In 2016, the state rejected about 1% of mail-in ballots; this year it is running so far as 0.03%.

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania so far this year have been accepted at almost 30 times the rate predicted by historical rejection numbers, raising potential questions in a state in which Democratic challenger Joe Biden is maintaining a lead of just several thousand votes.

A county-by-county review by Just the News of accepted and rejected mail-in ballots throughout the state of Pennsylvania show that, when added up, the state only rejected 951 of 2,614,011 mail-in ballots this year, or a rate of 0.03%.

Investigations have begun in Tbilisi, Georgia, after the State Security Service discovered a plan had been made to topple the country's government ahead of October's parliamentary elections.

In a report released on Friday, the agency pointed to evidence that "specific persons, in case of an undesirable result for them in the parliamentary elections, planned to overthrow the government by force." No details of the plot, or why it failed, have been made public.

A criminal case has now been launched into the "conspiracy to violently change the constitutional order, overthrow, or seize Georgian state power." The charges could carry up to eight years in prison, although no current suspects have yet been identified.

Shortly after Joe Biden claimed victory in the presidential election, throngs of Trump supporters descended on their state capitols, demanding that allegations of fraud be investigated.

Biden declared himself the winner on Saturday morning, after the Associated Press called the race in his favor. President Donald Trump has refused to acknowledge Biden's claim, and accused the former vice president of winning by fraud.

Trump's supporters have stuck by the embattled president, and showed up at state capitols across the country, demanding that state governments support Trump and "stop the steal."

Having changed drastically since its founding, America's continued existence rests on the system of government created by its Constitution. If that is sacrificed on the altar of power, there will be no country left.

The US is obviously a drastically different place in 2020 than it was in 1776, when thirteen colonies declared their independence from the British crown. Yet for all the dramatic changes in the shape and size of the country, the number and diversity of people living in it, or the technology they have at their disposal, it is still "America" because it maintains continuity of the political system set up in 1789.

Joe Biden, who is about to declare himself president-elect, has himself made a reference to this, calling "democracy" in the US a "system of governance that's been the envy of the world" for over 240 years. So it's a supreme irony that his election may well be the wrecking ball that demolishes the last vestiges of what's holding the country together.

The peasants are getting fat, and they are breeding!
Oh no.

What is "the Great Reset"?

The Great Reset is a massively funded, desperately ambitious, internationally coordinated project led by some of the biggest multinational corporations and financial players on the planet and carried out by cooperating state bodies and NGOs. Its soul is a combination of early 20th century science fiction, idyllic Soviet posters, the obsessiveness of a deranged accountant with a gambling addiction — and an upgraded, digital version of "Manifest Destiny."

The mathematical reason for the Great Reset is that thanks to technology, the planet has gotten small, and the infinite expansion economic model is bust — but obviously, the super wealthy want to continue staying super wealthy, and so they need a miracle, another bubble, plus a surgically precise system for managing what they perceive as "their limited resources." Thus, they desperately want a bubble providing new growth out of thin air — literally — while simultaneously they seek to tighten the peasants' belts, an effort that starts with "behavioral modification," a.k.a. resetting the western peasants' sense of entitlement to high life standards and liberties (see awful "privilege").

The psychological reason for the Great Reset is the fear of losing control of property, the planet. I suppose, if you own billions and move trillions, your perception of reality gets funky, and everything down below looks like an ant hill that exists for you. Just ants and numbers, your assets.

Thus, the practical aim of the Great Reset is to fundamentally restructure the world's economy and geopolitical relations based on two assumptions: one, that every element of nature and every life form is a part of the global inventory (managed by the allegedly benevolent state, which, in turn, is owned by several suddenly benevolent wealthy people, via technology) — and two, that all inventory needs to be strictly accounted for: be registered in a central database, be readable by a scanner and easily ID'ed, and be managed by AI, using the latest "science." The goal is to count and then efficiently manage and control all resources, including people, on an unprecedented scale, with unprecedented digital anxiety and precision — all while the masters keep indulging, enjoying vast patches of conserved nature, free of unnecessary sovereign peasants and their unpredictability. The king's world feels far more predictable and relaxed when the chaos of human subjectivity is contained for good.

