Election rigging at home and abroad

Very funny article from Ann Coulter, reposted from the Occidental Observer. The hsyterical homosexuals who sneer at anyone who suggests that elections might be rigged are welcome to find any inaccuracies in this article.

L.A.’s 4 Seasons: Fires, Riots, Meth and Election Theft​


The preposterous spectacle of the recent mayoral runoff election in Los Angeles may be a blessing in disguise—and not just for Republican candidate Spencer Pratt, who can now move his family to Miami. As the entire country saw, Pratt walloped the Indian progressive lady the night of the election, then watched as his lead vanished during a week of ballot “counting.”


The switcheroo was surprising not only because the progressive lady, City Council member Nithya Raman, supports encampments of homeless drug addicts next to grammar schools (unless her kids are forced to gaze upon them) but also because the late-arriving ballots gave Pratt three new votes while delivering about 100,000 new votes for her.


Allegedly, Pratt finished “third.” Voters will now have to choose between a communist in Mayor Karen Bass, and an admitted socialist in “second place finisher” Raman (a smug imbecile who makes New York mayor Zorhan Mamdani look like Winston Churchill).


Liberals have gone from saying You can’t prove we cheated to writing ponderous think pieces in The New York Times boasting about the genius of progressive leadership in our cities. Apparently, releasing criminals and decriminalizing crime has been wildly successful on all counts — homicide rates (“declining”), homelessness (“down”) and drug overdoses (“fallen pretty remarkably”). That’s why, the ponderous think piece by David Wallace-Wells continues, cities are not “shifting right, as many expected, but left.”


Yes, it was simply the power of liberal ideas that won the day.


Liberals accuse right-wingers of lacking every basic human characteristic, but do they really think we lack a prefrontal cortex?


Of course the Los Angeles election was stolen, openly, audaciously, without an ounce of shame. Raman could not be identified by 10 out of 10 Los Angelinos. Couldn’t liberals stop insulting our intelligence and stick to Hahaha, we stole the election and there’s nothing you can do about it?


People make the mistake of assuming the fraud happens only inside a vote-counting room. It does not. It happens within the Alice in Wonderland election scheme that the California Legislature, under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s heavy whip hand, put into place, not just this time but for all time.


These are the same people who say JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is a billionaire and Da’Quan Alvarado is in the backseat of a police cruiser not because of poor life choices, hard work or raw talent, but because of some invisible and inarticulable “rules” that are stacked against Da’Quan.


The “rules” for California elections are written law. You can look them up. And they don’t merely allow fraud, but guarantee it, on a massive scale.


To ensure that Democrats always win, the scheme implements a laundry list of corrupt practices, designed to benefit the left, such as promiscuously mailing ballots to everybody—every single registered voter, whether requested or not—including people who died or left the state years ago. Ballots are like democracy bearer bonds, pieces of paper that can be cashed by anyone holding them. In California, they simply float around the landscape waiting to be filled out by God knows who.


The U.S. Constitution prescribes a single “day” for elections, but instead of Election Day, California has Election Season, giving activists a month to collect ballots, fill them out and submit them.


To make absolutely clear that this is allowed, even encouraged, the law states that ballots can be legally harvested and submitted by people who are not the voters themselves. Signature checks are nonexistent.


Thus, by the time ballots get to the counting room, the counting itself may be impeccable, but the fraud is already baked in.


Inasmuch as mail-in ballots can be counted as soon as they are received, and ballots continue to be accepted a full week after “Election Day”—to use that quaint misnomer—Democrats can just wait until they see their vote shortfall and then make up the deficit, much as Saddam Hussein might.


In theory, ballots have to be postmarked by election day. But — surprise — the Democrats have a fix for that too. If there’s no postmark, the counters are allowed to look at the voters’ own dating of their signatures. (What could be better evidence?)


These multiple invitations to fraud could not be more perfectly designed to benefit the left if Karl Marx had written them. They await only an army of campaign workers who are unethical, pushy, and self-righteous, and who have a lot of free time on their hands. Say, Democratic Socialists of America (average age: pre-activation of the brain’s decision-making and impulse control center), SEIU workers, unionized teachers, “homeless advocates,” and the thousands of other “activists” “working” for “non-profits.”


(Four sets of scare quotes might seem excessive, but are necessary to remind you that all these people are paid by you, the taxpayer, and electing Democrats will ensure that you pay them even more.)


Republicans have things called “jobs.” They expect to spend no more than an hour or two voting. For liberals, voting is their job. Hard-to-follow election rules are the golden ticket for people who have weeks to devote to every election.


A persistent complaint about Trump is that he is violating the “norms” of whatever behavior liberals are defining as the linchpin of “democracy” that particular day. The AP no longer has a front-row seat in the White House Press Briefing Room? THE NORMS OF OUR DEMOCRACY HAVE BEEN SHATTERED!


How about the norm of citizens expecting elections to be fair without dedicating their lives to cheating better than the next guy? Liberals are worried about Trump violating “norms” by serving McDonald’s to championship teams visiting the White House, but they think nothing of fiddling with something as marginally important as elections.


Despite the obscenity of Mayor Bass getting away with jetting off to Ghana for a party at the height of wildfire season, after having left reservoirs and fire hydrants dry, leading to the complete destruction of the Pacific Palisades, the fleecing of Spencer Pratt may be beneficial to our cause.


Had he been elected mayor, he would have been largely stymied his entire term. But now, the way the Democrats cheated Pratt can be used in every Republican campaign ad for the next 300 years, reminding people that Democrats are liars and thugs who truly don’t care about democracy.
 
Keep an eye out on the Makersfield by-election in England if you want to see election rigging in action.

Andy Burnham has been named as not taking much action against the Paki rape gangs locally. If he does get elected, it will be suspicious, IMHO. We all know how low IQ our Anglo-Saxon cousins and neighbours are, but are they really that stupid?

Andrew Brigden is a member of Restore Britain and he claims that there was election rigging when he lost his Conservative seat in the last election. He gives some detail on how they did it. He suggested that the Restore paty should put their own seals on the ballot boxes before they are moved from the polling stations.

Good idea.
 
Yes we should keep an eye there, tomorrow could be interesting that way...
 
Paki rape gang enthusiast Andy Burnham 25k
Reform15.5k
Restore 3k
Conservatives 1k

Turnout 59%

So, 40% of registered voters did not bother to vote at all. They had all the establishment parties to choose from, a Labour party anti-Starmer candidate and two anti immigration candidates. A very wide choice, but they followed Roc's lead and could not be bothered to even spoil their vote. Are 40% of the electorate aging half Hebrew homosexuals? Seems unlikely.

By far the biggest party was the: "I'm all right Jack. No skin off my nose. I can't be bothered."

I invite @Roc to give us some insight into the mind of the noble non-voter.

It is possible that UK electoral register is even worse than Ireland's, with our ten percent fake voters registered, but 40%???

It is also difficult to believe that a clear majority of voters wanted Burnham elected, despite his poor record on Paki rape gangs.

A model of UK election rigging: Print extra ballot papers, fill them in, add them to the ballot boxes before they arrive at the count centre. The count itself can be completely open, honest and transparent - the fraud is already baked in.

It would only involve a couple of hundred people - election staff, police, journalists, politicians. They would be well rewarded for their complicity and they would know there would be no point exposing it to election staff, police, journalists or politicians - as they are also involved in the rig.

The Paki rape gangs were allowed operate for years because of a much greater number of people bribed or threatened into silence. Encouraging a few hundred people in Makersfield to keep quiet is a much smaller job.

