Call Off the Election
If you thought Trump Tweets could not possibly get more ridiculous, you thought wrong.
Do something @BrianKempGA. You allowed your state to be scammed. We must check signatures and count signed envelopes against ballots. Then call off election. It won’t be needed. We will all WIN! https://t.co/UiJrlyBGiK
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2020
….Also, quickly check the number of envelopes versus the number of ballots. You may just find that there are many more ballots than there are envelopes. So simple, and so easy to do. Georgia Republicans are angry, all Republicans are angry. Get it done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2020
There is no provision for anyone to “call off the election” at least in the US.
Trump’s demands are third-world dictator stuff.
Georgia Governor Responds
Please consider this Statement by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp.
“Georgia law prohibits the Governor from interfering in elections. The Secretary of State, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order. As the Governor has said repeatedly, he will continue to follow the law and encourage the Secretary of State to take reasonable steps – including a sample audit of signatures – to restore trust and address serious issues that have been raised.”
Signature Nonsense
The National Review explains.
Once again, every signature of every absentee voter in Georgia was checked twice. When a registered voter requests an absentee ballot, the signature on the ballot request is compared to the signature on the voter-registration card. Then, when the absentee ballot arrives to the county clerk, the signature on the absentee ballot oath envelope is compared a second time to the signature on the voter registration card and to the signature on the absentee-ballot request.
The consent decree signed earlier this year requires Georgia election officials to consult with their peers on mismatching signatures, to ensure one official isn’t making subjective assessments of a signature match. “A mail-in absentee ballot shall not be rejected unless a majority of the registrars, deputy registrars, or absentee ballot clerks reviewing the signature agree that the signature does not match any of the voter’s signatures on file in eNet or on the absentee ballot application.”
The Georgia state constitution states, “Elections by the people shall be by secret ballot and shall be conducted in accordance with procedures provided by law.” Thus, once a ballot is determined to be valid, it is separated from the envelope with the signature: “Once an election worker counting votes opens your envelope and takes out your ballot, there is no way to re-connect them.
Yet, the same BS claims happen over and over and over.
Barr Says No Evidence of Widespread Fraud
Attorney General William Barr says No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud in Election.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Mr. Barr told the AP.
“There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results,” Mr. Barr told the AP. The Justice Department has “looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that.”
Please note the Attorney General is a cabinet level position appointed by the president.
Trump’s Fraud Claims Hit a Barr
The Wall Street Journal editorial board comments Trump’s Fraud Claims Hit a Barr.
Bill Barr can take the heat, and on Tuesday the stalwart Attorney General guaranteed he’ll get it when he said “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
“We won the election easily,” Mr. Trump said Sunday. He later added: “It’s not like you’re going to change my mind.” But where’s the hard evidence to convince the country? Many of the theories floating around don’t withstand scrutiny.
Ballot Dumps: Mr. Trump complained in a tweet that Joe Biden got “a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM.” But the explanation is prosaic: Contemporaneous reporting says this is when Milwaukee’s central counting location finished with roughly 170,000 mail ballots. They included votes for both candidates but broke heavily for Mr. Biden.
Wisconsin law doesn’t let counties process absentee ballots until Election Day. The margin in Milwaukee County doesn’t look crazy: Mr. Biden won 69% to 29%, compared with Hillary Clinton’s victory of 65% to 29%.
The same goes for Michigan, which reported a similar batch of ballots in the wee hours of Nov. 4. But again the margins aren’t wild: Mr. Biden won there 68% to 30%, compared with Mrs. Clinton’s 67% to 29%. As a share of Michigan overall, Wayne County fell to 15.8%, from 16.2%.
Vote Totals: “I got 74 million votes, the largest in the history of a sitting president,” Mr. Trump said Sunday. It’s 11 million more than in 2016. Yet he lost to Mr. Biden, who Mr. Trump said “did not get 16 million more votes than Barack Hussein Obama.”
