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The unsealed report highlighted critical vulnerabilities in Georgia’s election infrastructure and the ongoing challenges to public confidence ahead of the 2024 election.
“Just an FYI – Kamala Harris’s campaign reached out. They’d like to pay us about $1,000 for access to the email list,” Alcorn wrote in a December 30 email to Hunter and Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow.
The money would go to the [Beau Biden] campaign, then be transferred to the foundation,” explained Alcorn, who ran the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children from January 2016 to June 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Now, here's the onion:
Three former members of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) told The Post that donor list swaps are common and legal among campaigns, as long as each pays fair market rate.
But funneling the Harris payment to the foundation in exchange for the donor list — after the Biden family made clear months earlier that Beau’s campaign funds would be donated to the foundation — would have been a different matter.
“Charitable organizations are not supposed to be involved in transactions with partisan campaign committees,” said Michael Toner, who served as FEC chairman in 2006 and as a commissioner between 2002 and 2007.
The first layer to peel off here is the status of the Beau Biden "campaign." The money paid — and sure, a grand isn't all that much in the grand scheme of things, but the amount doesn't matter, the law does — the money appears to have been funneled through the campaign and into the Beau Biden Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation. Non-profits of this kind are not supposed to be involved in partisan politics, and according to Mr. Christenson, the Beau Biden Foundation, on a Form 990 filing, had denied “...engag(ing) in direct or indirect political campaign activities on behalf of or in opposition to candidates for public office.”
The second layer here is that the Beau Biden Foundation later offered Kamala Harris a seat on their board of directors. That's an unpaid position, but one that carries some influence, and could also run afoul of election finance law.
“The first thing I want to point out is, you know, we use words like ‘anomalies,’ ‘suspicion,’ and everything else because we try to be PC, I guess. But this is fraud, outright fraudulent behavior,” said Hamilton County Board of Elections member Alex Triantafilou, who also serves as chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. “Who’s responsible or how they’re responsible, that will be up to somebody other than me. It’s plain and obvious to me when you get this many registration cards [holds up the stack] with the very same handwriting that someone is trying to defraud the elections process in Hamilton County.”
Not just Hamilton County. Election integrity issues involving employees of a leftist company committed to “Building Long-Term Progressive Power,” have been popping up all over Ohio. //
Meanwhile, potential voter registration fraud as suspected in the Black Forks incidents counter the incessant dubious claims of election integrity deniers that there’s little to no fraud in U.S. elections.
“So to the extent that there’s any press watching, voter fraud is real, it does happen. It happens oftentimes in the form of phony registrations all in the same handwriting,” Triantafilou, the Hamilton County Board of Elections members said at the July meeting.
The complaint asks Kemp to “remove” the three board members and “further, refer the matter to the Attorney General for prosecution, in the event that [he] discover[s] evidence of an actionable violation.”
President and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections Derek Lyons said in a statement given to The Federalist that this “noise is what happens every time someone tries to ensure the integrity of our elections.”
“It’s important to remember that what they’re complaining about is the mere idea of having local boards check that election results are accurate before certifying them,” Lyons continued. “So, you have to ask yourself, what are the reasons to object to that?”
The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) passed a series of rules clarifying that county election board members have the right to make a “reasonable inquiry” into elections before certifying the results. Another rule clarifies board members are entitled to review election-related material as part of their inquiry. But the Democratic National Committee (DNC), alongside Georgia Democrats, filed a lawsuit Monday over the rules, essentially demanding the courts force county election officials to rubber-stamp elections without any questions asked. //
“If you actually read the rule, you’ll see there’s nothing in there that would delay certification,” Grubbs told The Federalist.
Grubbs told The Federalist that election superintendents are “withholding documents needed for people to certify the election,” including in her own county (Cobb County).
“The very people that they have in hysterics over it are the same people in control over the information,” she said.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is facing a powerful defamation lawsuit arising from false claims he made about a Republican election volunteer in his 2021 book “Integrity Counts.” He wrote and published that a video presentation of unsupervised ballot counting at State Farm Arena in Atlanta had been “doctored,” “chopped up,” “cut,” “sliced up,” and “deceptively sliced and edited so that it appeared to show the exact opposite of reality,” allegedly including a “slice of video that had removed the clear evidence” that the law had been followed.
