Election 2022 Issues

[GURPS]

Prominent pollster says time for America to mandate all ballots be counted on Election Day​

Such a new mandate would make it nearly impossible to have a system like ranked-choice voting, which is how Alaska conducts its elections. Ranked-choice voting is "an alternative voting system that allows voters to rank multiple candidates on a ballot in order of preference." As a result of this system, Alaskans won't find out results of their midterm for a few weeks.

"I think that system, in theory sounds fine, but voters are really uncomfortable with it," Rasmussen explained.

"Alaska is five hours behind us or whatever, but not not three weeks," he said. "I think this is something we're going to have to address. through the political process. For example, when you lose the Super Bowl, you lose. You don't keep stretching it out for a few more games. That's what has happened in the country today. If you're talking about reforms that really have strong support, they are things like photo ID and getting the ballots in by Election Day."

 

[GURPS]

Cyber attack, voting machine malfunctions, ballots mark problems at the polls​

Acyberattack in an Illinois county slowed the voting process on Tuesday, as numerous incidents of problems at the polls have occurred across the country during the midterm elections.

Computer servers in Champaign County, Ill., were impacted by the cyberattack, but the county clerk said that no data was compromised.

ABC7 said that state officials told the outlet that the issue was with a vendor.

"The Champaign County Clerk's Office is aware of connectivity issues and computer server performance being impacted," the clerk's office posted on its Facebook page. "The Clerk's Office believes these are due to cyber-attacks on the network and servers."

 

[herb749]

Sununu said, “There was clearly no red wave. I’m not going to predict what comes out of President Biden’s mouth because I don’t think anybody, even he, can predict that at times. But clearly, America stood up and said, look, inflation is important, but we don’t think the Republicans that wanted to go to Washington are the short-term fix for that right now. More than anything, America said we know we have to fix policy, but we’re going to fix extremism first. That’s the message I took. Not that Republicans were successful, but by and large, the most extreme republicans got voted out.”

NH Gov. Sununu: Voters Rejected Trump, GOP Extremism

Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Wednesday on FNC's "Your World" that there was no red wave because voters feared former President Donald Trump and the candidates he endorsed were extremists. | Clips

www.breitbart.com

Progressives can't be extremeists .?

 

[GURPS]

What's wrong with our election system?

No more election machines! Get rid of them. They're insecure. They're dangerous. They don't deliver reliable results under the best of circumstances. What's wrong with paper ballots? No more "ranked choice" gimmicks to help people like the corrupt Lisa Murkowski of Alaska remain as perpetual incumbents. Make certain only U.S. citizens vote. And, we ought to outlaw routine mail-in ballots other than absentees. Period.

There's still a lot of doubt about where we are in this week's election.

We don't know exactly what the numbers will be in the U.S. House, though the Republicans won control. Nancy Pelosi will lose her grip on the speaker's gavel and likely turn it over to Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

'Another election run by clowns' leaves us in limbo – again * WorldNetDaily * by Joseph Farah

Joseph Farah agrees with Tucker about Americans' justified, ongoing mistrust

www.wnd.com

 

[my-thyme]

Even my 13 yr old granddaughter is spouting the "they want to ban all abortions" point.

When I explained that most don't want to ban, just want to place a cut off, she was floored. When I pointed out her beautiful, perfect 14 yr old cousin was born at 25 weeks gestation, her eyes got big.

At that point, she agreed that maybe women should be making their minds up before that baby is fully formed, and just spending time growing. And we talked about a woman and hèr doc making the decision to remove a misformed baby after that point.

It was amazing how quickly she rearranged her thoughts after she had more info.

And where the hell did a 13 yr old get her partial info from? I should have asked her, but I assumed it was from her mother, and my face is unable to mask my reactions to that. I didn't want to start a hurtful argument.

 

[GURPS]

And where the hell did a 13 yr old get her partial info from?

Peers, Teachers ... the internet


My daughter is 17, a senior at an all girls school in PG County, you may or may not be amazed at some of the nonsense she hears from her classmates and the school .... a Catholic School, with a very woke agenda ... but then most of the staff and student body is African American

 

[SamSpade]

And where the hell did a 13 yr old get her partial info from?

Some of it is teachers, but a lot of it is friends. They believe their friends at school who hear it from their parents.

As people here know, my son is mentally disabled - but he can often be heard repeating things about politicians he has no idea who they are or what they have done or what they have said. He doesn't read it online and he doesn't listen to or watch news. He gets it from teachers and classmates.