What’s unbelievable? The electorate grows. Since 2012, the voting-eligible population has risen by 17 million, according to estimates by the U.S. Elections Project. Turnout in 2020 was historic, helped by expanded absentee voting. If enthusiasm was also high, perhaps it’s because Donald Trump has been a polarizing President and drove Democratic as well as Republican turnout. As for the failure of bellwether states, they’re predictive until they’re not. Florida and Ohio have trended red for years.
Poll Watchers: Judges have dismissed affidavits submitted by the Trump camp as “rife with speculation and guess-work” and “inadmissible as hearsay.” Other claims made in public circulate largely without being tested. A poll watcher from Delaware County, Pa., alleged last week, without giving any evidence, that 47 USB cards used in the election “are missing, and they’re nowhere to be found.” Where’s the proof?
Dominion: On Sunday, Mr. Trump called Dominion voting systems, used in dozens of states, “garbage machinery.” But the totals from Georgia’s hand recount closely matched the results from its scanners. How does Mr. Trump explain that? In an op-ed for these pages, Dominion’s CEO denied the “bizarre” claim that his company is tied to Hugo Chávez. Third-party labs, he said, “perform complete source-code reviews on every federally certified tabulation system.”
Whack-a-Mole
The Wall Street Journal goes to say “Fighting such claims is like whack-a-mole. No, Pennsylvania didn’t count more mail votes than it sent out. No, Wisconsin didn’t have 89% turnout. No, several states didn’t simultaneously quit counting ballots on election night. No, ballots in Arizona filled out with Sharpie markers weren’t discounted.”
This is precisely what I discussed yesterday.
It’s Easy Debunking Idiocy, the Problem is It Never Stops
Please consider or re-read what I said yesterday It’s Easy Debunking Idiocy, the Problem is It Never Stops.
I made the same rebuttal as the WSJ and the National Review.
The Journal came up with another easy to understand explanation of turnout: Since 2012, the voting-eligible population has risen by 17 million.
Yet, alleged statistical wizards spout turnout for Biden was statistically impossible.
The article I rebutted made the nonsensical claim “every single black person in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee apparently voted for Biden.”
No, that did not happen. And as the Journal and I both noted these pro-Biden dumps were expected, in advance. It would have been amazing if it did not happen, not amazing that it did.
To explain why Trump got less votes than Republicans in general, I made the claim “Voters on average were sick of Trump, but were rightfully fearful of what AOC and Warren policies might occur if Democrats won the whole shebang.”
The Journal noted “If enthusiasm was also high, perhaps it’s because Donald Trump has been a polarizing President and drove Democratic as well as Republican turnout.”
The Election Trump Wanted
Trump got the election he wanted.
He ran a divisive, xenophobic, narcissistic, derogatory campaign. He turned the election into a referendum on him.
Guess, what?
A majority of people in the right states said they have had enough of Trump.
Occam’s Razor
Rather than accept the obvious, Trump supporters are willing to believe any combination of stories, no matter how ridiculous.
Fans of Occam’s Razor here is your choice.
- Biden Won
- Trump was robbed by a combination of Dominion theft, a collusion between Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Fox News, vote subtraction in Virginia, statistical impossibilities, late ballots, and a Republican Secretary of State in Georgia gone mad, all of the above without a shred of evidence, and Trump unwilling to tell the court there was any fraud!
Trump Cult Syndrome (TCS)
Let’s conclude with a simple idea.
- If Trump had any real evidence of fraud, he would have presented it in a court of law long ago.
- Because Trump has no shred of evidence, he presents the case in the court of public opinion rather than a court of law.
This is all very easy to see unless one is blinded by TCS.
Today, even Trump’s Attorney General and the Wall Street Journal debunk Trump’s claims.
Silence!!
Trump blatantly asked the Georgia governor to do something illegal.
Call off the election? How? Under what authority?
