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  • Legislature Considers Removing Key Signature Verification Rules After Counties Renege On Election-Timeline Deal. ( Arizona )

    02/04/2024 2:37:47 PM PST · by george76 · 12 replies
    aARIZONA DAILY INDEPENDENT ^ | February 3, 2024
    In 2022, Congress changed the electoral count act, moving up the deadline by which one of the final steps in the election process must be completed – the transmission of the certificate of ascertainment of who won a state’s presidential electors to Congress. Early that year, then-Senator Ugenti-Rita introduced a bill to expand the threshold to trigger a 100% machine recount to from one tenth of one percent to half a percent, a bill that would have applied to the 2020 presidential election had it then been the law. Though legal experts say that it is questionable whether Congress itself...
  • The ridiculousness of signature matching for election integrity: How good do you think you or your neighbor are at telling a false signature from a legitimate one?

    12/02/2023 4:50:48 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/02/2023 | Joe Fried
    Signatures have always been used for two purposes: to show our authorization of a transaction, and as a means of identification. That second function — identification — is fast becoming obsolete, at least with regard to voting. Prior to the creation of Social Security, there was no national registry of citizens. Signatures were all that we had and all that we needed for voter identification. After all, we almost always voted in person, right in our own neighborhoods. We now have unique ID numbers — courtesy of Social Security and other systems such as driver licensing bureaus and state identification...
  • Apartment Building Sales Tank 74%, Largest Drop Since Mortgage Crisis

    04/09/2023 5:18:26 AM PDT · by cutty · 47 replies
    Forbes ^ | Apr 4, 2023, | Katherine Hamilton
    Multifamily sales in the first quarter of 2023 were roughly $40 billion lower than the previous year ... marking a slowdown in one of the hottest real estate markets amid growing interest rates and banking turmoil. ... Investors acquired just under $14 billion in apartment buildings nationally in the first quarter of this year ... The number represents a 74% year-over-year decline, the largest decrease since the first quarter of 2009, when sales fell 77%.. It was also the lowest sales quarter for the market since early 2020, right after COVID-19 broke out and threw the rental residential market into...
  • Signature verification software used by Maricopa County says 10% is 'high-confidence' match

    04/01/2023 7:08:08 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    Just the News ^ | Updated: April 1, 2023 - 12:05am | Natalia Mittelstadt
    With Kari Lake's legal complaint alleging systematic signature verification failures in Maricopa County remanded by the Arizona Supreme Court to trial court, closer examination of the signature verification software used by the county reveals a strikingly low threshold for signatures to qualify as "high-confidence" matches. Since falling about 17,000 votes short in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election to Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, Lake has continued to contest the election results in court, arguing that there were ballot chain of custody and signature verification issues in addition to thousands of Republican voters disproportionately disenfranchised on Election Day, when voting machine errors...
  • SVB Not Anyone's Fault?

    03/19/2023 8:01:02 PM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    Townhall ^ | Mar 16, 2023 | Cal Thomas
    One of the benefits of being a Washington insider, from the president of the United States to the lowliest bureaucrat, is never having to admit your policies are wrong. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) - the nation's 10th largest - the financial policy chickens of this, and previous administrations, have predictably come home to roost. Record debt, massive new spending, and the failure of regulators to see what was coming contributed to the run on SVB. It didn't help that in 2018 President Donald Trump signed the biggest rollback of Dodd-Frank bank regulations since the global financial...
  • What I want to know, my question is...(vanity)

    03/17/2023 4:36:09 AM PDT · by EBH · 12 replies
    3/17/23 | EBH
    Yesterday I watched Janet Yellen answering questions to the Senate Finance committee. Lots of really good questions from what I could see. Yellen though was like a deer in the headlights. "That's A Lie!': Bill Cassidy Harshly Confronts Janet YellenLankford Spars with Yellen on Billionaire Bailout Paid for by Oklahoma Community BanksBlackburn Asks Yellen Point Blank: 'Do You Believe We Can Spend Our Way To Lower Inflation?'Now I have been lightly following some of this stuff basically because at this point there is little I can do about it. But now I have some questions... Seeing that the Chinese Communist...
  • Barney Frank defends decision to join Signature Bank board before failure

