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EARLY WARNINGS - How Democrats Game the Electoral System
With tax status abuse, control over election processes, and phony narratives, that's how.
501c3 Abuse Fuels Dem Voter Registration Drives
FrontPageMag
*Federal, state and local governments, leftist foundations and nonprofits are distributing a vast fortune in funds aimed at voter engagement and registration. The vast majority of that money is directed at enhancing Democrat voter turnout by targeting demographics, young people, immigrants, minorities, and single women who are statistically more likely to vote for their party. Formally, voter registration and outreach is considered nonpartisan if it doesn't endorse specific candidates, but the demographic targeting makes a mockery of the regulations and is aimed at boosting Democrat voter turnout in elections.
* Despite being an obvious Democrat voter turnout operation run by experienced Democrat campaign organizers, Civic Nation claims that it "is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the International Revenue Code." Donations to it are tax deductible. But if that's a charity, so is the Democrat Party.
*the law, embedded in IRS regulations, bars a foundation from "conducting or paying the expenses of conducting a voter registration drive limited to the geographic area covered by the campaign", but not a particular demographic group. However current IRS regulations state that C3s "are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign". It further warns that, "voter education or registration activities with evidence of bias" that would "have the effect of favoring a candidate or group of candidates, will constitute prohibited participation or intervention."
*The IRS has failed to enforce its own regulations.
If You Can't Beat'em, Censor'em
Just the News
*Private consortium that flagged 2020 election 'misinformation' defends its work with feds
*A private consortium that played a major role in censoring social media content during the 2020 election has acknowledged anew it collaborated closely with two federal Cabinet agencies and state and local election officials on the project, but said most of its requests to Big Tech came from its own research.
*The Election Integrity Partnership issued a lengthy statement Wednesday after a series of reports by Just the News on the breadth of its efforts to censor purported misinformation, which impacted nearly 22 million tweets, 4,800 URLs, 20 news organizations, several lawmakers and candidates and two dozen influencers, with a 35% success rate for content removal, labeling or "soft-blocking."
*It denied the consortium ever attempted to do fact-checks or "decide what is or isn't 'misinformation'" as opposed to identifying attempted election interference and delegitimization of results. The Hunter Biden laptop story, for example, is not "in scope" for its project.
*It also noted that CISA's Countering Foreign Influence Task Force "aided in the reporting process" for the consortium "and in implementing resilience efforts to counter election misinformation."
*Though its list of "repeat spreaders" of misinformation is all conservative influencers, including Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk, the consortium said it did not intend to target conservatives.
*Alluding to members of Congress who have threatened legislation and even litigation in response to the consortium's work, the consortium said, "Several of our leaders have testified repeatedly on these topics, and we would be happy to return to Congress to discuss our work."
Comment: Under the state actor legal theory, once social media platforms make themselves an arm of the government, they are no longer private companies that can do what they want. So, yes, this is censorship.
Fraud Creeps in on Little Cat Feet When Voters' Identities Are Not Verified
Epoch Times
*Wisconsin state Assemblywoman Janel Brandtjen, a Republican, worries that not enough has been done to prevent the upcoming midterm election from becoming a replay of 2020.
*"Going into the midterms, a person can still register, get a ballot, and vote before his or her identity and address are verified with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, as required by law," Brandtjen told The Epoch Times. "I saw this going on in the August primary. Nothing has changed since 2020. There is still no instantaneous identity check for the thousands of people utilizing Wisconsin's same-day registration law.
*The audit discovered that the identity and address information of more than 46,000 same-day voting registrants didn't match the information in the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) database.
*Brandtjen said some of these may be explainable by things such as spelling errors, but the sheer number discovered is cause for concern.
*"It also doesn't change the fact that the errors that were caught were found after the person voted," she said.
All the Democrats' Phony Narratives Condensed in One Place - Just Add Water
The Guardian
Election deniers, violent Republicans, threats to democracy - they're all here:
*In the first of a new series, we look at how November's midterm elections could be an inflection point as election deniers seek to take control of the vote counting process
*One by one, a band of activists took to the podium to argue that Nye county should switch from electronic ballots to paper ones in forthcoming elections. They were led by Jim Marchant, a Las Vegas businessman who lost a 2020 House race but refused to concede, alleging fraud. He argued that the county couldn't trust its electronic election equipment and that it should switch to a system in which it only used paper ballots and counted those ballots by hand.
*The movement threatens American elections from the top down and the bottom up at the same time. At the top, there is a push to install statewide officials who would have no reservations about making baseless claims of fraud and overturning an election result. From the bottom, it seeks to harass, threaten and ultimately remove non-partisan local election officials and make it harder for them to administer elections. If there is an overarching strategy to the movement – and it's not clear there is one – it seems to be to cause as much chaos, as much confusion, and as much uncertainty, as possible.
*A recent analysis by FiveThirtyEight estimated that 60% of Americans will have election deniers on the ballot in November.
*The threat posed by individuals prepared to throw out legitimate election results is especially pronounced in the handful of key battleground states that were decisive in 2020.
*At that point, the crisis would switch to Congress itself. Here too the stakes couldn't be higher in November.
*Should the Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, elevating Kevin McCarthy, an avid backer of Trump's stolen election lie, to the role of speaker, they would be in a strong position to accept the electors sent to Congress fraudulently by election deniers in the states.
*Potentially the only person left who could stave off democratic disaster would be Kamala Harris, the vice-president, who under the US constitution will preside over certification just as Mike Pence did in 2020. But should she attempt to block the Republicans from certifying Trump as president on the back of fraudulent state actions, she could trigger a confrontation between the executive branch in the form of the vice-president and the legislative branch in Congress.
Hand Counts Are No Darn Good (That's Why France Does Them)
NPR
*According to many conspiracy theorists, the 2020 election was stolen by an algorithm, therefore if you take computers out of the voting process you can further secure your election.
*Hand-counting ballots is a voting "solution" that, to those without familiarity with elections, may sound nice. The problem is that counting tactic has actually been found to be significantly less accurate, more expensive and more time-consuming than using tabulation equipment.
*Moving back toward hand-counting ballots would also significantly increase costs for local election offices that are perennially under-resourced, says Jennifer Morrell, an elections consultant and former local voting administrator.
*The staff size at almost every election office across the country would need to exponentially increase, and even then, hand-counting dozens of races on tens of millions of ballots would probably take weeks or months.
Comment: This article doesn't mention the facts ballots are hand-counted in France and final results only take a day. Gee, I wonder why. The article quotes Jennifer Morrell, who is not a credible source. She was seen partying with Dominion's Eric Coomer and Colorado Dems and election officials. She has ties to multiple left-wing groups. This publication warned about her a year ago.
Best Answer to 'Are You an Election Denier?'
Western Journal
*"Do you believe the 2020 election was free, fair and untainted, and Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States?" the moderator asked.
* "Sir, Joe Biden is the president of the United States," (Virginia GOP congressional candidate Hung) Cao responded. "If you don't believe me, go to your gas pumps, or go to your grocery stores, and that'll tell you who is."
-Chris Wright
--VEInet Facilitator
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