The Herald reports:

A man who attacked a police officer with an axe said he planned to decapitate him and wave his head at other officers so they would shoot him.

It was one of the stunning revelations made by 25-year-old Ruairi Kern Taylor in an interview with a Corrections officer just weeks after the incident in September 2019.

The details of that discussion can now be revealed after the defendant was jailed for three years, three months before the High Court at Dunedin last month.

He got a mere 39 months for this. He could be eligible for parole after just 13 months.

“I’ve been planning to kill someone for three to four months before I did it,” he said.

“This was the first police officer I came across that was a good target.”

Doyle-Franklin, who gave evidence at a hearing in the High Court at Dunedin in July last year, attempted to have her interviewee rationalise his actions.

Why would he kill someone who had never wronged him?

“Because that’s something I could do that sits right for me … that just works for me,” Taylor said.

Doyle-Franklin said his manner was unnerving.

“His facial expression would get very animated — smirking and smiling — his eyes were really wide. It was quite clear from that he was getting enjoyment from retelling his offending,” she said.

Sounds like he’ll be safe to release!

Despite his ruling, shortly afterwards the Crown dropped the charge of attempted murder.

Taylor pleaded guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, intentional damage and assault with a weapon.

Because of the time he spent in custody awaiting resolution of the case, he will see the Parole Board this month.

Why did they drop the charge? His admission was admissible. A conviction would have been easy.

Stuff reports:

A hospitality business owner says the Government is sending mixed signals after ignoring advice about delaying the minimum wage increase and recommendations for a smaller rise after Covid-19.

The minimum wage report by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) published in December 2020 advised delaying the increase until October, and by 25 cents, or 1.3 per cent, due to the economic uncertainty.

However, the Government ignored this advice and confirmed the minimum wage would rise by $1.10, or 5.8 per cent, to $20 an hour from April 2021, sticking to its election promise.

Auckland cafe owner Chris Monaghan said 2020 was a tough year for every hospitality business, and the 5.8 per cent increased wages would add greater pressure on the sector.

Businesses can handle increased wage costs when they have increasing revenue. But when they have declining revenue, increasing wage costs will send many under.

Alone in his office, Trump has failed. Despite everything he threw at it, the US system was resilient enough to stop his coup and the Congress of the United States has just this minute certified Joe Biden as the President-Elect and Kamala Harris as the Vice-President Elect.

The objection to Arizona was defeated 93-6 in the Senate and 303-121 in the House. The objection to Pennsylvania was defeated 92-7 in the Senate and 282-138 in the House.

He has less than 14 days left in office at which point he will lose his immunity for prosecution and the indictments will start to form up.

For those not following, pro Trump forces have broken through multiple lines of Police to storm the Capitol, disrupting the election certification.

Both the House and Senate have gone into recess and VP Pence has been taken to a secure location.

What an image. A terrible day for the US and democracy.

If a former Republican President is calling it an insurrection, then we can conclude this is not just a protest.

And a Republican Governor is calling for Trump to be removed from office.

Also in other news the GOP has lost the Senate with the Democrats having won both seats in Georgia.

Golriz Ghahraman tweeted this fake headline which is a modern version of the old Jewish blood libel.

It implies Israel is excluding the vaccine from Palestinians. It is a vicious lie designed to smear the Jewish state.

Here’s the facts:

1. The Oslo Accords (Article VI, 2) between the Palestinian Authority and Israel stipulate that the Palestinian Authority is responsible for healthcare, including vaccinations, for Palestinians in their territory.
2. The Palestinian Authority has not asked for help from Israel
3. Israel last year held training courses for medical teams and lab technicians in Palestine and donated coronavirus testing kits
4. The Palestinian Authority has chosen to secure four million Russian-made vaccines against COVID-19 which they are expecting in February
5. Israel has vaccinated Palestinians who reside in East Jerusalem in line with the Oslo Accords
6. Israel’s vaccine operation has run in predominately Arab areas in Israel
7. The Israeli PM recently visited two Arab cities (in Israel) to encourage more vaccination

The tweet was an offensive smear. But I doubt there will be an apology.

With almost 80% of ballots counted, the NY Times is projecting the two Senate seats to go to the Democrats by 1.8% and 1.0%. They note:

Republicans have taken a narrow lead in the tabulated vote, but the Democrats are clear favorites in both races. The overwhelming majority of remaining votes are in the Atlanta metro area, and while the race remains competitive, there’s no indication that the Republicans are poised to outperform expectations. The big Democratic vote left: the DeKalb County early vote. We expect these 170,000 votes to break for Ossoff by an 85-15 margin.

So the outcome is not certain, but things look good for the Democrats. If the GOP loses both seats, it will be due to Trump so his parting gift will be giving the Democrats control of the Senate as well as the House and the Presidency.

538 point out:

Best I can tell, Perdue and Loeffler are running slightly behind Trump in margin. We’re up to 107 counties that have reported 95 percent or more of their expected vote, and if you total up the votes in those places, Trump won them by 25.7 points in November. But Perdue is only up 25.3 points in those places and Loeffler is up 24.8 points. Plenty of votes left to count, but that’s not what the GOP wants, especially as many of these are Republican-leaning places.

The two Republicans did better than Trump in the first round but Trump’s refusal to concede appears to have motivated the Democrats to turn out more than Republicans.

Still far from over yet, so we’ll see how it goes over the next 24 hours.

Biden’s strategy of trying to ignore what Trump and the Republicans are doing and calling it a stunt us misguided. If I was Biden I would respond to what Trump and the Republicans are doing with the full force of the law. Here’s what I would do

1. Announce your Attorney-General is Stacey Abrams or someone even more likely to prosecute those trying to steal the election
2. Have the new Attorney-General announce that the Department of Justice will commence an inquiry against Donald J Trump, 12 Republican Senators and 140 members of the US House for seditious conspiracy (section 2384 of Chapter 115 of Title 18 of the US code), namely conspiring to overthrow the Government of the United States
3. After gathering of evidence have a joint press conference with the Attorney-General of the United States, the Attorney-General of Georgia, the Attorney-General of New York and the Manhattan District Attorney announcing a plethora of charges against Trump and his Trumpites.
4. The most serious charges of seditious conspiracy is laid against all of those who tried to overthrow the election result and seek the maximum jail term of 20 years for all parties to the conspiracy

Nothing less than that will discourage them from trying again. Turn Trump’s rally call into a reality and lock them all up.