None of that was true. Jacki Pick, a Republican volunteer on the Trump legal team, was the sole presenter of the video to Georgia legislators to show that Republican election observers’ claims about unsupervised ballot counting in Georgia’s largest county were true. While she did not show the entire 20 hours of the video in her 12-minute presentation, nothing she showed was edited, chopped up, sliced, or diced, in any way. //
For example, in March 2020, Raffensperger succumbed to the legal efforts of Democrat activist Marc Elias to water down signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots. After several Democrat counties poorly administered primary elections in 2020, Raffensperger voluntarily embraced “Zuck Bucks,” the scheme by which Democrat operatives took over government election operations in the blue areas of swing states and helped run Get Out The Vote programs. Georgia was the primary target of the operation, receiving $45 million from the Center for Tech and Civic Life. The results were remarkable.
Georgia went from a more than five point margin of victory for Republicans in 2016 to narrow loss in 2020. Raffensperger’s office immediately went into a defensive posture, rejecting information requests from Republican activists, refusing to investigate legitimate claims of illegal voting, and even fabricating Trump quotes that were cited in his impeachment. They also illegally recorded a key phone call they held with the Trump campaign, mischaracterized the context of the call, and immediately leaked it to the Washington Post. These and other actions have led election integrity activists to view the entire Georgia Secretary of State office with suspicion and frustration. //
Raffensperger is in court over the false statements he published in his 2021 book, not for how his office illegally recorded phone calls and leaked them to their political allies in left-wing media, or any other action against Trump. //
“Ms. Pick never once asked Mr. Raffensperger to make statements regarding the 2020 election; her only concern is in repairing her damaged reputation caused by false statements made by Mr. Raffensperger in 2021, a full year later. Ms. Pick will hold Mr. Raffensperger accountable for making false statements about her, and the fact he’s more interested in diverting attention to a 2020 election narrative that portrays him favorably and away from addressing his 2021 defamatory statements shows he is extremely concerned that justice will be served,” said Bill Whitehill, a member of her legal team.
One would have thought that twenty years of deployments and combat would have produced a noncommissioned officer corps as hard as nails. It didn't. The post-Abbey Gate Army noncommissioned officer corps seems more like the one that came out of Vietnam than the one that went into Iraq. Should Trump win, he has his work cut out for him, purging the officer corps of that trash and detritus that gamed its way to the top. He must find a merciless and bloody-minded SOB to do the Army NCO corps what Sherman did to Georgia.
Attorney General Merrick Garland boasted on Friday how his office has prosecuted nearly 1,500 Americans for protesting the 2020 election, warning others they may face similar lawfare should they raise any concerns about the administration of the upcoming November election.
Speaking at a press briefing, Garland essentially said the Jan. 6 prosecutions should serve to remind Americans what happens if they raise questions about an election.
“I think our prosecutions have made clear what we think about people who try to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, which is [an] essential and fundamental element of our democracy. //
The Washington, D.C. bar recommended that Trump-era DOJ official Jeffrey Clark be suspended for at least two years because he drafted a letter to Georgia officials in which he said the DOJ “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the [2020] election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.”
Notably, the 2020 election in Georgia was certified, though the State Election Board passed a motion this past May finding Fulton County double-scanned 3,075 ballots. The board did not issue a rule on the 17,852 votes that were, according to a complaint filed by Kevin Moncla and Joseph Rossi, allegedly missing ballot images in the county.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the state removed over one million ineligible voters from the voter rolls since 2021.
The number includes over 500,000 dead people and 6,500 illegal aliens. //
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Half a million dead people and 6500 illegal aliens. If this is Texas, what’s going on in Democrat-led swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and North Carolina?
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🚨New: Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has announced the removal of one million ineligible voters from the state's voter rolls.
12:34 PM · Aug 26, 2024
OK, that's a lot of text, but the writers raise an interesting point. If they are correct in how this is done, there's potential here that billions - billions of dollars may have been funneled to Democrat candidates, supporters, and donors. And here's the catch; that 1977 change in the law means it may actually be legal.
In an effort to stop Benson from implementing the first set of rules related to the conduct of election recounts ahead of November, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has threatened legal action. In an Aug. 7 communication, Luke Bunting of the RNC Election Integrity Counsel told Benson to “cease any attempt to adopt the proposed administrative ruleset … before the upcoming general election on November 5, 2024, or any other time prior to the effective date of Senate Bill 603, the statutory framework the proposed ruleset is designed to implement.”