Most Republicans are silent but some are even supportive as is everyone afflicted with TCS.
Addendum: OJ Comparison
It just occurred to me how similar this is to the OJ story in which OJ led an investigation after the trial to find the real murderer.
Trump cries “fraud” while attempting to pull of the biggest election swindle in US history.https://t.co/5AXenAlvrE pic.twitter.com/OPdmztql9y
— Mike “Mish” Shedlock (@MishGEA) December 2, 2020
Mish
Georgia Senate races are too close to call…..which is not expected. The Republicans had the advantage before Trump decided to give them the shaft…it would be a nice case of schadenfreude if Trump’s attempts to steal the election caused the Senate to flip.
Not that the Republicans don’t richly deserve it, just for kissing Trump’s butt so hard.
The only people who stole the election were Facebook and Twitter.
Didn’t you read the above posts?
Santa Claus and Hitler were also there – why not also blame them?
This guy sees exactly what I see with regards to Mr. Trump and his current delusional rants.
We may need Iran to bring Trump to justice for murder
It doesn’t take a complicated web of fraud to result a Trump win. If Facebook and Twitter had abided by the LAW and not censored news stories that they knew would rob Biden of votes, then Trump would most certainly have gotten his second term. It really only takes common sense to know this is true, but if you don’t believe me then look: link to msn.com
Really, I don’t mind all that much that they did all these checks. It’s been very reassuring to realize that, even after extensive checks, no major fraud has been found, and there is nothing unusual. This election, despite Covid, appears to have been the most secure in history. Now, however, it’s time to move on from this.
Guiliani teed up to replace Barr…
Satire or not?
Trump just gave a 46 minute video speech that was bonkers even for Trump. He’s lost Pence and Barr. He’s readyvforcyhe psyche ward
Mish, why the stress over an alleged vote fraud matter?
If you could stuff the ballot box AGAINST Hitler, wouldn’t you?
If you could stuff the ballot box FOR Santa Claus, wouldn’t you?
If you could do both at the same time, then WTF not?
The ends can never justify the means. No, I wouldn’t stuff the ballot box against Hitler, nor against, or for Santa Claus.
As a tidbit, by the way, are you aware that “Santa” is an anagram for “Satan”? Or that “Claus” is an anagram for Lucas? Are these coincidences? Is it also a coincidence that Santa’s message, that you are always watched, and that you must earn righteousness through your actions, is the exact antithesis of the Christian message that you are saved, not by your actions, but by grace? Just something to think about, in this holiday season. Seasons greetings to you.
Satan is also derived from Sanatana Darma, or the religion that was dominant in the farther East/India when the Middle Eastern authors decided to populate their novel with characters. The best way to get people to ditch the old story and believe in yours is to bad-mouth the old one. It’s no coincidence that Satan/Baal/Bull has horns and hooves in both ancient and modern depictions. The Eastern religions revere the cow (for being the mother of the Bull) so what better way to pooh-pooh their beliefs than to make the “bad guy” of your story a Bull? A bull who also appears in the literature a Snake, the other very-highly revered diety of the East (Naga). It’s all quite comical if you view it like the Marvel/DC type of rivalry it kind of is. Too bad the Middle Eastern novels continue to result in so much real-world death and violence.
Maybe he can use the Michael Scott “I declare bankruptcy” method, or perhaps he can stamp his little feet until he gets his way.
More PPP reveals…..Trump and Kushner’s businesses got millions in PPP money.
Is there a reason why they should be treated differently than other, similarly situated businesses?
Yes, Carl. There is a reason…..
At least Trumps fraudulent claims won’t cost tax payer millions of dollars and years of nonsense(when something positive could have been done) investigating the Russian interference!
That’s good considering the $7 trillion plus in new debt he has signed off on.
Who the eff do you think has to respond to the lawsuits?
It’s the state and local governments, and you have the feds also running around investigating every possible bogus claim.
And who pays for that, genius?
