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How the Election May Be Stolen
Be concerned. Very concerned. Even if Trump and the GOP appear to have won a major electoral victory on Election Night… because of Mail-in ballots the election will drag on for hours and days. Just a couple of ways how the theft is likely to occur: Mail-in ballot envelopes opened by steam, real ballots replaced with counterfeit ballots and envelopes resealed; and postal workers, already in the employ of Democrat operatives, dumping Republican ballots en masse into garbage dumpsters. But wait, there’s more.
First, from Gateway Pundit and the New York Post:
A Democrat operative who worked covertly in a massive voter fraud operation blew the whistle to New York Post reporter Jon Levine and revealed how Democrats will try to steal the 2020 election with their mail-in vote scheme.
The insider revealed how Democrats rig elections by paying homeless voters, taking advantage of elderly in nursing homes, fraudulently posing as registered voters, printing up phony ballots and actually removing real ballots from envelopes and replacing them with counterfeit ballots.
From the insider interviewed by the New York Post:
“You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
But it gets better. From Axios, this is what’s known in poker parlance as the “tell” (emphasis below mine):
A top Democratic data and analytics firm told “Axios on HBO” it’s highly likely that President Trump will appear to have won — potentially in a landslide — on election night, even if he ultimately loses when all the votes are counted.
Why this matters: Way more Democrats will vote by mail than Republicans, due to fears of the coronavirus, and it will take days if not weeks to tally these. This means Trump, thanks to Republicans doing almost all of their voting in person, could hold big electoral college and popular vote leads on election night.
- Imagine America, with its polarization and misinformation, if the vote tally swings wildly toward Joe Biden and Trump loses days later as the mail ballots are counted.
- That is what this group, Hawkfish, which is funded by Michael Bloomberg and also does work for the Democratic National Committee and pro-Biden Super PACs, is warning is a very real, if not foreordained, outcome.
What they’re saying: Hawkfish CEO Josh Mendelsohn calls the scenario a “red mirage.”
“We are sounding an alarm and saying that this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election night an incredible victory for Donald Trump,” he said.
“When every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be some day after Election Day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage,” Mendelsohn said. “It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.”
I don’t know how many lawyers the Trump organization has, or how many voting districts it can monitor and when necessary challenge if it appears that fraud is being perpetrated, or how many postal workers, if any, will be monitored on Election Day (so as to ensure that thousands of Republican ballots from a predominantly Republican district don’t get dumped into garbage bins in the night)…but however many lawyers and monitors they currently have, the GOP may want to get several thousand more.
If you thought the Bush v. Gore 2000 Election in Florida was an endless and stressful slog, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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Informative post. Thanks.
I’m way behind the curve on this. Is it a foregone conclusion that we will even have widespread mail-in voting other than in circumstances that were permissible in the past??
Mitch and Trump will never agree to universal mail ballots.
Also, each state has its own ballot rules. This is a state’s right, not federal.
I wasn’t too worried about this until I listened to “The Verdict” with Ted Cruz. He didn’t seem to think it was such a crazy idea.
Precisely. The Trump campaign has to file lawsuits to prevent mail-in ballot counting after Election Night on a state-by-state basis. If they are unsuccessful, then they have to have enough legal resources in each state and in thousands of voting precincts to challenge anything that looks underhanded and file a restraining order or hope that a sympathetic judge will throw out any ballots that are suspect or where it is apparent they’ve been tampered with.
Pray and vote – that’s all we can do………….
Pray for an army of aggressive attorneys and conservative judges first…then pray some more on Election Night and the hours and days after.
As I recall, it’s been reported that the Dems/Biden campaign already have some 600+ attorneys ready to go all across the country to fight out election issues.
Does the president have anything like this? Especially given the virulent anti-Trumpers in the GOPe?
Pray for the nation.
NJ socialist Gov Phil Murphy unilaterally decreed that every registered voter will receive a mail-in ballot. Municipalities can shut down up to 50% of the in-person polling places. (Voter suppression anyone?) If you do vote in person, your in-person ballot is “provisional” and will only be tallied if the election troops determine there is not already a mail-in ballot in your name. So, a counterfeit mail-in ballot takes precedence over a verified in-person ballot.
How can that be legal ?!?!?
I know the Trump organization put out the word that they needed attorneys for Election Night several weeks ago. I don’t know what their other recruitment efforts have been like apart from this outreach, and what the response has been, so hard to tell.
We need to have a system in which every individual voter can have confidence that his or her vote is properly recorded and counted, almost like a chain of custody of evidence in a criminal proceeding. What can we do? I would like to be able to go online into a voter database and verify how my vote is recorded.
Like a tracking number or audit trail
For the Oscars and Emmy’s, a big 4 accounting firm counts the votes
Yes. But we still have problems with deceased being on the registered voter rolls as well as those who leave a state but don’t cancel their voter registration. Those constitute a source for fraud where the voter is not someone with interest in validating their vote. Ideas for how to cope with this. Death records could be used to see if those show up as voters. It might be more difficult to check on people who have moved but those would also be more difficult for fraudsters to use.
