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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New: FBI requests files of people voting ‘in multiple states'
[Washington Examiner] The FBI, apparently and finally eyeing voter fraud claims, has requested the files from an independent investigation of people who allegedly voted in several states.

The attorney conducting a "Voter Integrity Project" investigation for the conservative Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society that has called into question hundreds of thousands of potentially problem ballots said the FBI has asked for his key files.

"The FBI has proactively and directly requested from me the VIP [Voter Integrity Project] findings that indicates illegal ballots," Matt Braynard tweeted today, adding, "By Tuesday, we will have delivered to the agency all of our data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, etc."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 06:24 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Under Wray and Barr?" Not a chance.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/30/2020 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Not knocking 99.9% of the FBI Special Agents out there. But any FBI Investigation will take 30 to 90 days. Then the DOJ, will go Double Thumbs up their Butts and do a paper work stall demanding brownie points and/or compensations.

So typical built-in bureaucratic delays are not going to resolve the Trump/Biden issue we are facing HER & NOW.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Check the 76 who died in Waco against your data base. I'm sure you still have the names at FBI Main.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Sure go after the minor players so you can look like you're doing something. Try going after the big city Dem fake vote players.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/30/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#5  This is clever:

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/30/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fauci: Surge upon Surge Possible
[HuffPoo] Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert on the White House’s coronavirus task force, predicted Sunday that the number of COVID-19 infections will skyrocket over the next several weeks as millions of Americans travel during the holiday season.

The U.S. experienced a surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in recent months, and public health officials warned that those numbers could jump during the winter as Americans experience "COVID fatigue."
Flu deaths are remarkably low so far, two months into the flu season. Maybe because a flu + COVID death gets reported as a COVID death with an influenza comorbidity. After all, the most common comorbidity is "Influenza and Pneumonia".
Fauci and other task force members urged Americans to refrain from traveling to visit loved ones over the holidays to avoid spreading the virus. But millions of Americans bucked that advice and packed airports in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.

"We have to be careful now," Fauci told ABC’s "This Week" on Sunday. "There almost certainly is going to be an uptick because of what’s happened with the travel."
Or because of the season. Or both.
He added: "We may see a surge upon a surge. We don’t want to frighten people too much, but that’s just the reality. We said that these things would happen as we got into the cold weather and as we began traveling, and they’ve happened. It’s gonna happen again."

Fauci said it’s unlikely the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will relax its holiday gathering guidelines ahead of Christmas.
I think it's likely many people will travel for Christmas, unless they're sick (or dead) from traveling in November.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/30/2020 12:54 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Keep on crying wolf.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/30/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't the entire point of rushing to get vaccines out — and they are apparently already being shipped — is to prevent exactly this?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/30/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Fauces can piss right off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/30/2020 15:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I see those masks really work....so does social distancing.

As someone on another network says, "virus gonna virus".
Posted by: Clem || 11/30/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Awww, SHADDUP! >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/30/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||


In Sudden Reversal, [Wilhelm] de Blasio Announces NYC To Reopen Elementary Schools, Phase Out Hybrid Learning

[ZH] NYC mayor Bill de Blasio still doesn't have a plan for reopening NYC's schools, but that's not going to stop him from sending hundreds of thousands of elementary school students back into the classrooms starting early next month. While Middle Schools and High Schools will remain closed, elementary schools will reopen immediately abruptly abandoning the 3% positive test rate threshold for Covid-19 he set earlier for closing the schools.

Reopening our @NYCSchools buildings is paramount to recovering from #COVID19. Today we can announce that we plan to reopen buildings for:

• 3-K, Pre-K and grades K-5 on Monday, December 7

• District 75 schools at all grade levels on Thursday, December 10
‐ Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) November 29, 2020

"There's less concern about the spread when it comes to younger kids," de Blasio said in a news conference, clearly ignoring what "the scientists" have been saying, namely that young children are among the top vectors for covid spread. "And I feel for all our parents who are experiencing so many challenges right now."

De Blasio also promised to 'overhaul' how the city manages schools during the pandemic, suggesting that more students would be returning to classrooms, while remote learning would start to be abandoned.