Andrew Brigden reckons that is what happened when he lost his seat at the last election.

MSM plays it's part by ignoring any irregularities and distracting attention towards dear old Andy's plans to challenge Two Tier Keir.

On the other hand, great news from the EU parliament: big vote in favour of mass deportations. MSM journaliars here have barely mentioned it, for whatever reason.

Enough is enough. The foreigners have abused our ethnic Irish good nature and our Christian charity for long enough.

Deport them all: Let God sort them out.

They can go home, to Hell or to England. If the vote wasn't rigged, it shows that our Anglo neighbours welcome unlimited foreigners.
 
A word on elections in California. And I did not follow it. But 3 people were running and the top two go to a run off. That lad had no chance because it was dem, rep, dem. So if he came second Bass was sure to be reelected. But if it is two dems in the run off, Bass might be beaten.

I will check when the run off is.
 
Paki rape gang enthusiast Andy Burnham 25k
Reform15.5k
Restore 3k
Conservatives 1k

Turnout 59%

So, 40% of registered voters did not bother to vote at all. They had all the establishment parties to choose from, a Labour party anti-Starmer candidate and two anti immigration candidates. A very wide choice, but they followed Roc's lead and could not be bothered to even spoil their vote. Are 40% of the electorate aging half Hebrew homosexuals? Seems unlikely.

By far the biggest party was the: "I'm all right Jack. No skin off my nose. I can't be bothered."

I invite @Roc to give us some insight into the mind of the noble non-voter.

It is possible that UK electoral register is even worse than Ireland's, with our ten percent fake voters registered, but 40%???

It is also difficult to believe that a clear majority of voters wanted Burnham elected, despite his poor record on Paki rape gangs.

A model of UK election rigging: Print extra ballot papers, fill them in, add them to the ballot boxes before they arrive at the count centre. The count itself can be completely open, honest and transparent - the fraud is already baked in.

It would only involve a couple of hundred people - election staff, police, journalists, politicians. They would be well rewarded for their complicity and they would know there would be no point exposing it to election staff, police, journalists or politicians - as they are also involved in the rig.

The Paki rape gangs were allowed operate for years because of a much greater number of people bribed or threatened into silence. Encouraging a few hundred people in Makersfield to keep quiet is a much smaller job.

Andrew Brigden reckons that is what happened when he lost his seat at the last election.

MSM plays it's part by ignoring any irregularities and distracting attention towards dear old Andy's plans to challenge Two Tier Keir.

On the other hand, great news from the EU parliament: big vote in favour of mass deportations. MSM journaliars here have barely mentioned it, for whatever reason.

Enough is enough. The foreigners have abused our ethnic Irish good nature and our Christian charity for long enough.

Deport them all: Let God sort them out.

They can go home, to Hell or to England. If the vote wasn't rigged, it shows that our Anglo neighbours welcome unlimited foreigners.
whats the difference
a voter who doesn't bother to turn up for the farce or outraged conspiracy theorist who believes that the system is rigged beyond all hope. Either way the result is the same.
 
I'm surprised Rupert Lowe didn't raise suspicions. 40% couldn't be bothered to even vote. That is a lot of not-botherers.

It would be interesting to interview actual Burham voters and actual vote abstainers and ask them why?

The rig could be done very smoothly if they didn't want to boast about it.
 
whats the difference
a voter who doesn't bother to turn up for the farce or outraged conspiracy theorist who believes that the system is rigged beyond all hope. Either way the result is the same.
Exactly.

Even if the election is rigged, here's why it makes sense to vote:

If the extra 40% had turned out. that would make it very unusual. A long time since 100% of voters turned up.

If they truned out, they could also act as observers, making it much less likely for it to be rigged.

The system wants us grumpy and not bothering. let us be cheerful and make the effort.
 
I invite @Roc to give us some insight into the mind of the noble non-voter.
I see the root of our problems as "unearned income".

This element underlies the whole system, but when has a vote ever had an impact on that element?

The answer is never. This is by design.

Briefly, finance, real estate, effective monopolies operated on government created "rights", privatised utilities, all generate something called "economic rent".

This is a spurious wealth that is not generated by real, actual productive labour. (thereby, unearned income)

I include in the above normal people benefiting from their house price rising for instance. Or people employed in the above industries, or other business that makes money through them, who also live on revenues derived from this "economic rent" stream. And of course it is also a significant element of tax revenue streams that many other groups also live off.

Basically the generation of it depends on an increasing supply of new people prepared to come in at the bottom and participate in it, somewhat like a ponzi scheme - whether our own young people or outside foreign people.

I refuse to participate in it. And going along to a voting booth certainly comprises one important element of participation in it.

You can never upturn this core "system" element by voting, because so many people depend on it, well over half the population.
 
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This IGNORE function is superb!!! Na tabhair aird ar bith air. Filleann an feall ag an feallaire, ma tuigeann tu leat me....
 
Exactly.

Even if the election is rigged, here's why it makes sense to vote:

If the extra 40% had turned out. that would make it very unusual. A long time since 100% of voters turned up.

If they truned out, they could also act as observers, making it much less likely for it to be rigged.

The system wants us grumpy and not bothering. let us be cheerful and make the effort.
a large turnout would just make the result more believably close. like a 58/62 split and the rigging even less noticeable. Participating in the system would then suggest that Nationalists organised parties etc and sink energy in a system that they would ultimately not be allowed to win in. Have we not seen this from efforts across Europe? How long have Sinn Fein been following this electoral strategy and are as far way from being in government as ever. Any of the settlement deals for Republicans in Ireland followed sustained physical force campaigns. What have they got from playing in the system? Right wing parties in Europe have been knocking the door of power for over a decade now, and despite this, Lawfare and even open violence against them has prevented them from actually taking any power.
 
More detail on California from Victor Davis Hanson . American Greatness. reposted from sott.net

California Governor Gavin Newsom looks the other way
California shows what happens when one party gains total control: soaring costs, shrinking opportunity, and a government that no longer serves its citizens.

By any measure, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment.

Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation.

Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states.

Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, insurance, and electricity prices? The highest in the continental U.S.

Illegal aliens, the poor, the homeless, the foreign-born, and welfare recipients? The largest numbers in the U.S.

Public K-12 schools? Test scores in the bottom quartile.

Poverty? Twenty percent live below the poverty line.

So, what happened to the nation's most richly naturally endowed — and once best governed — state?

The Left took total control
after millions of the embattled middle class fled.

Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world.

The result was a neo-feudal society that was hardly democratic.

Millions of subsidized poor compose the bottom. A beleaguered middle continues to shrink. An ultra-rich apparat of left-wing coastal professionals and investors rules from the top.

As upper-bracket taxpayers fled, taxes rose on those who remained to fund expanding entitlements for newly arrived poor would-be residents. In turn, even more of the middle class left.

The remaining pyramidal economic structure ensured a Democratic monopoly — further entrenched by changing balloting laws, gerrymandering voting districts, vote harvesting, fueling public employee unions, and ignoring or undermining popular referenda.

In 2014, Californians voted for Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water bond designed to solve the state's chronic water storage deficit.

Included was $2.7 billion specifically designated for new reservoirs, as the last major reservoir had been built in 1980, when California had roughly half its current population.

Despite the people's vote, bureaucracies, elected officials, and green activists blocked all new reservoir construction.

