Posted on 11/09/2022 1:14:14 PM PST by MtnClimber
Yesterday America voted, and there were some rather odd election anomalies -- much as there had been in 2020. As for the latter, a bit of history:
The winner of Florida, Iowa, and Ohio had won the presidency for perhaps as long as the three states have been part of the union and certainly had for 60 years, since Richard Nixon won them but lost an election widely regarded to have been stolen. Donald Trump won all three states by comfortable margins -- but “lost” the 2020 election. There also are the 19 bellwether counties that had supported the presidential victor in every contest since 1980, 18 of which Trump won (the one he lost had instituted a new voting system more susceptible to fraud). And now, in 2022, it appears we’re seeing anomalies again.
A “red wave” was expected by virtually all analysts, partially, but not completely, because Republicans enjoyed polling advantages that had been increasing for weeks prior to the election. What’s more, given that the GOP tends to under-poll -- one study estimated by five points this election cycle -- robust Republican gains seemed reasonable to most observers. Yet curiously, if we’re to believe Tuesday’s results, something perhaps unprecedented in modern elections happened: The GOP had over-polled -- in most places but not all.
This is interesting because polling “systems” are the same in every state -- but voting systems aren’t.
This raises a question: Does this point to polling problems, or voting system problems?
Consider Florida, which did experience a profound GOP wave (all figures are from the RealClear Politics’ polling averages and election result data). Governor Ron DeSantis led his challenger, Charlie Crist, by 12.2 points on average in the polls but actually won by 19.5.
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The RATs are gnawing and clawing and cheating their way to power and control over every aspect of your life.
The states which allow ballot harvesting will always be Rat controlled until the GOP learns to play their game, or manages to outlaw the practice.
Yes, they are.
Project Veritas released a video of a guy in Brooklyn speaking freely about how he is a Democrat but he registered as a Republican so he could get a job as a poll watcher. He was very emphatic about wanting to make a difference. We cannot blame the Rats for losing when we can’t even vet people like this.
If you can’t stop the cheating you lose and deserve to lose. This isn’t anything new, it’s just gotten larger because nothing has been done to stop it. Maybe it can’t be stopped. The only answer may be for the parties to see who’s best at cheating. That’s how football and baseball work these days, why not politics?
WE NEED FLORIDA ELECTION LAWS NATIONWIDE. THEN and only THEN, will be be able to go to bed on election night with the tally in hand...NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS AT 3:00 AM!...;
Trump better be careful given the circumstantial evidence that the DeSantis machine is this adept about beating what happened elsewhere.
Polling is virtually useless.
It is used to create false sense of hope on one side and a false sense of doom on the other..............
This isn’t anything new, it’s just gotten larger because nothing has been done to stop it.
Correct, and now that “voting” has become a digital practice, large, industrial-scale cheating can be accomplished relatively easily and effectively by a small number of people.
Too bad we can’t have a snake, owl or cat to eat those rats.
As the political discussion centers on the 2022 wins and losses from the midterm election, one thing that stands out in similarity to the 2020 general election is the difference between ballots (counted) and votes (cast). It appears in some states this is the ‘new normal.’
Where votes were the focus the Biden administration suffered losses. Where ballots were the focus the Biden administration won.

Perhaps the two states most reflective of ‘ballots’ being more important than ‘votes’ are Michigan and Pennsylvania. Despite negative polling and public opinion toward two specific candidates in those states, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, achieved victories. The Democrat machines in both states focused on ballot collection more heavily than votes cast.
Since the advent of ballot-centric focus through mail-in processes and collection drop off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes. As a direct and specific result, ballot collection has become the key to Democrat party success.
The effort to attain votes for candidates is less important than the strategy of collecting ballots.
It should be emphasized; these are two distinctly different voting systems.
The system of ballot distribution and collection is far more susceptible to control than the traditional system of votes cast at precincts.
A vote cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area. However, a ballot can be sent, completed and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and/or registered individual.
While ballots and votes originate in two totally different processes, the end result of both “ballots” and “votes,” weighing on the presented election outcome, is identical.
While initially the ballot form of election control was tested in Deep Blue states, through the process of mail-in returns under the guise and justification of “expanding democracy,” a useful tool for those who are vested in the distinction, I think we are now starting to see what happens on a national level when the process is expanded.
The controversial 2020 election showed the result of making ‘ballots’ the strategy for electoral success. Under the justification of COVID-19 mitigation, mail-in ballots took center stage. Ballot harvesting by Democrat operations was one term for the outcome.
Democrat party officials and political activist groups knew how to exploit the opportunities within the new system of ballot distribution and collection, and when you combine that with a massive legal pressure campaign to accept any and all forms of ballots, well, you can see how they are dependent.
Now that ballot collection has been shown to be a much more effective way to maintain political power, Democrats in a general sense are less focused on winning votes and more focused on gathering ballots.
When ‘ballot organization’ becomes more important than ‘vote winning,’ you modify your electoral campaign approaches accordingly. It might sound simplistic, but inside the distinct difference between ballots and votes you will find why refusing debates is a successful strategy.
If you are trying to win votes you could never fathom campaign success by refusing to debate an opponent. However, if your focus is centered around ballot collection, the debate is essentially irrelevant.
It’s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes. Perhaps the 2022 midterm election will awaken people to the two completely different election systems.
You can vote at any scale you want, but when ballots are more important than votes – the election will always favor the latter.
Michigan and Pennsylvania voters are likely very unhappy today, while Michigan and Pennsylvania ballot providers are smiling.
If Trump was a sitting governor you’d have a point.
Heck, a fox or weasel could eat those rats and I’d still be content.
It’s a Festivus Miracle!
One only need to look at how California, a permanent one-party democrat state, handles its elections - no ID voting, immediate registration, mass mail-in voting, ballot-harvesting.
Since the 2020 Election Theft has never been seriously or fully addressed, what made anybody think for a nanosecond that the Commie Bastards would not go for the gold, yet again?
I swear! There are those among us that are absolutely committed to their own stupidity!
Until the practices of harvesting votes, allowing unverified mail in votes, no in-person identification requirements and a symbiotic relationship with the media nothing will stop Democrats from being competitive in national elections. I mean, how bad does it have to get before people hold them accountable?
Until the practices of harvesting votes, allowing unverified mail in votes, no in-person identification requirements and a symbiotic relationship with the media nothing will stop Democrats from being competitive in national elections. I mean, how bad does it have to get before people hold them accountable?
Until the practices of harvesting votes, allowing unverified mail in votes, no in-person identification requirements and a symbiotic relationship with the media nothing will stop Democrats from being competitive in national elections. I mean, how bad does it have to get before people hold them accountable?
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