He’s stolen and grifted everything he can lay his pudgy, moist little hands on. When he walks out of the whitehouse, his pockets will be jingling with stolen silverware.
And here we go around the bend…
….Last night, fresh off his pardon for past crimes, retired General Mike Flynn endorsed a call for President Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law. It came in a tweet in which Flynn tweeted and endorsed a manifesto calling on President “to immediately declare a limited form of Martial Law and temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections for the sole purpose of having the military oversee a national re-vote.”….
General Flynn
@GenFlynn
#WeThePeople
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We the People Convention
We the People Convention Calls on Trump to Invoke Limited Martial Law to have military conduct a national re-vote…
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5:30 PM · Dec 1, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
things that used to shock us, for 500
He was military and calling for the military to intervene in a domestic election. Third-world dictator stuff indeed.
Any respect at all I might have had for Flynn is now officially rescinded. What a seditious statement.
Is this Barr and Flynn playing “good cop-bad cop”?
If he really said that, that sounds like treason to me. That’s a new offense, separate from what he was pardoned for.
Has anyone really considered that “he” is actually plagued with mental illness ? His actions represent that.
Donald Trump suffers from narcissism. The classic narcissist is someone who has little empathy for others, gaslights people, lies just to force people to live the lies he wants them to, and has a huge, but fragile ego that constantly requires stroking. Narcissism is a form of sociopathy which is a mental illness, and one that is unfortunately fairly common in the world, and especially among American upper management.
and the small businesses that actually got them went out of business anyway. a total waste.
Not true. At least we’re still here….for now.
What is was…was a scam….steal from the mom&pops and give to the corporate fat cats.
The money that went “to small business” actually flowed through small business, and went to the employees. The business could use 20% of it for themselves.
Yeah, but if the government is making your payroll, it can free up money normally spent on payroll for just about anything else…if you didn’t need the money in the first place.
For most Mom&Pop shops, the money came very late compared to the big dogs…..we were robbing from Peter to pay Paul and making payroll the whole time…..although we did furlough some workers…and we didn’t fill every job position abandoned by an employee who chose not to return.
I used PPP 100% for payroll…but having it also let us use other funds to pay overdue bills and taxes.
I agree. It did free up some money for other things. But, I paid full payroll for 8 weeks on 20% of my regular revenue. Left to my own, I would have paid 25% of my normal payroll. Factor in other things, and lets say that 70% of the money flowed to employees, and 30% to me. BTW, I’m not complaining; I’m just saying that that was how it worked for me. My employees certainly appreciated it.
»» Trump’s demands are third-world dictator stuff.««
A perfect match with the ‘third-world’ electoral process, although Venezuela, Bolivia, Syria, and the Congo are actually paradigms of transparency and integrity compared to the US system from which America could learn quite a bit.
I’m sure you are a hit with your like-minded friends, but hey, for everyone else, you sound like a low-info fellow–to put it politely.
Be gullible, send your money to Trump and Powell, threaten and harrass poll workers,try to overturn an election, believe everything from a crowd of proven liars–thats how MAGA works, isn’t it. Seems to me that is exactly how Venezuela, Bolivia, Syria and the Congo works. The shoe fits the MAGA crowd better because they can’t stomach a loss.
Your guy lost.
Are you feeling sad and angry and willing to do anything to prevent the acceptance of reality?
Maybe you should seek some counseling.
Me not Maga, though Trump was an ignoranus before being elected and still do.
I think I have read more of the literature about the last five decades of US elections and also more about the organization of elections in many of these countries, as well as reports from international monitors. It is not for nothing that monitoring organizations show up in these countries, but say in advance about US elections that there is no point observing, there being too few controls and checks to even start.
Me not Maga, too
But, there have been international observers at all recent US elections…
I am a lifelong Republican. I voted exactly as Mish stated: Biden for President, party line Republican down the card. I despise Trump, everything he stands for, and his cult followers. I live in Florida, so it didn’t help. But I’m sure there are millions more like me out there in the swing states.