Adding insult to injury, Governor Gavin Newsom instead used $250 million from the Proposition 1 fund to blow up four dams on the Klamath River. They had once provided storage, electrical generation, recreation, and flood control.

Californians have twice voted in referenda (for Proposition 209 and against Proposition 16) to bar the use of racial preferences for contracting, admissions, and promotion in public institutions.

Most public universities simply ignored the law. They continued their "diversity" quotas under new names, relying on left-wing elected officials and judges to ignore again the will of the people.

Preferential admissions, along with racially segregated dorms and graduation ceremonies, continued under euphemisms and denials. "Theme" houses, "affinity" graduations, and "safe spaces" practice "affirmative" discrimination.

California voters in 2008 passed Proposition 11 to stop political gerrymandering by creating a supposedly nonpartisan state redistricting commission of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four Independents. Two years later, the commission took over redrawing congressional districts as well.

But Democratic lobbyists and lawyers sabotaged the goal of disinterested redistricting according to population and geography. Instead, racial preferences and the interests of the Democratic majority of incumbents prevailed to warp the intent of the voters.

Although Republicans usually achieved nearly 40 percent of the California vote in national elections, two decades later there were only seven Republicans in the 52-person congressional delegation, or a mere 13 percent of the state's representatives.

But even that tiny contingent was considered too generous by the Left. Thus, in 2026, it will likely be further redistricted down to four or five seats.

The balloting mess in the recent Los Angeles mayoral race further reminds the nation and the world just how dysfunctional and anti-democratic California has become.

Democrats warp elections without the need for the old Chicago way of outright ballot theft or destruction. Instead, they do so in a "legal" manner by passing insane laws that ensure fraud and Democratic victories.

The winners in the strange jungle primaries — usually both Democrats — were not announced until a week after the polls closed. One of the eventual winners in mayoral race, the socialist Nithya Raman, had already given her teary concession speech after coming in well back at third on election night.

The Republican Spencer Pratt was comfortably ahead of her in second place on Election Day — only to lose, as expected, when large numbers of late ballots that broke roughly 90 percent Democratic were counted.

Remember, every registered voter is sent a mail-in ballot. If it is postmarked on election day, it can arrive at vote centers up to seven days after the election.

No one really knows whether the ballots are mailed to the dead, to former or nonexistent addresses, or to legally eligible voters — by design. In 2024, when losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris won the state by 20 points, only 0.09 percent of all ballots cast were rejected.

Anyone can register and receive a provisional ballot on the same day.

Ballot harvesting and ballot curing are legal.

Campaign operatives can round up voters, gather their ballots, and deliver them en masse to a voting center.

They can register anyone to vote, provide a ballot, and then deposit it immediately afterwards.

There is no requirement to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to get a driver's license. Yet a license is not even needed to register. Any credit card without a picture suffices.

And it gets worse still.

If the potential voter has
no license, no Social Security number, no proof of U.S. citizenship, and no credit cards, he still will be registered — once harvesters provide him with a "unique identifier" number.

He can then vote that very day without any ID at all.

If, in California, you claim you are illiterate and cannot write your name — no problem.

You simply make a mark — anything from an X to a happy face. No one asks whether an illiterate can read the names on the ballot.

Then your handler serves as a "witness" and signs his name. Such witnesses are almost always vote harvesters, and they can sign as many ballots as they wish.

If all that doesn't work, ballot "curers" can be called in help remedy rejected partisan ballots post facto.

Democrats now rely on the system to ensure supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature, no statewide Republican officeholders, a tiny vestigial Republican congressional contingent, and almost exclusively Democratic-appointed liberal judges.

The more Democrats control the state, the more socialist, anti-democratic — and autocratic — California becomes.

Their gift to the nation is a third-world failed state, now in danger of societal collapse.

Fires rage — given ideologically driven prohibitions on brush and forest management, cuts in fire departments, and sheer bureaucratic incompetence.

Multibillion-dollar boondoggle rail projects rust.

Billions of welfare dollars are stolen with impunity. Illegal aliens who cannot speak or read English are given passes to obtain commercial trucking licenses — as if California's critical road signs are written in some language other than English.

A quarter of residents can't pay their sky-high power bills on time — and correctly assume that the state and the utility companies will mostly foot their delinquent bills.

Since 2020, over 100,000 criminals have been released early from state prisons — and most have little fear that their present and future crimes will earn them another prison sentence.

Half the state's births are paid for through state-supplied welfare coverage.

And now the homeless without addresses or IDs can determine elections.

In sum, import poverty; romanticize illegal immigration; demonize the middle class; drive out private-sector capital; and exempt elites from the consequences of their own ideology — and you're left with a state where democracy dies, along with everything else.
 
REPOST fro Euro Conservative. Surprised that anti-immigration parties didn't get more votes. doesn't mention possible vote rigging or the 40% no shows. but it does say that polls showed much more anti-migrant votes.

Were the polls wrong or was the election rigged?

Various commenters saying the results show white Britsh people are so stupid that they are voting for their own replacement. I find it hard to believe that half of Makersfield voted for Andy Burnham and more darkies. :perhaps it is true, but it seems farcical.

Interesting that this thread has much lower clicks than the baby killing thread. Makes sense, bad and all as election rigging is, killing babies is a lot worse.

But unless we can stop them rigging votes, we can't stop them killing babies.

START:

The result of yesterday’s Makerfield by-election is a bitter blow to the British Right. Andy Burnham’s decisive victory for Labour with 55% of the vote, beating Reform UK’s Rob Kenyon by 20 points, was much bigger than expected.
It was always going to be an unusual contest: Burnham was not simply defending a Labour seat but running as a potential challenger to the increasingly unpopular prime minister, Keir Starmer, in a future leadership contest. This may have boosted his vote, but the 20-point margin will shock Reform UK, who had previously briefed that internal polling showed them just five points behind.
The constituency also sits in an area where Reform had performed strongly in recent local elections and where Labour strategists privately feared they could be vulnerable. The seat’s overwhelmingly white, working-class demographic should also have favoured the party.
Instead, Burham’s supporters are now saying that the margin of his victory is “proof of concept” that the Labour Party under his leadership could still defeat Reform in former industrial heartlands.
Reform UK’s defenders argue, with some justification, that a second-place finish at 35% would once have been regarded as a major achievement. Matt Goodwin noted that the party is now so strong that increasing its vote and finishing second is treated as a poor result.
But the problem is not the raw vote share. The problem is perception. Reform has spent much of the past year presenting itself as a government-in-waiting. A party with those ambitions cannot be satisfied with respectable defeats forever.
The result will inevitably strengthen claims that Reform’s rise may be slowing and that it has yet to demonstrate an ability to translate national polling support into decisive victories.
The result is also disappointing for Restore Britain. It did manage to finish in third place, with 3,111 votes and a 7% vote share, and thus kept its deposit—a respectable result for a minor party. However, it was still a long way behind Reform UK, falling well short of the breakthrough many of its supporters had boasted of.
The outcome also undermines claims that Restore Britain poses a major challenge to Reform by splitting the right-wing vote. Even if every Restore voter had backed Reform, Labour would still have won comfortably.
Instead, the result suggests that Restore still has much work to do to translate its largely online support into real votes.

Nick Hallett:
 
I'm not alleging that any of the following members of the Election Commission are directly involved in the blatant vote switcheroo. I am just suggesting that they deal with complaints of election rigging in a grossly unprofessional and criminally negligent way.

Do they realise that they are being paid to be the fall guys? If the election rigging is ever exposed, they will be crucified for it. It will be no use to them to blame the politicians or the judges.

