Michigan: sounds like the voting fix may be in
I’ve noticed that when a state turns blue – both legislative houses plus a governorship controlled by Democrats – the government often uses the opportunity to change the voting laws in an attempt to ensure that the state never goes Republican again. And usually, there’s little the Republicans can do about those changes unless they somehow violate the state constitution and the state’s highest courts are not blue as well. The laws are passed legally, signed into law, and the die is cast.
For example, there’s Michigan:
In the 2022 mid-term elections in Michigan, voters handed control of the Michigan Legislature to the Democrats, giving them a majority in both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate — something that hasn’t happened for forty years. Since then, they’ve been working hand in glove with our notorious Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, including passing a slew of bills that significantly transform election procedures in the State of Michigan and make it easier to commit election fraud, while at the same time making it harder to uncover it.
That’s the ticket. As Turkey’s Endogan once said, “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”
More on Michigan:
The new legislation hands over verification of absentee ballots from an elected bipartisan board of inspectors to city or township clerks. They also significantly expand the powers of election clerks and the Secretary of State. For example, the Secretary of State can now dictate election procedures without going through the formal rule-making process. This greatly increases the potential for fraud and significantly reduces the safeguards against it.
Senate Bill 367 allows clerks in municipalities with at least 5,000 people to process and count absentee ballots eight days before Election Day. The eight-day, pre-election day window will make it very difficult for poll watchers to observe the handling and counting of mail-in votes. (What could possibly go wrong there?) Municipalities will work closely with the SoS, to whom the bill assigns the task of unilaterally “supervising the implementation and conduct of early voting for state and federal elections.” (God forbid that the SoS has entrenched political biases.)
According to Representative Ruth Johnson (R) Holly, MI, these bills remove every instance of the word ‘fraud’ in the previous law and replace them with the word, ‘error.’ Criminality of intent is thus effectively insulated from prosecution and the ability to address election fraud is stripped away. In fact, under Senate Bills 603 and 604, alleged fraud can no longer be used to request a recount.
This not only seems to be doing away with the idea of fraud triggering a recount (which in the case of actual fraud wouldn’t do much good anyway, because if fraudulent votes have been cast they will just be counted again), it also seems to be doing away with bipartisan control over the voting process. But I assume that’s the point and the goal. The Democrats are trying to make it impossible for Republicans to ever get control and use the same mechanisms against them. And so what if the voters come to no longer trust the process. As long as the left can remain in control, the left doesn’t need their trust or their acquiescence.
I live in northwest Indiana*, near the border with Michigan. When the wind blows from the north I smell a powerful odor of mendacity.
*Red state, open carry, running budget surpluses. Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone.
“In the 2022 mid-term elections in Michigan, voters handed control of the Michigan Legislature to the Democrats, giving them a majority in both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate…”
Voters knew that radical leftist Whitmer, as Governor would sign into law everything sent to her by the leftist legislature. Willfully blind to the fact that they are enabling their own future enslavement.
did they actually or was it another mail avalanche, which cannot be properly discerned
I believe that the bulk of women who have abortions are liberal. And those children would probably vote Democrat. It appears that they have killed so many of their own children (65 million and counting) that they can not win an election without cheating.
Just wait until the US House switches to the Democrats in July or August. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Once it becomes a one party state, it stays a one party state.
Pennsylvania isn’t far behind working on rigging the election
Thanks, Oilcan. So fraud votes are aborted Dems voting from the Great Beyond, along with other deceased and flipped R votes. Biggest challenge for fraudsters: making it look plausible.
Washington state has gone that route. All mail balloting. Motor voter registration, and registration right up to election day.
It all sounds so good. We just want to make it easier for all to vote. 🙁 (And to make sure the right votes are counted.)
A republican has no chance of winning statewide, and the state Republican party is GOPe to the core. No chance of going back. But I still vote and HOPE.
Some hope…perhaps…
Marc Elias getting his tuchus handed to him (by an Obama-appointed judge)…
‘ “It Simply Does Not Make Any Sense”: Judge Trashes Election Lawsuit By The Elias Law Firm’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-simply-does-not-make-any-sense-judge-trashes-election-lawsuit-elias-law-firm
Which means it’s more than pretty egregious…
Which is par for the course for that slimeball…
But he’ll be back.
(People like him will always be back.)
+ Nothing-to-see-here-folks Georgia Bonus…
“Georgia reprimands Fulton County for scanning ballots twice in 2020 recount”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-reprimands-fulton-county-scanning-ballots-twice-2020-recount
+ Stormy Bonus…
“Bill Maher Upends Stormy Daniels’ Testimony With 2018 Footage”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-bill-maher-upends-stormy-daniels-testimony-2018-footage
Stormy lies? Gosh, whodathunk THAT???
And when Democrats finally get control of the House, Senate and the Whitehouse they pass HR1 and it’s the end of representative government.
Doom. It is doom incarnate, I tells ya.
So we need a new federal voting rights act to counteract all of this. Only way. Fat chance, eh?
Re Bobs point. When SCOTUS rejected the Texas led the many state’s lawsuits against Pennsylvania et al, I argued that we need the legal system to make deprivation of Constitutional balloting a a Federal Civil Right, facing strict scrutiny. This means making election officials subject to class-action remedies and to be held, as individuals, responsible for deprivation of civil rights.
What would this do in the case of corrupt Michigan? Nothing. Democrats will steal Michigan.
So long as this effort to establish a primary federal right to election integrity is defeated, the Great American Art of Election Rigging — patented by Democrats for centuries — will go on, and on.