Because Elections and Winning Enough Votes

[merh]

Oct 2, 2022 11:29:25 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 2, 2022 1:18:20 GMT merh said:

It is interesting the people getting caught committing voter fraud tend to be republican.

What ballot harvesting?

or that's just how the MSM presents it? It's not like they'll go in depth investigating discrepancies and outright lies on the other side of the aisle.

Your victimhood is front & center.
Like the media wasn't eating out of Ronnie's hand?

Dude, they COULDN'T give Donnie enough free press

[merh]

Another possibility is that she and her ministers have no idea what they're doing. 

[abbey1227]

Oct 2, 2022 15:18:05 GMT merh said:

Oct 2, 2022 11:29:25 GMT abbey1227 said:

or that's just how the MSM presents it? It's not like they'll go in depth investigating discrepancies and outright lies on the other side of the aisle.

Your victimhood is front & center.
Like the media wasn't eating out of Ronnie's hand?

Dude, they COULDN'T give Donnie enough free press

No, it really wasn't. Sam Donaldson never challenged him? Dan Rather and the rest haven't exposed themselves? Not even mentioning Jeffrey Toobin

Yeah, 100% NEGATIVE    No bias there. Meanwhile Mr. Bumbles wanders around these days and no worries? No concern?

[abbey1227]

Oct 3, 2022 2:02:58 GMT merh said:

Another possibility is that she and her ministers have no idea what they're doing. 

As opposed to demanding OTHER PEOPLE  foot all your bills cuz you planned so poorly?  

[merh]

Oct 3, 2022 7:58:31 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 2, 2022 15:18:05 GMT merh said:

Your victimhood is front & center.
Like the media wasn't eating out of Ronnie's hand?

Dude, they COULDN'T give Donnie enough free press

No, it really wasn't. Sam Donaldson never challenged him? Dan Rather and the rest haven't exposed themselves? Not even mentioning Jeffrey Toobin

Yeah, 100% NEGATIVE    No bias there. Meanwhile Mr. Bumbles wanders around these days and no worries? No concern?

Fox News was negative?
OAN was negative?

Trump fans didn't care it was negative, did they?
They sucked it all up, didn't they?
He could shoot someone & his fans would cheer







Dude you give a fuck then?
Did you care his vocabulary was somewhere around 5th grade?

But now suddenly it matters?

[merh]

Oct 3, 2022 7:59:59 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 3, 2022 2:02:58 GMT merh said:

As opposed to demanding OTHER PEOPLE  foot all your bills cuz you planned so poorly?  

Just die & reduce the surplus population, right?

[merh]

The judge determined that eliminating Election Day voter registration, implementing new voter identification requirements and barring paid ballot collection were all unconstitutional.

TEXT:

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge struck down as unconstitutional three laws that restricted voting in the state, saying there was no evidence of the widespread voter fraud that the 2021 Republican-sponsored laws ostensibly were targeting.



The laws ended same-day voter registration, imposed new identification requirements on students and restricted third-party ballot collections. The restrictions were put on hold in April under a temporary injunction later upheld by the Montana Supreme Court.



Election officials declined to say if they would appeal the latest ruling to the state high court. And with the election just over a month away, it's uncertain if justices would render a decision before Nov. 8.



Native American tribes that sued over the laws argued the student ID and ballot collection measures would hurt voters on remote reservations, where many people live far from polling places and are dealing with poverty and other challenges.



Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, who oversees elections in the state, requested the voting measures last year as Republicans around the country changed voting laws in the wake of the November 2020 election. The moves followed claims made by former President Donald Trump and parroted by his supporters that the election was stolen.



Judge Michael Moses said that the sponsors of the laws showed no proof that voter fraud was a problem following an August trial in which experts and voting officials from across the state testified.



“Voter fraud in Montana is vanishingly rare," Moses wrote in his nearly 200-page Friday ruling. He added that there were “significant signs” that the ballot collection law had a discriminatory purpose against Native American voters, and said the student ID law had been enacted by Republican lawmakers “to reduce voting by young people for perceived political benefit.”



Jacobsen's own witnesses agreed during the trial that voter fraud wasn't a problem in Montana.



