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A guide to vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs


BBC News
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 19:02 UTC
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Rigging can involve "stuffing" ballot boxes with fraudulent papers or simply making up results
Gabon's opposition says it was cheated of victory, after official results showed a turnout of 99.93% in President Ali Bongo's home region, with 95% of votes in his favour. Elizabeth Blunt has witnessed many elections across Africa, as both a BBC journalist and election observer and looks at six signs of possible election rigging.

Too many voters

Watch the turnout figures ‒ they can be a big giveaway.

You never get a 98% or 99% turnout in an honest election. You just don't.

Voting is compulsory in Gabon, but it is not enforced; even in Australia where it is enforced, where you can vote by post or online and can be fined for not voting, turnout only reaches 90-95%.

Comment: Oh dear. This all sounds distressingly familiar. It's a sad day when a U.S. election can be accurately compared to one run in a Third World country.

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Antifa vandalizes Democrat HQ in Portland — Paints f**k Biden

Bob Price
Breitbart
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Portland Democrat HQ
© Portland Police Bureau
Antifa protesters in Portland, Oregon, vandalized the Democratic Party headquarters on Sunday night. They apparently painted "F**k Biden" and "No more presidents."

The headquarters of the Democratic Party of Multnomah County, Oregon, came under attack Sunday night from Antifa protesters. The vandals smashed windows and painted "F**k Biden" followed by an Antifa brand. They also painted, "No more presidents" on the building.


Comment: What's worse is what Oregon Governor Kate Brown just did...
[...]

Oregon Governor Kate Brown rescinded an executive order Sunday that called on State Police and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in Portland to take charge of the police response to expected violent protests in the wake of Tuesday's presidential election.


Thank you to everyone who exercised their free speech rights largely through joyful celebration. Now, the hard work begins to heal the divisions in our nation," Brown tweeted.


Who does she thinks she's kidding??


Unfortunately, there appears to be a long way to go before the healing can begin, as Oregon State Police arrested four people during competing protests at the State Capitol in Salem on Saturday.

Before Brown rescinded the executive order, police deployed tear gas, which had previously been banned, to disperse groups of demonstrators in Portland.


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Activists are trying to cancel my book on the transgender craze - Why is Silicon Valley helping them?

Abigail Shrier
Quillette
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Abigail Shrier

The author, appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, July 2020.
The day after I tweeted about the ongoing attempts to block sales of my book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, I was stuck on the phone with my parents' real estate agent. "How's your book going?" she wanted to know. "Is there a lot of controversy?"

I know it's fashionable these days to claim to be an introvert — something to do with an unwarranted assumption of depth, maybe — but I actually am an introvert. Small talk exhausts me, not because I believe it's beneath me, but because it feels like being handed a socket wrench. I have no idea what to do with it.

"Well, you had to expect that, right?" she added casually. "When you write a book like that, that's what you're expecting."

This is, more or less, most people's reaction to the efforts to suppress my book. It isn't that they agree with censorship per se. But you also can't go setting fires without expecting Big Tech's cops to shut them down. "If you're going to talk about the trans thing, I mean, what did you expect?" I think the agent may have said those very words.

Comment: See also:

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CNN hack Don Lemon continues to embarrass himself: 'Difficult to be a journalist' during 'dark' Trump years


RT
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:22 UTC
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Libtard media syncophant Don Lemon
Twitter users have hounded over a post penned by CNN host Don Lemon, in which the well-paid #Resistance idol relayed how frightening the past four years have been for journalism, and more specifically, himself.

Lemon explained to Twitter "how difficult it's been as a journalist to cover this dark part of our history," adding that he hoped "attacks on journalism" would end under a presumed Biden administration. "Time to move into the light."

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Media decree makes it so? Biden propaganda is a naked attempt to silence Republicans, even as NOTHING has changed

Christopher Bedford
The Federalist
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 22:15 UTC
Trump rally

Donald Trump
For large swaths of the corporate media, the work to elect a Democratic president never ended.

Nothing has changed since Friday night.

You might find that strange, given the media stampede to certify the election results for their man, but it's crucial. The calls made Saturday morning are as arbitrary as they were last Tuesday, could just as easily have waited for Monday, and fly in the face of massive evidence of voter irregularities that, at minimum, should be heard in court before anyone considers calling the election.

Add pending lawsuits and official recounts in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin, and the conclusion is an attempt by the American media to pick our president and decide our election. The danger comes now, when in concert with Silicon Valley censors they use their own decree to dismiss and silence anyone who says otherwise.
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Nevada whistleblower witnessed processing of illegitimate votes

Robert Kraychik
Breitbart
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:11 UTC
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Fox News reported on Saturday that a whistleblower in Nevada swore an affidavit declaring that he witnessed illegitimate processing of ballots as an election worker.

Specifically, the whistleblower claimed to have been instructed to count ballots needing signature verification that lacked the requisite signatures to be eligible.

Fox News's John Roberts said:
In just the last hour in Nevada, an election worker whose job was to process mail-in ballots says he witnessed irregularities in counting those ballots and was told by a supervisor — who he names — to put through ballots he believed needed signature verification without that verification first being done.