Stuff reports:

A former inmate at Waikeria Prison has rubbished claims of poor conditions at the jail and claimed the presence of deported Australian gang members was a more likely cause for the unrest.

The prison was the scene of a five-night standoff, with prisoners lighting multiple fires which destroyed the “top jail” facility at the prison.

Family members of the protesters said their complaints about conditions at the prison were dismissed before the protest took place.

I don’t know why the media report allegations from family members without substantinating them.

They claim their complaints about conditions were dismissed. Before reporting this allegation I would ask the family members for specifics – a copy of the complaint, who was it sent to and when.

I’m pretty confident there won’t be any proof of any complaints having been made.

Not that this would justify the riot, even if true.

However, the former inmate Stuff spoke to, who wished to remain anonymous, said he believed the more likely cause of the trouble were Mongols and Comanchero gang members, five of whom were deportees from Australia.

No surprise.

“When they were deported they should have been put straight into maximum security.”

Better late than never. All those who took part should be separated out and farmed around other NZ prisons.

This is part 4 of 4 (cue a sigh of relief from the Trump skeptics). Georgia has become ground zero for 2020 Presidential election voter fraud allegations because in that state, the three types of voter fraud (retail, constitutional and industrial) are all present. Georgia adds an additional layer of fascination because the Governor (Brain Kemp) and the Secretary of State (Brad Raffensperger) are Republicans and tension over voter fraud allegations have sparked intra party tension inside the GA GOP and around the country. The Georgia State Legislature also has the distinction of holding the most hearings on voter fraud and those hearings have been official in that authorized State Senate Committee chairs have convened them under normal committee meeting rules on the premises of the State Legislature. Also, in the GA hearings, Democrat legislators have been present and have cross examined witnesses. In AZ, the hearings were not formal, were attended only by Republican legislators and were held at a hotel in Phoenix. Pennsylvania Legislature hearings had only Republican legislators present.

I covered the retail fraud evidence in Georgia in part 1. Changes to the manner in which the election was held in GA were likely unconstitutional in similar manner to the changes in Pennsylvania and those changes (particularly the watering down of the signature verification process as a consequence of a Consent Decree between the GA Secretary of State’s office and the GA Democratic Party) have been front and centre in the constitutional challenges about the GA elections. Much is made of all the lawsuits on election fraud that have failed. Analyzing all the cases would be a separate lengthy post in itself that I won’t attempt, suffice it to say that the mainstream media narrative is to lump all suits together as one mass of failure with little to no analysis as to why specific suits did not succeed. Standing matters, quality of evidence matters, matching the remedy to the alleged fraud matters and yes, the politics of the judges matters hugely as does a natural human reluctance to not be the one person to overturn a Presidential election. Time also matters – large fraud takes time to prove, even for law enforcement agencies who have the resources of a state or federal government to back them up. Much of the work of unearthing the fraud has been done by a small number of experts who lack resources and lawsuits have been brought in a scattergun throw-it-all-up-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach. If you want Federal judges to take your case seriously then you have to do better than that. The Trump campaign itself has filed relatively few suits and it has one already accepted by SCOTUS to be heard (the PA case on 22/1/21). In the case of Georgia, several of the failed suits were filed by Sidney Powell and Atlanta based defamation attorney Lin Wood. Powell’s suits invoke her “Kraken” which comprises allegations of the vast global network of foreign interference and control of the Dominion machines. Proving allegations like this are best left to the heads of agencies like the CIA or DNI (Director of National Intelligence) and pulling together proof of anything this grand, assuming the institutional stomach exists to even do it, would take years of costly intelligence work. It is little wonder that Powell’s suits are summarily dismissed. Wood likewise lays out the GA fraud but lards his suits with the same ‘Kraken’ stuff and then accompanies his efforts with endless and quite nasty personal attacks on judges and the very GA Republican politicians he is attempting to get courts to rule against. This is tactical stupidity and so some of the legitimate and legally correct arguments he might make in the GA situation are lost in the hot mess of the grand conspiracy stuff he traffics in. This almost begs a court to dismiss. Still other suits are brought by well meaning individuals and organisations who avoid these excesses but nonetheless don’t have sufficient standing to warrant the extreme remedy being sought. In the midst of this thicket of messy and ineffectual suits are a handful that are targeted, factual and backed by evidence brought by plaintiffs with clear standing and they are the few that are working their way through the layers of courts. Time will tell how many SCOTUS will hear.

When it comes to the allegations of industrial fraud, that of manipulation of vote totals by tabulation machines and of the introduction of fraudulent ballots on a large scale to provide the paper ballot backup to the machine manipulation, I covered in Part 3 some of the difficulties in proving this. Perhaps the most public and significant of these allegations revolve around the footage of election workers in the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Fulton County, GA filmed on security camera on the day and evening of November 3^rd as presented by the Trump campaign to members of the Georgia Legislature at the first set of GA hearings held on December 3rd. The GA Secretary of State’s office and a number of liberal fact check sites were quick out of the blocks with denials and explanations and if you are a Trump supporter or someone inclined to believe there was election fraud, the video was a slam dunk and if you are not a Trump fan and think that the election fraud claims are either false or overblown then the fact checks will mean you will say or write that this footage has been debunked. I am going to devote only this paragraph on this incident but claim, counter claim and counter-counter claims are well summarised in this then this excellent article. In reality, unless a court has time to subpoena and hear witness testimony under oath from all participants in this event with election and forensic experts pouring over the video footage, the effect of this incident will be more to provide a sense of disquiet about what actually happened that adds to other evidence that continues to come forth sufficient for the GA Legislature to order forensic examinations of the machines and for some to urge a rethink its certification of the 16 Biden electors for Georgia.

On Wednesday last week (30/12/20), at the 2^nd GA State Legislature hearing, more of that evidence was forthcoming and it was more definitively compelling and sparked a response that somewhat reinforces the allegations of fraud. Perhaps the most compelling 20 minutes of testimony came from three members of the Data Integrity Group (DIG).  Their testimony is found from 4:24’16” to 4:46’0”, the bulk of which was done by Justin Mealey, a former electronic warfare technician with the US Navy for 9 years, a CIA contract data analyst and programmer for the National Counterintelligence Centre and currently working for one of the big 4 accounting firms as a programmer. and David Lobue, a machine learning expert and data scientist.

