Election 2022 Issues

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Democrat Katie Hobbs Demanded Mohave County Certify Election Results for Her or Face 2 Years in Prison​

According to a bombshell new report by the Daily Caller, Democratic governor-elect of Arizona, Katie Hobbs’ top deputy sent a shocking threat to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors, demanding that they certify election results in her favor or else be met with prison time.

Arizona State Elections Director Kori Lorick sent multiple threatening letters, saying they would face lawsuits and prison if the election results were not certified.

“The Secretary of State did contact our County and cited A.R.S. Section 16-1010 as a statute that could be used to prosecute [the board] if they did not certify the election,” said Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith, the Mohave County Attorney .

The cited statute is a Class 6 felony that could result in two years in prison.

 

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Republicans Need To Enact A Purge If They Want To Win The Culture Wars​

After a Sarasota County school board flipped red in Florida, Superintendent Brennan Asplen was ousted for his support of mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brevard County Superintendent Mark Mullins also agreed with the school board to enter into separation negotiations.

Asplen predicted his own firing before it happened.

“I have a feeling I’m going to be fired after tonight because I just can’t hold this back,” Asplen said, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Florida school boards avoided a critical error. As conservative candidates swept school board races in the state, newly elected members ensured that the already entrenched liberal members didn’t hinder them from enacting the conservative agenda voters wanted.

 

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The Left is Using Lawfare Including Threats of Prosecution to Ignore Massive Voter Disenfranchisement​

We are living in an unprecedented era, where the left has now mastered voter disenfranchisement and suppression, largely by controlling the legal system where statutory violations and crimes normally would be stopped. Instead, the left comes up with excuses to explain away every anomaly, even though the statistical odds of all of them taking place — almost exclusively hurting Republicans — are unbelievable. Of the 70-plus vote centers in Maricopa County that were plagued by bizarre printing problems affecting people’s ability to vote, almost every one was located in an extremely Republican area, averaging more than 300 percent more Republicans than Democrats.

The reports that have come out regarding Arizonans unable to vote are lengthy, clearly not just a few people but hundreds and likely thousands. The Election Integrity Network published a long list compiled from merely 96 people as well as GOP observer attorneys, and what they witnessed was horrific. One voter, who could not find parking quickly due to the long lines, showed up barely after the polls closed and was not allowed to vote, with police escorting him off the property.

 

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Leaked Email Alleges Arizona Gov-Elect Katie Hobbs, Twitter Employees Colluded To Censor ‘Election Related Misinformation’​

According to an email on January 7, 2021, the communications director for Hobbs’ Secretary of State office emailed the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a 501 nonprofit cybersecurity organization, saying they are “flagging” an unidentified Twitter profile for review under the subject line titled “Election Related Misinformation.”

The email also included an unknown employee at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a branch under the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security.

A representative with CIS then forwarded the message to a Twitter employee, saying, “Please see this report below from the Arizona SOS office. Please let me know if you have any questions.”

The Twitter employee then sent another email saying, “Thank you … both tweets have been removed from the service.”

 

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The Missouri v. Biden case is the one about government attacks on free speech via social media controls. Filings in the lawsuit are turning up some interesting nuggets, like this obnoxious email exchange showing Arizona’s Katie Hobbs telling Twitter what posts to cancel:



This is an example of the direct line that Ms. Hobbs’ office had into Twitter. So, politically-connected Democrats didn’t just report a tweet for violation of the terms of service by clicking the button, like all us deplorables have do. Instead, these connected politicians had a special customer service contact at twitter, to “handle” their requests.

Below is what a “report” of violation of the terms of service looked like.



In other words, the tweets were critical of the government.

I dare you to try getting an email response from Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. Good luck. That kind of access is only available to liberal politicians, apparently. Well, not anymore at Twitter, since all those “content moderators” have been laid off. But presumably this is still standard operating procedure at the other social media giants.

Gross. Gross and unconstitutional.

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It wasn't just Democrat operatives from Biden campaign who were directing Twitter to censor posts unfavorable to Joe Biden's presidential prospects behind closed doors.

Arizona Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, whose job at the time was sitting secretary of state, also got in on the act.

Well, that's service with a smile. The Post Millennial doesn't mention the topic, but the tweets in question concerned claims by some obscure character with a low follower count that Arizona's electoral system was owned by foreign interests. Why that was so important at the time is something of a mystery, given the variety of claims out there, but it is known that Chinese involvement in electoral infrastructure did result in an arrest in California shortly after the New York Times reported that the claim was absurd. That Twitter jumped to the request to make the deletions without verifying whether Hobbs's office was telling the truth is questionable activity right there.

That stench from Arizona grows

It wasn't just Democrat operatives from Biden campaign who were directing Twitter to censor posts unfavorable to Joe Biden's presidential prospects behind closed doors. Arizona Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, whose ...