Any extra info on these bozos welcome.


Management Team​


The current management team of the Electoral Commission consists of:
Art O’Leary was appointed Chief Executive Officer by Cabinet decision on 30 May 2023. He was previously Secretary General to the President, Secretary to a number of Citizens’ Assemblies and worked in the Houses of the Oireachtas for 20 years.
Karen Kehily, Head of Corporate Governance, is a qualified accountant (ACMA) and has held a number of corporate services, governance and financial management positions in both the public and private sectors.
Mary Clare O’Sullivan, Head of Electoral Integrity and Research, has worked on policy across a range of areas in the Department of the Taoiseach and served as Secretary to the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality. She has a PhD in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin.
Sean Garvey, Head of Supervision and Enforcement, has worked in a variety of roles in the civil service including as Secretary to the Referendum Commission, Secretary to the Commission for Public Service Appointments, Head of Function in the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner and as a Senior Investigator in the Office of the Ombudsman.
Diane Duggan, Head of Legal, has worked as a practising barrister in Public Law with a particular focus on Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Children’s Law and access to justice issues, representing both the State and individuals. She served as a Chairperson of Mental Health Tribunals, co-ordinated the Bar of Ireland’s pro bono scheme and along with her legal qualifications holds a degree in psychology and a Masters in Social Innovation.
Kieran Lenihan, Head of Electoral Operations and Education, has several years’ experience in operational and educational roles in the public, private and voluntary sector. Most recently, he has worked in the Houses of the Oireachtas for over 10 years.
 
REPOST fro Euro Conservative. Surprised that anti-immigration parties didn't get more votes. doesn't mention possible vote rigging or the 40% no shows. but it does say that polls showed much more anti-migrant votes.

Were the polls wrong or was the election rigged?

Various commenters saying the results show white Britsh people are so stupid that they are voting for their own replacement. I find it hard to believe that half of Makersfield voted for Andy Burnham and more darkies. :perhaps it is true, but it seems farcical.

Interesting that this thread has much lower clicks than the baby killing thread. Makes sense, bad and all as election rigging is, killing babies is a lot worse.

But unless we can stop them rigging votes, we can't stop them killing babies.

START:

The result of yesterday’s Makerfield by-election is a bitter blow to the British Right. Andy Burnham’s decisive victory for Labour with 55% of the vote, beating Reform UK’s Rob Kenyon by 20 points, was much bigger than expected.
It was always going to be an unusual contest: Burnham was not simply defending a Labour seat but running as a potential challenger to the increasingly unpopular prime minister, Keir Starmer, in a future leadership contest. This may have boosted his vote, but the 20-point margin will shock Reform UK, who had previously briefed that internal polling showed them just five points behind.
The constituency also sits in an area where Reform had performed strongly in recent local elections and where Labour strategists privately feared they could be vulnerable. The seat’s overwhelmingly white, working-class demographic should also have favoured the party.
Instead, Burham’s supporters are now saying that the margin of his victory is “proof of concept” that the Labour Party under his leadership could still defeat Reform in former industrial heartlands.
Reform UK’s defenders argue, with some justification, that a second-place finish at 35% would once have been regarded as a major achievement. Matt Goodwin noted that the party is now so strong that increasing its vote and finishing second is treated as a poor result.
But the problem is not the raw vote share. The problem is perception. Reform has spent much of the past year presenting itself as a government-in-waiting. A party with those ambitions cannot be satisfied with respectable defeats forever.
The result will inevitably strengthen claims that Reform’s rise may be slowing and that it has yet to demonstrate an ability to translate national polling support into decisive victories.
The result is also disappointing for Restore Britain. It did manage to finish in third place, with 3,111 votes and a 7% vote share, and thus kept its deposit—a respectable result for a minor party. However, it was still a long way behind Reform UK, falling well short of the breakthrough many of its supporters had boasted of.
The outcome also undermines claims that Restore Britain poses a major challenge to Reform by splitting the right-wing vote. Even if every Restore voter had backed Reform, Labour would still have won comfortably.
Instead, the result suggests that Restore still has much work to do to translate its largely online support into real votes.

Nick Hallett:
Your accusations of rigging are abit like pissing in the wind. You can prove none of it. You can suggest, allude and speculate to your heart's content. You may even be right and probably are. You do lack people on the inside that can actually give the evidence of it, then whats the point? Unless you spend years and years trying to infiltrate solid people into positions where they are going to whistleblow.

You also had the 2020 election in the US that appeared to be solidly rigged. Whatever came of that? Trump suggested it, but ultimately the courts backed up the system and those that persisted were either Lawfared into jail and minor repeaters were laughed at as conspiracy nutters. And that was with the with the weight of Republican House Senate and President after the next election. What do we hope to do in Ireland when not even one Nationalist TD can get a foot in the door?

The more people believe the system is rigged, the more natural tendency is to not bother participating in the farce at all. A MP/government with a less than 50% of the electorate mandate is more damaging that an MP elected on 51% of the vote in a rigged election in which 100% of electorate voted.

Participating in their system is giving legitmacy to them. Rigged or not.

The alternative is to organize parallel societies where manifestations of 'their system' is spurned, ignored and actively rejected and attacked in favour of our own system and structures. The First Dail showed that a parallel system could run alongside the British system to extent that when the Free State was established there was no real collapse in society when British institutions were wrapped up.
 
No disrespect Seek but are you saying the truth isn't important here? Its always important, the Irish people should be told this is happening and the more they understand that the less they will be fooled by these three card tricksters that are telling people the votes are they way they count them.
 
A MP/government with a less than 50% of the electorate mandate is more damaging that an MP elected on 51% of the vote in a rigged election in which 100% of electorate voted.
Most Irish and UK TDs/MPs have less than 50% of the electorate. 40% don't bother to vote, so even if they win half the votes cast, like Andy did, they have barely one third. Low turnout doesn't bother the politicians one bit - they openly encourage it.

"Participating in their system is giving legitmacy to them. Rigged or not." But you participate in their system with your mobile phone, banking, car, mains electricity and fluoridated water, etc, etc,etc. Am I right?

So it's a bit farcical to make can't be bothered to vote into some noble moral principle
 
Most Irish and UK TDs/MPs have less than 50% of the electorate. 40% don't bother to vote, so even if they win half the votes cast, like Andy did, they have barely one third. Low turnout doesn't bother the politicians one bit - they openly encourage it.

"Participating in their system is giving legitmacy to them. Rigged or not." But you participate in their system with your mobile phone, banking, car, mains electricity and fluoridated water, etc, etc,etc. Am I right?

So it's a bit farcical to make can't be bothered to vote into some noble moral principle
well actually the moves are towards compulsory voting in the UK. This lobby group for example


they are concerned about... We believe low turnout in elections poses a fundamental threat to the health and functioning of democracy, and the introduction of compulsory voting represents the most effective and comprehensive response.

If you do a bit od research on the bios of its advisory board, you'll find in full of lefty politicians and system pigs funded by globalist organisations to research border and climate change.

So you're in good company.

and I minimise contact with their system as far as possible. I dont for example get excited about reforming their system so that its better. Rather do what I can to reject, damage and lampoon their system.

if enough people did that, it would be far more effective than working to persuade them to reform their system.
 
It's understandable that if people think the election is rigged, they won't vote.

But it is possible to force them to count the votes honestly.

