Election 2020 Fallout

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Mystery Swirls Over Batch of Thousands of 2020 Voter Registration Forms in Michigan​

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Two weeks before the 2020 election, a woman dropped off more than 10,000 voter registration forms with a city clerk in Muskegon, Michigan.

The number of forms was a red flag for the city clerk, Ann Meisch. Less than 4,000 of the city's voting-age residents weren't registered to vote.

Ms. Meisch called the police, triggering an investigation by the Michigan State Police. An Oct. 26, 2020, police report from that probe recently surfaced after Michigan state lawmakers obtained it through a Freedom of Information request.

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An article by a nationally known fact-checking service disputed recent conservative media accounts of the Muskegon episode.

“While the total number of voter registration forms submitted by that person may add up to as much as 12,500, very few of them were deemed to be fraudulent," the fact checker said.

“Page 3 of the MSP [Michigan State Police] report says Meisch ‘turned over 42 suspected fraudulent applications to Officer Foster [of the Muskegon Police Deptartment] for examination.’”

The fact checker didn't state that the 42 applications were a sampling.

Checking the Fact-checkers​

However, the numbers tell a different story and raise a question: If there were only 42 suspected fraudulent voter registration applications submitted to the city clerk, why didn't she register the rest of the batch?

In 2020, the population of the City of Muskegon was 38,309, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Of these, 29,800 people were of voting age.

Ms. Meisch told The Epoch Times in an August 10 email that in 2019, there were 25,957 registered voters in the city. In 2020, the number of people registered to vote increased by 2,077 to 28,034.

That means the pool of voting-age people not registered to vote that Ms. Hawkins had to work with was only 3,843.

Ms. Hawkins dropped off more than 10,000 voter registration forms in incremental batches, suggesting that thousands of the forms never made it onto the city's registered voter roll.

"Even a casual observer can readily see that something is wrong. The numbers do not add up. The number of registration forms turned in by one person represents a third of the population of the city," Mr. O'Halloran told The Epoch Times.

 

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Maybe This Latest Blatant Ballot Box Stuffing Scandal Will Be the Last Straw​

In Oct. of 2022, I reported on mind-boggling allegations of illegal ballot harvesting in Florida’s Orlando metro area:

[Florida’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS)]’s investigation was launched after Cynthia Harris, a former candidate for Orange County Commissioner, filed a sworn affidavit with the Florida Secretary of State’s office. In her affidavit, Harris described a long-standing, systemic ballot-harvesting operation in the Orlando area’s African-American communities. On Wednesday night, Harris appeared on Just the News, No Noise to discuss the electoral exploitation of black communities that she says has been going on for years.

Harris (who is also black) not only swore out an affidavit, but she had previously recorded and reported ballot harvesters in her neighborhood and retained their materials to show to law enforcement. The matter went to the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for a criminal investigation. I check in with their public information officers regularly to see what progress has been made. But a year after they took the case, the FDLE still has no comment because — you guessed it — the matter remains under investigation. Meanwhile, the contentious 2022 election came and went, and we are less than two months out from Election Day 2023, with no enforcement action against the Orlando ballot harvesting machine.

Now a new video is making waves in Connecticut, and once again, I’m hoping that this is finally the last straw that forces an actual enforcement action.

Bridgeport, Conn., is a run-down, post-industrial town on the coast of Long Island Sound. Like most cities, it has beautiful historical neighborhoods and some noteworthy cultural venues but has long been captured by Democrats and suffers from corruption. The current mayor, Joe Ganim, has been in office since 1991. A felon, Ganim went on a seven-year hiatus beginning in 2003 to serve time in a federal correctional institution after being convicted of a slew of corruption charges. But in December 2015, he was sworn back into the mayor’s office.

 

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FBI refuses to release documents in probe into possible nationwide voter registration fraud​

According to the dozens of pages of police reports from the Muskegon Police Department and Michigan State Police, a firm called GBI Strategies was under scrutiny as an organization central to alleged voter registration fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The matter was initially investigated by city and state authorities before the FBI took over.

Contacts between local law enforcement and the FBI continued into 2022 but there is no evidence of what happened after that in the memos obtained by Just the News through requests made under Michigan's own Freedom of Information Act.