The city's 3% 7-day positivity rate threshold for ending in-person learning will be ditched in favor of allowing parents to decide whether they want their children in classrooms for 5 days a week.

Children in pre-K and elementary school can return to classrooms beginning Dec. 7, while students with other more complex disabilities will start Dec. 10. Evidence has shown that elementary school students and students with disabilities can return to the classroom without causing much, if any, spread.

De Blasio's decision to close schools for the second time just 8 weeks after reopening them became a flash point in a broader debate about whether closing public schools does more harm to society than good, especially after Europe made schools a priority.

Sunday's announcement reflects a stark departure from the city's original approach to managing the schools during the outbreak, especially by offering a plan to return students to classroom-based learning and away from 'hybrid' approaches.

The mayor's new blueprint represents the city's second shot at reopening, after the first attempt was plagued by problems and his threshold to close schools was roundly criticized by everyone from local health officials to parents....
Posted by: Clem || 11/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stupid fuck doesn't have the faintest idea what to do.

He's just making shit up now, responding like a chimp to what he sees other chimps doing.

Close everything down. Open it up. Close the churches and synagogues. Leave liquor stores open. Close all the schools and make the kids into zombies staring at walls. Open some schools not others.
Posted by: Dopey Bucket9982 || 11/30/2020 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Clem || 11/30/2020 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Clem, you need to find a more strongly worded button. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/30/2020 23:21 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Poll Worker's Guide on How to Hack/Adjust Votes Dominion Voting Systems Users Guides Available At GitHub
[GitHub] Along with other Dominion users guides that describe how to operate the system legally.

GitHub is a popular website that hardcore software developers around the world use to make source code, users guides and system information available to other software developers. It has both a secure area and a public area. This link is to the public area. Interestingly someone made all of this available in the public area of GitHub 15, 16 days ago. Mostlikely a whistleblower.

Link to Dominion Related documents at GitHub, possibly published by a whistleblower recently.

(moderators, sorry for the partial publishing of this post earlier but I was having issues with the keyboard on this old battle worn laptop.)
Some days are like that, my dear. Your warning made it easy for us to find the duplicates and delete them before they were published.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if it's the real documents or something made up.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/30/2020 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like each document has a link to its source.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/30/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I notice that all but one were posted 16 days ago, FWIW
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/30/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  One of my all time favorite Rantburg graphics there...old computers and young women, what a combination. Look at those punch cards, the reels of magnetic tape and the green bar print out. Makes me nostalgic for the days when Ronald Reagan was president and nobody used computers to rig elections. Hell, if they had, Walter Mondale would have won.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/30/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Onslo and Tommy Lee Jones, my personal favs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#6  You mean that's not a recent photo of the Rantburg Server?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/30/2020 20:43 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Biden has repeatedly announced his opposition to Erdogan’s policies and support for the Turkish opposition
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2020 02:10 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  yeah? But what do his bosses say?
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/30/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  But he still thinks the Mad Mullahs in Iran are OK.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/30/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Judge Reapproves Emergency Order Blocking Georgia From Wiping or Resetting Voting Machines
[ET] The federal judge overseeing high profile attorney Sidney Powell’s election lawsuit in Georgia issued a temporary restraining order late Sunday night, declaring that election officials were barred from wiping or altering Dominion voting machines used in the November election.

The emergency order was the third issued in so many hours over Powell’s lawsuit seeking an emergency order to see "voting machines be seized and impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs’ experts."

The emergency order was the third issued in so many hours over Powell’s lawsuit seeking an emergency order to see "voting machines be seized and impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs’ experts."
U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. overturned his first order when defendants argued that the machines were not in their possession, and that the relevant parties were not listed in the lawsuit.

"Plaintiffs’ request fails because the voting equipment that they seek to impound is in the possession of county election officials. Any injunction the court issues would extend only to defendants and those within their control, and plaintiffs have not demonstrated that county election officials are within defendants’ control," the judge wrote. "Defendants cannot serve as a proxy for local election officials against whom the relief should be sought."