There are lots of polling stations. If we can get a decent, peaceful crowd outside each polling station before they close, we can encourage the civil service TO COUNT THE VOTES before sending them to the count centre. It's not illegal to count the votes before sending them to the count centre. There are so many polling stations that the cops will not be able to have a big presence at each one at the same time.
 
It's understandable that if people think the election is rigged, they won't vote.

But it is possible to force them to count the votes honestly.

There are lots of polling stations. If we can get a decent, peaceful crowd outside each polling station before they close, we can encourage the civil service TO COUNT THE VOTES before sending them to the count centre. It's not illegal to count the votes before sending them to the count centre. There are so many polling stations that the cops will not be able to have a big presence at each one at the same time.
peaceful crowds? I dont know which is more endearing, your belief in the power of peaceful crowds or the states ability to reform itself under the scrutiny of the people.
 
I have seen with my own eyes the power of the peaceful crowd. Six nasty cops wanted to arrest a wee girleen carrying an anti-Covid sign. The crowd (only 200) started chanting "Leave her alone". Within five seconds they left her alone.

The peaceful remigration crowds in the wee six are encouraging hundreds and thousands of darkie to go elsewhere.

Peaceful crowds make outnumbered cops scared. It is very simple.
 
It's understandable that if people think the election is rigged, they won't vote.
:LOL: I would say if you searched the whole specrtum of reasons for not voting - from apathy to "no one I could possibly vote for" to the more highly principled, well thought out political stances - you're going to have a hard job finding even a handful of "the 'lections are rigged" merchants. Probably 39 in the whole country, that's including your own vote, and of your relatives who felt sorry for you.
 
I have seen with my own eyes the power of the peaceful crowd. Six nasty cops wanted to arrest a wee girleen carrying an anti-Covid sign. The crowd (only 200) started chanting "Leave her alone". Within five seconds they left her alone.

The peaceful remigration crowds in the wee six are encouraging hundreds and thousands of darkie to go elsewhere.

Peaceful crowds make outnumbered cops scared. It is very simple.
Come on now, the crowds persuading the new arrivals in the 6 counties were not very peaceful. That's why they were effective. The furore around their direct actions have done far more than 100 National rallies at the GPO or Gardens of Remembrance
 
Come on now, the crowds persuading the new arrivals in the 6 counties were not very peaceful.
Many of the protests were completely peaceful - but they got zero publicity. Not one foreign person was injured in the demos, so they were peaceful in that sense.

That's why they were effective. The furore around their direct actions have done far more than 100 National rallies at the GPO or Gardens of Remembrance

Several MPs - DUP, Rupert Lowe - spoke out to support the idea that there are too many foreigners around. Imagine if the 40% non voters in Makersfield had voted Restore and the votes were honestly counted...Her first speech in the Commons could have praised the non-violent Remigration enthusiasts of Ulster.
 
Many of the protests were completely peaceful - but they got zero publicity. Not one foreign person was injured in the demos, so they were peaceful in that sense.



Several MPs - DUP, Rupert Lowe - spoke out to support the idea that there are too many foreigners around. Imagine if the 40% non voters in Makersfield had voted Restore and the votes were honestly counted...Her first speech in the Commons could have praised the non-violent Remigration enthusiasts of Ulster.
The voters in Makersfield weren't fooled by the Tory Boy side project called 'Restore'. Some nationalists evidently are.
 
Many of the protests were completely peaceful - but they got zero publicity. Not one foreign person was injured in the demos, so they were peaceful in that sense.



Several MPs - DUP, Rupert Lowe - spoke out to support the idea that there are too many foreigners around. Imagine if the 40% non voters in Makersfield had voted Restore and the votes were honestly counted...Her first speech in the Commons could have praised the non-violent Remigration enthusiasts of Ulster.
Enoch Powell might have been PM, he was this '' '' close. He spoke out about there being too many foreigners. And that was nearly 60 years ago. And there you are reckoning that voting harder might reduce the number.
 
Enoch Powell might have been PM, he was this '' '' close. He spoke out about there being too many foreigners. And that was nearly 60 years ago. And there you are reckoning that voting harder might reduce the number.
Powell the poofter, is it?

I'm not suggesting voting harder, just counting the votes accurately.

Polls open at 7.00 am. If we can put a crowd of fifty or a hundred at each polling station before it opens, eyeball, identify and joke with election staff about not wanting any election rigging this time. Have another crowd, maybe of two hundred this time, at 10pm when the polls close. Politely insist that the votes in each ballot box are publicly counted before they are transported to the count centre. The three feminised election workers are not going to argue with us, are they?



FPO is Austria are the biggest party. If they are allowed to win the next election they will deport millions.
 
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Powell the poofter, is it?

I'm not suggesting voting harder, just counting the votes accurately.

Polls open at 7.00 am. If we can put a crowd of fifty or a hundred at each polling station before it opens, eyeball, identify and joke with election staff about not wanting any election rigging this time. Have another crowd, maybe of two hundred this time, at 10pm when the polls close. Politely insist that the votes in each ballot box are publicly counted before they are transported to the count centre. The three feminised election workers are not going to argue with us, are they?



FPO is Austria are the biggest party. If they are allowed to win the next election they will deport millions.
No they wont.
None of these parties do anything of what they say they will.
I assume Rupert the Tory wont be sending home his son's wife?
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Marriage is the only way any foreigners should be getting permanent residence here. She looks not just beautiful but also honest and modest. She will no doubt make him an excellent wife, and therefore she can stay. But if she files for divorce she's on the first plane outta town, residence permit revoked.

AMAZING ELECTION RIGGING WEBSITE:


Lew Moore and the team have plenty of proof of US election rigging and links to clean election enthusiasts in every state.

This is a hot topic stateside. Let's make it a hot topic here :) Let the memes begin.


ELECTION RIGGING BOOKS


Black Box Voting

Broken Ballots

Code Red 2020

Fraud

Our Broken Elections

Rigged

Stealing Your Vote

The Art of the Steal

The Deep Rig

The Parallel Election— PA in 2020

The Voter Fraud Manual

Votescam: The Stealing of America

 
Superb piece of writing, presumably true, over at blackboxvoting.org.

Sparse, detailed, funny. Last sentence is the punchline.


