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It could get him disbarred.
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A judge in Nevada has ordered Clark County officials to allow an inspection of the elections equipment and sealed containers used in the 2020 election by 1:00 P.M. tomorrow. @RichardGrenel @AdamLaxalt @mschlapp |
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Mindy Robinson Flag of United States @iheartmindy Twitter just suspended this guy’s account for testifying why he would never have certified Arizona’s results with the mathematically problematic numbers in front of him. Does the Left think they’re just going to suppress and censor Biden’s fake presidency to life? Quote Tweet Team Trump @TeamTrump Expert witness says he believes the numbers in Arizona are fraudulent based on the data: "I'd rather resign than have certified those results" in Arizona today (Video in link) https://twitter.com/iheartmindy/stat...89188151689216 |
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Does anyone know the procedure for filing a complaint with the American Bar Association?
Edited to add: Apparently one makes the complaint to the state board the attorney practices in. https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/r...iolations.html I just filed my complaint to the DC Bar: “I feel that calling for Chris Krebs, fired Election Security Chief, to be “drawn and quartered” and “taken out and shot” is language unbecoming any licensed attorney and that discipline is called for.” Perhaps multiple complaints might get someone’s attention. |
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Disgraceful! Quote Tweet Melissa Tate #StopTheSteal @TheRightMelissa CNN’s BOMBSHELL report on Dominion Smartmatic software back when they had no vested interest to lie like they do now. “Chavez was losing on election night & used Smartmatic to switch votes & won the next day” - Just like Biden RT! Fake media preys on ignorance of how election process works Certifications are just clerical & not legally binding.. in fact in order to legally file an election contest it has to have been certified 1st. So Arizona certification is just the 1st step in a soon to follow contest |
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Fake election results in Nevada, also! Quote Tweet NetworkinVegas.com @Networkinvegas Here is the fake Nevada parking garage hospital picture that our moron governor tweeted, proving it’s all a scam. No patients, folded up beds, wrapped up equipment that’s never been used! They spent millions on this scam and never seen a single patient in this fake hospital! (picture in link) https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...71177005867008 |
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Do something @BrianKempGA. You allowed your state to be scammed. We must check signatures and count signed envelopes against ballots. Then call off election. It won’t be needed. We will all WIN! Quote Tweet Jim Hoft @gatewaypundit Dominion Voting Systems Moving Machines In Georgia Against Court Order? https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/11...oting-systems/ |
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Impossible result We won Michigan by a lot! Quote Tweet The Epoch Times @EpochTimes “Dominion alone is responsible for the injection, or fabrication, of 290,000 illegal votes in Michigan, that must be disregarded.” #Michigan: An expert witness for @SidneyPowell1 says there were 4 “physically impossible” spikes of about 385,000 #Ballots. https://theepochtimes.com/michigan-c...ign=digitalsub |
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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Never heard that one before.
I always got the impression it was just being very, very, mean. From what documents I've read, it was all about causing as much pain as possible, while completely dehumanizing the person. The idea was that they weren't just killed, but erased, not even leaving an intact body with the dismemberment beginning when they are still alive to see it. |
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I think it depends on the culture. Some early cultures (Egyptians come in mind) assumed that you needed some form of intact body for the afterlife, so destroying somebody's body deprived them of that, or, perhaps worse, condemned them to eternity in a broken body.
In Christian culture, I must assume that the condition of the corpse is irrelevant for the afterlife, so the various kinds of mutilation, burning, etc. was merely to cause horror and suffering (and, probably, to entertain the masses). Hans |
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I don't know why Trump bothered firing Powell. She is the one doing what her de facto client wants. Giuliani meanwhile has been sitting on all the fraud evidence, but maybe that's part of the plan. Wait until the results are certified, then launch another round of litigation filed in the right court on behalf of the right client that reflects the mountains of evidence that Trump says exists.
Time will tell. The campaign is still hitting me up for money daily, from an ever-morphing list of area codes (all with the same message). I wonder how that even works. |
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I do think Dominion is an ominous-sounding name for a company that sells election software. It has a totalitarian feel to it. ClearVote or something might be better. Something bland and transparent-sounding.
What if all this was handled in a much simpler way? Voting on paper ballots with machines doing only the counting and sorting of all the different bubbles. States test every child of school age this way at least once a year. Although last time I was involved they did seen to be moving to an all-online system that would not generate a paper trail. I've lost track of how the craze for nationwide standardized testing is faring. |
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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That's what we do in Michigan. I've voted using punch cards, and by filling in ovals, and by connecting broken arrows, but no electricity was ever required in the voting booth.
I think the benefit of the electronic machines as part of actually casting the ballot is that it reduces the number of unreadable or incorrectly marked ballots. If you tell people to fill in an oval, some people will put a check mark in it instead. Some people will put an X. Does that mean they are marking it, or crossing it out? |
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FYI: a lot of people are tweeting a woman who said michigan military ballots looked Xerox copies.
It took me all of 10 minutes to confirm absentee military can print a ballot. https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,...1653--,00.html |
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It's nice to be nice to the nice. Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was one which does not now seem very impressive: it was, that some people can do sums. - Bertrand Russell |
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I'd be tempted to try, but first I'd have to get a separate debit card loaded only with a few bucks - no way I am giving out my real info to these clowns. I don't even like to go to websites where purported evidence is available. Otherwise I would follow up more with debunking. Every time someone says "do your own research" and I plug some terms into Google I get a lot of obscure blogs that for all I know are hacking fronts based in former Soviet republics, measuring my gullibility and willingness to follow further dubious links.
It always seems funny to me that some people don't see that any bit of "evidence" posted online is evidence of only one thing - that someone has posted it online. It's not primary research or anything. I do attribute more credibility to legit news sites but even that's not ironclad. I've seen plenty of evidence of bias on news sites. But it does seem to be based on underlying, little-disputed facts. It's not just a giant black rabbit hole like much of the Internet. |
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Maybe, but we are conditioned from early childhood to fill in freakin' bubbles. So much that at first I assumed I should use the famed No. 2 pencil for my ballot. Then I read the instructions
![]() My state may have the same protocol as yours. I've noticed that even in ubiquitous school-based testing, the results still take a few weeks even when there is no "performance" problem that has to be manually graded. So even though one test can be graded pretty much instantly, grading millions of tests still takes a good long while. |
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My theory is that we as a society go through a convoluted series of motions to obscure the fact that we are actually killing people. While I don't condone torture I'm not sure the fact that a given method may hurt is so awful - it is called "punishment" after all. They were never promised euthanasia.
The guillotine would be pretty good I'd think but then you have to wonder if the head is conscious and actually thinking something. I'm against capital punishment mostly on principle, yet there are federal executions I wouldn't go to the mat to stop. Timothy McVeigh's, for example. But most of the guys on federal death row don't fit that description. No matter how horribly they killed someone, we're still putting to death old men we've kept alive for 40 years just because the political climate changed, and that seems grotesque. |
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