A spokesperson for the Republican secretary of state declined to say Monday if she planned to appeal the judge's ruling to the Supreme Court. But Jacobsen is “not going to let down the fight” to make Montana elections secure and accessible, spokesperson Richie Melby said.



If the laws were allowed to stand, they would directly impede the ability of many Native American to vote, said Jacqueline De León with the Native American Rights Fund, representing the Blackfeet Nation, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Fort Belknap Indian Community, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and native advocacy groups.



She said allowing third parties to pick up and deliver some voters' ballots was crucial for Native Americans unable to get to polling places because of poverty and a lack of transportation.



“These laws exploit the structural deficiencies in Native American communities, and the Legislature knew what the impact would be," De Leon said.



An audit by a previous Republican secretary of state found no problems in Montana during the 2020 election, according to court filings. The conservative Heritage Foundation found just one voter fraud conviction out of millions of votes spanning the past four decades in the state.



The Montana Democratic Party and youth groups also challenged the 2021 laws and argued tthat they were meant to make it more difficult for Native Americans, new voters, the elderly and those with disabilities to vote.



Moses has also declared unconstitutional a law that would not have allowed 17-year-olds who pre-register to vote to receive a ballot, through the mail or otherwise, until they turn 18, even if they would turn 18 on or before Election Day.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/montana-judge-knocks-down-republicans-tighter-voting-laws/2022/10/03/238061a2-4344-11ed-be17-89cbe6b8c0a5_story.html

[abbey1227]

Oct 3, 2022 15:12:03 GMT merh said:

Oct 3, 2022 7:58:31 GMT abbey1227 said:

No, it really wasn't. Sam Donaldson never challenged him? Dan Rather and the rest haven't exposed themselves? Not even mentioning Jeffrey Toobin

Yeah, 100% NEGATIVE    No bias there. Meanwhile Mr. Bumbles wanders around these days and no worries? No concern?

Fox News was negative?
OAN was negative?

Trump fans didn't care it was negative, did they?
They sucked it all up, didn't they?
He could shoot someone & his fans would cheer

Dude you give a fuck then?
Did you care his vocabulary was somewhere around 5th grade?

But now suddenly it matters?

FOX was always RW, they said so from the start. Whereas the MSM was supposed to be objective and unbiased.

His limited and bombastic vocabulary was a given and admitted to all along.    WHY? Does it please you to have your BS delivered with more flowery words?

Mental health and cognitive awareness mattered to you and the rest from 2016-2020..........now it doesn't matter?

[abbey1227]

Oct 3, 2022 15:12:57 GMT merh said:

Oct 3, 2022 7:59:59 GMT abbey1227 said:

As opposed to demanding OTHER PEOPLE  foot all your bills cuz you planned so poorly?  

Just die & reduce the surplus population, right?

Or.......learn to become more responsible for yourself and improve the population.

[merh]

TEXT:

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Paige Cole is one of the “Anons.” The mother of three from Eastpointe, Michigan, says Joe Biden is a sham president and believes Donald Trump will soon be reinstated to the White House to finish the remainder of Biden’s term.

“His whole inauguration was fake. He didn’t have real military people. He had, like, fake badges, fake people. And Trump is actually our president,” she said while waiting in line for his latest rally on Saturday at Macomb Community College. Wearing a pink “Trump 2024” hat and draped in a large “TRUMP WON” flag, Cole — a former Democrat who says she voted twice for Barack Obama — began to cry as she described the significance of Trump's return and the 1,000 years of peace she believes will be ushered in with it.

“It’s gonna change everything,” she says, "like we have never in humanity seen before.”

Trump’s rallies have always attracted a broad swath of supporters, from first timers taking advantage of their chance to see a president in person, to devotees who camp out for days and follow him around the country like rock band groupies. But after spending much of the last two years obsessively peddling false claims of a stolen election, Trump is increasingly attracting those who have broken with reality, including adherents of the baseless QAnon conspiracy, which began in the dark corners of the internet and is premised on the belief that the country is run by a ring of child sex traffickers, satanic pedophiles and cannibals that only Trump can defeat.

