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Election Integrity? Not a Problem Now. We Won.

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Dick Hall-Sizemore
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by Dick Hall-Sizemore

Now that the election is over, it is a good time to look at the integrity of the results.

Over the last two years, Democratic majorities in the General Assembly eased voter ID requirements, established the longest early election period in the country, and instituted “no excuse” absentee voting.

Republicans were alarmed. Donald Trump declared, “I am not a believer in the integrity of Virginia’s elections, lots of bad things went on, and are going on.”  State Senator Amanda Chase charged, “I know how Democrats are cheating, and that info has been given to the Youngkin campaign.” Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, as late as a month before the election, called for an audit of voting machines.

As we all know, the Republicans won. What was the reaction of Democrats?  With two exception of two close House districts, the Democrats conceded on election night. (When all the votes had come in, the Democrat in one of those close elections conceded defeat. The other one is headed for a recount.) Governor Northam invited the Republican winner to the Executive Mansion for lunch and pledged his support in the transition.

That is the way it should be. That is the way it has been until recently.

And what about those concerns about “election integrity”? Donald Trump seems satisfied with how the election went. Sen. Chase has not come forth with how the Democrats were cheating. And there has been no call from Youngkin now for an audit of the election machines.

So far, the only election irregularity that has been reported is that of the underaged (17) son of the Republican gubernatorial candidate trying to vote, in the wrong precinct, even. Turned away because he was not old enough to vote, he came back a second time, only to be turned away again. The governor-elect needs to give his son a civics lesson. One would think that the private school in Fairfax that the kids attends would have taught its students the basics of elections, such as minimum wage, registration requirements, etc.

Perhaps, as one observer put it while commenting on the starkly different reactions of the losers in Virginia and New Jersey, for many Republicans, there are two possible electoral outcomes:

  1. The Republican won
  2. The Democrat cheated.

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84 responses to “Election Integrity? Not a Problem Now. We Won.”

  1. Steve Gillispie Avatar
    Steve Gillispie

    The wonderful Democrat reaction in New Jersey.

    The defeated Democrat has not conceded and has claimed they have found 10,000 votes after the polls closed and election data was reported as his defense of not doing so.

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      A bit more reference to who you are talking about would help…..which NJ race.

      I think now what I thought last year, and before last year. In general Virginia’s system is good but having both parties active in the process in all precincts is essential. For my whole career I’ve known that absentee ballots were open to abuse. Now we have this terrible process in Virginia where a person can cast a live vote (not provisional) with no ID, just cross their heart and swear they are that person….But I haven’t seen anybody do that this year. Maybe elsewhere.

      Most of the issues on election day in the polls are people who have moved and not updated their addresses, or gone a long time between voting and let themselves be listed as inactive, etc. We found one who was still under her maiden name (can we still say that?) One who was still listed as being overseas, when she and her husband had rotated back years before. Both voted.

      It was an eye opener to me to read in the Kendi book how convinced he was/is that 2000 and 2004 were “stolen,” as Hilary and other still think 2016 was stolen. This is the Blind In One Eye effect so common these days. It is a human process. It will never be perfect.

      I spent a fair amount of my time as an officer or observer educating the others sent in by the GOP, most of them totally green.

      1. Steve Gillispie Avatar
        Steve Gillispie

        As of today, I think he has still not conceded.

        “Democratic New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney says thousands of “recently found”
        ballots supports his refusal to concede to a Republican challenger who ran a low-budget campaign.

        “The results from Tuesday’s election continue to come in, for instance there were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county,” Sweeney said in an email to the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday. “While I am currently trailing in the race, we want to make sure every vote is counted. Our voters deserve that, and we will wait for the final results.”

        1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
          Eric the half a troll

          Oh! I thought you were talking about Ciattarelli’s refusal to concede…

        2. energyNOW_Fan Avatar
          energyNOW_Fan

          I knew EXACTLY who you meant.
          Sweeney was the union organizer I “fought” with in South Jersey on coal fired power plants. He wanted them to be built, and when I spoke out against it, he would have like 500 union guys at the public meetings. But they behaved pretty well. That was before Mr. Sweeney was an elected official. As an elected official he is now supporting off shore wind and has been instrumental in getting some assembly plants “built” in South Jersey on the Delaware River. Mind you , progress on the NJ wind projects has been much slower than expected for some reason. He is said to be the second-most powerful elected official in NJ. I’ll tell you what, he has pretty good power as union organizer as well.

