This makes me smile. BIGLY.
How likely is it that the AG would agree to pursue a criminal investigation? I swear I think I have the list of characters in the senate and the bos memorized, but I don't know anything about the AG.
This all sounds like we're headed in the right direction. Can I be cautiously optimistic??
Fuck. I pretty much have an IV line of diet coke making its way through my body all day long.
I personally refer to it as the Capitol Freedom Run. :)
They're working on it in GA, at least.
Absentee voting ID bill clears Georgia Senate committee
Thanks for the link, very interesting.
Dropping this here in case anyone else is interested but just wants a quickie read -
The CDC Has Less Power Than You Think, and Likes it That Way
"But its power to act is extremely restricted. The agency traditionally acts in an advisory role and can only take control from local authorities under two circumstances: if local authorities invite them to do so or under the authority outlined in the Insurrection Act in the event of a total breakdown of law and order.
"Even in the highly unlikely event that the CDC were called to respond to a—let’s reiterate: extremely-unlikely-to-occur—pandemic, quarantine and isolation would be imposed not by bespeckled CDC scientists but by local or federal law enforcement or troops. Most importantly, the CDC is extremely reluctant to be seen as a coercive government agency because it depends as much as any agency on the good will and acquiescence of citizens in order to respond effectively to a public health emergency.
"'Our public health system is built on voluntary compliance,' Donohue tells TIME. 'If the CDC starts to become the enemy holding a gun to [someone’s] head and keeping them in their house, they lose insight.' "
I'm not understanding this, either. CDC also created federal guidelines about airline and public transportation. Since when do they make laws?!
I have NO IDEA what this loon was even trying to say or prove with her period picture.I LIKE tampons and pads, and what they represent, because they are for WOMEN....a biological reality that we actually recognize. Idiot.
Yay Lauren!
No clue what Lin Wood's thoughts were on VA; I didn't mention him. I remember a couple of interviews with Sidney where she mentioned she'd be coming for VA with a lawsuit eventually; Rudy mentioned VA during the PA hearings, something like, "Well we won VA as well, but that's a case for a different day." I haven't heard anything about it since, other than periodic articles in GT about election fraud in VA.
I agree; its rationale sounds like expediency is the only benefit. Here's what the Voting Works website says:
"Experts believe that RLAs are the most efficient way to gain certainty that the winner reported by the voting system is correct. The RLA is efficient because of its insight that we do not need to manually recount every vote to gain certainty in the outcome of an election. Instead, the number of votes we need to manually count depends on the margin of victory in the contest we’re auditing. A typical state-wide RLA might require checking fewer than 1000 ballots to validate an entire state’s election results."
The date was what interested me - this was written 7/26/19. I'll summarize it for ya so you don't have to clicky:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians were attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential elections "as we sit here."
McConnell said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bills because they were "so partisan," but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnell received a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country. The plans would likely burden the two largest electronic voting machine vendors in the United States, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems, with new regulations and financial burdens. Together, the companies make up about 80 percent of all voting machines used in the country and both have far-reaching lobbying arms in Washington D.C. Many of those lobbyists have contributed to the McConnell campaign, reported Sludge last month, an investigative outlet that focuses on money in politics.
Sludge found that Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lobbyist David Cohen, who has worked on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems this year, donated $2,000 to McConnell during this time. Brian Wild, who works with Cohen and has also lobbied Dominion, gave McConnell $1,000. Around the same time, on February 19 and March 4 Emily Kirlin and Jen Olson, who have lobbied on behalf of Election Systems & Software over the last year donated $1,000 to McConnell each.
"It's not surprising to me that Mitch McConnell is receiving these campaign contributions," the Brennan Center for Justice's Lawrence Norden told Sludge last month."He seems single-handedly to be standing in the way of anything passing in Congress around election security, and that includes things that the vendors might want, like money for the states to replace antiquated equipment."
In 2018, there were 14 states that used electronic voting systems in 2018 with no paper trail, that means that if votes were inaccurately tallied or machines malfunctioned, there would be no way to investigate or recover those votes. Voting machine companies are not currently subject to any federally-mandated security standards.
Butt covering, most likely. I'm a virginian and saw it as well; it was pretty blatant.
Unless they do a full forensic audit by an independent company, as has so far ONLY been done in Antrim County so I won't hold my breath, I won't have much faith in these results.
This is the company VA is working with:
Yes - New Hampshire
Absentee voting ID bill clears Georgia Senate committee
While that is a pretty funny response that I agree with, I'm pretty sure I sense sarcasm in the OP's post.
If not, then carry on. LOL.
I remember back in November or so both Rudy and Sidney saying that VA had huge election fraud and VA was on their list. I had so much naive hope back then. :( People here know it happened and are definitely still screaming about it, myself included, but to my knowledge there isn't anyone who will listen and there isn't any organization focused on looking into it. I haven't found one to get involved with, anyway.
When you are elected to represent your people and don't actually represent them, you don't get reelected. Not cancelled. Idiots.
McDonald's to slash executive bonuses if they fail to place more minorities in senior leadership
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mcdonalds-cut-bonuses-minorities-senior-leadership
That is hilarious, thanks for the laugh!
So....should they just not bother doing anything at all for the next two years? We'd all be pissed as hell about that, too. I get your point, but sometimes it seems like ya just can't win with this place.
"Cruz appeared to confirm that he went to Cancun, saying that “with school canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.”
“My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas,” he said in a statement on Thursday, referring to the power outages and, in some cases, loss of water."
‘Wanted to Be a Good Dad’: Ted Cruz Responds to Criticism He Traveled to Cancun Amid Texas Power Crisis
Biden is about as racist as they come. The dem voters' defense is always, "hE hAs cHaNgEd." No. He hasn't changed one bit. He tries to hide his true feelings about minorities but the dementia is working against that effort.
Ha! Very good point.
They should put them on a bus and drop them in DC, right in kamala and pelosi's back yard. I hear the parking garages in DC are heated.