As he eyes another White House bid, Trump is increasingly flirting with the conspiracy. He's reposted Q memes on his social media platform and amplified users who have promoted the movement’s slogans, videos and imagery. And in recent weeks, he has been closing out his rally speeches with an instrumental song that QAnon adherents have claimed as their anthem and renamed “WWG1WGA” after the group's “Where we go one, we go all" slogan.

Trump and his allies often dismiss suggestions that he advances conspiracy theories or condones violence. “The continued attempts by the media to invent and amplify conspiracies, while also fanning the flames of division, is truly sick," his spokesperson, Taylor Budowich, said in a statement. “America is a nation in decline and our people are suffering, President Trump and his America First movement will not be distracted by the media’s nonsense, and he will instead continue fighting to Make America Great Again.”

But interviews with more than a dozen Michigan rallygoers Saturday underscore his influence and serve as a reminder that many cling to his every word and see his actions as validation.

Several of those interviewed said they only began attending Trump's rallies after the 2020 election, when they said they had become more politically engaged. Several, like Virginia Greenlee, of Holland, Michigan, said they had been in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, trying to halt the peaceful transition of power by disrupting the certification of Biden’s win.

“President Trump really woke people up because I didn’t even know there was a deep state or fake media, fake news, until he started bringing light,” said Greenlee, who said she did not go inside the building but watched from outside. She blamed the violence on leftist protesters masquerading as Trump supporters, though there is no evidence to support that claim.

Meanwhile, Trump continues to elevate those who peddle conspiracies. Mike Lindell, the MyPillow salesman who has spent millions trying (and failing) to prove the election was stolen, spoke twice Saturday — once outside to attendees waiting in line to enter and again during the rally program. Also in attendance was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia congresswoman who told the crowd that "Democrats want Republicans dead. And they've already started the killings.”

Trump has long used angry and violent rhetoric to rile up his supporters, even after Jan. 6 made clear that some may act on that anger. As he inches closer to a possible announcement, Trump has leaned into the kind of racist and violent language that helped him clinch victory in 2016, when his ever-more-shocking statements — and the inevitable backlash — helped him dominate the news.

On Friday, he again attacked Mitch McConnell, this time in a racist post on his social media site that accused the Senate Republican leader of having a “death wish" and derided McConnell's wife, who was born in Taiwan and served in Trump’s administration as a Cabinet secretary.

On Saturday, the crowd cheered enthusiastically as Trump touted plans to use the death penalty to kill drug dealers and traffickers if he returns to the White House, emulating the strongman leaders he's often admired. And again, he empathized with the Jan. 6 defendants who have been jailed for their role in the insurrection, casting the rioters — whom he has already pledged to pardon if he runs and wins — as “political prisoners" and accusing authorities of “persecuting people who just happened to be there, many of them didn't even go in.”

The crowd in turn, broke into numerous “Lock her up!” chants directed at Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, as well as the state’s Democratic governor, secretary of state and attorney general, whom his endorsed candidates are trying to unseat.

Still, Trump aides seem to want to have it both ways. As he began to wrap up his speech, some in the crowd raised their index fingers in what has been described as a QAnon salute. But for the second week in a row, burly event staff with tattoos carefully scanned the crowd, quickly asking those who raised their fingers to put them down.

“They said they didn’t want hands in the air,” one of them explained he'd been told.

Still, Trump's nods to QAnon are encouraging to people like Cole, who said Trump had opened her eyes “to everything, to the evil in the world."

A 55-year-old semi-retired certified nursing assistant who relies on a bevy of fringe podcasts for information since eschewing cable news, Cole believes “our money’s no good because it was controlled by the Rothschilds," an anti-Semitic trope, and that the Supreme Court has “already overturned” the 2020 election, but "they’re just sitting on it and they’re waiting for things to come about.”

“We have to listen to underground news to get the truth of what’s going on, really," she said.

Trump’s decision to play the song, she said after the rally, shows the American people “and all those affiliated and committed in with the WWG1WGA bond and mission, that President Trump, too, is doing his best to help all involved to eradicate worldwide evil and helping to make the world better for all. It brings me strength in my mind to hold onto the hope and promises for a better life for all.”

But some in the crowd voiced discomfort.