  2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
    James Wyatt Whitehead

    I hear you Mr. Dick. I think all of the excitement about election integrity is good. The people are watching. We are the best watch dogs after all.
    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iX5VNSZ1sGo/maxresdefault.jpg

  3. SudleySpr Avatar
    SudleySpr

    Tell me these mail in ballot counts look legit and I’ll sell you a bridge in NY. 3 to 1 for McAuful??? Please. McAuful over Youngkin 2 to 1 provisional?

    https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20211102/office-governor/

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      Easy and in a way important: The GOP has forgotten how to do elections. An organized absentee ballot program is a key effort, one lost as the GOP fell behind as it basked in the Cult of Trump Who is Chosen by God. The organization I worked in during the 80s has died. It is now being rebuilt (actual precinct organization again!). They are better than us now at the mechanics and that must change. (And in some of those localities, the in-person vote is also very lopsided.)

      For more than a year now Republicans have been told this system is corrupt and a vote in person is the only thing to trust. Duh. They shy away from voting absentee by mail.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        Yep.

      2. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        I dunno, Steve. They got NC9 nailed down. Really excellent mail-in campaign.

        1. Stephen Haner Avatar
          Stephen Haner

          I am curious and may do some comparisons with the past. But the D’s do have an strong emphasis on actually encouraging absentees, and with an absentee “assisting” the voter is often common. And now if there is doubt about the mail the ballot is just taken to a drop box. The D’s did use the pandemic to redesign the process to their liking. The R’s just need to match the effort now.

          1. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            I was, of course, speaking of the massive fraudulent campaign (4 years ago?). Part of the problem in that case was simply a failure to educate the voter on maintaining security.

            Nevertheless, massive fraud is difficult.

            The Nation mails its secret and top secret documents all the time. The US Mail is secure, if not efficient. It has only been in the last decade that FedEx was so trusted.

    2. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      You are selling the Brooklyn Bridge.

  4. Steve Gillispie Avatar
    Steve Gillispie

    Nice try, Dick, but an unfortunate, however frequent, departure from the excellent reporting you can do when your partisanship hasn’t obliterated your critical judgement.

    McCauliffe hired the most vicious, fraud-generating, unprincipled lawyer in Democrat politics just before he was defeated. He waited until he had exhausted all his options before conceding.

    Youngkin had 15,000 poll watchers and an equally qualified team of lawyers to take on Elias. Prove to me that Fairfax’s discovery of problem thumb drives wasn’t a feeble attempt to “find” last minute votes. The amount of scrutiny Youngkin had on Democrat cheating made that just impossible. So McCauliffe conceded with gritted teeth.

    Democrat’s are the principled ones? After that campaign?

    Wise up, Dick. Stay with actual reporting. Most of us can write your opinion pieces for you.

    1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
      Eric the half a troll

      You know what opinions are like, don’t you Steve…?? The contrast Dick points out is only due to one thing. Who won and who lost. Nothing else.

      1. Steve Gillispie Avatar
        Steve Gillispie

        Learn to read and you can be a whole troll.

    2. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      re: ” He waited until until he had exhausted all his options before conceding”

      like the next day?

      When did Trump concede?

      1. ruralcounsel Avatar
        ruralcounsel

        How many more election irregularities were there with 2020 presidential election?

        One of these things is not like the other …

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          you have to define “irregularities”.

          are they massive fraud on one political side or the other or irregularities that occur both GOP and DEM voters?

  5. Steve Gillispie Avatar
    Steve Gillispie

    From discussions I have had with a poll watcher, except for the 45 days to vote window and the ridiculous ability to submit essentially unverified absentee ballots, the actual voting centers were a model of how it should be done. So far as mail in ballots are concerned, he reported that they were visible in a box at the center and people were permitted to come and drop them in the box. He did not witness how or when they were counted.

    Poll watchers from both parties had hot lines to the respective campaign headquarters to whom they reported during the day. Both sides knew there were people on hand to address bad behavior such as that from the polling centers which tried to ban voters without masks — an action they swiftly found was illegal.

    Election officials were online to verify identities of those who chose to identify themselves but the tally machines were all offline.

    Every member of the polling team was required to sign the tally sheets and poll watchers were permitted to take pictures of those sheets.