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REVEALED: Katie Hobbs' office contacted Twitter to censor posts​

On January 7 2021, the communications director for Hobbs' Secretary of State office emailed the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a 501 nonprofit cybersecurity organization that "makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation," according to their website.

"I'm flagging this Twitter account for your review," Hobbs' comms director wrote to misinformation@cisecurity.org, linking to an unidentified profile. The subject line was "Election Related Misinformation."

The "misinformation" department at CIS then forwarded the message along to an employee at Twitter, writing "Please see this report below from the Arizona SOS office. Please let me know if you have any questions."

"Thank you," Twitter wrote back. "We will escalate."

About seven hours later, a Twitter employee wrote again; "Thank you… both tweets have been removed from the service." Copied on this response was an employee at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a branch under the federal government's Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

 

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University stonewalling release of public records on federal censorship collusion: lawsuits​

It was founded "in consultation with" DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, according to EIP's after-action report on the 2020 election. EIP's launch webinar featured then-CISA Director Christopher Krebs, who formed a consultancy with SIO's Stamos after leaving government.

PPT targeted Starbird's communications because of her influence on government officials as a member of CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, and "media and popular interest" in her work at three-year-old CIP, whose avowed mission is "resisting strategic misinformation," the suits say.

She appeared on the public affairs program "The Open Mind" in April 2021, accusing Facebook of not meeting its "moral and ethical obligations" because it allowed "mis- and disinformation from a foreign power" in the 2016 election and a "domestic disinformation campaign" in 2020.

"[W]e have pretty good evidence that there's some relationship" between Facebook and the rise of "right-wing populism ... radicalization and authoritarianism in different kinds of places," Starbird said.

 

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Just a thought about bombshells.

If the bombs we sent over to Germany in WW2 had been like the political bombshells I read about we would all be speaking German now.

 

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Karl Rove Who Ran PAC Ads Supportive of Top Democrat Candidate and Held a Fundraiser for Adam Kinzinger Blames Trump for Midterm Losses​

Dirty RINO Karl Rove attacked President Donald Trump again this weekend and blamed him for Republican losses in the 2022 midterm elections.

What an awful person.

Rove’s PAC actually ran ads supporting radical Democrat Josh Shapiro in the 2022 midterm election.

How long will it take the Republican Party brass to admit that Democrats are not winning fair contests? Where is Karl Rove in Arizona? Is he blaming Trump for that? How many more elections must be lost to the America-hating left before GOP officials wake up? It makes you wonder if Karl Rove is in on it?

And Rove held a fundraiser in 2021 for Never-Trumper Adam Kinzinger who sat on the unconstitutional Jan. 6 Committee.

 

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Election integrity volunteers 'afraid' to attend recount after Michigan AG threatens prosecution​

he recount was triggered by the efforts of Election Integrity Force (EIF), a group that says it seeks "transparent and trusted" elections. The effort is unlikely to reverse the proposals, which were approved by comfortable margins.

Still, volunteer election challengers affiliated with EIF showed up to observe the recount, requesting access to look for errors or irregularities on ballots and ballot boxes. Daniel Hartman, an attorney in Michigan who's been working with EIF and closely monitoring the recount effort, said the recount is meant to "scrutinize" Michigan's election process more so than to overturn the proposals.

"There was a great turnout on Wednesday," he told Just the News. "This was a group of unpaid volunteers who appeared from all walks of life and peacefully assembled with short notice to participate in the recount process. They got involved because it was the right thing to do."

EIF released a statement Wednesday night claiming the first day of the recount revealed "evidence of ballot box tampering" without providing evidence. The group's executive director, Sandy Kiesel, echoed those allegations in a video message on Thursday.

 

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Stop Pretending Witness Testimony Doesn’t Qualify as ‘Evidence’ in GOP Voter Disenfranchisement Lawsuits​

The MSM secretly distributes talking points, which often come from the DNC, instructing its reporters to include statements in articles about voter disenfranchisement and suppression of Republicans declaring that there has never been any evidence of widespread voter fraud. If you’re not a lawyer, you might buy it. But if you know just the tiniest bit about the law, it’s frankly embarrassing to see non-lawyer journalists repeatedly writing this, pretending to be authoritative and objective.

First-year law students learn the federal rules of evidence, which have state versions. There are 68 rules of evidence under mostly five broad categories, and one of those categories is “testimonial evidence.” This usually is presented in the form of sworn witness statements and can come from eyewitnesses or experts. It’s admissible with a proper foundation. For an eyewitness, their “opinion is reasonably based on their perception,” and it’s “helpful in understanding the facts of the case or the witness's testimony.” For an expert witness, the foundation is the person “is classified as an expert witness who has specialized knowledge of the evidence presented at the trial.” So it’s easy to get admitted into evidence.