They began by saying that they are data analysts, and that data are numbers and data are nonpartisan. The DIG believe they have proven fraud in GA with data by analysing 3 data sources:

1 – The New York Times/Edison Research data feed which are time series publications of votes added at different intervals county by county.

2 – Scytl data source which bifurcates the same data to Edison and the GA Secretary of State and his office’s certification of GA was off that data source.

3 – GA Secretary of State’s own data as a third check.

On this data they applied vigorous and thoroughly tested standard fraud detection processes and machine learning algorithms used to routinely detect fraud in many real world fraud settings. The data sources are freely available to the public and the DIG processes, codes and research is public so it can be replicated. Their research in GA alone unearthed 40 negative vote instances (by that they mean that incremental time sequential vote totals for Trump went backwards) and vote switching events totaling 200,000 votes.

In Fulton County (incorporating metropolitan Atlanta), they found that Biden garnered the following statistically impossible vote percentages in the following precincts:

90 to 93% in 28 precincts

94% in 51 precincts

95% in 36 precincts

96 to 100% in 36 precincts

So, in 150 + in Fulton County precincts, Biden ‘won’ over 90% of the vote and got a total of 152,000 votes. In Dekalb County, Biden got 90% or more of the vote in a staggering 94 precincts. Both counties voting patterns are, to experienced data analysts, major markers for fraud. Note that Biden’s current margin in GA is only 11,779 votes. They discovered vote count switching in 3 counties: Dodge, Putnam and Dougherty. Please note that with ongoing reporting of vote counts, incremental vote totals can only be additive.

The final attempt in the Trump coup will come on January 6 (7 in NZ) when Trump acolytes will try and overturn the result of the Electoral College electing Biden.

It is worth noting there are two sources of law for what happens at the counting of the vote – the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act.

The provisions of the Electoral Count Act are subservient to the constitution. Nothing in that Act can be used to undermine the actual constitution. So if (for example) Mike Pence (as Trump wants him to) declared Trump elected, a court would rapidly reverse it.

So what does the constitution say:

The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; — The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted

So the constitution says the job is to count the votes. That’s it.

Now the Electoral Count Act 1881 has further provisions, but again remember these provisions do not override the constitution. They say:

Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title from which but one return has been received shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified.

Under the ECA, a state’s electoral votes can be rejected if both the House and Senate decide they are improper. This won’t happen as the Democrats have a majority in the House. But even if say the GOP had a majority in the House and Senate and they voted to reject a state’s votes to try and steal the election, there is no way it would survive court action. Because nothing in the ECA can over-ride the constitution and the constitution does not give Congress the power to decide who won the election. Their constitutional job is only to count the vote.

What will be of real interest on the 6th is how the Repuplicans representatives and senators vote. Will they vote to appease Trump (as not doing so may generate a primary challenge) or will they vote to uphold democracy?

If they vote for Trump they are less likely to have a primary challenge but more likely to lose in the general election (unless in a very safe seat).

First off, this will not be a post about lawyer Sidney Powell and her fellow attorney Lin Wood’s allegations about Dominion Voting Systems (DVS). Whilst the allegations they make are interesting and could end up being correct, it is not possible to prove such grand and sweeping statements with anything remotely close to what a court needs to overturn an election result. Their various lawsuits have been chock full of foreign interference allegations and her various proof documents require a computer science degree to decipher. In the tight timeframes and high burden of proof that is required to prove election fraud in 2020, they are both indulging in wishful thinking however well intentioned. Lin Wood has complicated matters with his recent inflammatory and bordering on crazy tweets.

That said, there are clearly issues with the Dominion voting machines but filing affidavits with a 12 year old story from a former Venezuelan army intelligence officer is not ever going to persuade a court to overturn election results or even get an order to examine machines. A good number of the thrown out lawsuits on election fraud have sourced from Powell and Wood and it doesn’t take a law degree to figure out why. There is a reason why the Trump campaign’s lawyers (Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis) early on in the litigation process made a public statement distancing themselves them Powell and Wood and one only has to read the court filings from the different ‘camps’ and compare their quality to see why.

There is no denying that a series of unusual statistical anomalies occurred with the vote counts mostly of absentee ballots early in the morning of November 4^th in the 6 key states where Trump either led substantially after the polls closed (PA, MI, WI and GA), was expected to lead based on historical vote counting patterns (AZ) and was in with a chance to overcome a Biden lead (NV). The same could be said for Minnesota, Virginia and New Mexico. This is a short summary of three of these anomalies that have no precedent either in prior elections or can be found in other battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina (all states that Obama won easily, Trump won in 2016 and easily won re-election in 2020):

1 – Virginia: when you view the raw data feed (graph 2/3rds down the article) sent to the pool media outlets from the county recorders’ offices via Edison Research (the nominated aggregator of real time election counting data), a series of 37 consecutive absentee ballot counting dumps from 8.02 am EST on 4/11/20 to 9.30pm EST on 6/11/20, all reported an almost identical winning margin for Biden (54/45). It is hard to draw any other conclusion than there was some kind of electronic manipulation of the data.

2 – Pennsylvania: The absentee ballot vote counts reported through the night of 3 November and into the following days, when you examine the Biden/Trump split of absentee ballots by county (see graph 2/3rds through the article), Biden leads Trump by 40% evenly in every county in PA regardless of where and yet the split on election day was more pro Biden in the big cities and more pro Trump in the smaller towns and rural counties, a pattern that is the norm. The same regional variation in party strength was evident in the absentee ballot count in PA in 2016 and in other states in 2020 that were not part of the disputed 6. Such a bizarre statistical anomaly again can only be explained by something preprogrammed into the machine doing the counting of the absentee ballots.

3 – Georgia: I will cover what happened in GA in a separate post tomorrow.

4 – Michigan: Analysis of precinct by precinct candidate vote splits (begins at 34’ 37”) in Macomb County revealed similar odd results that defy statistical and historical norms. In the historically strongest Democrat precincts in the county, the Biden/Trump split appears to be normal but if you plot each precinct by its historical party voting strength in a continuum with strongest Democrat on the left to strongest Republican on the right and plot them in descending order of GOP strength from left to right, in the traditional GOP precincts, the stronger the traditional GOP vote, the wider the margin of victory for Biden! This trend continues in a clean direct linear line and against all the norms of voting behaviour (i.e., the stronger the precinct has been for the Republican party, the bigger the margin of Trump’s victory – a trend that is obvious in other states not in the fraud firing line). The only logical explanation is the possibility of a vote switching algorithm designed to skim Trump votes to Biden in even but small incremental steps based on the core Trump vote.