    Results were phoned in immediately. No thumb drive nonsense to HQ.

    Nowhere was there a repeat of the Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona behavior of excluding and ejecting Republican poll watchers from the voting precincts. Observers from both parties were reportedly treated with great respect.

    If they fix the voter id and absentee ballot nonsense, Virginia can be a model of electoral integrity.

    So, Steve, congratulations to you and your colleagues.

    1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
      Eric the half a troll

      “Virginia can be a model of electoral integrity.”

      It is and always has been. Again, only Republicans seem to be complaining even when they’ve won. So anti-democratic…. but you are making Dick’s case for him quite well…

      1. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        And one reason we are doing well is we did not go as crazy as some did, like Houston, Texas with its 24-hour voting and drive through voting, two “pandemic innovations” that suddenly have become essential to our survival as a nation…..

        I don’t see this as mainly about election integrity, not really. Gillispie and others simply cannot accept that so many of the American people, including millions of Republicans, did not love Trump as he does, actively hated him. I could bear with my discomfort with him until January 6. That was an act of treason and those who do not realize it or seek to diminish it are fellow travelers to treason. Had Trump shown his face in Virginia, had Youngkin stood with him for one photo, McAuliffe would have won. That is a lesson some Republicans won’t accept, just like some D’s won’t accept the lessons of last Tuesday.

      2. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        And one reason we are doing well is we did not go as crazy as some did, like Houston, Texas with its 24-hour voting and drive through voting, two “pandemic innovations” that suddenly have become essential to our survival as a nation…..

        I don’t see this as mainly about election integrity, not really. Gillispie and others simply cannot accept that so many of the American people, including millions of Republicans, did not love Trump as he does, actively hated him. I could bear with my discomfort with him until January 6. That was an act of treason and those who do not realize it or seek to diminish it are fellow travelers to treason. Had Trump shown his face in Virginia, had Youngkin stood with him for one photo, McAuliffe would have won. That is a lesson some Republicans won’t accept, just like some D’s won’t accept the lessons of last Tuesday.

        1. VaNavVet Avatar
          VaNavVet

          I am with you here but I do not see the problem with drive through and/or 24-hour voting. The more legal votes the better.

          1. Stephen Haner Avatar
            Stephen Haner

            I don’t know how they check in the voters for drive through. Do they carry out the poll book? Probably can’t do the computer poll pad. For the disabled, curbside, sure, we’ll come out and do it, but for others come on in and lets us actually see your face.

            Overnight? A gimmick. Early voting into some evenings? Certainly. It was in Texas I was first exposed to early voting, when visiting family.

          2. VaNavVet Avatar
            VaNavVet

            My experience with drive through was when the office was closed due to Covid. We drove up and had our driver’s licenses checked as we handed over our sealed and signed ballot envelope. Later, the Registrar decided that there was no need to check ID’s as it didn’t make any difference whether the ballot came in person, in the drop box, or in the mail. All the ballots were subject to signature verification. These were no excuse absentee ballots. You make a good point about checking the poll book. Perhaps as is done with the disabled voters.

        2. Steve Gillispie Avatar
          Steve Gillispie

          Where in any of my comments on this election have I mentioned Trump and how is he or whatever my feelings about him which you could not possibly comprehend relevant to this discussion?

          Moreover, Steve, if you have the intellectual and emotional honesty to pay attention to the facts, you will find over the next year that the “insurrection” was concocted and created by Pelosi, the Capitol Police and the FBI.

          The agitators and provocateurs were FBI instigated “informants” and miscreants. The Capitol police collaborated in encouraging demonstrators inside the Capitol. Pelosi did everything she could to ensure that no real police presence would interfere with her plan to stage another phony impeachment charade for which she had the plans and documents in process prior to the “insurrection”.

          Trump in no way planned or intended an “insurrection”.

          They tried insurrection 2.0 but Trump supporters the second time around were wise to them as there were more “Feds” in the crowd than real supporters.

          I once considered you a respected friend, a view you seem compelled to let me know publicly is not the case, presumably because you think I “love” Trump.

          I continue to think you are a good man doing good things for Republicans, the Jefferson Institute, and Virginia’s election systems.

          I have voted for far more Democrats over the years than Republicans and contributed more money to Democrats than Republicans. But I have lost “friends” because of my supposed “love” of Trump. This happens when views on the best way to organize and govern become religious catechisms whose rejection merits scorn, banishment, and punishment.

