Posted on 11/05/2020 6:12:53 AM PST by USA Conservative
The result of the election is still unclear today with several key swing states still in play including Arizona, where Joe Biden’s comfortable lead over Trump shrank overnight, wreaking havoc on the results and prompting a posse of armed Trump voters to descend on counting centers.
As tensions flared in Arizona overnight, armed pro-Trump protesters descended on a counting center in Maricopa County, after Biden’s commanding 200,000-vote lead was slashed to just 68,000 as ballots continued being tallied.
They faced off with police and security outside the counting center, chanting that every vote should be counted with the result in the balance. At least one person made it inside, forcing the center to close with staff locked in.
Video below:
Biden has 264 of the 270 electoral college votes he needs to claim the White House currently. That number includes Arizona, which Fox News and the Associated Press called for him early on Wednesday despite votes still being counted. To win now, he must keep that lead and win either Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina or Pennsylvania, all of which remain undecided.
Another video footage from outside the Maricopa count center on Wednesday showed angry voters who forced an election voter to admit that sharpies have an impact on the vote even do new state laws and election officials say othervise.
Video below: Link
There has been quite a bit of speculation on whether voters should have used Sharpies to cast their ballots in Maricopa County.
Social media posts being circulated in the Phoenix area are saying that if anyone used a Sharpie to fill out their ballot, their votes could be tossed.
RJ reported that received several messages on Election Day and into Wednesday that many polling places offered Sharpies to those voting in person. However, there were reports that some Sharpie-filled ballots were not counted, while others who used ballpoint pen had no issues.
Video of voters complaining about poll workers handing them sharpies instead of pens:
To set the record straight, Right Journalism spoke to Erika Flores, spokesperson for the Maricopa County Elections Department.
Flores said voters can use one of three types of writing utensils to cast their ballots:
Black pen Blue pen Sharpie
You read that correctly. Sharpies are allowed. That’s because the new tabulation equipment counts votes in a such a way that bleed-throughs are not a problem.
Not only are Sharpies accepted when filling out a ballot in Maricopa County, but they are also preferred. That’s because Sharpies have the fastest drying ink.
The one color you do need to worry about is red ink. The tabulation equipment can’t read red ink.
Election judges are now instructing voters to dab the sharpie vertically once to prevent bleed through. Regardless, there have been no issues reading ballots filled out with Sharpies. Even if a Sharpie did create a large ink blot that made the ballot difficult to read, there is a process in which a judge reviews the ballot to determine the voter’s intent. The same process occurs if a voter circles or underlines the candidate.
Sharpies with the same ballot paper were used in the primaries too, but no issues were reported then, officials said.
I once signed with a pencil. Is that wrong?
Rather than a cheat to completely invalidate GOP ballots, SharpieGate looks like a cheat to make Biden look further ahead than he actually was at an early point in the election - upholding the pre-planned MSM narrative.
How is using a Sharpie considered disqualifying? Ok, so it tends to “bleed thru” - surely there’s not more options printed on the other side, right? makes it quite clear which dot is filled.
Apparently, the same thing happened in Michigan.
Someone on FBN or Fox today said that the hand sanitizer mandated because of WuFlu was impacting reading of ballots.
What I’m hearing on talk radio right now: Sharpies should not affect the ballot at many precincts because the paper used - like where I voted - was very heavy and thick. But there are supposed to be some places where voters were given ballots made of thin paper....something about sites which printed empty ballots on the spot so they wouldn’t need a ton of stock ballots.
Where I voted, we were given felt pens but I checked my ballot for any errors after I filled it out and there was no bleed-through on the thick paper. But I could see where some other locations using printing on the spot might have used thinner paper.
But the entire things is beyond outrage! I know Arizona loves mail in voting. I understand absentee ballots. I was in the military for 25 years. But I think we need to insist on in person voting with IDs checked by humans BEFORE the ballot is filled out and submitted, along with total transparency for BOTH sides at every election site!
If we all voted on Election Day, then 95% of the vote could be counted, error-free, in an hour. With total accountability for who submitted each vote.
PS: I will say that mail in votes in Arizona is generally pretty good, but let’s face it: When I voted in person, I needed to show official picture ID. With mail-in votes, it is all about signatures. MINE is a genuine signature, but I’ve notices a lot of folks, particularly younger ones, have a squiggle for a signature. I could forge my son’s signature with ease. And his wife’s.
