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Best of the Web: Dead voters & Biden vans full of ballots: Trump legal team details shocking Nevada claims

Emily Larsen,
Washington Examiner
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:24 UTC
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A worker at a Las Vegas election polling station
President Trump's Nevada legal team beefed up its legal challenge to mail-in ballot signature verification in the state with startling claims of voter and ballot fraud.

Among the allegations: dead voters, votes from thousands who no longer live in Nevada, and a van marked "Biden-Harris" full of opened mail-in ballots.

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who is helping Trump's legal effort in the state, detailed grievances that the campaign has with mail-in ballot signature verification in Clark County, Nevada, which accounts for the vast majority of voters in the state.

Comment: Big League Politics adds more information:
A poll worker with the Clark County Elections Department in Nevada is blowing the whistle in a signed affidavit making appalling allegations of electoral fraud that they claim has occurred in the key battleground state.

"We were told by (my team leader), and two other assistants to advise people who wanted to register to vote and did not have the proper Nevada ID/Driver's License, that they could go out in the parking lot and make an appointment with the DMV to get a Nevada ID/Driver's License, and then bring in proof of their appointment confirmation (either a paper copy or show it on their phone to us) and then they could be registered," the whistleblower said in their deposition.

"They were then permitted to vote with a provisional ballot, even though their appointments were not until January of 2021. We were told this was being allowed all over the Valley, at all polling places," they continued.

"I personally witnessed two people handing multiple unopened mail in ballot envelopes to two other people who then opened and filled out the ballots against the side of the Biden/Harris van. The same two people who marked the ballots then put the marked ballots in official pink and white envelopes. These individuals were not poll workers," they explained.

The whistleblower added that eventually "there were 5 or 6 additional people who formed a human wall, which moved as I walked by, apparently in an attempt to block my view of the four people who were opening envelopes, marking ballots, and placing those ballots in the pink and white return envelopes." This was ignored by the team leader when the whistleblower reported the violation through the proper channels.

"I regularly saw people walking in with multiple ballots. We were not allowed to talk to the monitors or observers. We were not supposed to say anything ever to the observers," the whistleblower said.

The whistleblower's entire deposition can be seen below, with Sean Davis of The Federalist noting that Nevada's democrat attorney general Aaron Ford has not taken any concrete action to investigate these explosive claims at the present time:

Trump campaign to sue in Nevada alleging illegally cast ballots

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Best of the Web: Benford's law and the 2020 presidential election - The numbers don't add up

John Walker
ratburger.org
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 02:16 UTC
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Benford's law (or the first-digit law) is an observation about the frequency of the most significant digit of naturally occurring numbers. Somewhat counter-intuitively (but with a well-understood explanation), small digits are more common than large ones, with around 30% of all values in a large collection beginning with 1, while only 4.6% start with 9. The probability for digit d is given by:

(P(d)=log_{10}(1+frac{1}{d}))

Benford's law is widely used in forensic accounting to detect phoney numbers, and evidence based upon these analyses has been admitted in a number of criminal trials. It is also used to detect scientific fraud in published data.

User "cjph8914" on GitHub has created a repository, 2020_benfords, which analyses the 2020 presidential election results for various districts and compares them with the expectation from Benford's law. Here are the results for precincts and wards in Fulton County, Georgia (containing Atlanta).
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Bullseye

Best of the Web: Trump can still win

Dick Morris
Newsmax
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 07:44 UTC
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President Donald Trump can still win the presidency. Here's how:

Only the Electoral College or the various state legislatures can declare a candidate the winner. To base this decision on network vote totals and projections and to call Biden the president-elect is irresponsible.

The recounts in Arizona, Georgia, and the other states are likely to go heavily for Trump.

Most of the likely errors or invalid votes took place on mailed in ballots. (Machine votes are harder to tamper with). Since Biden won upwards of two-thirds of mail-in votes and absentee ballots, it's likely that most of the discarded mail ballots will be subtracted from Biden's total.

The networks currently give Trump 214 electorate voters (270 is the victory level).
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Best of the Web: Steven Crowder: 'Fox News is NOT Your Friend! Here's Why'


StevenCrowder
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:48 UTC
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Steven looks at the deterioration of Fox News and the network's massive failures in covering the 2020 presidential race. He then assesses the latest calls for civility from the Left and contrasts this with their past statements.

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: No Matter The Liberal Metric Chosen, The Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:19 UTC
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© Image courtesy George W Bush/National Archives (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).President Bush and Former American Vice President Dick Cheney in the Presidential Limousine.
That the liberal belief in and fear of a Trump-led fascist dictatorship and violent coup is actually a fantasy — a longing, a desire, a craving — has long been obvious.

The Democrats' own actions proved that they never believed their own melodramatic and self-glorifying rhetoric about Trump as The New Hitler — from their leaders joining with the GOP to increase The Fascist Dictator's domestic spying powers and military spending to their (correct) belief that the way to oust The Neo-Nazi Tyrant was through a peaceful and lawfully conducted democratic election in which vote totals and, if necessary, duly constituted courts would determine the next president.


Comment: Lawfully conducted? We'll see about that.


The motives for concocting this Wagnerian fantasy about coups, dictatorship, concentration camps and civil war are numerous. Politics is boring, and your life unspectacular, if it's dedicated to a goal as banal and uninspiring as empowering a septuagenarian career-politician — the centrist-authoritarian author of the 1994 Crime Bill, the credit card industry's most loyal servant, and key Iraq War advocate — along with his tough-on-crime prosecutor-running-mate who always seems as if she just left a meeting of the Aetna Board of Directors where massive hikes in deductibles were approved.

