A year and a half ago, it was the left that was (or pretended to be) concerned about election fraud
A year and a half ago there was a pretty good 2-part series on the subject of possible US voting machine fraud that appeared in the leftist British Guardian, of all places. But that was back before Biden’s nomination and before COVID, during the time when the press was still trying to peddle “Trump won because of Russian intervention,” and when Stacey Abrams was declaring herself the true governor of Georgia.
Part I: America’s new voting machines bring new fears of election tampering.”
Part II: ‘They think they are above the law‘: the firms that own America’s voting system.
You may note that in that second piece, it says this:
Now lawmakers, election officials and national security experts are joining in on the clamor after Russian agents probed voting systems in all 50 states, and successfully breached the voter registration systems of Arizona and Illinois in 2016.
That’s the reason the Guardian is covering it – the allegations about 2016 came from the left. We also have this:
[House Democrat Raskin learned that there are next to no federal laws that govern or regulate private sector companies involved in US election infrastructure, he hurriedly introduced a bill that would prevent states from contracting with firms owned or influenced by non-US citizens. He plans to reintroduce an updated version of the bill in this legislative session, he told the Guardian. While it has a decent chance of passing the Democratic-controlled House, it would require Republican support in the Senate to become law.
That is not likely. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has been antagonistic to election reform bills, as has the whole Republican party. The party narrative is that Democrats are trying to use the federal government to take over state and local elections; the political angle is that recognizing vulnerabilities or flaws in the election system could raise doubts about the legitimacy of the party’s – and Donald Trump’s – victory in 2016.
Let me translate. As far as I can tell, this bill only dealt with the prohibition of states’ contracting with election machine firms owned (or “influenced”) by foreign entities, rather than with more major issues with election machines that have come to the fore in 2020. In addition, no matter what the Guardian was predicting would happen to the bill, it died in the Democrat-controlled House. So the Senate never voted on it.
As far as McConnell’s and the GOP’s antagonism to what the Guardian calls “election reform bills,” their opposition comes because Democrats are indeed “trying to use the federal government to take over state and local elections.” The newly-Democrat-controlled House did pass – as its very first bill – the “For the People Act” in March of 2019, portions of which had exactly that purpose:
One feature of the proposed legislation is that convicted felons could not be denied the right to vote unless currently in prison…
Another part of the proposed legislation instructs the Judicial Conference to establish rules of ethics binding on the Supreme Court…
The proposed legislation also calls for statehood for the District of Columbia…
On January 29, 2019, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement criticizing the Act as a “one-sided power grab” by the Democratic Party and assuring that “It may pass the House, but not the Senate”. He called the bill the “Democrat Politician Protection Act” in the statement. He further criticized the bill for giving the federal government more power over elections, saying it would “[give] Washington D.C. politicians even more control over who gets to come here [Congress] in the first place.”
The legislation includes a national expansion of early voting, redistricting reform, automatic voter registration and stricter disclosure rules for a bevy of political activities. One particular ethics provision would mandate presidential and vice presidential candidates to publicly disclose 10 years of tax returns — a measure taken after Trump has refused to do so despite decades of precedent.
In other words, a Democrat wish list rather than any sort of reform involving the prevention of possible voting machine fraud.
The always interesting Andrea Widburg has recently labelled as “sordid, craven, and disgraceful” The National Review for attacking Trump and tens of millions of voters over their allegations of a stolen election. At this point, it is not only the MSM hysterically calling the claims of “fraud” baseless, but the still-influential, though increasingly irrelevant, Never-Trumpers on the so-called conservative side who refuse to accept all the evidence, gathered within the last four weeks, of numerical and statistical impossibilities, of widespread illegalities and anomalies, of significant problems with shady foreign companies in charge of the processing of votes, and of hundreds of signed affidavits alleging irregular and often illicit behavior at polling stations. Trump and his supporters are now fighting not only against the left, but also against weak and cowardly GOP swamp-creatures and much of the conservative establishment.
Speaking of election fraud, I found the brief dated today in the PA election fraud case.
Neo: I sent you my blog post on it. Please look at it.
I think we win this case. Piece of cake.
It looks like today Barr dug his rep deeper south-wise, with Fox Memphis’ M. Balsamo
(see https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/politics/barr-no-evidence/YFOZVAXLK3KGQXSINNC75JH2G4/)
putting it thusly:
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“To date, we have not seen *fraud on a scale* that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP.
The comments are *especially direct* coming from Barr, who has been one of the president’s most ardent allies….
Attorney Sidney Powell has *spun fictional* tales of election systems flipping votes, German servers storing U.S. voting information and election software created in Venezuela “at the direction of Hugo Chavez,” – the late Venezuelan president who died in 2013.
Powell has since been removed from the legal team, after an interview she gave where she threatened to “blow up” Georgia with a “biblical” court filing.”
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The part about “Powell has *spun fictional* tales” has a link to an AP diatribe from 19 Nov., on
“AP FACT CHECK: Trump legal team’s batch of false vote claims”, by Ali Swenson.
(As if no major evidence has emerged since 19 Nov.!)
I can’t see why Barr would be so “especially direct” about this now, esp. insofar as his probe is still ongoing.
If it’s been closed, he should come clean about that.
WTF?
And, just in, Rudy & Sidney have dissed this outburst, claiming that the DoJ has done virtually zip to follow up the leads they’ve given the dept.
And, Barr has named Durham as a SC, for a “narrow in scope” probe of SpyGate.
2016 Trump voters, for winning: The Deplorabes
2020 Trump voters, for questioning the outcome: “sordid, craven, and disgraceful”
Andrea probably believes people who were anti-Trumpers were the victims of god knows what throughout the past four years.
“pretended to be” are the key words in that title. The left’s only principles are power and control.
I think that, “Russia-Russia-Russia”, was supposed to be the white dress that would protect the Corruptocrats and Ghettocrats when the Kraken kicked in the whorehouse door. Maybe some pardons and mercy so that there will be survivors to mop up the carnage.
I have seen what they did to the cities that they over-ran and can tell what they had planned for our entire Republic, so I don’t feel merciful this Holiday season, but I do need something festive and appropriate to hang on my tree and light post.
Looks like a lot of ugly in that package…….
” . . . the always interesting Andrea Widburg . . .”
For those who may not know, Andrea Widburg is the blogger at bookwormroom.com, listed in neo’s blogroll.
GRA on December 1, 2020 at 5:47 pm said:
2016 Trump voters, for winning: The Deplorabes
2020 Trump voters, for questioning the outcome: “sordid, craven, and disgraceful”
Andrea probably believes people who were anti-Trumpers were the victims of god knows what throughout the past four years.
I think you may have read that wrong. The National Review was calling those T reds sordid, and American Thinker called them out on it.
Gotta say, here in Ohio, this year the machines printed out a paper ballot (as they had before) but this year the voter took the ballot, could read it, and THEN put it in the ballot box. Good security. Ohio isn’t in question either. Go figure.