Picture IDs at standard precincts, then vote and have both parties watch the ballot box.
It isn’t hard.
I saw pictures of patriots last night kneeling in front of the building counting the votes... kneeling..WTH! they should be storming the damn building and grabbing all the ballots and count them themselves! This is war the kneeling and praying crap shows weakness and that time has come and gone!! BIDEN MUST NOT BE DECLARED THE WINNER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!
Need Sharpie 101 before graduating from Skool.
Please post any links regarding this. I see lots of shenanigans from Michigan, but havent seen the sharpie issue there.
I heard a caller on Newsmax TV this morning talk about her personal experience with the “Sharpie Issue” in Michigan.
Thanks
How is using a Sharpie considered disqualifying? Ok, so it tends to “bleed thru” - surely there’s not more options printed on the other side, right? makes it quite clear which dot is filled.
If a voter uses the marking implement provided to them at the polling location by election staff, how can their ballot be disqualified due to the marking implement?
“”The tabulation equipment can’t read red ink.””
I am not familiar with just HOW paper ballots are read. Certainly the dozens of people we see opening envelopes and stacking the ballots aren’t COUNTING the VOTES. HOW does that get done and if they are fed into a machine for reading (tabulating), why can’t we see it BEING DONE?
Why is ANYONE opening envelopes and stacking ballots allowed to have any marking device (pen or otherwise) in their hands?
Connect some dots
multiple reports of folks getting 2 ballots,,,not many,,but from all over country.
Massive reports of sharpie insisted upon.
But if everyone , Dems and repubs both got sharpies
wouldn’t that cause the reading machines to toss out ALL votes ?, How would that help Dems ?
Every Dem registered had 2 ballots printed , one sent , for on site sharpie rejection
One sent to cheat ware houses to be brought in at 4 am.
The ‘ poker tell ‘ was those folks who accidentally were sent both ballots.
How does a printer accidentally print two ballots only here and there ??,
They don’t.
Either there is a whole run , with thousands , repeated.
( Yes, I used to throw paper at a huge printer outfit )
That would result in sequential batches of ballots , not a double print just here and there.
This is how the vote fraud was planned and executed.
Audit the paper used to print ballots would show easily and quickly if I’m right
,,IMHO,ymmv.
The printed guidelines for this election's mail in ballots in Maricopa specified use of a black ballpoint. Changes should have been included in those instructions...but were not.
Previously, sharpies have been prohibited in these AZ instructions.
Any intentional action by an election official that interferes with machine scoring and counting should be carefully examined. Why add to the election staff workload? Why create the suspicion of interference, tampering, or cheating?
Why would election workers hand out sharpies instead of ballpoints or insist voters use sharpies instead of ballpoints as voters are reporting.
Just think of it this way...government employees “willingly” increasing their workloads...
actually that’s how it is done. The envelopes are validated, then opened and stuffed into machine. THe machine reads the ballot and counts all the votes, makes its tally. By the way, to protect them they are NOT on any web. The transfer from the machine to the computer is done by memory chip. They actually have two chips if one disappears. Then the machine count goes to some big computer which tallies the totals.
Why we cannot see this? Well there is a privacy concern. They do not want everybody to see how you voted.
THese optical machines are actually quite good.
The problems are not the machine. Sharpie maybe.
Main problem is ballot harvesting - making false ballots, voting for people, even dead people, but mostly registered non-voters. Fumbling registrations.
BTW. the check is done by having representatives of both parties on each step. Basically the two parties are checking the other party, and so hopefully nobody cheats!
In Detroit I heard that they actually ejected the Republicans out of the tally. Now we really have a problem!
As matter of fact most votes are fair and counted properly!
Unfortunately the 1% is the problem! It was said the republicans need to get 51% to assure to get elected. The Dems could steal the 1%. Nowadays, in some places they seem to be able to steal even more!
The problem is not that your vote will not count!
In all but extreme circumstances it WILL count!
But, if you did NOT vote, there is a chance somebody voted for you!
You should check that. Unfortunately, people who do not vote usually do not check it!
In Wake county, NC they gave everyone a free ink pen to mark their ballot. One nice thing they have here is that when the voter is done, he inserts his ballot into a scanner which immediately checks for anomalies and kicks it back out if a problem is found. The voter then has a chance to correct it.
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