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Closing the Barn Door – Changes in Voting Laws [Dave in Fla]

These bills are an unmistakable response to the unfounded and dangerous lies about fraud that followed the 2020 election.
-- The Brennan Center

Let’s get it out on the table from the start. Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Election fraud in Atlanta, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Milwaukee allowed a historic turnout and electoral victory to be stolen from Trump. I’m not going to spend time in this post proving this or explaining the evidence (though I may do such a post, if there is interest).

What I want to talk about is the response to the election in the state legislatures.

I know, I know. What is the point? The Democrats stole an election and at least 3 Senate seats, they proved they can do it, with the willing assistance of Republicans at both the federal and state levels. They will just do it again in 2022, and 2024, and on and on for what is left of our Republic.

It’s a good question.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know that our political philosophy is the majority opinion of this country and the majority in enough states to deliver over 300 Electoral Votes. The future depends a great deal on whether or not the populations of individual states will enforce their political will on their states and demand fair elections.

So let’s pretend that voting still matters.

In the aftermath of 2020 twenty-eight states have introduced legislation to put additional restrictions on voting mechanisms. Now, not all of these are going to become law. Bills introduced in New Jersey and Washington are unlikely to become law because of Democrat opposition. But there is considerable activity in many of the Battleground states to address the mess from 2020 and to ensure elections in those states are fair going forward.

The legislative remedies run a wide gamut, including limitations on vote by mail, restrictions on automatic absentee ballot mailing, ballot harvesting, voter ID, stricter signature requirements, ballot return restrictions, poll watcher access, and voter roll purging. Let’s take a closer look at what is going on in six states, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Georgia, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

Arizona

These proposals are a concerted effort from those in Arizona — and across the nation — who wish to sow additional doubts about our elections in the minds of voters, and feed into the paranoia that has plagued our political discourse over the past several months"
-- Michael Bidwell, Arizona Cardinals President

Of course the big news out of Arizona is the ongoing audit. In the reporting on the audit you can see how the MSM manages to keep a lid on information. They flood the internet with the same story, all about how insane it is to question the legitimacy of the Arizona vote.

Arizona’s problem plagued audit”
-- CNN
Arizona Republicans flock to fringe conservative media
-- The Hill
Arizona 2020 election Review: Risks for Republicans
-- NY Times
Republicans push to export absurd Arizona style election audits
-- Huffington Post

Finding factual information on the audit is difficult, and the media frenzy over the situation is very much a “Lady doth protest too much” moment. There is also a concerted effort to discredit whatever results are announced with words like “flawed” “troubled” and “partisan” used liberally in all reporting. Also of note, representatives from both Georgia and Pennsylvania have visited Arizona to learn about the process being used.

Outside of the audit, there was one piece of legislation passed. Michael Bidwell’s overwrought response above is to a pretty benign change that was signed into law on April 15, 2021. Arizona has eliminated the Permanent Early Voting List where ballots are sent automatically to voters in every election they are eligible to vote. The new law removes voters from the list if they do not use their ballot for two election cycles. This change has been derided everywhere as “VOTER SUPPRESSION” (apparently a nationwide theme). I have to wonder how many votes Democrats receive legitimately, if a minor change like this amps their rhetoric up to eleventy.

If the audit results in evidence that the Arizona election result were wrong, then expect additional legislation to be introduced. A number of lawmakers have said that they are waiting to see those results.

Florida

If you can’t cast your ballot, or others make it more difficult for you to be able to do, they’re basically impeding your freedom and your voice.
-- Charlie Crist, former Florida Governor, loser, and opportunist

After running the cleanest and smoothest election in the nation, you would think that Florida would sit back and rest on its laurels. You would be wrong. On May 6, 2021, Ron DeSantis signed SB90 into law which took effect immediately. The new law establishes restrictions in areas that are ripe for fraud. Mail-in ballot requests can no longer be requested for more than one general election. Requests for a mail-in ballot must include identifying information, such as driver’s license number or the last four digits of the SSN. Possession of more than 2 ballots in addition to your own is illegal, with very specific exceptions for family members and nursing home voting, in order to crack down on ballot harvesting. New restrictions on ballot drop boxes including expanding the ban on political electioneering to include drop box locations. One lesser noticed provision of the bill is the prohibition of any private entity from funding an election related expense. This provision targets leftist organizations from coming into blue areas and paying to “help” the election, thereby giving those counties an advantage.

With no viable rationale for being elected to replace Ron DeSantis, both Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried have latched onto voter suppression as the cornerstone of their campaigns. Democrat front groups have also quickly filed lawsuits challenging SB90 as unconstitutional.

Texas

The bill would also make it easier to overturn an election, allowing courts to throw out results if enough ballots were cast illegally that it could have made a difference -- despite the fact that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas or any other US state.
-- Paul LeBlanc, CNN

In Texas a bill to change election law has passed both chambers, but the Democrats staged a walkout to prevent a quorum from voting on the bill. I’ll be honest, I’m not sure the state of the bill. Governor Abbott is expected to call a special session of the legislature to allow the bill to be voted on shortly. The key provisions of the bill are targeting mail-in ballots and voting procedures that can be exploited:

1) Ban afterhours voting
2) Restrict hours for early voting
3) Prohibit dropboxes and drive through voting
4) Ban sending mail-in vote applications to voters who did not request one
5) Bar counties from helping facilitate distribution of unsolicited ballot requests
6) Require driver’s license number or SSN for both mail-in ballot request and the returned ballot
7) Fines for election officials who do not update voter rolls
Criminal penalties for election workers who obstruct poll watchers

Georgia

Democrats and voting rights groups were outraged by voter ID provisions and changes to mail voting that they believe will make more difficult for some minorities and poorer voters to cast a ballot.
-- CBS News

Ah Georgia, the epicenter of voting controversy. Not only was Georgia outright stolen from Trump, two Senate seats were also stolen. This was done with the active participation of the Republican Secretary of State and the benign indifference of Governor Brian Kemp. However, the Georgia legislature immediately turned around and passed new voting laws, which were signed by Kemp in April, despite the active opposition of the likes of Coca Cola, Delta, and Major League Baseball.

The new law in Georgia makes the following major changes to election law:

1) Expanded early voting in rural counties – bringing them on par with early voting opportunities in the metro areas
2) ID requirements for mail-in voting – the returned ballot must include a driver’s license number or a state ID number. This is identical to the requirement for in-person voting.
3) Drop box regulation – limits to the number of dropboxes, requirements for security of the dropboxes, and limits on when they can be used.
4) Prohibits mailing unsolicited ballots – to get a mail-in ballot you must request one.
5) Prohibits food and drink service to people in poll lines – apparently this was a thing.
6) Removes power from the Secretary of State – election board is now chaired by the SOS, but the SOS does not have a vote. The election board has new powers over local election officials including removal.
7) Reporting requirements – many changes here, but most importantly the total number of votes cast including election day, early voting and mail-in votes must be posted by 10 PM on election day. No more suddenly finding 20,000 votes at 3AM.
Fraud hotline – a hotline must be established for reporting voter intimidation or illegal activity. Also legislatively states that unlimited challenges can be made to a voter’s qualifications to cast a ballot. This addresses the courts that blocked True the Vote’s efforts to challenge to 360,000 voter’s eligibility during the runoff.

New Hampshire

The bill is blatantly unconstitutional...it would create a logistical nightmare for state elections
-- Paul Bergeron, (D) NH House of Representatives

I wanted to talk a little about the changes in New Hampshire. These aren’t sweeping changes such as those in Georgia, but they illustrate that even in blue New England, the states are concerned about election integrity. A bill just passed the legislature and is heading to the Governor for signature. The major changes are requiring a photo be taken of anyone registering to vote without a photo ID and giving political parties access to absentee ballot requests.

While the changes sound pretty benign, and did have bipartisan support, the major controversy was an amendment that passed the House 202-175. This amendment pushes back on the For the People Act stating the New Hampshire will not comply with national election requirements when conducting state and local elections.

Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania a more measured approach is being taken. Personally, I think this is due to the political realities. There are enough votes to pass any legislation, but they have to get the Governor to sign the bill. More bills were submitted in this state than any other, 14 bills. But they were all tabled and routed to the joint House State Government Committee. This committee conducted 3 months of hearings on a wide range of subjects and issued a report on May 12, 2021.

The report is very comprehensive and if you read past the “nice, bipartisan” language, you can see that they did not shy away from the real problems in Pennsylvania. There are 25 major conclusions including; “Any place where a ballot is being cast should be treated as a polling place, with
meaningful access for bipartisan observers as well as consistent accessibility requirements. The Election Code should provide uniformity in ensuring that all places where voting occurs are subject to the same regulations regarding accessibility, transparency, electioneering, and security.”

I have to admit that taking off my partisan anger over the stolen election, the process used here looks very fair. If we were dealing with honest brokers in the Democrat Party, I would be impressed by the work done. They looked at concerns from both sides of the aisle and made recommendations that both enhance the security of elections and expand voting access. The political reality is that the GOP controls 60% of both the Senate and the House, which is unsurprising given the demographics of the state as I discussed earlier. But the fraud machine makes it easier for the metro areas to dictate state-wide elections, especially for Governor. I feel there is some hope here for legislation to pass. When the Legislature rescinded all of the emergency powers it also rescinded the emergency laws allowing mail-in voting without cause. The election law reverts to the previous version where PA is one of the few states that does not allow absentee voting without having to give a reason why.

Here are some of the highlights I took from the report:

1) Clear and uniform guidance to election officials through statutory language
2) Upgrade systems to support mail-in voting
3) Improve election audit processes using other states for best practices and make them independent
4) Move the voter registration deadline back to 30 days prior to election
5) Follow the Florida model for voting machine certification
6) Allow no excuse mail-in voting but require voter ID with it
7) Consistent election day procedures for all 67 counties
Cybersecurity protections to provide election integrity

I’ve only touched on the surface of this report, and I think it is worth reading. It is clear and avoids legislative language.

There are many other states who have passed or are about to pass new election laws. I am encouraged to see all of the activity going on, and I hope that Michigan and Wisconsin will soon take up legislation. Assuming that our vote ever matters again, these changes are a good step forward, allowing us to cast our vote and be able to trust the results. And the shrieks of “Voter Suppression” from the left tells me that these new laws are cutting into the core mechanisms used for fraud.


Posted by: Open Blogger at 02:27 PM




Comments

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1 UNO!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2021 01:27 PM (oEn12)

2 Almost SPONGE-like!

Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2021 01:28 PM (AMIL/)

3 That's a very long movie review.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 14, 2021 01:28 PM (kTF2Z)

4 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

6 What movie is this about?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

7 So I guess Dave in FL didn't like the movie?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 14, 2021 01:31 PM (dfRN6)

8 Election rigging isn't illegal when we're saving the world from Trumptard White Supreme Pizzas!

Posted by: Burglar King at June 14, 2021 01:31 PM (6VV9M)

9 I'm just surprised that Garland hasn't already convinced Slow Joe to drop an actual tactical nuke on the AZ audit HQ.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 14, 2021 01:32 PM (L2ZTs)

10 Anyone found guilty of cheating will cause whatever party they are registered under to be banned from running a candidate for that office in the next election cycle.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2021 01:33 PM (YxVzA)

11 The Board of Directors of Dominion Voting Systems Inc weeps quietly while vacationing in Switzerland!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 14, 2021 01:33 PM (hOUT3)

12 Hey TJM!
Did you see there's gonna be a 4k disc of DrStrangelove?

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 14, 2021 01:33 PM (L2ZTs)

13 smiling sunglasses everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Steiner will come.

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at June 14, 2021 01:34 PM (FiSwx)

15 I thought "open barn door" referred to an open fly and the delicious possibility thereof.

Posted by: Davis French at June 14, 2021 01:34 PM (6VV9M)

16 I want to hear what various states are doing that prevent citizens from obtaining ID or casting a ballot. Because it seems those actions would be highly illegal and some people would be going to jail.

Posted by: Emmie at June 14, 2021 01:34 PM (tcsxg)

17 Thanks for the continued work on this, Dave. Excellent job!

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2021 01:34 PM (mZUr4)

18 Lib: Trump continues to spread The Big Lie that he actually won the election. What a buffoon.

Con: We have the apparatus in place to open everything and prove he didn't. Wouldn't you love to embarrass him in front of the world by proving he actually lost?

Lib: I would but, ya know, like, exposing his lies would be super harmful to democracy.

Con: More so than allowing a lie like that to spread and take hold?

Lib: Racist.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 14, 2021 01:35 PM (KbCG3)

19 they proved they can do it, with the willing assistance of Republicans at both the federal and state levels.
this is why the GOP fundraising letters I get evoke such eloquent replies from me. With no cash attached

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 01:35 PM (DJFLF)

20 New Hampshire has at least 377 people in their House? Out of the 500 people who live in the state? Are the other 123 in the Senate?

Posted by: Wally at June 14, 2021 01:35 PM (FJYfm)

21 PA will be the best if they can get Tommy to sign the bill or come up with enough votes to override.

They've got this handled because they've been thinking about this for a long time. The larger urban areas have been more and more the scenes of unmistakable voter fraud. So obvious and blatant that even children can see it.

However because they are polities of their own and very powerful they've been able to resist specific laws aimed at how they cheat. In Pittsburgh and particularly in Philly they run a very tight organization and in Philly Blacks might as well be chained together because of how closely in step they are. Which is so weird cause Philly phucks them over continuously. At least the ones in the hoods.

This time they've gone too far and all the myriad conservative counties are saying "enough's enough". They see how they must take an interest even tho they don't live in the urban shitholes.

They're the tail wagging the dog.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 14, 2021 01:36 PM (gHWbw)

22 I want these updated laws to have real teeth.

Televised executions of those guilty of election fraud.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 01:36 PM (OCTRt)

23 Why is it every time a leftist appeals to the constitution it has zero validity and displays an almost total lack of comprehension of the document?

Never mind, the question answers its self. If they understood and were honoring the constitution they wouldn't be leftists.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

24 They can pass all the laws they want, democrat scum and their GOP accomplices will simply shrug their shoulders and go right on openly, smugly, ha ha look at us, stealing elections.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 14, 2021 01:37 PM (mNhhD)

25 And I agree, voter fraud should carry extremely heavy penalties as a violation of the basic human rights of every American and an attempt to overthrow our entire government and system. Death is probably too far, but it should be extremely awful and represent a serious concern.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:38 PM (KZzsI)

26 Voter fraud, identity theft, child trafficking and abuse - death penalty, with a short fuse. This would stop a lot of this shit.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 01:38 PM (oWBc3)

27 Thanks for the brief on PA legislation Dave in Fla.
At least one of the demonrat Senate seats in PA was stolen from its legitimate GOP winner. And that would be my district's State Senator.
A local GOP precinct leader who uncovered so many anomalies in the local election was stonewalled at every turn by county officials who also are now demonrat.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 01:38 PM (DJFLF)

28 democrat scum and their GOP accomplices will simply shrug their shoulders and go right on openly, smugly, ha ha look at us, stealing elections.

