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Julie Kelly:
“…An October 29 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that election officials in several Pennsylvania counties were debating how to alert voters that their mail-in ballot might not meet state requirements. “Officials across Pennsylvania are trying to help voters fix mail ballots that would otherwise be disqualified because of technical mistakes in completing them, creating a patchwork of policies around how—or even whether—people are notified and given a chance to make their votes count,” reporter Jonathan Lai explained. Some jurisdictions were contacting voters directly; one county, according to the paper, sent the “flawed” ballots back to the voters.
But there was a much bigger story behind Lai’s article: Election officials clearly violated the law by inspecting mail-in ballots before November 3. According to Pennsylvania’s election rules, county election boards were required to “safely keep the ballots in sealed or locked containers” until pre-canvassing legally began at 7 a.m. on Election Day.
Not only were an unknown number of mail-in ballots mishandled by election workers days before the official start date, election observers were not present at the premature inspections.
The state’s election code clearly states:
[T]he county board of elections shall meet no earlier than seven o’clock A.M. on election day to pre-canvass all ballots received prior to the meeting. A county board of elections shall provide at least forty-eight hours’ notice of a pre-canvass meeting by publicly posting a notice of a pre-canvass meeting on its publicly accessible Internet website. One authorized representative of each candidate in an election and one representative from each political party shall be permitted to remain in the room in which the absentee ballots and mail-in ballots are pre-canvassed.
Roughy 2.5 million Pennsylanians voted absentee in the general election; nearly 2 million of those votes were cast for Joe Biden. One analysis found rejection rates for Pennsylvania mail-in ballots was 30 times lower this year compared to 2016…”
https://youtu.be/xVNqyooomH8
Biden picks John Kerry to serve as special envoy on climate change
“America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is,” Kerry tweeted.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Annoyed ABC Scolds Americans ‘Not Listening,’ Visiting Family on Thanksgiving.
—NewsBusters, today.
● Chaser: Little evidence that protests spread coronavirus in US.
—Headline, ABC News.com, July 1st.
Hat tip to Ed Driscoll
"Naked but mostly peaceful punches"
— Zac (@PerceptualPeak) November 23, 2020
Coming to the rest of the U.S. in 2021?
https://youtu.be/0WyMTRHZg6Q
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Do as I say, not as I do: California’s top Democrats display their hypocrisy over COVID-19
People that think this is a good idea inhabit the Washington Bureaucracy in the same way kooky lefties inhabit our education system.
“…In recent months, Israel, through a series of U.S.-brokered deals, has normalized diplomatic relations with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan.
Saudi leaders have historically prioritized the need for an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a position that was emphasized as recently as Saturday by Saudi’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, at the virtual G20 summit.
However, it is believed that bin Salman is more amenable to the idea of normalizing relations with Israel than the previous generation of Saudi leaders…”
It appears that by getting so much wrong Professor Frazier and his associates somehow feel they should be credited with the great reduction in Covid cases that these “experts” originally predicted.
We live in the time of stupid.
“…Power-hungry elites seek to destroy Scott Atlas because he and the scientific coalition he represents makes it clear that these public health emperors may have plenty of masks, but no clothes.
The evidence continues to accrue that the dominant policies sold to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak were catastrophically wrong, yet those who pointed this out early on continue to be reputationally crucified by media and Democrat elites. A premiere case in point is White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Scott Atlas, who has been making science-based arguments against locking down healthy people since the earliest months of the pandemic…”
ALL THE SERIOUS PEOPLE TODAY: IT’S IRRESPONSIBLE AND HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE TO ENTERTAIN UNPROVEN CLAIMS OF ELECTION FRAUD.
Democrats overwhelmingly say fake news spread by Russia was at least somewhat likely to have affected the results of the presidential election – just under half (46%) say that it was very likely. Republicans disagree – except for those Republicans who think that Russian-sponsored spreading of fake news actually took place. A majority in this group believe it was in fact likely that the effort did affect the election outcome.
Two out of three Democrats also claim Russia tampered with vote tallies on Election Day to help the President – something for which there has been no credible evidence.
In response to the oncoming deluge of fraud claims, many of which will be clearly dubious, you’ll see the usual suspect crowd of journalist/activist types dropping giant heaps of gleeful scorn. They’ll laugh at the absurdity of supposed “conspiracy theories” being proffered about the vote counts in Arizona or wherever else. They’ll mock those who can’t accept reality. And they’ll be right in certain instances that the claims will be preposterous. But what will be even more preposterous is the profoundly misplaced sense of smug superiority they won’t be able to help themselves from exuding, given everything they just put us through over the past 4+ years.