 

[GURPS]

How Ticket Splitting Played a Role in the 2022 Elections​

2022 Elections, Elections, Ticket Splitting, 2022 Georgia Gubernatorial Election, 2022 Georgia Senate Election, 2022 Pennsylvania Senate Election

AllSides Summary​

Ticket-splitting played a key role in the 2022 elections, particularly in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

For Context: In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is projected to win by a nearly 10-point margin, but the Senate race there is too close to call, and a run-off is expected between Herschel Walker (R) and Raphael Warnock (D) since neither has received the 50% margin required. In Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro (D) is projected to easily win the governor's race against Doug Mastriano (R), while John Fetterman (D) is projected to beat Mehmet Oz (R) by a much slimmer margin. Ticket-splitting is the act of voting for separate candidates from different parties. It was predicted that ticket splitting could play a role this year, and when final results are in, voters in as many as nine states may have chosen to elect a Republican governor and Democratic senator (or vice versa).

Key Quotes: "In a way, ticket splitters represent some – I don’t know if ‘rationality’ is the right word. We want elections to respond to shifts in voter opinion, and split ticket voters, for better or worse, are [examples of] that," says David Kimball, a University of Missouri political scientist and co-author of the book, "Why Americans Split Their Tickets."

How the Media Covered It: Sources from across the political spectrum covered the impact of ticket splitting on the 2022 elections, with many speculating about whether the practice would be more beneficial for Republicans or Democrats.

 

[SamSpade]

I'll say this much -

Years ago, I had a friend at work who was a Democrat who registered as Republican. For one reason - to cast a vote in the Republican primary for the weakest candidate.

I don't understand WHY AT ALL there are "open primaries".Parties are parties for a reason. If I start a new party, I don't want Democrats and Republicans casting votes in MY party to nominate the office coffee maker. The whole purpose of a party is to nominate someone who represents THE PARTY. Not the district, not the state, not the country. The party. The general ELECTION is for choosing who represents the district, the state, the nation.

We shouldn't have open primaries. I can't think of one good argument FOR them. Honestly, I think they should nominate their own people without any input from an election.

 

[SamSpade]

What's wrong with our election system?

It's a disgrace that any election system should take a week to determine the winner. Not in arguably the most technologically advanced nation on Earth.

 

[Kyle]

It's a disgrace that any election system should take a week to determine the winner. Not in arguably the most technologically advanced nation on Earth.

It doesnt' take them a week to count.

It takes a week to carefully blend in the fake votes needed to tip the election.

 

[Kinnakeet]

It doesnt' take them a week to count.

It takes a week to carefully blend in the fake votes needed to tip the election.

Truth and nothing will ever change my mind

 

[Hijinx]

The answer to the election problem is Got To The Polls.
Stop this mail-in ballot bullshit.
Only the sick and military should get a mail-in ballot.

Stop early voting. Vote at the polls on election day and count the ballots that day.

It worked well for 200- years. It can work well again.

 

[PJay]

 

[GURPS]

Who funded Dems' super-PACs? A crypto-fraud, apparently​

Shockingly the news breaks right after the midterm elections: the 2nd largest Democrat mega donor after George Soros turns out to be a total fraud.

Call me cynical, but does it surprise anyone that the news hits just after all that money was spent on campaign ads, and not a day or two before? Do you think voters might like to know that $40 million of the money spent to influence their choices was stolen?

Sam Bankman-Fried–a billionaire of whom I never heard before today– donated more than $40 million to Democrat candidates and super-PACs, including providing the initial funding for the Protect Our Future PAC. He was the second largest donor to the 2020 Biden campaign, pouring over $10 million into Biden-related campaign organizations.

Crypto megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried helped bankroll Democrats’ overperformance in the midterms. But any friends he may have had in Washington won’t be there for him as his crumbling business empire threatens to torpedo the entire digital currency market.
Bankman-Fried’s Washington influence — as well as billions of dollars of his personal wealth — nearly vanished in the span of 48 hours, after it emerged that the giant crypto exchange he founded was insolvent and unable to meet customer withdrawals.

His billions–he was worth up to $26 billion at the peak of his wealth–was built on a pack of lies. He created a cryptocurrency of his own, while also handling other cryptocurrencies for his clients. He then, apparently, took the money of his clients and used it himself, substituting his fake crypto as an “asset” backing the more legitimate currencies. It was a fraud.