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“Election officials wouldn’t let me see the ballots. Then they destroyed them, in violation of the law.”
“Are you saying there was fraud?”
“Election officials refused to report the number of votes by the legal deadline. When more votes showed up a day later, we could not find out where they came from.”
“Are you saying there was fraud?”
You cite concrete information on specific, provable violations of the law. But the follow up question is a diversion, refocusing attention. It is accusatory, a challenge to prove something which may be unprovable (if records are destroyed) or at least, need time to investigate.
So let’s get some clarity on this. You don’t have to answer that question. “Election fraud” is a generic term. Laws, however, are specific. You either followed the law or you didn’t.
In the U.S., the law requires federal ballots to be retained for 22 months. Florida Sunshine Law requires that ballots be produced for inspection at the request of any person.
In 2016 Tim Canova ran for U.S. Representative in the Democratic Primary against Debbie Wasserman Schultz. After the election he asked to examine the ballots under Florida Sunshine Law. Broward County did not allow him to see the ballots, stalling month after month until he took them to court. That is a violation of the law. What happened to Canova was obstruction.
When Canova sued to see the ballots, Broward County destroyed them. That is a violation of the law. It is ballot tampering.
“Are you saying there was fraud?”
I’m saying there was obstruction and there was ballot tampering and that Broward County violated the law. A felony. And when it went to court, a judge agreed.
Canova brought his concerns to Governor Rick Scott, the only official in Florida who could replace an elected Supervisor of Elections. Scott chose not to replace her.
In the 2018 general election Broward County did not report the number of ballots cast within 30 minutes of poll closing, as required by law. Also, in some races the numbers reported were false. For example, “0+0+0+0=26”
If the sum of the parts does not add up to the total, at least some of the numbers are false. Conjuring up a number of ballots after the fact breaks chain of custody, because the timeliness of reporting the numbers is part of safeguarding authenticity of the ballots themselves.
“Are you saying there was fraud?”
What we know is that in Broward County, reporting wasn’t timely and that at least some of the numbers are false, and that Broward County violated the law.
“But was there intent to commit fraud?”
Ascertaining whether the law was violated does not require mind reading. It was violated or it was not.
When evidence is destroyed that is called spoliation of evidence. Because spoliation can make the truth unknowable, courts may issue a directive that the missing evidence can be considered in a light most detrimental to the party that destroyed it.
When numbers don’t add up to their own self, we call them impossible numbers. In such cases, exactly which numbers were true or false may be unknowable, especially if chain of evidence was breached. When you break the chain of custody you can recount ballots ’till the cows come home, but when you don’t know if the ballots are the real ones, recounting won’t cure uncertainty.
There are ways to get closer to the truth, at least in the 2018 election, if truth is what we want.
In Florida, any person can seek records under the Sunshine Law. If, for example, the mysteriously appearing ballots are attributed to vote-by-mail ballots dumped on elections personnel at the very last minute by the Post Office (Was that it? Why can’t I find that information?) — well then, someone signs for that shipment. A public records inspection should reveal how many pallets were delivered, who signed for it, and when.
Do we think someone might have pushed in a bunch of forged ballots? Blank ballots come with invoices. How many ballots were ordered, and when?
Is it possible someone sneaked around during the night messing with vote tabulators or ballots? Surveillance tape is a public record, and in my experience it’s a real box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Who is asking for that?
As a citizen, under Florida Sunshine Law, you can ask for these documents. Try it. I think you’ll find the whole process both informative and diagnostic.
 
More detail on California from Victor Davis Hanson . American Greatness. reposted from sott.net

California Governor Gavin Newsom looks the other way
California shows what happens when one party gains total control: soaring costs, shrinking opportunity, and a government that no longer serves its citizens.

By any measure, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment.

Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation.

Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states.

Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, insurance, and electricity prices? The highest in the continental U.S.

Illegal aliens, the poor, the homeless, the foreign-born, and welfare recipients? The largest numbers in the U.S.

Public K-12 schools? Test scores in the bottom quartile.

Poverty? Twenty percent live below the poverty line.

So, what happened to the nation's most richly naturally endowed — and once best governed — state?

The Left took total control
after millions of the embattled middle class fled.

Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world.

The result was a neo-feudal society that was hardly democratic.

Millions of subsidized poor compose the bottom. A beleaguered middle continues to shrink. An ultra-rich apparat of left-wing coastal professionals and investors rules from the top.

As upper-bracket taxpayers fled, taxes rose on those who remained to fund expanding entitlements for newly arrived poor would-be residents. In turn, even more of the middle class left.

The remaining pyramidal economic structure ensured a Democratic monopoly — further entrenched by changing balloting laws, gerrymandering voting districts, vote harvesting, fueling public employee unions, and ignoring or undermining popular referenda.

In 2014, Californians voted for Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water bond designed to solve the state's chronic water storage deficit.

Included was $2.7 billion specifically designated for new reservoirs, as the last major reservoir had been built in 1980, when California had roughly half its current population.

Despite the people's vote, bureaucracies, elected officials, and green activists blocked all new reservoir construction.

Adding insult to injury, Governor Gavin Newsom instead used $250 million from the Proposition 1 fund to blow up four dams on the Klamath River. They had once provided storage, electrical generation, recreation, and flood control.

Californians have twice voted in referenda (for Proposition 209 and against Proposition 16) to bar the use of racial preferences for contracting, admissions, and promotion in public institutions.

Most public universities simply ignored the law. They continued their "diversity" quotas under new names, relying on left-wing elected officials and judges to ignore again the will of the people.

Preferential admissions, along with racially segregated dorms and graduation ceremonies, continued under euphemisms and denials. "Theme" houses, "affinity" graduations, and "safe spaces" practice "affirmative" discrimination.

California voters in 2008 passed Proposition 11 to stop political gerrymandering by creating a supposedly nonpartisan state redistricting commission of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four Independents. Two years later, the commission took over redrawing congressional districts as well.

But Democratic lobbyists and lawyers sabotaged the goal of disinterested redistricting according to population and geography. Instead, racial preferences and the interests of the Democratic majority of incumbents prevailed to warp the intent of the voters.

Although Republicans usually achieved nearly 40 percent of the California vote in national elections, two decades later there were only seven Republicans in the 52-person congressional delegation, or a mere 13 percent of the state's representatives.

But even that tiny contingent was considered too generous by the Left. Thus, in 2026, it will likely be further redistricted down to four or five seats.

The balloting mess in the recent Los Angeles mayoral race further reminds the nation and the world just how dysfunctional and anti-democratic California has become.

Democrats warp elections without the need for the old Chicago way of outright ballot theft or destruction. Instead, they do so in a "legal" manner by passing insane laws that ensure fraud and Democratic victories.

The winners in the strange jungle primaries — usually both Democrats — were not announced until a week after the polls closed. One of the eventual winners in mayoral race, the socialist Nithya Raman, had already given her teary concession speech after coming in well back at third on election night.

The Republican Spencer Pratt was comfortably ahead of her in second place on Election Day — only to lose, as expected, when large numbers of late ballots that broke roughly 90 percent Democratic were counted.

Remember, every registered voter is sent a mail-in ballot. If it is postmarked on election day, it can arrive at vote centers up to seven days after the election.

No one really knows whether the ballots are mailed to the dead, to former or nonexistent addresses, or to legally eligible voters — by design. In 2024, when losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris won the state by 20 points, only 0.09 percent of all ballots cast were rejected.

Anyone can register and receive a provisional ballot on the same day.

Ballot harvesting and ballot curing are legal.

Campaign operatives can round up voters, gather their ballots, and deliver them en masse to a voting center.

They can register anyone to vote, provide a ballot, and then deposit it immediately afterwards.

There is no requirement to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to get a driver's license. Yet a license is not even needed to register. Any credit card without a picture suffices.

And it gets worse still.

If the potential voter has
no license, no Social Security number, no proof of U.S. citizenship, and no credit cards, he still will be registered — once harvesters provide him with a "unique identifier" number.

He can then vote that very day without any ID at all.

If, in California, you claim you are illiterate and cannot write your name — no problem.

You simply make a mark — anything from an X to a happy face. No one asks whether an illiterate can read the names on the ballot.

Then your handler serves as a "witness" and signs his name. Such witnesses are almost always vote harvesters, and they can sign as many ballots as they wish.

If all that doesn't work, ballot "curers" can be called in help remedy rejected partisan ballots post facto.

Democrats now rely on the system to ensure supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature, no statewide Republican officeholders, a tiny vestigial Republican congressional contingent, and almost exclusively Democratic-appointed liberal judges.

The more Democrats control the state, the more socialist, anti-democratic — and autocratic — California becomes.

Their gift to the nation is a third-world failed state, now in danger of societal collapse.