          Hate is a terrible thing. I am sorry to see what it has done to you.

          1. Stephen Haner Avatar
            Stephen Haner

            “…the “insurrection” was concocted and created by Pelosi, the Capitol Police and the FBI.” This is pure insanity, in the sense that is is a refusal to face reality. Sorry.

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Indeed… I wonder how many who believe the former also believe the election was “stolen”?

            These guys are in YOUR TENT just as you say the letft wing wackadoodles are in the Dems…

            If Youngkin had lost by the same margin as he won – more than a few of the GOP would have gone ape-shit crazy on fraud allegations…

    2. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
      Dick Hall-Sizemore

      So, I guess we don’t have audit those voting machines this year, despite the changes the Democrats made in the laws. What was done differently this year that has made auditing the machines unnecessary, although Mr. Youngkin earlier said it should be done (never mine that they have always been audited)? And what do you find objectionable to the 45-day early voting period? I don’t particularly like it, but that is mostly because I like the tradition and idea of the population coming together on one day to choose its leaders. But, I don’t see how it would lead to additional fraud.

      1. dave schutz Avatar
        dave schutz

        I don’t like the 45 days because so often something gets onto the radar screen in the last couple of weeks which many of those who have already voted wish they had known. I think it’s better when the campaigns go to a crescendo for a known date.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          Remember why early voting can be important. When their IS a “crescendo” and the polls are mobbed and people end up not being able to vote.

          Also isn’t the time period for absentee long also?

          The more folks voting, the better IMHO.

        2. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          People who vote 45 days out have made up their minds. Nothing that happens within that 45 will change it. People who are on the fence right up to election day are waiting for what? A sign from God?

          1. Stephen Haner Avatar
            Stephen Haner

            Walking around money…..

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            those are the ones that Youngkin planned on getting…. no…. and it worked…. with McA’s “help”.

            Certainly, the GOP voting Trumpsters did not wait till the last minute…..

      2. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        My wife was an observer as the Henrico machines were “audited” before the election, tested, examined to be sure the count was zero, and then locked. The post-election canvass is an “audit.” And a recount if done is an “audit.”

        As to 45 days, the first couple of weeks were incredibly slow, with many people staffing and sitting around doing nothing. Surely four weeks would be sufficient. A whole lot of votes changed after that second debate. 🙂

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          45 is probably too long… but except for some bored folk no real harm, I’ve sat for a couple of one-party primary elections and that was ugly in terms of boring.

  6. Steve Gillispie Avatar
    Steve Gillispie

    Biden did not win the 4 states which decided the election with only a few thousand votes with valid votes.

    As someone said, facts are indisputable. The truth is a matter of opinion.

    Just as the facts that

    the Russian conspiracy was a hoax created by Hillary, her campaign operative, her crooked law firm, and a complicit security apparatus;

    the Ukraine charade was a complete hoax conceived and perpetrated by the same actors behind the Russian hoax;

    you will find out that the “insurrection” was also a hoax.

    In the meantime please post the name of anyone yet indicted for insurrection. Please post the number of firearms found on any Trump “supporter”. Please post any evidence that any Trump supporter conceived or advocated insurrection which would of course controvert the FBI’s now published conclusion.

    Haner and the self-proclaimed, ubiquitously wrong, arbiter of true BR fact will go to extreme lengths to deny this and may ultimately never believe it. Take a hard look at where the insanity really is.

    1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
      Eric the half a troll

      You might want to peruse this site:

      https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases

      Plenty of firearm and dangerous weapons charges there.

      This one seem pertinent to your “no insurrection” claim:

      https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases

      “16. At the time Mr. Berry unlawfully entered the building, Mr. Berry believed that he and the co-conspirators were trying to obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, that is, a proceeding before Congress, specifically, Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote as set out in the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the statutes listed in sections 15 through 18 of title 3 of the U.S. Code.
      17. Mr. Berry intended to affect the government by stopping or delaying the Congressional proceeding, and, in fact, did so. He accomplished this by intimidating and coercing government personnel who were participating in or supporting the Congressional proceeding.”

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        You’re wasting electrons on him.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          he does represent a fair number of the GOP base which is why much of the elected GOP still bows to Trump.