Newshub has a useful timeline of Covid-19. Judge for yourself if we went fast and hard or not?

• Day 1 – Virus detected outside China (I choose this as Day 1 as it is when action should have started)
• Day 7 – Michael Baker warns we should start border surveillance
• Day 13 – DG of Health says probability of an outbreak in NZ is low
• Day 16 – WHO declares global health emergency
• Day 19 – Govt bans travellers from China
• Day 46 – PM condemns media for causing anxiety
• Day 50 – Siouxsie Wiles attacks Simon Bridges for criticising Government response
• Day 53 – David Clark rejects drive-thru testing hubs saying not needed yet
• Day 57 – Govt bans travellers from Italy
• Day 60 – Govt asks travellers to voluntarily self-isolate
• Day 62 – Gatherings over 500 banned
• Day 64 – first testing station deployed
• Day 65 – borders closed to non-residents

So they took 65 days to close the borders and this is called fast and hard!

Happy New Year to all! Also, for the tl:dr crowd, a much shorter, more concise post. When you read about election fraud in third world countries, the most common way that elections are rigged is through ballot stuffing. One of the most important ways to prevent ballot stuffing is to have strict chains of custody of ballot boxes. New Zealand is a paragon of clean and efficient election administration with voter fraud relegated to a tiny few fringe operators who may vote twice or pay for food for Polynesian voters in South Auckland to get to the polls. The numbers of court cases in NZ alleging improper vote counts can be counted on one hand and, from memory, a court ordered recount has reversed an election night (plus special votes) count only once (in 1978 Winston Peters sought a High Court electoral petition that successfully overturned his election night loss in the electorate of Hunua when he was in the National Party). Having been a polling booth party scrutineer and an election night count party scrutineer in NZ, I can attest to the simple, uncomplicated bipartisan approach taken with voting and ballot counting in NZ. Aside from overseas votes, there are no absentee ballots allowed and every vote is cast in polling locations monitored by paid election officials employed by Elections NZ. Advance voting occurs only at selected polling locations designated to receive ballots and the ballot boxes are locked and supervised by people like Council or Library staff to ensure there is no tampering.

On election night in NZ, votes are counted only at each polling booth with the polling supervisor at each location being the only person with the keys to the ballot boxes. The paper ballots are tipped out onto tables and are sorted into party vote and electorate vote piles with party observers watching all the time, no machines are ever used to count or tabulate ballots. When NZ moved from a ballot that required voters to strike out the names of candidates they didn’t want to a straight X in a box next to the preferred candidate or party in 1996, there were far fewer disputed ballots. Any party observer can dispute a ballot and it is put into a disputed pile and the election workers and party scrutineers go over each disputed ballot to come to an agreement on voter intent. The polling booth supervisor then locks the ballots back in the boxes and communicates the polling booth tally to Elections NZ central processing centre where the vote tallies for each electorate are tallied and the party votes for the whole country are aggregated.

One of the most insidious trends in the 2020 US Presidential election was the widespread use of unsupervised ballot drop boxes exclusively for voters to drop off absentee ballots. Under the cover of the Covid 19 pandemic, a few obscure charities, the most notable of which was the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), began to offer funding to cities and counties to fund the cost of community sited ballot boxes, election equipment, poll worker training and so-called election supervisors. These proposals, couched in terms of making it easier for voters to return absentee ballots rather than voting in person, selectively funded a whole new private election infrastructure under the nominal purview of local government election officials. What emerged was a pattern of selective funding of Democrat heavy cities and counties and as 2020 rolled out, massive donations from the likes of the Mark Zuckerberg Foundation (the Facebook founder and owner) totaling more than $350 million were made. The CTCL expended an average of $47 per voter in Democrat controlled cities and counties and only $7 per voter in Republican counties. The actions of the CTCL have been the subject of extensive research done by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society spearheaded by former Kansas State Attorney General Phill Kline. It makes for grim reading.

Elections in the US are governed by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which requires each county and state to submit and have approved a Safe Election Plan. Such innovations as a large private charity funding big boosts in spending on election infrastructure must all be approved in advance. The CTCL submitted a Wisconsin Safe Elections plan and an equivalent in Michigan that specifically required municipalities and counties receiving the assistance to circumvent Wisconsin and Michigan election law in 5 key ways:

• In Wisconsin, they heavily promoted people circumventing the strict absentee ballot signature requirements by enrolling as Indefinitely Confined as detailed in Part 1 yesterday.
• The plan called for hundreds of unstaffed and unsupervised absentee ballot boxes to be placed in Democrat heavy communities thus breaking chain of custody requirements as there was no way to monitor if someone was using the unstaffed ballot boxes as a no-questions-asked place to launder fraudulent ballots as the legitimately placed ballots would be commingled with the illegal ballots at the time the ballots were counted.
• Consolidation of counting centres. This made it easier for Democrat election officials to exclude Republican observers or to force them to sit so far away as to render the close up scrutiny we take for granted in NZ impossible to achieve. The most notable example was the TCF Center in Detroit that aggregated all the ballots from metro Detroit and Wayne County in a single location where GOP observers were shooed away and then the windows were boarded up. Can you imagine such a thing happening in NZ?
• The plan called for paid ‘Vote Navigators’ whose job it was oversee the CTCL procedures. No such position exists in the legal election infrastructure as proscribed by state law.
• A crucial part of any HAVA compliant state election plan was for provision to be made for updating and cleaning electoral rolls. The Amistad Project examined hundreds of CTCL employment contracts and not one made any mention of cleaning voter rolls because dirty rolls are a feature not a bug in Democrat controlled jurisdictions.

The unstaffed drop boxes were placed in extraordinary concentrations in Democrat strongholds with for example, one every 4 square miles and 4,000 voters in Philadelphia and one every 1,100 square miles and 77,000 voters in rural Pennsylvania AND none of these boxes had auditable logbooks of what was picked up, when and by who as ballots were collected often by people on the payroll not of the city or county but of the CTCL (and related entities such as Rock the Vote) ‘Vote Navigators’. The scope for rampant fraud was wide open.