Fires rage — given ideologically driven prohibitions on brush and forest management, cuts in fire departments, and sheer bureaucratic incompetence.

Multibillion-dollar boondoggle rail projects rust.

Billions of welfare dollars are stolen with impunity. Illegal aliens who cannot speak or read English are given passes to obtain commercial trucking licenses — as if California's critical road signs are written in some language other than English.

A quarter of residents can't pay their sky-high power bills on time — and correctly assume that the state and the utility companies will mostly foot their delinquent bills.

Since 2020, over 100,000 criminals have been released early from state prisons — and most have little fear that their present and future crimes will earn them another prison sentence.

Half the state's births are paid for through state-supplied welfare coverage.

And now the homeless without addresses or IDs can determine elections.

In sum, import poverty; romanticize illegal immigration; demonize the middle class; drive out private-sector capital; and exempt elites from the consequences of their own ideology — and you're left with a state where democracy dies, along with everything else.
I have been to 45 States. California is not on of them. It will be the first State to blow up, NY being a close second.
 
I have been to 45 States. California is not on of them. It will be the first State to blow up, NY being a close second.
I'm guessing you haven't been to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho and South Dakota?... Have visited California, sure liberal as fcuk, but if you go there, with eyes open, knowing most of the residents are extreme liberals, it's a great place to visit. San Diego is great. Even San Fran and LA are great tourist places, if you avoid all the drugged up homeless scum.
 
The No-Voters are the biggest political block in any Euro country. Between a third and a half of people don't vote. If all the non-voters voted for one party, they would win every election. If the elections were honest.

I'm interested in the opinion of non-voters on Immigration and Remigration. Do they not care at all? Can it really be true that 40% of Makersfield voters don't care if the mass migration continues or if mass deportations start?

Also, how do pro-Remigration non-voters propose to implement Remigration? Knocking on every darkie's door and urging them to remigrate ASAP?
 
Great example of election rigging in action and what happens when you attempt to use a crooked legal system to correct it. Chapter and verse from Texas ten years ago. Quite funny, in a black comedy sórt of way.

Ireland always copies what the US does. Our cops are all trained by the FBI.

If the Yanks are rigging elections and training their cops to turn a blind eye to it, our Irish useless eliters won't be far behind.

Question is: How do we stop it?




Dr Laura Pressley

By Bev Harris and Jim Keller

Human beings rely on one another for reality testing. Consensus is sometimes used to imply truth, but consensus is a dubious approach if a result is false.

Election results can become false through error, outside “hacking,” or inside manipulation. The Texas legislature addressed election fraud as a concern when it passed laws to require the printing and retention of zero and results tapes from polling places. The legislature also perceived inside manipulation as a possibility when it passed laws to require that observers be allowed to watch election workers as they conduct elections and prepare for and carry out recounts.

The election case below explores the letter of the law, as well as a sober reading of its enforcement. In Travis County, Texas, four corners have been pointing to and repeating each other’s assertions as if repetition makes them real. Election administrators, vendors, and sometimes the media and the courts have crafted remarkably similar statements.

But a candidate, Dr. Laura Pressley, has challenged these consensual violations of election law.

SHE’S FOUGHT FOR THE LAW. WILL THE LAW WIN?

Within the next few months, an important case will come to a decision by the Texas Supreme Court. Dr. Laura Pressley, a former candidate for Austin City Council, went to court in 2015 to address a dismantling of electronic voting safeguards, resulting in the first case targeting illegal electronic voting practices in Texas.

Pressley sued to de-certify the election of her opponent due to Travis County’s failure to keep or produce original records of the vote (serial numbers, zero tapes, ballot images, and results tapes,) as required by the Texas Constitution, the Texas Election Code and Administrative Code, respectively. Her case is progressing through the Texas court system. The Texas Supreme Court has reviewed Pressley’s election integrity Petition for Review.1

Read Pressley v. Casar Petition for Review here:

http://blackboxvoting.org/docs/pressley-v-casar-tx-supreme-court-petition-for-review-redacted.pdf

(large file: 10,728 KB, 324 pages)

On June 9, 2017, in a positive move, the Court requested Casar file a formal response.

Laura Pressley (petitioner) v. Gregorio (Greg) Casar (Respondent), Texas Supreme Court case No. 17-0052, addresses the following three issues:

1. Can a ballot be counted if the ballot itself violates Texas Constitutional and statutory law?

2. Can the secretary of state waive mandatory laws enacted by the legislature that have criminal penalties for the violation thereof?

Testimony of Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir:

Q. You think the Secretary of State can tell you not to follow state law?
A. I know exactly that they can, yes.
Q. Okay.
A. Absolutely


3. Should a candidate be sanctioned (punished with fines) for asking the courts, for the first time, to clarify the issues above?

QUESTION 1. BALLOTS THAT VIOLATE TEXAS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW:

Both the Texas Election Code and the Texas Constitution require a unique number for each ballot.2

Can unnumbered ballots (or, in the case of electronic voting machines, unnumbered Cast Vote Records)3 be counted in a recount if the absence of a number creates an illegal ballot?

Ballot numbering, if done correctly, does not violate ballot privacy.

Unique ballot numbering is the primary way to account for all ballots, to ensure that no extra ballots were inserted, and that no duplicates are present. The numbering requirement helps to make sure that the ballots (or Cast Vote Records) are the real ones. Without unique identifiers for each ballot there is no way to know whether the electronic ballots counted in a recount are faked.

According to correspondence between e-voting manufacturer Hart InterCivic and the Texas Secretary of State’s office, Hart “does not and never has” numbered its electronic ballots.

Hart InterCivic, by failing to follow Texas constitutional and legislatively imposed election code requirements, did not actually meet Texas requirements for ballot numbering when submitting its system for certification, yet it was certified anyway. Hart’s actions have been troubling with regard to ballot numbering and Cast Vote Records:

1) In a previous litigation by the NAACP in 2011, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Hart eSlate meets the Texas Constitutional provisions of numbering because “an eSlate numbers a ballot.”4

Pressley’s case clearly provides evidence that is not the case—Hart InterCivic eSlate Cast Vote Records are not numbered. So where did this misinformation come from? The Texas Supreme Court in 2011 relied, in part, upon incorrect representation when ruling against the NAACP.

2) For years, Hart officials represented to election officials that “in the event of a recount, ballot images exist so that paper ballot records can be counted one by one.” Relying on these representations, county election officials and county attorneys repeated these statements to the trial court and press.5

Yet, Pressley’s case provided evidence Hart’s eSlate Cast Vote Records are in fact unnumbered. And, according to Texas Constitution and Election Code, unnumbered Cast Vote Records don’t meet the legal requirement for numbering each ballot. Can unnumbered computer printouts representing each ballot be reliably counted one by one if there is no way to determine that each represents a unique vote?

3) As the Texas case was pending in the Appeals Court, in 2016, the Secretary of State e-mailed Hart and asked whether it numbers its Cast Vote Records anywhere on the document. Hart responded that it does not and never has numbered the ballots.6

4) The Federal Election Assistance Commission Voluntary Guidelines from 2005, 2012 and 2015, define electronic voting system standards and those standards required a unique identifier for each ballot record. This is an accounting mechanism to ensure that each ballot can be properly accounted for. Hart’s eSlate system therefore appears to violate federal standards as well as Texas law.

The Texas Supreme Court has upheld in the past 120 years that paper and electronic ballots must be numbered. Thus it now comes before the Texas Supreme Court a case of first impression, the topic of electronically cast ballots: If unnumbered e-ballots are not legal ballots, is it legal to require a candidate to accept a recount based on unnumbered e-ballots?
 