          1. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            But do you honestly foresee an argument that will result in an “Aha”? You’re accepting a sisyphean struggle.

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            uh….

          3. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Was that a moan resulting from a rock rolling over you? Or, disagreement in a word?

          4. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            not sure…. 😉

          5. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Brandolini’s Law… “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it.”

          6. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Wow! I’m getting schooled on this! Something I always suspected ….. but now an actual thing! 😉

          7. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            I am, for some reason, enthralled with such struggles… need therapy, I suppose…

      2. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        I never said insurrection. I said treason. Treason against the Constitution. For a charade, that was quite a show, which I watched live all that afternoon. And I was clocking how long it took Trump to issue a call to stand down. Took quite a while. Absolute violation of his oath of office to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          All but a handful of the GOP apparently are with Gillespie on this, though and that handful are electoral targets of the GOP itself doing Trumps bidding…

          Once one attributes Jan 6 to the FBI and Pelosi, it’s all over in terms of rational thinking but unfortunately that includes a crap load of the GOP.

        2. Matt Adams Avatar
          Matt Adams

          Treason is a specific charge that requires us to be a War. If they were charged with anything related in this matter it would be sedition.

          1. Stephen Haner Avatar
            Stephen Haner

            So little T treason. You are right about the legal charge, but not the political sin. And BTW I don’t stop with those seeking to derail the election certification. Four years earlier a Democratic cabal centered on the “intelligence” community tried a third world-level coup against Trump. But two wrongs really don’t, you know….

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            So you are really on board with the deep-state FBI thing that Gillespie is citing for his views?

            Just trying to understand where you part company……….

          3. Stephen Haner Avatar
            Stephen Haner

            I have another source, a family member who was a career intelligence officer. Brennan et. al. attempted the same kind of effort to subvert the outcome of an election.

          4. Matt Adams Avatar
            Matt Adams

            It was plain as Day for former Directory Brennan was using his former position as grounds for his statements. Also know as an appeal to authority to which he had no authority.

          5. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            so all those folks that actually went to jail over the Russian thing were railroaded and essentially political prisoners?

          6. Matt Adams Avatar
            Matt Adams

            No, no little t, no t word at all. At this point it’s been abused by both sides of the aisle and misused greatly. We are to the point where it stands like racism, which gets diminished as it gets it’s improperly applied to people who aren’t espousing “racist” tendencies.

            Article II, Section 3, Clause 1

            “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

            It’s a criminal charge that hasn’t been levied since WWII with and for good reason.

            All parties you are discussion could be convicted under the Espionage Act if those charges could be proven (highly unlikely to succeed as the MIC will never be held accountable and we continue to promote Generals (nothing more than politicians in uniforms to head companies and then influence and control the DOD)) . Sedition at the very least, however that is also a tainted charge given its introduction via FPOUTS John Adams (I am of no relation).

  7. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    I like the way Minnesota verifies absentee/mail-in. They use objective means, e.g., SSN, DLN, etc., first and subjective signature match only if the voter cannot supply, or lack, that info. They still use/require superfluous witness signatures, but they got the first part right.

  8. Deborah Hommer Avatar
    Deborah Hommer

    wait a minute, what’s your authority for stating that election integrity is no longer a concern?

    None of the groups I am in that are discussing irregularities/anomalies/evidence have thrown in the towel on election integrity. In fact, I’ve received emails to the contrary stating, “we cannot forget the damning evidence we recently uncovered …” For instance, in Virginia a group of people canvassed and they discovered that from 85 names/addresses in a certain district, 24 cases are suspected fraud. The names/addresses are derived from the list of absentee ballots sent out and received back, cross-referenced with the national change of address directory.

    Here’s some more information that the talking headings in lame stream media are not reporting on – unfortunately the charts cannot be displayed here:

    VIRGINIA ANOMOLIES INDICATING VOTER FRAUD

    2020 ELECTION IRREGULARITIES IN VIRGINIA — SUMMARY
    (from open-source information)

    1) EXCESSIVE VOTER REGISTRATION RATES

    How do you explain that Virginia had 24 counties with 100% and higher voter registration rates and a statewide average of 95.6% voter registration? The national average for voter registration was 67%.

    2) IRREGULARITIES IN CENTRAL ABSENTEE PRECINCT LEAN-BATCH ANALYSIS
    How do you explain the discontinuities and irregularities present in VIrginia lean-batch analysis of the central absentee precinct? These patterns are indicative of continued tampering in an effort to overcome strong voter support for Trump.