Prior to this election, I hadn’t voted in 20 years…. used to vote Libertarian.
I voted Straight Democrat all the way down. Not because I support them, but because the RNC officially made its platform “Whatever trump wants”.
It’s not just trump. The whole party has been corrupted, and needs to die and be replaced. I will continue to vote against them for as long as they exist.
i am nearly a lifelong non-voter but, i voted against trump all the way down the 2020 ticket and will do so again in the runoffs on jan 5.
I was exclusively a Republican prior to 1980, and intermittently after 1980, and a Libertarian the rest of the time. I voted Libertarian in most races, but included a couple of Republicans down the ticket, based on issues.
Basically the election results, massive turnout, Trump loss, down ticket Republican wins is very, very consistent with what you would expect. Trump was a polarizing figure, and led to a massive turnout, and a significant number of people who voted against Trump, but also against the progressive program at the other extreme. It sure doesn’t look anything like fraud; it looks like the exact opposite, no fraud at all.
I guess once he has grifted the TCS folks out of their money for a fake election defense he can move into pardon selling full time.
“Howell’s ruling said prosecutors are investigating a “bribery-for-pardon scheme” in which someone “would offer a substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon or reprieve of sentence” for an unidentified person.
Despite the rather direct language in Howell’s ruling, Trump dismissed news reports of a probe into possible corruption of the pardon process.
“Pardon investigation is fake news,” Trump tweeted Tuesday night.”
Pardons for campaign contributions? Look no further than Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera.
Trump is letting no lever go unused. His allies are even threatening the physical safety of election officials with no apparent pushback from Trump.
Interesting to see Trump apparently now turn on Barr. Not sure what to make of it.
He turns on everybody. I think Rudy will be the last.
rudy is a snake who will not bite trump
Except Rudy may have some dirt on Trump – which he would not hesitate to use – cut from the same cloth – interesting to see how it all plays out.
Barr should never have been looking for election fraud while the election is ongoing. This is a state issue. Barr issued a highly controversial memo just to enable it.
unitary executive. that’s where barr’s loyalty lies. barr used trump to prove its viability.
Trump inciting violence, says Georgia election official
The twilight zone intro music comes to mind reading this.
Sidney Powell, formerly of the vaunted Trump crack legal team, filed a new lawsuit in Wisconsin, where she demands all the security camera footage of vote counting at the TCF Center. Which is in Detroit. Which is not a city in Wisconsin. So, that’s a thing that happened.
Go down to the part that Milwaukee, Milwaukee County and Dane County [they went Biden] do not use any Dominium voting products…
What an effin incompetent moron who deserves sanctions from the courts
….One of the things Powell demands the court provide is: “immediate production of 48 hours of security camera recording of all rooms used in the voting process at the TCF Center for November 3, 2020 and November 4, 2020.” A standard request for a lawsuit, except the TCF Center is the convention center in Detroit, Michigan and, logically, has nothing to do with Wisconsin’s election.
Milwaukee’s central count facility was on the fourth floor of the office building at 501 W. Michigan St. The city streamed all of the proceedings live and observers and media members were present in the room.
It’s not the first confusing item Powell has filed. A suit filed in Michigan alleges fraud in Edison County, but there is no Edison County in Michigan.
Powell’s Wisconsin suit centers on a conspiracy involving election software and equipment made by Dominion and Smartmatic. She singles out Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee for fraud.
But the city and county don’t use Dominion hardware or software, nor does Dane County. The audited equipment and software used by both counties is from Election Systems and Software (ES&S). In addition to the two recounted counties, the suit names La Crosse County, Waukesha County, St. Croix County, Washington County, Bayfield County and Ozaukee County, most of which were won by Trump.