Last week, the FBI denied a Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts request from Just the News regarding records from the investigation into GBI Strategies.

The request sought “copies of all reports, documents, and records about GBI Strategies, including all communication and correspondence regarding investigations of GBI Strategies with Michigan government officials, city and state law enforcement agencies in Michigan, and all other state government officials and law enforcement agencies involved in investigations of GBI Strategies.”

The FBI’s response partially reads: “The material you requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure.”

The FBI cited 5 U.S. Code § 552(b)(7)(A) for exempting disclosure of the records, specifically, "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information … could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."

 

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BREAKING—GAME CHANGER! 11 HERO Lawmakers Sue MI SOS Jocelyn Benson and MI Director of Elections In Federal Court For Violating US and MI Constitution To Change Election Laws​

The lawsuit claims the 2018 and 2022 state constitutional amendments regulating the times, places, and manner of federal elections are legally null and void.

The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 4 (the Elections Clause), requires the state legislature to regulate the times, places, and manner of federal elections. However, Michigan’s constitutional amendments (Proposal 3 of 2018 and Proposal 2 of 2022) bypassed the state legislature and, in doing so, usurped the legislature’s federally mandated constitutional authority.

These state constitutional amendments included provisions that allow voters to sign affidavits instead of presenting valid identification when voting in person or applying for an absentee ballot; nine days of early voting; private funding of election administration; no-excuse absentee voting procedures; same-day voter registrations; state-funded absentee ballot drop boxes, and independent redistricting commissions. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, names as defendants Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Jonathan Brater, Director of the Bureau of Elections.

 

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Some C&C’ers asked me to weigh in on the latest developments in the Michigan Alternative Electors case. On Wednesday, the Detroit News ran a weird story headlined “Michigan AG's office got search warrant to examine false electors' defense fundraising.” You may recall that Michigan’s woke, Soros-funded Attorney General Dana Nessel previously indicted 16 Republicans who had volunteered to serve as alternate 2020 electors. They were charged with eight criminal counts related to “forgery” and “election fraud.”

After review, my formal opinion is the case is a slow-motion train wreck.



Attorney General Dana is not the brightest legal mind in the LCD bulb pack. Last week, at an event with liberal activists, Dana jokingly complained she couldn’t “flip” any of the defendants against each other because they all still think they were right, and said the defendants have been “brainwashed” by President Trump.

Not having wreaked enough havoc with those reckless remarks, she then laughingly bragged that the cases will be tried by juries from a “very Democratic-leaning county,” not only suggesting it would be impossible for the defendants to get fair trials, but also confirming the cases are politically-driven.

Two defendants promptly filed motions to dismiss, since all eight of the crimes they are charged with require proof of criminal intent — and Dana, the state’s top prosecutor, just literally said the defendants all believed they did nothing wrong and were “brainwashed,” which also means they didn’t think they did anything wrong. Ergo, no criminal intent.

This week the judge partially denied both motions to dismiss, but left open possible reconsideration after the evidence develops.

AG Nessel was in the news again this week with more low-IQ legal maneuvering after her office subpoenaed the GiveSendGo records of anyone who’d donated to a fundraiser for the 16 electors’ legal defense. It’s not exactly clear what Dana thinks she is up to this time. There’s nothing illegal about donating to someone’s criminal defense — the crime has already occurred, so there’s no way to “aid and abet” anything. While there are some awful Patriot Act crimes on the books related to financing domestic terrorism, none of the electors were charged with domestic terrorism, and those crimes are federal laws anyway.

Finally, the investigation into the donations smells a lot like a First Amendment violation, and if it goes much further, lawsuits will surely be filed against Dana’s office.

Even though the two motions to dismiss were denied, Dana’s loose lips may still have torpedoed her own case. The SS Witch Hunt may not have sunk yet, but several legal rivets have now burst out of their steely seams and freezing cold water is gushing through the empty rivet holes. Dana just publicly admitted — at a political rally — that she has evidence of non-intent.

Dana just gave the defendants a giant stick with which to bash her for the rest of the case.

