May 18, 2021: Cases of Voter Fraud Still Hard to Find

 

5/18/21: The pandemic is waning and most Americans credit President Joe Biden for the improvement, because: 

1.     He never claimed the coronavirus was going to go away, or that it was no worse than the flu, so no one needed to worry.

2.     He never put forward a series of numbskull “cures” or took advice from the Demon-Sperm Lady, and her ilk.

3.     He listened to medical experts. As soon as he took over, he pushed for a vaccination blitz and made the program work.

 

In fact, 71% of Americans approved of Biden’s handling of the crisis, including 46% of Republicans.

 

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WE KNOW in right-wing circles that it is always fun to claim the death toll from COVID-19 is exaggerated. That, really, it’s just the flu. When I checked in at Fox News last week, they were busy, three nights in succession, screaming about mask rules. So, when you read that more than a thousand doctors in India have died after contracting the virus, you have to ask. 

Are the talking heads at Fox News full of s***?

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, Trumplicans continue to banish anyone with principles from their party.

Rep. McCarthy, rear.

 

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“I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. I think that is all over with.” 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

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After Rep. Liz Cheney voted to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6 riot, and then kept criticizing colleagues for amplifying the “Big Lie,” that the election was stolen, the sycophant crew had no choice but to give her the ax. Last week, Trumplicans voted to oust her from her leadership post. 

But they did so by voice vote. 

They didn’t have the courage to vote individually, because that would have exposed a rift in the party, and exposed those who supported Cheney to continued attack from Rejected-President Don. 

Cheney might have been ousted – and men like Rep. Jim Jordan, who have no more principles than a barracuda, might have been thrilled – but she remained defiant. The New York Times noted: 

In an unrepentant last stand minutes before Republicans voted to strip her of her post, Ms. Cheney urged her colleagues not to “let the former president drag us backward,” according to a person familiar with the private comments. She said that if the party wanted a leader who would “enable and spread his destructive lies,” they should vote to remove her, because they had “plenty of others to choose from.”

 

“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” Ms. Cheney told reporters afterward. “We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language. We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the Constitution.”

 

After Cheney was ousted, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy marched out of the meeting and assured reporters that she had not been punished for refusing to accept the “stolen election” lie. “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election,” he insisted. “I think that is all over with.” 

Meanwhile, Rejected-President Don was issuing a statement that read: 

The major Michigan Election Fraud case has just filed a bombshell pleading claiming votes were intentionally switched from President Trump to Joe Biden. The number of votes is MASSIVE and determinative. This will prove true in numerous other states. All Republicans must UNIFY and not let this happen. If a thief robs a jewelry store of all of its diamonds (the 2020 Presidential Election), the diamonds must be returned. The Fake News media refuses to cover the greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country. They have lost all credibility, but ultimately, they will have no choice!

 

So, sure. No one is disputing the election results. Except the loser. And the Cyber Ninjas, down in Arizona. (See 6/26/21 for the resolution of the Michigan case – which does not go well for Donald.) 

In Arizona, a private, pro-Trump group, called the Cyber Ninjas, is counting all the ballots from Maricopa County, but not from other counties in the state – because – well, election integrity! 

The group only wants to find voter illegalities in a county that went Democratic last November, but not in any counties that went for Trump in the same election. 

Among other claims the Ninjas are hoping to prove: That China shipped 40,000 bogus ballots to the state, all of them votes for Joe Biden. Rumor has it that these ballots will contain bamboo mixed in the paper. 

As the Arizona Secretary of State, a Democrat, noted recently, the Cyber Ninjas have never conducted a voter audit. The founder of the Ninjas is an advocate of the “Stop the Steal” lie. So, now we add bamboo to space lasers and QAnon theories about satanic pedophiles, and mix in some Trump lies.

 

Speaking of which: Trump was at it again, issuing another absurd claim on his new blog. Now Trump was claiming that the entire voter database of Maricopa County had been “deleted” in the midst of the Cyber Ninjas recount. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer – a Republican –couldn’t take it any longer. “Wow. This is unhinged,” he responded on his personal Twitter account. “I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now,” he wrote. “We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out…” 

Richer trailed off, one assumes, in disgust. 

Nor was he the only Republican with a soul to speak out. After Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (Trump fan, no soul) wrote an open letter, insisting that she had “serious issues” regarding two previous official recounts of the Maricopa County votes, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers (Republican, but still possessed of a conscience and a soul), felt compelled to respond. 

“After reviewing the letter with County election and IT experts,” Sellers explained, “I can say the allegations are false and ill-informed.” Fann’s claims (and Trump’s) were “completely baseless.” 

He went on to say, “Moreover, the claim that our employees deleted election files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless and beneath the dignity of the Arizona Senate. I demand an immediate retraction of any public statements made to the news media and spread via Twitter,” Sellers added. 