    3) CHANGES TO LARGE-BATCH ENTRIES DURING LIVE VOTE TABULATION

    How do you explain multiple large batch-vote entries and negations during live vote tabulation?

    Through 11:03 PM Eastern on 3 Nov, with 75% of the vote in, Trump led Virginia 52% to Biden’s 46%. Subsequently, there were three large batch-vote entries and two large batch-vote negations (almost 400,000 votes in each of the five) during live tabulation that occurred in the last minutes of 3 November through the early hours of the 4th—with improbable, dominant majorities for Biden: (1) 370,657 batch-votes IN at 11:42PM with a ratio of 89% Biden to 11% Trump; (2) 369,663 batch-votes OUT at 12:12AM with a ratio of 90% Biden to 10% Trump; (3) 388,698 batch-votes IN at 12:26AM with a ratio of 79% Biden to 21% Trump; (4) that exact same number and ratio of batch-votes OUT at 12:30AM; and finally (5), 385,548 batch-votes IN 2:17AM with a ratio of 80% Biden to 20% Trump. This pattern suggests manipulation and fine-tuning of batch-votes needed to overcome Trump’s lead.

    4) IMPROBABLE BATCH-VOTE PROPORTIONS DURING FINAL HOURS OF TABULATION

    After the above changes to large-batch entries, how do you explain that nearly every batch-vote through the end of tabulation had the exact same proportion of votes for Biden and Trump: 55% to 45%? How is this possible?

    👉IS VIRGINIA’S RISK-LIMITING AUDIT STILL VIABLE?

    “The success of Virginia’s first statewide audit reaffirms our dedication to ensuring secure and accurate elections for our voters.”

    — Christopher Piper, Virginia’s Commissioner of Elections

    Since none of these irregularities was discovered or addressed during Virginia’s 2021 Risk Limiting Audit, what confidence can Virginians NOW have that this audit validates a safe and secure 2020 election?

    — Excessive voter registration rates, an endemic problem in Virginia
    — Irregularities in central absentee precinct lean-batch analysis
    — Changes to large-batch entries during live tabulation
    — Improbable batch vote-proportions during final hours of tabulation

    ===============================
    2020 ELECTION IRREGULARITIES IN VIRGINIA — SOURCES AND REFERENCES

    1) EXCESSIVE VOTER REGISTRATION RATES

    How do you explain that Virginia had 24 counties with 100% and higher voter registration rates and a statewide average of 95.6%? The national average for voter registration was 67%.

    Source: Judicial Watch voter roll study, Oct 2020; 353 counties, 29 states w/ >100%

    https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/new-jw-study-voter-registration/

    Judicial Watch Voter Registration Study raw data

    https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/judicial-watch-voter-roll-study-oct-2020/

    => An endemic problem in VA

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/07/five_states_face_federal_lawsuit_over_inaccurate_voter_registrations__142089.html#

    Statutory notice of violations in Fairfax County, December 2019

    https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NVRA-Notice-2019-Virginia.pdf

    [2019 Excerpt] “Our analysis of the data regarding Fairfax County showed the following: The County has a total registration rate of 105%. To be clear, the number of voter registrations exceeds the number of citizens in the County who are old enough to register to vote.The County reported removing only about 5800 voter registrations per year during the last reporting period on the grounds that the registrants failed to respond to an address confirmation notice and failed to vote in two consecutive federal elections. This is a very low number of removals for a county of this size. These facts establish clear violations of Section 8(a)(4) of the National Voter Registration Act.”

    2) IRREGULARITIES IN CENTRAL ABSENTEE PRECINCT LEAN-BATCH ANALYSIS

    How do you explain the discontinuities and irregularities present in VIrginia lean-batch analysis of the central absentee precinct? These patterns are indicative of continued tampering in an effort to overcome strong voter support for Trump.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      I assume we’ll hear from Haner. Hard to believe he’s in the same GOP party….. 😉

      1. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        Well, in January the state Board of Elections and every local Board of Elections becomes 2-1 GOP, not the other way around. Four years to examine all those claims….There are problems with the lists. They have cropped up at every precinct I’ve worked for these past few years. Some is due to the voters themselves failing to update their info, and some is due to a reluctance to remove names despite inactivity, or good reason to believe they’ve moved. Motor Voter has led to non-citizen registrations by the boat load. Maybe some of the other issues raised are legit.

