones throws at them like a sucker. Find a happy medium where you take care of you and yours, while denying the left any satisfaction or pound of flesh.

We just had a major mini victory whereby a local city administration's buttboy was denied a city position, because it was shown he lied on a grant application in the name of the city.

This guy had also been lying to people of the city about grand plans for parks and recreation that were not funded, that were ultimately to be funded by levies (we have no major tax base), and that would likely result in some poor sap's property being acquired through eminent domain. Typical lying government drone, looking to double dip, drunk on power. He's out permanently.

Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:30 AM (i24o9)

81 Sez you. Saline works just fine.
Posted by: Brother Tim, totes not a dolphin brain in a jar at October 04, 2024 11:29 AM (OUMaO)

Eeeew. No brain wants to float up to the top of the vat. The top will poke out above the water-line and get all crusty and gross.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:31 AM (DDGz9)

82 There will be nothing stopping an urban center from saying they have 100,000 more votes than voters other than the will of the courts to take up a case.
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Yup.
That's the biggest "secret" to their fraud:
Run it up to ridiculous numbers in 95%+ black precincts and dare lilly-livered, weak-kneed, pansy-ass judges to "take the vote away from blacks worse than any Jim Crow law!!!"

They know no judge will ever, ever, ever--no matter if it's 200% of population that "voted"--rule that the votes from a black precinct should not be counted.

There probably hasn't been a vote in 50 years in a black precinct that has less than 50% fraud.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 04, 2024 11:31 AM (Qlpv5)

83 >>> the poll workers must conduct a hand count of ballots cast so as to verify that the number of actual paper ballots equals the number of ballots tabulated...

This is an elementary school level math error check. Would think they would already be doing this as a matter of routine.

Resisting even the simplest check for accurate results does not build confidence in results of an election.
IOW - No Confidence in results.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (t+Tko)

84 "That fraud-friendly attitude from Raffensperger’s office is exactly why the new ballot-counting control measure is so desperately needed. By the way, even this AP “fact check” notes that there were double-counted ballots in 2020."

As whig and I have noted separately before, there is a much greater than nonzero chance that Stacey Abrams actually won her gubernatorial election over Brian Kemp. Raffensperger was the SoS overseeing the ballot counting there as well.

I never trusted Raffensperger, and Kemp is not too far behind in my distrust.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (BYwg+)

85 I want Trump to destroy it all.

I want to hear the silence roar.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 04, 2024 11:29 AM (4XwPj) I want Trump to destroy it all.

I think I just came.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (pJwEv)

86 79 I believe the regime doesn't understand the level of spiciness that a second stolen election will unleash from a populace already fed up with four years of the most blatantly anti-American governance ever.
Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:30 AM (RMjVS)

They're banking that you can't get spicy, because you need to go to work to be able to house and feed your kid.

Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (UnA8+)

87 the goop is part of the goop + vat system

Don't take the brown acid.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (Rn7nm)

88 >>>I wonder how the homeowners with insurance are going to fare with flood damage and/or destroyed homes?

Speaking from experience, it's going to be...challenging.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (Y1sOo)

89

I'll wait for Dave in FLA to weigh in. His analysis of the situation is usually spot on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (x0n13)

90 In other election integrity news, Tina Peters, the embattled (R) county Clerk & Recorder of Mesa County in western Colorado has been sentenced to nine years prison time for her actions in the wake of the 2020 general election.

Highly partisan case.

Posted by: muldoon at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (uCfKO)

91 Effing ~~Todd~~ Brad!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (Aqu9a)

92 But you can't simultaneously make an election a referendum on the end of life as we know it, and also expect the population to keep not giving a fuck about election fraud.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:27 AM (DDGz9)
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The Dems seems hellbent on giving it a go!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (7fElN)

93 Wait.

Are these Election "Rules"

Or are these Election Laws? (Always Pay attention to the words anybody uses. Because changing definitions of words is a big part of why everything is FUBAR.)

Ask them what do you mean by this? The press is of course completely incurious on anything, because they are paid to be.

The other day I spent some time with old school liberal friends. They are completely Democrat MSNBC talking point regurgitators. It is pretty bizarre. They've perfected the Liberal Hypnosis over the years.

Out of a fire-hose of half truths and full lies, I picked out a gem that one feller said. He mentioned something about people with no kids don't understand what's going on. I agree with that.

I immediately pointed that's why people like Angela Merkel, the former Stasi member turned leader of Germany should never be allowed. He about shit a brick. He knew I was exactly correct, but contradictions in their worldview are something the never, ever examine. They never hear them. It was hilarious.

You can nuke these dumbshits in about 10 seconds on a level playing field. That's why they went full Censorship, if you hadn't noticed. See Also Vance and Tampon Timmy

Posted by: Common Tater at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (QCu82)

94 Seth Keshel
@RealSKeshel • 1d

PENNSYLVANIA - Change in Voter Registration by Party since 2020
63 of 67 counties shifted Republican, current as of 9/30/2024 update

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (N0/CS)

95
Most won't have flood insurance, so flooding won't be covered and they'll be screwed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:21 AM

Our genius VP Harris has promised $750 to storm victims. But not if they had homeowners insurance. Some have already called and been turned down.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (RKVpM)

96 Elon Musk is attending Trump's rally in Butler, PA tomorrow. Trump is returning to the spot where they tried to murder him because he says he has a duty to finish what he started.

I bet that will be one hell of a crowd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (LkLld)

97 89

I'll wait for Dave in FLA to weigh in. His analysis of the situation is usually spot on.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (x0n13)

======

I love Dave. Dave is good people.

His analysis is suspect at best.

In 2022, he assured us that the AZ governor's race was over. Lake had won.

And then Hobbes turned off signature verification (according to a federal lawsuit that led to a very, very slight punishment for the AZ SoS office) and the Maricopa county sheriff threatened to murder people who wanted to watch the ballot counting.

And Hobbes won.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

98 79 I believe the regime doesn't understand the level of spiciness that a second stolen election will unleash from a populace already fed up with four years of the most blatantly anti-American governance ever.
Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:30 AM (RMjVS)

They're banking that you can't get spicy, because you need to go to work to be able to house and feed your kid.
Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (UnA8+)
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That only lasts until they take away our houses and destroy our food supplies. Then things get *very* spicy indeed. Carolina Reaper spicy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (7fElN)

99 OK, so they cheat. Harris "wins" with an unprecedented (unbelievable) D turnout.

The media goes crazy celebrating. Completely boycotts anything questioning the results.

No one other that the massively deluded believes it.

What then?

Congress?

Secretaries of States?

What approach can be taken that wasn't shot down before?

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (QB+5g)

100 91 91 Effing Todd Brad!
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (Aqu9a)

Old and Busted : Steve-Dave.

New Hotness : Todd-Brad.

Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (UnA8+)

101 94 Seth Keshel
@RealSKeshel • 1d

PENNSYLVANIA - Change in Voter Registration by Party since 2020
63 of 67 counties shifted Republican, current as of 9/30/2024 update
Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (N0/CS)

Factor in the huge number of people who tore up their R registration to be independent, too. (like me)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (DDGz9)

102 It will delay election results and hurt the illegal democrat voter fraud effort... but mostly illegal democrat voter fraud effort.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 04, 2024 11:35 AM (17s+e)

103 101 Factor in the huge number of people who tore up their R registration to be independent, too. (like me)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (DDGz9)

=======

In 2020, in FL, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by about 200,000.

Now, Republicans outnumber Democrats by about 800,000.

All others have remained just about the same.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

104 Our genius VP Harris has promised $750 to storm victims. But not if they had homeowners insurance. Some have already called and been turned down.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:33 AM (RKVpM)

Insurance deductibles, how do they work?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 04, 2024 11:36 AM (Aqu9a)

105 Prosecutors Seek Indefinite Delay In Trial Of Alleged Trump Assassin Over "Complex" Evidence

According to a Wednesday filing with Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon, prosecutors have gathered too much evidence to proceed to trial - including hundreds of witness interviews, 13 search warrants, and the seizure of "multiple electronic devices" from locations in Florida, Hawaii, and North Carolina. The overwhelming amount of digital data to review - around 4,000 terabytes - allegedly led to the request.

Posted by: SMOD at October 04, 2024 11:36 AM (GITLP)

106 Elon Musk is attending Trump's rally in Butler, PA tomorrow. Trump is returning to the spot where they tried to murder him because he says he has a duty to finish what he started.

I bet that will be one hell of a crowd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (LkLld)

In reflecting on this, I hope he donates as much proceeds or equivalent raised to the aggrieved and injured from the prior rally that he can. I imagine that he has already taken care of them. But it would be a nice gesture to the community.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:36 AM (i24o9)

107 If you turn down the media propaganda this isn't a close race. It comes down to what it has always been about, can Trump/Vance beat the cheat. Some of the structural advantages Biden had in 2020 like mass mail in voting and the virus fallout the media put 100% on Trump don't exist this year. Worse, Harris has a record and it is one of almost unparalleled failure across the board and we haven't come close to hearing the totality of the fallout from the hurricane.

The uniparty will cheat. We all know that. The only question is will they be able to cheat enough.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:28 AM (LkLld)

My one disappointment in the Vance/Walz debate was that Vance dodged on whether the 2020 election was on the level. If that question had been asked as recently as a year ago, I can see mainstream politicians avoiding the issue. Now, however, with the news that came out of GA, AZ and WI about hinky happenings in 2020 I think it's safe to at least question the validity of whether J6 should have at least delayed the vote to investigate what happened. I've always believed that the election was stolen from Trump, but now is the time to raise that question publicly.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:36 AM (BYwg+)

108 38 forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

But if you owe $200,000 in student loans, the government will bail you out!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 04, 2024 11:37 AM (x0n13)

109 [Hysterical laughter]

-- Dominion
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

=========

True.

There will be nothing stopping an urban center from saying they have 100,000 more votes than voters other than the will of the courts to take up a case.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
_________

Yes, but as I've been screaming from the rooftops, I think it will be more sinister than that. What's to stop them from digitally changing a vote count of 100k in a given precinct that went 55k for Trump and 45k for Tralala to 45k for Trump and 55k for Tralala? It absolutely can be done with Dominion's dogshit security and software.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 04, 2024 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

110 East Cali (formerly known as CO) has ranked choice voting on the ballot. As sure I as I sit here, it'll pass.

Posted by: Old Blue at October 04, 2024 11:37 AM (X6YhY)

111 110 East Cali (formerly known as CO) has ranked choice voting on the ballot. As sure I as I sit here, it'll pass.
Posted by: Old Blue at October 04, 2024 11:37 AM (X6YhY)

"List these seven candidates in order, from most rank to least rank."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:38 AM (DDGz9)

112 Remember how we spent billions on new voting machines and staff to see election day go to election month and to get results no one believes?

Good time good times

Posted by: 18-1 at October 04, 2024 11:38 AM (oZhjI)

113 What approach can be taken that wasn't shot down before?

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (QB+5g)

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (RMjVS)

114 This video was posted on SmallDeadAnimals.

Chilling how FEMA is handling this disaster.

https://x.com/angelanashtn/status/1842023887191581140
Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (JkA2a)
***

It's after a hundred so I'll add to this:
With the exception of the comment about FEMA saying they were too tied up at the border to send any more people, most of what this woman is reporting is OK. Someplace needs to be a field morgue. The death toll will top a thousand soon. The army policing up bodies is probably the right people to do it. Material to support that mission needs to be brought in just like every thing else.
This is the grim side of this disaster and if not jumped on soon, the affects will be nasty.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (W/lyH)

115 For all of you who think that the Feds have gotten bad at this only recently, I have news for you.

I survived the Rapid Ciry flood in 1972. 238 people died.

Same crap went on then. My dad had to run I to the ditc in the median on I-90 the day after the flood to get us kids to safety and take us to MT to our aunts house. I will never forget looking out the station wagon window at soldiers with their guns drawn point at us. I thought they were going to shoot us. I think the sight of six little scared kids looking at them gave them pause. I don't know.

Dad left us at his sister's and he and mom drove back to help with recovery. They found bodies, there was no water, no sewer, no power for a long time. And that was just localized flooding. I can't imagine the devastation. I remember the smell, even weeks later.

It's also where I learned not to trust the Red Cross. Dad said when they were out doing body recovery, the Red Crosz would set up lunch tables for them then charge them for the food. The Salvation Army would also set up tables but gave away the food and water.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (JkA2a)

116 >>> 53 This video was posted on SmallDeadAnimals.

Chilling how FEMA is handling this disaster.

https://x.com/angelanashtn
/status/1842023887191581140
Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:22 AM (JkA2a)

What we are hearing from "official" sources is utter BS; whatever the details are, it is obviously orders of magnitude worse than what feralgov and friends are telling us.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (FnneF)

117 His analysis is suspect at best.

. . .

And Hobbes won.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

All the things in the . . . do not make the analysis suspect. They make the analysis only one piece that must be considered in modern dem-controlled elections.

Most generously, you could say he should add a dem-fraud disclaimer or caveat. Because nobody except dems controlling the elections are able to accurately predict what dems are willing to do for power.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (i24o9)

118 "Remember how we spent billions on new voting machines and staff to see election day go to election month and to get results no one believes?"

Automation for the Win!!!!!

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (QB+5g)

119 An etch-a-sketch would be a more secure "voting machine".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (DDGz9)

120 >>I love Dave. Dave is good people.

>>His analysis is suspect at best.

No it isn't. It's moronic to blame Dave for the level of cheat none of us can factor. You yourself just admitted that the only reason Hobbes won is cheating, that does not make Dave's analysis of the actual election suspect.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (LkLld)

121 What then?

Congress?

...
LOL

...