Sellers and Richer now join other decent Republicans who have refused to say the election was stolen, when multiple recounts have proven it was not. For example, Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

 

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“This unbelievable election crime.” 

HERE’S TRUMP’S full statement, which as usual is crammed with lies and half-truths. Or maybe quarter-truths. 

(For example, Newsmax isn’t just “intimidated” by lawsuits. They’ve paid an undisclosed settlement for lying about the “rigged election.” And “weak Republicans” aren’t afraid. Honest Republicans are fed up.) 

The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms. Additionally, seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse. Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime. Many Radical Left Democrats and weak Republicans are very worried about the fact that this has been exposed. The DELETION of an entire Database and critical Election files of Maricopa County is unprecedented. Many other States to follow. The Mainstream Media and Radical Left Democrats want to stay as far away as possible from the Presidential Election Fraud, which should be one of the biggest stories of our time. Fox News is afraid to cover it—there is rarely a mention. Likewise, Newsmax has been virtually silent on this subject because they are intimidated by threats of lawsuits. One America News (OAN), one of the fastest growing networks on television, and the “hottest”, is doing a magnificent job of exposing the massive fraud that took place. The story is only getting bigger and at some point it will be impossible for the weak and/or corrupt media not to cover. Thank you to OAN and other brave American Patriots. It is all happening quickly!

 

As usual, Trump is full of s***. 

 

POSTSCRIPT: It can be fun to check out the Heritage Foundation’s lists of voting fraud cases that led to convictions in various states, since we are now told by Republicans (some with souls, some without, but all desirous of being reelected as many times as possible) that voter fraud is rampant. Arizona prosecuted one man in 2020, for voting twice…in the 2016 election. The last fraud conviction in Georgia was in 2018, and involved questionable votes in a Republican primary. Pennsylvania has indicted one person in 2021, none in 2020. Wisconsin had one conviction in 2020, when a felon voted, although he was ineligible. And so far, this year, Michigan has caught a fraudster who filled out an extra ballot and voted in the name of his daughter. Nevada had no cases in 2020, 2019 or 2018, and only one in 2017 and one in 2016. Those are the six states, where Loser Don tried to say he was cheated out of millions of votes last November. 

For fun, you can keep right on going. A few more examples should suffice. And if you don’t trust my accuracy, check the story out yourself. 

South Dakota: No convictions since 2015. 

Kansas: One case this year, involving a former Republican congressman, who provided a false address for purposes of voter registration. Two cases in 2017, and a crime wave in 2016, with seven cases, six for “duplicate voting.” (This is particularly telling, because Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was later tasked by President Trump with finding the “millions” of illegal voters the president insisted had voted for Hillary Clinton in November 2016. 

Ohio: Two convictions in 2019, four the year before. 

North Carolina: No convictions so far this year and none in 2020. In 2019, one of the biggest cases of fraud prosecuted in recent years involved a Republican running for a seat in Congress. The results of that particular election had to be overturned and a new election was held. 

Rhode Island: No results listed. 

New York: No cases since 2018, and those two cases involving fraud in local elections. 

Wyoming: One case of ineligible voting…in 2014 

Mississippi: One election overturned this year, in the Democratic primary for the First Ward alderman of Aberdeen. 

Texas: Last conviction, for fraudulent use of absentee ballots, came in 2019.

 

Colorado: Jan Wilson was found guilty of voting twice in the November 2020 election. She said she wanted to help out two Republicans running for local office. Wilson is a resident of Teller County, which uses the supposedly rigged Dominion Voting Machines; but one official noted during her trial that Teller County used the same machines in 2016 and Trump carried the county. 

California: With 44 million people, the Golden State has two convictions, so far, in 2021, on top of a “massive” eight cases in 2020. Four cases involved vote-buying. In one case, a man named Richard Howard offered homeless people cigarettes and money in return for their signatures on petitions and voter registration forms. 

Florida nailed one man in 2018, for filling out five stolen absentee ballots and sentenced the six-time voter to 154 days in jail and a fine of $468. Nothing since. Like the knuckleheads who run Texas, Florida authorities once claimed that something like 200,000 non-citizens might be voting in the state. Right-wing panic ensued. The search was on! The “list” of illegal voters shrank and shrank again. One “non-citizen” famously turned out to be a World War II veteran, and very much a U.S. citizen. In the end, only 85 individuals were wiped from the voting rolls. 

So, Florida officials were only off by 199, 915.

 

New Jersey had one serious prosecution in 2020, involving, possibly, hundreds of mail-in ballots, but for a local race, not a presidential contest. Three Patterson City Council members have been charged with felonies. And a second conviction last year, in a case of vote buying, also for a city election.