The subterfuge engineered by the CTCL went further. One of the requirements of the funding was for the municipalities receiving the funds was that [EDIT] CTLC could directly register voters via direct access to the country registration database rather than just submit registration forms to county clerks’ offices like other parties do to enable the CTCL (and subsidiary groups) to engage in voter registration more easily and rapidly and also to register ineligible people to vote to circumvent the clerk pre registration checks. Cities and Counties receiving funding were required to allow the CTCL access to these computer systems. They went a step further – to oversee this expansion of the voting infrastructure, whilst the overall control was still in the hands of County election officials, jurisdictions were cash strapped after Covid and so paying for extra election supervisors was not in their budgets. Instead, the CTCL grants paid for the salaries of additional election officials including election ‘judges’ whose job it was to adjudicate disputed ballots. Never in US history has some of the vital machinery of running and supervising elections and even the adjudicating of ballots been effectively privatised to an outside charity with a massive bias in its funding in favour of one candidate against another with no ability to audit and none of the usual checks and balances, transparency and being able to examine records as is the case with a taxpayer funded city or county elections department.

The Amistad Project used considerable legal resources to litigate disclosures of information about the CTCL as, being a private entity, they refused to abide by FOIA requests that are routine for any governmental agency. This was a massive private funded election infrastructure effort almost entirely hidden from private scrutiny. Their report details the many lawsuits and other ways that they were able to penetrate the veil of secrecy that surrounded this unprecedented effort. They were able to get detailed breakdowns of how much money was donated to what cities and counties across the battleground states.

Those trying to defend the actions of the CTCL have said that the pandemic left municipalities uniquely vulnerable to funding constraints and yet the Federal Government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for voting infrastructure and training of poll workers etc. and in many states, millions of these funds (that would be accountable as taxpayer funds) were unallocated with jurisdictions (almost all Democrat) choosing to take the CTCL money instead because it enabled them to circumvent state election laws by establishing the huge number of remote unsupervised absentee ballot drop boxes. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the activities of the CTCL was that Democrat Governors, Secretaries of State, Attorneys General, and County Election Supervisors were entirely comfortable with what they were doing and how they were doing it, blindly ignoring state election laws to ensure secure chains of ballot custody.

What was the electoral impact of this type of fraud? As stated, it is hard to separate legitimately cast ballots from those received via ballot stuffing – that is the reason why remote ballot boxes are illegal. We do know that this was the preferred method used by illegal ballot harvesters to ‘launder’ their harvested ballots. In almost all states (and in all the key battleground states), ballot harvesting is illegal. Ballot harvesting is when third parties go around and collect absentee ballots for other people. Ballot harvesters target large apartment complexes in states that authorized the mass mail out of absentee ballots as that is where multiple ballots sent to apartments get thrown in rubbish skips so they dumpster dive, they look at apartment complexes and housing subdivisions with a large communal mailbox blocks for discarded mail in ballots and they target low income housing, retirement homes and council housing with elderly residents to offer to ‘help’ them vote. Some ballot harvesters will simply assure the elderly person that they will cast their ballot for them as they wish and not waste their time and then complete the ballot for Biden in their own time. Other ballot harvesters target specific ethnic communities and speak the same language so as to engender trust. Obviously a ballot harvester cannot bring a big haul of absentee ballots into a normal authorised county or city ballot box as the official ones normally are in a lobby of a government building that is monitored by either reception staff or has a camera on the box to detect any tampering. A ballot harvester was caught on film in Minneapolis with over 300 absentee ballots in his car, many for which he had paid cash, all for Biden and for his boss (controversial Somalian Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar) from only a few days work. Imagine hundreds of illegal ballot harvesters fanning out across the various key Democrat strongholds in the key states doing the harvesting like the type seen on film for weeks. The numbers of illegally obtained and cast ballots soon adds up to the tens of thousands. The placement of thousands of illegal remote ballot drop boxes by the CTCL and others was the perfect way to facilitate this fraud.

Can this activity be actually proven on a scale sufficient to overturn a current state result? As stated in Part 1, it would appear that the Trump lawyers in Wisconsin during their recount (which, like Wisconsin electoral law, has one of the most stringent and thorough recounts in the country) unearthed over 20,000 illegally cast absentee ballots that were put into illegally placed community ballot boxes in just the city of Madison alone. If a judge had the courage to rule on this illegality, that alone would reverse the Biden margin in Wisconsin. The city of Milwaukee is five times larger than Madison and even if you were to assume that illegal community ballot boxes were put in only a third of Milwaukee, that’s still almost double the likely number of illegally cast absentee ballots that were dropped in community boxes in Milwaukee. The use of unsupervised community ballot boxes was widespread in Atlanta, GA, in Pittsburg and Philadelphia, PA, In Phoenix, AZ, in Las Vegas, NV and in Detroit, MI – all are cities that strongly vote Democrat. Proving this specific fraud in those cities will be next to impossible.

In conclusion, imagine if Graham Tindall’s Foundation had a $5 million fund that it made available to community Get Out the Vote organisations in NZ and that they paid for remote unsupervised ballot boxes to receive advanced votes in shopping malls, train/bus stations and sports stadiums in key Labour strongholds in the major cities. There would be an uproar about private interference in our elections and one that was purely partisan in nature. An idea like that would be rightly shouted down in the NZ media and public opprobrium would mean the scheme would ever see the light of day and yet here in the world’s richest democracy, elected officials for one party allowed billionaires to fund an infrastructure that broke the fundamental rule of free and fair elections, that of a traceable chain of custody of thousands of ballot boxes all conveniently in locations that went heavily for Biden. The practice of elections in Democrat controlled jurisdictions bears no resemblance to the election procedures used in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK and has more in common with that which is done in Zimbabwe, Bolivia and Venezuela. Media incuriosity at this outrage here in the US is staggering until one realizes that they are so heavily invested in a Biden win that any evidence of election fraud is to be ignored, poo pooed and dismissed as inconsequential.

Stuff reports:

A riot at Waikeria Prison is escalating, with inmates constructing makeshift weapons and raiding an equipment room for armour and batons.

Ministry of Corrections incident controller Jeanette Burns believes “violent” prisoners are planning to attack staff.

“The prisoners have continued to cause extensive damage to the facility, including forcibly accessing restricted areas including a room used to store tactical equipment that includes power tools, shields, batons and body armour,” Burns said.

