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Pro-Biden bug also suspected in Georgia's vote-counting software

Paul Sperry
RealClearInvestigations
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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© AP/Brynn Anderson/Youtube/Google Maps/fairfight.com/KJNBrad Raffensperger • Garland Favorito • Fulton County, GA • Stacy Abrams
A curious thing happened as Fulton County, Ga., election officials counted mail-in ballots at Atlanta's State Farm Arena in the days after the election. In the early hours of Nov. 5, a surge of some 20,000 mail-in votes suddenly appeared for Joe Biden, while approximately 1,000 votes for President Trump mysteriously disappeared from his own totals in the critical swing state, where Biden holds a razor-thin lead.

A poll watcher noticed the suspicious shift in votes while monitoring the interim election results on the Georgia secretary of state website.
"I concluded from looking at these results that this was an irregularity, since there was no obvious reason for President Trump's totals to have decreased while former Vice President Biden's totals increased dramatically."
Voter GA co-founder Garland Favorito swore in an affidavit he filed this week with the secretary of state's office.

Favorito suspects a variety of factors, including that votes were "artificially inflated" for Biden while using the same Dominion Voting system used by Antrim County, Mich., which erroneously transferred 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden. Last year, Georgia contracted with Dominion to automate vote tabulations in all 159 of its counties.

"The software appears to have thrown votes from Trump to Biden here too," he said in a RealClearInvestigations interview. "Or Biden ballots were manufactured."
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The return of the Obama 'adults' in a Joe Biden administration is likely to spell ruin for America

Scott Ritter
RT
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:09 UTC
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© artpal.comThe State of the Nation
The US establishment, and the world, has spent the last four years trying to adapt to the disruptive policies of a childish president. Now the Democrats' 'adult' leadership team will return. Watch out, folks.

To those watching the drama unfolding in Washington, DC around the stalled efforts on the part of nominal President-elect Joe Biden in forming a transition team, the parallels are eerily familiar: a bitterly contested election between an establishment political figure and a brash DC 'outsider', a controversial outcome delaying the implementation of the transition between administrations, and an openly condescending atmosphere where the incoming team postured as comprising a return to 'adult' leadership.

That time was December 2000, when a Republican team led by President-elect George W. Bush stood ready to install a cabinet composed of veteran spies, diplomats, and national security managers who had cut their policy teeth during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. With Colin Powell as secretary of state, Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, George Tenet as director of central intelligence, and Condoleezza Rice as national security advisor, the foreign policy and national security team that Dubya surrounded himself with upon assuming the presidency was as experienced a team as one could imagine.

And yet, within two years of assuming their responsibilities, this team of 'adults' had presided over the worst terrorist attack in American history, and the initiation of two wars (in Afghanistan and Iraq) that would forever change both the geopolitical map of the world and America's role as world leader.
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Trump's Pennsylvania complaint is brilliant

James V, DeLong
American Thinker
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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© file photoThe US Supreme Court, Washington D.C.
The complaint filed in Pennsylvania by the Trump campaign is a superb piece of legal craftsmanship.

It was filed in federal court, not state. The gist is that some of the state's actions, and particularly the exclusion of Republican poll-watchers during the counting of hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots, violated federal constitutional requirements.

The point is obvious enough once one thinks of it, but it's brilliant all the same. It shifts the focus from state law, where a politicized Pennsylvania court has the last word, to federal law, where the U.S. Supreme Court rules.

As for the obviousness of the point, consider as a thought experiment a state law requiring that all votes be counted in secret by an unelected board named by the party in power. Could it survive a constitutional challenge?

As my old Harvard constitutional law professors would have said, "to ask the question is to answer it." It is hard to count all the constitutional guarantees violated here: Equal Protection, Due Process, Privileges and Immunities. Indeed, the complaint stacks up the Supreme Court precedents supporting its arguments, including the long line of ringing statements in the chain of one-person-one-vote decisions.
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President Trump puts Rudi Giuliani in charge of 2020 election lawsuits

Jackie Salo
New York Post
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:34 UTC
Rudy Giuliani
© Getty Images/Alex WongAttorney Rudy Giuliani
President Trump has tapped personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to helm his 2020 election result battles, putting him in charge of the campaign's more than two dozen lawsuits and of all public statements concerning them, according to a report.

Trump put the former New York City mayor and staunch supporter in charge in response to a court setback in Maricopa County, Ariz., the New York Times reported.

Earlier in the day, the campaign had abandoned as moot its lawsuit alleging that the use of Sharpies caused some ballots to be wrongly rejected — with the lawyers conceding that the number of contested ballots wouldn't change the outcome of the election, NBC reported. "The tabulation of votes statewide has rendered unnecessary a judicial ruling as to the presidential electors," the campaign's lawyers said.

Giuliani's new role may only cause more division inside the campaign — his supportive presence has already "vexed" other campaign officials, who fear he is giving the president unwarranted optimism, the Times said.