QUESTION 2. CAN THE SECRETARY OF STATE WAIVE MANDATORY LAWS ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE?

Q. You think the Secretary of State can tell you not to follow state law?

A. I know exactly that they can, yes.


Pressley’s original election case highlighted irregularities, including use of corrupted memory cards (as shown in audit logs), obstruction of observers, more votes than voters, and missing ballot boxes. Yet, when Pressley tried to match up records, Travis County refused to give her some of the legally required documents.




DeBeauvoir’s position that the Texas Secretary of State can overwrite mandatory legislation is not unique. At one point in time, California county election officials asked then-Secretary of State Debra Bowen to void the legal requirement to print precinct results. However, Bowen refused to do so, responding that she did not have the authority to overrule the California legislature.

In Texas, DeBeauvoir issued a written directive to poll workers to ignore the Texas law requiring printing and saving of zero and results tapes based on a waiver letter from the Texas Secretary of State’s Election Director, Keith Ingram. Ingram’s office, under the color of law, instructed Pressley’s county, and other counties in Texas to ignore the printing of paper backup records of zero and results tapes designed to give accountability and credibility to e-voting election results.

Pressley asks the Texas Supreme court: “Do the Secretary of State’s Elections Division and county election officers have powers to suspend mandatory state election laws?

1. During the recount of the 2014 Pressley v. Casar city council race Pressley had assigned official recount poll watchers to monitor all recount activities, including retrieval, sorting and copying of the ballots to ensure integrity of the files. However, Pressley’s poll watchers were not permitted by Travis County Election Officer Michael Winn to monitor the retrieval, sorting and copying of Cast Vote Records that were cast on eSlate DREs.

2. In addition, required paper election results tapes from polling places were missing. During discovery, a written directive from Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir* was found which directed poll workers not to retain official paper precinct returns, despite the mandate contained in Tex. Election Code Sec. 66.022. Later, Texas Election Director Keith Ingram again “waived” the law requiring printing of zero tapes and polling place results tapes for the 2015 and 2016 general election and counties succumbed.

* Though a lower level court opinion cited Travis County Clerk DeBeauvoir’s membership on committees to emphasize her qualifications, it did not mention DeBeauvoir’s previous problems with audits. In her official capacity of Travis County Clerk, DeBeauvoir failed to balance several bank accounts, resulting in two separate critical audit reports. At one point, DeBeauvoir reported one bank account to contain almost $1 million more than it actually had. DeBeauvoir’s response was to claim that then-County Auditor Susan Spataro was engaged in a personal vendetta against her. When a national auditor’s review supported Spataro’s work, DeBeauvoir accused the national firm of failing to incorporate a review based on personalities. One of the national review team’s auditors replied, correctly, that reviews should center on paperwork, not people.

3. With regard to Tally computer corruption errors, the vendor, Hart InterCivic, had issued instructions and warnings against use of “corrupt memory cards,” specifically because they can corrupt or alter results. However, Travis County repeatedly inserted corrupted memory cards into the main Tally computer as Pressley’s election results were tabulated on election night.

(Use of corrupt memory cards was witnessed again in Travis County during the 2016 presidential primary by election observers; Travis County declined to take the actions recommended by the vendor to deal with memory card corruption errors. A further issue, though not before the court, is whether Travis County has been properly maintaining and updating its memory cards. According to Hart information on “Corrupt card” message, this can be caused by using memory cards that are past their shelf life and can cause corruption of election results. If Travis County has not replaced memory cards according to manufacturer recommendations, each new election is likely to increase in quantity of corrupt memory card errors.)

4. Although Pressley called Travis County and Secretary of State’s office officials attention to the absence of legally required numbering on Cast Vote Records during her recount, county and state officials overrode state mandated ballot requirements and ordered that the unnumbered records be recounted.

PUNISHMENT AND CHILLING EFFECT

QUESTION 3: SANCTIONS


The lower trial court dismissed Pressley’s election contest case and entered an order for monetary sanctions against Pressley for $40,000, and further awarded unsolicited, unbriefed anticipatory attorney’s fees, in the event Pressley sought an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Appeals ($25,000) and Texas Supreme Court ($45,000).

But she did appeal the case in 2015, and gave oral arguments in April 2016. The Austin Third Court issued its ruling eight months later, after the 2016 General Election, on December 23, essentially Christmas Eve — a day that governments ‘take out the trash’ while no one is watching. The Austin Third Court upheld the lower court, and added $25,000 to Pressley’s punishment for bringing the case.

Not a single Texas election contest in the past 100 years has sustained punitive sanctions at the Appeals Court level. In cases where election practice conflicts with election law, a proper remedy is to file a lawsuit forcing clarification. Pressley’s case, if sanctions are upheld, would be the first case to address these two unresolved legal conflicts, and at the same time, the first time a candidate was sanctioned with punitive damages for bringing an election contest case through the Texas court system.

Dr. Pressley said, “Laws mean something. The expectation is for strict adherence to the rule of law in Texas elections.”

Elections are not simply the exercise of choice — the results impersonate our values — and only if legitimate, can liberate us. Checks and balances mandated by Texas election laws ought to be obeyed regardless of convenience. If the legal precedent set by the Austin appeals court is allowed to stand, it will remove the ability for voters and candidates to challenge questionable or bogus results – the very will of the People is on the line in this decision.

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Bev Harris is a writer and is the founder of Black Box Voting. She has researched and written about election transparency and computerized voting systems since 2002, and is currently writing a new book which documents and quantifies corruption in America. Harris was featured in the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, and is the author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, a book purchased by the White House Library and also reportedly found on Osama bin Laden’s bookshelf. Harris’s research has been covered in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time Magazine, CNN and several international publications.



James (Jim) Keller is a fifth generation Texan and member of the Maverick Family. Keller has been an active advocate for election transparency issues for many years. He is a professional photographer who holds four US patents for panoramic camera-related inventions and works managing investments, properties, and a cattle ranch.
 
I'm guessing you haven't been to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho and South Dakota?... Have visited California, sure liberal as fcuk, but if you go there, with eyes open, knowing most of the residents are extreme liberals, it's a great place to visit. San Diego is great. Even San Fran and LA are great tourist places, if you avoid all the drugged up homeless scum.
I most certainly was in South Dakota, that is where I shot all the videos from the huge classic car museum in a place called Murdo. I have been to Idaho as well.


I have not been to Alaska or Hawaii si that leaves only two other States.
 
I most certainly was in South Dakota, that is where I shot all the videos from the huge classic car museum in a place called Murdo. I have been to Idaho as well.


I have not been to Alaska or Hawaii si that leaves only two other States.
Louisanna & Mississippi? I travelled through Mississippi from new Orleans to Memphis (crescent express train) some experience. We got off in jackson, Mississippi, to take a few photos, more because of that Johnny Cash song "jackson"... We assumed it was indeed the same jackson he sang about...apart from that Mississippi looked like a 3rd world country, that you wouldn't want to visit
 
Louisanna & Mississippi? I travelled through Mississippi from new Orleans to Memphis (crescent express train) some experience. We got off in jackson, Mississippi, to take a few photos, more because of that Johnny Cash song "jackson"... We assumed it was indeed the same jackson he sang about...apart from that Mississippi looked like a 3rd world country, that you wouldn't want to visit
How long ago was that, just as a matter of interest ?
 

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