Tip of a very large iceberg:
The Justice Department sent a letter to a Pennsylvania county on Thursday, ordering it to change its practices after multiple military ballots were found discarded.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Pennsylvania released a statement on the situation on Thursday:
On Monday, September 21, 2020, at the request of Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis, the Office of the United States Attorney along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scranton Resident Office, began an inquiry into reports of potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections.
Since Monday, FBI personnel working together with the Pennsylvania State Police have conducted numerous interviews and recovered and reviewed certain physical evidence. Election officials in Luzerne County have been cooperative. At this point we can confirm that a small number of military ballots were discarded. Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time. Some of those ballots can be attributed to specific voters and some cannot. All nine ballots were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump.
While nine ballots have been recovered, it is not clear how many were actually discarded.
This announcement comes on the heels of a report that three trays of mail, including absentee ballots, were discovered in a ditch in Wisconsin.
Go here to read the rest. Remember this after the November election when President Trump doubtless sends out Federal law enforcement to impound all ballot boxes in the nation. Because of Orange Man Bad, bad actors are working very hard to shake American confidence in the integrity of our balloting system. Mission accomplished. Anyone who doesn’t move Heaven and Earth to vote in person is a fool in this year of punishment.
Preparing.
At our Holy Rosary Catholic Church we are being encouraged to attend a special holy hour before the 6am Mass on the 3rd of November.
5:30 pm Mass will be added to the schedule. We don’t pussy foot around the issue for Life. Your Catholic? You cannot vote for a candidate who pretends to be Catholic and supports the killing of innocent life.
A neighbors sign reads; “200,000 deaths due to Covid 19. Shame on you Trump.”
What about the 61,000,000 deaths of Americans? They died due to indifference, injustice and ingratitude.
Ingrates spit in the face of the one who has given us life.
The “woke” better wake themselves up fast. Their ingratitude is going to be rewarded very soon.
Seems to me the mail in scheme should be illegal as it is impossible to administer since there is no way to determine voter authenticity and eligibility in time. Fraud is virtually guaranteed. Heretofore one had to meet certain requirements to be eligible for mail in privilege.
Again, the promotion of convenience voting is a testament to the utter fecklessness of our state legislatures. They don’t do anything to fix the actual problems they’ve had with elections administration. The League of Women Voters and Common Cause are perfectly worthless on these issues, just extensions of the Democratic Party.
People should be permitted to vote by post when they have an abiding problem which prevents them from voting in person or when they are billeted in institutional housing and it’s preferable for civic reasons that they cast ballots as if they were living with their relatives in ordinary circumstances. U.S. government employees posted abroad and their spouses residing with them, servicemen and their spouses residing with them, college students billeted in the institution’s housing, and people living in nursing homes and the like should be voting by post. Disabled people who qualify as shut-ins should be voting by post. Arguably, people who live out in the middle of nowhere in West Texas or in Alaska should be permitted to vote by post. “I’m gonna be busy that day” or “I’m gonna be out of town that day” are not satisfactory reasons for compromising ballot security or tying up tabulation for weeks.
The state legislatures also had every opportunity to simplify ballots by composing a sensible electoral calendar. Remember the shizz about how complicated those ballots were in Florida 20 years ago? Elect your judges for 12 year terms and every other office you can for 4 year terms; move your referenda, your elections to the judiciary, and your elections to other offices in the legal system to May; elect your various courts and legal system officers at dedicated berths of the quadrennial cycles; elect the President and Congress the 1st year of a quadrennial cycle; reserve the 2d year for municipal councils, county councils, mayors, and county executives; reserve the 3d year for congressional midterms, state legislature, and governor; and have school boards and miscellaneous offices elected the 4th year. And hold that miscellaneous offices are appointive by default, elective only consequent to petition and referenda, and remaining elective only consequent to referenda on the question held automatically every 30 years or so. We have elective town clerks because…well, nobody remembers why someone thought that was a satisfactory idea.
The simplest thing you could do to remove impediments to voting – move the balloting times to Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon. – has never been done. The simplest things you could do to reduce tabulation time – get the absentee ballots in the mail by the 10th of September and require they arrive in the post by election day to be deemed validly cast – has hardly been done anywhere.
And here we are with shizzy controversies over the composition of the voter roll. We live at a time where 43 states have some sort of personal income tax, but AFAIK, not one of them has assembled a database of the names and addresses of people who filed a personal return that local boards of elections can use to check the stock of their body of registrants each year. I doubt you’ll find one state where the Secretary of State tracks and compiles a database of court verdicts to be used for stock checks by local elections commissioners. Some states have indexes of death certificates issued, but are they compiled in a timely fashion for the use of elections commissioners?
/rant off
Off topic but sorta related as it involves the deep state:
Anybody remember if Scalia got a state funeral like this, televised or not?
He got a state funeral.
Luzerne county (where Wilkes-Barre is) is noted for corruption. It was amazing that Trump won it in 2016. The local dem politicians are going to try to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
I couldn’t remember. Thanks