Secretaries of States?
..

All Dems in AZ WI MI PA NV

Posted by: Not voting our way out at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (ckGiT)

122 The Persistence, aka Scott Pressler:

"Thank you to every single person — including the media — that swiftly covered this story. You all may very well have just netted thousands of new voters in Pennsylvania. This is a big deal."

Links to this Breitbart article: "PA Dept. of State Under Criticism for Site Maintenance on Day of Trump's Return to Butler"

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (N0/CS)

123

Ya'll jumping around like Atlanta City faggots!

Posted by: Skipper at October 04, 2024 11:40 AM (4vkfl)

124 obviously not the case, because you are a figment of my imagination.
Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:20 AM (sGtp+)
*
In a solipsistic world, you can be the brain, or you can be the vat. Or I guess you could be the goop in the vat that the brain is bobbing around in. But I guess the goop is part of the goop + vat system that we simply refer to as all being "the vat". Because you can't have a brain in a vat without goop. That would just be stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024

***
Two hundred quatloos on Warai-otoko!

Posted by: Provider No. 3 at October 04, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

125 forty-two!

************

*silence*

Some people just don't know how to tell a joke.

Posted by: muldoon at October 04, 2024 11:40 AM (uCfKO)

126 117 All the things in the . . . do not make the analysis suspect. They make the analysis only one piece that must be considered in modern dem-controlled elections.

Most generously, you could say he should add a dem-fraud disclaimer or caveat. Because nobody except dems controlling the elections are able to accurately predict what dems are willing to do for power.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (i24o9)

=========

He does that now. But it's obvious that his belief in "good" polls is showing through his cynicism again.

We'll see.

But it leads to the question of: what's the point of poll watching if the polls...don't reflect election results?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

127 Captain's Journal: The Hurricane Helene Hall of Shame

https://tinyurl.com/4fa8h28p

Via Instapundit.

Not a recommended read if you suffer from high blood pressure.

I will say it again and again. You do not hate the government enough.
Posted by: Robert

Well, it's on Facebook now. Thank you.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:41 AM (IB6XK)

128 That's the biggest "secret" to their fraud:
Run it up to ridiculous numbers in 95%+ black precincts and dare lilly-livered, weak-kneed, pansy-ass judges to "take the vote away from blacks worse than any Jim Crow law!!!"

They know no judge will ever, ever, ever--no matter if it's 200% of population that "voted"--rule that the votes from a black precinct should not be counted.

There probably hasn't been a vote in 50 years in a black precinct that has less than 50% fraud.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 04, 2024 11:31 AM (Qlpv5)

I don't know nothin' 'bout ~~birthin' no babies.~~ countin' no ballots.

Posted by: Prissy, Precinct Elections Clerk at October 04, 2024 11:41 AM (Aqu9a)

129 Ya'll jumping around like Atlanta City faggots!
Posted by: Skipper at October 04, 2024 11:40 AM (4vkfl)

Hey, we're from Kansas City!

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:41 AM (RMjVS)

130 120 No it isn't. It's moronic to blame Dave for the level of cheat none of us can factor. You yourself just admitted that the only reason Hobbes won is cheating, that does not make Dave's analysis of the actual election suspect.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (LkLld)

=========

I don't blame him for anything except relying on his preferred polling instead of facts on the ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

131 I want to hear the silence roar.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 04, 2024 11:29 AM (4XwPj)

Heh!
Used that line three times yesterday.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 11:41 AM (W/lyH)

132
Elon Musk is attending Trump's rally in Butler, PA tomorrow. Trump is returning to the spot where they tried to murder him because he says he has a duty to finish what he started.

I bet that will be one hell of a crowd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM

I think it was 2016 he had a rally in Butler but inside the secure airport grounds. He tried to do it there in July but that area was already booked. So he used the less secure fairgrounds.

So when you say "returning to the spot" I hope not. All those roofs, the water tower, etc. Bad location, very bad.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:42 AM (RKVpM)

133 I love Dave. Dave is good people.

His analysis is suspect at best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

All commentary and analysis is just spitballing. Some folks, like Dave, are very good at it and can articulate their thoughts intelligently. Some folks, let's say me, are very very bad at it and basically just call the other side stupid poopy doo-doo brains.

Ya just got to appreciate it for what it is, man. We're all just dudes on the internet.

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 11:42 AM (MCgnr)

134 Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 11:39 AM (W/lyH)

I agree to a certain extent. But we pay taxes so FEMA has refrigerated trucks and whatnot to set up morgues.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:42 AM (JkA2a)

135 In 2022, he assured us that the AZ governor's race was over. Lake had won.

And then Hobbes turned off signature verification (according to a federal lawsuit that led to a very, very slight punishment for the AZ SoS office) and the Maricopa county sheriff threatened to murder people who wanted to watch the ballot counting.

And Hobbes won.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

If you project what would happen assuming a valid and accurate vote, and the other side injects so much cheat into those results that it achieves the opposite of what is correctly predicted, that doesn't invalidate the projection. News that came out regarding that election proved that Dave was in fact correct.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:42 AM (BYwg+)

136 And then Hobbes turned off signature verification (according to a federal lawsuit that led to a very, very slight punishment for the AZ SoS office) and the Maricopa county sheriff threatened to murder people who wanted to watch the ballot counting.

I said at the time Lake's only path to victory was to get an many as voters as she could and go to that building.

Make one of the sheriff's flunkies have to shoot you. Because if they get observers in that building Lake wins.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 04, 2024 11:43 AM (oZhjI)

137 The system works as it is designed to work.

Posted by: brak at October 04, 2024 11:43 AM (NGHTx)

138 Most won't have flood insurance, so flooding won't be covered and they'll be screwed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Pro tip:
Burn everything above the waterline. Fire is covered.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:44 AM (IB6XK)

139 135 If you project what would happen assuming a valid and accurate vote, and the other side injects so much cheat into those results that it achieves the opposite of what is correctly predicted, that doesn't invalidate the projection. News that came out regarding that election proved that Dave was in fact correct.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:42 AM (BYwg+)

========

The projection is who wins the election, not who wins the vote.

Not understanding the breadth and depth of the cheat is a fault in analysis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

140 >>> 98 79 I believe the regime doesn't understand the level of spiciness that a second stolen election will unleash from a populace already fed up with four years of the most blatantly anti-American governance ever.
Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:30 AM (RMjVS)

They're banking that you can't get spicy, because you need to go to work to be able to house and feed your kid.
Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:32 AM (UnA8+)
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That only lasts until they take away our houses and destroy our food supplies. Then things get *very* spicy indeed. Carolina Reaper spicy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 04, 2024 11:34 AM (7fElN)

*tee hee*

Posted by: Unrealized Gains Tax at October 04, 2024 11:45 AM (FnneF)

141 >>My one disappointment in the Vance/Walz debate was that Vance dodged on whether the 2020 election was on the level. If that question had been asked as recently as a year ago, I can see mainstream politicians avoiding the issue. Now, however, with the news that came out of GA, AZ and WI about hinky happenings in 2020 I think it's safe to at least question the validity of whether J6 should have at least delayed the vote to investigate what happened. I've always believed that the election was stolen from Trump, but now is the time to raise that question publicly.