He says he was also told to ignore discrepancies with addresses. That worker has sworn out an affidavit which has been sent to the Department of Justice here in Washington. A Trump campaign attorney says of that, quote, "The affidavit makes clear that we're not dealing with oversights or sloppiness. This was intentional criminal conduct."
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Trump gains ground in Arizona, hundreds of thousands of ballots yet to be counted

Christine Favocci
The American Digest
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:02 UTC
Arizona State Capitol
© Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic
Trump supporters • Arizona State Capitol
Though the mainstream media has declared that Democrat nominee Joe Biden is the winner of the 2020 election, it looks like President Donald Trump is closing in on former Vice President Joe Biden's lead in one key state.

News coming out of Arizona Friday evening just showed that Trump is gaining on his Democratic rival. Trump picked up an additional 6,955 votes in Maricopa County. Out of its 71,932 votes, 38,388 were for Trump, and 31,433 went to Biden.

As of press time, there were 173,000 outstanding ballots in the state Trump would need to secure the win. Even if Pennsylvania stayed in his favor through their contentious counting process, Trump couldn't get to 270 electoral votes — the threshold for either candidate to cross for the win — without it.

Trump still has an uphill climb with Biden ahead by 29,861. There were roughly 173,000 ballots left to be counting, including 47,000 provisional ballots that are cast without being able to properly identify the voter has the right to do so for one reason or another.


Comment: Trump would need to win a greater percentage than he did with those Maricopa County votes in order to overtake Biden's lead. He would in all likelihood do so, if not for the rampant fraud.


The 2020 presidential election results still hang in the balance, even as both candidates and their surrogates pronounce them the winner. The legal battles will likely stretch on even as states declare winners.
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Britons could launch class-action lawsuit for BILLIONS for government 'falsely imprisoning' the nation in a lockdown

Emer Scully
Daily Mail
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:01 UTC
BJohnson
© PA
UK PM Boris Johnson and pandemic message - the exact same one from last March
Britons could potentially sue the Government for billions of pounds in compensation for 'falsely imprisoning' the nation with its Stay At Home order at the outbreak of coronavirus in March, a law lecturer has predicted.

Dr Jonathan Morgan, director of law at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, said a class action against the Government was 'unprecedented' - but added that so was the lockdown itself.

In a blog post published yesterday he wrote:
'Could the regulations' invalidity expose the Government to mass liability — to the entire UK population — for the tort of false imprisonment? Thus stated, the proposition seems highly unlikely. It would certainly be unprecedented. But perhaps that is because a pre-emptive quarantine of the entire population is also unprecedented. It is worth thinking about a hypothetical claim.'

Comment: This is the Einstein-attributed definition of insanity...only worse. Suing the government may get their attention. Jail sentences - as in their own personal lockup for the lockdown - would also work. Oh heck...do both!

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House Dems in marathon call squabble over how they lost seats amid projections of Blue Wave

Joseph Weber
Just the News
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:03 UTC
Dem/Rep icons
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House Democrats are squabbling over their disappointing results in Tuesday's elections in which Republicans unexpectedly cut into their majority.

Members during a three-hour conference call Thursday accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's leadership team of numerous missteps including what they considered poor voter messaging and strategy, including too little grassroots campaigning.

They also lamented about Republicans this election cycle having won over many Hispanic and black voters - particularly in Texas and in Florida, in which Democrats lost two House seats in the once-reliable Miami-Dade area, according to news gathering agencies that had access to the details of the conversations in the call.

Among the biggest concerns, some of the lawmakers said, was failing to pass a second, major coronavirus stimulus package, with election-year politics having stalled negotiations between Pelosi and the White House.

Others said Republicans had successfully tagged incumbents as "socialists," as a result of some the caucus's most liberal members having supported calls to "defund" police departments following the May 25 death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.

Comment: It's interesting how the House lost Democrats and gained Republicans if Trump truly lost the election - considering these two outcomes should be relative/parallel to each other's results. Dems are eating their own.

See also: Democrats already blame each other for failed house races and Republican gains

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Britain died for me this week. It's become a Covid-obsessed police state, and I don't understand what it stands for anymore

Chris Sweeney
RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 08:01 UTC
Protestor arrested
© Reuters/Henry Nicholls
A woman is detained by police officers, a protestor in the Million Mask March
London, Britain • November 5, 2020
I've always been proud to say I'm British - until now. The authorities' bloody-minded determination to implement lockdown rules at the expense of people's wellbeing is not what our great country should be about.

Sometimes you can be too close. You are looking, but you don't see it. That's where I found myself this week with the current state of Britain, amid another round of ever tighter restrictions caused by the pandemic.

Don't get me wrong. There are loads of things I've always loved about my country - our traditional British good manners for example. Rather than see it as a sign of weakness, I pride myself on our reputation for queuing in an orderly fashion. I also like that we hold the door open for the person behind us.

I admire our outstanding National Health Service, which allows everyone to access medical treatment without having to dig out a credit card or an insurance plan. And I enjoy flying British Airways over far-flung lands, offering me some form of attachment - even if it is superficial.

I won't apologise for tea being regarded as the boring and bland equivalent to freshly ground coffee - it's our drink, and I love it. And the way we honour our war heroes with the humble poppy is thoroughly respectful.

But this week, some of that pride in being British died for me. It's a very different sentiment I'm feeling. Beyond disillusionment. Fury even. How could Britain have fallen so far in the way it treats its own people?
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