Powell’s suit uses an argument she is using elsewhere. “Smartmatic and Dominion were founded by foreign oligarchs and dictators to ensure computerized ballot-stuffing and vote manipulation to whatever level was needed to make certain Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez never lost another election,” wrote Powell, outlining the conspiracy.
Big clue for all you morons with the conspiracy outlook…
Blanket pardons being discussed at the WH for Trump, the Trump family and associates…
I would guess Barr won’t be getting one for Christmas.
Can he pardon anyone who hasn’t even been charged? What would be the scope? You can’t pardon someone’s entire life? Perhaps anything up until the point of pardon? I have seen a Justice Dept opinion document that indicates the president cannot pardon himself. However, he could use the 25th amendment to transfer power to the VP who could then pardon him. Then power could be transferred back. This would be interesting to see. We still have 50 days and I don’t think we’ve seen the bottom yet. Southern District of NY, you’re on deck.
Pardon him of what ? Trump has not been charged with anything yet. My understanding is all cases wont start investigation until January 21st.
A federal pardon can be issued prior to the start of a legal case or inquiry, prior to any indictments being issued, for unspecified offenses, and prior to or after a conviction for a federal crime.[18] Ford’s broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for “all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974” is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came prior to any indictments being issued and that covered unspecified federal offenses that may or may not have been committed.[18]
Nixon got a pardon even though he hadn’t been charged with anything.
Two questions for everyone here dunking on Syndey Powell, Maggots and Q conspiracy supporters.
Do the Democrats have a history of cheating in elections?
Have any of you geniuses see the video in Ga. that shows someone pulling ballots out from underneath a table after they told everyone they were stopping the count and asked all of the poll monitors to leave.
Does anyone seriously think Politicians are above stealing an election? C’mon man!
Very stupid questions.
I suspect he would not need a pardon.
How do you think this guy’s affidavit will hold upto judicial scruitny..a guy living in Japan who’s only claim to fame is being the son of 8kuns owner opining that it is possible that Dominion software can be hacked…
….Powell on Tuesday filed an affidavit from Ron Watkins, the son of 8kun’s owner Jim Watkins, in a Georgia lawsuit alleging that Dominion Voting Systems machines used in the election had been corrupted as part of a sprawling voter-fraud conspiracy.
Powell has claimed that a diabolical scheme backed by global communists had invisibly shifted votes with help from a mysterious computer algorithm pioneered by the long-dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez — a wild story debunked by fact-checkers as a “fantasy parade” and devoid of proof.
No real evidence was included in Watkins’s affidavit, either. But Watkins, who said in the affidavit that he lives in Japan, nevertheless speculated that — based on his recent reading of the Dominion software’s online user guide — it may be “within the realm of possibility” for a biased poll worker to fraudulently switch votes….
You can’t have “ a guy living in Japan” give an opinion like that without his being qualified as an expert. His so-called affidavit is useless.
I don’t see how in a million years Powell’s allegations in Georgia could end up being true given that a HAND recount of the ballots confirmed the machine count.
the “ballots” in ga for in-person voting are a printed sheet of paper with a qr looking code and very little other info which is then separately scanned.
i reviewed my choices on the voting machine but i had no way to know for sure the printed “qr” code matched what i saw on the screen. i wonder if that forms part of the basis of the conspiracy theories regarding this voting system.
of course, the voting machines will contain the recorded votes which would be reconciled against the scanned votes and of course the printed ballots would also be retained for recount and audit purposes.
however, if someone could have altered the voting machine software to display certain choices but record and print other choices, therein lies the basis for the conspiracy theories.
unfortunately, without a doubt, there is no technical way to change the software without that change being readily known. hence, krebs’ statement stating the election was the most secure election in history.
Hugo Chávez is not long dead. Francisco Franco Bahamonde is long dead.
Trump is a Third World dictator and in the name of white supremacy, 70 million Americans have signed on. If you wonder how 1933 Nazi Germany happened, look around. Of course Trump is German so it makes perfect sense.