This is why any incident like this should be dealt with firmly and immediately. By allowing the rioting prisoners the run of the place for days on end, they have managed to get access to a room which now makes it even more dangerous for the poor prison guards.

The riot began on Tuesday after 17 inmates started several fires.

It’s now Saturday. Why did they allow it to go on for so long?

Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi visited the prison in Ōtorohanga on Thursday night to speak with the 16 men who have taken over the prison in protest.

“They are clear that this is not a riot, it is a protest for their human rights for all inmates past and present,” he said.

Sure it is.

The Ministers of Corrections is Kelvin Davis. I assume he flew back to Wellington some days ago to receive regular briefings in the situation and to convey to the Department that they need to restore order in the prison to protect the staff and other prisoners.

Introduction

During the dead zone of the Christmas and summer holidays in NZ, I thought I’d report on what actual evidence there is of election fraud in the US Presidential election. This will be a 4 part series and will focus only on aspects of fraud that can be proven and that are consequential, by that I mean, on a scale sufficient to tip enough votes back to Trump to overcome a result in particular states. In my first post on this subject, it was a scattergun of all known and reported types of fraud and I did this only 7 days after the election when less was known and unearthed than is known now.

Let me preface this by casting Kiwiblog readers’ minds back to the 2008 Presidential election and the time when Republican nominee John McCain announced that Sarah Palin, the former mayor of Visalia, Alaska would be his running mate. It was a shock announcement designed to provide some kind of youthful foil to the aged McCain struggling to compete against the charismatic young Barack Obama. The mainstream media were intent on assisting Obama’s election and so took the Palin threat seriously and many large media organisations spent large sums on a cadre of investigative reporters who travelled to Alaska and literally dumpster dived for dirt on Palin and came up with a torrent of negative family and personal issues that were given front page prominence. We can see the same tenacity employed by the Washington Post alone in the initial months of the Watergate scandal in 1974, efforts that eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation prior to likely impeachment from office. These stories illustrate that when the media want to get to the bottom of something, they leave no stone unturned to get to the truth.

When it comes to ensuring the election of Joe Biden, the mainstream media have excelled in running cover for Biden and excoriating Trump and so when allegations of voter fraud began to emerge on and after 3 November 2020, not only were they incurious, they soon joined forces to demand proof and then were disinterested in investigating or reporting on the proof except to report on all the failed law suits, to urge Trump to concede and to label his supporters as unpatriotic deniers of the reality of Biden’s election. Establishment Republicans soon joined the never-Trumpers as did establishment right leaning media (Fox News, National Review, and a number of centre right media people, even many who supported Trump), all adopting a view that even if there was fraud, it was hard to prove sufficient to overturn the election result and that Trump and his followers should move on to fight another day. Thus, it has been left to a group of lesser known conservative writers, bloggers, former politicians and media personalities and a bunch of forensic accountants, auditors, cyber security experts, statisticians, constitutional lawyers, and data analysts to crunch the numbers, look at the patterns and examine and report on the evidence, reporting that has gone almost completely unnoticed even ignored by the mainstream media. The mainstream media narrative on election fraud, despite the near blackout of reporting on evidence of the fraud (despite the constant hue and cry to produce evidence), has slowly evolved from: there was no fraud at all to, there was a little bit of fraud but there’s always been fraud so what’s the big to deal to, well perhaps there was more fraud this time than in previous election to, there maybe was more widespread fraud but not enough to overturn individual states’ results to, whatever fraud there was it’s too late now to do anything as all the officials and courts have ruled that the results should stand.

I am going to focus on 4 specific examples of proven fraud in each part of the series and will do so in detail and to look at the some of the attempts to rebut these specific claims.

1 – Retail fraud

2 – Mass Chain of Custody Infractions

3 – Forensic audit of voting machines in Michigan

4 – Video and statistical evidence in Georgia

These four examples are by no means the full and complete list of voter fraud as the list is long and growing. In the last part I will examine some of the court actions and resulting rulings.

Proving fraud to the level of proof required in a criminal case (beyond reasonable doubt) is not easy because those committing fraud go to extraordinary lengths to cover their tracks. Often the case has to be built incrementally with fragments of proof from different sources. Usually this means some documentary evidence like bank statements, invoices, and other paper trails, often there are unusual patterns of flow of funds and of behaviour of the accused, some of this can be proven by historical comparison and others by use of affidavits from persons associated with the fraudsters who report unusual behaviour. Then there are background interviews with persons acquainted with the personal circumstances of the accused to build up provable motives. Large fraud trials such as the Bernie Madoff giant Ponzi scheme took years to bring to trial and consumed huge resources of large Federal agencies such as the SEC and FBI. In the case of proving election fraud to a level that courts or legislatures will take the extreme step of ruling an election invalid and awarding a state’s electors to the opponent alleging the fraud, those are history making decisions that require more than just circumstantial evidence and the proving of it must be done in days and weeks because the Constitution requires that a new President be inaugurated on January 20^th after the election. It is a tall order no matter how widespread fraud might appear to be.

Retail Fraud

Retail fraud is defined as the counting of illegal votes cast by voters ineligible to vote or cast in an illegal manner as opposed to institutional fraud where portions of a state’s election procedures are unconstitutional resulting in whole categories of votes being counted when state electoral law says otherwise or industrial fraud involving possible manipulation of voting machines that count ballots. Retail fraud occurs in various ways. I am going to concentrate on provable instances on a scale that exceeds that of the narrow Biden current margins in the 4 of the 6 key battleground states (in bold) where widespread fraud is alleged (Arizona – AZ, Georgia – GA, Michigan – MI, Nevada – NV, Pennsylvania – PA and Wisconsin – WI). Note the current Electoral College Vote split is Biden 306 – Trump 232

1 – Ineligible voters in Wisconsin (margin for Biden 20,682 – 10 ECV)

Dane County, WI Circuit Court Judge Troupis testified under oath to the US Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on 2020 Election Irregularities on December 16^th and identified the following categories of illegally cast votes in WI:

* Absentee voters who escaped signature scrutiny by falsely claiming to be indefinitely confined