Defendants listed in the case (pdf) were state election board members Chairman Brad Raffensperger, Vice Chair Rebecca Sullivan, David Worley, Matthew Mashburn, and Anh Le.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 11:01 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The lengths one goes to in obfuscating or destroying evidence of one's guilt.

Seth Rich and William Jefferson's freezer spring to mind.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/30/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Dominion server crash delays recount in Georgia’s Fulton County: report

Election officials in Georgia’s Fulton County told a local news outlet Sunday that a newly purchased Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashed that delayed the state's third recount of the presidential election and technicians from the company “have been dispatched to resolve the issue.”

11 Alive.com reported that the Georgia Secretary of State’s office is aware of the efforts to “resolve the problem.”

The report indicated that about 88% of the ballots in the state's largest county have been counted and the recount will resume again on Monday. The deadline to complete the recount is Dec. 2.

Joe Biden defeated President Trump by about 13,000 votes in the Peach State, but Trump and his legal team have challenged the results.


Bring the bleachbit
Posted by: Beavis || 11/30/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||

#4 

The Atlanta Dominion Server CRASHED


Interesting note:

The Atlanta Dominion Server repair person just happens to be K Harris's former Presidential Photographer.

What are the odds of that being on the Up and Up?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 17:10 Comments || Top||

#5  "What are the odds of that being on the Up and Up?"

Three - fat, slim, and none. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/30/2020 17:54 Comments || Top||


Cook County, IL Clerk Illegally Gave Dominion $32 Million Contract Breaking State Law
[MIC Drops Politics] Dominion voting systems distributed their corruptible software very strategically for the 2020 election, and apparently, they had help.

The Geller Report explained how the Cook County system was illegally arranged:

David Orr is an Illinois socialist. He has been Cook County Clerk since 1991. He is the chief election authority for suburban Cook County, the third largest election jurisdiction in the country.

Backgrounder:

David Orr has been close to Chicago Democratic Socialists of America since the 1980s.

He was a regular at the annual Chicago Democratic Socialists of America-organized Eugene V. Debs — Norman Thomas — Michael Harrington Dinner.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 06:38 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Islamic terrorist supporter.

Orr promoted passage of a statewide law that allows senior high school students to serve as election judges, part of the Clerk’s Teen Democracy Program, and has used new technology to layout the county’s multiple ballot formats in house.

Check out more https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/corrupt-chicago-dominion-dem-socialist-david-orr-illegally-gave-dominion-32-million-contract-breaking-state-rules.html/
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/30/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||


PA poll watcher: USB cards uploaded to voting machines 24+ times, 47 USB cards missing (video)
[NTD/YouTube] A Republican poll observer from Pennsylvania’s Delaware County told a Senate GOP Policy Committee hearing in Gettysburg on Nov. 25 that he witnessed a range of Election Day irregularities, including 47 USB cards that went missing.

Greg Stenstrom, who, besides being a poll watcher, said he’s an expert in security fraud, told the hearing that he witnessed a number of chain-of-custody violations, including around mail-in ballots, the balance of votes from drop boxes, and the handling of USB card flash drives—all of which he said broke rules defined by the Delaware County Board of Elections and the election process review.

"They didn’t follow one," Stenstrom said. "It shocked me that this could happen."

He described witnessing a situation in which data on USB cards was uploaded to voting machines by a warehouse supervisor without being observed by a poll watcher, which he said he saw happen at least 24 times.

"He’s walking in with baggies, which we have pictures of and that were submitted in our affidavits," Stenstrom said, adding that Democratic poll watchers also witnessed this occurrence.

Stenstrom said he was told by an attorney that it’s normal for several USB cards to be left in machines and then brought back by the warehouse manager for input into tally systems. He added that when he later raised the issue with U.S. Attorney William McSwain and some law enforcement officers, he was told it is unusual for more than two drives to be left in voting machines.

He said he was later told that "these 24 to 30 cards that were uploaded" were unaccounted for, adding that "as of today, 47 USB v-cards are missing."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 06:17 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/30/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you, Woodrow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/30/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||


Former FBI Special Agent finds MASSIVE number of absentee votes from non-residents in Georgia
[Right Scoop] A former FBI Special Agent and trained federal investigator, Derek Somerville, has uncovered a massive number of people who voted absentee in Georgia in counties where they no longer live. We’re talking well over 57k. Here’s his analysis:

Don’t think there are voter issues in Georgia? I have 57,793 reasons to reconsider that.