Comment: See also: Trump's Pennsylvania complaint is brilliant

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Red Flag

Look who's back: Biden could tap Hillary Clinton to serve as US envoy to UN


RT
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC
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© Reuters/Jason ReedFormer VP Joe Biden • Former Sec of State Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton could become the United States ambassador to the UN, according to a report, as Joe Biden, who declared victory in the 2020 presidential election, begins to form his administration.

The name of the two-time presidential hopeful has come up in private discussions about who should fill one of the most senior diplomatic posts, according to the Washington Post, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Her appointment would likely be highly controversial. The 2016 Democratic nominee became a #Resistance hero after her defeat by Donald Trump, which she claimed was due to debunked allegations of Russian "collusion." Others view her as a malignant force within the Democratic machine, whose tenure as secretary of state during the Obama administration was mired by foreign policy mishaps and domestic scandals, including allegations that she used a private email server for official State Department communications.

Her critics have pointed to her prominent role in NATO's military campaign in Libya in 2011. She infamously laughed while discussing the grisly extrajudicial killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, boasting: "We came, we saw, he died."

For months, rumors spread that Clinton might even consider running again in 2020. Reports emerged of her building ties with several Democratic candidates' campaigns.

Comment: Seriously, the nation doesn't have the stomach for this!

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Pennsylvania court denies 5 Trump campaign legal challenges

Janita Kan
The Epoch Times
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:32 UTC
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© Bing Guan/ReutersA voting site on Election Day in Madison, Dane County, Wis., on Nov. 3, 2020.
A state court in Philadelphia county on Friday rejected legal challenges filed by the Trump campaign in an attempt to challenge over 8,300 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election.

Earlier this week, the Trump campaign filed five separate petitions to the court for a review of the Philadelphia County Board of Election's decision to count votes that appear to have errors or irregularities because voters did not print their name or their address in the space provided on the outer envelope.

The Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia County on Friday denied each request. The court said that the ballot already contains the voter's name and address on the pre-printed exterior envelope and that neither filling out the printed name and address sections are "requirements necessary to prevent fraud."

"The envelope provided to the elector from the secretary of state of the commonwealth contains a direction in the form of a checklist on the back of the envelope that directs the elector to sign the declaration, but makes no mention of filling out the date or other information," the orders state.

The court added that after reviewing the claims and the county's response, it concluded that the campaign was "not contending that there has been fraud, that there is evidence of fraud, or that the ballots in question were not filled out by the elector in whose name the ballot was issued."

Comment: All to be expected. It will be an uphill battle, but it's not impossible. This one from 1994 is worth reading: Republican state Senate candidate Ziccarelli, an attorney, has appealed Allegheny County's decision to count 2349 votes with no date.
Ziccarelli argued that the Election Code does not allow mail-in ballots to be counted unless they are signed and dated.

"Neither the Election Code, nor any other legal principle governing the conduct of the Board, permits the Board to exercise discretion relative to the examination of mail-in ballots or alter the scope and nature of its duties," the complaint said, the Tribune-Review reported.

The Board did not comply with its lawful duty and in deciding the count the ballots, overstepped its reach, the Republican candidate said.

Ziccarelli is neck-and-neck with state Sen. Jim Brewster, a Democrat. Just 20 votes separate them, as of Saturday morning.
Dershowitz thinks Trump will win Pennsylvania if enough votes are at stake:
"I do think that Trump will win the Pennsylvania lawsuit," said Dershowitz on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight with host Joel Pollak, "namely, the lawsuit that challenges ballots that were filed before the end of Election Day but not received until after Election Day."

Dershowitz continued, "The [Pennsylvania] legislature had basically said no to that and the [Pennsylvania] Supreme Court said yes because of the pandemic. That may have been the right decision in some theoretical sense, but the Constitution doesn't permit anybody in the state but the legislature to make decisions about elections."

"That was decided correctly in Bush versus Gore, and I think that four-to-four vote would become a five-to-four vote if the issue came before the Supreme Court and there were not disputed ballots to make a difference in the outcome of the election. That remains to be seen."

Dershowitz remarked, "As I understand the facts of the case — although I think what the judiciary did may have been the right thing morally: if you get your ballot in on time, you shouldn't be denied the vote just because the post office screwed up — I don't think you can really make that argument under Article Two. I do think that the Republican argument is the stronger one.

"The Supreme Court will take the case only if it would make a difference, only if the plaintiffs — the Republicans — can show that the number of disputed ballots that were subject to sequestration by Justice Alito's decision exceeds the difference between the winning margin and the losing margin."

Dershowitz concluded, "The Pennsylvania constitutional argument is a wholesale argument that clearly belongs in federal courts."