Detractors point out that witness testimony isn’t admissible if it’s hearsay, which is defined as someone discussing what someone else said. But there are several exceptions to this rule that allow the testimony to be admitted, such as if it’s an “admission against interest.” So if a Maricopa County Elections employee testifies about wrongful statements by another employee, since it’s a type of whistleblowing it’s considered an admission against interest.

 

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EXCLUSIVE: 'When we lay out our evidence we will win': Kari Lake's election fraud case WILL go to trial and Republican tells America to 'buckle up' as she fights to overturn Arizona result​

• Election Denier Kari Lake, 53, was the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona and has launched legal action to have her defeat overturned
• She told her followers on Monday night: 'Buckle up, this is far from over'
• 'I'm not going to stand down,' she told conservatives in Phoenix yesterday
• Lake says that election day problems with printers cost her victory last month

 

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Printer settings changed on Election Day, linked to tabulators rejecting ballots: Maricopa official​

Jarrett, who testified as a witness for the plaintiff on Wednesday and as a witness for the defendants on Thursday, admitted under direct examination by defense counsel that the county is conducting a root cause analysis of the Election Day issues. During this post-election analysis, the county found last month that one of the problems with ballot-on-demand printers was a "fit-to-paper" or "shrink-to-fit" setting adjusted on Election Day, Jarrett said.

Maricopa County has admitted that 70 of its 223 vote centers experienced ballot printer issues on Election Day, while Lake alleges in her lawsuit that about 132 of them did.

Under cross-examination by Lake's counsel, Jarrett explained that the setting was changed by a temporary technician at one of the vote centers who was trying to find a solution to the printer issues. The setting was adjusted on the tech's own initiative, not at the direction of the Maricopa County Elections Department, Jarrett testified.

As test prints were done for vote centers prior to Election Day, no shrink-to-fit printer setting issues were identified, Jarrett said. He he didn't know if all technicians were asked about the shrink-to-fit issue.

Jarrett testified that the printer settings were changed at only three vote centers, affecting nearly 1,300 ballots, and that no other Door 3 ballots in the county that weren't read by tabulators had that issue. He noted that ballots from one of those vote centers had been inspected on Tuesday by Lake's inspector, who was her cybersecurity expert during the trial, Clay Parikh.

 

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Maricopa County Attorney Argues That Voters Who Wait Until Election Day to Vote Then Encounter Problems Reap What They Sow​

During his closing argument, Liddy said:

But those errors, or those mishaps by machines, if you will, the effect that had on election day voters was compounded, Your Honor, not by intentional misconduct by any employee or anybody under the control of Maricopa County, but by months and months and months of communication from the current leadership of the Republican Party of Arizona and the communications specialists of the Kari Lake for Governor campaign that said, do not vote early. Even if…you got an early ballot, don’t mail it, don’t drop it off at the drop box, 2000 Mules…go on election day and vote in person.
And Lord forbid, don’t ever put your ballot in the drop box, in the ballot box, or in drawer number 3, because there’s something very scary about drawer number 3, which is nothing but a ballot box. That’s what people all over the world do with their ballots. Vote it and stick it in the ballot box. But people were terrorized by that on election day. That’s not on Maricopa County. That’s on the Kari Lake for Governor campaign. That’s on the Dr. Kelli Ward-led Arizona Republican Party communications apparatus.
So we did not see — two days of testimony and all of those affidavits came in — evidence of a botched election. We saw evidence of a botched campaign, political malpractice. Who goes out and tells their voters, don’t vote on day one of early voting, day two, day three, all the way up to day 26 of early voting. Wait until the last second. That’s political malpractice. You reap what you sow.
Your Honor, the burden has not been met. When people come into this courtroom without evidence, there should be a day of reckoning. And this has been happening all over the country, Your Honor, and it’s gotta stop, and it’s gotta stop right now, and the place to stop it is right here in your courtroom, Your Honor, right here in Mesa, Arizona. This has gotta stop.
We’ve gotta get back to respecting elections, because that’s all we have, Your Honor. Different religions, different creeds, different ethnicities, different backgrounds, there’s only one thing that makes us Americans, and that’s, we believe in choosing our own election — our own rulers, our own governors, our own mayors, our own presidents, and we do that through elections.

He’s got a slightly warped understanding of what makes us Americans, and an even more warped view of what we’re voting for when we cast our ballots, but we’ll set all that aside for a moment.

What exactly does counsel mean by “without evidence”? Simply because he doesn’t agree with the evidence doesn’t mean that there is no evidence. On Wednesday, we learned that a printer setting error caused 42.5 percent of 113 ballots examined by Lake’s team to be invalid, because they were 19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper. On Thursday we learned more about that issue; Scott Jarrett admitted “under oath [that the] ballot fit to print issue was known and is being investigated but Maricopa County never informed the public.”

 

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