I’ve personally spent the last several days painstakingly analyzing 580,226 registered Georgia voters from current state-provided voter rolls who submitted a US Postal Service Mail Forwarding Change of Address request at least 30 days PRIOR TO the November 3rd election.

FACT: at least 57,793 Georgia voters cast their vote in a county that is DIFFERENT than where they previously instructed the USPS to forward their mail.

FACT: 43,507 (75%) of these individuals DID NOT vote in person on election day.

FACT: 17,514 of these voters asked the USPS to forward their mail OUT OF STATE to non-APO/DPO/FPO military addresses. 89% are over the age of 25 and likely not college students.

It’s been a few years, but most of you know I’m a former FBI Special Agent. Prior to that I worked in the US intelligence community. I’m a trained federal investigator who was assigned to Public Corruption cases. There are others more experienced than me, but this if far from my first rodeo.

With few exceptions, a person submits a USPS Change of Address request because they have permanently moved and want their mail rerouted to their new address. Under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), states may use that USPS Change of Address request to "identify registrants who may have changed residences" and "remove the registrant from the voter rolls after satisfying all requirements of the [NVRA]".

Many of these incidents can be legitimately explained. Not all reveal nefarious intent or coordinated efforts. Some voted Republican. Some voted Democrat. But after investigating a random sample of these voters, it’s abundantly clear that thousands, if not tens of thousands, voted in our election who do not reside in the county in which they voted...or even in Georgia.

Demand officials investigate these 57,793 and, if warranted, remove their votes from the November 3rd general election and remove them from the voter rolls before the upcoming Senate run-off.

I have the list prepared.

Specific examples forthcoming.

In fact Sommerville did post one record so far on his facebook as an example of what he’s talking about:

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 04:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I live in Ga. and I am totally for fixing the Politically designed and manipulated voting process so it is 100% honest. Along with making Vote Tampering, Voter Interference, and Fraud a Felony level Civil Rights violation.

Taking the 57,793 number at face value I have a question. Because after all the bottom line driving issue in GA. is total votes.

What is the estimated number of 1 Man 1 Vote violations in these numbers?




Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Wray and Barr have to be both in on this. Or, we would be seeing arrests by now.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/30/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Wray, Barr, Brennan, Clinton, Comey, the Intelligence Community, the Media, Big Tech, they ALL want him gone! He was a modern-day political anomaly which has now been scheduled for removal via sleuthy algorithms, modern technology, and election day chicanery.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||


There's One Endorsement President Trump Says He Regrets Making
[Townhall] In his first television interview since Election Day, President Trump talked at length with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures. Among several of the things discussed, the president said he was ashamed of himself for endorsing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in his 2018 gubernatorial race against Democrat Stacey Abrams.

As Georgia heads toward two runoff races that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate, the president blasted Gov. Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after the top Republicans certified Joe Biden the winner in the state's election.

President Trump told Bartiromo that he is "ashamed" of himself for having endorsed Gov. Kemp.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 03:55 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Disappointed yes. Regrets, absolutely not.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Sometimes you're stuck between a rock and tank.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 11/30/2020 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 for Snark O' The Day!
Posted by: Raj || 11/30/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Omg thought the one on the right was Mike Tyson in drag... seeing one Bruce-to-Caitlyn transitioned ex-jock is enough; two would freak me out for good
Posted by: Fleque Guelph1395 || 11/30/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Tyson was aware of the similarities and put a tattoo on his face to ensure there was no mistake.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/30/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin counties finish recounts, Biden's lead reconfirmed
[AlAhram] The recount of presidential ballots in Wisconsin’s two largest counties finished on Sunday, confirming that Democratic President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
defeated President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes.

