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Best of the Web: Chairman of the US Federal Election Commission: 'There IS evidence of voter fraud. Without observers at polling stations, an election is illegitimate'

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© Sergio Flores/Getty ImagesPeople cast their ballots at a polling location in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 13, 2020.
The chairman of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) stated that he believes there is evidence of voter fraud and other alleged irregularities.

In a recent interview, FEC Chairman Trey Trainor said reports of fraud in some battleground states are credible "otherwise they would allow the [poll] observers to go in," referring to reports of some polling areas refusing to allow GOP observers to check on the process on Election Day and the days after.

"When you have claims of, you know, 10,000 people who don't live in the state of Nevada having voted in Nevada, you have the video ... they're (poll workers) either duplicating a spoiled ballot right there or they're in the process of just marking a ballot that came in blank for a voter," Trainor told Newsmax. "That's a process that needs to be observed by election observers."


In the interview, he agreed with Trump's campaign lawsuits, while saying that questionable actions by elections officials in several states could make the election illegitimate.

Trainor, an appointee of President Donald Trump, noted that state laws allow those observers to be there, and "if they're not," then it's an "illegitimate election."

Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Lockdown round-up: Chicago tyrant-mayor introduces Thanksgiving restrictions, Germany still locked down, Japan stays sane for now

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced stricter lockdown restrictions, telling residents to only leave their homes for essential trips and to cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans.

The stay-at-home advisory, which is similar to lockdown restrictions in major cities that occurred towards the beginning of the pandemic, will take effect on Monday, November 16 at 6:00 am.


Comment: Because the first one obviously worked so well. Hey, maybe this one will work even better?


Under the new rules, residents are not allowed to have guests over to their homes, including family members that do not live with them. People are only allowed to leave their homes for "essential reasons," and the mayor says "traditional Thanksgiving plans" must be canceled.

Any events such as weddings and funerals will be limited to attendances of 10 people or less. These new restrictions will be in place for a minimum of 30 days, according to the mayor.


Comment: Minnesota's governor descended to previously unknown depths of absurd idiocy, urging people to stop singing, lest they kill someone.
Walz attempted to draw a hard distinction between "fun" vocalizations and everyday vocal drudgery, insisting that "the louder you speak, if you're singing, if you're playing darts standing next to someone in a crowded bar... it seems like these things shouldn't be as risky or elevated, but what we've seen is that they do do that."

"It's certainly not our intention to demonize any industry or any activity," Walz said while doing exactly that. "It's simply important for us to understand...who spreads this thing." The governor announced a limit of 10 people on inside and outdoor gatherings alike during Thursday's press conference, explaining that "just because they're family and just because you know them" doesn't mean any group celebrating the winter holidays can dispense with social distancing and masks indoors. However, he has at the same time suggested enforcement will be based on voluntary compliance: "Obviously, on this issue, we're not going into someone's home and arresting them on Thanksgiving."
In contrast, Mississippi's governor has vowed to fight a six-week lockdown proposed by Biden's Covid adviser should it come to pass and Biden manages to successfully steal the election.
"We will certainly fight that if it becomes necessary," he said during the livestream. "We as a state are going to continue with our strategy," he said, insisting a strategy "targeted" at hotspots was the only way to avoid extensive collateral economic damage. "The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small businesses, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms for six weeks and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything's gonna be fine."
Japan too, despite a surge in "cases," does not plan to institute another state of emergency.

Germany's health minister says it's still "too early" to tell how long the current "lockdown light" will last. Ireland is mulling a "staggered release" of lockdown measure before Christmas, conditional on "getting the numbers way down" - no acknowledgment that they were completely useless to begin with and there's nothing alarming about the current numbers.

Here's just one example of the cultural collateral damage of unscientific, useless lockdowns:
Vladimir Urin of the Bolshoi Theatre has told reporters that the historic institution, known across the world for ballet and dramatic arts, has lost around 1.2 billion rubles (around $15.5 million) during the coronavirus pandemic. He told Russia's Dozhd TV channel that "these income losses... until October amounted to about 50% of all income that we have."