28,395 illegal voters are identified as falsely using this status (Wisconsin has enacted some of the strictest voter verification procedures in the country that were flagrantly breached in the 2020 election. If you want to vote via absentee ballot in WI, you have to apply to have a ballot sent so as to have your signature on file and you have to have furnished additional evidence of your mailing address and ID (such as a utility bill and driver’s license). You must also have a witness verify your application and the witness’ signature must also be verified. County Clerks in Democrat heavy Milwaukee and Dane counties (covering the largest city Milwaukee and the liberal WI capital and college town of Madison) made public suggestions on social media that voters could circumvent these strict procedures by registering as Indefinitely Confined (IC). Voters so designated are exempted from the witness and signature verification process due to their physical infirmity. Being confined by Covid was not deemed by the legislature as qualifying to be Indefinitely Confined. For the last 5 elections, the numbers of WI voters who registered as IC remained stable and low at around 70,000. The WI Supreme Court ordered the County Clerks to cease to promote such activity as being in contravention of WI electoral law. That however did not stop a surge in 2020 registrations for IC to over 200,000 voters. Furthermore, the Voter Integrity Project investigated the social media pages of 84 random recent IC registrations and found photo and video evidence of people biking, attending weddings, swimming, hiking, attending protests, some were registered poll workers and even one of Biden’s WI electors claimed this status! Of the 84 surveyed, 45% were shown to have fraudulently used the IC process to circumvent the signature matching process of absentee ballots).

* Absentee ballots with improperly completed envelope certificates that were counted

3,000 + (these were actual real votes checked during the recount. WI law is extremely strict, if the outside of the absentee ballot is not properly completed or was altered in any way, the vote must be discarded).

* Absentee ballots with no County Clerk check initials but still counted

2,000 + (absentee ballots must be checked on arrival at the Clerk’s office as being compliant with the law and the Clerk initials each ballot – this amount was just in Milwaukee and Dane Counties).

* Absentee ballots illegally cast in advance at non-authorized locations

23,293 (in just the City of Madison, this number of absentee ballots were put into 200 illegal voting boxes scattered at locations all over the city whereas WI election law states explicitly that absentee ballots can only be dropped off at an official polling location on election day or before election day, they can only be dropped off at County Clerk’s designated offices).

* People who cast absentee ballots who did not go through the statutory ballot application procedure

170,000 (Democrat County election officials arbitrarily deemed the signature on the outside of the envelopes of these ballots as an ‘application’ circumventing state election law that voters were required to submit an application for absentee ballots before the issuing of ballots specifically to enable the state to have a signature on file to compare the signature on the returned ballot with to ensure the absentee vote was legally cast).

Total illegal ballots cast in Wisconsin – 226,688. Despite submitting this voluminous evidence to election officials and to courts in litigation, Democrat officials and judges have just ignored the evidence and continued to maintain that the certifications of votes were accurate. Since Biden’s current margin of victory is only 9.1% of these illegal ballots, the Biden/Trump split on these illegal ballots only has to be 55/45 for Biden to lose. We already know that Biden won Milwaukee County’s absentee ballots by 79/20 so it would be safe to assume that had all the illegal ballots been disallowed, that Trump would’ve easily won Wisconsin.

2 – Ineligible votes in Georgia (margin for Biden 11,779 – 16 ECV)

The Trump campaign in Georgia investigated the state’s own official 2020 voter records and matched them to publicly available databases and unearthed the following list of voters who cast votes illegally. Please note this is an especially important point hence the bolding. These are actual lists of real 2020 election voters with names, addresses and sometimes dates of birth and matched against lists of convicted felons, PO Boxes and commercial mail locations, National Change of Address forms issued by the Post Office and death registers. In each category people have cast thousands of votes when they were not eligible under GA election law to do so and yet these illegal votes were counted:

* Felons who voted                                       

2,560 (it is illegal under GA law for felons to vote)

* Underage voters          

66,247 (people who turned 18 more than 6 months after November 3^rd and so ineligible to vote on 3/11/20)

* Unregistered voters    

2,423 (under GA law you must be first registered to vote before you can vote just like in New Zealand)

* Voting in two states   

395 (people who moved from GA and voted in their new state AND GA)

* Voters voting from other states

15,700 (people who filled out Change of Address forms with the USPS to locations out of state and yet still voted in GA. Once you leave GA, you cannot legally vote there anymore)

* Voters using PO Box addresses              

1,043 (GA law says you must register at a physical house address not a PO Box or a commercial mail clearance facility – note a GA Democrat legislator checked 2 of the people on the list and found the box was in an apartment building)

* Deceased voters           

8,718 (people proven to have died before 3/11/20 and yet votes were recorded in their name)   

The total of PROVABLE illegally counted votes in Georgia was 97,086. The Trump campaign have furnished the state with the lists of the voters concerned and the Secretary of State’s office could match the names to ballots cast and disallow all illegally cast ballots. The SOS has refused to do so because he maintains the fiction that the election was clean and fair and does not want to admit that fraud occurred under his watch and he hides behind the already granted certifications to not check these votes. If all these illegally cast ballots were an in fact an even Trump/Biden split then Biden’s lead would hold even with the discarded votes so officials would have nothing to lose if they support discarding the illegal votes. We can only conclude that the illegal votes that should be disallowed are overwhelmingly for Biden and so officials who have certified the vote for Biden would have to reverse their decision.

3 – Ineligible voters in Nevada (Biden margin 33,596 – 6 ECV)

Trump campaign attorney Jesse Binnell testified under oath to the US Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on 2020 Election Irregularities on December 16^th and detailed the following illegal votes counted:

On August 3^rd, 2020, the Nevada Legislature passed AB 4 into law allowing universal mail in voting. That meant that ALL voters on the electoral rolls (that were known to be inaccurate, poorly maintained and rarely updated) were sent mail in ballots whether they requested them or not (as is required in many of the other swing states like FL, OH, AZ, WI, and PA). Thus, mail in ballots increased ten fold from 60,000 in 2016 to 690,000 in 2020 (out of just over 2 million registered voters in NV). By checking public voting records, they were able to determine that there were:

* People voting twice

42,000 (found by actual checking of names, addresses and DOBs of voters and checking for things like use of name variants such as Bill then William or using married then maiden names)

* Dead voters

1,500 (found from comparing lists of mail-in voters with Social Security death records)

* Former NV residents voting from other states

19,000 + (this list excluded military voters and students and was found from the USPS Change of Address database)

* Voting by people with ballots sent to undeliverable addresses

8,000 + (found by matching voter addresses with a coding accuracy support system that threw up undeliverable addresses – US houses are not always numbered in sequential order like in NZ with the numbering often done to fit the number of houses into street blocks and keep house numbers in line with main streets that have numbers for names like 45^th street. Thus 5 houses on one side of a street might be number 2345, 2351, 2357, 2363 and 2369. An undeliverable address would be 2365 for example).