"I see nothink!!! NOOTHINK!"
--Judges

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:38 PM (KZzsI)

29 I want these updated laws to have real teeth.

Televised executions of those guilty of election fraud.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 01:36 PM (OCTRt)


With the cut of that jib, you should have a newsletter.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

30 Let's just put it this way: how severe would the penalties be for anyone who violated the basic human rights of over 200 million people?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:40 PM (KZzsI)

31 Thanks, Dave. I appreciate your analysis and round-up. One part of this really stands out, though:

In the aftermath of 2020 twenty-eight states have introduced legislation to put additional restrictions on voting mechanisms. Now, not all of these are going to become law. Bills introduced in New Jersey and Washington are unlikely to become law because of Democrat opposition. But there is considerable activity in many of the Battleground states to address the mess from 2020 and to ensure elections in those states are fair going forward.

What I don't understand - it may just be bitter cynicism, and I acknowledge that - is why this matters. The legislators failed to act last time when it was clear that the elections were hinkey as hell. Why is putt into place more laws relevant when the Left can just break them with impunity while the official opposition Republicans hand-wring about it but ultimately do nothing? How is adding another charge to what they're doing relevant? They clearly don't care.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:40 PM (Jsjd7)

32 Will have to find the link, but in Pennsylvania the Republicans have voting law changes but to me looks like half a Democrat wish list. Of course Emperor Wolf is going to fight it ( hehehe) but suspect it's to get a 60D/40R split

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2021 01:40 PM (Cxk7w)

33 There were already laws in place that should have stopped the 2020 shenanigans. Trump's people fought to get them enforced BEFORE the election. But legislatures wouldn't speak up and the courts wouldn't enforce them. How will news laws help any?

Posted by: 29Victor at June 14, 2021 01:40 PM (BJKQV)

34 My blades thirst for blooood

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM (oEn12)

35 "I'm not going to spend time in this post proving this or explaining the evidence (though I may do such a post, if there is interest)."

I would be very interested in a post like this.

Thanks for the state by state update. Hope is a tricky thing, but I really think the tyrant libs are underestimating the anger and disdain boiling over in more than half the country.

It's only going to get worse when the next scam reveals itself, climate emergency or gun emergency or whatever FU America emergency they magic into existence.

I'm not sure what happens post AZ audit, but I think it's going to be something the tyrants in charge and in the media don't like. I do worry that the feds are going to do something to stomp on all audits, but that's only going to enflame the situation even more.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM (khAeP)

36 Hey Sponge! I hear you're in Flower Mound, TX??

I just lost my physical therapist here in SoCal to your town. She's moving there in a month. Don't know whether to be glad for you or sad for me.

If you come across a Nordic-looking 30-something gal named Erin, that's her. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM (L2ZTs)

37 They're the tail wagging the dog.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 14, 2021 01:36 PM (gHWbw)

A really big obstacle is the county control of the Phila collar counties flipped to demonrat during the Trump admin. The dummyrats never came out for the local elections but when TDS took over they came out in force to flip the county. As usual, centrists, libertarians and soft GOPes stayed home because citizens are woefully uninformed about how local government works.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM (DJFLF)

38 These states also need to implement the same method for selecting electors that Nebraska and Maine use. That way when the crooks in Atlanta or Philadelphia or Detroit stuff their ballot boxes, they are only padding the totals for electors they would get anyway. (Well, they could get two more.)

Posted by: raoul ortega at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM (OafoN)

39 legislatures wouldn't speak up and the courts wouldn't enforce them. How will news laws help any?
Posted by: 29Victor at June 14, 2021 01:40 PM (BJKQV)


Laws are for the law-abiding. Democrats, obviously, not included.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

40 Dave, thanks for this excellent post summarizing the state of play re election fraud!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:42 PM (S44Wv)

41 The new law in Georgia makes the following major changes to election law:
1) Expanded early voting in rural counties - bringing them on par with early voting opportunities in the metro areas
++++
Talk about bass-ackwards. Expanding early voting in the rural areas is a worse answer to the problem than restricting early voting everywhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:42 PM (Jsjd7)

42 Thanks, Dave. A few quick points.

* exhaustively and conclusively documenting the fraud/lack thereof in the official 2020 results remains absolutely essential, regardless of "reforms"

* what the F is "voting access" supposed to mean? For decades, "voting access" has been perfectly adequate. You go vote. Or you register for an absentee, *with strict requirements imposed*. Period.

This really is key. Note the ridiculous "making it harder for you to vote" idiocy from Crist. Voting, in person, on election day, is not "hard". If it is, get an absentee. End of discussion.

Early voting is absurd, indefensible. Yet here we see it being enshrined forever by "GOP" bodies trying to "fix" things.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 01:43 PM (OTzUX)

43 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 14, 2021 01:43 PM (arJlL)

44 I just lost my physical therapist here in SoCal to your town. She's moving there in a month. Don't know whether to be glad for you or sad for me.

If you come across a Nordic-looking 30-something gal named Erin, that's her. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM (L2ZTs)



So, she'll be one of the thousand Cali license plates I've been seeing around here.

Hopefully I don't put myself in a position where I'll need one, but if I do, I'll look for her.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Nice Uno, vmom !

Posted by: JT at June 14, 2021 01:44 PM (arJlL)

46 Well, the right people are bitching about it

Posted by: Jean at June 14, 2021 01:45 PM (Xih1H)

47 It's discouraging that any attempt to rein in fraud, protect election integrity and enforce already existing laws is viewed as attacking Civil Rights, but that's how the Left rolls. Once they "get" something--and in 2020 they "got" universal mail-in ballots, any attempt to return to normal conditions is an attack on Civil Rights.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:45 PM (mR6Gs)

48 Michigan and Wisconsin are far too GOPe/RINO/NeverTrump to really do anything.

Anyone feel different?

Posted by: geewhiz at June 14, 2021 01:46 PM (dRzCR)

49 Have you noticed that the same people who freaked out about the attack on our elections by Russians! Russians! RUSSIANS! for 4 years while calling Trump illegitimate are now allergic to the very notion that Biden's election could be anything but totally legit?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at June 14, 2021 01:46 PM (AD14M)

50 legislatures wouldn't speak up and the courts wouldn't enforce them. How will news laws help any?
Posted by: 29Victor at June 14, 2021 01:40 PM (BJKQV)

Laws are for the law-abiding. Democrats, obviously, not included.
Posted by: Sponge


That's why, with the new laws, we let those that were wronged, set the right.

Imagine 300,000 disenfranchised voters gunning for some election officials all legal like?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 01:47 PM (OCTRt)

51 What happens to the votes when election laws are violated? Let's say ballots are stolen and recovered later, violating a chain of custody law. Do you count the votes or no? Or a poll watchers are illegally ejected. Do you count the votes there?

Posted by: zmdavid at June 14, 2021 01:47 PM (xqRaG)

52 Dems: "It's not fraud when WE do it..."

Posted by: soulpile at June 14, 2021 01:47 PM (hiX0r)

53 Michigan and Wisconsin are far too GOPe/RINO/NeverTrump to really do anything.

Anyone feel different?
Posted by: geewhiz at June 14, 2021 01:46 PM (dRzCR)
++++
Maybe. My problem with all of this new legislation is that even if it passes, the bad actors who violated have amply demonstrated that they don't care about the law, and the bad actors who are responsible for enforcing or questioning violations have demonstrated that they don't care upholding the law.

So what use is MOAR LAW when then the Left happily violates the existing ones and the professional pseudo-right happily lets them get away with it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:47 PM (Jsjd7)

54 I just think its incredibly telling that we just had an election where both candidates got more votes than any presidential candidate in American history by a large margin -- where more people voted than ever before, period -- and that's not some kind of headline.

Anywhere.

Ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:47 PM (KZzsI)

55 Yes Dave in Fla.

There is interest here in your take on how and where the election was stolen.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

56 PA is about Philly. Can people keep the fraud to a minumum or not. Sure it is anectodal, but the most ardent Trump supporters I have seen were in PA. The second most ardent were in PA as well. That state should not have flipped, but it did.

Posted by: Quint at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (gJfTA)

57 Yep, what Joe Mannix and 29Victor said. This really does amount to "we really really mean it, THIS time!", potentially.

That's why I say *documenting, proving - not via compelling indirect evidence, but direct concrete evidence* that the 2020 prez election outcome was actually changed by fraud is critical.

Without that, everything remains on this absurd childish level of Dems ranting about "voter suppression!", and the GOP passing additional human rights guarantees for the Soviet Constitution (i.e., nice-sounding but in effect meaningless stuff).

And yes I'm joking, but would it kill someone in the GOP to actually directly, conclusively, and vituperatively - and relentlessly - confront the nonsense of "voter suppression", for once? Mock this nonsense, call out the idiots spreading it, don't stop, make it the "news". Jeebus.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (OTzUX)

58 Talk about bass-ackwards. Expanding early voting in the rural areas is a
worse answer to the problem than restricting early voting everywhere.

Well...if the GOPe was smart they'd take full advantage of this.
Sure our county has X citizens and had 2X votes every single one for DeSantis. And yes we waited to report results until after all the Big Blue Cities got theirs in. Wait...you are questing the sanctity of our sacred votes? Are you a racist or something?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (DpkTQ)

59 I love your stuff Dave in Fla. I hope the boss has you post more!

Posted by: Mishdog at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (cqAUI)

60 My blades thirst for blooood
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2021 01:41 PM


Just sayin' but that would be a perfect MUMR comment.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (m+jkK)

61 "I just think its incredibly telling that we just had an election where both candidates got more votes than any presidential candidate in American history by a large margin -- where more people voted than ever before, period -- and that's not some kind of headline."

True, but wasn't that the POINT of UNIVERSAL Mail-in ballots?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (mR6Gs)

62 Putting aside the U.S. Electoral College and the U.S. Constitution with regards to who actually won the 2020 Presidential election ...

Any guesses what would happen if the audits in various states prove there were actually enough Democrat losses to give Republicans a majority in either/both chambers of Congress? Would any to-date legislation signed into law be nullified?

Posted by: Kathy at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (h3RRP)

63 it was not covered very much but Texas AG Ken Paxton filed 12 lawsuits in Harris County (Houston) alone and won every one of them. There is a recent TuCa video where explains had he lost any one of them Trump would likely have lost Texas too.

The repubs in Texas killed the voting security legislation. They also killed the trans athlete bill and the legislation that would stop taxpayers from having to fund lobbyists that lobby for higher taxes.

By allowing democrats to pick our speaker these things happen every session.

Posted by: DanMan at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (aUOqu)

64 25 And I agree, voter fraud should carry extremely heavy penalties as a violation of the basic human rights of every American and an attempt to overthrow our entire government and system. Death is probably too far, but it should be extremely awful and represent a serious concern.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:38 PM (KZzsI)


Extremely heavy penalties make convicting people extremely difficult.

So, paradoxically, I'd propose penalties that are relatively light, but more likely to be implemented therefor. A year or two in prison would be ideal. (Fines won't work, because Soros & Co. and/or GoFundMe will just pick up the tab.)

While a year or two in prison wouldn't make the slighest impact on career criminals (e.g., the George Floyds of the world), to the typical party apparatchik it would be humiliating and therefore probably effective.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (S44Wv)

65 the insurrection was election night. it's intolerable that the people who protested that are being prosecuted.

Posted by: x at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (oA+QO)

66 Thanks Dave for a great report.
I notice that other than PA, there is little mention of audits. This is a big oversight by the legislators of they are not addressing it.

EVERYTHING is subject to audits, or the risk of audits. For FLA 2000, we had every punch card reviewed by a group of auditors, often with magnifying glasses and on camera. The arguments then was over the rules (hanging chads, etc.) and what districts but it was full audit to make sure each vote was legitimate.
During the hearings, one woman from MI claimed that in the Detroit cities they don't "close out" the ballot boxes, meaning the #of people who voted do not match the #of votes, and they know this on election night so they just accept the vote count and that district is forever immune to audit since, well it never added up so what good is recounting?
The electronic BS adds another layer of audit-proof. This fraud happened on three or four fronts, and all need to be addressed. First the massive mail in BS, then the lack of audits, third the corrupt chicken shit legislators certifying the crap, and finally the electronic voting which rode the other problems to create an unknown amount of fake ballots...

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (00uLH)

67 Has anyone this century been found that was stopped from voting that was legally eligible to?
I recall after the Y2K election the Dems spent a lot of time claiming this and found one person. Who voted by provisional ballot. And whose vote was counted.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (DpkTQ)

68 "highest voting percentage and most people voting in an election ever by millions? Never heard of it."
--Charlie Gibson

"Local Story"
--Washington Post

"A distraction from the real story of how Trump ate two scoops of ice cream"
--CNN

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:50 PM (KZzsI)

69 Sure our county has X citizens and had 2X votes every single one for DeSantis. And yes we waited to report results until after all the Big Blue Cities got theirs in. Wait...you are questing the sanctity of our sacred votes? Are you a racist or something?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (DpkTQ)
++++
Actually, the last bit would be very good indeed. If it were followed, that would be a good law. Change vote reporting to a binary state: "ready to report" or "not ready to report."

All precincts must be "ready to report" before all figures are released. Votes are tabulated but not released until every single precinct is ready, then the vote is released to the SoS and it is allowed to hit the wires.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:50 PM (Jsjd7)

70 Voter I.D. constitutional amendment proposed in Pennsylvania
"Time and again, I hear from constituents who want to know why they need identification to buy cold medicine but not to choose their next Senator, township supervisor, judge or president," she said. "Providing voters with the power to extend the need for identification beyond the first time someone votes at a polling place to every time they vote will go a long way toward restoring confidence in our election process."Constitutional amendments must pass in two consecutive legislative sessions before appearing on the ballot as a voter referendum. The earliest the I.D. question could appear before voters would be 2023, if the Legislature acts quickly.

Posted by: SMOD at June 14, 2021 01:50 PM (RHGPo)

71 nothing will - nothing CAN - be done to clean up voting in PA

not only do we have a sure veto from Wolf, we have an utterly corrupt and extra-legal State Supreme Court

stick a fork in us

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 01:50 PM (j9HX3)

72 Democrats and voting rights groups were outraged by voter ID provisions and changes to mail voting that they believe will make more difficult for some minorities and poorer voters to cast a ballot.