He essentially created an asset out of thin air, took legitimate assets for himself, and called it a day. Except, of course, he used a ton of that ill-gotten gain to bankroll Democrats and lobby for regulations that would benefit his business.

 

[GURPS]

Voter suppression is back!​

The utter shamelessness of the Democrats is a wonder to behold. They will literally say anything to frighten their voters and slander Republicans–and their media allies will give them a megaphone to do so.

Stacey Abrams built a political career based upon this sort of lie, being declared the legitimate Governor of Virginia by nearly every establishment Democrat in the country. The Left slandered Brian Kemp, and it took a complete humiliation to make Abrams concede this time around, albeit with some grumbling still about voter suppression and the misinforming of Black men by the massive propaganda machine that Black men are known to listen to.


It is extremely difficult to remain charitably inclined in such an environment. I expect Democrats to be liars and generally retain my equanimity when they spew hateful nonsense. Or at least I pretend to.

But as for the “news” media–it is hard not to actively despise them. They pretend to be anything but what they are: liars and propagandists. We grew up trained to expect politicians to be such, but we also were taught that the news reporters would report without “fear or favor.”

 

[GURPS]

The Arizona Voting Machines Disaster in Maricopa County is Even Worse Than We Thought

The Washington Post was quick to dismiss any criticism of the dysfunctional voting machines on Election Day as triggering ‘unfounded fraud claims.’

“Problems with vote-counting machines at some polling locations in Maricopa County, home to more than 60 percent of Arizona’s voters, became grist for prominent right-wing voices who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election to claim without evidence that Tuesday’s vote was also fraudulent,” WaPo complained.

“At about a quarter of the county’s 223 voting locations, vote-counting machines were unable to read some of the ballots that are printed on-demand for voters, county officials said,” the report added. “Technicians traveled around the county Tuesday changing the printer settings. In the meantime, election officials advised voters to either wait for tabulators to come back online, go to another voting location or to drop ballots in secure slots so they could be counted at the end of the day or in the coming days at the county’s tabulation center in downtown Phoenix, said Megan Gilbertson, spokesperson for the county’s election department.”

“County officials stressed that no one was being prevented from voting and that no one’s ballot had been mishandled,” the report went on. “They have said for weeks that ballot counting could take as many as 12 days.”

Perfectly normal according to the “democracy dies in darkness” publication, even though Florida counted 99% of its votes within a day, despite stringent election integrity safeguards.

The New York Times also defended the election day breakdowns in Maricopa County and blamed ‘right wing’ commentators for criticizing it.

“A series of technical glitches disrupted ballot counting on Tuesday at about one in four voting centers in Republican-led Maricopa County, Ariz., rekindling embers of baseless voter fraud claims in the right-wing media and politicians,” the Times reported.

 

[GURPS]

Controlled Opposition: the problem is McConnell and McCarthy, not Trump or DeSantis​

America’s progressive, authoritarian shift has only accelerated under the stewardship of GOP institutional forces, represented today by the likes of Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, both of whom may soon be anointed as the leaders of their respective chambers. These GOP frontmen and their facilitators are not merely weak, feckless politicians, they’re much worse than that.

Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are bought and paid for assets for a variety of interests, none of which represent protecting the individual freedoms of Americans. In exchange for the highest seats of power, these two men sold themselves out to the highest bidders many moons ago.

Yes, there are indeed some legislators (think: House Freedom Caucus, liberty-oriented senators, etc) within the Republican Party who truly act as bulwarks to the tyrannical statists in Washington. However, the people who are actually in charge of the GOP remain committed Uniparty assets.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the roommate of disgraced opioid huckster Frank Luntz, is said to be a major frontrunner to become the next Speaker of the House.

McCarthy, who has never held a real job, has spent his entire post-college life in politics. In other words, he has been working his entire life to accumulate power. The California congressman spent decades ingratiating himself with institutional power centers, helping to facilitate his rise through the ranks of congressional power. He has accomplished this by getting in the good graces of the powerful institutions that run Washington, D.C.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Jim Jordan for Speaker!
But then again, he's too smart to take it.

 

[stgislander]

Jim Jordan for Speaker!
But then again, he's too smart to take it.

Although I like the idea, I think Jordan is more important as a Committee Chairman where he can mercilessly grill those idiots that appear before him.