Election 2020: Jimmy Carter to the rescue in Georgia
Not the Babylon Bee.
Not the Onion.
Just 2020, continued:
The Carter Center will make history by monitoring – for the first time ever – an American election process.
Former President Jimmy Carter’s Democracy Program has monitored elections in struggling democratic nations around the globe. But due to what they call a lack of trust in the election process, the program will be monitoring Georgia’s recount…
Both Jake Evans [Carter Center Democracy Program Director] and David Carroll [Republican member of Georgia’s election task force] hope the work done over the next few days will put voter’s minds at ease that the election in Georgia was fair, fraud-free, and accurate.
I don’t think this involvement of the Carter Center will be especially reassuring to most Republicans.
The chairman of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) stated that he believes there is evidence of voter fraud and other alleged irregularities.
In a recent interview, FEC Chairman Trey Trainor said reports of fraud in some battleground states are credible “otherwise they would allow the [poll] observers to go in,” referring to reports of some polling areas refusing to allow GOP observers to check on the process on Election Day and the days after…
In the interview, he agreed with Trump’s campaign lawsuits, while saying that questionable actions by elections officials in several states could make the election illegitimate.
Trainor, an appointee of President Donald Trump, noted that state laws allow those observers to be there, and “if they’re not,” then it’s an “illegitimate election.”
“Our whole political system is based upon transparency to avoid the appearance of corruption,” he said the interview while alleging that Pennsylvania and other states have not been transparent. “I do believe that there is voter fraud taking place in these places,” he added.
Trainor makes a point about the appearance of corruption that I’ve tried to make for a while – that whatever happened, there was increased opportunity for fraud inherent in the rules changes supposedly caused by COVID, and there was in addition the appearance of fraud inherent in some of the behavior of election officials that evening. Both of those things were destructive in and of themselves, even without fraud. This election – and any election, really – needed to have obvious safeguards that would make the process beyond reasonable suspicion. It did not.
That has caused tremendous trouble. A Biden win would have been bad enough, but if it had been the result of a process that seemed obviously fair and transparent, people would have at least accepted that it was the will of the people. This election combines the worst of both worlds: a Biden win, and widespread and justified suspicion about that win. Whether there was enough fraud to have caused the win, I doubt we’ll ever know. But the suspicion is a poison as well, and I doubt it’s ever going to go away.
Nor was this suspicion caused by Donald Trump. I began to worry many months ago, as soon as I began to hear about all the rules accommodations for COVID. It was apparent to me that security was going to be very much compromised, and that there probably would be chaos and doubt. Make no mistake about it, either: had the results been flipped, and had Biden lost in the exact manner that Trump lost, it would be the left shrieking “FRAUD!” at the top of their lungs.
Now the Democrats are saying that questioning the results of this election is anti-democratic (small d). That’s rich, coming from a group that staged a clandestine four-year multi-faceted coup against the duly-elected president from the opposing party.
I may have related this anecdote here before, but . . . a year ago, on Thanksgiving, in fact, I overheard several of my progressive friends seriously discussing what should be done when (not “if”) Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to leave the White House.
At the time I chalked it up to their overconsumption of Facebook memes. Now, though, with everything you described, Neo, about how the Democrats have deliberately broken the electoral process, and adding in what we’ve learned about the so-called Transition Integrity Project, not to mention the riots all summer and the blackouts and censorship carried out by the MSCM and Big Tech — well, let’s just say that I now see my friends’ conversation in a different light.
This was not an election.
If the Carter Center can find the courage to say that, maybe I will be interested in whatever else they have to say. But they won’t.
Two law firms representing Trump in election suits have withdrawn. One is the one that was “doxxed” by the Lincoln Project, which sent out photos of the lawyers plus their home addresses and phone numbers.
The other announced today.
A law firm representing the Trump campaign in its challenges to the Pennsylvania election results gave notice that it’s withdrawing from one of the cases.
Lawyers with Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP submitted a filing late Thursday stating they were withdrawing as counsel in a federal suit seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying its vote. No reason was given. In a statement issued Friday, the firm confirmed the filing but did not say why it was exiting the case.
I have a friend — very knowledgeable about how politics works, and a Republican — who says he doesn’t doubt there was fraud. But he points to the large number of votes Biden has received and says “you can’t overcome that lead!” I reply “it’s not a lead; it’s a fraud!”
Biden, one of the most lackluster candidates we have had in living memory, has received more votes than Obama. And Obama was the most popular candidate in decades. Not only that, but turnout for Biden was off the charts. Where normally we have 50-60% voter turnout in a presidential election, in this one we’re approaching 70%. What are the odds? Slim to none, I’d say.
Jimmy Carter while being one of the worst presidents of our time was still considered by most to be a decent and honest person.