The director of another famous Moscow theatre, the Lenkom's Mark Varshaver, has also spoken out on the situation facing the arts. Speaking to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, he said that Moscow Deputy Mayor Natalya Sergunina had committed to helping venues meet the shortfall.

"[Sergunina] said something extremely important for theaters: the Moscow government is issuing a subsidy that will fully cover theaters' losses, especially those related to the payment of wages and other issues. She also said that the directors of Moscow theaters may, at their discretion, not play the performance or postpone it depending on the situation and conditions of the theater," he added.

On Tuesday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin brought forward a series of new measures aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus. Among them were rules limiting audiences of theaters, cinemas and ballet performances to around 25 per cent of their usual capacity, to allow for social distancing.



Syringe

Best of the Web: Biden's Covid taskforce 'ethicist' once argued anyone older than 75 is 'useless'

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President-elect Joe Biden has already assembled a task force to target the most immediate crisis his new administration will face: getting the COVID-19 pandemic under control. One of the members is an oncologist and bioethicist named Ezekiel Emanuel, who once wrote an essay for The Atlantic arguing that life is not worth living after 75 years old.

"Living too long is also a loss," Emanuel wrote in the October 2014 edition of The Atlantic. "It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived." Emanuel went on to argue that "creativity, originality and productivity are pretty much gone for the vast, vast majority of us" by 75.

The argument is that modern science has gone overboard in the "valiant effort to cheat death and prolong life as long as possible," stating that "I think this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive."

Comment: Emanuel was part of the Obama administration. Looks like Biden's handlers are trying to pick up where he left off. Does Biden even remember he is 77 years old? By Emanuel's lights, he is ready for the scrap-heap.


Pirates

Best of the Web: Gloating neocons proposing ideological genocide hint at what's really on the menu when Biden 'builds back better'

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The apparent victory of Democrat Joe Biden over President Donald Trump has triggered Pavlovian salivating from neoliberal centrists who've pinned every wrong on Trump - and now demand the total destruction of his supporters.

Not just Trump, but his backers in the Republican Party and the everyday "deplorables" who post favorably about him must be destroyed, the narrative managers have decreed. Demanding what sounds for all the world like a Stalinist purge, they have raised a cry of "Never Again" - as if the Trump administration's crimes were any worse than those of his predecessors. The aim of the anti-Trump #Resistance has shifted from removing him from office to ensuring all traces of the ideas he brought into mainstream discourse be destroyed forever, full stop.

Comment: There is overwhelming evidence of electoral fraud, which is why the halls of power in the US are currently abuzz with lawsuits and formal requests for recounts/audits/canvassing electoral districts.

Despite wall-to-wall MSM propaganda, it is too early to declare the overall result. And that's only because something extremely dubious happened in the wee hours of November 4th when all vote counting trends switched from pointing to Trump winning a landslide victory to Biden *just* beating him.

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Best of the Web: Papers, please: Airline groups embrace 'digital health passports' over quarantines, Covid shutdowns continue to cripple industry

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Three airline trade groups are calling for the adoption of digital health passports like the World Economic Forum- and Rockefeller-backed CommonPass in place of the quarantines and border closures that have slashed their profits.

Oneworld, Star Alliance, and SkyTeam - three of the largest global airline groups which together represent 60 percent of the world's passenger air capacity - issued a statement praising smartphone-based health pre-clearance apps like CommonPass on Wednesday, urging governments to mothball the "blunt instrument" of quarantines and lockdowns and adopt intrusive digital health technology instead.

The airlines cited recent testing of CommonPass, which purports to offer a trusted international standard for documenting a passenger's compliance with Covid-19 health regulations, as well as a recent report from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in their plea for governments to reopen closed borders and roll back mandatory-on-arrival quarantines for travelers who've installed the app.

Comment: Online ticket selling agent Ticketmaster is already demanding similar rules. The vultures are not far behind:
Ticketmaster is said to be working on "a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smartphones to very fans' vaccination status or whether they've tested negative for the coronavirus within a 24 to 72 hour window," the outlet stated, suggesting an Orwellian hybrid of Chinese-style social credit scores and the sort of digital "vaccine certificates" billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates hinted at in the early days of the pandemic.

