Posted on 08/23/2022 10:36:57 AM PDT by Perseverando
The South Carolina state election commission (SEC) is refusing to release voting records from 2020 in response to a citizen-led election-integrity group’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
And the clock is ticking.
Election law allows the government to destroy those records on September 3, 2022, which marks 22 months since polls closed on November 3, 2020.
In response to SEC’s refusal, six state legislators are rallying to their constituents’ aid with a letter to Attorney General Alan Wilson. Dated August 5 and published Wednesday at The Gateway Pundit, the letter explains that the “release of these records allows citizens … to evaluate trends in voting patterns which might indicate susceptibility to electronic manipulation by bad actors.”
The data requested is known as the Cast Vote Record (CVR) and is an index of votes that contains no information regarding individual voters. The lawmakers point out that many other states have already released identical CVR information, naming California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, and New Jersey as examples.
Regardless, Wilson is using the state constitution’s secret ballot stipulation as an excuse to deny FOIA requests for the records. “If the CVR does identify voters, or if the ballots themselves can be used to identify voters,” query the representatives, “then we would ask whether the SEC has failed in its Constitutional duty to protect the secrecy of the vote.” They cite the state constitution’s requirement of public counting of votes, and they rhetorically ask, “Is not refusal to release the ballots to the public for counting a violation of the State Constitution?”
The FOIA request stems from investigations by the grassroots group SC Safe Elections. Members canvassed eight of 46 counties in the state and released results in February. Among the findings:
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
FILE A MOTION TO GET AN EXTENSION ON THE 3 SEPT DELETION OF THESE RECORDS!
Running out the clock for the Steal.
Nothing says a clean election like destroying records.
Financial records need to be kept, I believe, for 7 years. Medical records even longer. Makes you wonder why politicians wrote the laws to allow for such rapid description of election records.
description -> destruction
We certainly can’t allow uppity citizens to question or examine our election results.
You vote. We’ll decide the outcome.
From related threads...
Although desperate Democrats are predictably going to ignore this, to the best of my knowledge there is no statute of limitations for Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), correction welcome. Section 2 is a penalty for states that weaken the voting poower of ordinary qualified citizen voters in any way.
Excerpted from the 14th Amendment...
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced [emphases added] in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
So given allegations of vote-counting fraud, voting materials for 2020 elections should not be disposed of pending DOJ investigation imo.
Also, as a consequence of the states being bullied by organized crime front-ending itself with constitutionally undefined political parties, DOJ should also be investigating nearly all the states for non-compliance with 12th Amendment (12A) Electoral Vote procedures.
"12th Amendment: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added];--The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two- thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. --The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
After all, the states surrendered their power to make state winner-take all laws for electoral votes when they ratified that amendment imo.
In fact, Justice Joseph Story had indicated that the overall effect of a state with divided electoral votes is that it weakens electoral votes for a single candidate.
"In case of any party divisions in a state, it may neutralize its whole vote, while all the other states give an unbroken electoral vote." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 2, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, Commentaries on the Constitution 3, 1833."
The bottom line is that it's now up to Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters to elect a new, Trump-endorsed Congress that will do its duty to enforce 12A and Section 2 of 14A.
Corrections, insights welcome.
No transparency = someone has something to hide.
BTW, 24 states have allowed access to their state CVR’s and (some) counties information has been collected, but not South Carolina.
This is from SC Safe Elections Group Chat:
For anyone who is thinking of assisting with the collection/request of CVRs for full analysis and use in: further discussions with legislators, possible charges filed and data preservation (which your assistance in is greatly appreciated!) , please go to https://Ordros.com/CVR and look up your state and see if the county CVR is already posted. If we already have it, then it does not need to be re-requested, as the CVRs on https://Ordros.com can be downloaded by any who wish to perform analysis.
South Carolina ping, please!
There was.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4087463/posts
For unknown reasons, the above was taken down from breaking news.
Sadly, this issue of CVRs and the approaching deadline make this issue one of the most, if not the most important calls to action for today and this next week.
I’m still waiting for my message to admin moderators to explain why this crucial information, revealed at the Trump-endorsed Moment of Truth Summit, is not worthy of a prominent accessible position on an FR sidebar.
If the above thread link was placed elsewhere on a sidebar, I apologize for the criticism, I haven’t seen it.
Please, if able, elevate these threads to somewhere viewers can find them. The information is just too important to have buried.
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thanks for the ping.
this is scary that they would consider not being transparent.
I don’t believe they are looking for fraud. We have and have had strict rules for voting here. I would venture whoever is asking wants to say, “OH NO, not enough minorities voted, repeal voter ID requirements.”
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