    03/16/2023 11:49:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/16/2023 | STEPHEN NEUKAM
    Barney Frank, the former congressman from Massachusetts who helped design the landmark banking safety legislation after the 2008 economic crisis, defended his involvement with the now-defunct Signature Bank, which was taken over by New York state officials this week. “I worked as a member of Congress for a certain objective,” Frank said in an interview with the Financial Times. “And then having retired, not having a pension by my choice, not wanting to be a lobbyist for reasons personal, I need to make some money.”
  • Crypto-friendly Signature Bank was facing criminal probe over money laundering concerns ahead of collapse

    03/16/2023 1:27:37 AM PDT · by CFW · 12 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/15/23 | Melissa Koenig
    The United States Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating whether Signature Bank failed to prevent money laundering before the firm collapsed on Sunday. Federal investigators in Washington DC and Manhattan, New York were specifically looking into the bank's dealings with cryptocurrency clients, to assess if the institution took sufficient steps to detect potential money laundering, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. It is not clear what came of the investigation, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was forced to take over operations of the bank on Sunday when it could not meet the demands of customers withdrawing...
  • U.S. Government Asks China For Quick Loan To Bail Out Silicon Valley Bank

    03/13/2023 3:43:27 PM PDT · by george76 · 20 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | Mar 13, 2023 | Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an attempt to avert a major financial disaster in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, the Biden Administration held a special meeting with Chinese President Xi to ask him for a quick loan to help bail out the failing bank. "Hey, Xi old buddy! I haven't seen you since we were pallin' around in the foothills of the Himalayas!" said Biden to the CCP leader. "We need a couple bucks. Just a small loan to bail out some bankers and prevent the collapse of the economy again. Can you do us a solid? We promise...
  • The Biden Economy Is Falling Apart, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

    03/13/2023 2:49:02 PM PDT · by george76 · 56 replies
    PJ Media ^ | MARCH 13, 2023 | STEPHEN GREEN
    The Biden Economy — .. falling apart, everything, everywhere all at once. NYSE halted trading of Charles Schwab, whose shares fell by more than 20%, and even a few Etsy sellers have been impacted by the fallout of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse. Schwab’s fall was the firm’s “most ever on an intraday-basis,” ... Signature Bank, “a key financial institution for the cryptocurrency industry,” according to the New York Post, was shut down on Sunday over “similar systemic risk” to SVB. SVB and Signature are the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history, respectively, with combined assets in excess...
  • Dow futures jump 250 points as regulators announce backstop of SVB depositors: Live updates

    03/12/2023 7:54:05 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 42 replies
    CNBC ^ | March 12, 2023 | Tanya Macheel
    Stock futures jumped Sunday evening after regulators announced a plan to backstop all the depositors in failed Silicon Valley Bank and make additional funding available for other banks. S&P 500 futures gained 1.1% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.2%. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up by 265 points. All Silicon Valley Bank depositors will have access to their money starting Monday, according to a joint statement from the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and the FDIC.
  • Colorado Election Fraud: Soros-Backed Secretary of State Permanently Blocks Arizona-Style Audits

    08/30/2021 10:03:12 AM PDT · by george76 · 47 replies
    PJ Media ^ | AUG 30, 2021 | STEPHEN GREEN
    Whether Colorado election fraud is a real problem or not will remain unknown, as the state’s George Soros-backed SecState will permanently ban Arizona-style third-party audits. Colorado Politics reported on Friday that Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold “is permanently adopting the emergency rules rolled out earlier this summer to block future efforts at an Arizona-style ‘forensic audit’ conducted by a third party.” How’s that for restoring people’s faith in election integrity? ... Griswold, a former Barack Obama activist, is one of many Democrats throughout the state receiving generous financial backing from the George Soros family. ... Colorado switched to all-mail-in...
  • Arizona Formally Bans Post-Election Signature Fix for Unsigned Mail-In Ballots

    05/08/2021 8:58:16 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 05/08/2021 | Allen Zhong
    div class="post_content"> Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law on Friday banning voters from adding signatures on unsigned mail-in ballots after election day.The measure, Arizona Senate bill 1003 (S.B. 1003), was approved earlier in the state legislature in party-line votes.The new law codified a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Oct. 6, 2020, within one month of the 2020 election. It also ended disputes over unsigned mail-in ballots between the state Republicans and Democrats.Current Arizona law allows election officials to contact the voters to fix the signatures on the ballots if the signatures don’t...
  • New York Judge flips house seat from DEM to GOP after Judge Allowed Signature Check