Shorter version: "Blacks and other minorities are too stupid to vote like whites." -- MSM

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (AiZBA)

73 The MFM and other critics of the GA law panned the law and said it was voter suppression. It actually enhanced the ability of voter turnout and there was already 21 States with similar laws. In short the MFM took their ques from the lying Democrats who wanted Republican suppression.

Posted by: Vic at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (mpXpK)

74 62 Putting aside the U.S. Electoral College and the U.S. Constitution with regards to who actually won the 2020 Presidential election ...

Any guesses what would happen if the audits in various states prove there were actually enough Democrat losses to give Republicans a majority in either/both chambers of Congress? Would any to-date legislation signed into law be nullified?
Posted by: Kathy at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (h3RRP)

IT'S A TAX!

Posted by: John Roberts at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (khAeP)

75 PA was so fraudulent it's almost laughable. 200k more people than were registered voted. But the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh rag didn't notice this so...we now have pResident Bidet and his Cyndi Lauper wannabe wife.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (DJFLF)

76 True, but wasn't that the POINT of UNIVERSAL Mail-in ballots?

And that in its self is a story you'd expect them to push. LOOK AT HOW WELL THIS WORKED!

But no, nothing. They don't even want to mention it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (KZzsI)

77 Cheaters don't want rules to prevent cheating?

Next you'll tell me water is wet.

Anyone who believes there was a 90% turn out of registered voters also believes Kim and Saddam really did get 99% of votes cast.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (2DOZq)

78 Why is Charlie Crist so opposed to letting minorities check into hotels or fly or buy beer?

Racist SOB.

Posted by: Furious George at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (9vQJW)

79 where more people voted than ever before, period -- and that's not some kind of headline."
If you believe the FNM 90% of the eligible citizens in WI voted.


Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (DpkTQ)

80 If they allowed Trump's Reaganesque landslide victory to happen, it would have been a complete and utter repudiation of all the hard work the Left and the media did to destroy Trump and the national political landscape would be unrecognizable from what it is today.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (mR6Gs)

81 I should just sign as Eeyore, because as much as I think legislation to tackle vote fraud would be nice, enforcement is going to be a problem. If there is fraud anyways, what is the remedy? New laws don't seem to stop people intent on murder with a firearm, but at least there is a mechanism for punishment afterwards.
With the vote, not so much.
Especially with society arrayed as it is against anything to the right of Mao.
Using the last election as the template, media covers for what they know is blatant "irregularity". The courts don't allow challenges. Law enforcement agencies claim there's no evidence, so there's nothing to see here, move along.

tl;dr
New laws won't stop what happened last time from happening again if the institutions we rely on are happy with the results of the fraud.

Much like new guns laws don't stop murders.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (z79tQ)

82
So what use is MOAR LAW when then the Left happily violates the existing ones and the professional pseudo-right happily lets them get away with it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:47 PM (Jsjd7)


You left out the state and Federal courts that the left counts on to routinely negate state election laws that Democrats do not want enforced in selected (Blue) areas.

Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (AMIL/)

83 Atta Boy, Dave!

Posted by: AceOfPhrase at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (rs3zF)

84 55 Yes Dave in Fla.

There is interest here in your take on how and where the election was stolen.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)


Seconded.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (S44Wv)

85 > despite the fact that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas or any other US state.

Notice the lawyerly phrasing: "widespread voter fraud". It is true. There was no "widespread fraud". It was concentrated in a handful of swing states and it was confined to the Presidential race. Funny how Biden got all those votes but none of the down-ballot races got checked.

Posted by: SteveS at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (pyuZ6)

86 Yes Dave in Fla.

There is interest here in your take on how and where the election was stolen.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

Seconded.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (S44Wv)

Thirded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (Jsjd7)

87 True, but wasn't that the POINT of UNIVERSAL Mail-in ballots?

And that in its self is a story you'd expect them to push. LOOK AT HOW WELL THIS WORKED!

But no, nothing. They don't even want to mention it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 01:51 PM (KZzsI)

Because it's a self-answering question.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (mR6Gs)

88 (though I may do such a post, if there is interest).


There is a lot of interest!
The elections form the very basis of government and under writes its legitimacy. If the election is fradulant, so is the government. The more we can talk about it, the more we know about it, the better we can expose the fraud.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2021 01:53 PM (axyOa)

89 A comprehensive analysis. However the current ills will not be rectified by voting. I for one do not trust the mechanisms in place, both physical and procedural at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2021 01:53 PM (3H9h1)

90 Yes Dave in Fla.

There is interest here in your take on how and where the election was stolen.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

Seconded.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (S44Wv)

Thirded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (Jsjd7)

Don't be modest, Dave

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:53 PM (mR6Gs)

91 Notice the lawyerly phrasing: "widespread voter fraud". It is true. There was no "widespread fraud". It was concentrated in a handful of swing states and it was confined to the Presidential race. Funny how Biden got all those votes but none of the down-ballot races got checked.
Posted by: SteveS at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM (pyuZ6)
++++
It also wasn't "voter fraud" in all probability. It was much more likely "election fraud."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:53 PM (Jsjd7)

92 "I hope that Michigan and Wisconsin will soon take up legislation."
Wisconsin has several bills introduced to tighten up election integrity: AB 173, to limit private donations (ie, Zuckerberg paying to help collect Dem ballots), SB 204 to require proof of ID for absentee ballots and not make "indefinitely confined status" perpetual, SB 205 to limit nursing home vote fraud, and SB 209 to put some guidelines around ballot drop-boxes.

Some small steps in the right direction, though with a Dem Governor who likely benefited from vote fraud himself, they may not survive the veto pen.

Posted by: CalypsoFacto at June 14, 2021 01:53 PM (/LtUW)

93 So let's pretend that voting still matters.

After an election where I thought they could pull 5 points in certain places - and watched them surpass that ? Sorry Dave - just too much of an ask.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 01:53 PM (pfxf2)

94 That state should not have flipped, but it did.


Posted by: Quint at June 14, 2021 01:48 PM (gJfTA)

The True Vote in PA kept our state red. On election day I waited one hour to cast my vote, this had never occurred, not even when doggie muncher got elected. Our precinct went for Trump, and I'm in Delco.
All the collar counties' numbers are grossly skewed by unprecedented fraud due to mail-ins due to the scamdemic.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 01:54 PM (DJFLF)

95 So apparently Michael Bidwell believes we should vote for our elected officials the same way players are elected to the all-star game: early and often.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 01:54 PM (qe5CM)

96 New laws won't stop what happened last time from happening again if the institutions we rely on are happy with the results of the fraud.

Much like new guns laws don't stop murders.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

No. But shooting the cocksucker sure does.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 01:54 PM (OCTRt)

97 despite the fact that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas or any other US state.
Every election there is some story like, "More votes cast then adults according to the census in county X". Odd how if you don't investigate that there isn't "evidence of wide spread fraud" isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 01:54 PM (DpkTQ)

98 Gref

Popping in to say "Good Work!"

IDNK if mentioning me will help, as the Horde is full of great people, and then there is me.

But you did good.

Back to chores.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 14, 2021 01:54 PM (u82oZ)

99
A long list of known assholes are loudly declaring their panicked-sounding objections to the audits.

I take this to mean that Team Deep State knows quite well that honest audits will show the election was stolen.

Which also means we can expect some heavy-handed, blatant, illegal, possibly violent intervention in the process.

If the audits hypothetically changed the vote to a Trump victory, what then? Does it change anything, or does the system regard the matter as settled? What's the mechanism?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (GZHr7)

100 GREAT write-up!

Posted by: Mr Wolf at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (cOa5E)

101 kallisto is right

we here in PA voted for Trump, and we voted for him bigly

we were robbed, disenfranchised, it was a total nightmare

I'm still reeling

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (j9HX3)

102 Don't be modest, Dave
Posted by: JoeF.

Agree, and fourthed.

Posted by: lizabth at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (L3Rsz)

103 And it's 90% voting turn out only if you believe that 70% of eligible voters are registered to vote. I believe it is lower which would make the alleged turn out even higher and more unbelievable.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (2DOZq)

104 So the thief of the election gets to keep the office. OK, got it. Crime pays.
What ever happened to the old legal doctrine that fraud vitiates everything that follows, contracts become void, fruit from the Poison Tree, etc.?
Thank you, Dave in FLA. and thank you, Ace.

Posted by: peevish at June 14, 2021 01:56 PM (aAP3z)

105 "Gentlemen, this is junta" summed it up well.

Without proving (proving) material fraud this time, there will not be the political or social impetus to take any of this seriously, and it won't be. Sure, FL is fixed. Now do PA WI MI NV AZ NH.

Dave's headline - "closing the barn door" - implies what many of us are saying directly. The absolutely critical thing - the horses have already bolted. The 2020 election needs to be examined, in exhaustive detail. Otherwise, a lot of this reform is moar theater.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 01:56 PM (OTzUX)

106 There is no magic bullet. You can not have a democracy with people who are willing to size power by fraud or by force.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 01:56 PM (6FeV1)

107 Notice the lawyerly phrasing: "widespread voter fraud"

No true Scotsman would engage in widespread voter fraud.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:56 PM (S44Wv)

108 Thank you, Dave. I appreciate your reporting very much and hope to read any more takes you have on this topic in the future.

Blor-Utar, from Zimtok-5/Sasquatch, the Original trans-Wookie

Posted by: Blor-Utar, from Zimtok-5 at June 14, 2021 01:56 PM (xxG/v)

109 Saying there is no evidence of voter fraud is different from saying there was no voter fraud. They might be bragging that they're so good at it they left no evidence.

I think Bill Clinton did this a lot.

Posted by: zmdavid at June 14, 2021 01:57 PM (xqRaG)

110 The problem with a light penalty for voter fraud, rather than making it more likely that punishment will be rendered,it makes it less likely. Witness cities walking away from shoplifting, prostitution, etc. We either prove we're serious or we don't, there is no middle ground anymore.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 01:57 PM (oWBc3)

111 we here in PA voted for Trump, and we voted for him bigly
we were robbed, disenfranchised, it was a total nightmare
I'm still reeling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (j9HX3)
++++
I suspect that PA is in a perverse way the cause of what I suspect was the hurried emergency plan - to stop everything and coordinate a theft - that delivered the presidency to Biden's cabal.

This might be pretty far out on a limb, but I wonder if Trump's Butler County rally was the tipping point. That was absolutely, unprecedentedly huge and disruptive. The Butler County turnout may well have been the final straw that led to the Left understanding that PA was lost, and if PA was lost then everything might be lost. And so they decided that now was the time to smash through the rubicon at all costs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:57 PM (Jsjd7)

112
If the audits hypothetically changed the vote to
a Trump victory, what then? Does it change anything, or does the system
regard the matter as settled? What's the mechanism?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (GZHr7)

The mechanism is that a Moar Better Scamdemic is concocted to keep us lousy deplorables in our place and the Annunaki-seeded elites in their hallowed halls of power.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 01:58 PM (DJFLF)

113 we here in PA voted for Trump, and we voted for him bigly.

As did Michigan and Wisconsin. The toss-up state was Minnesota up there. When Minnesota is the toss-up ... Trump wins early.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 01:58 PM (pfxf2)

114 What ever happened to the old legal doctrine that fraud vitiates everything that follows, contracts become void, fruit from the Poison Tree, etc.?
Thank you, Dave in FLA. and thank you, Ace.
Posted by: peevish


They haven't done fruit of the poisoned tree in a very long time.

Because if they did, it would negate anchor babies.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 01:58 PM (OCTRt)

115 The one thing that keeps me up at night is that the United States is going to pay a dear price for the fraud of stealing the election from Trump and his voters.

I still believe there is a moral force in the universe that corrects wrongs and exacts revenge and thanks to the media, the Democrats and all the others who connived to steal--or looked the other way--there is going to be a reckoning.
And a price.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (mR6Gs)

116 >Arizona has eliminated the Permanent Early Voting List where ballots are sent automatically to voters in every election they are eligible to vote. The new law removes voters from the list if they do not use their ballot for two election cycles.

The equivalent of a strongly worded letter.

If they cheat in one cycle and then the next, they're golden.

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (hOMhY)

117 This is a good article, but as others have probably already said, voting is dead. The cheating worked for the Dems, and once they've found a tool that works they will never give it up.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (E+OcO)

118
As did Michigan and Wisconsin. The toss-up state was Minnesota up there. When Minnesota is the toss-up ... Trump wins early.

Before the great vote counting stop - due to the leaky toilet in Atlanta - Trump was ahead in every purple state. And VA.


Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (DpkTQ)

119 I still believe there is a moral force in the universe that corrects wrongs and exacts revenge and thanks to the media, the Democrats and all the others who connived to steal--or looked the other way--there is going to be a reckoning.
And a price.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (mR6Gs)
++++
We'll all be paying it. When things get too bad, too corrupt, too monstrous, the price is payed by all. That's what the flood was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (Jsjd7)

120 45 Nice Uno, vmom !
Posted by: JT

*curtsies*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2021 01:59 PM (oEn12)

121 I don't know how to undo the electoral collage for Trump - but what about the Senate races in question.

Posted by: Jean at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (ibsgE)

122 Don't forget about meeeeeeee!

Posted by: Virgina at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (GWIPO)

123 Dave in Fla has credibility because...?

Posted by: Just Sayin at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (kDjC8)

124 What ever happened to the old legal doctrine that fraud vitiates everything that follows, contracts become void, fruit from the Poison Tree, etc.?
Thank you, Dave in FLA. and thank you, Ace.
Posted by: peevish
They haven't done fruit of the poisoned tree in a very long time.
Because if they did, it would negate anchor babies.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 01:58 PM (OCTRt)

We make our living from the fruit of the poison tree!

Posted by: The FBI, A Criminal Gang at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (YxVzA)

125 A long list of known assholes are loudly declaring their panicked-sounding objections to the audits.

I take this to mean that Team Deep State knows quite well that honest audits will show the election was stolen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 14, 2021 01:55 PM (GZHr7)


Same here. Turn it around: if they were convinced that the election was valid, what would be their reaction to calls for audits?

Nothing. They'd ignore it as silly, dismiss it as a waste of time, but let it go ahead as a snipe hunt. In contrast, their volcanic reaction to the calls speaks volumes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (Fao6g)

126 *Biden* data team said Trump needed 53% of election day vote in PA to win. He got 61%. One of my favorite tiny little jaw-dropping bits of indirect evidence of major fraud.

Semi-literate - no, Biden will not be removed whatever the result of audits. There is no mechanism for this apart from impeachment, but that does nothing to right the wrong.

