Robert Barnes: what crimes are revealed by the Twitter files, and what issues are raised in Kari Lake’s lawsuit
I profoundly disagree with Robert Barnes on certain things (in particular Ukraine, but not limited to that), but these two clips represent him in his wheelhouse. He states many things here with which I agree. One prominent one is that it’s not a good idea to expand the notion of undeclared campaign contributions, in order to nail your enemy. In fact, although he doesn’t mention it, that was the sort of legal reasoning Netanyahu’s enemies have been using to try to convict him.
Here are the two clips. The first one is on Twitter and the law, and it’s about seven minutes long:
The second is about Kari Lake’s case concerning irregularities in the 2022 election in Maricopa County, and it’s about eighteen minutes long. Well worth listening to, though, and quite shocking even if you think you already know all the serious irregularities that occurred there. I bet some of it will still be a surprise:
The two-day trial is set for next week (Wednesday and Thursday); although the charismatic Kari should prevail, such an outcome is highly unlikely, perhaps even impossible, nor should one forget not just all the “irregularities”, but also the sheer ghastliness of Hobbs as well as the weakness of AZ’s Republican establishment.
Lake has vowed to take this to the supreme court, if the state courts don’t provide relief.
I don’t know who is funding the court challenge, but you can contribute through WinRed website. The Republicans dub it Save Arizona Fund. It should be correctly entitled Save America Fund.
I have avoid contributing to the RNC and have done so only to the candidates. I have sent Kari Lake a few hundred and probably should do some more. I think the election stunk in Maricopa County and I will certainly say that George Soros, who funded Katie Hobbs, got his money’s worth.
Mike K,
I’ve avoided WinRed, but Lake’s website redirects to the Republican website. The donation is noted as for Kari Lake’s campaign. I’ve wondered if the Republican party takes a percentage.
Well, this isn’t good news:
“(Judge) Thompson granted three of Lake’s four demands, allowing the inspection of 50 random “ballot-on-demand” printed ballots, 50 random early ballots, and 50 random BOD ballots marked spoiled. The judge denied her bid to inspect 50 random early ballot envelopes.”
Much of her case rests on the envelope signatures being rejected. Without that, looking at the ballots themselves is mere naval gauzing. Not good.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/arizona-judge-approves-lake-request-examine-ballots
If Lake’s lawyers are celebrating this, I’d be looking for different lawyers.
This is a slap in the face to her case!
“ Much of her case rests on the envelope signatures being rejected. Without that, looking at the ballots themselves is mere naval gauzing. Not good.”
Went through this in 2020. The problem is that after the ballots have been removed from their envelopes (after signature, etc verification, they are separated from their provenance. The answer to this is to throw out the lowest level of batches of ballots that can be identified with the fraudulent ballot signatures, as long as there are enough fraudulent ballots detected for that batch to call it into question. Something like that. I think that it was GA, but could have been here in AZ, that in 2020, election officials (illegally) threw a bunch of batches together that should have been kept separate. The entire mega batch should have been thrown out. It wasn’t. And the Senate ended up flipping as a result.
Overall, that would greatly eliminate the types of election fraud that we have been seeing – just throw out batches of ballots that have too many problems – except that the lack of an audit trail for many of Maricopa County’s ballots might backfire, with more Republican than Democrat votes thrown out, due to early voting by Democrats, and Republicans tended to try to vote on Election Day this year. Except that we know from Lake’s Complaint that the 3rd party vendor counting mail-inballots apparently didn’t get audit trail info from the county, when they delivered them to the 3rd party. Plus, a number of their employees inserted their ballots into the ballot stream at their counting location, again with no count of how many were thus illegally inserted. It’s a big mess, and the Dems are behind it 100%.
“If Lake’s lawyers are celebrating this, I’d be looking for different lawyers.”
I thought that her Complaint was very well done. In particular, I think they handled the standing and “no evidence” hurdles very well. Haven’t seen Hobbs’ Reply yet, but I think that there is no way, given the affidavits attached to the Lake Complaint, that Hobbs can get Summary Judgement, absent discovery.
We shall see.
Bruce, unfortunately these election cases don’t seem to be determined on law and facts. The rules don’t matter when the results are being dictated by the totalitarians in charge. The only rule is that the insiders must win.
(reminds me of a BAR/BRI lecturer on con law right before the 1981 Fla Bar exam who wrapped up his time by saying there were some Supreme Court decisions for which the only way to discern a consistent legal principle was to look at the party involved — “Jehovah’s Witnesses win and Nixon loses.” Nixon was hated. Although many presidents did a lot worse than he ever tried to do, the Deep State took him out. Sirica, the FBI, the news media, Congress and the Supreme Court all did their part. And when they got him they broke out the champagne and partied all night. He’d attacked commies. He was the enemy.
The jihad against Nixon was so important they were willing to turn a virulent racist like Sam Ervin — who worked with Al Gore, Sr to trash civil rights for years in the senate — into a moral exemplar. It may be bad to be a racist, but that’s nothing compared to the horror of being an anti-communist.
Sure seems a perfect vote fraud case, almost like the Leftists went overboard to get their way. Problem is will a judge not cave in to pressure and dismiss it.
