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Republicans Cooperating in Democratic Voter Fraud
My wife worked for the Illinois GOP investigating fraud from January to March 2006. She quit because the Republicans were not serious about it. Just before she left, there was the March primary. She came up with a list of precincts to visit on primary day based on unusually high participation rates, which was approved by her boss. Then he reversed course and told her, “X doesn’t want you there.” X was a Democratic Illinois House leader.
She asked why a Democrat was allowed to decide where a Republican was allowed to visit on primary day. She was told that a senior person in the Chicago GOP said, “We have an agreement.” One assumes that the Democrats were paying off Republican leaders to look the other way on voter fraud. It wouldn’t surprise me if similar agreements are in place in heavily Democratic cities such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Too many Republicans act as if the Democrats will abide by Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
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Nothing to see here. Move along… (so tiresome!)
What losers.
Part of what Project Veritas turned up in the run-up to the 2020 general election in Texas was Republican campaigns buying Biden votes to defeat Trump. I helped a local Tea Party candidate get elected one cycle, when the time came for his reelection campaign he had a very different set of supporters and an allergy to the Tea Party leaders that put him in office. The guys who fix the game have been at it for a long, long time.
Thank you for the report.
It is all One Big Money Party. Period.
Of course it is hard to say if your wife’s “Republican” boss was a Republican offered something desirable in return for his cooperating with the Dems, or else maybe he was a Democrat wolf in sheep’s clothing.
But people need to realize how the capital letter after various election officials’ names are rather meaningless.
Also these days bribes are often in the form of having one’s son-in-law given a cushy job at some company or inside a political party itself. The savvier pols wait 18 months or so before the secret deal is acted upon.
It’s no longer like the good old days, when Chicago voters found out that the local precinct captain had embezzled half a garage full of show boxes loaded with nickels and dime from parking meters.
These days the nickel and dime stuff seems quaint, doesn’t it!
And Big Pharma has tens of billions of dollars to pay off politicians/regulators to enforce mandates and continue buying boosters from them for big bucks.
I don’t know about other states. But I do know Arizona. Arizona has clean elections.
Arizona has 15 counties. First, Maricopa County has the most voters. It has a Republican County Recorder and 4 of the 5 members of the Board of Supervisors are Republicans.
Second is Pima County, home of Tucson and The University of Arizona. That has always been a Democrat County.
Third is Pinal County, which is located between Maricopa and Pima Counties, and it is a bedroom community for both Maricopa and Pima Counties. It was a Democrat County; it is now a Republican County, as Republican suburbs are booming. Our Moderator Doug Watt lived in Pinal County.
Fourth is Yavapai County, home of Prescott. It is very conservative. Whoever wins the Republican Primary wins the general election.
Fifth is Mohave County in the Northwest Corner of the state. Its Board of Supervisors is quite conservative.
LOL
IKR?
Clean elections????
I know Gary is impressed with
himselfhis little county (well, yes, he’s also impressed with himself…) but as I’ve mentioned previously, Maricopa and Pima counties outnumber his little Coconino county by about 50 to 1.And he has no… ahem… STANDING… to claim anything about anywhere else.
Thank you for your graciousness and generosity of spirit. You are such a welcoming person to others who disagree with you.
I suggest that you review the following editorial from National Review at https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/12/certify-the-arizona-elections/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=third:
“Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election didn’t inspire a wave of imitators in 2022. Across the country, candidates from both parties who lost elections by margins big and small almost unanimously conceded — and did so gracefully. That included many candidates who had indulged Trump’s 2020 election conspiracies, with one glaring exception — Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who is now auditioning to become the Stacey Abrams of the Republican Party.
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“This is not to deny that there were real problems in Arizona on Election Day. In Maricopa County, there were widespread problems with tabulators — that is, vote-counting machines — but malfunctioning tabulators at vote centers did not mean citizens could not cast ballots. It simply meant ballots would be counted later at a central location.
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“A report released by the Maricopa County Elections Department noted that the use of the secure lockbox has been ‘a decades-long practice,’ but some voters were discouraged from using them because ‘many high profile and influential individuals instructed voters to not deposit their ballots in Door 3.’
