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Dementia Joe Is Easy To Defeat. Beating Democrats’ Election Machine Is Another Story
The Federalist ^ | 07/03/2024 | BRIANNA LYMAN

Posted on 07/03/2024 10:44:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Democrats’ election machine is a built-in safety net that helps them drag subpar candidates across the finish line.

President Joe Biden’s abysmal debate performance may have been the worst since Richard Nixon sweat profusely and appeared grayish while debating John F. Kennedy. Biden’s campaign should be dead in the water after last Thursday. But thanks to Democrats’ efforts to alter and exploit our election system, winning elections isn’t as simple as just being a coherent candidate.

Biden’s atrocious performance could not be ignored. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called for Biden to drop out of the race. The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich wrote the “best part of this debate for Democrats is that it happened on June 27.” Politico’s Irie Sentner said Biden’s stumbling and incoherence “was impossible to ignore.”

The man with the nuclear codes is only really alert between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Axios reported, citing White House aides. European leaders were also reportedly concerned about Biden’s ability to lead, even before the debate.

But by breaking and bending election laws for years, Democrats have changed the landscape of American elections — and built in a safety net that helps them drag subpar candidates across the finish line.

Democrats’ Vote-Harvesting Operations

One of the ways Democrats do this is by targeting supposedly nonpartisan “get-out-the-vote” campaigns at likely Democrat constituencies, and deploying ballot-harvesting operations to take advantage of low-propensity voters.

Democrats have long relied on progressive nonprofits purporting to be “nonpartisan” to help turn out likely Democratic voters. Restoration of America, a conservative political action committee, found that “more than 150 left-wing nonprofits spent $1.35 billion on political activities between 2021 and 2022,” as RealClearInvestigations’ Steve Miller explained.

“The groups work around legal restrictions on nonprofits that accept tax-deductible donations by selectively engaging in nonpartisan efforts including boosting voter education and participation,” Miller wrote, noting that much of the money targets left-wing constituencies via groups like the Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information. Both groups’ mission targets “young people, people of color and unmarried women” — three core demographics for Democrats.

Additionally, President Joe Biden is using taxpayer dollars to turn out voters, especially targeting demographics that are more likely to vote blue.

Biden signed Executive Order 14019 in March of 2021, directing federal agencies to develop plans to “promote voter registration and voter participation.” The Department of Education, for example, issued a memo in February stating federal work-study funds could be used to pay students to work at government agencies to register voters or serve as poll watchers. Voters between the ages of 18-29 broke for Democrat House candidates during the 2022 midterms nearly 2-1 when compared to Republican candidates, estimates show.

The Supreme Court recently announced it will not consider hearing a challenge to the executive order until Sept. 30 — after the order has already done what Biden intended it to do for the 2024 election.

Democrats Target Election Security Laws

Perhaps Democrats’ biggest tactic to rig elections in their favor is by weakening election laws, such as by vilifying basic voter ID requirements and popularizing mass absentee balloting.

Biden’s home state of Delaware recently enlisted former Obama administration Solicitor General Don Verrelli to argue in favor of state laws permitting early voting and permanent absentee voting. The Delaware Superior Court had found a 2010 statute permitting permanent absentee status violated the state’s constitution, since the constitution “limits absentee voting to only such general election where the voter cannot cast a ballot in person for a constitutionally enumerated reason.” The Delaware Supreme Court reversed the lower court’s decision this week.

The mass absentee voting apparatus popularized by Democrats in 2020 at the height of Covid-19 panic made elections less secure and makes it easier for ballot traffickers to take advantage of the voting process.

In Alabama in 2017, for example, a judge overturned preliminary election results in the Wetumpka City Council race after throwing out eight absentee ballots that were cast for the incumbent because either the signatures were forged or they had not been properly filled out. Just this past March the state implemented a law that makes paying people for “collecting, prefilling, completing, obtaining, or delivering” ballots a Class B felony, as my colleague M.D. Kittle reported.

Democrat election officials have also been known to arbitrarily — and extralegally — change election rules. In Michigan during the 2020 election, Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued guidance to election officials to presume that signatures on absentee ballots are valid. Three years later Benson would issue further guidance on how to conduct signature verification for absentee ballot applications and envelopes, telling election workers they must initially presume the signatures are valid. A judge recently ruled Benson’s guidance is unconstitutional — but it was used during the 2020 election nonetheless.

Meanwhile, Biden’s Justice Department has vowed to fight election security laws it deems “burdensome” and “unnecessary” like voter ID requirements or those limiting absentee and mail-in voting.

As part of their long-term strategy, Democrats are also looking to Congress to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act which would effectively allow the DOJ to take control of local and state election laws. For example, states or localities requiring voter ID would be subject to DOJ scrutiny. This legislation is a watered-down version of another federal elections takeover bill, HR 1, that Democrats pushed in 2021. HR1 sought to mandate mail-in ballots and delay final results by eradicating legal deadlines for those ballots, as my colleague Joy Pullmann explained.

[READ NEXT: Californians With No Driver’s License Or SSN Can Use A Credit Card Or Gym Membership To Vote]

Democrats aren’t oblivious to Biden’s weakness, but they’ve spent years pushing fundamental changes to our election system that boost their candidates, no matter how unpopular they may be. To beat Biden, Trump doesn’t just need to show himself to be a better candidate — he’s also running against Democrats’ election machine.


Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; democrats; electionfraud; senility
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1 posted on 07/03/2024 10:44:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

With Rona McDaniel in charge, there was little chance. With Lara and McCauley in charge, there is more hope. Question is, did Rona stay around long enough such that it is too late?


2 posted on 07/03/2024 10:46:02 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: SeekAndFind

The dementia equation now prevents Biden from exceeding the margin of fraud. Trump beats demented Biden by more than the fraud this time around.