His name associated with this effort could very well be a plus.
I’m a New Yorker – but I’m contributing to the fight for Georgia.
https://secure.winred.com/georgians-for-kelly/perdue-for-senate-defend-the-majority
In thinking about the number of votes credited to Biden, it’s important to remember that millions of people who marked their ballots for him were actually voting against Trump, and were motivated by white-hot hatred. Therefore, it’s entirely plausible that Biden’s vote count could approach Obama’s or Hillary’s.
What’s sad is that writers like Jonah Goldberg think the cries of possible voter fraud are just cries from “flacks and hacks” that are conspiracy theories. Then again we must put his words into context: Goldberg despises Trump and is, more or less, a Never Trumper. Good thing: Goldberg is thinking of leaving conservatism and moving to libertarianism. I suppose that’s what happens when there aren’t enough Never Trumpers at NR. The regressive evolution of Goldberg.
Here’s a chance for Carter to make himself useful. If at any time in the last seven years he has raised objections to misconduct on the part of officials of the permanent government (starting with Lois Lerner), I missed it. Not holdin’ my breath.
Two law firms representing Trump in election suits have withdrawn.
It’s a BigLaw firm with offices in eight cities. Such bravery under fire.
The election was illegitimate. The unanswered question is, “How illegitimate? ”
When more than 90 million of the allegedly 160 million votes are cast in the several weeks before Election Day, the question is not answerable.
Molly: MORE people voted (supposedly) for Biden than for Obama; not even close. I will further observe that “white-hot hatred” is a feature ill-suited for the Republic to endure. Said hatred generates its own counter-reaction, a la Newton’s Law.
We are far from being done with this. Do you think 70-plus million people will be passive as Trump out of office is persecuted by the Democratic establishment? Blood will be shed.
“it’s important to remember that millions of people who marked their ballots for him were actually voting against Trump, and were motivated by white-hot hatred”
Also that there were massive GOTV efforts. Every time you visited the Google homepage, every time you were on social media, you were reminded to vote. There were signs everywhere. My employer reminded us multiple times and I’m sure many other employers did, as well. More people became aware of early voting than ever before. And of course, the introduction of widespread mail-in voting. Beyond the mere reminders to vote, there was a lot of shaming of people who didn’t want to vote, or were planning to vote for any candidate besides Biden. Was that enough? I don’t know, but it’s a convenient explanation for the Dems.
LeClerc:
Please do not forget about Kelly Loeffler, the 2nd Senator running for re-election in Georgia.
The RNC seems to have put its effort on Perdue.
I have contributed equally to both.
https://secure.winred.com/georgians-for-kelly/homepage-sign-up
If I recall correctly, Carter’s organization also supervised the Venezuelan elections that helped Chavez take and keep power. His organization gave Chavez the veneer of election integrity.
Ger TX:
Yes, they did.
MollyG,
“it’s entirely plausible that Biden’s vote count could approach Obama’s or Hillary’s.”
The utter lack of enthusiam evidenced by the miniscule attendance at Biden & Harris appearances dispells that possibility. So I’m not buying it. Not even for a minute.
Mike+K,
“lawyers with Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP submitted a filing late Thursday stating they were withdrawing as counsel in a federal suit seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying its vote. No reason was given.”
Reportedly there was strong internal objections by a number of lawyers in the lawfirm to acting as council in that federal lawsuit. One lawyer even quit the law firm over it.
That report is given much greater validity by this: “Porter Wright: Law Firm That Dropped Trump Advises CCP-Linked Firms, Aided In Outsourcing U.S. Jobs To China”
https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/former-trump-lawyers-ccp-ties/
One law firm lawyer in particular is noteworthy;
Apparently, she has strong connections to the ChiComs. I wonder if she’s had meetings with Hunter or Joe?
In past years, whenever Europeans or the UN would offer to monitor US elections, I always took it as an insult. (It probably was.)
At this point, if Nigeria and Uzbekistan wanted to send monitors for the next election, I would welcome it.
Message from Dems:
Hey Reps. It wasn’t fraud. And even if it was, what you gonna do about it? All the gov’t is full of Democrats, wanting Dems to win.
This is a stolen election, unless either it is not certified, or it is redone.
There is small chance of some states saying it’s not certified.
Unless there’s a major change, there seems even less chance of an election redo.
If you think you’ll be willing to fight later, you should be more than willing to protest, hugely, now. Why am I here, instead of StopTheSteal.us ??
(umm, because I like it better? habit? No, I like it better it here… but time to go.
Tom Grey,
When did protest effect reform in a rigged contest? The very act of rigging a contest is a declaration of criminal intent. Criminals do not refrain from crime because victims protest. If the courts rule against prima facie evidence of massive fraud that is simply mathematically impossible… far sterner measures will be required to prevent America from being thrown upon history’s ash heap.