“The disastrous SB 603 bill, which should never have been signed into law, does not go into effect until next year,” Gineen Bresso, Election Integrity Director for the RNC and Trump Campaign, told me in a statement. “Yet Jocelyn Benson has decided she can operate above and outside existing law, ram through illegal changes, and further weaken the remaining safeguards in Michigan.”
I served as an Army IG investigator for three years. I never encountered anyone engaged in epic misconduct who had not eased himself into that position with a series of baby steps. The panache with which Hamilton called members of the selection board on behalf of a particular officer is not something displayed the first time you do it. This is particularly true when meddling with a critical selection board strikes at the very heart of the integrity the system must have to be respected. Hopefully, the investigators are looking into other possible incidents of Hamiltion trying to influence a command selection board. Second, a male general breaking all known rules on behalf of a female subordinate looks like more was going on here than fighting racism unless that's what the kids are calling it this week. //
In short, given the public domain information available, there doesn't seem to be any empirical evidence to support Hamilton's claim that he was intervening to prevent an injustice to Black officers and a great deal of evidence to indicate that he was personally pushing the candidacy of one particular officer who happened to work directly for him and who appears to be totally unqualified to command.
If Wormuth removes Hamilton from command, the fallout from a liberal White woman sacking a Black man during an election year will make me a fortune in my popcorn futures investment. //
Chuck in TX
3 hours ago
That initial 0-5 vote should have been a red flag and warned him off. Five generals unanimously and without reservation put it firmly on the record she was unqualified. There was no way that was getting changed without setting off alarm bells. Hubris is a hell of a thing. //
flyovercountry
4 hours ago
We’ll soon find out he was having an unprofessional relationship with said LtCol, this was pay back on the investment.
streiff flyovercountry
4 hours ago
That's my bet, he was given an ultimatum by her to get her a battalion command slot or face the consequences.
Min Headroom llme streiff
4 hours ago
If it looks like a duck, and all that.
But as you note, an interesting thing is that the blatancy of this suggests he’s practiced at it. So he probably either doesn’t know or doesn’t care how it looks.
Laocoön of Troy
a minute ago
What Hamilton did was corrupt to the core. Sadly I cannot say that I haven't seen similar abuses in my beloved AF. However I don't hafta like it.
This entire thing is essentially out in the open and Hamilton is DARING the Army to do anything about his misbehavior. //
Laocoön of Troy
a minute ago
What Hamilton did was corrupt to the core. Sadly I cannot say that I haven't seen similar abuses in my beloved AF. However I don't hafta like it.
This entire thing is essentially out in the open and Hamilton is DARING the Army to do anything about his misbehavior.
As RedState reported Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, had quite a bit to say recently on the subject of how a terrified Democratic Party War Machine is working so hard to keep third-party candidates like Kennedy off the ballot headed into the November elections. //
On Wednesday after a court appearance in New York state to appeal a ruling that effectively would keep him off the ballot, Kennedy himself went off on Democrats who have talked big this week at the Democrat National Convention about voting rights and democracy but who behind the scenes have gone to unprecedented levels to suppress third-party candidates:
"The DNC is in Chicago talking about their commitment to voting rights, while they're spending tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars to keep me off the ballot."
"There's a million people in this country who have signed petitions trying to get me on the ballot. 145,000 at least people here in New York State. They want to see me on the ballot. Why is the Democratic Party trying to disenfranchise those people? What's happened to the party?"
"I don't think my father would recognize this party, and I don't think my uncle would recognize this party." //
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Stop the gaslighting. Right now @TheDemocrats are trying to sue us off multiple state ballots, hiring spies and infiltrators to sabotage us, and even withholding public funds we qualified for months ago.
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MICHELLE OBAMA: “We don’t have the luxury of cheating others to get further ahead—We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”
Leftists always tell us what they are doing. They always accuse everyone else of doing the things they are doing first and most. It is how they work. Yes, these people really are that bad.
Texas is also dealing with what appears to be an attempt at voter fraud--and AG Paxton says he and his office won't sit idly by and let it happen. In a statement released on Wednesday, Paxton announced he's launching an investigation into numerous reports of organizations secretly registering illegal aliens to vote, while pretending they are simply registering eligible voters:
The RNC and several states have filed lawsuits in recent months against ‘Bidenbucks.’ Is it too late to stop the Democrats’ GOTV machine?