Glory is available only if one can convincingly herald oneself as a front-line warrior risking it all to courageously battle unprecedented evil and a Nazi-like menace. But working to do nothing more than elect Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the rest of the painfully ordinary and mediocre corporatist and imperialist Democratic Party politicians through a standard American election? There's no glory residing in that, no courage needed for it, to put it mildly.

Posturing as a courageous soldier in an existential battle for freedom, democracy and the survival of the marginalized against Nazi despotism is far more exciting and psychologically satisfying (and financially profitable) than being an obedient liberal drone marching in perfect tune to the dreary, McKinsey-scripted musical theater produced by Tom Perez and the DNC. That is therefore the delusional storyline adopted by many.
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Best of the Web: Arms Watch report: US deploying private military contractors from Libya to Europe

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
Arms Watch
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:18 UTC
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On 28 October US military contractors were secretly relocated from (Erbil) Iraq to Benghazi (Libya) and from Libya to Sofia (Bulgaria) via Malta using two aircraft operated by Omni Air and Nyx Air.
At least 150 private military contractors have been transported to Europe on Pentagon-chartered flights over the last weeks, according to information and flight data analyzed by Arms Watch.

US military contractors operating in Benghazi (Libya) were transferred to Bulgaria's capital Sofia on 28 October 2020 via Malta using two aircraft, sources at Sofia Airport have revealed:
  • Boeing 767 with registration N495AX operated by Omni Air, USA (a Pentagon contractor working under a $19.8 million contract for air transportation services, according to information from the US federal contracts registry)
  • Saab 2000 with registration ES-NSH operated by Nyx Air - Estonia
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Best of the Web: On the huckster and the hack: UK govt report undermines stars of 'Cambridge Analytica-Russiagate scandal'

Alexander Rubinstein
The Grayzone
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:29 UTC
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Guardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr (L) and 'whistleblower' Christopher Wylie (R)
Self-styled whistleblower Christopher Wylie and The Guardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr earned film deals and flashy awards by blaming Brexit and Trump on a sweeping conspiracy between data firm Cambridge Analytica and Russia. A British government investigation shatters their claims to fame.

Two years after the stunning June 2016 passage of the Brexit referendum, affirming the British public's desire to withdraw from the European Union, and the equally unexpected November 2016 election of Donald Trump to the White House, a scandal erupted that seemed to explain these rogue right-wing victories as the handiwork of an especially devilish data-mining scheme.

In 2018, a hipster techie named Christopher Wylie emerged as a supposed whistleblower from the UK data firm SCL-Cambridge Analytica. Wylie claimed inside knowledge of how his former employer illicitly harvested the personal data of British and American voters through Facebook to conduct micro-targeting operations in favor of Brexit and Trump. Further, and most memorably, he asserted that "known Russian agents" were involved in the right-wing plot.

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Flashback Best of the Web: Confessions of voter fraud: 'I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots' - Top Democrat operative

Jon Levine
New York Post
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:24 UTC
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A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he's been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.

Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded.

But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.
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Best of the Web: US media declare Biden winner - Trump says it's NOT over

Billy Binion
Reason
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 23:42 UTC
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Joe Biden appeared to clinch a victory on Saturday morning to become 46th president of the United States, closing out an election cycle that was dominated in the final months by debates around COVID-19, the economy, and police reform.

The Associated Press projected that Biden garnered 284 electoral votes after nabbing Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, all of which voted to elect President Donald Trump in 2016. The former vice president appeared to be ahead in Nevada and Georgia, though neither state has been called at the time of this writing. Fox News, NBC News, and The Washington Post also project Biden as the winner.


Comment: Nabbing = stealing.


Trump has promised to pursue at least one recount in Wisconsin, which Biden won by 20,000 votes, according to the Associated Press. The White House has also filed lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Nevada — though he has already lost the former two bids — and vowed to challenge the results in front of the Supreme Court, casting certain states' mail-in ballots as illegitimate. On Twitter, Trump continued to claim victory.


On Wednesday, the president claimed victory in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina, which had not yet been called for either candidate at the time, and Michigan, which had been called for Biden.


Comment: Biden is already transition planning, expected to announce Cabinet choices by Thanksgiving. Grab the sick bags:



Trump's response:

Republicans are split after Media/Biden's premature declaration. That's the problem with RINOs. They will not discuss election fraud seriously because it ruins the fake image of the USA as a beacon of democracy.

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Best of the Web: The 2019 Bolivian precedent justifies Trump's accusations of fraud

Andrew Korybko
One World
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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The precedent established by the Organization of American States' claims that fraud was committed in the 2019 Bolivian presidential election after a suspicious delay in releasing the tally resulted in then-President Morales emerging the victor without a second round being necessary like would have otherwise been the case had the pre-delay trend held solid justifies Trump's accusations that fraud was also committed during the US' very similar electoral crisis concerning the equally suspicious and ultimately game-changing delay in reporting on mail-in ballots.

Two Countries, Two Years, Two Elections, Two Suspicious Outcomes

"The Anti-Trump Regime Change Sequence Is Worthwhile Studying", as I remarked earlier on Thursday, yet what's just as worthwhile to consider is the way in which the 2019 Bolivian precedent justifies Trump's accusations of fraud during the US' very similar electoral crisis. To explain, the suspicious delay in releasing the tally during the Bolivian election resulted in then-President Morales emerging the victor without a second round being necessary like would have otherwise been the case had the pre-delay trend held solid. This is almost the exact same scenario as what recently unfolded in the the several battleground states where an equally suspicious and ultimately game-changing delay resulted in Biden suddenly obtaining literally hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots.

Comment: The Bolivian election was a tactical trial run for USA and Israel

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