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Best of the Web: Denmark tries to push through permanent 'epidemic law' that includes forced vaccination


TheLocal.dk
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:10 UTC
Frederikshavn
© Claus Bjørn Larsen/Ritzau ScanpixPeople in Frederikshavn, North Jutland queue for coronavirus tests.
The parliamentary hearing period for a proposed new law giving the government extended powers to respond to epidemics expires today.

The new 'epidemic law' (epidemilov) would replace an emergency law passed in the spring which gave the government extended powers to intervene in society in order to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

As well as enforcing quarantine measures, the existing law empowers the authorities prohibit access to public institutions, supermarkets and shops, public and private nursing homes and hospitals, and also to impose restrictions on access to public transport.

Comment: This sets an extremely dangerous precedent because, as happened with the second lockdowns that began in one country but then, over just a few days, were rolled out throughout Europe, we can expect other governments to attempt to push through similar laws that drag us further down the road to a full blown dystopia. It's notable that numerous countries have already been enforcing certain measures in chosen areas with army troops: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Democratic senators warned of potential 'vote switching' by Dominion voting machines prior to 2020 election

Andrew Mark Miller
Washington Examiner
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:44 UTC
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Four congressional Democrats sent a letter to the owners of Dominion Voting Systems and cited several problems that "threaten the integrity of our elections," including "vote switching."

In a December 2019 letter to Dominion Voting Systems, which has been mired in controversy after a human error involving its machines in Antrim County, Michigan, resulted in incorrect counts, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Amy Klobuchar and congressman Mark Pocan warned about reports of machines "switching votes," "undisclosed vulnerabilities," and "improbable" results that "threaten the integrity of our elections."


"In 2018 alone, 'voters in South Carolina [were] reporting machines that switched their votes after they'd inputted them, scanners [were] rejecting paper ballots in Missouri, and busted machines [were] causing long lines in Indiana,'" the letter reads. "In addition, researchers recently uncovered previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in "nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states." And, just this year, after the Democratic candidate's electronic tally showed he received 164 votes out of 55,000 cast in a Pennsylvania state judicial election in 2019, the county's Republican chairwoman said, "nothing went right on Election Day. Everything went wrong. That's a problem."

The letter continued: "These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack."

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New top Pentagon adviser wants US troops out of Syria 'immediately' - Acting SecDef Miller tells troops: 'It's time to come home'


Zero Hedge
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:08 UTC
Douglas Macgregor
© US Army CommandArmy Col. Douglas Macgregor
With Esper out the door, Trump's newly in office acting Secretary of Defense is already making waves given who he's just brought on board.

The new acting Pentagon chief, Christopher Miller, has just brought on as his senior adviser Ret. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor. Crucially Macgregor is on record as wanting American troops out of Syria immediately (gasp, the horror!), and further wants a rapid draw down in Afghanistan as well as in places like the Korean Peninsula.

"President Trump's newly installed acting Pentagon chief is bringing on a senior adviser in a sign the administration wants to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East before the end of his presidency in January, three people familiar with the move told Axios," Jonathan Swan writes.

It appears Trump has finally and much belatedly put someone at the helm whose own views reflect those of the 2016 Trump campaign trail. He had been the first Republican nominee in history to lambast Bush's Iraq War as a huge "disaster" while running on a 'bring the troops home' non-interventionist message.

Of course critics then and now have mischaracterized the president as "isolationist" - which has long become a negative slur in establishment foreign policy circles.

Currently it's believed there's anywhere from 800 to possibly up to 2,000 US personnel in northeast Syria, where according to past Trump statements they are there to "secure the oil" and ensure the permanent defeat of ISIS. Increasingly they've been bumping up against both Russian and Syrian Army patrols in a mission that doesn't seem to have a defined end goal or exit strategy.


Comment: Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller's first message to U.S. troops:
"All wars must end," he wrote in a memo that went out to all employees in the Department of Defense. "Ending wars requires compromise and partnership. We met the challenge; We gave it our all. Now it's time to come home. ... To all of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Space Professionals and civilians: Continue to be bold. ... Together we will take our Nation to new heights."

He said the U.S. remained committed to "finishing the war that Al Qaida brought to our shores in 2001 ... but we must avoid our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish."

He added he was "weary of war" like many others but "this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership role to a supporting role. We are not a people of perpetual war - it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought."


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Flynn attorney Sydney Powell vows to expose Dem collusion behind prominent voting machine firm: 'I'm going to RELEASE THE KRAKEN'


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:25 UTC
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© AFP / Jonathan Daniel / Getty Images via AFPA poll worker checks the registration of a voter in Chicago, Illinois.
Republican attorney Sidney Powell has vowed to "expose every one of" the officials who helped allegedly steal the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden, claiming voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems facilitated the theft.

Powell, who is representing former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in his Russiagate-spawned legal battle, leveled her own allegations of foreign collusion and election meddling on Fox News' Lou Dobbs Tonight show on Friday. Threatening those responsible with a "new American revolution," she called for a sweeping probe into what she described as a longstanding pattern of election interference.

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