Dane County finished its recount on Sunday, according to the county clerk, a few days after Milwaukee County finished its. Each recount produced little change in the final breakdown of the more than 800,000 ballots cast in the state. In the end, Biden's lead over Trump in Wisconsin grew by 87 votes.
This is the recount President Trump paid $3 million to have.
The Times of Israel adds:
Trump’s next move in Wisconsin will likely be in court. Trump campaign officials are not immediately responding to AP requests for comment.

Trump paid to have a recount in both counties and his attorneys appear ready for a legal challenge seeking to toss tens of thousands of ballots.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/30/2020 03:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You can count a bushel of bad apples twenty times. If none are removed, it's still a bushel of bad apples.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Recount only. No actual audit of the voting.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/30/2020 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  If you recount the same batch of Voter ballots that are suspect without an AUDIT for authenticity then naturally it should result in the same Tinkle poor results.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  As you may recall, not so long ago we had the capability to learn what might be taking place within the DNC and the swamp. Then suddenly, the reporting ended.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5  "Wisconsin counties finish recounts...."

What was Stalin alleged to have said?
Posted by: Clem || 11/30/2020 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 To paraphrase ... "I dont care about who votes I care about who counts the votes"
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/30/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||


WATCH: Soros-Linked Smartmatic Chairman Admits ‘Technology Is Licensed From Dominion'
Smartmatic is the owner of the vote-stealing Venezuleans’ vote-stealing software.
The comments came from Smartmatic company Chairman Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, who enjoys intricate financial relations and a "famous friendship" with leftist mega-donor George Soros. During a June 2015 interview with Philippine news outlet ABS-CBN, Lord Malloch-Brown admitted, "...yes part of our technology is licensed from Dominion."

The news will raise further questions as to why both Dominion and Smartmatic have gone to recent lengths to distance themselves from one another, following allegations of corruption during the 2020 U.S. elections.

The interviewer follows up by inquiring if "the license issued by Dominion for you to use their proprietary software" is "live," "active," "and has not been revoked." Malloch-Brown confirms all three answers are "yes."

SOROS CONNECTION.
When moving to New York, Malloch-Brown rented his home from Soros, for what critics allege was priced below market rate.

Noting "they are good friends," a United Nations spokesperson described the arrangement, as "since both are public figures, they decided to set up the living arrangement as a commercial transaction, rather than a gift."

In 2007, he was appointed Vice-President of Soros’s Quantum Fund as well as vice-chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute in the same year.

Despite this, Smartmatic maintains it "has no ties to governments or political parties."
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 11/30/2020 02:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Bernie Sanders: Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist ‘reckless, provocative, and illegal’
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2020 00:38 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Go back to your junk food, Col. Sanders
Posted by: Flilet Thererong3010 || 11/30/2020 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Absolutely none of our business. Stay out of it !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 2:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Related article at RedState - Ted Cruz Rips John Brennan to Shreds in Throwdown Battle Over Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 3:01 Comments || Top||

#4  So is destroying a country.
Posted by: gorb || 11/30/2020 3:45 Comments || Top||

#5  STFU Bernard
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/30/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Why would bernie trust the word of people who require citizens to chant ‘death to America ‘. Oh yeah
Posted by: Lord garth || 11/30/2020 14:57 Comments || Top||

#7  "Bernie Sanders: Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist ‘reckless, provocative, and illegal’"

Maybe you'd rather it was YOU, Bernie? Idiot.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/30/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#8  But it's o.k. for Obama to have his little personal 'hit list'. Sure, we gotcha, Bernie.
Posted by: Clem || 11/30/2020 23:07 Comments || Top||


Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tosses Challenge to Vote-by-Mail Because It Came Too Late
More on this story from yesterday.
[BREITBART] The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order Saturday vacating a lower court’s decision to suspend the certification of the state’s vote in the presidential election, holding that a challenge to the state’s vote-by-mail laws had come too late.

Earlier this week, Pennsylvania certified its vote. But Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough blocked further steps to put the certification into effect, and upheld her earlier injunction on Friday, holding that a challenge to the state’s 2019 law allowing "no-excuse" vote-by-mail violated the state constitution. (The challenge was brought by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, among others, and is separate from a case that President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s campaign lost in the Third Circuit in a unanimous three-judge decision on Friday. The campaign has pledged to appeal that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.)