But even in dumbed-down America, a review of the election showing it likely to certain that Trump actually won it, would be an earthquake. A vitally needed one. People NEED to not lazily/default trust their "institutions" - these institutions are now almost universally garbage, and if they ever are to be fixed, the ugly must be revealed and acknowledged.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (OTzUX)

127 7) Reporting requirements - many changes here, but most importantly the
total number of votes cast including election day, early voting and
mail-in votes must be posted by 10 PM on election day. No more suddenly
finding 20,000 votes at 3AM.

That's going to make covering Georgia for Decision Desk interesting. Does this mean I can call the state troopers if we don't see results by 10 p.m.?

Posted by: pookysgirl, still arguing with her transistorized tormentor at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (dHNd1)

128 When Minnesota is the toss-up ... Trump wins early.

This is a truism every bit as valid as Dave in Fla's , "In what universe does Trump win Florida but lose Georgia?"

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (mR6Gs)

129 The sad truth is that penalties for proven election fraud are nothing more than a slap on the wrist. The Democrats do not want severe penalties because the overwhelming majority of election fraud cases occur in large urban areas with majority Democrat voters.

I recall one urban area Democrat bragging to a Fox News reporter that she had voted 6 times already. They only showed that interview one time.

Posted by: Vic at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (mpXpK)

130 dimocrap FILTH didn't steal an election from Trump

They stole it from The American People.

And the only thing they're doing about it is crying like the little bitches they are.

Perhaps the most cowardly populace in human history.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (48/MM)

131 Who shit?!?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

132 If the audits hypothetically changed the vote to
a Trump victory, what then? Does it change anything, or does the system

regard the matter as settled? What's the mechanism?

There is no formal mechanism. However the DoI provides the model for what the founders expected.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (DpkTQ)

133 Dave in Fla has credibility because...?
Posted by: Just Sayin at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (kDjC
++++
His long history of fact-based analysis, openness to debate, posting of sources and complete transparency as to how he arrived at his conclusions. He may not be right (I think he is, on a lot of stuff) but he is credible because he provides the receipts on request or upfront. He draws his conclusions and those are there for you to accept, question or reject - but the work that went into those conclusions is transparent and has been for as long as he's been posting about elections.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (Jsjd7)

134 I have had lots of fun returning money-free fund raising mailers to my GOP reps calling them Uniparty Scum. It is cathartic.

Posted by: Jmel at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (bVhJi)

135 Don't be modest, Dave
Posted by: JoeF.

Agree, and fourthed.
Posted by: lizabth

Fifthded !

Hiya Lizabth !

Posted by: JT at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (arJlL)

136 85 > despite the fact that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas or any other US state.

Notice the lawyerly phrasing: "widespread voter fraud". It is true. There was no "widespread fraud". It was concentrated in a handful of swing states and it was confined to the Presidential race. Funny how Biden got all those votes but none of the down-ballot races got checked.
Posted by: SteveS at June 14, 2021 01:52 PM

I do believe that this happened, but are there numbers, for Fulton County for example, that show that the total number of votes cast in the presidential contest exceeded the total number of votes cast in the senate races? And by a margin greater than typically occurs in other years? And lastly, did the number of votes in the senate race increase overnight in proportion to the number of votes that suddenly appeared for Biden? I'm not holding out hope that these questions will be addressed by the Maricopa or Fulton County audits. It seems that they were part of the evidence that was presented and ignored before the election was certified in each state.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (qe5CM)

137 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 01:57 PM (Jsjd7)
Not really. the planning was in the works the moment that skankles conceded. Marc Elias was meeting with the battleground states' election honchos...most of them dummyrats, in the lead-up to the 2018 election and creating the framework for the fraud.
RE: the Butler rally.That was only one example of the strong support Trump enjoys in PA. In Bucks County a pop-up caravan occurred that stretched either 9 or 12 miles, I can't recall the exact length...but it was bigger than any other candidate, D or R had ever motivated.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (DJFLF)

138 If you believe the FNM 90% of the eligible citizens in WI voted.

And that's a huge bit of news, that they don't report on as well.

The truth is, they are scared of people noticing two things:

1) Trump got a crapload of votes, even in their fraudulent official count: over 70 million, or over a quarter of the US population and over a third of the voting age population. That's a TON of Trump voters and supporters out there, and the left does not want anyone to realize that or feel as if they are not isolated and alone.

2) The probability that so many people voted in this election is unbelievably low and ridiculous to consider. There are 209,128,094 people over the age of 17 (voter age) in the USA as of the most recent count. We're supposed to believe that all these people are registered, and 155,506,056 of them voted. That's just not realistic in any scenario.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (KZzsI)

139 But even in dumbed-down America, a review of the election showing it likely to certain that Trump actually won it, would be an earthquake. A vitally needed one. People NEED to not lazily/default trust their "institutions" - these institutions are now almost universally garbage, and if they ever are to be fixed, the ugly must be revealed and acknowledged.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (OTzUX)

If the Republicans were an ACTUAL opposition party, it would really be an earthquake

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (mR6Gs)

140 was looking forward to this the moment I read you mention it last week.

will read now

Posted by: havelhavolim at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (fLpTX)

141 And AG has already warned shots across the bow if any state touches the voting laws.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (Cxk7w)

142 There were waits of up to 3 hours to vote inFL
These occur in urban areas where the votes tend to be heavy D
This is vote suppression

Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (rXF9P)

143 (though I may do such a post, if there is interest)


yes please

Posted by: havelhavolim at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (fLpTX)

144 If crime pays, why vote? Why pay taxes? Why serve in uniform? Why serve on a jury?
If that is so, our citizenship isn't worth a warm bag of spit.

Posted by: peevish at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (aAP3z)

145 I don't think we're gonna be voting our way out of this

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (Zmnko)

146 Would any to-date legislation signed into law be nullified?
Posted by: Kathy

No no no no.
Once the legislators certify it, it is legally official and there ain't nothing anybody can do about it.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (00uLH)

147 IIRC there are massive numbers of ballots in the stolen states that had only a vote cast for Biden - no down ticket votes - and very few similiar ones for Trump.
Exactly what you would expect if those votes were manufactured quickly - because otherwise you could get caught voting in the wrong House/local races.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (DpkTQ)

148
There's another electricity crisis brewing in Texas. ERCOT has put out a call to minimize usage (raise thermostats, don't use large load appliances and turn off all unnecessary loads).

A large amount of generation, close to 3x normal, is offline for repair, and the expected wind generation is going to be low.

Good job Texas. This green energy is great, ain't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (Mzdiz)

149 If the Republicans were an ACTUAL opposition party, it would really be an earthquake
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (mR6Gs)

If the GOP were an actual opposition party, nobody would have had the stones to even think of any of this fuckery.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (6FeV1)

150 123 Dave in Fla has credibility because...?
Posted by: Just Sayin at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM

Because I said so. I'm with Joe Mannix on this.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (qe5CM)

151 Never been to MI.

I do know that their elections are farcical, even by current national (low) standards. Wayne County has zero election integrity. The frivolous recount in 2016 sought by Jill Stein had to be stopped because (as another moron talked about above), *Wayne County precincts could not meet the most basic, minimal test for election integrity - ballots did not match votes*.

I'll say it for the 1,000th time. Many states in the US have election processes that, if they were used in a foreign election in a country under scrutiny, *would not be recognized by the US, EU, or UN*. Due to their lack of integrity. This is absurd. And I'm not sure all the reforms listed do much to change that.

One election day (no "early voting"). In-person voting with ID. Paper ballots (no electronics). Strict (normal, historical) restrictions on absentees. HD video-covered counting process (every single vote counter observed in person by outsiders, every single move video'd). No vote harvesting.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (OTzUX)

152 *Biden* data team said Trump needed 53% of election day vote in PA to win. He got 61%. One of my favorite tiny little jaw-dropping bits of indirect evidence of major fraud.

Yeah he hit or exceeded nearly every single one of the benchmarks that the experts, pundits, and TV guys were saying he could not possibly reach and needed to win.

When he did so, they freaked out and stopped counting, so they could print off more "ballots" and ship them in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (KZzsI)

153 RE: the Butler rally.That was only one example of the strong support Trump enjoys in PA. In Bucks County a pop-up caravan occurred that stretched either 9 or 12 miles, I can't recall the exact length...but it was bigger than any other candidate, D or R had ever motivated.
Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (DJFLF)
++++
Those were nuts, and I have never seen anything like it. The large number of boat, car, truck, RV, etc. rallies were extremely unusual in my experience. I suspect it was grassroots. That would be a tough thing to get through astroturfing, and nothing in the GOP's (or affiliated organizations) history (during my lifetime, anyway) leads me to believe that they'd think of it or be able to engineer it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (Jsjd7)

154 I'll go one further. It wasn't just this election, its every election in the past 100 years. Sometimes they don't cheat enough.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (buTO7)

155 Your arguments are as strong as ever.

Posted by: creeper at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (XxJt1)

156 Perhaps the most cowardly populace in human history.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at June 14, 2021 02:01 PM (48/MM)

superseded in cowardice only by each and every GOPe traitor who certified the fraud and cock blocked Team Trump from discovery.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (DJFLF)

157 Nice roundup of the in-progress voting law upgrades, Dave in FL. Thanks.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (F0YaR)

158 There's another electricity crisis brewing in Texas. ERCOT has put out a call to minimize usage (raise thermostats, don't use large load appliances and turn off all unnecessary loads).

A large amount of generation, close to 3x normal, is offline for repair, and the expected wind generation is going to be low.

Good job Texas. This green energy is great, ain't it?
Posted by: publius


Fuck ERCOT.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (OCTRt)

159 widespread voter fraud

Replace with consequential.

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (hOMhY)

160 Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (rXF9P)

You're a cheating low life scum bag Commie . Fuck off and die. Time discussing issues with people like you is over. Again fuck off douchebag.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (2DOZq)

161
Legislature: Early voting is restricted, no ballot harvesting, no unsolicited ballots, ID required.

Soros-backed SoS: I'm ignoring all that. Stop me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (mht8P)

162 Michigan and Wisconsin are far too GOPe/RINO/NeverTrump to really do anything.

Anyone feel different?
Posted by: geewhiz at June 14, 2021 01:46 PM (dRzCR)
**********
If this CRT and "pick your gender" curriculum starts becoming a problem in these states then maybe it will be the wakeup call for more parents to realize that the left is out to destroy this country and that elections have consequences.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (NpAcC)

163 >>If the audits hypothetically changed the vote to a Trump victory, what then? Does it change anything, or does the system regard the matter as settled? What's the mechanism?


arrest all the Biden electors and hold them in solitary until the sun goes super nova

Posted by: x at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (oA+QO)

164 Replace with consequential.
Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (hOMhY)



I like that.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (Ez6QX)

165 People aren't cowardly. They're hoping that some way will be found to rectify this so they won't have to be forced into the alternative. Nobody sane WANTS to get crazy about this, and we're all trying to find a way to avoid it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (KZzsI)

166 Stick a spoon in it, the fork is bent.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (63Dwl)

167 Soros-backed SoS: I'm ignoring all that. Stop me.

Courts: no standing, we're not hearing this case.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM (KZzsI)

168 There's another electricity crisis brewing in Texas. ERCOT has put out a call to minimize usage (raise thermostats, don't use large load appliances and turn off all unnecessary loads).

A large amount of generation, close to 3x normal, is offline for repair, and the expected wind generation is going to be low.

Good job Texas. This green energy is great, ain't it?
Posted by: publius


No. Seriously. Fuck ERCOT. You produce a commodity for sale. I enter an agreement to buy said commodity. If YOU don't have enough of the commodity,

THAT IS NOT ON ME.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (OCTRt)

169 and nothing in the GOP's (or affiliated
organizations) history (during my lifetime, anyway) leads me to believe
that they'd think of it or be able to engineer it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (Jsjd7)

the expression "tits on a boar" comes to mind

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (DJFLF)

170 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:02 PM (KZzsI)

Trump received more votes than any President before him, yet still lost to a guy who could not even fill a small venue for campaign events?

And Biden somehow drove the election to the highest voter turnout in election History? DURING A PANDEMIC?

Even when pre election, Trump supporters had a 10% edge in polling for Voter Enthusiasm?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (oHd/0)

171
Fuck ERCOT.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:05 PM (OCTRt)


With Harvey Weinstein's dick.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

172 Michigan and Wisconsin are far too GOPe/RINO/NeverTrump to really do anything.

Anyone feel different?
Posted by: geewhiz



is this the thing I click to get a slide show of the 30 hottest celbs ever, and 100 ads?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (GRWEX)

173 Dave in Fla has credibility because...?
Posted by: Just Sayin at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (kDjC
++++


We don't take anything on faith. Give us the argument, adduce relevant data, set out the conclusions, and we'll each assess the credibility for ourselves.

For my part, I don't take anybody's credibility for granted.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (nEndu)

174 Sorry for those who have heard this before:

I don't mind anomalies. Honestly, I kind of like them because they make life interesting. The problem is when every single anomaly occurs simultaneously, that alone should signal to even the dimmest of dim-bulbs that there were BIG problems.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (yK9py)

175 Good job Texas. This green energy is great, ain't it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (Mzdiz)

You're welcome.

Posted by: Rick Perry at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (hOMhY)

176 142 There were waits of up to 3 hours to vote inFL
These occur in urban areas where the votes tend to be heavy D
This is vote suppression
Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM

The precincts determine how many voting locations there will be. So, in effect, the democrats running the precincts are suppressing their own voters. Seems to me they use it as an excuse to keep certain locations open after hours to ensure a dump of late-counted votes that just manage to cover the margin of cheat.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (qe5CM)

177 Stick a spoon in it, the fork is bent.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM


There is no spoon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (m+jkK)

178 Look at this pattern of total votes cast and let me know if you see any outliers...

2004: 122M
2008: 130M
2012: 125M
2016: 128M
2020: 156M

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (DpkTQ)

179 Syria, Libya, who gives a fuck.

Am I right?

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (sWM8x)

180 More laws will definitely solve the breaking of the previous laws.

Posted by: Vir Cotto at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (53Dd0)

181 Also I like the part where Trump had record turnout and Biden somehow won by taking fewer counties than Obama.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (yK9py)

182 The problem is when every single anomaly occurs simultaneously, that alone should signal to even the dimmest of dim-bulbs that there were BIG problems.