* Votes cast from commercial or vacant addresses

15,000 + (found from USPS official records – under NV law you can only legally register from an occupied home address)

* Votes cast by non US citizens

4,000 + (found from comparing Dep’t of Motor Vehicle records of non-citizens with voter records)

This is a total of 130,000 illegally cast ballots and the determination does not come from estimations or random samples, they come from lists of ACTUAL voters comparisons with public records most of which are publicly available or can be purchased from list brokers. These comprehensive lists of fraudulent voters were furnished to Clark County election officials (covering the Las Vegas metro area) and to the NV Secretary of State’s Office and they have never been refuted, only ignored by the elected Democrats who hold those offices. Clark County election worker whistleblowers also alleged voting counting machine irregularities, but these could never be verified because the election officials would never allow any Trump campaign people access to any voting machines for the campaign to forensically examine them.

4 – Voting irregularities in Arizona (margin for Biden 10,457 – 11 ECV)

Matt Braynard of the Voter Integrity Fund and former data strategist for the Trump campaign testified before a hearing sponsored by Arizona State Legislators on December 7^th in Phoenix and revealed the following about either ineligible voters:

* Nonresidents of AZ casting illegal ballots in AZ

9,500 (Analysis of National Change of Address data from the USPS showed 5,700 out of state voters cast votes in Maricopa County alone. Given MC has only 60% of all voters in AZ, the figure is reached by extrapolating the percentage of out of state ballots cast for the whole state).  

* People sent mail-in ballots whose votes were counted but they said they never returned a ballot

19,154 (The Voter Integrity Project randomly sampled 2,237 people who the Maricopa County elections database counted as a received and recorded absentee ballot vote and yet 1% of the contacted people said they never voted. In other words, somebody fraudulently voted and sent in an absentee ballot on their behalf).

Please note that Matt Braynard’s work has been challenged by experts brought in by Democrat Party defendants in lawsuits where Braynard’s statistical analysis has been submitted as part of the evidence. However, he has had other statistical experts go over his data and verify both the methods and findings here and here.

* Corrected Trump ballots miscounted for Biden

3090 (If a voter’s ballot was run through a vote tabulation machine and the machine could not read the ballot perhaps due to marks on the page or paper damage, election workers created a duplicate ballot to run that through. The Republican Party of Arizona suspected that some of these duplicate ballots were not properly transposed thus decreasing Trump’s vote tally. AZ GOP Chairwoman Dr Kelli Ward was told by Scott Jarrett, Director of the Maricopa County Elections Department on November 18^th at the Logic and Accuracy Test inside the Tabulation Center that 103,000 duplicate ballots went to digital adjudication. The AZ GOP sued in Maricopa County Superior Court and the judge ordered a sample of 100 duplicate ballots be audited and of the 100 duplicate ballots examined, 1 vote that was cast for Trump was given to Biden and 1 that was cast for Trump was discarded which means a net 3 votes for Trump out of a small sample of 100 so 3%. A larger sample of 2,500 was allowed by the Maricopa Superior Court Judge Warner but the Maricopa County Attorney ordered the analysis stopped part way through to prevent the GOP from looking at the election day duplicates which came later in this sample and is where the problems in the first sample were found. The MC attorneys continued to stall until the judge’s 8 December deadline passed and his court order expired.  This saga is detailed in a series of posts on the AZ GOP You Tube channel).

Given these anomalies, and various others identified in the AZ Legislators’ hearing, the AZ Senate issued a subpoena for Dominion voting machines, digital images of scanned ballots and stored ballots so that a professional external 3^rd party forensic audit of the vote in Maricopa County where the majority of Biden’s narrow lead comes from could be performed. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted 4 – 1 to ignore the subpoena and so the State Senate has gone to court to get the subpoena enforced, The same Superior Court judge who ruled on the original limited audit has ruled that the subpoena is enforceable and just yesterday, the Arizona Attorney General has filed an amicus brief supporting the State Senate and given a legal opinion supporting the legality of the subpoena. The next course of action will be to call in State Troopers to enforce the subpoena and to seize the subpoenaed equipment to enable the ordered forensic audit to proceed.

This is a total of 31,744 potentially illegally cast votes for Biden or three times his narrow margin. Flushing out these fraudulent ballots requires the cooperation of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors who govern the election process in the county that has substantially contributed to Biden’s victory. His 45,000 vote lead in MC overcomes the strong Trump leads in the rural counties. These fraudulent votes are mostly in Maricopa County and Democrat stronghold Tucson in Pima County, that has not featured in the AZ GOP lawsuits, where likely the same level of fraud occurred, there were 526,000 votes cast. If the vote management and count was clean, then surely officials would welcome audits not fight them.

Conclusion

4 states with 43 combined Electoral College votes have proven retail fraud of a scale in each state, if properly investigated and the illegal votes were disallowed, would result in an ECV split of Trump 275 – Biden 263. This does not include Pennsylvania (20 ECV) where institutional fraud against the State Constitution took place that can only be reversed by the US Supreme Court (unlike the Texas case that they voted 7-2 to refused to hear, they have docketed to hear this case…. but on January 22^nd) and Michigan (16 ECV) where industrial level fraud took place that can only be reversed by statewide forensic audits of the voting machines (unlikely to happen).

NOLA reports:

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died Tuesday evening from complications with COVID-19, shaking the Louisiana political world weeks after his election to represent Louisiana’s 5th District in Congress as the state’s youngest U.S. representative. 

Letlow, 41, died at Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport from “complications from COVID-19,” his spokesman, Andrew Bautsch, said in a statement. …

He was in critical condition but had recently shown signs of improvement when he “apparently suffered a cardiac event this evening that was refractory to all resuscitation efforts,” said Dr. G.E. Ghali, of LSU Health Shreveport. 

Ghali previously said Letlow was being treated with the antiviral drug Remdesivir and steroids. Asked if Letlow had any underlying conditions that would have made his death more likely, Ghali said in a text message, “none. All COVID related.” 

Incredibly sad to die aged just 41.

It is a reminder that Covid-19 isn’t the flu. It doesn’t just kill the elderly or people with pre-existing conditions.