On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Judge McCullough’s order under the doctrine of "laches," ruling that Rep. Kelly and others should have brought the constitutional challenge before the primary and general elections in 2020 — not after millions of voters in Pennsylvania had already cast their ballots:

Petitioners filed this facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory provisions more than one year after the enactment of Act 77. At the time this action was filed on November 21, 2020, millions of Pennsylvania voters had already expressed their will in both the June 2020 Primary Election and the November 2020 General Election and the final ballots in the 2020 General Election were being tallied, with the results becoming seemingly apparent. Nevertheless, Petitioners waited to commence this litigation until days before the county boards of election were required to certify the election results to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Thus, it is beyond cavil that Petitioners failed to act with due diligence in presenting the instant claim. Equally clear is the substantial prejudice arising from Petitioners’ failure to institute promptly a facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory scheme, as such inaction would result in the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters.4

The only two Republicans on the seven-member court, Chief Justice Thomas Saylor and Justice Sallie Mundy, issued a concurring and dissenting opinion, arguing that while the challenge came too late, it raised serious constitutional objections that should be considered in future election.
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other words, they don't want to touch it with a ten foot pole because the conclusion is unavoidable and the Machine knows where they live.
Posted by: gorb || 11/30/2020 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2  "Too late" for this time, too early for next time ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 3:52 Comments || Top||

#3  The law is invalid. It didn't become valid just because it's "too late".

This goes to the Supremes, of course.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/30/2020 6:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Right, "too late". Election was on 3rd Nov.

Banana Republic.
Posted by: Clem || 11/30/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  As I basically said in another Blog.

So let us pass a law to allow Honor killings, then wait a year to act on it.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  A challenge before the event is speculative and one after the event is moot; there is no time when the challenge can be accepted.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/30/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7  However, they'll support reparations for something that ended over a hundred and fifty years ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/30/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#8  We are now officially a third world dictatorship. The DNC has officially taken the constitution and thrown it away.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/30/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Nice little catch 22 they've created, you can't complain now because the laws was put in months and months ago, but you can't complain months and months ago because you can't prove you were damaged by the law until after the election.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/30/2020 11:06 Comments || Top||

#10  You think the GOP will just lie down and take getting screwed? Of course not - they'll screw back and then some. The next generation of Atwaters is now going to master the fine arts of ballot harvesting, ballot stuffing, 3am ballot delivery etc

Goodbye, fair elections
Posted by: Elmoque Trotsky9256 || 11/30/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||


As NY politicians eye new taxes on the rich, high earners eye the exits
[NYPOST] With Gov. Cuomo now threatening to go for "soak the rich" tax rates if he doesn’t get a federal bailout as ginormous as he wants, it’s well worth remembering just how much New York already depends on these citizens — who can easily afford to move away.Indeed, many have decamped temporarily during the pandemic — but they’re still paying taxes as New York residents. What if that changes?

Enter a new Manhattan Institute report by Michael Hendrix and Don Boyd, which looks at the fiscal consequences just for New York City — which leans on top earners less that the state government — if the 1 percent wave bye-bye.

The nearly 660,000 New Yorkers (more than 17 percent of all city income-tax filers) who qualify as top earners generated more than 80 percent of New York City’s income-tax revenue in 2018 (the latest year for which complete data are available).

They also account for a big chunk of the take from the unincorporated-business tax and sales taxes, in all "giving" over 22.6 percent of the city’s total tax revenue.

If only 1 percent of these top-earners permanently revoke their New York residency and do their business elsewhere, it could cost city government $220 million a year in tax revenue. If 3 percent go, it’s $576 million. And if 5 percent leave, it’s $933 million.

Not to mention the loss to the state, which would likely have to cut what it sends the city.

It could be far worse. In some of Manhattan’s richest neighborhoods, departure rates this year are as high as 50 percent — 10 times the study’s worst-case-scenario.. And a Sienna poll this August found that 44 percent of six-figure earners had considered leaving the city in the prior four months.

The real question is: How many will return when the virus is beaten? Everyone now knows how practical remote work can be, especially for top-paying jobs in areas like legal, accounting and financial services.