The procedure is expected to combine three elements - the use of a Ticketmaster digital ticketing app, one of a burgeoning crop of third-party health certification apps like CLEAR Health Pass, and being tested at or vaccinated by one of the many rapid testing sites springing up all over the US and Western Europe.

Wannabe concertgoers would have to either prove they'd gotten the jab or show proof they'd tested negative for Covid-19 within one to three days of the show, depending on the type of test. The individual would have their results sent to the certification app, which would pass their green (or red) signal on to Ticketmaster. At that point, they'd be allowed into the event. The app will also facilitate contact-tracing and provide concertgoers with staggered arrival times to avoid excessive crowds at the entrance.

As Yovich suggested, plenty of opportunists are stepping up to the plate to 'help' Ticketmaster evolve and adapt to the brave new world of Covid-19. "The experience of attending live events will look completely different," acknowledged Marianne Herman, co-founder of reBUILD20, a consultancy aimed at helping events and entertainment venues reorient their activities to the "new normal" of the virus. "Innovation married with consistent implementation will provide a framework to get the live sports and event industry back to work."
Kiss life as you've known it goodbye. The cage is snapping shut for all but the elites.


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Best of the Web: Election night data from all states showed MILLIONS of votes either switched from Trump to Biden or "lost"

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Conclusion using analysis of data from Dominion and other voting systems

We've reported on numerous events in the 2020 election which are being referred to as system 'glitches' in the media. Last night we provided another 'glitch', this time in Wisconsin, which if reversed would eliminate Biden's reported vote lead in the state. Tonight we have obtained an unaudited analysis of data available for all the states looking for system glitches and other oddities in vote counts related to the Presidential race only.

Last night we reported on another so called system 'glitch', this time in a county in Wisconsin. Evidence was provided to us that showed that the vote totals for Rock County appeared to be switched between President Trump and Joe Biden. 9,516 votes were eliminated from President Trump and moved to Joe Biden. This 19,032 vote difference when corrected would eliminate Biden's lead in Wisconsin.

In the post last night we also identified issues we've reported on in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia where similar 'glitches' occurred.

Comment: Some of TrumanBlack's raw comments. If one has the chops to test his work, he has listed all his sources here:
I saw the video on The Gateway Pundit [ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-huge-another-system-glitch-captured-live-cnn-election-night-20000-votes-swapped-trump-biden-video/ ] and I decided to do some digging of my own, into a more reputable source that can verify that the glitch was indeed real, and that it affected the votes, instead of it being just a display glitch on that news channel. So I went digging into the Edison data [ https://static01.nyt.com/elections-assets/2020/data/api/2020-11-03/race-page/pennsylvania/president.json] and I found this damning evidence [ https://i.maga.host/RNPN3Oz.png ]. As can be seen in the image, only 54 votes were added, but the ratio changed in Biden's favor by a whole 0.6%! This is proof that not only did the glitch happen, but it doesn't seem to have been reverted at all.

EDIT : BIG UPDATE, I made a script to run through the data and gather all instances where votes switched from Trump to Biden, Lost Votes means that the total amount of votes counted decreased by that amount throughout the counting. I've only done states that use Dominion Voting Systems so far.

EDIT 2: Added ALL the states, and separated by voting systems, although no state uses exclusively one system as far as I know.

Edit 3: Re-ordered the states, first by switched votes, then by lost votes.

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Switched votes are votes that were taken from Trump and given to Biden.

Lost votes are voted that disappeared during the counting, from both candidates.

There might be a small overlap between Switched votes and Lost votes.

🚨🚨🚨WE DECIDED TO LEAVE THIS NUMBERS UP SO YOU CAN SEE HOW OUR RESEARCH HAS EVOLVED
The data is from Edison Research, it is used for election coverage by at least ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News. It is also used for the website of the NYT, and probably others as well.

I scraped the data from the NYT website, here [ https://static01.nyt.com/elections-assets/2020/data/api/2020-11-03/race-page/pennsylvania/president.json ] to check for other states, replace "pennsylvania" in the link with the state you want to check, for states that have spaces in their names, like new york, write new-york instead.