This happened yesterday.

>>Oct 3 (Reuters) - A former Colorado county clerk convicted of illegally tampering with voting machines was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday after repeating Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election at her court hearing.
Tina Peters was convicted at trial of seven counts of engaging in a security breach for opening Mesa County, Colorado’s election computers to Trump allies searching for evidence of fraud.

Tina Peters is a 69 year old. A 9 year sentence for her is life.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:45 AM (LkLld)

142 122 The Persistence, aka Scott Pressler

I sure as hell hope he's got some good security around him at all times because he's a prime candidate for a "botched mugging attempt"

Posted by: Caradoc at October 04, 2024 11:45 AM (k5GN0)

143 But it leads to the question of: what's the point of poll watching if the polls...don't reflect election results?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 04, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

You can black pill that all the way to "why bother voting" . . . and I have.

However, there is individual and social value in clinging to some shred of normalcy with expectations of the same, while fully preparing yourself for that black pill outcome.

Until there isn't. But we are not there, yet.

These consideration do not make the analysis suspect. It makes it one part of the larger picture.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:45 AM (i24o9)

144 98 That only lasts until they take away our houses and destroy our food supplies. Then things get *very* spicy indeed. Carolina Reaper spicy.

ah. perhaps that's why they felt they had to use the weather machine to take out carolina first.

Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:46 AM (sGtp+)

145
There probably hasn't been a vote in 50 years in a black precinct that has less than 50% fraud.

I did an analysis of Philly's votes in the 2004 election and the number of percincts that went 100% Kerry was shocking.

Note, I certainly don't mean those were places where Bush got view votes. I don't even mean places were Bush get no votes and the third party candidates got a few.

I mean literally every vote was for Kerry - no Reps, No LP, no Green, no Socialist, no Independent hell not even votes for the free drug party.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 04, 2024 11:46 AM (oZhjI)

146 Make one of the sheriff's flunkies have to shoot you. Because if they get observers in that building Lake wins.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 04, 2024 11:43 AM (oZhjI)

It's going to eventually come to that.

Go ahead. Take the Shot Heard Round The World again. Fire on a civilian trying to ensure the validity of an election that the government in power is tampering with. See how that plays out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:46 AM (DDGz9)

147 Good to see Governor Kemp supporting Trump. Friend in ATL suburbs says Kemp is running for Senate in 2026, and is playing it cool

Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:46 AM (gwrBY)

148 Most won't have flood insurance, so flooding won't be covered and they'll be screwed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Pro tip:
Burn everything above the waterline. Fire is covered.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:44 AM (IB6XK)

Perhaps I can be of some assistance? For a small percentage, naturally. Reach me through my associates at the Bing.

Posted by: Silvio Dante at October 04, 2024 11:47 AM (Aqu9a)

149 Judges act on innocent until proven guilty but when it comes to government operations the opposite should be in effect. Government always and everywhere should be transparent.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 04, 2024 11:47 AM (gYHPZ)

150 I agree to a certain extent. But we pay taxes so FEMA has refrigerated trucks and whatnot to set up morgues.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:42 AM (JkA2a)

They do but I doubt they have that many trucks, and given typical government contracting issues, it will take a month for them to subcontract a trucking firm with enough refer vans to do the job. Got to go with a hospital where they can do the quick autopsy and prep the body for shipment/storage/burial.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)

151 Tina Peters is a 69 year old. A 9 year sentence for her is life.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:45 AM (LkLld)

Wait, are whistleblowers good or bad now?

I can never keep track.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:48 AM (DDGz9)

152 If Lake had won in AZ, i think she would be the VP nominee. I like Lake, but think Vance is better suited for the ticket.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 04, 2024 11:48 AM (7PziG)

153 >>So when you say "returning to the spot" I hope not. All those roofs, the water tower, etc. Bad location, very bad.

Well according to his press release he is going back to the very same spot. Like him or hate him it's pretty hard to argue Trump doesn't have a huge pair.

If we had an entire party with his fight we would fix this country double plus quick.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:48 AM (LkLld)

154 Go ahead. Take the Shot Heard Round The World again. Fire on a civilian trying to ensure the validity of an election that the government in power is tampering with. See how that plays out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 11:46 AM (DDGz9)

If that happens, it's 'Katie bar the door' time.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:49 AM (RMjVS)

155 AZ is all about the McCain/Flake wing of the GOP. These morons have allowed Hobbs, Sinema, Fontes, and Kelly destroy the state. AZ voters have had enough though and are for Trump, but he would be up double digits without those traitors

Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (gwrBY)

156 East Cali (formerly known as CO) has ranked choice voting on the ballot. As sure I as I sit here, it'll pass.
Posted by: Old Blue

**********

Hey Old Blue. Thanks for mentioning that and I think your prediction is correct.

My Rep, Matt Soper (R) On the Western Slope has come out in favor of RCV because it "it increases the value of a single vote."

No, Matt, it increases the value of a vote for the biggest loser and gives those voters another bite at the apple.

It's not the same dynamic as a run-off election.

Posted by: muldoon at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (uCfKO)

157 It won't get spicy - no matter what. COVID and associated meshugas in 2020 proved that beyond a scintilla of doubt.

That's why *looks around* ALL of this crazy stuff is happening.

We're augering in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (awTae)

158 One of the reasons we are in this mess is because Republicans who were in control of then-red (or purple) states did not pass effective election security laws when they were in power, even though they knew there was significant Democrat voter-fraud in the usual precincts. (Georgia and Arizona are only the most recent examples.) Desantis and the FL GOP have shown what cleaning up elections can do to a state; it's not too late for some other states to do the same thing. I read yesterday that, in NH, Gov. Sununu just signed a law that will require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a voter id to vote. Unfortunately, it doesn't take effect until the next election (and may never take effect if the Democrats take back control of the statehouse next month).

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (qUkBO)

159 My experience with a couple floods and tornadoes is cops (local, state patrol, sheriff) all go into jerk mode and start locking down and keeping everybody out of an area for their own safety, including people with legitimate business there. Some of it is justified but a lot of it is overreactions or just some individual on being on a power binge being an asshole. It extremely frustrating and maddening to deal with.

Posted by: Ripley at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (GUOwU)

160
At least this time they have the bulletproof glass they can set up around him. I think Elon Musk is going to be at the same rally and he's no fan of the leftists right now.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (RKVpM)

161 152 If Lake had won in AZ, i think she would be the VP nominee. I like Lake, but think Vance is better suited for the ticket.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 04, 2024 11:48 AM (7PziG)

I agree. However, I think that it's sad that Ron DeSantis should have been the VP nominee instead of Vance. RDS' mistake was that he went after Trump, believing that the lawfare against him would be successful, leaving a vacuum that he could step into. That, and trusting GOPe advisors whispering sweet nothings into his ear.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:51 AM (BYwg+)

162 >>>So when you say "returning to the spot" I hope not. All those roofs, the water tower, etc. Bad location, very bad.