This kind of thing happens more than you’d think. When it does happen, I call it a “self inflicted injury.” It’s when your opponent does something so dumb that it’s like a neatly-wrapped legal gift box. Thank you!

During their trial, for example, the defendants could call Dana to the stand to testify about what she said. They also now have good grounds to take her deposition — a rare opportunity for criminal defendants. They now have grounds to appeal any guilty verdict, especially if the judge refuses to allow the evidence of what Dana said into the trial. And Dana’s arrogant comments about the democrat-leaning jury pool supplied the defendants with a slew of new legal weapons.

Keep talking, Dana!

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It took an FBI investigation, a three-week trial, and lots of taxpayer dollars, but the government finally got what it wanted this week: A Florida man is heading to federal prison for disseminating trollish memes during the 2016 election season that prosecutors alleged "deprive[d] people of their constitutional right to vote."

In the months leading up to Election Day, Douglass Mackey, an erstwhile far-right social media influencer, posted a series of photos on his Twitter profile—which had about 58,000 followers under the name "Ricky Vaughn"—encouraging Hillary Clinton–supporters to cast their votes by phone. That obviously didn't go so well for the people who fell for it. But however you feel about Mackey's obnoxious brand of politics and feeble attempt at comedy, the case became about a lot more than him, raising questions about protected speech, overcriminalization, and a politicized Department of Justice.

To prosecute Mackey, the government leveraged a law from 1870, a century and change before Twitter trolling would become a sport. That legislation was passed to deter the Ku Klux Klan from trying to prevent black people from voting, as they were known to do. According to the indictment, the DOJ alleged Mackey conspired to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States, to wit: the right to vote."

It seems fairly clear that Mackey did not "threaten" or "intimidate" social media users. Whether he "injure[d]" or "oppresse[d]" them is perhaps more nebulous, but it is certainly not what lawmakers intended to address with the Enforcement Act when it was passed 153 years ago. The most notorious image Mackey posted was that of a black woman standing in front of an "African Americans for Hillary" sign, with the caption "Avoid the line. Vote from Home" and "Text 'Hillary' to 59925." At least 4,900 people texted that number, according to the DOJ. That's not nothing, but it can also be stated with a fair degree of conviction that his stupid scheme had no material impact on former President Donald Trump ultimately clinching office.

He's going to prison for Twitter trolling. That's not justice.

Douglass Mackey's case raised questions about free speech, overcriminalization, and a politicized judiciary.

reason.com

 

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The most notorious image Mackey posted was that of a black woman standing in front of an "African Americans for Hillary" sign, with the caption "Avoid the line. Vote from Home" and "Text 'Hillary' to 59925." At least 4,900 people texted that number, according to the DOJ. That's not nothing, but it can also be stated with a fair degree of conviction that his stupid scheme had no material impact on former President Donald Trump ultimately clinching office.

It did illustrate how STUPID Democrats are.

 

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It seems fairly clear that Mackey did not "threaten" or "intimidate" social media users. Whether he "injure[d]" or "oppresse[d]" them is perhaps more nebulous, but it is certainly not what lawmakers intended to address with the Enforcement Act when it was passed 153 years ago. The most notorious image Mackey posted was that of a black woman standing in front of an "African Americans for Hillary" sign, with the caption "Avoid the line. Vote from Home" and "Text 'Hillary' to 59925." At least 4,900 people texted that number, according to the DOJ. That's not nothing, but it can also be stated with a fair degree of conviction that his stupid scheme had no material impact on former President Donald Trump ultimately clinching office.

For what seems like YEARS, there's been an email/Internet meme going around telling people that the election will be held on TWO days - one party (on the actual election day) and the other party (the next day). I've seen them go each way -

No one ever gets punished for that, because it is fairly well assumed that it is a JOKE and that only colossally STUPID people will fall for it. It is a JOKE. You're supposed to think it is funny.

In walk the colossallly STUPID and their lawyers.

The irony of the original joke is that Democrats have learned they can EASILY vote after an election is over.

 

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It did illustrate how STUPID Democrats are.

What's even scarier is how large a percentage that might be of the Hillary voters who ACTUALLY SAW IT.