Take this picture for example. [ https://i.maga.host/RNPN3Oz.png ]

It's like this:

Nr.187 : 2,984,468(Total votes) * 0.566(Trump share of the votes) = 1,689,208.888

Nr.188 : 2,984,522 * 0.56 = 1,671,332.32

Do the same thing for Biden, and you'll see that he gained the votes that Trump lost.

I made a program that basically checks every single change in votes, does the above to check if votes were switched, then adds them all up to get the total amount of switched votes.

Here is the link to a rar file containing all the .json files for the states, and the fraudcatch.py file, you'd need to download python 3.8.2 to use it, click EDIT with idle, then in the window that pops up click Run, to check how many votes were switched from Trump to Biden in a state, you then type findfraud('hawaii') for example, replace hawaii with the name of the file of the state you want to check, the file for new hampshire is named newhamp for example, so findfraud('newhamp'), to check the total lost votes (For both candidates) do lostvotes('newhamp') for example. https://workupload.com/file/s7s8SARjjqh

[pede444wow] I took the json files that are included here, and wrote a python script to convert the critical data to one csv file, so you can analyze it in excel:

python script: https://pastebin.com/Q6nTP04N

result csv file: (download and save to csv file, then open in excel) https://pastebin.com/FQuxxTvK



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Best of the Web: First shot across the bow: Georgia announces 'full hand recount' and 'AUDIT' of votes in 2020 election

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© Getty Images/Justin Sullivan/Kevin DietschPresident Donald Trump • Former VP Joe Biden • 2020 Presidential Debate
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday morning that there will be an audit and full hand recount of votes in the state for the 2020 presidential election. Currently, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the Peach State by about 14,000 votes.

"Georgia's secretary of state has announced a full hand recount of the presidential race; Biden leads by about 14,000," reported Zeke Miller, citing The Associated Press.


"This will help build confidence. It will be an audit, a recount and a recanvas all at once," Raffensperger said at the press conference, according to CBS News. "It will be a heavy lift."

Decision Desk HQ called Alaska for Trump earlier on Wednesday morning, awarding him the state's three electoral votes. And on Tuesday, the outlet called North Carolina for the president, as well, earning POTUS another 15 electoral votes.


Comment: If this flips Georgia for Trump, he's halfway there.

It will obliterate in one fell swoop the MSM's stance that no voter fraud took place (or that insufficient fraud took place to win it for Biden), and likely open the gates for several more swing states to be properly 'called' for Trump.


Coffee

Best of the Web: FIGHT! Ted Cruz Lays Out New Election Battle Plan!

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Steven covers breaking news on election updates and voter fraud, then turns to examine Biden's newly appointed coronavirus adviser. He then talks with Ted Cruz about the election, Trump's pathways going forward, and how the many legal battles might resolve.


Better Earth

Best of the Web: Obama official Ben Rhodes admits Biden camp is already working with foreign leaders... which is exactly what they persecuted General Flynn for

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© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesWH Natl. Sec. Adviser Susan Rice • WH Natl.Sec. Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn
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In late 2016, the FBI investigated Gen. Michael Flynn when he was a transition official for the possible "crime" of talking to Russia about foreign policy. Why can Biden do this?

Two weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the President-elect named Gen. Michael Flynn to be his National Security Advisor in both the transition and the new administration. Flynn, who had previously served as President Obama's Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and then campaigned for Trump, quickly got to work in his new position by reaching out to his counterparts in foreign governments, as is customary for national security transition team officials.

Comment: The Democrats and their intel servants destroyed General Flynn with a bogus charge. Four years later, his trial outcome is still languishing in the court while the Biden cabal is doing the exact same thing.


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Best of the Web: 'I was in Philadelphia watching fraud happen. Here's how it went down'

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At issue was President Trump's request for an order changing the way Pennsylvania absentee and mail-in ballots are being reviewed at the Philadelphia Convention Center.

Legacy media are lying when they claim that all of President Trump's allegations of voter fraud are baseless. I know, because I argued a case on the president's behalf in federal court in Philadelphia.

At issue was President Trump's request for an order changing the way Pennsylvania absentee and mail-in ballots are being reviewed at the Philadelphia Convention Center. CNN and others claim he "lost." That's false: he won. As I made that argument on behalf of the president's campaign, I can tell you what really happened.

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