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Pennsylvania court denies 5 Trump campaign legal challenges

Janita Kan
The Epoch Times
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:32 UTC
election booth
© Bing Guan/Reuters
A 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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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 Scanpix
People 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
dominion
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."

Comment:



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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 Command
Army 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
poling station
© AFP / Jonathan Daniel / Getty Images via AFP
A 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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What's next after the Azerbaijan-Armenia ceasefire?

Annelle Sheline
Responsible Statecraft
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:11 UTC
yerevan armenia peace deal protest
© Reuters
In protest at the deal, large crowds stormed the government headquarters in Yerevan, Armenia, November 10, 2020
Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia just signed a peace deal to end six weeks of war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The deal represents a victory for Azerbaijan, which used its superior military strength to retake territory that Armenian forces had held since a Russian-brokered ceasefire ended the most recent war in 1994.

In response to the peace deal, anguished Armenians stormed their parliament building in Yerevan, while jubilant Azerbaijanis celebrated in Baku and around the country. On Sunday, Azerbaijan captured the religiously significant city of Shusha, (known as Shushi to Armenians), and was prepared to advance further, until Armenia sued for peace. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described the peace deal as "incredibly painful" but agreed to it in order to prevent the inexorable advance of Azerbaijan's forces northward towards Nagorno-Karabakh's capital, Stepanakert.

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Scytl, Germany-based vote-counting company reportedly released statement refuting reports of US raid in Germany - company website crashes

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:21 UTC
Gohmert
© Reuters
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
On Friday Rep. Louie Gohmert told Chris Salcedo on Newsmax that people on the ground in Germany report that Scytl, which hosted elections data improperly through Spain, was raided by a large US ARMY force and their servers were seized in Frankfurt.

The video went viral.

Trump Attorney Lin Wood tweeted this out.

Comment: It's an odd, audacious statement to be coming from an old congressional hand like Gohmert. After 15 years in office, he should have a handle on what should and should not be said regarding matters of national security. The majority of his statement seems legit. The story on the "raid" is based, by Gohmert's own word, only on a single tweet in German. The truth of it remains to be seen.

The original story from Gateway Pundit:
Did the US Raid European Software Company Scytl and Seize their Servers in Germany? -- Company Refutes Claims?

Earlier today Rep. Louie Gohmert told Chris Salcedo on Newsmax that people on the ground in Germany report that Scytl, which hosted elections data improperly through Spain, was raided by a large US ARMY force and their servers were seized in Frankfurt.

The video went viral.

Andrea Widburg at American Thinker earlier reported that Scytl is a Barcelona-based company that provides electronic voting systems worldwide, many of which have proven vulnerable to electronic manipulation. Scytl has (or had) Soros and Democrat party connections. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital has invested $40 million in Scytl.

Tonight we learned from our source that Bill Gates also owns stock in Scytl.

Here is what Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) had to say about this alleged raid earlier today.

Do you think Trump legitimately won the election?

Tonight we heard more from our source on this raid in Germany.
From our source: The US government, once they determined that this Dominion server was involved in switching votes, then the intelligence community began a search for the server and discovered that the server was in Germany. In order to get access to that server and have it available for use in a legal manner they had to have the State Department work in tandem with the Department of Justice. They had to request that the government of Germany cooperate in allowing this seizure of this server.

The appropriate documents required to affect that kind of seizure were put in place, signed off on, and it appears there was also US military support in this operation. The US military was not in the lead. But this helps explain why Esper was fired and Miller and Kash Patel were put in place — so that the military would not interfere with the operation in any way.

By getting ahold of the server they now are going to have the direct evidence of when they were instructed to stop counting. They will also discover who gave the direction to stop counting and who initiated the algorithm that started switching votes. The CIA was completely excluded from this operation.


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Pennsylvania mail-in ballot fiasco is ripe for a US Supreme Court case

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:44 UTC
mail in ballots voting fraud
© Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images
An exclusive interview establishes the Pennsylvania vote has major constitutional problems. Joe Kantz, the chairman of the Snyder County Commission and the chairman of the Board of Elections for more than 10 years, spoke with me yesterday about the last-minute changes the Pennsylvania secretary for elections and commissions issued. As detailed below, those changes strongly suggest that the electorally rich state the media has called for Joe Biden might have violated the Equal Protection Clause and Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.

On election morning, as his team began pre-canvass activities, an out-of-state Democratic poll watcher pressured Kantz to provide him identification numbers for voters who had failed to include their ballots in the internal secrecy sleeve required by Pennsylvania law. These so-called naked ballots are invalid under Pennsylvania law.
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Trump sees Covid-19 vaccine being distributed to high-risk population FOR FREE in weeks, but Cuomo row to delay New York shipments


RT
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:28 UTC
trump mask lab
© Reuters / Carlos Barria
President Donald Trump said Pfizer's new Covid-19 vaccine will be made available to the elderly and other high-risk Americans within weeks, but politicization of the drug by Governor Andrew Cuomo will delay shipments to New York.

"We won't be delivering to New York until we have authorization to do so," Trump told reporters Friday at a press briefing. "It pains me to say that.... The governor, Governor Cuomo, will have to let us know when he's ready."

Comment: Either Covid is a deadly pandemic that will welcome a vaccine to mitigate it, or it's not. The games the Cuomo is playing are clearly a political move and they are quite likely to cost him - anyone who actually believes they need a vaccine to save lives, or to simply get on with their lives, are going to be pissed their governor is pulling this stunt.

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Sweden's coronavirus czar remains steadfast in no lockdown strategy despite fearmongering claims of 'cases surge'

Johan Ahlander
Reuters
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 03:52 UTC
Tegnell
© Associated Press
Even Swedes over 70 have been told by epidemiologist Anders Tegnell they can 'live a bit more of a normal life'
Sweden remains steadfast in its strategy of voluntary measures and no lockdowns, the architect of its unorthodox COVID-19 response said on Friday, as the country battles a growing second wave of a disease that has now killed more than 6,000 Swedes.

The Nordic nation of 10 million people, whose soft-touch approach to combating the virus has drawn worldwide attention - and harsh domestic criticism from some - has seen a surge in the number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths in recent weeks.

At 5,990, the number of new cases reported on Friday was the highest since the start of the pandemic. A further 42 deaths were also recorded, the most for around three months.


Comment: Note the absence of critical information from Reuters: 42 deaths over what period? And how does this compare to a usual year?


Comment: The WHO and the Dutch government have admitted there's no proof that masks work, moreover, there's strong evidence they're dangerous.

And so, taking the above into account, it begs the question, why are other European countries enforcing tyrannical lockdowns when there's proof they don't work, and in fact are more harmful? And check out SOTT radio's:

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