Outdoor venues were supposed to have BP glass surrounds of the podium. Let him return to those people.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:51 AM (i24o9)

163
They do but I doubt they have that many trucks, and given typical government contracting issues, it will take a month for them to subcontract a trucking firm with enough refer vans to do the job. Got to go with a hospital where they can do the quick autopsy and prep the body for shipment/storage/burial.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)

Very true. I'm very afraid that the number of deaths will be far greater than the number of injured. Like 9/11. The hospitals prepped for large numbers of injuries but there weren't many survivors. Absolute tragedy. My heart goes out to these people.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:52 AM (JkA2a)

164 It would have been Noem, if she did not flame out

Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:52 AM (gwrBY)

165 However, I think that it's sad that Ron DeSantis should have been the VP nominee instead of Vance. RDS' mistake was that he went after Trump, believing that the lawfare against him would be successful, leaving a vacuum that he could step into. That, and trusting GOPe advisors whispering sweet nothings into his ear.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:51 AM (BYwg+)

That was a colossal, idiotic mistake. That and hiding behind his idiotic influencer shadow campaign. He's got a lot of work ahead of him to recover from that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:53 AM (i24o9)

166 My Rep, Matt Soper (R) On the Western Slope has come out in favor of RCV because it "it increases the value of a single vote."

No, Matt, it increases the value of a vote for the biggest loser and gives those voters another bite at the apple.

It's not the same dynamic as a run-off election.

Posted by: muldoon at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (uCfKO)

Matt's an idiot. Election results should be decided in ways that the average eighth-grader can perform, i.e. counting ballots. RCV turns ballot-counting into a black-box process that the average person can't decipher easily. It's undemocratic by its nature.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:53 AM (BYwg+)

167
It would have been Noem, if she did not flame out

Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:52 AM

Is she still dogged by the same issue?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:54 AM (RKVpM)

168 161, Big fan of Desantis, and a pro lifer like Ron. But abortion would have been more front and center if he was VP nominee

Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:54 AM (gwrBY)

169 157 It won't get spicy - no matter what. COVID and associated meshugas in 2020 proved that beyond a scintilla of doubt.

That's why *looks around* ALL of this crazy stuff is happening.

We're augering in.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (awTae)

This is gonna make some people mad, but I'm starting to have to believe that all these "badass killers" actually aren't.

They're just drunk old men sitting in their rocking chairs.

Posted by: XTC at October 04, 2024 11:55 AM (UnA8+)

170 right. How about the idiots in the GOP who want to abolish the electoral college? Insanity

Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:55 AM (gwrBY)

171 Yeah JackStraw, that Tina Peters story is utter bulkcrap.

Trying to dig through the crap, it looks like she got convicted of using false ID to let a guy copy the data before the voting machine was altered. But the guy whose ID she borrowed seemed to be ok with it, then said in the stand he didn't know?

Sentencing a whistle blower to nine years in prison... biden lawfare at its finest.

It's sad that all the news outlets, even some Breitbart writers, want to throw her under the bus and act like she's the most treasonous person ever.

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (N0/CS)

172 >>> 168 161, Big fan of Desantis, and a pro lifer like Ron. But abortion would have been more front and center if he was VP nominee
Posted by: Jonah at October 04, 2024 11:54 AM (gwrBY)

More than "OMG DRUMPF WANTS TO BAN MUHBORTION NATIONWIDE!!!"?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (FnneF)

173 East Cali (formerly known as CO) has ranked choice voting on the ballot. As sure I as I sit here, it'll pass.
Posted by: Old Blue

**********

Hey Old Blue. Thanks for mentioning that and I think your prediction is correct.

My Rep, Matt Soper (R) On the Western Slope has come out in favor of RCV because it "it increases the value of a single vote."

No, Matt, it increases the value of a vote for the biggest loser and gives those voters another bite at the apple.

It's not the same dynamic as a run-off election.

Posted by: muldoon at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (uCfKO)
***

We have it here and it was crammed through by the Dems that have a solid majority. They can RCV to keep it safe. Now we get to enjoy dictatorship by the majority.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (W/lyH)

174 That was a colossal, idiotic mistake. That and hiding behind his idiotic influencer shadow campaign. He's got a lot of work ahead of him to recover from that.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 11:53 AM (i24o9)

DeSantis' online influencers were the single biggest reason I stopped being a fan. Those jerks were (and many still are) intolerable.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (RMjVS)

175
There needs to be a voter ID Card that is like a drivers license/passport. Scanable and print off a paper receipt. Maybe a fingerprint scan as well. The vote needs to be treated with the security of a gold bar.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (+oR7L)

176 Good. Remind people. They are trying as hard as possible to memory hole this.

I was dead set on sitting out the election until the Party tried to kill him. That bullet to the head earned him my vote. I can't be the only one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (awTae)

177 I lived on a costal barrier island in FL for a long time. Had a number of evacuation notices given. Heeded a few, ignored a few.

The cops would regularly shut down the causeways for a couple of days not letting anyone other that "emergency" personnel to pass by. Mostly because of "downed power lines".

This was a huge factor in people deciding to ride it out.

Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:57 AM (QB+5g)

178 Ra ked choice voting is on the ballot in SD too. They aren't calling it that though.

The wording is intentional confusing so who knows if it will pass.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 04, 2024 11:57 AM (JkA2a)

179
Ron DeSantis will make a great VP for eight years, then get his shot.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 11:57 AM (RKVpM)

180 Womp.

@capitolreport
·
1h
Trump’s Saturday rally at the Butler Farm Show is set to have a special guest.

@elonmusk
says he “will be there to support” the Republican presidential nominee at the site of attempted assassination.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 11:58 AM (LkLld)

181 166 Matt's an idiot. Election results should be decided in ways that the average eighth-grader can perform, i.e. counting ballots. RCV turns ballot-counting into a black-box process that the average person can't decipher easily.

how long until we hand all the ballots, pregnant chads and all, over to chatgpt and have it "count" them?

Posted by: anachronda at October 04, 2024 11:58 AM (sGtp+)

182
This platinum blond is a friends with Captain Kangaroo:

https://youtu.be/BTSmGFa_vtA?si=gnPHmjMv_3iMoQUY&t=275

Posted by: Soothsayer Mannix at October 04, 2024 11:59 AM (dQzv6)

183 Yes, it was always "no evidence of widespread fraud", meaning that there wasn't fraud EVERYWHERE, so it wasn't widespread. However, we all know where the decisive precincts in each battleground state are, and it is EXACTLY in those precincts that the fraud took place.

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 04, 2024 11:59 AM (gAuAm)

184 I lived on a costal barrier island in FL for a long time. Had a number of evacuation notices given. Heeded a few, ignored a few.