3 posted on 07/03/2024 10:46:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind
Funny. Several FReepers were having a discussion that this was a trap set by the DNC for Trump.

The DNC knew that Biden is senile. But they can't get rid of him. So they agreed to a debate with Trump in June just before the Democratic Convention will take place. 🤔

4 posted on 07/03/2024 10:48:19 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

Get ready for more all-night voting.


5 posted on 07/03/2024 10:52:32 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SeekAndFind
WHAT PART ABOUT THE D@mn ballots have already been printed for Biden mail in votes, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!!!!.

WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET THE RIGHT PAPER, RIGHT WATERMARKS, RIGHT DYE, RIGHT COLOR BLACKLIGHT DYE AND FONTS TO PUT SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME ON THE BALLOT.

SMH YOU PEAPLR ARE IDIOTS. BIDEN IS A GO. PERIOD!!! DEAD OR ALIVE.

6 posted on 07/03/2024 10:56:36 AM PDT by Ikeon
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To: FlipWilson

IF people step up to be part of the 100,000-strong GOP Election Monitoring Army now that the horrible consent decree no longer prevents that, this election can be VERY much different from those in the past (since 1976).

If the fix was in for sure, Dems wouldn’t be panicking over Trump. They know there are limits and they won’t be able to get away with what they did in 2020 because the scrutiny will be MUCH higher. And the RNC plan is to catch them in the act, not just sit around blindly til it’s too late and the evidence has vanished.

Send lawyers, guns, and money to prevent the s#it from hitting the fan.


7 posted on 07/03/2024 10:59:57 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree 100% and not only that but Kamala is dangerous only because of her skin color. How many white Americans will get the guilt syndrome again and vote for this nasty dumb woman who can’t even put two sentences together. Unfortunately, she’s more dangerous than sleepy eye Joe. I know because my liberal sister-in-law would vote for her in a heartbeat. She thinks she is a very beautiful black and very smart. Go figure! I always gauge the women’s stupid voting block by words that come out of my sister-in-law mouth. It never fails to gauge how far these idiots will go…it’s the anyone but Trump mentality. You can talk to her until you are blue in the face and she’ll stick to her guns. She still thinks John F. Kennedy’s spirit is still alive and kicking in the Democrat party.


8 posted on 07/03/2024 11:06:28 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: SeekAndFind

bookmark


9 posted on 07/03/2024 11:10:21 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: 1Old Pro

What if it’s NOT dementia Joe running?
The dem fraud machine is large, and deep. It still scares me!


10 posted on 07/03/2024 11:10:51 AM PDT by bantam
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To: ComputerGuy

Water main breaks, oversized ballot printing, ballot rejuvenation vans,150%nursing home voting, hacked voting machines, mailboxes converted to ballot boxes, Chuckee Cheese receipts used for voter IDs


11 posted on 07/03/2024 11:11:41 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: 1Old Pro

“The dementia equation now prevents Biden from exceeding the margin of fraud.”

Expect the RATS to supercharge the fraud engine.


12 posted on 07/03/2024 11:12:36 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (A vote for Biden in 2024 is a vote for President Kamala Harris in 2025.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I Don’t understand people who DON’T understand that the election WAS tampered with in 2020 - and NOBODY did anything to correct it.

- Yet they believe that “..oh, they won’t do THAT again ‘cos we’re ONTO them!…”

Yeah, we were ONTO them last time too..

Anyone in any position to do something said nothing. The few who DID squawk about it got slapped down HARD - by the WHOLE DC cabal.

Now, apparently, it’s a federal crime to contest election counts - WHEN a democrat is named the winner..

Folks, NOTHING has changed. They were bold enough to cheat right before our eyes in 2020. They GOT AWAY WITH IT.
They don’t even need to hide it anymore.


13 posted on 07/03/2024 11:18:58 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: bigbob

I think the plan was also for the GOP to work with some grass roots groups, previously ignored by McDaniel. These groups are engaged in a massive voter registration drive aimed at creating voters to send mail in ballots to for early voting. The goal being to blunt the dems pre-election day, massive mail-in advantage.


14 posted on 07/03/2024 11:25:16 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: joethedrummer

They used to use just beer and cigarettes. Now they have much more sophisticated means of cheating


15 posted on 07/03/2024 11:25:24 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: SeekAndFind

Not so sure the democrats election machine can save them now they’ve done so much damage to the country on all levels the last 3 1/2 years.

National security the main issue now with Xi and Putin making moves Putin has a submarine in Cuba and giving the finger and Xi about to make his move for another country.

Add inflation to is it and it’s a dangerous mess for them.


16 posted on 07/03/2024 11:33:22 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t be shocked when the DNC produces 90 million or more votes this time around.


17 posted on 07/03/2024 11:39:52 AM PDT by damper99
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To: MinorityRepublican

I still think the June date was a just in case, hedge their bets move by the rats in case Traitor Joe screwed the pooch and that is what happened. I also think by agreeing to it Trump gave them the out. I know he said anytime but l think he had enough leverage to negotiate a later date as always happens. What surprises me is they don’t seem prepared for it.


18 posted on 07/03/2024 11:49:06 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

I still think the June date was a just in case, hedge their bets move by the rats in case Traitor Joe screwed the pooch and that is what happened. I also think by agreeing to it Trump gave them the out. I know he said anytime but l think he had enough leverage to negotiate a later date as always happens. What surprises me is they don’t seem prepared for it.


19 posted on 07/03/2024 11:49:07 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy
What surprises me is they don’t seem prepared for it.

Maybe they saw this as the worse case scenario. They were overconfident that Joe Biden was going to get by with his drugs.

It may be that he's getting worse, especially the past 6 months. So his drugs are no longer working like they used to

20 posted on 07/03/2024 11:54:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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