A Michigan Republican county official has won re-election in a race that he conceded earlier this week, thinking he lost by about 100 votes — but a fixed computer glitch has since put him back in the lead.

In Oakland County's 15th county commission District — representing Rochester and Rochester Hills — the initial count gave a 104-vote margin to the Democrat, Melanie Hartman, amounting to a razor-thin majority of 50.08%. That stunned the incumbent, Adam Kochenderfer, giving him a sure sense that he'd lost in a district long deemed a Republican stronghold. [...] But what a difference a day makes - in weather, love, and the 15th District election for Oakland County commissioner. On Thursday, Kochenderfer was stunned again, this time by a call from Oakland County's director of elections, flipping the outcome to him.

"I thought that was that. Those were the results, and I said I would not seek a recount. Apparently, there was a technical glitch in Rochester Hills. And so, I actually ended up winning by a little over 1,100 votes."

In fact, the margin was 1,127 votes, giving Kochenderfer a 51.67% share of total votes. Hartman received a 48.23% share of total votes.

The FBI is investigating allegations of election fraud in Detroit after a city worker stepped forward and claimed election workers were asked to backdate ballots that had come in after the election deadline had passed, multiple officials said.

A senior law enforcement official in Washington confirmed that an investigation was opened after the whistleblower's concerns were forwarded from the Michigan Republican Party. "The FBI is investigating," the official said.

GOP officials in Michigan said the whistleblower was identified and assisted by Phill Kline, the head of the Thomas More Society's Amistad Project, which has been litigating voting disputes and irregularities across the country for months. Kline declined comment.

But Michigan GOP chairwoman Laura Cox confirmed Friday afternoon the here party referred a whistleblower to the FBI and U.S. attorney in Detroit.

"The MIGOP has referred a whistleblower case to the U.S. Attorney in which a city of Detroit employee was directed to change the date of receipt, in the official election record on ballots which had been received after the deadline. This directive allegedly came from both City and State employees who were working at the TCF center. These allegations are highlighted by the city of Detroit's attempt to block Republican poll challengers from supervising this process."

This is a developing story.

Texas state officials announced late on Friday afternoon that they have charged a social worker with 134 felony counts of election fraud and other related charges. The state said in a statement:

"Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that his Election Fraud Unit assisted the Limestone County Sheriff and District Attorney in charging Kelly Reagan Brunner, a social worker in the Mexia State Supported Living Center (SSLC), with 134 felony counts of purportedly acting as an agent and of election fraud.

"State Supported Living Centers serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Brunner submitted voter registration applications for 67 residents without their signature or effective consent, while purporting to act as their agent.

"Under Texas law, only a parent, spouse or child who is a qualified voter of the county may act as an agent in registering a person to vote, after being appointed to do so by that person.

"None of the SSLC patients gave effective consent to be registered, and a number of them have been declared totally mentally incapacitated by a court, thereby making them ineligible to vote in Texas."

The statement added that if she is convicted, Brunner faces up to 10 years in prison for these offenses.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced changes to its Islamic personal laws, now allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and imposing harsher punishments for "honor killings."

The Associated Press and Reuters reported on the changes Saturday, with the UAE state-run news agency WAM saying that the updates are intended to improve the country's economic and social standing and "consolidate the UAE's principles of tolerance." The UAE government outlined the changes in greater detail in state-linked newspaper The National, which noted that the altered laws would take effect immediately, according to the AP.

According to Reuters, thousands of women and girls die each year across the Middle East and South Asia in "honor killings," resulting from family members perceiving a damage to a woman's honor for actions such as eloping or mingling with men.

WAM also announced the cancellation of UAE legal clauses that had allowed judges to hand out relaxed sentences for "honor crimes." Now, the actions will be addressed in courts as any other murder case would.

One of the greatest lessons of 2016 is that polling can suffer from major flaws, especially when measuring support for and against an outsider candidate like President Donald Trump. Polls generally have had a good track record of predicting the outcomes of elections, but anyone who doubts them today has good reason to do so.

When it came to the national polls they did come close to estimating the popular vote in 2016, but state polls is where things broke down. State polls were off by roughly five percentage points in 2016. Needless to say, with our electoral colleges system the national polling is practically irrelevant, while the state polls, particularly in key swing states, are the most important.