Christina Whipkey, 50, who lives in Warren, Michigan, said she found Trump’s flirtations with QAnon “kind of weird" and “odd" and worried their presence at his rallies was playing into negative stereotypes.

“I didn’t like that," she said. “It’s telling people what they said about us all along, that we’re all just a bunch of QAnon supporters."

“You don’t want people to think just because you support him that you’re that far into it, that you’re one of those people,” she went on. "You don’t want people to think that about you.”

A longtime Trump supporter who remembers talking about him running for president while playing his board game in high school, Whipkey also said she thinks it's time for Trump to move on from the 2020 election, even if she has concerns about the vote.

“I just wish he’d let that go now. Focus more on the future than on the past,” she said, worried he was turning off potential voters. "They’re tired of hearing it ... You get to a point where it’s like, ‘All right, buddy. We heard it enough. We got it. We know.'”

Laurie Letzgus, 51, a machine operator from Port Huron, Michigan, and another longtime supporter, agreed.

“It is time to move on, I think," she said. “Let’s look forward. And let’s look to 2024."

But Sharon Anderson, a member of the “Front Row Joes" group that travels the country to see Trump and who was attending her 29th rally Saturday, including the one held Jan. 6, disagreed. While she doesn't “put a lot of faith in some of their beliefs,” she took no issue with QAnon's growing presence at the rallies.

“There’s a lot of people, a big group that comes to his rallies. And they are for him, too. They’re for his policies. Now whether they are trying to push their beliefs, I don’t know,” said Anderson, who lives in East Tennessee. “But I do know that everybody here that I’ve encountered supports Donald J. Trump. That’s what matters.”

apnews.com/article/biden-entertainment-music-donald-trump-michigan-05bafa7cf185da9c1fd0c9e011152c0a

Wouldn't that make him ineligible to run in 2024?

[abbey1227]

Oct 4, 2022 17:09:54 GMT merh said:

TEXT:

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Paige Cole is one of the “Anons.” The mother of three from Eastpointe, Michigan, says Joe Biden is a sham president and believes Donald Trump will soon be reinstated to the White House to finish the remainder of Biden’s term.

apnews.com/article/biden-entertainment-music-donald-trump-michigan-05bafa7cf185da9c1fd0c9e011152c0a

Wouldn't that make him ineligible to run in 2024?

\Amazing that people still cling to this nonsense. Like waiting on Barr or Durham to actually accomplish a thing.   

But even so, she is correct that Joe is a sham

[merh]

Oct 5, 2022 4:17:34 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 4, 2022 17:09:54 GMT merh said:

apnews.com/article/biden-entertainment-music-donald-trump-michigan-05bafa7cf185da9c1fd0c9e011152c0a

Wouldn't that make him ineligible to run in 2024?

\Amazing that people still cling to this nonsense. Like waiting on Barr or Durham to actually accomplish a thing.   

But even so, she is correct that Joe is a sham

So Biden didn't win by 7 million votes?

[abbey1227]

Oct 5, 2022 9:01:08 GMT merh said:

Oct 5, 2022 4:17:34 GMT abbey1227 said:

\Amazing that people still cling to this nonsense. Like waiting on Barr or Durham to actually accomplish a thing.   

But even so, she is correct that Joe is a sham

So Biden didn't win by 7 million votes?

That's a separate issue. I do not believe he received that many votes legally.

But the sham part is in anyone believing that he's the one calling the shots. Clearly, he's having trouble not soiling himself.

[merh]

Oct 5, 2022 13:17:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 5, 2022 9:01:08 GMT merh said:

So Biden didn't win by 7 million votes?

That's a separate issue. I do not believe he received that many votes legally.

But the sham part is in anyone believing that he's the one calling the shots. Clearly, he's having trouble not soiling himself.

You KNOW Trump has worn adult diapers since The Apprentice

[merh]

Computer hard drives and other "digital evidence" were seized by investigators from the LA County district attorney's office. 51 year old Eugene Yu's company, Konnech, is based in East Lansing, Michigan. It distributes PollChief software to track poll worker schedules, communications and payroll.

TEXT:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing data on hundreds of Los Angeles County poll workers.

