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On Sunday, September 17 – Constitution Day here in the USA – the most recent former President was on television being interviewed by Kristen Welker for NBC’s Meet the Press. During the interview, the former president was asked why he continued to fight; why he continued to insist that he had actually won the 2020 election. In response to her questions, President Trump replied, “It was my decision, but I listened to some people.” This sentence was within the context of a few minutes of back-and-forth in which President Trump described how he received tons of advice from tons of...

The Left detests President Trump, but they can’t indict him just for being someone they don’t like, so they had to make up some kind of charges to file against him. In 2023, the route they chose for this witch hunt boils down to this claim: “He’s been lying about vote fraud.” The level of chutzpah this path of pursuit requires is worthy of psychology textbooks. That the party known for over a century as being the masters of vote fraud would be the one challenging their opposition for it is the height of irony. But as awful as it...

The Big Lie. Just saying these words brings to mind a number of potential meanings, but in today’s America, the most common — and conflicting — uses of the term are the following: The Left asserts that the very idea that fraud occurred in the 2020 election is a dangerous lie, while the Right insists that claiming the 2020 election was squeaky clean is the dangerous lie. Which position is correct? Was there massive fraud in 2020, enough to change not only the presidency, but also countless, (and close) down ballot races, or not? It’s an important question, and the...

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow a South Carolina ballot integrity measure to be included in the November 3 election. That law, which requires a mail-in ballot to be signed by the voter and a witness is a common practice throughout the United States. It’s just another layer of ballot security and no one thought about challenging it — until it could be challenged. Democrats say the requirement is “dangerous” because there’s a pandemic going on and that it would discourage people from voting.Associated Press: State Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick cheered the decision. “Despite the Democrats’ efforts to hijack...

In this, the strangest of all years, certain things are inexplicable. The DNC’s decision to coalesce around Joe Biden in the primaries, always odd, today seems like madness. But was it? Consider where we are, at this particular moment in the season... in terms of the election process. The rules for replacing a candidate on the ballot – late in the season - vary from state to state, and from office to office. The official intent, of course, is to have each party select its candidates by either primary or caucus, and for those chosen candidates to then compete in...

The question of the year is, how should we manage our elections? Perhaps this should actually be the question every year, as study after study, and numerous convictions – all over the country - have proven that vote fraud is real and widespread, not just some localized Chicago problem or political red herring. But with pandemic-related calls for sweeping changes in our voting methods this year, with an effort to rush them through without so much as a chance for analysis and discussion, we risk turning our elections from merely imperfect to worse than useless. The Issue of the Day...

Despite having stuck themselves with a presidential nominee with boatloads of ethical, policy, and likely mental health problems, Democrats don’t seem scared of this November. Some believe that’s because the Democrats will just “steal it”... as if the Democrat party can suddenly just decide to turn on the vote fraud machine, and steal the five million they’ll need to win the presidency. It doesn’t actually work that way. Those who follow the business pages might have a better analogy: it takes time, but if you build a funnel, a system, a regular flow of steady clients, then that flow can...

Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson vows that a check-off box asking voters to confirm their U.S. citizenship will once again appear on November ballot applications, raising concerns among voting rights advocates who argue it's unnecessary, intimidating and could suppress voting. (snip) "Johnson added the citizenship checkbox to ensure that only U.S. citizens participate in Michigan elections," [Sec. of State Department spokesman Fred] Woodhams said. "It also helps noncitizens who have inadvertently registered to vote by letting them know that it is not proper for them to vote."

Recommendations from campaign counsel Catharine Baker (From an E-mail I received) As illustrated in my previous message, California's current system of casting and counting votes has gaps that can be exploited by the unscrupulous. Avoidable errors can determine the outcome of close elections. If we want to ensure that only legitimate votes are counted, then we must do the following, without delay: Secure the right to challenge voter signatures. If we can't challenge missing, mismatched, or invalid signatures on vote-by-mail (VBM) and provisional ballots during the canvass, we have no assurance of ballot integrity. We must secure the right to...

Voter fraud and a suspicious fire threaten the November elections in Texas’ largest city. I could’ve gone with the “Houston, we have a problem” headline but that’s so … cliché. Nevertheless, the fact is that Houston has a major election problem, one which threatens the integrity of elections in Houston and across the Lone Star State. And when you work in the fact that Texas stands as the nation’s largest solidly Republican state, well, what happens in Houston will not stay in Houston — with next year’s redistricting, it won’t even stay in Texas. The problem centers on a massive...

To:       Interested Parties From:    Bush-Cheney '04 Communications Date:     10/20/04 Re:       Letter To Postmaster General John              Potter On Ballot Mail IntegrityBush-Cheney '04 General Counsel Tom Josefiak today sent the following letter on ballot mail integrity to United States Postmaster General John Potter.Letter To Postmaster General John PotterMr. John Potter Postmaster General United States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW Washington , DC 20260-0010 Dear Mr. Potter:Recently the Bush-Cheney campaign received anecdotal reports that mail carriers in Florida and elsewhere have suggested that they would consider failing to deliver ballot materials from homes that “appear Republican.”  This type of behavior is...