        Larry, I belong to no county committee. I hold no post. Jefferson Institute is a non-partisan non-profit. I VOTE Republican but I’m sure my views on Trump make me personna non grata with the Hommers and Gillispies of the world, and I am — as I have indicated — in a reassessment mode. My views on Trump are more common among Republican voters than you realize. If I really felt alone, I would have been gone long ago.

        Thank goodness the Democrats solved the dilemma by doing their best to turn out his supporters so Youngkin didn’t have to. They won’t be that stupid in 2022.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          Actually I do very much realize the extent of GOP folks who think like Gillispie and Hommer and some others here.

          It’s obvious when we look at the elected GOP and how many of them openly disavow Trump and at the same time pretty much buy into the deep-state things.

          It seems to differ only in small degree as opposed to two very different but roughly equal wings of the GOP.

          Conventional wisdom seems to be that the deep state tried to get Trump and the same deep state rigged the elections and is continuing so.

          I am much curious to see with Youngkin ends up and I’m betting if he doesn’t join the deep-state crowd there is going to be some pissed off GOP voters…

          Good analysis in the RTD this morning that got re-printed in FLS so I can read it ….

    2. VaNavVet Avatar
      VaNavVet

      Trump and his followers can keep living in the 2020 election while the rest of the country moves on with their lives. You can be assured that it won’t end well for them as former governor Christie recently pointed out.

    3. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
      Dick Hall-Sizemore

      I suggest that you use a source other than Judicial Watch. I was concerned about your charges, so I did a little checking. On the charge of having more than 100% of the population registered, I took the first locality on Judicial Watch’s list–Loudoun, with a registration rate of 116%. Using the same data sources as Judicial Watch, the Census Bureau estimates for 2019 and the Va. Dept of Elections registration data for 2019, I found that the Census Bureau estimated that Loudoun had a population of 301,883 people 18 years old and older on July 1, 2019. The Dept. of Elections reported that on July 2019, there was a total of 259,744 people registered, a registration rate of 86%.

      I did not bother to check the other localities listed by Judicial Watch, because I assume facts like this will not affect your opinion. However, I am satisfied that the Judicial Watch data is bogus.

      1. Deborah Hommer Avatar
        Deborah Hommer

        Interesting regarding Judicial Watch and Virginia. You’re not surprised. I am. They have won several lawsuits in other states. Unsure why they are wrong in Virginia. My rhetorical question is why their report does not load VA info and why hasn’t VA sued? Maybe there was threat due to wrong info. In any case I agree that JudicialWatch owes an explanation. I emailed them requesting a response. If I receive one, I will pass it on.
        I still think the other info provided above and info from the Public Interest Legal Foundation and The Virginia Project demonstrates there are irregularities that need to be examined. For instance VA waited until after the 2020 election to do voter maintenance.
        On the other hand, I also recognize that voter maintenance has created a small percentage of people getting erroneously kicked off the voter rolls, which is also problematic. https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/10/08/list-maintenance-or-voter-purges-how-the-practice-of-maintaining-voter-lists-become-so-polarized/
        It’s a polarizing topic.

        I would hope we all want fair elections.

  9. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Mail-in Tax Return Fraud maybe a problem. Mail-in ballots aren’t.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      for how many years were absentee ballots just fine if you had a GOOD reason? 😉

    2. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      Wait, weren’t you just pointing to North Carolina?

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        Yes. Voter security. But the differences is mass. A single case of tax return identity theft is worthwhile for the criminal.

      2. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        BTW, absentee/mai-in could easily be secured through the use of PINs, with signature matching, by untrained amateurs, only as a secondary measure, obviating the witness completely.

  10. DJRippert Avatar
    DJRippert

    I voted early at the Great Falls Library – the same place Youngkin the Younger tried to vote. My understanding is that the library was only open for early voting. The word on Youngkin the Younger is that he had a 17 year old friend who voted. However, the friend turned 18 between the day he voted early and the election date. That is legitimate. Young Youngkin tried to vote but would not be 18 by the time of the election. When told he was too young to vote he reconnected with his friend who insisted that he (the friend) had voted despite being only 17. So, Youngkin the Younger tried to vote again. He never misrepresented himself or his age. He was correctly barred from voting because of Virginia’s voting age minimum of 18.

