Stealing The Election 101

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Maker of mediocre pillows declares that the theft of the election will be corrected by August and the rightfully-Orange leader will be restored to power.
I wonder which will get to court first, the Dominion suit against pillow dude, or pillow dude's suit against the election results.
 

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I just watched the old movie All the King's Men about the rise to power and corruption of a politician who became governor. There were some interesting analogies to Trump as the governor was impeached and then set out on a big publicity campaign to fight it. The narrator said that if you repeat a lie long enough people start to believe it. Also, when the state legislature was holding the impeachment trial, a caravan of supporters drove to the area and formed a large crowd outside the building. Sound familiar?
 

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the guy is a cop and expected to stay at mar a logo? or something?

Eye-Gouging Capitol Rioter in 'Shock' Over Detention With 'Inner-City Crimes' Inmates: Lawyer​


Webster, 54, is a retired New York City Police officer and former Marine who at times performed high-profile duties in his career—including working perimeter security at City Hall and the New York mayoral residence, according to News 4.

Webster surrendered himself to the FBI on February 22, after he was accused of using a large metal pole to attack a Capitol police officer on January 6.
 

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When article has the perfect picture to accompany it...
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1385658936322400256fff/

Oh yeah, ...there was also fuckery involved

A judge in Arizona Friday ordered a temporary pause in an extensive effort to recount ballots from the November election hours after the process began, citing concerns about whether a private vendor hired to review nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in the state’s largest county is complying with state laws governing election security.

The recount of the ballots from Maricopa County is being conducted by Republicans in the state Senate to examine unsubstantiated claims that fraud or errors tainted President Biden’s win.

Election officials and the courts have found no merit to such allegations, and the GOP-led county board of supervisors has objected to the recount.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury on Friday paused the audit beginning at 5 p.m. Friday until Monday at noon in response to a suit filed by the state Democratic Party and the county’s only Democratic supervisor, who argued that the audit violates Arizona rules governing the confidentiality and security of ballots and voting equipment.

“The lack of transparency around this ‘audit’ is astounding and we will not stand idly by as Senate President [Karen] Fann opens up our secure election to unqualified and completely unhinged actors who believe the ‘big lie,’ ” Raquel Terán, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, said in a statement before the ruling. “This has gone far enough and we are hopeful that the courts will put an end to this embarrassing and dangerous circus.”

Earlier this week, Senate Republicans exercised a subpoena to move voting equipment and ballots from county storage to the floor of the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where they have said a team of private companies will spend the next four weeks conducting a hand recount of ballots and a forensic audit of voting machines.

What could go wrong with hiring private companies probably with state funds to count ballots, who are only responsible to the party that hired them and NOT the state?

What?!

Senate leaders have said the process is intended only to explore ways to improve the state’s elections, rather than to cast doubt on Biden’s 10,457-vote victory in Arizona over Donald Trump.

Riiiiiiiiiiiggghhttt. Because when the state counted the ballots that wasn't good enough THEN.
 

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⬆️ The Guardian has more on that.

The state senate used its subpoena power to take possession of all 2.1m ballots in Maricopa county and the machines that counted them, along with computer hard drives full of data. The materials were then handed to Cyber Ninjas, a consultancy run by a man who has shared unfounded conspiracy theories claiming official election results are illegitimate.
On a since-deleted Twitter account, Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan used hashtags and shared memes popular with people promoting unsupported allegations casting doubt on Biden’s victory. Logan says his personal views are irrelevant because he is running a transparent audit with video streamed online.
Logan refuses to disclose who is paying him or who is counting the ballots, and will not commit to using bipartisan teams for the process.
The Republican-dominated Arizona senate refuses to let media observe the count. Reporters can accept a six-hour shift as an official observer but photography and note-taking are prohibited. It would be a violation of journalistic ethics for reporters to participate in an event they were covering.
The state senate has put up $150,000 for the audit but Logan has acknowledged that is not enough to cover his expenses. A rightwing cable channel, One America News Network, raised money from unknown contributors which went directly to Cyber Ninjas. Logan would not commit to disclosing the donors and would not provide an estimate for the cost of his audit.
Cyber Ninjas plans to have teams of three people manually count each ballot, looking only at the presidential and US Senate contests, which were won by Democrats.
Logan said the counters were members of law enforcement and the military as well as retirees. He would not say how many were Democrats or Republicans and would not commit to ensuring the counting teams are bipartisan.
The process was to be overseen by volunteers. As of a week ago, 70% were Republicans, according to Ken Bennett, a Republican former secretary of state serving as a liaison between the Senate and the auditors.
Cyber Ninjas plans to review ballot-counting machines and data and to scan the composition of fibers in paper ballots in search of fakes. It plans to go door-to-door in select precincts to ask people if they voted. Logan was vague about how the precincts were chosen but said a statistical analysis was done “based on voter histories”.
The audit has been beset by mistakes. Hand counters began the day using blue pens, which are banned in ballot counting rooms because they can be read by ballot machines. A crew from a group of Phoenix television stations, azfamily, had unfettered access to the supposedly secure facility as auditors were setting up equipment and receiving ballots and machines.
Election experts said hand counts are prone to errors and questioned a lack of transparent procedures for adjudicating voter intent.

My bold.

So a company that has never done this before, that is run by a conspiracy theorist, who is using largely Republicans to count the ballots, is going to get to the truth, huh?

File this under "Keep rerunning the election until you get the result you want."

 

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So a company that has never done this before, that is run by a conspiracy theorist, who is using largely Republicans to count the ballots, is going to get to the truth, huh?
Well, duuuh!

It’s the only way. Everyone else is in league with the deep state so if they did it any other way the truth would never come out.

File this under "Keep rerunning the election until you get the result you want."
See AlGoreithm
 
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Actually, and very unfortnately, there is a Step 2:

Once confidence in elections has been (fatally) undermined, it is easy enough to dispense with elections entirely.
It would be hilarious if they got destroyed in the next election. They'd have to explain not only the failure, but also how they aren't very good at "preventing election fraud."
 

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It would be hilarious if they got destroyed in the next election. They'd have to explain not only the failure, but also how they aren't very good at "preventing election fraud."

Candidly, I'd love to see them destroyed, annihilated, obliterated in the next election.

However, in the (wider) interests of democracy, and the public good, a second "party" or political group that can offer some form of legal, legitimate (and yes, yet coherent) opposition is necessary.
 

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Candidly, I'd love to see them destroyed, annihilated, obliterated in the next election.

However, in the (wider) interests of democracy, and the public good, a second "party" or political group that can offer some form of legal, legitimate (and yes, yet coherent) opposition is necessary.
I think we should have the current Democratic Party and then something to the left of it. Joe Manchin and the other right-leaning Dems can stay in the party, and the moderate republicans might come in too. The GOP is so far to the right, they are approaching fascism.
 
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