Mail in voting begins in a few days in some states, with more states joining in each week thereafter with early mail in ballots. This is not a “monitor on election day” issue. It is a monitor every day, every postal worker where early ballots are being collected. Not going to happen. Naive Nohaaj wants to believe in the integrity of the system. Realist Nohaaj realizes we are being screwed. So how do we combat this? Are there armies of Conservatives going to (and are allowed into) nursing homes to allow elders to register their conservative votes? Has any one told Trump to not concede ever… LOL I love that this suggestion would make so many talking heads explode. Yet Hillary can express this advise to handsy joe, and all the knowing heads nod in agreement.
Thanks for that correction.
California was a successful trial run for using ballot harvesting to flip elections won by Republicans. If they get vote by mail through in enough states, no Republican will ever win another important election.
And donate to the legal organizations that will be filing the challenges. Does anyone have a list?
Well, that and volunteer. For now.
I’m sure Judicial Watch would be on that list.
Brian,
The legal full-court press. You ain’t kidding. Remember what Mean Joe Green said. I tackle the whole backfield and then start throwing guys out until I find the one with the ball. Don’t let up until Biden concedes however long it takes.
Regards,
Jim
This article from an enemy source was written to sound the alarm, so it might contain a little truth. It implies the people who’d best know who those orgs are would be the Trump campaign. That makes sense to me, the Trump contingent being the only competent, patriotic, and energetic Republicans I know of.
I understand that elections are under the purview of the states but I’d assume (?/worry), that those electoral changes would have to go through the respective state’s law making process and that those states where the Democrats control the governor and legislature are states that aren’t in play. I hate this and it dosen’t make it right, just thinking of best states tonfocus poll watching, legal challenges and heavy pushback.
In Wisconsin, the GOP has control of both State Senate, State House and Wi Supreme court. We don’t have governorship, attorney general. We stand a better chance here than California say.
Biden’s 8-point lead has so far survived both conventions and Kenosha. Polling in battleground states is pointing toward a blowout. If that lead persists until November, is it healthy to convince ourselves that the election was stolen 1) before it even happens 2) with such a massive spread 3) with incentives for Trump operatives to engage in ballot tampering as well 4) multiple states pulling off enough of a ballot fraud coup to overcome such a tremendous gap?
Both sides are priming the pump to insist the election was stolen no matter the results. The Democrats behaved with gross irresponsibility in my state of Georgia with Abrams. Let’s not join them without more to go on.
This 8-point lead represents the popular vote which, as screaming Hillary Clinton voters found out to their utter sorrow, is essentially meaningless since presidential elections are decided on a state-by-state basis through the Electoral College.
Is anyone suggesting that? I haven’t. Others haven’t. But there is ample evidence, including the NY Post article cited, including the Hawkfish study cited in the Axios piece, including the report of a “war game” scenario played out by John Podesta and some NeverTrumpers on what would happen if Biden refuses to concede the election result on Election Night claiming massive voter suppression.
I haven’t seen any articles on Republicans poised to engage in ballot tampering. Can you cite some from some reliable news sources? Historically, which party would you say that in the last 60+ years – the Democrats or the Republicans – have engaged in more voter fraud?
It’s only a matter of flipping one or a few Congressional districts or even one or two voting precincts in a given state, especially when the state vote tally is extremely close. Stories abound in California in 2016 and elsewhere that when a Democrat was losing by a close margin, boxes of harvested ballots would suddenly arrive flipping the tally. It seems quite incredible that every single Congressional district in Orange County flipped Democrat. Every one. The state of Nevada just approved ballot harvesting only a couple of months ago. See also this article in The Federalist.
Well, yes and no. Trump has pointed out, that the potential for voter fraud increases substantially with a massive mail-in vote effort when voters are given the opportunity to vote at least (with emphasis on the words “at least”) twice – once at a polling station and again by mail…and votes that could take weeks to sort out to purge the duplicate votes. Trump is correct to point this out.
Most of the stories laying out potential voter fraud or the Red Mirage scenario, as the articles I’ve cited don’t seem to be coming from paranoid Republicans but rather from Democrat operatives and a Democrat analyst group. FWIW.
Steaming open ballots? Seriously?
This hasn’t received an answer yet. The question adds to the general uncertainty. All I know is there are five states, including mine, that have implemented mail-in voting for at least the previous national election. Their controls vary in quality, I’m sure, but I suspect all those states will see their controls subverted on behalf of the left this year.
I’d like to know the numbers by state: how many legal and registered voters (that’s two questions), how many absentee ballots (sent and returned, for the previous several national elections, and how many so far this time), how many provisional ballots were recorded and how many eventually allowed, and a dozen other queries I’d like to run. Somebody point me to some data, I’ve been meaning to do something real with R anyway.
The seeds are being planted.
From the Washington Times: