If the Government Coordinates It

It is no longer private free speech decision.   2/3/22 Fox News:

"EXCLUSIVE – An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election to discuss "disinformation" on social media and ask about efforts to censor that information."

Don't Be An Election Denier!

 Lookout Mountain County District Attorney:

On Wednesday November 16, 2022, William Chase, a 62-year-old man from Walker County was convicted by a Walker County jury of Forgery in the First Degree, Illegal Acts Regarding Election Documents, Unlawful Acts Regarding Elector's Vote, Repeat Voting in Same Election. The trial began Monday, November 14th and concluded with a guilty verdict on November 16th in front of the Honorable Chief Judge Kristina Graham. 

The evidence presented at trial showed that a Walker County resident’s absentee ballot for the January 2021 runoff election was sent by mistake to an old address, a PO Box in La Fayette, Georgia. When the resident’s ballot never arrived but her husbands did, the resident called the Elections Office in Walker County to inquire about her ballot. The Elections Office discovered that they had already accepted, but had not yet counted, an absentee ballot for the resident, and the ballot appeared to have resident’s signature on the Oath of Elector section. The resident went to the Elections Office to view the ballot with the signature on it and immediately noticed it was NOT her signature. The Elections Office immediately cancelled the forged ballot and had a new ballot sent to the resident’s current address. 

Defendant's fingerprints on the ballot likely sealed the decision. Remember that these are the ones so incompetent that the get caught.

Claims Floating Around the Internet

 This was apparently a Tweet last year:

There is not a complete URL but I went to data.pa.gov to check.  This shows "2020 General Election Mail Ballot Counts by Birth Year Chart" counts by birth year;  I also filtered by birth years from 1865 to 1900:

There are none before 1890 (when there is 1).  You have to wonder how competent the voters born before 1900 are (they would be 120 in the 2020 election, and at least one who was 130) and if they cast those votes or their health care provider did so.  These could also be voters born in 2000 whose birth year was mistyped.  (The number of keystrokes entered makes small numbers of such mistakes inevitable.  I would have written software that asked the entry clerk to verify that year.)  The claim about voters born during the Civil War from Penn.'s data is clearly false.

I do not doubt that there was widespread fraud; multiple reports such as "Office of the Special Counsel Second Interim Investigative Report On the Apparatus & Procedures of the Wisconsin Elections System Delivered to the Wisconsin State Assembly on March 1, 2022" demonstrate criminal actions of election officials and votes cast by persons who had been disenfranchised apparently because of senility whose votes may have been cast by caretakers and dozens of news reports of voter fraud in recent years, at least those so poorly done as to get caught.

Let's not redistribute false information.

The Wikipedia page shows eight Americans over 110.  Pretty clearly 300% of them live in Pennsylvania.

Absolutely Fascinating

 Excerpt from Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules.  Fascinating use of geolocation data extracted from cellphones.  In Atlanta, they identified 242 persons in Atlanta where 242 persons averaged 24 ballot drop box visits, and five non-profits.  It makes sense that you might drop your own ballot at a drop box.  Maybe for a family member.  But 24 drop boxes?

Also interesting use of the data to identify which cellphones were present at a gang shooting that led to a child's death and then indictment.

More Interesting Stuff From the Wisconsin Special Counsel Report

 Here:

The Center for Tech and Civic Life’s $8,800,000 Zuckerberg Plan Grant with the Cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay (the Zuckerberg 5) Facially Violates Wisconsin Law Prohibiting Election Bribery. 

The Cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay entered into an agreement with Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). In the agreement, the Cities took CTCL’s money to facilitate in-person and absentee voting within their respective city. The agreement documents included the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP), the CTCL worksheets and the CTCL acceptance letters, which were conditioned on the Cities spending CTCL’s transferred money in accordance with the WSVP. These documents are in the accompanying appendix: App. 7-27 (WSVP); App. 513-519, (CTCL worksheet blank form), 520-537 (Green Bay worksheet), 538-551 (Kenosha worksheet), 552-563 (Madison worksheet), 564-575 (Milwaukee worksheet), 576-587 (Racine worksheet); 588- 601 (CTCL grant application acceptance letters for Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha, Green Bay and Racine). 

Any Agreement Where a City’s Election Officials Receive CTCL or Other’s Private Money to Facilitate In-Person and Absentee Voting Within a City Facially Violates Wis. Stat. § 12.11’s Prohibition on Election Bribery Under Wis. Stat. § 12.11. 

The CTCL agreement facially violates the election bribery prohibition of Wis. Stat. § 12.11 because the participating cities and public officials received private money to facilitate in-person or absentee voting within such a city. Any similar agreements in the 2022 and 2024 election cycle would also be prohibited election bribery. 

 

Remember: There Is No Evidence of Fraud in the 2020 Election

 Office of the Special Counsel Second Interim Investigative Report On the Apparatus & Procedures of the Wisconsin Elections System Delivered to the Wisconsin State Assembly on March 1, 2022

Despite this cover-up, or perhaps because of it, the OSC can still reach certain conclusions about the integrity of election administration in the State of Wisconsin, and we can still make baseline recommendations. While we cannot, for example, recommend certain server protocols because we have been unable to obtain government records detailing precisely what the numerous electronic systems entail (Wisconsin uses numerous machine and system vendors) or precisely how the existing systems were used in 2020, we do have information relating to how confusing and opaque the system is. It is beyond doubt that no single governmental person or entity in the State of Wisconsin has a handle on these systems—that is a damning indictment on its own. Elections systems must be readily understandable by voters and newly elected county clerks—confusing systems harm voter confidence and tend to facilitate fraud....

This Report has another purpose: to catalog the numerous questionable and unlawful actions of various actors in the 2020 election. Some unlawful conduct and irregularities outlined in this Report include:

1. Election officials’ use of absentee ballot drop boxes in violation of Wis. Stat. § 6.87(4)(b)1 and § 6.855;

2. The Center for Tech and Civic Life’s $8,800,000 Zuckerberg Plan Grants being run in the Cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, 8 Kenosha and Green Bay constituting Election Bribery Under Wis. Stat. § 12.11;

3. WEC’s failing to maintain a sufficiently accurate WisVote voter database, as determined by the Legislative Audit Bureau;

4. The Cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay engaging private companies in election administration in unprecedented ways, including tolerating unauthorized users and unauthorized uses of WisVote private voter data under Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) policies, such as sharing voter data for free that would have cost the public $12,500;

5. As the Racine County Sheriff’s Office has concluded, WEC unlawfully directed the municipal clerks not to send out the legally required special voting deputies to nursing homes, resulting in many nursing homes’ registered residents voting at 100% rates and many ineligible residents voting, despite a guardianship order or incapacity;

6. Unlawful voting by wards-under-guardianship left unchecked by Wisconsin election officials, where WEC failed to record that information in the State’s WisVote voter database, despite its availability through the circuit courts—all in violation of the federal Help America Vote Act.

7. WEC’s failure to record non-citizens in the WisVote voter database, thereby permitting non-citizens to vote, even though Wisconsin law requires citizenship to vote—all in violation of the Help America Vote Act. Unlawful voting by non-citizens left unchecked by Wisconsin election officials, with WEC failing to record that information in the State’s WisVote voter database; and 8. Wisconsin election officials’ and WEC’s violation of Federal and Wisconsin Equal Protection Clauses by failing to treat all voters the same in the same election.   ...

The OSC launched a major investigation into nursing home abuse. Attorneys and investigators were dispatched to multiple nursing homes across the State. They identified and met with multiple residents who voted, despite the fact they were clearly incapable of voting and/ or not legally permitted to vote because of a guardianship order. The OSC representatives made detailed notes and videos of these residents for evidentiary purposes....

The OSC consulted with multiple computer security experts regarding voting machines. Two major machine manufacturers were identified in Wisconsin, Dominion Voting and ESS. The OSC viewed extensive reporting about the integrity of the machines. The OSC learned that some Dominion machines are extremely vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. These specific machines can be manipulated to alter actual votes cast— either surreptitiously or by the machine technicians. The Special Counsel reviewed extensive reporting of a Dominion machine failure event in another State. The OSC was able to identify, through the reports of experts, that the failed machine recorded two anonymous and unauthorized access events from its VPN. This means, contrary to what Dominion has publicly stated, that at least some machines had access to the internet on election night. Shortly after the unauthorized access was recorded, the machine failed and was reset, wiping all voting history and forcing that election administrator to rely on unverifiable paper printouts from the failed machine. ESS machines were equally problematic. The central problem is that several of the machines are made with a 4G wireless modem installed, enabling them to connect to the internet through a Wi-Fi hotspot. One municipality under investigation in Wisconsin by the OSC admitted that these machines had these modems and were connected to the internet on election night. The reason given was to “transmit data” about votes to the county clerks.  

It gets wilder:

The OSC also sought information about the machines in Wisconsin used on election night from the clerks. The clerks either did not possess the data sought by the OSC or refused to provide it, with Green Bay and Madison insinuating that providing secure voting machine data to the OSC would somehow compromise election integrity. In other words, these cities claim that it is impossible to verify the integrity of the voting machines because doing that would jeopardize the integrity of both the machines and future elections. The Special Counsel intends to resolve this issue as the investigation moves forward.  

Should I Cry or Should I Laugh?

From Yahoo News story about the Georgia election audit finding absentee ballots counted twice in Fulton County:

"Carter Jones, an independent monitor of Fulton's elections, posited an election worker may have lost track of which ballots were scanned. He said the chances of organized fraud were small.

“It’s Fulton failing to follow proper election protocols again,” he said. “Fulton is so poor at managing the actual process that if they had actually tried to rig the election, they would have bungled it, and we would have found out.”