If New York politicians aren’t careful, they may turn the temporary exodus amid the pandemic into a permanent devastation of the tax base.



Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Easy.

Do the Stalin thing.
1. Send all of Biden's illegals to Manhattan.
2. Confiscate the departing top earners' condos and make them into Soviet-style communal apartments
3. Stuff each condo with not fewer than 25 illegals.
4. Let Blas feed the new New Yorkers and deal with their spawn.
Posted by: Snulet Ulavick9423 || 11/30/2020 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Prices on property title are set by emoluments / distance so rentsand prices near these
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/30/2020 5:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Reminds me of what the Nazis did. "If you want to leave you have to turn over all your wealth before you can go."
Posted by: Phinetch Wherese4624 || 11/30/2020 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Related to this: spent Thanksgiving w/ kids and Son in Law related the story of his parents coming for day visit earlier with secondary goal of helping a friend move from Seattle east, only to find the closest U-Haul available was back in Spokane! A random city -pair search (Seattle /Boise and San Francisco/Boise) backed that up: westbound rentals were about 10% that of eastbounds. Not NYC, but high tax sh1tholes nonetheless.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/30/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't that idiot in Sacramento threaten to confiscate the wealth of Californians leaving his sh!thole state?
What happened to that neo-nazi proposal?
Posted by: Kojo Noodleman4650 || 11/30/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  ...but they’re still paying taxes as New York residents.

I wouldn't be so sure of that, unless the reporter got some recent stats from the NY Dept. of Revenue and Taxation. Under most state tax laws you're a legal resident if you're there for six months / 183 days. Cuomo & DeBlasio have been whining about lost revenues and begging Trump for a bailout since Day Fucking One. I'm inclined to think the number of people who've left permanently before June 30th is a lot more than just a trickle.
Posted by: Raj || 11/30/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Would not surprise me. given the NY/NYC recent adoption of Nazi Germany style edicts and Orders vs. LAW.


That they issue a decree of 50% of gross worth Moving Tax.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 17:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Cuomo & DeBlasio have been whining about lost revenues and begging Trump for a bailout since Day Fucking One.

Some of that was the chance to get something for nothing, I suspect, not necessarily because they really needed it at the beginning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/30/2020 18:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Didn't that idiot in Sacramento threaten to confiscate the wealth of Californians leaving his sh!thole state?

Good luck reaching across state boundaries to get into someone's pocket.
Posted by: gorb || 11/30/2020 23:18 Comments || Top||


Sidney Powell: Voting Contracts in Georgia Warrant Criminal Investigation
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Sidney Powell, who has filed election-related lawsuits in favor of President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s campaign, said that Dominion Voting Systems should be investigated over a lucrative Georgia contract that was awarded to the election systems maker.

"There should be an investigation, a thorough criminal investigation, frankly, of everyone involved in acquiring the Dominion [Voting] System for the state of Georgia," Powell told Newsmax on Nov. 28, adding that there were potential "benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the contract."

Dominion Voting Systems has denied all of Powell’s allegations of fraud, corruption, and any alleged ties to foreign governments in statements to The Epoch Times.

"And frankly, for every other state, given how appalling the system is and the fact it was designed to manipulate the votes and destroy the real votes of American citizens who were casting legal votes," Powell said.

Dominion’s front man, Michael Steel, claimed last week in a Fox News interview that it’s "physically impossible" to change electronic votes from one candidate to another, although he didn’t explain how that’s the case.

Powell added that her investigation has revealed "money or benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the contract for Georgia."
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Impossible to change? GitHub has a document that says otherwise. And the problem isn’t changing them, it’s creating votes out of thin air
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/30/2020 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  if there's one way to ensure it goes away; have the gubmint investigate it
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/30/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Now if only we had some honest cops to investigate...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/30/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  it’s "physically impossible" to change electronic votes from one candidate to another

Funny guy. How does he say this with a straight face? Does he think we're brain dead?
Posted by: Whumble Unemp8331 || 11/30/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#5  "physically impossible" C'mon man! You can't fit a pencil the USB port! Everybody knows that!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/30/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||



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