And they all lean one direction. Its okay to win at slots once in a while. Its okay to win a couple times. But if you keep winning on every machine, there's a problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (KZzsI)

183
The problem is when every single anomaly occurs simultaneously

____________

And they all favor one candidate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (mht8P)

184 I'll go one further. It wasn't just this election, its every election in the past 100 years. Sometimes they don't cheat enough.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 14, 2021 02:04 PM (buTO7)

They cheated in 2016, but not enough
They cheated in 2012, but Mittens kept quiet
They didn't have to cheat in 2008--McCain was a terrible candidate and threw the election anyway.
They cheated in 2004, but not enough
They cheated in 2000, but not enough.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (mR6Gs)

185 People aren't cowardly. They're hoping that some way will be found to rectify this so they won't have to be forced into the alternative. Nobody sane WANTS to get crazy about this, and we're all trying to find a way to avoid it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


The tree of Liberty yada yada yada.

We're 156 years overdue.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (OCTRt)

186 Dave in Fla has credibility because...?
Posted by: Just Sayin at June 14, 2021 02:00


Before the election, I caught much shit for saying the DNC could pull five points of fraud in certain states, just based upon typical over-reporting in deep blue precincts. I was reliably informed I was full of shit and knew nothing of how elections worked. Turns out - I didn't.

I'll give Dave credit for this - he's taken the time to have another look at his assumptions, based upon new data. That's rare.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (pfxf2)

187 Where is Wisconsin and Michigan and Nevada



Posted by: havelhavolim at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (fLpTX)

188
182/183: Horde mind

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (mht8P)

189 Who bitch this is?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (OssQ4)

190 Stick a spoon in it, the fork is bent.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2021 02:06 PM

There is no spoon.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2021 02:07 PM (m+jkK)

We're still all forked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (6FeV1)

191 "Let's get it out on the table from the start. Donald Trump won the 2020 election."


Ace should start every piece with that. He won't because he can't even remember he said he'd refer to Trump as President Trump every time.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (BxEdk)

192 Schlicter said in today's column- Trump wasn't our last chance. Trump was their last chance.
Winning by the margin of fraud is not possible in the future. Complicit Republicans are in on the scam. The corruption will not stand.

Posted by: Valiant at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (3MiF8)

193 Abbot is going to see his presidential dreams go up in smoke if he doesn't get this shit under control.


@Breaking911 1hr

BREAKING: Energy officials urge Texans to conserve energy as electric demand could outpace supply Monday while temperatures soar - KHOU

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (nI1Kq)

194 Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:08 PM (mR6Gs)

They definitely cheated in FL in 2012.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (2DOZq)

195 Dave in Fla has credibility because...?
Posted by: Just Sayin at June 14, 2021 02:00 PM (kDjC
++++

He shows the math

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (mR6Gs)

196 hahaha, did Proud Moderate just confirm that Democrat run areas are the ones suppressing the voters?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (yK9py)

197 Excellent write-up, Dave. Looking forward to your post about the steal itself.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (OssQ4)

198 This tall, leggy, busty, sexy brunette is buying snacks and imagining a world where her vote counts:
https://is.gd/HfbsSX

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (Jsjd7)

199
Energy officials urge Texans to conserve energy

________

I'm helping out by lying in bed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (mht8P)

200 hey're hoping that some way will be found to rectify this so they won't have to be forced into the alternative. Nobody sane WANTS to get crazy about this, and we're all trying to find a way to avoid it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


The tree of Liberty yada yada yada.

We're 156 years overdue.
Posted by: r




the ting is is, they need us to do something, do not tak the bait

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (GRWEX)

201
BREAKING: Energy officials urge Texans to conserve energy as electric demand could outpace supply Monday while temperatures soar - KHOU
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (nI1Kq)

**

Turn on more windmills. There, done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (yK9py)

202 If voting lines are too long, expand precinct capacity or create more precincts. Done. Easy.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (OTzUX)

203 Schlicter said in today's column- Trump wasn't our last chance. Trump was their last chance.


I don't trust Schlicter

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (mR6Gs)

204 There were waits of up to 3 hours to vote inFL
These occur in urban areas where the votes tend to be heavy D
This is vote suppression
Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 14, 2021 02:03 PM (rXF9P)

You do know that it is LOCAL election boards that set up and run Voting sites? So if there were not enough sites to vote, in a heavy dem area, you might want to ask the DEMS who run voting there?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (oHd/0)

205 Celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence are running PSA's targeting Texas and Georgia for suppressing the vote of the oppressed.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

206 IIRC there are massive numbers of ballots in the stolen states that had only a vote cast for Biden - no down ticket votes - and very few similiar ones for Trump.

In PA, IIRC, 820 ballots were cast only for Trump; 95,819 were cast only for Biden.

Nothing fishy about that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (c+cQQ)

207 You do know that it is LOCAL election boards that set up and run Voting sites? So if there were not enough sites to vote, in a heavy dem area, you might want to ask the DEMS who run voting there?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (oHd/0)
++++
Forget it. He's rolling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (Jsjd7)

208 Abbot is going to see his presidential dreams go up in smoke if he doesn't get this shit under control.



Hot Wheels dreams are already toast.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (OCTRt)

209 I have to admit that taking off my partisan anger over the stolen election, the process used here looks very fair.

If Democrats are involved you can bet your hat and ass the process is not fair.

Posted by: creeper at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (XxJt1)

210
Every screwed up polling place is in a Democratic precinct.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (mht8P)

211 why would somebody who does not want heat and humidity be in tx?

and, who the fuck thought wrecking the tx energy grid so that it was not working for heat and humidity would be a good thing?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (GRWEX)

212 >>> This tall, leggy, busty, sexy brunette is buying snacks and imagining a world where her vote counts:
https://is.gd/HfbsSX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:10 PM (Jsjd7)


She's a woman that likes a nice pair of well-dressed dapper nuts.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (RlhGd)

213 So waiting in a line is heinous racist voter suppression, but literally fabricating ballots is perfectly fine?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (6FeV1)

214 If voting lines are too long, expand precinct capacity or create more precincts. Done. Easy.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:11 PM (OTzUX)

Funny. This only happens in urban areas. Seems the purpose is to perpetuate their gripe.

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (hOMhY)

215 thought that that abott fuy got 0 in the cpac straw poll this year

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (GRWEX)

216
Apropos of nothing at all: I'm pissed off at the company that produces the coils for my smoker. I ordered a 5-pack of them from these bastards, and it took a really long time to get here. After the third week, I sent a letter to them requesting info, because the stupid receipt they gave me had an invalid order number, and I couldn't track it. No response. Two weeks later, the thing shows up, but still no response. I'm glad I eventually got what I ordered, but that shit is rude.

This really irritates me. If a dissatisfied customer wrote my firm about a problem and didn't get it resolved in two days, my nearest C-level executive would be breathing down necks and writing obsequious letters until that person felt he'd gotten 5-star service. Feh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (pfqSb)

217 204 There were waits of up to 3 hours to vote inFL
These occur in urban areas where the votes tend to be heavy D
This is vote suppression
Posted by: Proud Moderate

you lie. no one waited 3 hours to vote.

Posted by: x at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (oA+QO)

218 the ting is is, they need us to do something, do not tak the bait


THIS

in English - they want us to rise up, at this moment, now. they are ready and prodding us to start SOMETHING

then it's all over.

when your enemy wants the fight (which they clearly do, right now), Art of War tells me it is NOT THE TIME

so hang on, take care of yourselves, don't let them goad you into something stupid.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (j9HX3)

219 So waiting in a line is heinous racist voter suppression, but literally fabricating ballots is perfectly fine?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (6FeV1)
+++
The manufacturing offsets the suppression.

Duh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (Jsjd7)

220 Douchebag doesn't believe there was voter suppression. Douchebag is just using that excuse to extend cheating hours so they get to learn how many more fake votes they need.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (2DOZq)

221 and, who the fuck thought wrecking the tx energy grid so that it was not working for heat and humidity would be a good thing?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (GRWEX)

California! Leading the WAY!

Posted by: Romeo13, it will be 109 here Friday... at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (oHd/0)

222 Also I like the part where Trump had record turnout and Biden somehow won by taking fewer counties than Obama.
If you believe the FNM numbers Trump did better with basically every demographic over 2016 in the rural areas, the 'burbs and the smaller cities, but Biden won *every* eligible voter's vote in a hand full of big blue cities.


Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (DpkTQ)

223 PA, NV, MI, GA and WI are irrevocably corrupt and will clearly now do anything to preserve and defend the fraudulent electoral processes.

Throw in a bunch of other "permanently" blue states for good measure.

Laws are for peons and idiots. Now what.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:14 PM (sSiC8)

224 Dave doesn't even show up for his own post?

What kind of amateur hour is this place?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 02:14 PM (LvTSG)

225 This tall, leggy, busty, sexy brunette is buying snacks and imagining a world where her vote counts:
https://is.gd/HfbsSX
Posted by: J


she was gently twirling her hair as she stood there, staring at and desperately longing for the nutsack.

she needed it

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:14 PM (GRWEX)

226 All I can tell is the steal went down in the precise areas where the knock-out game, fights in Chuck E Cheese, and looting televisions is most prevalent. I don't know if there's any correlation, but I have a good guess.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 14, 2021 02:14 PM (OssQ4)

227 Don't fall for state GOP's sudden interest in election audits. It's al kabukki theater.

The cretins had the opportunity to do it for two months after the GOP helped Dems steal the presidential election.

Not only did they do anything about it, but they also allowed Dems steal the two Senate seats in Georgia.

F*** them all.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (FcFM1)

228 I've never had a particularly long wait to vote in any of the places I've lived. Oddly they manage to plan and staff for people going before or after work, and I presume during the work day in those places.

And yet year in and year out they have long lines in the Big Blue Cities...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (DpkTQ)

229 This is the sort of indirect evidence that is useful - "president only" ballots. They do, of course, happen naturally. But with decades of stats, "normal" rates are known. I believe it varies from 3-5%. I believe at least one key state, at one point in the count, had 18% "president only" ballots.

There is not a single historical or statistical pattern, established in decades of presidential contests, that this election followed. AFAIK. Every significant one was broken. From statewide results vs. Dane + Milwaukee in WI, to Biden having widely varying results within the same demos in different states, to bellwether counties, to regional improbabilities (win FL big, lose GA; win OH big, lose PA when that state was bursting with enthusiastic support).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (OTzUX)

230 yeah I dunno three dots

on the wind I'm hearing separation - from a lot of interesting quarters

so I think that's what will happen. I just need two more years before I won't be able to leave PA

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (j9HX3)

231 How the sun dried honey roasted FUCK do these idiots have the gall to squawk about their precious imaginary voter suppression when a gibbering farina-stained lunatic just harvested an absurdly high number of votes?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (6FeV1)

232 If you believe the FNM numbers Trump did better with basically every demographic over 2016 in the rural areas, the 'burbs and the smaller cities, but Biden won *every* eligible voter's vote in a hand full of big blue cities.


Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (DpkTQ)

Exit polls showed he "lost" white men.

FFS

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:16 PM (hOMhY)

233 BREAKING: Energy officials urge Texans to conserve energy as electric demand could outpace supply Monday while temperatures soar - KHOU
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM (nI1Kq)



BREAKING: Texas temps rise as summer approaches.


Wait, that's not breaking. That happens EVERY. FUCKING. YEAR.

ERCOT should be nuked from space.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

234 there's nothing nefarious about the long waits in urban/shithole districts

it's just the people there are thoroughly incompetent

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 02:16 PM (j9HX3)

235 Exit polls showed he "lost" white men. ...
Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:16 PM (hOMhY)
++++
Exit polls are useless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:16 PM (Jsjd7)

236 Thanks for the writeup, Dave in FL.

Posted by: Inogame at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (53oGX)

237 I'm not going to spend time in this post proving this or explaining the evidence (though I may do such a post, if there is interest).

Add me to the list of interested morons!

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (mZUr4)

238 Exit polls showed he "lost" white men.


yeah that was the part where they were mocking us

evil likes doing that

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (j9HX3)

239 This really irritates me. If a dissatisfied customer wrote my firm about a problem and didn't get it resolved in two days, my nearest C-level executive would be breathing down necks and writing obsequious letters until that person felt he'd gotten 5-star service. Feh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Our dissatisfied customers call us 24/7. And yes, the phone is answered by a live body. Based in the US. Not a curry joint. Things are moving to resolution within hours, not even days.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (OCTRt)

240 How the sun dried honey roasted FUCK do these idiots have the gall to squawk about their precious imaginary voter suppression
20 years after the voter suppression calumny the FNM raised in response to the Y2K election it has still yet to produce a single person stopped from voting.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (DpkTQ)

241 Have the networks released the exhaustive election result details showing the total numbers who voted how and where with breakdowns in age, race, education, etc?

You couldn't swing a stick without hitting one of those in other elections.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (yK9py)

242 If Democrats are involved you can bet your hat and ass the process is not fair.
Posted by: creeper at June 14, 2021 02:12 PM (XxJt1)

^^^^^^^^^

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (sSiC8)

243 Add me to the list of interested morons!
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (mZUr4)
++++
Oh, you're on a list alright.

Posted by: Big Tech, Government, Party, et. al. at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (Jsjd7)

244 she stood there, staring at the bloated wrinkly sack. she gently fondld the sack as she thought of the nuts inside and their salty goodness flooding her mouth

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:18 PM (GRWEX)

245 Waiting in line to vote is an annoyance at best, not a violation of basic human rights.

when your enemy wants the fight (which they clearly do, right now)

They don't want the fight, they just want enough crazy right wingers to do terrible stuff to justify the tyranny that follows. It would fulfill their nonsensical "right wing militia" terrorist claims, it would justify their PATRIOT act type response, and it would convince GOPe types to go along with their suspension of the constitution and democracy. For our safety.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:18 PM (KZzsI)

246 Too bad no one can do anything about the Dearbornistan voting.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2021 02:18 PM (m9rHc)

247 Proud Moderate, tell us why you think it is that black people can't run elections.

Be specific.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:18 PM (yK9py)

248 she is a dirty girl, I though she just wanted something to eat

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:18 PM (GRWEX)

249 Off sock.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2021 02:18 PM (khAeP)

250 193 Abbot is going to see his presidential dreams go up in smoke if he doesn't get this shit under control.

@Breaking911 1hr
BREAKING: Energy officials urge Texans to conserve energy as electric demand could outpace supply Monday while temperatures soar - KHOU
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2021 02:09 PM

Didn't I see something during the winter storm that explained that Texas is under some sort of federal limitation that caps their fossil fuel electricity production or usage at 40%?

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (qe5CM)

251 234 there's nothing nefarious about the long waits in urban/shithole districts

it's just the people there are thoroughly incompetent
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 02:16 PM (j9HX3)

==========

It's the fault of Republicans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

252 in English - they want us to rise up, at this moment, now. they are ready and prodding us to start SOMETHING

You lose 100% of the fights you don't show up for.