I know we’re all tired of the polling-industrial complex and rightly so, but let’s please remember that a December 2016 YouGov poll found half of all Clinton voters that year didn’t just believe that Russia “interfered” in the election to the advantage of Trump, but that they tampered with the ballot tallies and effectively hacked the voting machines. By 2018, a supermajority of Democratic voters expressed this belief. And the belief didn’t become widely-adopted as a result of standard looney-tunes off-the-reservation conspiracy-theorizing, which is typically understood to emanate from the fringes of society. Instead these crazy, evidence-free beliefs were deliberately engineered by the most Serious precincts of mainstream respectable opinion, particularly those allied with the Democratic Party and its think tank / media affiliates.
The phrase “hacked the election” entered wide circulation by December 2016, with the New York Times among others spouting it without compunction. If you’re not a particularly sophisticated news consumer, and you have a pro-Democratic predisposition, what exactly do you think you’d have tended to infer from the phrase “hacked the election”? Trump winning the election was unfathomable to many, and people were understandably searching for answers. They were provided with self-deluding fantasies by sources they’d come to regard as authoritative. The people who used the phrase over and over again, like chronic liar Adam Schiff, aren’t stupid. They knew it would engender doubt as to the legitimacy of the election; that was the entire purpose.
One particularly egregious example from November 2016 was when Gabriel Sherman, then of New York Magazine, totally mischaracterized the views of a group of “prominent computer scientists” by attributing to them the belief that they had “found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked.” The group had then supposedly advised the Hillary campaign to request recounts on that basis. Sherman’s article caused a huge firestorm and clearly contributed to the patently false belief that Russia had tampered with the vote count. But it was bunk; the computer scientist in question renounced Sherman’s article. By then it was too late though, and the legitimacy of the 2016 election would never be accepted by huge swaths of the population — all thanks to the ineptitude/depravity/deceptions of the media class.
I’m going with depravity, for the most part. And note that Hillary eventually did concede — but then proceeded to spend the next four years calling Trump illegitimate as she and her allies spread unfounded claims of “Russian collusion” and produced an absurdly baseless impeachment vote.
Trump, on the other hand, is challenging things via litigation and entirely within the system. And yet he’s somehow the threat to our norms and institutions.
Related: Robert F. Kennedy claims 2004 election was stolen. “It’s a scandal and people should be prosecuted for it, there should be hearings, people should go to jail.” And for extra laughs,he says that exit polls are “an exact science” that could be used to overturn the election.
Prop 16 was an attempt to reinstall state wide racial quotas or institutionalized racial preferences. It was a thoroughly disgusting piece of legislation. The ballot measure was supported by the Democratic supermajorities in the state legislature, by long-established corporations, by Silicon Valley tech firms, and by leaders of mainline churches and nonprofit organizations.
A list the top donors to the YES campaign. They were:
Quinn Delaney ($7,900,000)
ACLU, Inc. ($2,450,538.70)
Open Society Policy Center ($2,000,000)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. ($1,500,000)
ACLU of Northern California Issues Committee ($1,253,599.14)
Patricia Quillin ($1,000,000)
California Teachers Association/Issue PAC ($574,229.70)
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco ($536,000)
Anne E. Delaney ($500,000)
Blue Shield of California ($500,000)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (MPO) ($500,000)
Connie E. Ballmer ($500,000)
Steven A. Ballmer ($500,000)
Our Voice, Our Vote-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Ballot Measure Committee Yes on Prop 16 ($389,365.50)
Salesforce.com ($375,000)
SF Workforce Housing Alliance PAC 2020, Sponsored by Neighbors for a Better San Francisco ($300,000)
California Nurses Association Initiative Political Action Committee ($300,000) California Democratic Party ($290,346.50)
Pacific Gas & Electric ($250,000)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299 ($235,540.00)
Cisco ($200,000)
Cabrera Capital Market, LLC (Martin Cabrera, Jr.) ($200,000)
SEIU Local 1021 ($200,000)
Facebook, Inc. ($200,000)
Gwendolyn Marion Mathilde Sontheim ($200,000)
The San Francisco Foundation ($200,000); Genentech USA ($200,000).
Hat tip to Gail Herriot
Related:
Californians, and Americans, reject racial quotas and preferences
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1329501847804108806
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1330507842214879232
https://twitter.com/TVNewsHQ/status/1330357335919915009
The left has captured our education system and destroyed it.