Konnech Corporation's Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Meridian Township in Michigan and held on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information, while computer hard drives and other “digital evidence" were seized by investigators from the county district attorney's office, according to the office.

Local prosecutors will seek his extradition to California.

“We are continuing to ascertain the details of what we believe to be Mr. Yu’s wrongful detention by LA County authorities," Konnech said in a statement that ended: “Any LA County poll worker data that Konnech may have possessed was provided to it by LA County, and therefore could not have been ‘stolen' as suggested."

Konnech is a small company based in East Lansing, Michigan. In 2020, it won a five-year, $2.9 million contract with LA County for software to track election worker schedules, training, payroll,and communications, according to the county registrar-recorder/county clerk, Dean C. Logan.

Konnech was required to keep the data in the United States and only provide access to citizens and permanent residents but instead stored it on servers in the People’s Republic of China, the DA’s office said.

The DA's office didn't specify what specific information allegedly was taken. But officials said it only involved poll workers, not voting machines or vote counts and didn't alter election results.

“But security in all aspects of any election is essential so that we all have full faith in the integrity of the election process,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.

“With the mid-term General Election 35 days away, our focus remains on ensuring the administration of this election is not disrupted,” said a statement from Dean C. Logan, the LA County registrar-recorder/county clerk.

There wasn't any evidence that any election worker was bribed or extorted and an investigation was pending into whether any of the data went into inappropriate hands, the DA's office said.

Konnech previously said that all the data for its American customers were stored on servers in the United States, the New York Times reported Monday.

The paper reported that Konnech and Yu, who was born in China, became the target of claims by election conspiracy theorists that the company had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had supplied information on 2 million poll workers.

There wasn't any evidence to support those claims, but Yu received threats and went into hiding, the paper said.

Konnech also has contracts with Allen County, Indiana, and DeKalb County in Georgia, the Times said.

On its website, Konnech said it currently has 32 clients in North America.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ceo-of-election-software-firm-held-on-id-info-theft-charges/ar-AA12Bor3?cvid=96ca0cd1ddd24985b9428e8eb5cc0343

[abbey1227]

Oct 5, 2022 18:07:06 GMT merh said:

Oct 5, 2022 13:17:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

That's a separate issue. I do not believe he received that many votes legally.

But the sham part is in anyone believing that he's the one calling the shots. Clearly, he's having trouble not soiling himself.

You KNOW Trump has worn adult diapers since The Apprentice

Nope.

That's just something people who follow him very, very closely would be privy to

[abbey1227]

Oct 5, 2022 18:08:25 GMT merh said:

Computer hard drives and other "digital evidence" were seized by investigators from the LA County district attorney's office. 51 year old Eugene Yu's company, Konnech, is based in East Lansing, Michigan. It distributes PollChief software to track poll worker schedules, communications and payroll.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ceo-of-election-software-firm-held-on-id-info-theft-charges/ar-AA12Bor3?cvid=96ca0cd1ddd24985b9428e8eb5cc0343

Sound as a pound, love

[merh]

Oct 6, 2022 0:56:19 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 5, 2022 18:07:06 GMT merh said:

You KNOW Trump has worn adult diapers since The Apprentice

Nope.

That's just something people who follow him very, very closely would be privy to

People on the set of Apprentice know.

[merh]

Oct 6, 2022 0:57:33 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 5, 2022 18:08:25 GMT merh said:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ceo-of-election-software-firm-held-on-id-info-theft-charges/ar-AA12Bor3?cvid=96ca0cd1ddd24985b9428e8eb5cc0343

Sound as a pound, love

I knew you would miss it.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing data on hundreds of Los Angeles County poll workers.

Konnech Corporation's Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Meridian Township in Michigan and held on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information, while computer hard drives and other “digital evidence" were seized by investigators from the county district attorney's office, according to the office.

Local prosecutors will seek his extradition to California.

NOT VOTERS

But the poll workers

Sort of like data breeches of employee information.

[abbey1227]

Oct 6, 2022 5:01:41 GMT merh said:

Oct 6, 2022 0:56:19 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nope.

That's just something people who follow him very, very closely would be privy to

People on the set of Apprentice know.

how much closer can you get? Stormy close?