Galveston, Texas - Hurricane Alicia
Upon order of the Governor all leaves & vacations are canceled. No evacuation possible. Everyone is to remain on island.

Yeah. Sucked working for the government.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 11:59 AM (IB6XK)

185 Somewhat related to disaster response - when did the standard response to an interstate problem become 'shut down traffic and force people to wait in their cars all day' instead of 'find a fcking re-route and get them moving or at least turned around'?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 04, 2024 12:00 PM (FnneF)

186 I would prefer DeSantis get a key cabinet role eventually. Where he can actually do something.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 04, 2024 12:00 PM (7PziG)

187 I would prefer DeSantis get a key cabinet role eventually. Where he can actually do something.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 04, 2024 12:00 PM (7PziG)

DHS - FEMA. He seems to do well there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 12:01 PM (i24o9)

188 In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden “won” Georgia by less than 12,000 votes

I was watching Tucker Carlson some time ago. He had a video of a huge Stacey Abrams look alike stuffing what looked like 12,000 ballots into a ballot box.
I wonder how many "Staceys" are out there in 2024.

Posted by: DAN at October 04, 2024 12:02 PM (BJziQ)

189 Thx Buck. I still believe that the #of blacks and Latinos shifting to Trump will overcome the steal. I may be wrong but the continued clusterf**k that is Buden/Harris /Walz makes me think I'm right

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 04, 2024 12:02 PM (F+WBi)

190 It's sad that all the news outlets, even some Breitbart writers, want to throw her under the bus and act like she's the most treasonous person ever.
Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (N0/CS)

The rumor, from a Colorado Twitter account, is that she's going to jail because she refused an order to destroy all the evidence. Everything else is just the process used to put her in jail.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 04, 2024 12:03 PM (s9EYN)

191 I would prefer DeSantis get a key cabinet role eventually. Where he can actually do something.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

Secretary of Ass Kicking?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 04, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

192 OT but I just realized I'm parked next to a truck that says "Bellatrix Transport" in Harry Potter style lettering.

Should...should I knock on his door and tell him to read another book?

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:03 PM (MCgnr)

193 188 I was watching Tucker Carlson some time ago. He had a video of a huge Stacey Abrams look alike stuffing what looked like 12,000 ballots into a ballot box.
I wonder how many "Staceys" are out there in 2024.

forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 12:04 PM (sGtp+)

194 190 It's sad that all the news outlets, even some Breitbart writers, want to throw her under the bus and act like she's the most treasonous person ever.
Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (N0/CS)

The rumor, from a Colorado Twitter account, is that she's going to jail because she refused an order to destroy all the evidence. Everything else is just the process used to put her in jail.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 04, 2024 12:03 PM (s9EYN)

If she's going to the clink, she won't be there long after Trump is inaugurated in 2025.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:04 PM (BYwg+)

195
The Biden/Walz yard signs are popping up in my area like blue dandelions. WTF is wrong with people?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 12:04 PM (RKVpM)

196 Desantis got that bridge built in record time after a hurricane, and he pushed back against the woke. He'd be good running commerce or emergency management. Problem is he sounds like an aw shucks yokel sometimes in his cadence.

He needs to keep rocking the FL, work on his cadence and presentation. Vance in the VP debate is a good representation of what every aspiring conservative politician should aim for. If he can sound more like that and some time has lapsed from his clumsy campaign--and he ramps down on the boots with heels wearing--he is in a good place for 2028 or 2032.

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 12:05 PM (ylosT)

197 OT but I just realized I'm parked next to a truck that says "Bellatrix Transport" in Harry Potter style lettering.

Should...should I knock on his door and tell him to read another book?
Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:03 PM (MCgnr)

Do you think it's a dude?

Posted by: spindrift at October 04, 2024 12:05 PM (OguvZ)

198 193 188 I was watching Tucker Carlson some time ago. He had a video of a huge Stacey Abrams look alike stuffing what looked like 12,000 ballots into a ballot box.
I wonder how many "Staceys" are out there in 2024.

forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 04, 2024 12:04 PM (sGtp+)

"so long, and thanks for all the ballots!"

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:05 PM (BYwg+)

199 Somewhat related to disaster response - when did the standard response to an interstate problem become 'shut down traffic and force people to wait in their cars all day' instead of 'find a fcking re-route and get them moving or at least turned around'?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 04, 2024

***
A westbound portion if I-10 outside my city was shut down this morning thanks to an accident involving an eighteen-wheeler. That stretch runs over water, so there is no place to divert cars once they're on it. A big electronic sign back at the last exit, or last two, before a driver gets to the bridge, "Accident Ahead: Take Alternatre Route," would have helped. Of course this dump is too poor or too stupid to think of that.

We used to have those warning signs during the summer in Denver, when road crews were repairing things. And they would mount the signs far enough back so you could divert. Here, if they have them, they put up the signs so you're already in the mess before you see them. . . .

Posted by: Provider No. 3 at October 04, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

200 Those jerks were (and many still are) intolerable.
Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (RMjVS)

Sadly agreed. I still like *him* though. Especially since he's very valuable where he is, showing Governor Hotwheels how to get things done. Texas would be in a much worse position if DeSantis weren't governor of Florida.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 04, 2024 12:06 PM (s9EYN)

201 189 Thx Buck. I still believe that the #of blacks and Latinos shifting to Trump will overcome the steal. I may be wrong but the continued clusterf**k that is Buden/Harris /Walz makes me think I'm right
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 04, 2024 12:02 PM (F+WBi)

Hypothetical minority: "Yeah, but I can't vote for Trump, he's a Republican."

Repubicans*: "Trump isn't a Republican!"

Hypothetical minority: "Word?"

(* stet, because lol)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 12:06 PM (DDGz9)

202 she's going to jail because she refused an order to destroy all the evidence. Everything else is just the process used to put her in jail.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 04, 2024 12:03 PM (s9EYN)

Of course. As a warning to others.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 12:06 PM (i24o9)

203 Jena Griswald, the CO SoS, had it in for Tina Peters. Jena's a wannabe communist dictator who has flaunted the law many times.

Posted by: Old Blue at October 04, 2024 12:06 PM (X6YhY)

204 If the media is already "explaining" how to expect election results again, it's over.

I had hope as I hadn't yet seen any "news" regarding this but this post confirms it for me.

We aren't voting our way out and that's how they want it

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (HX9uv)

205 I think states should do whatever they want with regards to local (state/county) elections but a national election should have one set of rules for every state.

If nothing else it would funnel the fraud into fewer channels to follow. And maybe limit the number of lawsuits that will result.

Crafting a national set of election laws would be... a cluster fuck with the current political climate however.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (Q4IgG)

206 OT but I just realized I'm parked next to a truck that says "Bellatrix Transport" in Harry Potter style lettering.

Should...should I knock on his door and tell him to read another book?
Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024

***
The word means "female warrior" in Latin. I don't suppose most people know that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (J2vNu)

207 Do you think it's a dude?
Posted by: spindrift at October 04, 2024 12:05 PM (OguvZ)

Suppose it could be a furry.