    01/31/2021 7:51:31 PM PST · by grundle · 46 replies
    hiddenamericans.com ^ | January 31, 2021
    Why do signature checks always move the electorate further to the GOP? Three months after the November general election one congressional seat in New York has still not been certified after the state supreme court justice Scott DelConte ruled that dozens of votes were invalid. Some of the biggest batches the court invalidated: 128 ballots from voters who voted in the right election district but wrong polling place, in addition to 20 ballots cast in the wrong county. 85 ballots from voters who were listed in the state voter database as “purged.” 51 ballots from voters who dropped their absentee...
  • No fraud found in Cobb County, Georgia signature audit: Secretary of State Raffensperger says

    12/31/2020 2:57:04 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 66 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/30/2020 | Edmund DeMarche
    A signature audit of over 15,000 ballots in Cobb County, Ga., found no fraudulent absentee votes, according to Georgia’s secretary of state’s office. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office teamed up with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to review what they determined was a "statistically significant sample of signatures on oath envelopes" cast in the county on Election Day. He said this is the third time the state confirmed the election's outcome and pointed to two earlier recounts. He said his office has been focused on "calling balls and strikes" and "in this case, three strikes against the voter claims...
  • Georgia voter signature audit will validate ballots — or find fraud

    12/27/2020 3:59:45 PM PST · by Not_Who_U_Think · 33 replies
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 12/27/2020 | Mark Niesse,
    Assembled in teams at folding tables, GBI agents and state election investigators this past week scrutinized voter signatures on absentee ballot envelopes, a major test of their legitimacy. A small number of mismatched signatures would discredit suspicions from President Donald Trump and election skeptics who claim the system for verifying voter identity allows rampant fraud. Significant mismatches would expose flaws in the ballot verification process.
  • Another Special Message from President Trump (12/22) about Election Fraud

    12/22/2020 6:35:39 PM PST · by SamAdams76 · 114 replies
    President Trump throws down the gauntlet tonight on election fraud. He lays out in great detail the fraud that has been documented and claims a landslide victory. No way is Trump giving up or conceding.
  • GEORGIA: Court Tosses GOP Lawsuit Demanding Signature Verification For January 5 Runoff: As usual, district court found the complainants lacked standing.

    12/22/2020 9:30:05 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 56 replies
    National File ^ | 12/22/2020 | Frank Salvato
    A lawsuit filed by Republicans seeking stronger, more uniform signature matching for the January 5, 2021, US Senate run-off elections has been dismissed by a District Court of Appeals court in Georgia. The district court found the complainants lacked standing. This prompted an appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The Georgia Republican Party was joined by US Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and David Perdue (R-GA), in a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The suit claimed that signature matching for mail-in ballots, as executed in the November 3, 2020, General Election was “unconstitutional,...
  • EXCLUSIVE: President Trump Is After the Individual or Individuals Who Voted Illegally in Wisconsin – As Gateway Pundit Exposed Earlier

    11/28/2020 5:41:15 PM PST · by bitt · 38 replies
    GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 11/28/2020 | Joe Hoft
    This morning we showed absentee votes in Wisconsin that all had the same initials “MLW”. More than 2,000 of these votes were found. This afternoon the President tweeted that the recount in Wisconsin was about finding the people who voted illegally. We now know that there were at least 2,000 people who signed Wisconsin ballots as “MLW” or there was one individual who signed them all. * On Black Friday, there were so many Trump observers that two dozen of them had nowhere to sit, and had to back upstairs and watch on closed circuit TV. According to our source...
  • Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Mail-In/Absentee Ballots with No Dates or Handwritten Name/Address Can be Counted!

    11/23/2020 5:24:14 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 80 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/23/2020 | Cristina Laila
    The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court has once again shown its contempt for a free and fair election.The PA Supreme Court on Monday ruled that mail-in/ballots with no dates or handwritten names/addresses on the outer envelopes can be counted.The Trump campaign challenged the decision of the Philadelphia County Board of Elections to count 8,320 mail-in/absentee ballots arguing the voters failed to handwrite their name, address or the date (in some cases a combination of all three) on the outer envelope.Trump’s legal team argued that the General Assembly set forth in the Election Code the requirements for how a qualified elector can...