The 291-page report lays out several impeachable offenses on the part of Joe Biden and the substantial evidence supporting each. First and foremost, the report addresses the multiple instances of influence peddling by Biden family members — with Joe Biden's knowledge and assent. Additionally, the report addresses Biden's mishandling of classified information (as detailed in Special Counsel Robert Hur's report). Finally, the report sets out Biden's obstruction of Congress and of the criminal investigation into his son, Hunter.
Below are the impeachment inquiry's key findings as set forth in the report:
The Republican Party gives Detroit a list of 676 Republican election worker candidates. Detroit hires 52 off the list. //
Election officials in Detroit, Michigan need more elephants in the room to get right with the law that calls election workers to equally represent both major parties. Currently, they are hiring mostly Democrats. //
Detroit election officials hired 2,340 Democrats, 308 Republicans, and 179 “other” poll workers for the Aug. 6, primary, indicate city records obtained by the watchdog group Michigan Fair Elections and reviewed by The Federalist. The records indicate Detroit hired 2,827 total poll workers and of those, approximately 10 percent were Republicans, missing the 50 percent mark by a country mile.
It gets worse. Many Detroit “Republican” poll workers were probably not party members or voters. Michigan Fair Elections looked at Detroit poll workers labeled “Republican” to see which party they voted for in 2024 and previous years. Of the 308 on the list, they were able to identify how 143 voted.
Of those 143 identified Republican poll workers, 44 requested Democrat ballots in the 2024 Presidential primary; 35 requested Democrat ballots in two primary elections (2024 and 2022), 27 requested Democrat ballots in three primaries (2024, 2022, and 2020), and 25 requested Democrat ballots in all 4 primaries (2024, 2022, 2020, and 2018).
That’s 131 of the 143 for whom Michigan Fair Elections could find voting records. It’s a highly unusual voting pattern for Republicans politically engaged enough to become poll workers.
Wes Allen is sending the registrations to the state’s attorney general for ‘further investigation and possible criminal prosecution.’
Normally you wouldn’t expect the New York Times to pursue a story that contains negative information about top-echelon Democrats, but lo and behold, on Tuesday evening the outlet dropped an article revealing that First Son Hunter Biden requested help from the U.S. Embassy in Rome to secure a lucrative deal for the Ukrainian gas giant, Burisma, whose board he famously sat on. Here's the kicker: this was in 2016 while Joe Biden was vice president. //
The timing of this document release certainly raises eyebrows—coming less than a month after Joe dropped out of the presidential race—but the Times and the State Department assure us it’s all just a coincidence. Sure. How convenient: //
Donner’s Party
an hour ago
Selective Leaking, so now everyone can say “ITS OLD NEWS”, when for EIGHT YEARS, they said it wasn’t even true.
First, the DNA collection law at issue has been on the books since 2005, when it passed with bipartisan support. It requires the collection of DNA samples from "non-United States persons in detention for immigration violations." Per the whistleblowers, DHS is not enforcing that law — certainly not fully — and hasn't been under both Democrat and Republican administrations.
A December 2021 internal government memo from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel regarding its investigation of the charges levied by Jones, Taylor, and Wynn found that the agency had intentionally failed to implement the law — designed to protect public safety — for decades. //
Taylor, Wynn, and Jones all are confident that the continued, willful failure to enforce the law has resulted in American deaths — deaths that were preventable. //
The whistleblowers affirm that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been notified of the failure to comply with the law, but no one at DHS has been disciplined for that failure.
The only ones who have been disciplined are the whistleblowers themselves. The internal OSC memo referenced above concluded that the agency retaliated against the whistleblowers, including denial of promotion, hostile work environment, and reputational harm. The OSC refused to disclose the memo, and the whistleblowers were only able to obtain it via discovery. They have had to spend their own money to pursue litigation to confirm that they were subject to that retaliation. //
Both Taylor and Jones have had their law enforcement credentials and firearms taken away from them. Taylor has had his law enforcement retirement stripped. Taylor notes, "In a law enforcement environment, publicly removing someone's firearm is the ultimate insult and degradation." Per Wynn, "I was basically iced — left to sit at my desk every day, do nothing but the most menial of tasks." States Jones, "I was demoted three levels. Like Mr. Taylor, my firearm was taken, my credentials were taken. And it was the final blow to a professional career. And what we did, was we came forward." This despite the fact that none of the men had ever received a written or verbal disciplinary action.
Jones sums it up thusly:
"One of the supervisors said, very matter of fact: 'The agency's goal is to bankrupt you, make you quit, die, kill yourselves, or basically, preferably, all of the above.'"