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“Despite the malfunctioning tabulators, the overwhelming majority of vote centers did not experience long lines on Election Day. ‘In the 2022 General Election, Election Day voters waited in line an average of six minutes,’ according to the Maricopa County report. Out of 223 centers in the county where any registered voter could cast a ballot, only seven locations ‘experienced a wait time between 80 minutes [and] 115 minutes,’ according to the report, but each ‘of these locations had one or more nearby Vote Centers within a few miles that had a wait-time ranging from 1 minute to 25 minutes during the period they were experiencing their longest wait-times.’
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“There were legitimate problems in Maricopa County on Election Day, but none that justify overturning the gubernatorial election and none that justify Kari Lake’s refusal to concede. Lake, like Stacey Abrams before her, is free to embarrass herself for as long as she wants. But why would any other Republicans want to join her as sore losers?”
Kari Lake did file a lawsuit against the election results, however her lawsuit was so patently frivolous, she was ordered to pay sanctions for filing such a piece of b.s.
Document below from Missouri v. Biden.
More:
Articles like this are one reason why the National Review cruises have gone from about 450 cruisers, to less than 300 after the Trump bashing started, to 140 counting speakers last month. There were 12 ricochet folks on the last cruise who still had a sense of humor and some who disliked Trump did so without pissing off the rest of us. It is a skill you should work on.
Articles like this are also why we have had to scramble to find alternative gifts for family members who asked us not to renew NR gift subscriptions. Out of five family households, ours is the only subscription left.
You don’t listen, just preach. To be fair, that affliction is common in the Republican Party. What is your endgame? Republicans will not win elections because of such tone-deaf condescension. It costs NR many subscribers and has turned off some ricochet members. Also, I have had trouble getting my two ricochet gift subscription recipients to become active users of this site.
An “Ignore” feature might help with that last part.
I have no party.
Buy balloons and a keg, the rest will follow.
First rate suggestion.
PROOF: Crooked Secretary of State Katie Hobbs Had Twitter Silence Her Critics in Arizona – Prior to Gubernatorial Run – Data From MO vs. Biden (thegatewaypundit.com)
EDIT: I see 9th had already posted this info in comment #14.
Except for the funny stuff going on with the voting machines in Maricopa County causing a lot of voters to give up in disgust, and a Secretary of State running for Governor who refused to recuse herself from managing the vote count.
Rampant corruption by both parties. Democrat corruption is primarily meant to install communism. Corrupt Republicans just want money.
Democrats want to install communism with themselves at the top, which also means money.
Issues aren’t there to be addressed as far as the GOPe is concerned. They are there to help fundraising and campaigning. When they’ve ridden those horses into the ground, they’ll find new issues to support fundraising.
You sound like Stacey Abrams from 2018.
Wow, Stacey Abrams admits they want communism? That’s a surprise.
DC axiom: You can’t fund raise off of solved problems.
Exactly.
We have only 1/2 of one branch of government. Give us more money. We have the White House and the Senate now, but we don’t have a filibuster-proof majority. Give us more money. That MAGA guy didn’t understand how things get done in D. C. Give us more money to elect another RINO loser. What happened to our Red Wave?
Maybe they should do like March Of Dimes etc, solve one problem and then move on to solving a different problem.
Someone needs to take a good look at the California Republican Party (CRP).
I once read that the New York Republican Party doesn’t want to win elections, because its officials are comfortable with the status quo. That kind of thing makes me sick.
At the time I read that I didn’t know it was also true in California.
What I’m about to say might be unfair to a prominent politician in California, but I doubt it.
I was active in Republican politics in the mid /90’s. The California GOP hit its peak in 1994 and has been losing ever since. While I was active, one of the prominent figures in the CRP was Jim Brulte. Brulte always talked as though he wanted to win.
I stopped being active in the later nineties, shortly after the CRP losing streak began. Brulte was still prominent when I left.
20 years later I joined the South Bay Republican Club. I heard a lot of talk about how we need to start winning again, and to do that we need to start with baby steps by winning the small elections first, thus building a viable party. We had been losing for twenty years! NOW we start with baby steps!!?
Then I discovered Jim Brulte was still a prominent figure in the CRP, as the losing streak continued.
Brulte eventually stepped down and I don’t know who his replacement is. From the look of things, I doubt he was replaced by a winner.