This is the typical circular logic. A literal "heads they win, tails we lose". Either they push you where they want you to go, and win - or you resist the push, and lose ?

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (pfxf2)

253 Not only did they do anything about it, but they also allowed Dems steal the two Senate seats in Georgia.

F*** them all.
Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (FcFM1)

Talk about self inflicted voter suppression. IIRC 400k less GOP votes than the General election.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (2DOZq)

254 >>> Dave doesn't even show up for his own post?

What kind of amateur hour is this place?


Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 02:14 PM (LvTSG)


It's long monday siesta time in FL. Check back after cinco.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (RlhGd)

255 The wind isn't blowing in the Panhandle today, viola a 90 degree day across the state is a problem. It's Texas for gods sake, it's always this hot in mid July. I vote Austin gets no power for the duration, let those assholes suffer.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (oWBc3)

256 Pay attention to some of the verbiage.

"Vote by Mail" is one thing, and it (obviously) is through the post office both coming and going.

Increasingly though, what they mean by that are just ballot boxes installed strategically around precincts. They aren't mailboxes, and they get stuffed with the phony balogna fraudulent ballots in order to steal the vote.

Words mean things, though not to the Bolsheviks/Communist/Nazi/Collectivist/Totalitarian lunatics.

Who counts the vote is what matters.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (tjqz9)

257 Also, isn't it interesting that every single election the Big Blue cities claim to have election difficulties and none of the local officials ever get voted out of office.

So either the people living there don't actually care or those long lines are a sign of something else going on...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (DpkTQ)

258 June

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (oWBc3)

259 Didn't I see something during the winter storm that explained that Texas is under some sort of federal limitation that caps their fossil fuel electricity production or usage at 40%?
Posted by: Moonbeam


Until we secede and tell DC to piss up a rope.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:20 PM (OCTRt)

260 Heh so he lost all the evil white men who are literally also his only supporters. Makes perfect sense on Planet Xenon I guess.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:20 PM (sSiC8)

261 Our dissatisfied customers call us 24/7. And yes, the phone is answered by a live body. Based in the US. Not a curry joint. Things are moving to resolution within hours, not even days.

That's a company that cares about its customers and is working to retain them. For all its many evils, Amazon still is good about customer service.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:20 PM (KZzsI)

262 Celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence are running PSA's targeting Texas and Georgia for suppressing the vote of the oppressed.
--------------
I say we go back to the original intention of the founders. No voting unless you have skin in the game. Become a stakeholder and then you get you vote.

Posted by: Drc at June 14, 2021 02:20 PM (vbaSG)

263 Ward

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:20 PM (GRWEX)

264 "Your tears give me strength."
-Most of America to celebrities

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

265 Talk about self inflicted voter suppression. IIRC 400k less GOP votes than the General election.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (2DOZq)

Grifting off US taxpayers was more important. Priorities.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (b+NrN)

266 Right now, 7 months later if I drive through town there are still more Trump signs out than the two Biden signs I saw in November.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (buTO7)

267 Beaver

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (GRWEX)

268 I've never had a particularly long wait to vote in any of the places I've lived. Oddly they manage to plan and staff for people going before or after work, and I presume during the work day in those places.

And yet year in and year out they have long lines in the Big Blue Cities...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2021 02:15 PM (DpkTQ)

***

I clearly remember the moment I told my wife on election night "This is where they steal it."

It was when the polling place representatives said they were going to go home for the night and continue counting tomorrow. Because no one knew what the date was and how important it was and how to plan ahead so that people could work 3rd shift one time to finish up in a timely manner.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (yK9py)

269 Uniparty has made it clear if voting mattered they wouldn't let us do it.

Posted by: brak at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (WuVYg)

270 President Trump's greatest failing was watching the fraud take place in real time in front of his eyes in 2018 and doing jack about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (KZzsI)

271
And yet year in and year out they have long lines in the Big Blue Cities...
Posted by: 18-1

The lines don't exist in areas where they have guys with baseball bats patrolling the voting sites!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (m9rHc)

272 >>> This tall, leggy, busty, sexy brunette is buying snacks and imagining a world where her vote counts:
https://is.gd/HfbsSX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

https://vocaroo.com/16i45nU3VDoK

Posted by: Milkies! at June 14, 2021 02:22 PM (GWIPO)

273
Didn't I see something during the winter storm that explained that Texas is under some sort of federal limitation that caps their fossil fuel electricity production or usage at 40%?
Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 02:19 PM (qe5CM)


Possible. We're taking it in the shorts here now for the deals Owebama struck with Perry for that sweet, sweet federal cash.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

274 I have never had to wait much to vote, then again, I would stay in line for two days to vote because republic.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:22 PM (GRWEX)

275 Lumpy

Posted by: klaftern at June 14, 2021 02:22 PM (r4sI4)

276

ERGOT>ERCOT

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2021 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

277 I say we go back to the original intention of the founders. No voting unless you have skin in the game. Become a stakeholder and then you get you vote.

And as I've said before, I agree with this whole heartedly, even though it would mean I would lose the vote, owning no land.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (KZzsI)

278 I'd love to see a comprehensive post on how the election was stolen. I've seen bits and pieces here and there, some acknowledging fraud but concluding there was no effect on the overall result, etc., but never one post with solid evidence of a steal.

Posted by: Wickr Dude at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (sOXXq)

279 Have the networks released the exhaustive election result details showing the total numbers who voted how and where with breakdowns in age, race, education, etc?

Michael Barone was good at this sort of thing. But ot took two weeks tops.

He's been very quiet about this election.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (mR6Gs)

280 It seems the honest(er) states are busy restricting themselves.

Posted by: iron308 at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (jAxSK)

281
Things are moving to resolution within hours, not even days.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:17 PM (OCTRt)

------

We move problems in minutes or hours - problem is, it requires physical parts, so it can take a couple of days from order to shipping to install. But nobody leaves you hanging, wondering if you're going to make them whole.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (pfqSb)

282 The past five years represent an assault on common sense. Starting with the lies about Trump (Russia, misogynist, racist, 'Hitler), Clinton (the server, the tarmac meeting), Flynn, and culminating in COVID and the stolen election, none of these events pass the most basic litmus test of reason or credibility. For the benighted left, every source of trusted information lies to them on a daily basis, so it is understandable that their perception of reality is hopelessly skewed. But for anyone with a brain, it is readily apparent we are being lied to so that those in power can justify collecting more power. The same is obviously true with CRT and climate change.

Posted by: iandeal at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (MGjjz)

283 Does Charlie Crist still have his beard, or did his loserdom make her unnecessary?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (yQpMk)

284 All these bills have no standing.
- Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (XwlQP)

285 Have the networks released the exhaustive election result details showing the total numbers who voted how and where with breakdowns in age, race, education, etc?
-------
Michael Barone was good at this sort of thing. But ot took two weeks tops.

He's been very quiet about this election.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (mR6Gs)

***

It has been such a mystery. Must be because of COVID.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:24 PM (yK9py)

286 "Drop boxes" - another thing to be completely banned.
WTF is wrong with people?

The way elections were run 40 years ago had much more integrity, and it was just as "easy" to vote.

No vote harvesting, no "drop boxes". Election day in-person/voter ID voting, only. Or absentee, with usual safeguards. Paper ballots, video'd counting process, no electronics.
Done.

Completely f***king obvious and irrefutably the way to do it.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:24 PM (OTzUX)

287 The past five years represent an assault on common sense. Starting with the lies about Trump (Russia, misogynist, racist, 'Hitler), Clinton (the server, the tarmac meeting), Flynn, and culminating in COVID and the stolen election, none of these events pass the most basic litmus test of reason or credibility. For the benighted left, every source of trusted information lies to them on a daily basis, so it is understandable that their perception of reality is hopelessly skewed. But for anyone with a brain, it is readily apparent we are being lied to so that those in power can justify collecting more power. The same is obviously true with CRT and climate change.
Posted by: ian



you missed the eight before that?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:24 PM (GRWEX)

288 The list of how to fix elections in the US is short and easy to agree with, if your goal is honest elections. We all know it. But there's no way you get politicians to agree with the list.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:24 PM (KZzsI)

289 Heh so he lost all the evil white men who are literally also his only supporters. Makes perfect sense on Planet Xenon I guess.
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:

All the white males is Philly and ATL and Detroit flipped the script.

Posted by: Golfman at June 14, 2021 02:24 PM (hOMhY)

290 Voting integrity is literally life and death. Lives and fortunes people.

If we do not have voting integrity, we then live in a failed state, and the potential for chaos, even if it never comes to full blown civil war, is historic. The disconnection between the citizens and the state will eat away at prosperity and safety and lead to economic atrophy, and a zombified nation. Maybe that's what they're shooting for . . . They're going to need another tax farm if they keep this up.

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2021 02:25 PM (dO7qB)

291 New Pennsylvania law was allowing mail votes that were wrong tobe corrected before vote deadlines

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2021 02:25 PM (Cxk7w)

292
AOC needs to spearhead a law to require the wind to blow when it's needed.

These green energy idiots need to be taken out and ... given their just deserts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2021 02:25 PM (Mzdiz)

293 277

Doesnt have to be just owning land. Paying income tax would be sufficient as well. Hell anyone with a job and a tax return would be fine by me even if hey pay no tax. At least they are contributing something to society.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:25 PM (XwlQP)

294 It has been such a mystery

Yeah its so hard to figure out why the usual analysts and number crunchers are so totally disinterested in reporting about this election. A real puzzler.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:25 PM (KZzsI)

295 The voting law should be changed to a survey which locates the alpha SJW, the person who checks the most intersectionality boxes, and ask xir who xir votes for, then appoint that person to office. It is the only fair way to run an election.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2021 02:26 PM (hcb9g)

296 Uniparty and judges laughed at the voting laws in 2020.

Lucy
Football
Charlie Brown

Posted by: Merrick Garland, making Holder look apolitical at June 14, 2021 02:26 PM (HCeRP)

297 .. given their just deserts.

Posted by: publius

DO NOT SEND THEM TO US!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2021 02:26 PM (m9rHc)

298 None of this matters for shit because the Democrats proved that they can violate whatever voting laws they want and there will be no consequences.

New voting laws are UTTERLY IRRELEVANT if there is no enforcement.

Pennsylvania in particular. They violated the explicit, unambiguous laws in place specifying EXACTLY the time period voting was allowed. The Democrats arbitrarily changed them with no legal authority.

And what happened? They 'won' the state, and there were absolutely zero consequences for their lawbreaking.

All of this is just bullshit Failure Theatre by the RINOs.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 14, 2021 02:26 PM (setIA)

299 I'd love to see a comprehensive post on how the election was stolen. I've seen bits and pieces here and there, some acknowledging fraud but concluding there was no effect on the overall result, etc., but never one post with solid evidence of a steal.
Posted by: Wickr Dude
***
Is this a joke?

Posted by: squeakywheel at June 14, 2021 02:26 PM (9O0fm)

300 We move problems in minutes or hours - problem is, it requires physical parts, so it can take a couple of days from order to shipping to install. But nobody leaves you hanging, wondering if you're going to make them whole.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Exactly. Same here. If they need a new shipment, it's on the road in hours, if not faster. Yeah, our customers say we're not the cheapest, but they stick with us because they know we will move heaven and earth for them.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:27 PM (OCTRt)

301 Doesnt have to be just owning land. Paying income tax would be sufficient as well. Hell anyone with a job and a tax return would be fine by me even if hey pay no tax.

Well unless I start selling a hell of a lot more books I don't pay income tax, either.

I'd make it:
Land owning
Currently serving in the US Military
Paying, not getting EITC back, paying income tax.

And the "land owning" would be land of substance, not a 1 square millimeter area donated to your name by George Soros from a field he bought.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:27 PM (KZzsI)

302 279 Have the networks released the exhaustive election result details showing the total numbers who voted how and where with breakdowns in age, race, education, etc?

Michael Barone was good at this sort of thing. But ot took two weeks tops.

He's been very quiet about this election.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:23 PM (mR6Gs)

JoeF, that is an excellent point. Where is that guy?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (mdjgu)

303 Scotus told PA you cannot do this. pA said LOLGF. So yeah go ahead and write 100 bills and it will mean Jack shit. More failure theater.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (XwlQP)

304 How in the the sun dried honey roasted FUCK do these idiots have the gall to squawk about their precious imaginary voter suppression

You have to understand the way they think. First, the words that come out of their mouth, have little relationship to reality as you or I understand it. After all, these people are in many cases literally crazy. What did you expect?

In more cases than not I expect, they are sociopaths. The way they look at it, honest legitimate elections are a "threat to our democracy". You heard it right. That's what they believe. Preventing fraudulent ballots from being cast, running a clean election, that's just dirty pool. They will tell you this if you get enough beers in 'em. Lying, cheating and stealing, that's just politics. They don't care, and in the words of Hairy Reed, "it worked, didn't it?"

Prepare accordingly. You ain't seen nothin' yet. When the music stops it will be like nothing ever seen.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (tjqz9)

305 The past five years represent an assault on common sense. Starting with the lies about Trump (Russia, misogynist, racist, 'Hitler), Clinton (the server, the tarmac meeting), Flynn, and culminating in COVID and the stolen election, none of these events pass the most basic litmus test of reason or credibility. For the benighted left, every source of trusted information lies to them on a daily basis, so it is understandable that their perception of reality is hopelessly skewed. But for anyone with a brain, it is readily apparent we are being lied to so that those in power can justify collecting more power. The same is obviously true with CRT and climate change.
Posted by: ian



you missed the eight before that?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:24 PM (GRWEX)

The EXTRA lying over the past FIVE years was to cover up the lying of the previous EIGHT

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (mR6Gs)

306 Texas is not limited on how it produces power. Wind and being the leader in wind power became a vanity project here about 15 years ago. We won, and we lost. A state swimming in natural gas and coal is now worried about a sultry June day.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (oWBc3)

307 I'd make it:
Land owning
Currently serving in the US Military
Paying, not getting EITC back, paying income tax.


That would be "you have to be at least one of these in order to vote"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (KZzsI)

308 I've seen bits and pieces here and there, some acknowledging fraud but concluding there was no effect on the overall result, etc., but never one post with solid evidence of a steal.

***

Not even getting into the weeds of algorithms and ballot-stuffing:

If anyone voted in a way that was not put in place via required legislative procedures that govern election laws, their votes were illegal.

The end.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (yK9py)

309 Doesnt have to be just owning land. Paying income tax would be sufficient as well. Hell anyone with a job and a tax return would be fine by me even if hey pay no tax. At least they are contributing something to society.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

Gotta pay taxes. That way, when they vote to raise taxes, they're cutting their own throats too. That's how we got into this mess.