 

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And yet not one person has gone to jail for the Russian hoax.

I guess thats the difference between being a powerful politician and just an internet joker.

 

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Amazon's Alexa: The 2020 Election Was Stolen​

Even Amazon is in on the story for those who feel there was funny business during the 2020 election. When asked, ‘Alexa’ essentially said that the 2020 election was stolen. It triggered The Washington Post earlier this month, whose article framed this incident as a potential new battle in the information age amid the push to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence. It’s something the Left supports, viewing it as a vehicle to erase the working class, specifically the rural white working class. Now, there are questions because this device went off script about the 2020 election (via WaPo):

[…] Jacob Glick, who served as investigative counsel on the Jan. 6 committee, called Alexa’s assertions nearly three years after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol “alarming.”

“If major corporations are helping to give life to the ‘big lie’ years after the fact, they’re enabling the animating narrative of American domestic extremism to endure,” said Glick, who now serves as a policy counsel at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. “They should be doing everything they can to stop the ‘big lie’ in its tracks, lest we see history repeat itself.”

Oh no, Amazon has gone total J6, right, liberal America? We have a war going on between Israel and Hamas that could devolve into a regional war, as Hezbollah and Iran, who are the same, vow all-out war if the IDF enters Gaza, which they did this afternoon. The economy remains fragile, and most Americans don’t have the time to dwell on these non-issues of the Left. It’s couched as a national interest story concerning misinformation, though Trump is threaded into the piece, with worries that these mishaps could sway voters next year if they're inundated with information the lefty press doesn't like. The establishment media is afraid that their propaganda won’t resonate as well.

I’m not even talking about the 2020 election. Anything these people find disagreeable is misinformation. They must control their narratives at all costs. You already see how insane they get when they lose it. This story is funny. Anytime there’s a threat to the liberal order, they treat it like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

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Georgia’s Ruby Freeman Saying She Doesn’t Want to Talk with “WHITE GUYS”​

Ruby Freeman, who was one of the individuals who stuck around on Election Night 2020 in Fulton County Georgia’s State Farm Arena and shoved ballots through machines multiple times was caught on video in a racist rant complaining about “white guys.”

Harrison Floyd, the former director Black Voices for Trump, was one of the indicted Trump supporters in Fulton County, Georgia in late August. Floyd and 19 others including President Trump were charged with RICO violations in the Trump et al case, charges usually reserved for violent crimes and criminal enterprises.

Harrison Floyd is a Marine Corps veteran and was the only one indicted who was denied bail and remanded to the Fulton County prison.

On Monday Harrison released video of Ruby Freeman saying she doesn’t want to talk to “white guys.”

It appears Ruby may be a racist?

 

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FEC complaint alleges coordinated disinformation campaign from Biden's 2020 run​

An alleged campaign finance violation could ensnare Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 51 former senior intelligence officials who asserted without evidence in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. 

America First Legal, a conservative organization run by former Donald Trump White House aide Stephen Miller, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in late October, alleging a "coordinated communication" and an unreported in-kind contribution to the Joe Biden presidential campaign and related entities, in violation of federal law.

"[The] evidence suggests that the respondents failed to disclose coordinated expenditures constituting in-kind donations with respect to the infamous ‘Letter of 51’ former intelligence officials claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story had ‘all the classic earmarks’ of Russian disinformation," says the 13-page AFL complaint, with 110 accompanying pages of evidence.  

 

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The Errors, The Lie, and The Cover-Up in Georgia’s 2020 Election — Part I​

As a result of Rossi’s work, the Georgia State Elections Board (SEB) initiated an investigation into the Fulton County data from the RLA report. This investigation was labeled SEB2021-181. Eventually the SEB identified violations and errors in the recounts of the 2020 Election in Fulton County.

** Our next article in this series will show that the SOS’s office lied about the accuracy of the recounts in Georgia.

** Our third article will show that with their backs to the wall post-Governor Kemp’s validation letter from November 17, 2020 – the SOS’s office, the AG’s office, and the Georgia SEB worked and continue to work to this day to exonerate the SOS of any responsibility for these numerous errors and violations.