Lou Dobbs went on to complain that while the president’s “progress” in his quest to claim victory in the election has put him at odds with “insidious RINOs” and the “deep state,” a member of Trump’s “own cabinet appeared to join in with the radical Dems and the deep state and the resistance.”
Seething at Barr’s remarks about the lack of evidence of voter fraud, Dobbs—who also serves as an informal Trump adviser—blasted the attorney general in an extremely personal manner.
“For the attorney general of the United States to make that statement, he is either a liar or a fool or both,” he exclaimed. “He may be, um, perhaps compromised. He may be simply unprincipled. Or he may be personally distraught or ill!”
One wonders whether Dobbs and Trump exchange tips on their favorite adult diapers.
OTOH on signatures…
“Brickman in the hearing also testified to a number of other voting irregularities that she directly observed, including the constant lowering of signature verification standards by her election supervisors in order to “move more quickly” and process the higher amount of early and mail-in ballots received for the November election.
“Standards were lowered from approximately 15 points of similarities … reduced to a minimum of three, and then lowered to one, and ultimately none,” Brickman said, recalling that she was told to “just pass each signature verification through.””
Courtesy…ZH.
She’s claimed anything and everything…The ballot machines that determined President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump by 45,109 votes in Maricopa County accurately counted those ballots, the chairwoman of the Maricopa County Republican Party confirmed in two documents signed Wednesday. Nevertheless, she wrote “certification denied” next to her signature — a notation that elections officials say means nothing.
Brickman told Arizona Mirror that the accuracy test conducted Wednesday showed the vote-counting machines were working properly, and that her dissent is aimed at overturning the election result.
“It is most important that we sign the way it was necessary to sign to help our president get back into office,” Brickman said. “And if he didn’t win officially, I guess we have to live with those results. I’m not going to sit there and protest, but I will stand behind him 110%.”
Brickman said she believes the count of actual ballots was wrong, and blamed the software that the ballot-counting machines use.
“The problem is not what we saw there. The problem lies within the machine in the software that we cannot see,” Brickman said. “I want to see what is going on inside the machines.”
Maybe you should stick with Stormfront er I mean Zero Hedge.
Every time I read one of these stories I check ZH to see how many are keeping the faith. It’s no longer a majority but still a sizable minority that believe Trump will serve a second term. A week or two ago the figure was probably around 80%, but Sidney’s DOA kraken put a damper on things.
At this point only true zealots still believe in the cause. They either think Trump is still playing 4D chess or that Biden will lock everyone away in FEMA camps. Every other flavor of Trump supporter has seen the light by now.
At some point all that will be left supporting trump is people that have debilitating mental illness… so there may be something to that institutionalization claim.
Talk is cheap. Never cheaper, in fact. There’s your inflation.
Couple of things…..one is that Barr has come down on the side of the angels…if he had decided to sell his soul completely to Trump and make shit up out of the whole cloth, try (in any way). to give Trump’s wild claims any support…..it would have made things so much worse than they are.
But he apparently has respect for the actual law. He gets unexpected points from me.
Second….Trump is in-f**kin’-sane…..the worst loser of all time. Gimme a break dude!
I’ve thought about what Trump might do in retirement besides play golf…..I think he should play himself in a one man show in Vegas. Live up in the penthouse like Elvis….play the slots in the wee hours like Colonel Tom Parker. With the secret service there, the hotel wouldn’t even need to pay for security.
Call Sheldon Adelson.
He’s watched trump chuck dozens under the bus, and he found his exit point. I don’t think it has anything to do with respect for the law.
I wouldn’t argue with that POV.
Trump is raising lots of money so from a fundraising standpoint his approach seems very successful…. it’s also a good smokescreen for what I can only imagine is going on right now out of public view….
His team is also probably busy shredding anything that makes him look bad or could have criminal implications.
He’s fleecing the dipshits that send money to TV preachers.