Voters who have no skin in the game.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (OCTRt)

310 I might have been wrong about nut girl, she might just be trying to figure out how to unhook the bag

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (GRWEX)

311 President Trump's greatest failing was watching the fraud take place in real time in front of his eyes in 2018 and doing jack about it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:21 PM (KZzsI)

And what "Jack" would you suggest he should've done?

Posted by: Golfman at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (hOMhY)

312 301

Do you file a tax return showing a positive income? Then you can vote. That would be my litmus test.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (XwlQP)

313 I'd make it:
Land owning
Currently serving in the US Military
Paying, not getting EITC back, paying income tax.

That would be "you have to be at least one of these in order to vote"

**

This.

If you have a tax liability I'm fine with it counting as much as owning land does.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (yK9py)

314 I might have been wrong about nut girl, she might just be trying to figure out how to unhook the bag
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (GRWEX)
++++
She needs your help, C5. Go to her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:30 PM (Jsjd7)

315
If this were a serious country, and we had people that did they like used to do, and think, and plan, for the future, they would've realized that energy was going to be like, a very high priority.

All that money borrowed and spent on various utter crap for the past two decades could've been spent doing that.

Thorium reactors. If a fraction of the trillions blown were thrown at that, well, we could be up to our eyeballs in electric power generation capacity right now.

And clean. No CO2.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2021 02:30 PM (Mzdiz)

316 You need to get back in your meds c5. Fucking embarrassing.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 02:30 PM (oWBc3)

317 Almost every single problem in our country today can be blamed on the federal government.

Seems obvious what the solution is.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2021 02:30 PM (YxVzA)

318 Remember, for the dyed in the wool, hardcore leftist, this is a religious issue, not a legal one. They are on a righteous crusade to Save The Planet and usher in earthly utopia. All actions are justified by the end goal, and there is no sin in fighting to bring this about. What's a little voter fraud when you're bringing about paradise on earth? Who cares if you break a few laws when you are a holy warrior chosen one?

That's what we're up against. Glassy-eyed zealotry.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:30 PM (KZzsI)

319 At 10pm Trump was in the 90s in betting markets. Then it all stopped and made a u turns that is the fraud proof.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (XwlQP)

320 Scotus told PA you cannot do this. pA said LOLGF.

**

Serious question:

Did anything ever come of that? Because if PA continued doing what they were doing after being told by the gay marriage folks that what they were doing was illegal, what happened after that was all illegal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (yK9py)

321 And what "Jack" would you suggest he should've done?

Something more than the zero he tried. Do you get it? He did NOTHING.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (KZzsI)

322 Seems obvious what the solution is.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2021 02:30 PM (YxVzA)

*nods head in somber agreement*

Cowboy poetry.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (6FeV1)

323 Gotta pay taxes. That way, when they vote to raise taxes, they're cutting their own throats too. That's how we got into this mess.

Voters who have no skin in the game.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (OCTRt)
++++
I'd be fine to limiting the franchise to net-positive taxpayers. The mechanism for that will take a lot of work to figure out, but I'm okay with that, even if it means we need to fundamentally reform how taxes work. And in my opinion, it should be any positive number, from one cent upward. And the only landowner requirement should be for property tax issues. You have to have skin in the game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (Jsjd7)

324 Anyone notice the narrative shift on the capitol riots now includes a female cop who was thrown down the Capitol steps and knocked unconscious by a raving mad Trump supporter?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (hcb9g)

325 I'm not sure if anyone bears more responsibility for all of this fraud than Marc Elias. Somehow, Trump managed to eke out a win in NC even after Elias came here and got voting regulations changed to favor the perpetuation of fraud.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 14, 2021 02:32 PM (qe5CM)

326 You need to get back in your meds c5. Fucking embarrassing.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks




you're kind of a sad sort aren't you?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:32 PM (GRWEX)

327 Dave doesn't even show up for his own post?

What kind of amateur hour is this place?


Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 02:14 PM (LvTSG)


I see what you did there!

Maybe Ace didn't tell him when it was being posted. That would be funny!

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2021 02:32 PM (mZUr4)

328 All this will be useful when our candidate choices are Kamalamadingdong and George P Bush or some shit

Posted by: brak at June 14, 2021 02:32 PM (WuVYg)

329 Sadly the dismissive comments here have a lot of weight.

As noted by one above, PA's unconstitutional/unlawful voting process was ID'd and whistled prior to the election, SCOTUS even took note of it - then, nothing. And SCOTUS did not hear a single case on a vital national issue *where they actually have not only jurisdiction, but are the only institution with job of guaranteeing enforcement of constitutional provisions that were openly, flagrantly violated*.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:32 PM (OTzUX)

330 306 Texas is not limited on how it produces power. Wind and being the leader in wind power became a vanity project here about 15 years ago. We won, and we lost. A state swimming in natural gas and coal is now worried about a sultry June day.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 14, 2021 02:28 PM (oWBc3)


I thought that during the deep freeze over the winter Texas asked permission from Fed Gov to override their required percentage of power coming from "renewables" and Fed refused. Thus Texas could not produce enough energy to handle the freeze.

Posted by: Emmie at June 14, 2021 02:33 PM (tcsxg)

331 And the only landowner requirement should be for property tax issues.

I like land owner because it makes it possible for retired people not paying income taxes any longer to still vote.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:33 PM (KZzsI)

332 Can people confined to a mental institution vote?

They can't buy or sell property, or buy guns, or drive a car, etc. Right?

It's obvious the psychopaths deconstructing this nation piece by piece have been working at it a long time.

ProTip: If you think emptying the insane asylums and free range crazy people camping in your town is fun, the next big push is to empty the prisons. National Review will have the Conservative Hot Take on this, I'm sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 14, 2021 02:33 PM (tjqz9)

333 apparently a former Chinese general and CCP operator bought 140,000 acres next to Lackland AFB in San Antonio. He was pulling permits to install 700' tall wind generators.

He wanted to tie his generators to the Texas grid. He got shut down late last week.

Posted by: DanMan at June 14, 2021 02:33 PM (aUOqu)

334 I thought that during the deep freeze over the winter Texas asked permission from Fed Gov to override their required percentage of power coming from "renewables" and Fed refused. Thus Texas could not produce enough energy to handle the freeze.
Posted by: E


he has no idea either way

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:33 PM (GRWEX)

335 His long history of fact-based analysis, openness to debate, posting of sources and complete transparency as to how he arrived at his conclusions. He may not be right (I think he is, on a lot of stuff) but he is credible because he provides the receipts on request or upfront. He draws his conclusions and those are there for you to accept, question or reject - but the work that went into those conclusions is transparent and has been for as long as he's been posting about elections.
==
Endorsed.

And Just sayin' if you are a regular put your reglr nick on it. Dave put's himself out there. If you are "just sayin'" something to concern troll, you are wasting your time, because unlike Dave, you haven't earned any cred here.

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2021 02:33 PM (zr+ZW)

336 @charliespiering 26m

Biden now 2 hours 15 minutes, late for his press conference in Belgium -- It's after 9:00 p.m. for reporters who are waiting there for the presser to begin


Meds not working?

Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (cF8AT)

337 Prepare accordingly. You ain't seen nothin' yet. When the music stops it will be like nothing ever seen.

I'll call bullshit on that. The raw power of the Stalin purges, the unfocused passion of the French Revolution, all combined with the top-down efficiency of the Third Reich. Its ALL been seen. Just not at once.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (pfxf2)

338 I appreciate the effort Dave, but the USA has uniquely stupid voting practices among western nations.

Have voting Day with voter ID. Period.
Absentee ballot only if you will be out of the country.
Use paper ballots and count them in precincts.

Not foolproof, but a helluva lot harder to commit big-time fraud.

Posted by: Merrick Garland, making Holder look apolitical at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (HCeRP)

339 Marc Elias.

This fucking guy right here.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (hcb9g)

340 Well I googled "The Brennan Center". I was afraid that that little dipshit John Brennan--the redfaced screaming Commie voting ex CIA director had set something up.

What a relief to find that it was just a bunch of wackos at a New York City law school that had been around for 25 years or so. Their views are simply an injury---John Brennan's views would add "insult" to that injury.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (NVDjf)

341 Thing is we could put in all sots of requirements to voting and millions of ineligible people would still vote. The law says you have to be a citizen right? And millions of non citizens vote.

Without enforcement laws mean nothing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (XwlQP)

342 I think it should be military service or land/home ownership. True risk for the good of the country. Anyone can pay taxes and benefit from our laws, but it is hard to invest in property and maintain it and it is hard to deploy and put your life on the line. I've done both, so naturally i approve!

Posted by: Drc at June 14, 2021 02:35 PM (vbaSG)

343 327 I see what you did there!

Maybe Ace didn't tell him when it was being posted. That would be funny!
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2021 02:32 PM (mZUr4)

=========

Having had this done to myself a couple of times, I can assure you that 1) Ace doesn't have Dave's email, and 2) That's exactly what Ace did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 14, 2021 02:35 PM (LvTSG)

344 Gotta pay taxes. That way, when they vote to raise taxes, they're cutting their own throats too. That's how we got into this mess.

Voters who have no skin in the game.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (OCTRt)

Eh. Eyes on the prize.

We're in this mess because we have a corrupt party that once in power gives the other corrupt party 3/4ths of what they want while fighting tooth and nail to give their own constituents 0% of what they want.

Republicans have won enough and controlled enough this last 50 years to have permanently squeezed Leftism into a fine paste that you could coat noodles with.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:35 PM (sSiC8)

345 With Garland threatening Arizona (and the Arizona legislature laughing) you know two things; 1) there are leaks this is not going to be good for Democrats and 2) Democrats are afraid of what they will find

By the way, Georgia's SoS should be in jail and that idiot Kemp should crawl back into whatever moorish breathing, window licking bus he came out of.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2021 02:35 PM (ZSrej)

346 Something more than the zero he tried. Do you get it? He did NOTHING.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:31 PM (KZz

I refer you to #294.

Whatever PDT could've done, who would have helped him?

Posted by: Golfman at June 14, 2021 02:35 PM (hOMhY)

347 for military service to qualify you there would have to be some caveats

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:35 PM (GRWEX)

348 Currently serving in the military.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:36 PM (yK9py)

349 331

Retired people pay taxes on their retirement income.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:36 PM (XwlQP)

350 Did anything ever come of that? Because if PA continued doing what they were doing after being told by the gay marriage folks that what they were doing was illegal, what happened after that was all illegal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie


US Marshals should have rolled in and started arresting people on the spot. Those that wouldn't stop, should have been shot.

It really is amazing, but people getting shot really opens people's eye to the severity of the situation.
You wouldn't have to cap dozens. One, two at most.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:37 PM (OCTRt)

351 For example, John McCain wouldn't get credit for one normal American thing he did fifty years ago.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:37 PM (yK9py)

352 Currently serving in the military.
Posted by: M


you need something that says if you fail to deploy because you suddenly get preggers you do not get to vote.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 14, 2021 02:37 PM (GRWEX)

353 Biden now 2 hours 15 minutes, late for his press conference in Belgium -- It's after 9:00 p.m. for reporters who are waiting there for the presser to begin


Meds not working?
Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (cF8AT)

Running on Standard Obama Time

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:37 PM (sSiC8)

354 And I've been talking about the complete absence of the normal exhaustive, ad nauseam, demographic and political analysis of presidential votes since not long after the election. And I don't believe there was a JFK School (Harvard) campaign managers' forum, as has been customary for a long time.

Gee, I wonder why. Though I've chuckled bitterly at the imagined dialogue.

Trump manager: we exceeded our target numbers in every key state, and were actually surprised at our hugely broadened traction vs 2016, such as being the first GOP campaign to win Democratic, Hispanic counties on the border in TX. We didn't actually expect to increase an incumbent president's re-election vote by the most in history, Reagan is a tough level to reach. We were thrilled at our out-performance in PA, where our election day numbers greatly exceeded what we needed to win.

Biden manager: Yeah that's pretty interesting stuff. So, can we wrap this up?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2021 02:37 PM (OTzUX)

355 Without enforcement laws mean nothing.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

All obstacles must be covered by observation and Fire.

In this case poll workers and lawyers, can we trust GOPe to organize the effort.

Posted by: Jean at June 14, 2021 02:37 PM (ibsgE)

356 WTF is wrong with people?

The way elections were run 40 years ago had much more integrity, and it was just as "easy" to vote.
...
Completely f***king obvious and irrefutably the way to do it.
Posted by: rhomboid

You keep bring this stuff up as if you don't understand that it is all BY DESIGN.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (00uLH)

357 And what "Jack" would you suggest he should've done?
Posted by: Golfman at June 14, 2021 02:29 PM (hOMhY)

I really dislike this retort when any criticism of Trump is raised. He should have followed through with his voter integrity rhetoric he made in 2016.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (2DOZq)

358 Without enforcement laws mean nothing.

And without a virtuous people, enforcement is not possible. We need a change to our country at the ground level in hearts and minds, not changes at the top with laws.

Even if elections were 100% just and honorable, we'd have people like Pelosi and AOC in office because enough of our fellow countrymen are screwed up and our culture is a sewer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (KZzsI)

359 You show up on election day, you show your ID, they mark you present on the voting roll, you cast your ballot, get a printed receipt of the ballot cast, and dip your finger in purple pvc primer. That is it. No early voting. No provisional ballot. No mail in ballot. No absentee ballot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (hcb9g)

360 Biden now 2 hours 15 minutes, late for his press conference in Belgium -- It's after 9:00 p.m. for reporters who are waiting there for the presser to begin


Meds not working?
Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (cF8AT)



Maybe he died and they're trying to figure out the "Weekend and Bernie's" thing......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

361 you need something that says if you fail to deploy because you suddenly get preggers you do not get to vote.

**

Good point. Same for if you're out on medical leave to have your penis removed for sexual fetish reasons.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (yK9py)

362 Wrong Nic re-used in posts. JM in Fla, no Merrick Garland

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (HCeRP)

363 the unfounded and dangerous lies about fraud that followed the 2020 election.
.......

Methinks thou doth protest too much.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (v0R5T)

364 USA has uniquely stupid voting practices among western nations.
---------
There is only one way to defeat fraud. Present your proof of identity and eligibility. Everyone votes on one day. Everyone dips their index finger in indelible ink before they leave the building. Nobody with a purple finger can vote.
If you are deployed, you can vote where you happen to be, same rules. Everyone else, be available on voting day, or don't vote.