And, by the way, there is an open inquiry before the Georgia SEB (SEBBI2023-001), regarding Election Code Violations committed by the SOS.

[Remember that the 2020 results were certified for Biden three days after the election. This was after he overcame President Trump’s 200,000 vote lead on election night to steal the election by less than 12,000 votes in Georgia. – See The Steal – Volume II: The Impossible Occurs for more information.

 

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Here’s how it came up. At one point in the discussion, they were discussing the COVID vaccines and the pandemic, and Stone argued that Biden was being authoritarian with his vaccine mandates.

“That's one form of it,” Maher replied. "I would say the form that Trump is threatening us with is even worse."

“Which is what?” Stone asked.

"Well, I mean, he doesn’t concede elections, you know, the elections only count if we win theory of government. Come on, you know, Trump has he still has not conceded the election. He has not conceded. He does not honor that,” Maher explained.

Now, it’s convenient that Maher didn’t acknowledge that Hillary Clinton still claims, falsely, that the 2016 election was stolen from her, but I digress. Stone’s reply to Maher took the conversation to a whole new level.

"I mean, do you know for a fact that he lost?” Stone asked. "I'm just curious."

Maher was clearly flabbergasted. Stone was being genuine with his question, and conceded not knowing all the facts, but Maher was quick to dismiss Stone.

“Is there a conspiracy theory you don't believe?” Maher asked him.

Oliver Stone: 'Do You Know for a Fact' That Trump Lost?

pjmedia.com

 

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The FBI Report on the Late Night Ballot Fraud Operation in Georgia in 2020 EXONERATES RUDY GIULIANI and Implicates Chris Wray​

According to the FBI-GBI report, the “bulk of the investigation appears to have been conducted in December 2020 and January 2021, but both the State Election Board and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office was backed up reviewing claims.”

Again, the report was just released in June by Chris Wray’s FBI and the GBI in Georgia – along with Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger. It appears that there was no new information in the report other than what was known in December 2020, so it begs the question – Why did it take three years for Chris Wray’s FBI to release the report?

Several election officials went back to the State Farm Arena and they began counting ballots late at night without observers present. According to the Georgia Republican Party at the time, this was unlawful activity.

Tweets from GA GOP Chair David Shafter following the 2020 presidential election and irregularities at the State Farm Center in Georgia.
Joe Hoft, who is a contributor at The Gateway Pundit, first released video at the time exposing election workers at the State Farm Center on Election night shoving stacks of ballots through the machines several times.

In one instance, the stack of ballots was fed through one machine three times by operator Ruby Freeman, and that same stack of ballots was then fed through another machine by-election worker Ralph Jones. The same stack of ballots went through the machines at least four times!

Here again, is video of the election workers pulling hidden ballots out from under a draped table, jamming the ballots through the machines multiple times.

** It should be noted that this was not just happening at one table but at multiple tables.


[ surveillance video at the link ]


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As we reported in our headline, the FBI-GBI report exonerates Rudy Giuliani — AND — it implicates FBI Director Chris Wray.

The “Investigative Findings” or conclusion of the FBI, GBI, and GA SOS report omits the most important accusations!

The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the election workers, Ruby Freeman, Shae Moss, Ralph Jones, and others, were shoving stacks of ballots through the machines numerous times. There is a video of Ruby taking a stack of ballots and shoving the ballots through the machines three times. There is a video of Ralph shoving that same stack of ballots through his machine.

After a three-year investigation — Chris Wray and the FBI DO NOT EVEN MENTION THIS in their Investigative findings.

Page 9 of the FBI report

Page 10 of the FBI report



They don’t even mention this!

They wanted us all to miss this part!

But The Gateway Pundit caught them.

Here is the full FBI, GBI, and GA SOS report:

[ Report at the link ]

 

[Kyle]

The FBI Report on the Late Night Ballot Fraud Operation in Georgia in 2020 EXONERATES RUDY GIULIANI and Implicates Chris Wray​

And it matters not one tick anymore.

 

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The FBI Report on the Late Night Ballot Fraud Operation in Georgia in 2020 EXONERATES RUDY GIULIANI and Implicates Chris Wray​

According to the FBI-GBI report, the “bulk of the investigation appears to have been conducted in December 2020 and January 2021, but both the State Election Board and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office was backed up reviewing claims.”