    The 26th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits states and the federal government from from prohibiting people aged 18 or older from voting (based on age). It does not specify a minimum voting age. DC has considered lowering the voting age for federal elections to 16.

    While Young Mr. Youngkin should have known about Virginia’s voting age and should have understood the unusual position of his friend, this is not nearly as diabolical or as clear cut as some who have you believe.

    https://wtop.com/dc/2018/11/dc-council-holds-off-on-vote-to-lower-citys-voting-age-to-16/

    1. Matt Adams Avatar
      Matt Adams

      You mean like the McAuliffe campaign worker on here attempting to debate what constitutes a crime in regards to Youngkin the Younger.

      He was a dumb kid, he should’ve known better but he didn’t for whatever reason. Far from nefarious nor did it align with that same posters invocation about two incidents in other states. Where two felony’s on probation actually voted (which is a crime in their respective states).

    2. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
      Dick Hall-Sizemore

      It is a good thing for him that this is not Texas. Ignorance is no excuse there for voting when you are not legally qualified. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/illegal-voting-gets-texas-woman-8-years-in-prison-and-certain-deportation.html

      1. Matt Adams Avatar
        Matt Adams

        The Younger Youngkin again didn’t register to vote, didn’t cast a ballot. All instances that yourself and Eric have brought to counter that statement include individuals ineligible le to vote actually placing a vote.

        “After moving from Dallas to neighboring Tarrant County in late 2014, she attempted to register to vote but indicated on her application that she was not an American citizen. When her application was rejected, she called election administrators and was told that the reason for the rejection was that she had checked the “no” box for citizenship. Ortega explained that she had been able to vote in Dallas County and resubmitted her voter registration, this time indicating she was a citizen. ”

        https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/02/21/rosa-maria-ortega-texas-woman-sentenced-8-years-illegal-voting-paroled-and-faces-deportation/4798922002/

    3. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
      Dick Hall-Sizemore

      His father is running for Governor and he doesn’t know that he is not eligible to vote? What planet does he live on? My grandson is 17 and will be 18 later this month, has very little interest in politics, but knew he was not eligible to vote.

      1. Matt Adams Avatar
        Matt Adams

        Good for your Grandson, obviously he’s head and tails above the Younger Youngkin.

    4. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      I thought the GOPs view was that if you break the law, the law is enforced… no excuses, no?

      1. Matt Adams Avatar
        Matt Adams

        “LarrytheG DJRippert • 42 minutes ago
        I thought the GOPs view was that if you break the law, the law is enforced… no excuses, no?”

        What Laws did he break for being a bonehead kid?

  11. ruralcounsel Avatar
    ruralcounsel

    Election integrity worked here. Voter ID disallowed Youngkin’s kid from voting. Funny how that is … voting integrity works. Under Democratic initiatives to weaken election integrity, he might have gotten away with it.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      Steve should explain how voter validation is done at the polls. My recollection is that they use “pollbooks” which are basically laptops with voter databases on them and they are NOT connected to the internet.

      When you present yourself , folks manning the pollbooks ascertain your identity, then check to see if it is in the database for that precinct. If you are verified, then your name is checked off – and if you came back later – they’d see that you had already voted.

      If you are not in there, then a discussion ensues usually with the precinct captain as to why and a determination whether or not a provisional ballot will be given.

      It’s possible for someone to wave them through but at the end of the night – the numbers checked in via the pollbooks has to equal the number of votes actually cast. There are other cross checks… Even being off by one or two is an issue.

      It would be hard for massive fraud to occur at least at that level.

      The average person is not well aware of the safeguards that are in place – and just like with other things now days – if people don’t know and someone is making claims to the opposite – it takes hold on social media and we see the results of that now.

    2. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
      Dick Hall-Sizemore

      No, he wouldn’t have. He was not registered, something else he should have known about. Besides, the Democratic initiatives were in place.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        You mean after they told him the first time that he was not registered that when he came back the second time and insisted, they should have let him?

        1. Stephen Haner Avatar
          Stephen Haner

          Call me when he starts selling paintings for $400K….

      2. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        Ahhhh—but now you can register at 17 or perhaps 16, long before the first election in which you actually vote. Perhaps he HAD done that. And he demonstrates the resulting confusion!

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