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2023-01-10 Government Corruption
Voting nonsense in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Colorado
Maybe this time they’ll finally fix it.
Colorado Won’t Name 31,000 Foreign Citizens It Sent Voter Registration Info, So Counties Have No Idea If They Voted

[Federalist] Colorado officials are still refusing to cooperate with local counties after the secretary of state’s office sent more than 31,000 foreign nationals postcards on how to register to vote in time for the 2022 midterms.

According to a newly released report by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the Colorado secretary of state’s office has refused to give county election officials the names of foreign nationals who received voter registration instructions in their counties back in October. According to documents obtained by PILF, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Beall refused to give the names of 54 foreign nationals who were mailed the voter registration postcards in Moffat County.

A front man for Beall told a Moffat County official there were "potential legal issues that need to be addressed before lists of erroneous recipients in each county can be shared" and that he did not have a timeline for when such issues would be resolved — "or if they can be at all."

Because the secretary of state’s office is refusing to cooperate with county officials, there is no way for them to check if such ineligible residents voted illegally in the 2022 midterms.

Republican AG Candidate, RNC File Motion for New Trial to Challenge Election

[EpochTimes] Republican Arizona candidate Abe Hamadeh filed a new motion with the Republican National Committee in Mohave County to again challenge the Nov. 8 election results in the attorney general’s race and claimed there is new evidence of voter disenfranchisements after hundreds of ballots were located in Pinal County.

Hamadeh, who was backed by President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and is an ally of GOP candidate Kari Lake, released a statement Wednesday saying they are filing the lawsuit "as a result of newly discovered evidence that voters were clearly disenfranchised."

A recount of Hamadeh’s race against now-Attorney General Kris Mayes shows that he lost by about 280 votes. But a 600-page motion for a new trial (pdf) filed this week asks a Mohave County judge to resurrect his lawsuit challenging the results.

"We simply ask that we be given the opportunity to apply the Pinal County process across the board to conduct a physical inspection and hand count of ballots that if the Pinal County issue repeats itself anywhere else in the state could be outcome determinative in this election," Hamadeh wrote on Twitter of the latest challenge.

The motion stated that "the vote count totals are likely inaccurate with thousands of Arizonans’ votes not counted, thus casting further doubt about the actual result." Information that was presented in the motion was not available during the trial last month, where the judge ultimately tossed his election challenge.

Following the statewide automatic recount, Mayes’ advantage over Hamadeh shrunk by about 230 votes—from more than 500 to about 280—over Hamadeh. Earlier this week, Mayes, a Democrat, was sworn-in as attorney general, replacing former GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich, during a ceremony in Phoenix.

"The statewide automatic recount was primarily conducted by machine. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
during the course of this recount at least one county, Pinal, was conducting a parallel audit of its own elections processes which discovered discrepancies significant in the context of this race," Hamadeh’s motion stated. It then cited the Pinal County election director as publicly saying that one factor underlying this disparity is that the canvass was filed prior to taking an adequate opportunity to investigate any possible anomalies we could discern from polling place returns.

"In other words, given more time, new evidence, and the physical inspection of ballots—the results changed," it argued. After a "partial" investigation into the matter, Hamadeh gained 277 votes, his lawyers further contended.

A judge had tossed Hamadeh’s previous lawsuit about two weeks ago. The suit had alleged errors in Maricopa County voting systems, which were announced by brass hats on Nov. 8, may have cost him the election.

Maricopa County Announces Investigation Into Election Printer Issues

[DailyWire] Arizona’s Maricopa County announced an investigation Friday into problems that plagued the 2022 election.

Former Arizona Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
Justice Ruth McGregor agreed to lead the "independent" endeavor, county officials said in a statement. McGregor was a member of the state Supreme Court from 1998 to 2009 and participated in a 2019 investigation into security issues at Arizona’s prisons.

McGregor will hire a team of "independent experts to find out why the printers that read ballots well in the August Primary had trouble reading some ballots while using the same settings in the November General," Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and Vice Chairman Clint Hickman said in their statement. "Our voters deserve nothing less."

After Maricopa County, which includes the capital of Phoenix and is Arizona’s most populous county, became an epicenter of voter integrity issues stemming from the 2020 presidential election, it again faced controversy in last year’s November 8 contest when tabulators in roughly 70 of 223 voting centers reportedly had trouble reading ballots. The problems were attributed to printers that failed to produce sufficiently dark "timing marks" to inform scanners of voter information, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

In response to a November request for information from Arizona’s then-Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Maricopa County said affected residents were offered alternative ways to vote and insisted the printer glitches did not prevent anyone from casting ballots. Still, some candidates have raised concerns.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sued after the results showed that she lost her November contest to then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) by roughly 17,000 votes. Lake claimed election officials worked to disenfranchise voters and alleged "hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County." A judge rejected the lawsuit, which included a claim of intentional misconduct related to malfunctioning ballot printers, but Lake is appealing.

Abe Hamadeh, the Republican in the race for Arizona attorney general who is also going to court to fight his November defeat, responded to the investigation news Friday, tweeting, "Maricopa County, Pinal County, what else? Democracy demands answers."

Hobbs and others who were declared the winners of their respective contests were sworn into office this week.

150,000 Votes In The 2020 Election Not Tied To A Valid Address In Wisconsin: Election Watchdog

[ZeroHedge] Election Watch (EW), a Wisconsin election integrity watchdog organization, has discovered that more than 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election cannot be connected with a valid address.

EW computer analyst Peter Bernegger said the group’s study of Wisconsin’s voter rolls found 45,000 such occurrences involving people who were living out of state in the Nov. 3 ballot, with another 107,000 documented instances on the part of voters who moved to another address within the state and cast a ballot in a different jurisdiction from the one in which they actually reside.

"That’s over 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election that cannot be tied to a valid address," said Bernegger. "That’s illegal in the state of Wisconsin.

"Though there may be a reasonable explanation for most of these, the number of instances is so large that if only two out of 10 were nefariously cast votes, that was enough to tip the election to Biden."

Former Wisconsin resident Jacob Alldredge, a 27-year-old industrial engineer living in Tennessee, is a case in point.

"I was outraged to learn that the Wisconsin state voter roll shows that I voted in person at the polls on Nov. 3, 2020, when the fact is I was living, registered to vote, and voted in Tennessee. I was not in Wisconsin that day," he told The Epoch Times.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 Until a national voting day and paper ballots are restored, it's all little more than the illusion of democracy, a Kabuki dance.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-10 06:18||   2023-01-10 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 If we had a legitimate national government, elections boards would be treated the same way police departments are for repeated violations of citizens' civil rights. They lose their 'independence' and have to operate strictly in accordance with judicial oversight for a period of time till they demonstrate they are functioning iaw the law.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-10 06:49||   2023-01-10 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 'If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.' Attributed to Mark Twain.
Posted by Cesare 2023-01-10 07:32||   2023-01-10 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The American public has been deemed incapable of making the 'correct' decisions and has therefore been absolved of that responsibility.
Posted by Angstrom 2023-01-10 10:31||   2023-01-10 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Used to be those were Battleships instead of DOT money laundering schemes.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-10 11:30||   2023-01-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I think we will probably need to string up some local election officials before the higher ups even take notice.
Posted by ruprecht 2023-01-10 12:49||   2023-01-10 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 not 'we' but 'someone'. not advocating.
Posted by ruprecht 2023-01-10 12:50||   2023-01-10 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank you
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-10 13:00||   2023-01-10 13:00|| Front Page Top

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