The jihad against Nixon was so important they were willing to turn a virulent racist like Sam Ervin — who worked with Al Gore, Sr to trash civil rights for years in the senate — into a moral exemplar.
Ervin wasn’t a virulent racist and Al Gore Sr’s opposition to ‘civil rights’ laws was pro forma.
he was no civil rights crusader, no he wasn’t an eastland or a byrd, something more than a fulbright, who served his purpose undermining the vietnam war, he expanded the conflict, (the war was going on since 1954, when we replaced the french in that sector) re moyar, who relates the actual reports from chinese and soviet archives) diem had done reasonably well, in countering the infiltrations into the south, but it was an imperfect mission, and that was the notion the viet minh agent fed to david halberstam, and the other naive reporters,
they never stop whitewashing,
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/17/lobbyists-launch-last-ditch-effort-to-add-media-cartel-bill-jcpa-to-omnibus/
Most of the malfeasance by election officials are the same as the forensic audit found in 2020, specifically chain of custody, and signatures.
The battle is the signatures IMO. The signature is the proxy for the voter. If the signature is declared ineligible, there is no way for the court to overlook that ballot. The vote total is reduced by one. If enough signatures are declared invalid, the court has two remedies. A proportional reduction in votes for each candidate, or a redo. Only one should be the outcome. A redo.
Chain of custody should be important. In the abstract, without provable chain of custody, the argument is only something illegal may have happened, but it’s impossible to prove something did happen.
As to the problems on the day of voting, the long lines, I think it was summed up by a leftist judge who said “show me a voter that was turned away.” Giving up and leaving and being denied the right to vote aren’t the same thing. That’s going to be the standard.
In 2020, Maricopa fought access to envelope images and it wasn’t until August, 2021 the courts finally forced Maricopa to turn over the images. They understand that’s where the provable malfeasance exists.
There never was an audit of signature matching, only an inspection of the envelope file given to the auditors.
But even without an audit of the signature verification process, the 2020 audit showed some of the problems with the process.
From the Echo Mail report:
Maricopa reported 587 “Bad Signatures,” which is 0.031% of the total EVB (early voting ballots) return envelopes received by Maricopa. Though EchoMail was not commissioned to perform Signature Verification, if EchoMail’s identification of 2,580 Scribbles were all designated as “Bad Signatures,” that would be 0.134% of Maricopa’s total EVB return envelopes received. This percentage is at least four times more than the “Bad Signatures” percentage reported by Maricopa.”
Now compare that to the audit of Washington state. King County had a rejection rate of 0.86%. Pierce County had a rejection rate of 0.63%. But the audit sample 7200 ballots and found that the rejection rate should have been closer to 2.2%. These are two of the most Democrat counties in the state. The Maricopa county cursory envelope inspection ballot assumes a rejection rate of 0.134%. The implication of all of this is the election officials are extremely generous in deciding if a signature is valid.
Only a complete audit of the signature verification process will determine the true number of ballots being counted that should be invalidated.
“EchoMail identified 34,488 EVB return envelope images being 2-copy, 3-copy and 4-copy Duplicates originating from 17,126 unique voters, while no Duplicates were reported in Maricopa”s CANVASS report.”
Page 15 of this report summarizes more of the findings of the 2020 envelope inspection audit:
https://www.azsenaterepublicans.com/_files/ugd/2f3470_05deb65815ab4d4b83938d71bc53459b.pdf
Here is the link to all the reports from the Arizona Senate Republican audit:
https://www.azsenaterepublicans.com/audit
Analysis of the Az suite, many of the same things Barnes pointed out.
And the author, Tracy Beanz, just got allowed back on Twitter.
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/12/12/analysis-kari-lake-files-az-election-integrity-lawsuit/
Totally unrelated to the topic. Every election machine, scanner, printer, tabulator should have an embedded printer that prints an id mark on the ballot or envelope.
The secret ballot issue that Barnes discusses should be a big deal all over the country. In places like Chicago where criminal gangs work in alliance with the Democrat machine on election day, the gangs simply go through the neighborhood and collect the ballots on the day they come in the mail.
[Since the post office unions often work closely with Democrats and have been identified in election shenanigans in the past, I would expect that all parts of the machine are kept apprised of when ballots are mailed, where, etc. so they can be taken right at the mail box. It wouldn’t shock me any more if we learned that the ballots never even make it to individual mailboxes. No one is likely to take the risk of complaining.]
this is true even abroad, the french version of game of thrones, marseilles has character somewhat like sarkozy,* who is a sundry fellow, at one point in the season, they reveal the ballot gathering operation in the ban lieus, and the national party, (stand in for the national front) are a threat,
*he’s played by gerald depardieu,
“Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say “in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts.” Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed.”
Ervin — “Between 1954 and 1974, he was Jim Crow’s most talented legal defender as the South’s constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights.”
“Between 1954 and 1974, he was Jim Crow’s most talented legal defender as the South’s constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights.”
He continued to defend those positions until he died. That’s not what you said about him. You said he was a ‘virulent racist’. He wasn’t a virulent anything.
with an amendment to say “in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts.” Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed.”
The 1964 act dealt with commercial services. Federal aid to education was not an enforcement mechanism.
An eye opener, thanks for posting these.
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