I'll report back if I see a dude in a giant animal costume drive off.

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (MCgnr)

208 This was a huge factor in people deciding to ride it out.
Posted by: pawn at October 04, 2024 11:57 AM (QB+5g)

So their heavy handedness caused more people to stay? Sounds about right.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 04, 2024 12:08 PM (s9EYN)

209 The word means "female warrior" in Latin. I don't suppose most people know that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (J2vNu)

I did not know that. :B

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (MCgnr)

210 >>> OT but I just realized I'm parked next to a truck that says "Bellatrix Transport" in Harry Potter style lettering. Should...should I knock on his door and tell him to read another book?

Shipping some crazies to Azkaban? Can we add all the congresscritters in DC too?

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (ylosT)

211 I was watching Tucker Carlson some time ago. He had a video of a huge Stacey Abrams look alike stuffing what looked like 12,000 ballots into a ballot box.
I wonder how many "Staceys" are out there in 2024.
Posted by: DAN at October 04, 2024

***
I was sure you were going to write, "a huge Stacey Abrams look alike stuffing her face."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

212 Nood.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (BYwg+)

213 Sorry. No nood.

Please forgive me.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:10 PM (BYwg+)

214 Well it can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at October 04, 2024 12:10 PM (HumJm)

215 well she probably ate most of them,

but yeah 20,000 vote discrepancy is big,

Posted by: no 6 at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (PXvVL)

216 Darrell Harris to the white courtesy phone. Darrell Harris to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: The Barrel at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (i24o9)

217 Nood.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (BYwg+)

I see no nood.

Is this just a test of the Emergency Nood System?

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (MCgnr)

218 The word means "female warrior" in Latin. I don't suppose most people know that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024
*
I did not know that. :B
Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024

***
I looked it up to be sure. But the "bella-" (or "bellum") part means "war," and the "-trix" is a learned suffix meaning "female," as in "aviatrix."

Rowling slipped a lot of semi-Latin gags into the stories.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

219 DHS - FEMA. He seems to do well there.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 04, 2024 12:01 PM (i24o9)

Very true.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (s9EYN)

220 Nood.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (BYwg+)

I see no nood.

Is this just a test of the Emergency Nood System?

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (MCgnr)

Stay in your posts, people. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Posted by: The Authoritah at October 04, 2024 12:12 PM (i24o9)

221 East Cali (formerly known as CO) has ranked choice voting on the ballot. As sure I as I sit here, it'll pass.
Posted by: Old Blue

Got my summary of ballot stuff and perused it. When I saw the ranked choice bullshit, I thought, "well, fuck. One more reason why we need to leave this fucked up state.

Everything going on right now is really starting to get to me, but I can't just sever ties. I need to know what's happening. Being ignorant of the shitstorm is not a good thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Telling War Stories at October 04, 2024 12:12 PM (xPJvm)

222 Nood.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (BYwg+)

I see no nood.

Is this just a test of the Emergency Nood System?
Posted by: Robert

Fake noodity spends a night in the barrel.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 12:12 PM (IB6XK)

223 Shipping some crazies to Azkaban? Can we add all the congresscritters in DC too?
Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 12:09 PM (ylosT)

I can easily ship the entire Senate in my trailer with enough room for the House Democrat leadership.

Posted by: Robert at October 04, 2024 12:12 PM (MCgnr)

224 The word means "female warrior" in Latin. I don't suppose most people know that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (J2vNu)

It's also one of the two "shoulder" stars in the constellation Orion (the other ... Betelgeuse!).

Beware of burning attack ships.

Posted by: spindrift at October 04, 2024 12:12 PM (OguvZ)

225 Stay in your posts, people. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Posted by: The Authoritah at October 04, 2024

***
GO TO YOUR STATIONS!

Posted by: Romulan Commander at October 04, 2024 12:13 PM (J2vNu)

226 216 Darrell Harris to the white courtesy phone. Darrell Harris to the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: The Barrel at October 04, 2024 12:11 PM (i24o9)

*Hello?*

*yes...yes...uh huh...*

*Ok. As you wish.*

Time to do my penance. Bringing a toothbrush.

BRB folks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:13 PM (BYwg+)

227 My street at our old house had to evacuate for an overturned fuel truck. Literal river of fuel flowing down the road.

Fire trucks and cops rolled through to shout "evacuate immediately" on their PA systems. Most did, some didn't. Chatting with cops and firemen later on, they were universally saying "yeah, whatever, we don't give a shit, we did our job". And they did, admirably. They had a shelter/staging area set up almost immediately, they kept everything moving and avoided panic. And they handled everyone coming back well, too. Firemen would come and clear your house for lingering volatiles with their sensor gear, especially in the basement, if you waited for your turn. Or, you could just go take your chances, whatever. Good for them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 04, 2024 12:13 PM (DDGz9)

228
The reports of a Nood are only premature.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 04, 2024 12:13 PM (RKVpM)

229 The word means "female warrior" in Latin. I don't suppose most people know that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 12:07 PM (J2vNu)

It's also one of the two "shoulder" stars in the constellation Orion (the other ... Betelgeuse!).

Beware of burning attack ships.
Posted by: spindrift

And glittering C beams.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 04, 2024 12:13 PM (IB6XK)

230 This is especially funny, because the regime media is constantly putting out pieces advising us not to expect a winner on election night.

------------

Arizona, and specifically Maricopa County again, is going to be a nightmare (as they steal the election from Kari Lake again and we likely have stolen our one-seat majority in the State House & Senate).

The Commies have put so many propositions on the ballot that it's two-pages of "votes" on two sides of paper. They're estimating about 20 minutes to fill-out the entire thing in person at the polls (so bank your votes early)!

They've tested running the ballots through the tabulating machines, and they're constantly jamming. F*ck Me and Us ... but mostly Us!

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 04, 2024 12:14 PM (tU7vi)

231 I just saw the Kamala border czar song...its great https://tinyurl.com/ybbujyx5

Posted by: 18-1 at October 04, 2024 12:14 PM (oZhjI)

232 Premature noodulation

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 04, 2024 12:14 PM (F+WBi)

233 The reports of a Nood are only premature.

OLD

Posted by: It's me donna at October 04, 2024 12:14 PM (IyPmt)

234 #21 Again IMO, my vote like any others matters not if uts tomorrow or election day. All early mail vote do is give the Marxists a chance to stuff votes in the mail or those BS Street ballots vacuuming.

Posted by: Skip at October 04, 2024 12:14 PM (HumJm)

235 I sincerely hope Helene turned many electronic voting machines into junk.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 04, 2024 12:15 PM (1nfzE)

236 Who are people watching or tuning into election eve?

I'm intrigued by Stephen Crowder's work to announce winners election night and ensure accurate calls. Supposedly he's sunk at least a million into his election night coverage efforts and ensuring people on the ground are helping to announce and monitor. And he swears to stay up all night, no going to bed and waking up to a flooded pipe surprise.