I tried to find Trainor’s quote on a “mainstream” site for palatability of my intellectually uncurious family members. Two pages in (firefox, not that it really matters) and I’m back to articles from 2019. This man is the chairman and no mainstream outlet can even bring themselves to print his name? The pickle we’re in is severe.
Do you think 70-plus million people will be passive as Trump out of office is persecuted by the Democratic establishment? Blood will be shed.
The war is already over. It is merely clean up at this stage. Sorry if people wanted in on the CW2 train, they kind of missed it by a few years.
(1) I can’t discount the possibility that widespread boredom and revulsion for Biden nevertheless yielded lots of anti-Trump votes, but it still looks sketchy the way the masses of “Biden only” ballots showed up under circumstances with no transparency.
(2) Carter seems like a nice guy, but he proved incapable of discerning obvious fraud in some of the elections he “monitored.”
(3) I don’t know whether it will be possible to bring judicial proofs of enough hinky ballots to change the result. I do think it will be helpful to show that the system was capable of disqualifying the hinky ballots, and preferably jailing of quite few people in the process. As awful as a Biden administration would/will be, it doesn’t hold a candle to the damage that will be done by proving our worst fears correct about what elections are going to look like from now on, when universal mail-in ballots will be necessary to combat a permanent COVID crisis, or the “unnecessary cruelty” of requiring voter I.D., or both–and when Democratic Party operatives know they operates with impunity beyond their wildest dreams.
These people wiretapped the incoming President’s staff on the basis of a perjured affidavit. There is nothing I believe they wouldn’t do to throw an election. They probably think they’re heroes for doing it.
If I recall correctly, Carter’s organization also supervised the Venezuelan elections that helped Chavez take and keep power.
IIRC, it was a sketchy referendum.
I would be extremely surprised were Carter to ever to publicly advocate anything that would upset the sort of people employed by multi-national NGOs or the EU apparat. He might have done that 40 years ago, when he was given to evangelical witnessing of a sort considered outre in the BosWash corridor, but not anymore. He evaluates the discourse in the Southern Baptist Convention according to what’s acceptable in the major media, not the other way around. Ironically, he and his intimates weren’t terribly pleased with the media when he was in the mix. See Jody Powell’s memoir of his years as press secretary.
What sticks in your craw about our former Presidents (as well as the older generation of pols generally) is how little they’ve made use of any public platform to offer a critique of current problems. It’s not as if they’ve been silent. George W. Bush has been hoovering up swag from trade associations and the like for 11 years; it’s just that all of his remarks to such gatherings are ‘confidential’. (And it’s a reasonable wager he says nothing worth leaking). Maybe there was never much there there to begin with.
In North Carolina two years ago, there were violations of law with absentee ballots in a congressional election. This fraud was committed by a Republican consultant. The election was declared void. The Republican candidate declined to compete in the re-run of the election, which was won by another Republican (who has just been re-elected).
Violations in the swing states in 2020 appear to be far more serious. We’ll see if courts have the courage to declare the elections void, and if the legislatures have the courage to use the power the Constitution gives them.
Carter went over to the neoMarxist Social Justice Warrior side in the first George W. Bush term. The CRT takeover of the Southern Baptist’s simply super-charged the White Hatred because Racist! propaganda these once wee-meaning people have been morally corrupted with. (James Lindsey and Peter Boghossian (?) did a long take interview about this, Summer of 2018, I think. See YouTube for video.)
I had a Marxist Society of Friends or Quaker professor of the history of political thought.
The whole idea that a Christian can stay a real “Christian” who ignores the separation of state and Belief contained within three out of four of the Faith’s central Books (Synoptic Gospels) completely vitiates my trust that are real Christians.
No, they are Apostates. They’ve traded one set of Beliefs for a Hegelian-Mussolini Social Gospel faith that isn’t Christian. It’s pretence is faithlessness.
And we’re I a Christian, I would go to War on them. Properly.
Call all them out! Including faithless Jimmy who once sinned because he lustred in his heart.
Therefore, it’s entirely plausible that Biden’s vote count could approach Obama’s or Hillary’s. –MollyG
My problem isn’t that Biden’s vote approached Obama’s and Hillary’s — it exceeded Obama’s spectacular 2008 victory by 7% more votes.
I don’t see a plausible explanation how Zombie Biden could outdo Obama Messiah by such a margin. I guess Hate trumps Love. Or Hate loves Corruption.
Then there’s the tricky business that Biden had negative coattails down ticket. Democrats love Biden but not Dem Congress candidates?
There’s an odor of decay in Denmark…
Carter monitored the election in Venezuela. See how well that turned out. He called it the best in the world.