Posted by: Drc at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (vbaSG)

365 *at

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

366 So you all are saying our problems started with the suffragettes?

Maybe Bowie was right after all.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 14, 2021 02:39 PM (00uLH)

367 Not foolproof, but a helluva lot harder to commit big-time fraud.

Posted by: Merrick Garland, making Holder look apolitical at June 14, 2021 02:34 PM (HCeRP)

I say do the purple thumb thing. And for troops and Americans abroad, they can purple thumb too. It is not that difficult unless there is a reason to make is opaque.

Posted by: Quint at June 14, 2021 02:39 PM (gJfTA)

368 I really dislike this retort when any criticism of Trump is raised. He should have followed through with his voter integrity rhetoric he made in 2016.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (2DOZq)
++++
He tried. He started his commission on election integrity to review election practices and make recommendations to the states for reform where appropriate (which, if one follows the law, is about that can be done federally).

The various state SoSes mostly responded, "get fucked".

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2021 02:39 PM (Jsjd7)

369 Biden manager: Yeah that's pretty interesting stuff. So, can we wrap this up?

Yeah exactly.

Whatever PDT could've done, who would have helped him?

But you miss the point. He didn't even try.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (KZzsI)

370 Simply the willingness to be taxed should be enough to vote. And ceding your legal vote should be enough to avoid any income or property tax. It would be an extremely practical system.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (pfxf2)

371 For a demented person like Biden time zone changes have to be tough.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (XwlQP)

372 Nood.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (khAeP)

373 Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (2DOZq)

Trump was mega fallible in some areas but don't act like COVID didn't throw the biggest monkey wrench in history into everything.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (sSiC8)

374 NOOD bats.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (wsQIi)

375 It doesn't have to be complicated. One citizen, one vote. Delegate electoral delegates based on the outcome. Done.

All that "yeah but what about" bullshit is the kind of thing lefties do because they make some asinine assumption and then try to build a functioning bridge with pi equal to exactly 3.

Healthcare is a product, not a right. Assume it is a right, and you wind up in a gigantic intractable shitshow.

Civic education *is* a right, practically a duty of the government... but anything else is a product. Nobody is on the hook to teach your dumb ass how to make a living. That's on you. Assume the contrary? Welcome to Shitshowville.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (6FeV1)

376 Purple thumbs, voting only on election day.

If you need a mail in ballot it's the same time, expense, documentation, and expense as requesting permission to buy a Class III firearm.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (yK9py)

377 2016 election: Obama spied on Trump and tried to sabotage Trump with the complicity of the GOP.

2018 election: Dems stole all Orange County CA seats using ballot harvesting. The GOP kept quiet.

2020 election: Dems conspired with the GOP to steal the presidential election.

Yeah, we are not voting our way out of this freakshow.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (aycsT)

378 He tried. He started his commission on election integrity

He put Pence on the job and Pence gave up after barely trying anything, you're right.

But I was referring to after 2018 when the fraud machine was being tested out. To which Trump said "mmm this look bad" then had another bowl of ice cream.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 02:41 PM (KZzsI)

379 2:15 late? They gotta be working up an EPIC authentic frontier gibberish story. With three part harmony, and feeling.

Posted by: klaftern at June 14, 2021 02:41 PM (r4sI4)

380 Purple thumbs don't mean dick when they're photocopying ballots.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:41 PM (6FeV1)

381 You show up on election day, you show your ID, they mark you present on the voting roll, you cast your ballot, get a printed receipt of the ballot cast, and dip your finger in purple pvc primer. That is it. No early voting. No provisional ballot. No mail in ballot. No absentee ballot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

And you sign that ballot with that purple thumbprint so they can tie that ballot back to a live body.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:41 PM (OCTRt)

382 I really dislike this retort when any criticism of Trump is raised. He should have followed through with his voter integrity rhetoric he made in 2016.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (2DOZq)

I really dislike this retort when any support for Trump is raised. Should he have done it by EO? Gone to Paul Ryan? Plead to the DOJ?

Posted by: Golfman at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (hOMhY)

383 Thorium reactors. If a fraction of the trillions blown were thrown at that, well, we could be up to our eyeballs in electric power generation capacity right now.

And clean. No CO2.
Posted by: publius

Nah, breeders so we could build 20K low yield dial a nukes in a smaller form factor.

Posted by: Jean at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (ibsgE)

384 Trump was mega fallible in some areas but don't act like COVID didn't throw the biggest monkey wrench in history into everything.
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (sSiC

Definitely and Trump fell right into that trap.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (2DOZq)

385 376 Purple thumbs, voting only on election day.

If you need a mail in ballot it's the same time, expense, documentation, and expense as requesting permission to buy a Class III firearm.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:40 PM (yK9py)

How's that gonna stop the massive fraud during tabulation?

Most of the fraud happened by abusing the adjucation process.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (aycsT)

386 Purple thumbs don't mean dick when they're photocopying ballots.
Posted by: Warai-otoko


They do when you use that wet purple thumb to sign your ballot.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (OCTRt)

387 No other western country takes days to count ballots. Hell CA takes weeks. By 9 or 10pm elections are done in France or the UK or Germany. Even close ones.

Only in the US do you have to wait for mail in ballots to trickle in for weeks post Election Day.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (XwlQP)

388 Nood. The bats in the belfry rumor isn't so bats in the belfry anymore. There were bats in the belfry.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 14, 2021 02:43 PM (mdjgu)

389 That is it. No early voting. No provisional ballot. No mail in ballot. No absentee ballot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 14, 2021 02:38 PM (hcb9g)

+++++

Right! Like most other Western democracies do it.Voting DAY

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 14, 2021 02:43 PM (HCeRP)

390 Dave in Fla, so glad to see your excellent contributions here.
I am always learning and expanding my knowledge when I read your posts.

And you're correct, messing with state voting laws allowed the disaster of 2020 to be successfully pulled off. The Steal couldn't of happened without it. Anyone working for Perkins Coie should be imprisoned. Or worse

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 14, 2021 02:43 PM (sy5kK)

391 When hundreds of citizens are rotting in solitary for months for attending a demonstration to protest blatant fraud, with more arrested every week, and the electoral thieves throw the borders open and let their own rioters walk, and the office moonbats put out company-all emails about how white business owners and pedestrians "had it coming", in-between trying to purge us for wrongthink...

I would argue that not only is a legislative solution untenable, it's not even desirable.

Fuck these people, fuck their behavior, and fuck their ideology. As little as 2 years ago around the observation that we'd eventually need a Pinochet or a Franco, not a Washington, was fairly unpopular around here - but here we are.

Posted by: somedood at June 14, 2021 02:44 PM (0CPkz)

392 How's that gonna stop the massive fraud during tabulation?

Most of the fraud happened by abusing the adjucation process.
Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (aycsT)

***

See #26

It's all hypothetical, anyway. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats have any interest in saving the republic, and we've crossed the Rubicon to where people know without a doubt that their vote doesn't matter one single bit.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:45 PM (yK9py)

393 380 Purple thumbs don't mean dick when they're photocopying ballots.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2021 02:41 PM (6FeV1)

Or when the same ballots are tabulated over and over.

Or when thousands of ballots are tempered with on purpose to force adjucation, the process where a partisan gets to decide what the voter meant to vote for.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:46 PM (aycsT)

394 I really dislike this retort when any support for Trump is raised. Should he have done it by EO? Gone to Paul Ryan? Plead to the DOJ?

At a minimum - not go golfing the next day while trusting Rudy to put together a legal team. Oh - and waiting several days before making a first post-election presser with him at the podium.

Trumps response to the election was his greatest failure. Pure and damn simple. I voted for him twice. Will not waste a third. Because his post-election response showed me why DC hated him. They wondered how such an honest, loud, bumbling fuck got this far. Then they out-played him.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:47 PM (pfxf2)

395 "I really dislike this retort when any support for Trump is raised. Should he have done it by EO? Gone to Paul Ryan? Plead to the DOJ?
Posted by: Golfman at June 14, 2021 02:42 PM (hOMhY)"

Trump presented 3 years or so worth of good opportunity to finish putting all of your shit in one bucket before the music stopped, while also providing plenty of examples as to why it was needed and that our current clusterfuck was inevitable.

DoD deployed combat formations to nations were weren't even at war with and shot at them without Trump's permission, and hid that they did so from him. For many areas, Trump was never really president in the first place. There was ZERO chance of reform before he even was sworn in.

Posted by: somedood at June 14, 2021 02:48 PM (0CPkz)

396 Did we decide whether this is the hill to die on?

Posted by: creeper at June 14, 2021 02:48 PM (XxJt1)

397 The fix has been in for a long time.

It strains credulity when you observe the actual, literal Retarded in key government positions. America has declined, like so many nations, but there are millions and millions of decent, competent peaceable people with integrity available for these jobs.

The dichotomy could not be more striking. I have a grudging respect for them pulling it off, but we're at the literal breaking point.

Stupid fuckers should not be able to vote, much less be in charge

Enough is enough.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 14, 2021 02:48 PM (tjqz9)

398 either the Republicans or the Democrats have any interest in saving the republic, and we've crossed the Rubicon to where people know without a doubt that their vote doesn't matter one single bit.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Biden loves young people at June 14, 2021 02:45 PM (yK9py)

This is where we are now. Dems don't want a Republic. They want to be China.

The GOP wants to keep milking US taxpayers.

This republic is toast. Personally I think it was toast when people decided to elect a radical Islamic prick barely 7 years after 9/11.

Posted by: nobody at June 14, 2021 02:49 PM (aycsT)

399 Trump already knew he was done when he was golfing post-election, and I would argue that he didn't really owe anyone anything at that point. I hope he finds some place to retire to where they're not going to nab him and throw him in prison.

Posted by: somedood at June 14, 2021 02:49 PM (0CPkz)

400 396 Did we decide whether this is the hill to die on?
Posted by: creeper at June 14, 2021 02:48 PM (XxJt1)

What, election integrity? Nah we already passed on that. But it's cemented for a huge chunk of the country the understanding that the clock is ticking on picking the hill and preparing for it.

Posted by: somedood at June 14, 2021 02:51 PM (0CPkz)

401 Trump already knew he was done when he was golfing post-election, and I would argue that he didn't really owe anyone anything at that point.

In which case - the best thing he could have done, for himself as well as America, would be to very publicly run.

But no - he hung around, and seemed to get interested in voter fraud about seven to ten days too late. And that, as I learned, is very typically Trump. He's no Pinochet.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:53 PM (pfxf2)

402 At a minimum - not go golfing the next day while trusting Rudy to put together a legal team. Oh - and waiting several days before making a first post-election presser with him at the podium.

Trumps response to the election was his greatest failure. Pure and damn simple. I voted for him twice. Will not waste a third. Because his post-election response showed me why DC hated him. They wondered how such an honest, loud, bumbling fuck got this far. Then they out-played him.
Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:47 PM (pfxf2)

Still looking for solutions. Not criticisms. Where could he have gone?

Don't hate the player. Hate the game. He was GOAT.

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:53 PM (hOMhY)

403 Don't hate the player. Hate the game. He was GOAT.
Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:53 PM (hOMhY)


Bullshit. Inertia was the GOAT. Economic inertia.

Every defense of Trump always comes down to "well, he couldn't really do anything because the DNC and GOP agreed he could not be trusted". Then look - he did nothing. He was you or me with better name recognition.

And - if his hands were really tied, and the game was rigged ? He didn't do us the courtesy of walking away. He sat at the table and pretended the game was straight. For his own vanity, I presume.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:58 PM (pfxf2)

404 No changes to laws will matter. The Democrats will simply allow as many illegal aliens in the country as they can and give them amnesty and benefits in exchange for providing a permanent Democratic majority.

This country can't be saved without a massive assertion of the 10th Amendment or....

Posted by: William Guess at June 14, 2021 02:59 PM (9vwjh)

405 Art of War tells me it is NOT THE TIME

so hang on, take care of yourselves, don't let them goad you into something stupid.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 14, 2021 02:13 PM (j9HX3)

Or they keep telling you stick with the plan every two weeks till they are ready for you... I'm not saying we should fight now or anything, but there are two stories here.
Key for me is, if it gets hot.. then we must fight until its finished... unconditional surrender is the only endgame.

Posted by: Inogame at June 14, 2021 03:10 PM (53oGX)

406 Art of War tells me it is NOT THE TIME

Art of War is a poetry book. Its not a how to manual, and its sure as Hell not the go to guide on when, where, and why to fight.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 03:27 PM (pfxf2)

407

Outstanding job, Dave in Fla!

More, please...

Posted by: Zettai at June 14, 2021 03:31 PM (808AM)

408 Still looking for solutions.

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 02:53 PM (hOMhY)

He sat at the table and pretended the game was straight. For his own vanity, I presume.
Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 02:58 PM (pfxf2)

What does this even mean?

Posted by: golfman at June 14, 2021 03:33 PM (hOMhY)

409 What does this even mean?

Exactly what it says. You're still busy asking how Trump could have possibly won. I'm telling you he walked and talked and pretended he could have won - all while playing a part in a rigged game. And he never gave you the common courtesy of telling you the fix was in.

Go on. Keep stomping your feet and asking what Trump could have possibly done differently. I just told you. No - he could never have "won". But he could at least have told you the game was unwinnable. He didn't.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 14, 2021 03:56 PM (pfxf2)

410 NEXT ELECTION, GO TO YOUR POLLING PLACE AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
(EVEN A FEW ROUNDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.)

Posted by: jbspry at June 14, 2021 04:45 PM (ATe9j)

411 While a year or two in prison wouldn't make the slighest impact on career criminals (e.g., the George Floyds of the world), to the typical party apparatchik it would be humiliating and therefore probably effective.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 14, 2021 01:49 PM (S44Wv)

Under federal law, a maximum penalty of over a yea'r's confinement is a felony. In many states, a felony conviction (as defined by the state) causes the loss of voting rights.

Posted by: E. C. at June 14, 2021 04:59 PM (MHKOK)

412 This republic is toast. Personally I think it was toast when people decided to elect a radical Islamic prick barely 7 years after 9/11.

I gave them us 4 years after that. Could have been a fluke, electing that smooth con man, but re-electing him meant it was over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 14, 2021 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

413 Dave, count me as another reader who would LOVE to see you spell out how it was stolen. I have zero doubt it was, but it would help to see your argument laid out in a clear and concise way. Thanks.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at June 14, 2021 06:54 PM (GMR0L)

414 God watches and waits.

Posted by: L Harp at June 15, 2021 07:48 AM (exldH)

415 Of course voting is fake and gay. It has been thus for decades. We have a uniparty who works for elites and actively shit on the working class. Conservatives are just liberals a few years behind. Conservatives are all going to vote for a mentally ill tranny for governor of California. So fitting that Reagan's state is the ovipositor for pozz.

Posted by: RandbotFan at June 15, 2021 10:09 AM (i7ZAA)

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