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April 11, 2019
Preparing for 2020 in Our So-called ‘Democracy’
By Jon N. Hall

(From American Thinker) (Link Here)https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/preparing_for_2020_in_our_socalled_democracy.html

Democrats have rather different concerns about the integrity of our e******ns than do Republicans. The perennial concern of Democrats is “v**er suppression.” The Dems allege that their folks are not being allowed to v**e. Recently, the loudest voice on v**er suppression may well be former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. On February 19, The Hill reported on Abrams and quoted from her televised response to President Trump’s State of the Union address:

Let’s be clear: V**er suppression is real. From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful b****ts, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.
Yes, “let’s be clear”: Whenever e******n officials have doubt about the eligibility of a v**er, that v**er can request a provisional b****t, regardless of whether he’s on the registry or not. But that fact doesn’t deter Democrats from squawking about v**er suppression. Complaints about v**er suppression shouldn’t be taken seriously when v**ers haven’t demanded provisional b****ts.

The Hill informs us that Ms. Abrams “has made v**er suppression her signature political issue since losing the race for governor.” But with the provisional b****t, v**er suppression is really a non-problem. In October, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported:

Provisional b****ts ensure that v**ers are not excluded from the v****g process due to an administrative error. They provide a fail-safe mechanism for v**ers who arrive at the polls on E******n Day and whose eligibility to v**e is uncertain.

Unfortunately, Stacey Abrams seems to be a sore loser. In her belated concession speech, she said “Let’s be clear, this is not a speech of concession” (video excerpt). Let’s be clear, Abrams’ breed of politics is d******e and even toxic. Let’s hope the Dems can find better (and sunnier) candidates. To learn more about her position on v**er suppression, avail yourself of the conversation she had in February at the Brookings Institution with a writer from The New Yorker.

E******n integrity encompasses much more than just v**er suppression. For instance, California has “automatically” enrolled i*****l a***ns on their v**er registries at the DMV. California also turbocharged its b****t harvesting rules just in time for the 2018 midterms. In January, Monica Showalter reported:
California's famed b****t-harvesters, who flipped places such as Orange County blue by "helping" fill out, turn in, and continue to turn in b****ts from otherwise uncommitted v**ers until they got the result they wanted, aren't actually U.S. citizens. […] This pretty well amounts to foreign nationals v****g, without any fear of prosecution.

That changes the nature of the e******n and, in fact, the U.S. republic itself.

In March, RealClearPolitics ran “On B****t Harvesting, GOP May Have to Push Back” by Susan CrabTree, who wrote (italics added): “The b****t-harvesting practice has faced new scrutiny in recent months after Republican candidates in California saw their E******n Day leads disintegrate as later-arriving Democratic v**es were counted in the weeks following the 2018 midterms.”

With the ongoing invasion by Central American caravans, the problem of i******s being on v**er rolls can only get worse. But Stacey Abrams thinks that i******s should be allowed to v**e.

Maybe it’s appropriate that we have banana republic e******n systems since we’re being invaded by banana republics.

For Democrats, v**er suppression is like their Russia collusion story: they can’t let go of it and move on. But what’s interesting about their Russia allegations is that it has forced the Democrats to change their talking points. In addition to endlessly carping about v**er suppression, the Dems are now talking about foreigners interfering in our e******ns. That just happens to be a concern of Republicans.

Government has assured America that Russia “meddled” in the 2016 e******ns. Though they expect us to believe in this Russian meddling narrative, the Dems want us to disbelieve in the possibility that Russians might have changed v**e counts. They remind us that e******ns are conducted by the states, and each state has its own e******n systems, so changing v**e counts would be quite difficult. But if changing v**e counts by foreign actors would be a daunting task, then it might also be fairly daunting to be certain that it didn’t happen. We’re told that v**e counts are accurate, but what proof is ever adduced, brought forward?

So here’s the big question: If one had to prove that the v**e counts in a federal e******n were correct and legitimate, how would one do that, what would it entail?

Well, given the state of America’s banana-republic e******n systems, I’m here to tell you that no crack team of experts could demonstrate what the legitimate v**e counts are in any of our federal e******ns. To do so would require that the experts know who cast each b****t, and then they would need to ascertain that v**er’s eligibility. Basically, they’d have to reregister all the v**ers.

One reason that no one can prove what the legitimate v**e count is in an American e******n is because there is no linkage between the b****ts and the v**ers who cast them. But even if the b****ts did have linkage to the v**ers, our crack team would still need to verify that each v**er is an eligible American citizen, and not a Russian, Mexican, Honduran, Salvadoran, or some other foreign national.

The safeguards the states use to ensure e******n integrity are on the “front end.” These include v***r r**********n, showing ID, signing in at the polls, etc. Such devices are meant to keep ineligibles out of e******ns. But once a b****t has been cast, it’s over. With the current systems, once the polls are closed there’s no way to find fraudulent b****ts. To secure her e******ns, America also needs safeguards for vetting the v**ers after the polls close, that is, on the “back end.”

Back-end safeguards would allow us to detect fraudulent b****ts, correct v**e counts, and prosecute fraudsters. The way to do this is to require v**ers to use their social security numbers to v**e and then attach those numbers to the b****ts. That would allow us to look up the SSNs on the SSA’s database to see if the v**er’s SSN is that of a citizen.

We especially need a “back end” to vet provisional b****ts, as well as late-arriving absentee b****ts and “harvested” b****ts. We also need back-end security to deal with frauds such as b****t box stuffing that are committed not by v**ers, but by partisan poll workers. Those who do not understand the necessity of being able to vet v**ers and the v**e on the back end just don’t understand data security. Except, of course, for classified data in Obama’s State Department, are there any other categories of sensitive data in America that are treated with the negligence and the disregard that government treats the v**e?

If you are an American citizen, your v**e can be nullified by the v**e of an i*****l a***n. It’s appalling that Democrats expect citizens to just mildly accept this. It’s also appalling that 2020 will mark the 20th anniversary of the 2000 e******n brouhaha in Florida and we still haven’t fixed our pathetic e******n systems. And we call this a “democracy.”

Jon N. Hall of ULTRACON OPINION is a programmer from Kansas City

moldyoldy

This i***t knows nothing about California

maximus Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee

As I've said many times, I used to work in a hotel turned section 8 housing with over 200 apartments. Those residents ALL had their picture ID to be eligible to receive the many benefits offered to them. Does anybody besides a criminal or an i*****l a***n NOT have a photo ID these days?
Democrats say there is no dead v****g, i******s v****g, or b****t stuffers, but there is. One lady in California witnessed b****t stuffing first hand. Also in California, hundreds, maybe thousands of mail in b****ts never arrived at the homes of not random v**ers, but all republicans. Many states had dead people casting v**es.
If republicans don't start nailing down f**r e******ns, it's all over for them. If the dems even think that there might be some impropriety on the part of republicans, they raise such a stink and the MSM jumps all over the story.
This is a good post. Thanks for posting it.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

With your California politicians, you're calling this person an i***t.

moldyoldy

Kris Kobach and his search for v***r f***d quickly ended like we knew it would. It is a distraction from the v**er suppression of the right

vernon

your the one that knows nothing.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I think you meant NC and Republicans. Then again, these stupid tactics are used by both parties whenever they think they can get away with them.

Wonttakeitanymore

That’s how the west was won by the demons

promilitary

You can always count on the democrats to have an extra b****t box or two
stuffed with the correct b****ts to bring out just in case