Again, the report was just released in June by Chris Wray’s FBI and the GBI in Georgia – along with Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger. It appears that there was no new information in the report other than what was known in December 2020, so it begs the question – Why did it take three years for Chris Wray’s FBI to release the report?

Several election officials went back to the State Farm Arena and they began counting ballots late at night without observers present. According to the Georgia Republican Party at the time, this was unlawful activity.

Tweets from GA GOP Chair David Shafter following the 2020 presidential election and irregularities at the State Farm Center in Georgia.
Joe Hoft, who is a contributor at The Gateway Pundit, first released video at the time exposing election workers at the State Farm Center on Election night shoving stacks of ballots through the machines several times.

In one instance, the stack of ballots was fed through one machine three times by operator Ruby Freeman, and that same stack of ballots was then fed through another machine by-election worker Ralph Jones. The same stack of ballots went through the machines at least four times!

Here again, is video of the election workers pulling hidden ballots out from under a draped table, jamming the ballots through the machines multiple times.

** It should be noted that this was not just happening at one table but at multiple tables.


[ surveillance video at the link ]


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As we reported in our headline, the FBI-GBI report exonerates Rudy Giuliani — AND — it implicates FBI Director Chris Wray.

The “Investigative Findings” or conclusion of the FBI, GBI, and GA SOS report omits the most important accusations!

The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the election workers, Ruby Freeman, Shae Moss, Ralph Jones, and others, were shoving stacks of ballots through the machines numerous times. There is a video of Ruby taking a stack of ballots and shoving the ballots through the machines three times. There is a video of Ralph shoving that same stack of ballots through his machine.

After a three-year investigation — Chris Wray and the FBI DO NOT EVEN MENTION THIS in their Investigative findings.

Page 9 of the FBI report

Page 10 of the FBI report



They don’t even mention this!

They wanted us all to miss this part!

But The Gateway Pundit caught them.

Here is the full FBI, GBI, and GA SOS report:

[ Report at the link ]

Sorry, homeboy. This doesn’t mean what your handlers tell you it means.

 

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Elected Democratic Official Fined For Voting Twice In 2020 Election​

An elected Democratic official in Washington, D.C., has been fined by the District of Columbia Board of Elections for voting twice in 2020.

Vanessa Rubio, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in D.C., voted in the District of Columbia and Maryland during the 2020 presidential election, according to NBC 4 Washington reporter Mark Segraves. She reportedly told the Board of Elections that since DC is not a state, she believed voting twice would be acceptable.

The Board of Elections found that an individual named Vanessa Rubio voted in person in Maryland on Nov. 1, 2020, and then in DC on Nov. 3, according to a photograph of the memorandum opinion and order posted by Segraves.

 

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True the Vote Wins Federal Election Lawsuit in Georgia​

The conservative vote-monitoring organization True the Vote’s challenges to Georgia voters’ eligibility didn’t amount to voter intimidation in the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled on Jan. 2.

U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones, in a 145-page ruling that was issued a little less than two months after the end of a civil trial, found that the defendants didn’t violate the Voting Rights Act.

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Fair Fight Inc., a group formed by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, sued on behalf of several plaintiffs. The two groups battled it out for seven days, ending in early November 2023 in a nonjury trial in Jones’s courtroom in Gainesville, Georgia.

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“Having heard the evidence presented and the arguments made by the Parties, the Court maintains its prior concerns about the manner Defendants utilized (Georgia law) to challenge individual voters. The Court, however, ultimately concludes that, as a legal matter, Plaintiffs have not carried their burden to show a violation of Section 11(b) (of the Voting Rights Act.) Accordingly, the Court enters judgment in favor (of) Defendants.

“There is no evidence that Defendants attempted to make any of the voters in this case feel timid or fearful, or that they experienced any actual reasonable intimidation,” the judge wrote in his opinion.

True the Vote’s advertising, podcasts, and press releases about the challenges, he wrote, weren’t intimidating in the way that direct calls to their telephone numbers would be.