I'll check in there, wondering where else to check in for accurate reporting.

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 12:16 PM (gh+Ib)

237 There's a nood. For realz this time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 12:18 PM (BYwg+)

238 Rowling studied Latin. Which seems like a useless thing to study, unless you are writing a wizarding word where spells are based heavily in Latin, ha. Glad she could do something with it!

Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 12:18 PM (a77pX)

239 What are the Deep state plots against Donald Trump? 1. NY prosecutions both state and dity. 2. GA prosecutions in Fulton County. 3. Federal prosecutions both in DC and FL. Note that NONE of these prosecutions started until Trump announced he was running for President in 2024. 4.The withholding of the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop by the FBI. 5.The plot to call the laptop Russian disinformation by 51 intel officers. 6.The FEMA conspiracy to withhold aid from East Palestine and Hurricane Helena victims -since they are likely Trump voters. 7.The importation of millions of illegal aliens into the United States. 8.The BLM/Antifa riots of 2020. 9.The Covid biological weapon attack and shutdowns to facilitate the theft of the 2020 election. 10.The spying on the Trump campaign. 11.The false Alpha Bank story. 12. The Mueller investigation. 13.The false impeachments.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 04, 2024 12:20 PM (Da7Vv)

240 Trying to dig through the crap, it looks like she got convicted of using false ID to let a guy copy the data before the voting machine was altered.
Posted by: LizLem at October 04, 2024 11:56 AM (N0/CS)

That seems to be the crux of it: she allowed an unauthorized individual to access the systems. Regardless of her intentions, that was a major security violation. Nine years seems a little excessive; clearly they were sending a message.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at October 04, 2024 12:20 PM (VGRuw)

241 Sorry for the typo "state and city".

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 04, 2024 12:22 PM (Da7Vv)

242 >>> • “If you lose your receipt, it doesn’t mean you didn’t get groceries. “

That is exactly ass backwards.
Loosing poll tape is same as not getting any groceries doesn't mean you don't have to pay the bottom line on the bill.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 04, 2024 12:23 PM (t+Tko)

243 I want a blow out election. A landslide so yuge that the demoncrats are left in the fetal position whimpering, "please make it stop". A complete repudiation of, not just Harris and Walz, but of all demoncrats and their destructive policies everywhere. I want greasy Newsome to be hiding under his bed muttering" I don't want to do this anymore. It's not fun now.". I want progressives going dark and silent out of fear that they will be hunted for their stupidity. I want millions of illegal invaders rushing back across the border so fast it creates a wind vortex. I want the uniparty creatures in the House and Senate to be stark white pale, trembling, and horrified by the knowledge that they have been rejected and neutered. I want those Palestine protesters crawling through the shrubbery, praying no one sees them. I want Trump to destroy it all.

Hey baby... How YOU doin'?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 04, 2024 12:29 PM (QCu82)

244 It's amazing what Dems can accomplish right before an election.

Suddenly the border is really quiet.

Posted by: Blago at October 04, 2024 12:31 PM (wMRY8)

245
Rudy Giuliani had a civil judgement of over $40 million against him for correctly identifying the identities and actions of two land whales in Atlanta who pulled out a suitcase of ballots after the count was officially shut down for the night, and fed the ballots through a tabulating machine again and again.

The judgement stands. It as on video, the whole world could see what they did, and the judgement stands.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 04, 2024 12:43 PM (t1fZA)

246 It's amazing what Dems can accomplish right before an election.

Suddenly the border is really quiet.

That's because they are flying people in directly.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 04, 2024 12:44 PM (Da7Vv)

247 Judge sentenced a Colorado county clerk because short version, she copied voting machine hard drives she believed were corrupted to cause a cheat and posted them on the internet to discuss.

He sentenced her to 9 years. They want to start a Civil War. Besides the J6 political prisoners the Left have imprisoned to hard time a peaceful abortion protesting grandmother and a Hillary meme making blogger.

Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at October 04, 2024 12:52 PM (D6PGr)

248 I was told this was all about election integrity. It's not okay just to say, "well the fraud didn't matter".

I want to know, absolutely know, the election was as fair as humanly possible.

I want in person voting, ID presented, and your finger stained with dye to show you voted, and anyone caught defrauding to get 10 years in the fucking clink, breaking big rocks into little rocks.

Can't make it to the polls? Tough shit. The one exception I would make for that is the military. Everyone else - show up or you don't matter.

I've never, in 65 years, not shown up at the polls to vote. It takes all of 10 minutes.

Posted by: El Mariachi at October 04, 2024 12:52 PM (nLFEI)

249 We only have the word of the press, and those who did the election fraud in the first place that it wasn't enough to flip the election.

There are other counties in Georgia than Fulton County.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 04, 2024 01:13 PM (n7h9X)

250 I think the steal is already baked in. The malfeasance going on in North Carolina tells me no one is afraid of an investigation by an incoming Trump administration.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 04, 2024 11:19 AM (WPL6O)

More likely they are trying to get a last score before they get turfed out. They can probably rely on coverups to keep any actual legal consequences from hitting them.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 04, 2024 01:16 PM (n7h9X)

251 My Rep, Matt Soper (R) On the Western Slope has come out in favor of RCV because it "it increases the value of a single vote."

No, Matt, it increases the value of a vote for the biggest loser and gives those voters another bite at the apple.

It's not the same dynamic as a run-off election.

Posted by: muldoon at October 04, 2024 11:50 AM (uCfKO)

Matt's an idiot. Election results should be decided in ways that the average eighth-grader can perform, i.e. counting ballots. RCV turns ballot-counting into a black-box process that the average person can't decipher easily. It's undemocratic by its nature.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 04, 2024 11:53 AM (BYwg+)

Ranked choice voting isn't that much *harder* to understand than any other kind. The problem with it is that in effect losers get to vote twice, or three times and the voters for the leading candidate do not. Thus it violates one man one vote.

It enhances the power of splinter single issue parties, and of corrupt deals of these splinter groups to throw support to a major party. Look at all the crap in Europe when election after election the corrupt parties lose but somehow they end up still running things.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 04, 2024 01:27 PM (n7h9X)

252 )) Hot girls are waiting for you on --- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Liola at October 04, 2024 01:50 PM (z+/Q/)

253 As long as GA has the Democrat pedos Ratsbergger and Kemp you can expect voter fraud.

Posted by: fu man chu at October 04, 2024 02:38 PM (oPwYY)

254 The Hotties for Harris kids all look like they came from that loozer Fraternity in the Revenge of the Nerds movie.

Posted by: DAN at October 04, 2024 03:05 PM (BJziQ)

255 The Demo-Rats want Power and Control of America and Americans

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 04, 2024 05:51 PM (wGqjj)

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